Archive for the ‘Idiocy’ Category
March 10th, 2010 | 
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No, this is isn’t about a car. On the surface, product recalls are a good thing. It shows that the company has recognized a problem with a product and is pulling them all back in to fix or replace them.
This one has me shaking my head, though: Read the rest of this entry »
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Sometimes, I come across things online that make me flinch and regret clicking the link. Don’t believe me? Google “vajazzler”. Bleah.
Other times, I flinch and think “GAH! I must share that!” This for instance:
I had a nice bowl of cream of mushroom soup for lunch yesterday. Well, as nice as an Campbell’s condensed soup can be. I have this habit of reading ingredients labels on my food and this one raised a couple of questions.
Lou reassured me that “soy protein isolate” is probably just soy flour, but I still wonder about “fresh cream”.
I had to take the bee-mobile in to the garage this morning: the muffler is gone and driving a small wagon with the sound of a tractor-trailer isn’t any fun. The muffler developed a hole last summer while we were at the cottage, but I managed to silence it with a liberal application of putty and a couple of bandages.
The patch started to let go on Friday as Bridget I were making our way to Kate & Jim’s. It completely let go shortly after leaving their place to come home. Let me tell you: driving for 6 hours in a car with a failed muffler is nobody’s idea of enjoyable.
Too bad it doesn’t exist any more.
You may have heard the outrageous story last week about a school vice-principal wetting his pants in terror and calling the bomb squad upon seeing an 11-year-old student’s electronic project? No, I’m not kidding. At a so-called technology magnet school. That’s bad enough, but the kid and his parents are now supposed to get “counselling” for, presumably, daring to let their child think for himself and experiment.
Murilee Martin posted a wonderful reminiscence of a prank that he pulled in high school that amounted to much the same effect: bomb squad and evacuated school. But for a notable exception: Read the rest of this entry »
If I suddenly disappear from view (other than family vacation next week), you’ll know why. I sent this to our Prime Weasel yesterday: