Ramblings, rumblings, grumblings, and rambling grumbly rumblings.

For all us musicians out there, struggling to make it on our own:

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I'd walked into our bedroom, where Michelle lay curled on the bed watching a PBS documentary on National Parks. She's been coughing quite a lot and I'd earlier rubbed Vicks on her chest.

There was a candle burning on the dresser. I sniffed, then inhaled deeply.

"Ahhhh," I swooned, "Vicks and Autumn spices. This must be what heaven smells like."

"Business people respond to stress in one of two ways. They either get friendlier and more accommodating: give the customer anything they want to keep them happy. Other people get aggressive. They get the attitude, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass.' They think the customer needs to pay for every little thing, 'screw em.'

"William, we probably ought to keep you off the phones as much as possible."



I laughed out loud. Money Guy knows me pretty well.

June 28, 2009. Kansas City Star. Assoc. Press. 

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: 'California archaeologists, finding traces of 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.'

One week later, The Kansas City Star, a local newspaper in K.C.,Mo, reported the following: After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Harrisonville, Mo, Mr. Jake Brown, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Jake has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Mo. had already gone wireless.

This one's for you, my brother. Of course, click for full size.

Ganked from jehosefatz .  Listen very carefully.



The lyrics, should you need them. Bruce, Sus'? I think QC ought to add this to the regular show. :)

And it's damn cute, too. Katie pointed this one out to me.



Of course, click for the full-size image.

So, I get this spam email yesterday, promising to "make your manhood like the Titanic."  Considering that it was the largest man-made object ever made, that sounds like a reasonably good idea until...

Until you remember that it split into two pieces which are now a mile and a half apart under 13,500 feet of water off the coast of Nova Scotia, and that 1500 people died of blunt force trauma, drowning, and/or hypothermia in the process, not to mention the fact that the top layer of one of those halves is peeled back like a sardine tin and the whole will be a pile of orange sand within the next two decades.

On the other hand, approximately seven hundred women went down on it.

I dunno...it's a tough choice.

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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
- W.B. Yeats

Borrowed from jehosefatz .

Saw this Reuters photo, had to make an LOLPope out of it.

( SFW, but I'm just being polite. )