15
Oct 11

My new retirement plan!

Don’t you just love these emails?


Greetings.....
I am Jennifer Karla from the republic of Kenya, I need your honest assistance to move my consignment that worth US$4.2million with valuable commodities from here to your country for investment projects and am willing to offer you 15% share.Please, reply fast in my private email here jenny2011k@yahoo.fr if interested, for more details.

God bless you

Jenny

15% of US$4.2 million? That’s US$630,000! Maybe I’ll hold out for 20%…

Hmmmm…


13
Oct 11

Ahhh, good ol’ days…


09
Oct 11

Steampunk Blunderbuss


09
Oct 11

Very Cool Steampunk Outfit


09
Oct 11

Offbook: Steampunk, A Mini Documentary by PBS Arts

PBS has created this wonderful documentary about the Steampunk world. I’m fascinated by the originality, the creativeness, and the mystery evoked by the Steampunk participants.

Via: pbs.org


06
Oct 11

Hank Williams Jr: Good Riddance

(CBS/AP)
BRISTOL, Conn. – Are you ready for some football? Hank Williams Jr. isn’t anymore.
The country singer and ESPN each took credit for the decision Thursday morning to ax his classic intro to “Monday Night Football.”

The network had pulled the song from the game earlier this week after Williams made an analogy to Adolf Hitler while discussing President Barack Obama on Fox News on Monday morning.

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06
Oct 11

Seattle: Home of the 78-minute summer

Two women seek shelter under an umbrella from the steady drizzle at the Bite of Seattle on July 17, 2011.

Scott Systek, KOMO News:   While Sea-Tac Airport only reports temperatures on the hour, the University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences Department keeps a minute-by-minute log of the weather station atop their roof on the Seattle campus. And since the UW is in the heart of Seattle, while the airport is more like the lower-left shin, I figure this could be an accurate representation of what a true Seattle person would have felt this summer.

The mission: Find out how many minutes it’s been at 80 degrees or warmer this year– what I would call a true warm summer day in Seattle.

The answer: 78 minutes.

Or, breaking it down: 12 minutes on July 2, and 66 minutes on July 6.

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01
Oct 11

We just get rusty in Seattle…


01
Oct 11

No worries…


01
Oct 11

Juggle this!