Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

Your face as drawn by a blogger. I don’t remember right now what I found this blog through.

These police officers are nuts. If they can’t at least understand the optics of what they did, they are idiots too. I think it’s the quote he accuses them of, which cinches the deal: those officers made the wrong choice due to impatience. Old people who are that sick can easily become confused. Until police use TASERS only in cases where they have exhausted other means, and see an immediate threat to life, they will be abusing their power.

This is just too cool. If you have one of these Canon cameras, and ever do more than just point-and-shoot, you’ll want to get this free enhancement. My 6 year old Canon is too old, but I may be replacing it this year… most certainly with one of these models.

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Hat tip to Photojojo

Walking home from work, I heard a soup vendor playing Jim Croce’s “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”. It took me back to when I was a kid listening to the song on either cassette or vinyl record. It’s just impossible not to feel perked up listening to that song.

And so I went to YouTube and found some of it. And I went to Wikipedia to learn about how he died. I learned from my mother when I was little that Jim was no longer alive, and had died suddenly. It was a plane crash that did it, one day before his 3rd (and very successful album) was released. On it were these songs:

“I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song”

- The No. 1 single, “Time In a Bottle”

It makes me wonder what could have been written if only he’d had more than 30 years on earth.

His son is a musician.

Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

Weird Al’s take, using some news from the ’90s to modify the song. There are subtle (and not very subtle) modifications to the video.

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Hat tip to Roshan (who just enjoyed his first Staycation in about 4 years!)

I was considering leaving this mostly unfounded jab fall by the wayside, but I see Dr. Dawg has responded eloquently to it already. I just would like to point out though, that one week we’re “self-centered bigots” for not knowing something took place, and the next week we’re supporters of “fringe anarchists” and “paranoid fabulists” because what we should have known according to Robert, actually didn’t happen (again according to Robert) because the person who recently pointed it out is Mr. Annett, “and we can’t let him make a mockery of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.”

So Robert, which is it? You can’t cut both ways, just to suck up to Kate’s crowd. Because that’s how this comes across, at least as much as your probably sincere worry that further investigations will somehow delay the compensation already settled upon. Seems easy enough to pay the settlements due, and if there’s further injury proved, then to pay again to the families further injured. Bring on an investigation.

This story almost stunned me, and what’s even more surprising is that it’s about 150 years old!
Imaging a solar flare so bright, that you could SEE the sun getting brighter. Would you be a little concerned? Well, how about if your [telegraph] started to power itself?! These are things that happened in 1859, and could happen again at any time [assuming you have a telegraph or enjoy cell phones, TV, radio, computers…], with as little predictability as an earthquake. Quebec Hydro got a taste of what could happen in 1989.

And how would you like to lose 8 LINES of pixels on your digital camera? Imagine if it’s in space and there’s no way to fix it except with fancy image editing? Not many weeks after that happened, these aurora were photographed by me. Imagine most of the world’s satellites being disabled in a day?

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Now, on to something NotSafeForWork fun(ny). Imagine designing a logo, and not having someone giving you a hand with it? OGC in the UK did that apparently, and almost copied the ‘hand not connected, yet still phallic’ OGC in B.C.
If you don’t get it, turn your head to the side when viewing the logo, and pretend you see a penis somewhere.

The jokes about government employees being wankers, are perhaps appropriate at least in this case.

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And did you know cavemen used Powerpoint? Me neither. How me plug in projector? Me not know F7 + Fn keys.

I’m not talking about Rambo or even CC. I’m talking about the cyclone that has killed tens of thousands, and left possibly millions homeless (according to the radio reports I heard Tuesday morning).

Does the death toll now, indicate that the toll for the Boxing Day Tsunami was possibly grossly distorted (as I had always suspected) for political reasons?

UPDATE:
Here is a suggestion by MoveOn on how you can help, without helping the corrupt Myanmar government who allowed the disaster to unfold in a way worse than how Katrina hit New Orleans.
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