Crestor
Wednesday, April 28th, 2004Noticed this commercial for some drug called Crestor, easy for me to pick up where they got their inspiration for their logo.
Crestor Logo
Kazakhstan flag - eagle colored to match crestor’s wings
Archive for April, 2004
Prom Pics
Tuesday, April 27th, 2004St. Petersburg (FL) Times had some sort of contest for worst prom pictures.
Here’s my favorite which won 1st place.
FIRST PLACE: Jon and Robin Muller of Seminole made a stunning pair on prom night: She wore a full-length purple dress while he went for the Chewbacca look.
Tron Costume follow up
Tuesday, April 27th, 2004Mr. Tron Costume himself (Jay Maynard) is getting a lot of interviews, etc and he writes this on his Live Journal this (Please note his “current mood” is “drained”:
- “I flew back Friday. The interview with Don and Mike (syndicated radio show from Washington, DC) was scheduled for 3:10 Friday afternoon, and my flight arrived in Minneapolis at 2:00. This led to a bit of scrambling, but I made it - and then sat around for about 20 minutes past the scheduled start time, until they called me. I’ve since gotten a MP3 of the show as broadcast; they were slamming me big-time before and after, and I caught one comment from Don later in the show where he read my comment about accuracy and the cup issue and got a good laugh out of it, but the actual interview went pretty well from my point of view: they tried to get me flustered, or upset, and I refused. I’d decided before ever agreeing to the interview that I’d just calmly give them straight answers to whatever they asked, and I’m not sure they were ready for that. It was an interesting time.”
Way to go Jay, represent the Trons.
Tron costume
Monday, April 26th, 2004This guy is related to the Star Wars Kid no doubt
“When I created the TRON costume, I was only setting out to have fun. I enjoyed working on it, for the most part. There were frustrating moments when I couldn’t make things do what I wanted them to, but I managed to deal with those. The result was acceptable, and the folks at the con loved it.
I was on top of the world. Then I started reading Slashdot.
The Slashdot commenters were savage, vicious, and brutal. They acted just like a bunch of 9th-graders putting down the new geeky kid in class. Of the 320 comments on the story right now, less than 20 are in any sense positive.
It got worse. Someone posted the story to Fark. Several someones. Lots of soemones. The Fark kiddies had their fun; the only difference was that it was a bunch of 7th-graders: even more juvenile.
The two were enough to start the story spreading around the net rapidly. By the next day, everyone with a blog and nothing better to do had reposted the link to the page. I was really happy I’d put it up at ibiblio.org (run by the folks who maintain a really huge software archive, and have tons of bandwidth); my little 512K DSL would have cratered under the load.
Would I do it again, knowing what I know now? Yes. Would I post to Slashdot about it (which is what started the whole phenomenon business)? Hell no!“
Caution: Sweet pics ahead - http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/TRONcostume/
March for Women
Sunday, April 25th, 2004So Whoopi Goldberg and Hillary led the usual suspects in the March for Women Abortion rights march this weekend.
I took a look at the March for Women website to find any sponsors I could boycott. I found something rather amusing - at the top of the long list of co-sponsors was 1-800-KILL-BABY. So ironic considering that the link goes to the National Right to Life website.
Anti-abortion protestors, with Washington’s Capitol in the background, shout at marchers during a march for women’s rights, April 25, 2004
Actresses Heather Thomas and Whoopi Goldberg march in Washington. Goldberg waves hangers. Note: I think hell may be worse than a coat hanger abortion.
Anti-abortion protestor Jeff White of Lake Arrowhead, California, is arrested by Washington Police during an anti-abortion demonstration in front of the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Washington. White was arrested on a charge of keeping or exhibiting a dead body or parts after he displayed a fetus in a jar to fellow protestors.
Man trapped under organ for 10 days
Thursday, April 22nd, 2004A 50-year-old man remained hospitalized in critical condition last night as a result of being trapped under an organ in his apartment for up to 10 days, according to Sandusky, Ohio police and people involved in the case.
On Wednesday afternoon, two men found Elex Pentorn Jr. trapped under an organ in his McDonough Street apartment, according to Sandusky police.
On Wednesday, a tenant called Bertsch and said Pentorn’s mail had been piling up in the building, Bertsch said. Bertsch forwarded the information to two of his employees, Jack Johnson of Market Street and Edward J. Ferback of Campbell Street, who went to check on Pentorn’s apartment.
Johnson said he immediately used his cellular telephone to call 911 while Ferback lifted the organ, estimated to weigh up to 200 pounds, off of Pentorn.
”You could see the (organ’s indentation) across his stomach when they picked him up,” Johnson said.
Pentorn also lifted weights and could bench press up to 350 pounds, Bertsch said. It appeared he may have suffered from a medical condition such as a stroke and pulled the organ down on top of himself as he fell, Bertsch said.
What we take from this:
1) The Organ Crushee should fire the two morons who waited 10 days to check on him.
2) Buy a piano and sell the organ.
Tallest man?
Monday, April 19th, 2004Funny how this guy is in the news the same day I post about tall woman.
Leonid Stadnik, 8′ 3″ tall, Ukrainian veterinarian, holds a door as his mother Halyna, left, looks on in the village of Podoliantsy, Ukraine’s northwestern Zhytomyr region.
Tallest Woman
Monday, April 19th, 2004Meet the tallest woman alive:
De-Fen Yao from China who supposedly stands at 7′8 1/2″
Why does that nurse looking person need to assist her? Is she about to fall down?
Bumper Stickers
Friday, April 16th, 2004Some of my favorites…
#20 Dont let the car fool you– my treasure is in heaven.
#43 Big Bang theory– God Spoke and “Bang!” It happened–
#57 Be an organ donor— give your heart to Jesus!
#69 PSALMS read here.
#77 TITHE! Anyone can honk!
#103 If you can’t be an “Onward Christian Soldier”, at least don’t pass the ammunition to the enemy.
I missed seeing “Yes Lord we will ride with you.”
Scarlet Letter
Friday, April 16th, 2004
A new state law in Ohio requires judges to brand convicted drunk drivers with special “scarlet letter” license plates — with red numbers on a yellow background so other motorists will know exactly what they’ve done.