The street lights have just gone back off and it's getting warm again. Cool seeing the eclipse again after 35+ years. Pretty amazing. It was like a block party here we had chairs in the driveway and toasted all with cider.
We are at about 50% eclipse now, and it's a neat thing to see. We'll have totality in the 2024 version, so I guess I'll need to make it another seven years.
You too, eh? Yeah, I look at stuff years in the future and try and work out whether I'll make it that far.
My late father-in-law wouldn't buy a suit for one of his daughter's weddings because, as he put it, 'I won't get the wear out of it'. At that point he was 60. Unfortunately, (depending on how you look at it I suppose), he didn't die until he was 90 My old man almost got to the point where he wouldn't buy any long play records, 'just in case' Well, that might be a slight exaggeration but, y'know...
There's a balance to be struck between optimism and realism, though. I don't get the ones that have gone 'speckly' but... the green ones? Still, the power of positive thinking and all that
Transcripts of pharma-douche Martin Shkreli's jury selection released. Some of the jurors comments are doozies. Like this Spicoli-like response: the court: Well, I’m going to excuse you. Juror Number 144, tell us what you have heard. juror no. 144: I heard through the news of how the defendant changed the price of a pill by up-selling it. I heard he bought an album from the Wu-Tang Clan for a million dollars. the court: The question is, have you heard anything that would affect your ability to decide this case with an open mind. Can you do that? juror no. 144: I don’t think I can because he kind of looks like a dick. https://harpers.org/archive/2017/09/public-enemy/
Ya know. I bought my first readers last year. Last eye test I was 20/40. True story. We won't mention the hearing aids.
Well, this is kinda weird... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...cess-diana-floral-tribute-ridiculed-an-insult Chesterfield council said that like all art, the floral design was ‘meant to be a talking point’. I'm thinking...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41411799 Campaigners in Saudi Arabia have hailed King Salman's decree allowing women to drive for the first time.
Ian has no success in scoring, on or off the pitch. http://nypost.com/2017/10/08/soccer-star-arrested-after-hooker-orgy-goes-terribly-wrong/
What let him down wasn't when he couldn't 'perform', it was when he was so cheap he asked for his money back because of it
Yeah, that's the "weird news" part. Not being able to perform after two bottles of Baileys? Nothing unusual there.
OhioMan's tattoo gives law enforcement a good head start: An Ohio man with an unusual tattoo on his forehead has been charged for his involvement in a sex crime two years ago. Christopher Wilson, 37, was arrested Saturday night and charged with sexual imposition and assault, Fox 19 reported. The Cincinnati man has the words “I’m a pornstar” tattooed on his forehead. Fox 19 reported “another vulgar message” tattooed below the aforementioned was blurred from his mugshot. http://nypost.com/2017/10/16/man-with-disturbingly-lewd-face-tattoo-busted-for-sexual-assault/
That's one of those stories that gets residents of 49 states to collectively heave a huge sigh of relief.