As a kid, it was a real treat to ride in the truck bed going down the highway. I don’t know what current laws are now, but I’m sure it’s frowned upon. I think it’s permitted up to 45 mph or something.
I’d like to provide more details, and perhaps I can at a later date, but I confronted a man, a neighbor, that was looking through our master bath window last night. And in case you are wondering, it wasn’t the lineman that plays for our local football club, he’s in San Diego right now, per my sources.
I know it’s only the first week with Jon Stewart off the air, but my evenings feel so weird as of late. For the last fifteen years, my usual routine was to watch Stewart and then Letterman before going to bed, now I’m just going to bed about an hour earlier since both have signed off.
It’s probably not on par with Jesus appearing on a tortilla or toast – A Disney Princess (Cinderella, Maybe?) Spotted In An Ice Cube – I’d say it’s either Elsa, because that makes the most sense, or this is the result of Elsa acting out at a princess that ticked her off.
In his closing arguments, a lawyer talked about the power of a whisper and tied it to the Bible (PDF). Here’s more background on the case if you are interested. He really should fix that mast head on his website, it takes up half the page and stays put while scrolling.
Gizmodo – Watch the Incredible Force of a Typhoon Move a Skyscraper’s 720-Ton Mass Damper – Mass dampers are designed to counteract the swaying of a skyscraper as it’s buffeted by strong winds or earthquakes. But it’s incredibly rare to see one of these huge devices moving more an a few inches. Unless, of course, there’s a typhoon nearby.
The Marines who lowered the flag at the U.S. Embassy in Havana in 1961 are heading back to raise it.
Coppell High School has some kind of Plunger Boy mascot tradition that started in 1999 when South Lake Carroll students called Coppell students “white trash”.
As with everything else he’s done in life, Jimmy Carter will fight cancer with grace and dignity. He’s set a high standard for what to do post-presidency.
The closing argument was fascinating to me, for obvious reasons. It's always interesting to see how and what another attorney prepares for a trial. I do wish he would use "pleaded" instead of "pled," which is used but not the accepted standard.
The iPhone signal strength trick is really cool.
I work on the 27th floor of a building downtown, and I have felt the wind move our building. Watching that mass damper move made me a little panicky.
Fox News: Fair and Balanced! (disclaimer: this is not saying that the other outlets are not biased, too)
That in-flight video is the most amazing thing I've seen on YouTube in a long time. The clarity of the video matched with the ability to view 360º is incredible. In 10 years, we'll be able to view things like that on inexpensive, mass-produced virtual reality devices. And it's all just one step closer to the holodeck…
Prayers for Jimmy Carter. The man may have had a rough time as POTUS, but since then he has seemingly been a tireless symbol of what Christianity should look like.
You know, in pleadings and court I do use pleaded. But in the vernacular, I switch it to pled unintentionally. It’s kind of like when I’m in a small town, the old Navarro County accent comes out of nowhere.
Oh, I get that completely. My wife makes fun of me for how my accent changes when I call my parents. For some reason, I talk to them and I become more Texan. 🙂
Pleaded/pled is one of those things that is much easier to catch when it's written, anyway. "Pled" looks weird, but sounds okay conversationally. I had a couple of mentors that beat it out of me, so I'm probably more sensitive to it than most.
The closing argument was fascinating to me, for obvious reasons. It's always interesting to see how and what another attorney prepares for a trial. I do wish he would use "pleaded" instead of "pled," which is used but not the accepted standard.
The iPhone signal strength trick is really cool.
I work on the 27th floor of a building downtown, and I have felt the wind move our building. Watching that mass damper move made me a little panicky.
Fox News: Fair and Balanced! (disclaimer: this is not saying that the other outlets are not biased, too)
That in-flight video is the most amazing thing I've seen on YouTube in a long time. The clarity of the video matched with the ability to view 360º is incredible. In 10 years, we'll be able to view things like that on inexpensive, mass-produced virtual reality devices. And it's all just one step closer to the holodeck…
Prayers for Jimmy Carter. The man may have had a rough time as POTUS, but since then he has seemingly been a tireless symbol of what Christianity should look like.
You know, in pleadings and court I do use pleaded. But in the vernacular, I switch it to pled unintentionally. It’s kind of like when I’m in a small town, the old Navarro County accent comes out of nowhere.
Oh, I get that completely. My wife makes fun of me for how my accent changes when I call my parents. For some reason, I talk to them and I become more Texan. 🙂
Pleaded/pled is one of those things that is much easier to catch when it's written, anyway. "Pled" looks weird, but sounds okay conversationally. I had a couple of mentors that beat it out of me, so I'm probably more sensitive to it than most.
That's how I am with 'plenary' power, and the business records predicate. And a few other things, when they come up.
I wish I knew how. I’ll see what I can do, because I’ve neveriked the way it scrolled either.