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Why are ping-pong balls so expensive?

We have a dusty old ping-pong table in the basement of the building where I work, and a number of us go down there sometimes to play. We’re not very good but we are very angry and thus we’ve destroyed a fair number of the balls.
So this past weekend I stopped in at […]

Way too incendiary

The lead story this morning on CNN.com was headlined “Battle for New Orleans” in humongous type. That seems a little incendiary to me. Yes there’s chaos and anarchy but it’s a few thousand desperate and hungry people. It’s not an army, there’s no civil war going on, no repression, it doesn’t warrant being called a […]

The human descent into chaos

I couldn’t believe how quickly Iraq descended into chaos after the fall of Saddam. Without any alternative civil system to take up the vacuum created by the fall of that regime, the country became a Wild West land of violence and fear. Never in my wildest dreams did I think the same kind of thing […]

$80 million for a crappy movie?

The tail end of summer has become the dumping ground for B-grade action flicks. A movie that the studio had hoped would be a big summer blockbuster but after seeing the finished product they realized it sucked so bad they didn’t want to waste a summer weekend promoting it. Apparently this description fits […]

Make that $34

Okay so I filled up the tank this morning, shy of 11 gallons, and it cost me almost $34. Cricky that’s a lot of money.
I’m thinking of going to the Ohio Renaissance Festival this weekend but that’s about two tanks, one there and another back. Might look to find somebody who wants to […]

$30 gas tank

On my way home I saw that every gas station I passed had unleaded for $3.09 or more. A big jump from about $2.50 yesterday, all due to Katrina. This means when I refill my tank this week I will definitely pay over $30 for the very first time.
I know, it’s not […]

Back from Orlando

The Orlando airport Originally uploaded by rexworld.
Okay here’s the start of my photos from the Orlando vacation. It was way too hot down there, and muggy as hell. But it was fun.

Surfing from the Orlando airport

So I’m sitting here waiting to meet everyone else that’s flying into Orlando. Apparently my flight was first, Mom arrives in about an hour and then the cousins arrive an hour after that. I’m in the lobby of the Hyatt Hotel, which is literally at the center of the airport–all the terminals and […]

We’re a fat country

The national obesity rate is inching ever closer to 25%. Some places like right here in Kentucky have already crossed that milestone–one quarter of the adults in the Bluegrass State qualify as obese.
The definition apparently is a body-mass index over 30, and according to this calculator I’m pretty close. Definitely overweight (duh, if one-quarter […]

Top party schools

Princeton Review has come out with their 2005 list of top party schools, and UW-Madison takes top honors.
My beloved Texas A&M is nowhere to be found on the top 20 party schools. There was plenty of drinking but I guess it wasn’t really in the context of parties. Just people getting drunk […]