Day: April 16, 2010

You Missed It: Sky high edition

I’ve got to be honest with you. Mentally, I have already checked out. I’m headed to Florida next Thursday. It’s so close, I can smell it. That has dropped my ability to care about your plights significantly. Don’t worry, I’ll make you sit through a boring slide show when I get back. If you were busy filing your taxes this week, odds are you missed it.

Fire and Iceland
A volcano in Iceland really messed things up for European air travel this week. The ash cloud emitted by the eruption was large enough to affect the skies over northern Europe. The issue is that the debris in the clouds and get heated in a plane’s engine and be turned to glass–which is bad. Flights were grounded, people are stranded, everyone is miserable. In response, the U.S. airline industry said, “A volcano? Why didn’t we think of that?”

SG in the LOC
It was announced this week that the Library of Congress will archive all of the public tweets on Twitter tweeted since the Web site’s beginning. Really, this is just a move for the LOC to put itself in its own records, because it has its own Twitter account.

Pulling out … of the race
Adult film star Stormy Daniels (with a name like that, how do you NOT end up in that industry?) has decided not to run for U.S. Senate in her home state of Louisiana, which is probably the state most likely to vote in a porn star. So for all of you beltway insiders looking forward to some sweet, sweet girl on girl legislative action with Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., there’s always Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

Obama sends Americans into lions’ den

President Barack Obama is trying to push you out the door. Billed as the “America’s Great Outdoors” program, the initiative will “conserve cherished land and encourage Americans to enjoy the outdoors.”

Mr. President, with all due respect, but have you been outside? There’s mosquitoes out there. And bears. And no Playstation.

This all sounds like a ruse to get us outside while the President watches his stories instead of more Dora reruns.

Well, we hope we get kidnapped, just to teach you a lesson. Was your little Internet “me-time” worth it?

That’s like 50 dollars in moonbucks

One year in prison and suspension for three years over … 2.5 yen in electricity?

According to the current exchange rate, 2.5 yen is about $.02. Yasumasa Hirai, 46, was busted for stealing that value in electricity from a shared outlet in his apartment building.

That doesn’t sound like much, but the Osaka District Court ruled that this thief failed to pay his electricity bills and was too lazy to work. He didn’t stop nabbing all of that electricity despite being warned by the apartment manager. The apartment manager (and the judge, apparently!) were pissed off because he broke the cover to an outlet in the hallway and ran a cord to use electricity in his apartment.

2.5 yen in electricity. Anybody feel like coming up with a collection fund for the guy?

Isn’t it time you got a closer view of your carpet?

Do you like beer, but hate the way you have to drink several of them in order to get a proper buzz? Switch to liquor! Or stop drinking for a few days to lower your tolerance!

Or, you could pick up a case of BrewDog’s new Tactical Nuclear Penguin, it’s beer, it’s made in Scotland, and it’s being introduced here. Oh, and it’s also the new champ for highest alcohol by volume, with 32%. For those of you keeping score, that’s 64 proof, just shy of your favorite liquors. The previous record holder, Samuel Adams’ Utopias only has 24% ABV, or 48 proof.

Just in time for the weekend.