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CNN: Defendant trades murder plea for KFC, pizza

I was looking at CNN’s website this morning and when saw the headline listed above I had to check twice to make sure I read it right.
To sum up the story, located here, 33 year old Tremayne Durham of New York City ordered an $18,000 ice cream truck from an Oregon company and, when […]

Would YOU drink from that glass?

I happened upon this video at a blog called I DON’T GIVE A BLEEP.
I’ve never had more than one or two occasions to stay in a hotel room, but after watching this, you can bet your bottom dollar that if I ever do again, I’ll be bringing (and cleaning) MY OWN drinking glass. What these […]

Man arrested for putting Ding Dongs in dryers.

Now, here’s someone with no life and a really twisted sense of humor.
A man in Salem, Arkansas has been charged with vandalism after being caught on surveillance video putting Ding Dong treats into running clothes dryers at a laundromat.

The part that caught my attention is the location. I’m sure most people have never heard of […]

What’s up with Dreamhost?

Last month we set up a web hosting account with Dreamhost. The plan we signed up for was $119.40/year, but because I found a coupon, we got the first year for $69.40.
Now, keeping in mind that $69 was paid last month, and they’ve been saying for the last three and a half or four weeks […]

Happy New Year

Happy 2008! I trust you were all out too late ringing in the new year.
The routine at this end of the internet was the same as it has been for the last 7 years or so - the six of us gathered around the table around 7pm and started a game of Trivial Pursuit. […]

Dinner with THEM

We had the new neighbors over for dinner this evening. They were delicious. (Just kidding. )
We got to know quite a bit about them. More than I wanted to know, in fact. We learned, for example, that he has a truly incredible appetite, that she has all the fashion sense of a bag lady, […]

Man who had sex with bike in court

Okay, I’ll be honest here. I have rather mixed feelings about this article. On the one hand, what happens between a consenting adult and his bicycle in the privacy of their own home should be nobody’s business, but on the other hand, … a bicycle?
Maybe this guy should move to L.A. I doubt this story […]