Lit Match Prompts Emergency Landing

By Martin Weil

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 6, 2006;  Page A08

A jetliner from Washington made an emergency landing Monday in
Nashville after passengers smelled matches being struck, a Nashville
airport spokeswoman said.

Lynne Lowrance, spokeswoman for Nashville International Airport,
said that a passenger on the Dallas-bound flight, which had originated
at Reagan National Airport, had been striking matches to mask evidence
of a troubled digestive system……

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - The Heart Attack Grill — a theme restaurant whose
specialties include the Quadruple Bypass Burger and Flatliner Fries,
cooked in pure lard — is making health-care professionals’ blood
pressure rise, and not because of the menu..

It is because of the waitresses’ naughty nurse uniforms……

[the story continues]

I dunno, personally, I’m most interested in being pushed out to my car in a wheelchair
after finishing my meal.  This "service" is offered to their "best
patients".  These "patients"  are those who order and finish off a
Triple or Quadruple Bypass Burger.To me the triple bypass burger looks
obscenely big,. The Quadruple is simply unthinkable.  I’m not sure if
I’d be up to the challenge of the Triple, let alone the Quadruiple..

So I guess I’ll have to forgo the wheelchair and just get a double bypass.

Fortunately that will be easy. The Heart Attack Grill’s one and only Location is just under 19 miles from me.  I’ll have to check it out soon. It had somehow escaped my newshound mom’s radar as well as mine (till now that is).

The burgers and fries sound awwesome. I’ve never found the food at Hooters to be anything special. And the "nurse" theme at The Heart Attack Grill is much more clever than the Hooters Girls.

..(or in lust anyway)!

I was looking at the list of recent visitors to my Zorpia site and this one caught my attention:

*Just in case anyone thinks I’m serious, this it to inform you that I’m not at all serious.

Rare, Medium Rare, Medium, Medium Well or….

Well done?

I thought I’d do something extrodinary and post here. I’ve not done it in eons (not that anyone cares).

I reeeealy want a notebook (laptop) computer.  I don’t need one at all. I just want one.  To be specific, I want this one:

Or if I were to win the lottery, I’d get this one instead:

They’re both great inside and out (the latter having a faster processor, different operating system and being much more expensive, however).

And both of them have very slick looking cases (the former being a high gloss black and the latter being brushed aluminum).

And speaking of good looks, hell would freeze over before my notebook would end up looking like this one:

Heck, I’d spare even ths shittiest notebook that indignity.  Do people actually think this looks good?

I see this shit all the time. It boggles my mind.

I thought I’d Google the subject of Photoshopping on teh Internets™

Oops.  I’m sorry.  I meant to say, I used Google™ to search the Internet (with Mozilla® Firefox®), for pages with information about editing digital images (or better yet, editing them with Adobe® Photoshop®).

After all, I’d not want to hear from the Google™ or Adobe® lawyers now would I?

Oh yes and never never ever "google yahoo" to find photoshop crackz or pirated copies of Adobe® Photoshop®, either.

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I love Google. It’s a great service.  And at one time all they were
known for was search. And as far as I was concerned, that was a good thing.

At
one time all Yahoo! was known for was a (very good) directory.  Not
search, but a directory.  They still have the directory but they
practically keep it a secret.  Why? Because Google is best known as the
place for Internet search. Yahoo! would rather people use Yahoo!
instead (perfectly understandable).

But I digress….

Both
Yahoo! and Google have mostly great services that are unrelated to what they’re
best known for (that being Internet Search).  But sometimes they do get
it wrong.

This is about one of the ways Google got it wrong and in a very big way.

Once upon a time there was an awesome website known as DejaNews.com.  Their sole purpose was to provide a web interface to Usenet Newsgroups.
You could read them and post to them via the site.  But the best
feature was the archive.  They had archives going back for years.  It
was a very handy way to research stuff (or a great way to dig up dirt
on that jerk in the newsgroup you frequent).

DejaNews fell on hard times and changed their name to Deja.com.  They began offering reviews. Consumers could post reviews of things much like you’d see on a site like Epinions.  But at least the Usenet service remained in tact as everyone was accustomed to.

Well that wasn’t enough to save Deja.com and they were acquired by Google.  And that was the beginning of Google Groups.

The best Google Groups has ever been was at the very beginning, before they decided messing up a good thing was a good idea.

You
can still access all newsgroups today via Google Groups. You can search
them back even farther than Deja ever could.  You can post to
newsgroups.

The problem is, they’ve mixed malling lists with newsgroups and call everything "Google Groups".  You really have dig hard to find a Usenet-only search(?).
In fact, the last time I tried it I was unsuccessful and gave up.
They insist on mixing all the mailing lists…er groups with Usenet.

I
don’t mind the mailing lists.  Yahoo! Groups is the same thing. But at
least Yahoo! doesn’t throw Usenet into the mix and imply it’s all the
same.

I even have a few of my own Google Groups that I use for
personal/private invite-only lists.  They’re very good at that.  But
Usenet?  They suck.  And it’s really too bad. Because I’ve not found
anything better.

I’m not one to post to newsgroups from the web. I use a newsreader. But I do search groups from time to time. Google makes it far more difficult than it has to be.

Now they have "new and improved" Google Groups (which is in beta).  And it is better than before. But the Usenet aspect is the same. It still sucks.

Sometimes
these sites listen to the consumer and make improvements (albeit by
word of mouth - just try to actually reach someone at Google or
Yahoo!…).  Perhaps one day Google will bring back a decent web-based
Usenet interface.  One as good as or better than the old DejaNews.

One can only hope…

But I’m not sure to whom.

Things that make you go hummmm…