Ignorance is bliss dangerous

Cox and Forkum

A Great Day for the White Sox!!

The starting line up did fantastic, no runs or hits scored, and the Bullpen, which has been disappointing followed through just as everyone has been hoping for the last several weeks and months of failure.

 They kept their opponent from scoring a single run, and their offense did just as was expected.

 Drawback?  The White Sox didn’t play today, and even though there wasn’t a game, this was probably the best game I’ve seen/not seen in more than a week.

It’s an average day for a chicago team right now (except for the fact that the cubs are on a 3 game winning streak!, and the Sox are sucking crap)

The point is?  THANK YOU White Sox for having today off, it’s the only day this week that I haven’t experienced dissappointment thanks to your failures.

Watch it.

I don’t like opera, I don’t “get it.” but I couldn’t help but appreciate this, and especially the response.

found at macrangers place.

Update: about 5 minutes later.  This was the closer video on Brit Hume’s show, thats cool.  (not my link of course, just the youtube video)

Windows in time

This is pretty neat. Some guy put together screenshots from just about every version of Windows. Click on the image to go there.

Feel old yet?

Also stolen from the Stoat Meister.

Dipshits and diabolical fauna

Squirrel goes on rampage, injures 3

BERLIN (Reuters) – An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.

The squirrel first ran into a house in the southern town of Passau, leapt from behind on a 70-year-old woman, and sank its teeth into her hand, a local police spokesman said Thursday.

With the squirrel still hanging from her hand, the woman ran onto the street in panic, where she managed to shake it off.

The animal then entered a building site and jumped on a construction worker, injuring him on the hand and arm, before he managed to fight it off with a measuring pole.

“After that, the squirrel went into the 72-year-old man’s garden and massively attacked him on the arms, hand and thigh,” the spokesman said. “Then he killed it with his crutch.”

Man fails school exams on 38th try

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) – A 73-year-old Indian farmer who vowed not to marry before passing his high school exams has failed to get through for the 38th time.

Shiv Charan Yadav has been taking the exams — normally given to schoolchildren at the age of 15 — every year since 1969, without success.

This year, he failed everything except Sanskrit, scoring only 103 out of a possible 600 points.

“Once I pass I want to get married to a girl who’s under 30,” Yadav, who lives alone in Kohari village in the western desert state of Rajasthan, told Reuters.

Yeah, good luck with that buddy — another genius:

Man Asks for Prison for Stealing Panties

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A district judge on Tuesday granted a defendant’s unusual request to be sent to prison for breaking into women’s homes and stealing their undergarments, his attorney said.

Officials had recommended probation for Steven Quatkemeyer, 40, as part of a plea agreement in which he pleaded guilty to felony stalking and two counts of felony burglary. Prosecutors dropped several misdemeanors and six other felony counts in exchange for the plea.

“I apologize to the families affected from the bottom of my heart,” Quatkemeyer told the court. “After a couple of weeks of incarceration, I realized what I had done was very wrong.”

He also asked for a prison term and got four years.

Back to the animal theme:

Australian Attacked With Swordfish Snout

BRISBANE, Australia – Two assailants broke into a man’s trailer and attacked him with a swordfish snout in eastern Australia early Wednesday, leaving the victim with cuts to his arms, back and hands, police said.

The victim, who was not identified, claimed the two suspects assaulted him with the serrated, sword-like bill during a home invasion in the eastern city of Bundaberg, Queensland state police said.

Paramedics treated the man for his injuries.

It was not clear where the alleged attackers found the swordfish snout, or how big it was. Police said they were not investigating the incident because the man had withdrawn his complaint.

Characterized by their long, sharp snouts, swordfish are predatory fish that can grow up to 13 feet long.

Woman Injured by Leaping Sturgeon

ROCK BLUFF, Fla. – A woman was injured over the weekend by a leaping sturgeon, the latest incident involving the flying fish on the Suwannee River, officials said.

Tara Spears, 32, of Bell, was knocked unconscious by the animal on Sunday while boating on the river north of Rock Bluff, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reported.

She was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and was expected to recover, the agency reported.

The large, prehistoric-looking sturgeon have hard plates along their backs. They can grow up to 8 feet long and up to 200 pounds.

Spooked Deer Takes ‘Revenge’ on Runner

BRAINERD, Minn. – Kandi Hanson has a history of run-ins with deer. She totaled her first car and damaged two others in collisions with deer. This weekend, the deer struck back.

As Hanson approached the halfway mark of the 10-kilometer Sour Grapes Half and Half run Saturday, a spooked deer darted out of the woods and crashed into Hanson, tossing the 28-year-old into the air and sending her sprawling onto the grass before disappearing into the woods.

Lazy blogging done for the day…

Dear Leader has your number

Next time you head to North Korea for a little R & R, leave your cell phone behind:

‘Executions of cell phone users up in N. Korea’

North Korea has increased its public executions against cell phone users and those who circulate outside information in the communist country, a South Korean government think tank said Thursday.

The phenomenon of executions of those who “circulate South Korean leaflets and sell videos and use cell phones are on the rise,” the South’s government-affiliated Korea Institute for National Unification think tank said in a white paper on the North’s human rights conditions. No exact figures were given.

North Koreans are officially banned from communicating with the outside world but some of them listen to foreign news and use cell phones through Chinese communication networks, according to North Korean defectors in South Korea. The use of cell phones in North Korea is banned though some are smuggled into the North by Chinese who have links with South Koreans.

Hey, Ted Turner, the next time you go visit your buddy — bring your cell phone.

Hell, bring two.