You know I have wondered about the whole "bullets" thing. They are not symbols of bullets. They are symbols of bullet holes. Which is often uncomforting. Yet just before Thanksgiving weekend - this is Canada, folks - there is a certain relaxing of that concern...even though we do not kill turkeys with bullets. I was offered a day's or rather night's work going "turkey catching" once. That is what happens when you get involved with south-west Ontario folk.
- I usually for not relay spammy emails but this one is good...unless it is a front for North Korea somehow. It is called GopherNow and it is a a service that tells you what late night food delivery is available at the moment in various cities:
I’ve always been frustrated by how difficult it is to find good food late at night in the US and Canada, so I decided to do something about it: www.gophernow.com. Enjoy with your beer!
I wish someone would create fast delivery of a wider range of breakfast cereals than are normally available. - Over at Castle Argghhh I asked the question:
Here is a quiz. Why are beer and the flag of Connecticut related?
No one answered. Do you know? Also, I have coined the phrase "I find that with enough beer I can't tell my left from my right." I think I now understand the blogosphere. - I am becoming more addicted to Eliot Spitzer TV ads. I want to stand near him just to see if I can hear the 1880's Ken Burns piano music.
- Unrecognized global tension hot spot of the day: Russia v. Georgia.
- Check out Steven: hunting for geo-cachers and a Sloan update.
- We all knew there were degrees of being a loser geek. Now there is proof:
"I just didn't want to have the same MP3 player as everybody else and felt that there had to be equivalent or better players out there," Roosevelt, an 18-year-old from Chappaqua, N.Y., said recently from his freshman dorm room at the University of Maryland. "It's not that I don't like it; I just don't like the whole cult mentality towards Apple. I don't like how everyone gravitates toward it immediately."
Did I mention that DC comics suck. Marvel's cool.
One more thing. Just look at the loveliness of the New York Times baseball photo of the day. It commemorates A-Rod's 0-4 day at the plate. Mets won. Tigers won. Cards won. Oh...Yankees lost. Gee. Now, a 43 year old with a ruptured disc has to play savior for the pinstripes. Good luck to you there.
Comments
cm - October 6, 2006 8:44 am
I'm waiting for complete breakfast delivery: Bacon, eggs, and fried potatoes, direct to my door.
gr - October 6, 2006 9:11 am
You might just get that breakfast, cm, sooner than you think.
gorthos - October 6, 2006 9:40 am
ALAN!!!
Marvel is for kids damn you!
You probably know I collect Green Lantern don't you.
gr - October 6, 2006 1:04 pm
Gawd, where is everyone? Doesn't anybody want to come out and play at gen x at 40?
Gordo - October 6, 2006 1:11 pm
For some reason, the phrase "tukey bullet" makes me think of the Air Farce and the chicken cannon. :-)
Alan - October 6, 2006 1:14 pm
There are some clear rules about traffic, Gary. Fridays were actually traditionally light days but creating the bullet point feature and encouraging chat changed that to a degree. But the Friday before a long weekend is deadly and one that is before a long weekend shared by both Canada and the US is especially so. So there are fewer people in the house to have a chat with.
gorthos - October 6, 2006 1:16 pm
You know you can only kill a vegan with a meat bullet.
Sorry, its the illness related delerium.........
~~~~waves of peanut brittle, HR Puffinstuf and winona ryder pass through my sickened vision, and not in the good ways one associates them usually... you know, brittle in my mouth, Winona on my lap, puffinstuff in a large wicker man on fire on a scottish hillside in the fall ~~~~
gr - October 6, 2006 1:39 pm
Gotta wonder what gorthos wife thinks of all that?
WELL, Alan, I for one am working this afternoon, and each day thereafter. I hope you slackers hoist a cold one in my direction, and thank your lucky stars that working stiffs like me are making dustcatchers and knicknacks night and day here at Santa's workshop. This buds for me,
Mr. Workingmyfingerstothebone.
Gordo - October 6, 2006 2:47 pm
Gary, I'll be thinking of you as we re-mount windows and doors and get to work on the siding started. Honest. :-)
Mebbe bro can get a deer this weekend, too. THAT would be heaven: turkey and venison in one go ... MMMM
Marian - October 6, 2006 3:54 pm
I think I might be in the middle of a revolution again. I don't know. I went out to get my kid checked at the doctor and when I got back all hell had broken loose downtown. 80,000 demonstrators some are saying.
Temujin - October 6, 2006 4:32 pm
I'd be willing to put my two cents in if you would tell me what the connection between beer and the flag of connecticut is!
Alan - October 6, 2006 5:20 pm
The flag has three grape vines on it signifying the three colonies that came together to form the state as well as their historic boozey production.
gorthos - October 6, 2006 6:03 pm
Hey Gr. My wife knows of my fawning over pixieish raven haired actresses as well as Kate Winslet. I know of her Hugh Grant fetish. All good in our books.
The puffinstuf thing, well, she gre up without cable and only briefly knows of his prescence and of the magic flute movie etcetera. She knows of my hatred for his person as well.
Damn HR. Damn you to a fiery wicker hades.
gorthos - October 6, 2006 6:04 pm
Oh yes, forgot:
Work yer fingers to the bone and waddya get?
Boney fingerssssssssss!!!!
gr - October 6, 2006 7:55 pm
No question, Winona has that certain something. I just read that she is named Winona for the town she was born in, and traded the 'Horowitz' of her last name for the album someone was playing one day (Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels) AND she is a natural blonde. The raven just became her look.
Gordo, my friend, how do you do it? Aren't you still down with a broken foot?
Marian: be safe.
Temujin - October 6, 2006 8:23 pm
<i>The flag has three grape vines on it</i>
Hey, I'm a wine drinker too. Vive le Connecticut!
Alan - October 6, 2006 11:57 pm
Double bingo for you with the Tigers winning.
gorthos - October 7, 2006 8:51 am
Thanks GR for trying to ruin Winona for me ha ha! I knew she wan not a natural brunette, but she cannot fake the pixie look.
Ahh Jane Weidlin.. :)
I digress, as always.