Dear Dr. Science,
If Oxygen was discovered in 1774 by Joseph Priestly, what did people breathe before then?
from Mike Phillips of Sioux City, IA
Back from Pittsburgh, life is good. NC ain’t much warmer. Will comment on local Episcopal priest, L’il Joe, extraordinary events, and the River of Strange — [...]
I bought a bag of babies at the Pig for a buck fifty.
Well, there’s quick as a fox, fast as a pig going downhill on roller skates, about as fast as a constipated cracker taster, hard as shaving an egg, hard as nailing currant jelly to a wall, hard as picking fly shit out of pepper, frustrating as a fart in a bottle –
and now –
harder than [...]
Ooops, the Flickr Daily Zeitgeist java script crashed in Konqueror, it’s a KDE thing, apparently.
Excuse my ignorance… Maybe I have java disabled in Konqueror, duh, hadn’t thought of that. If anyone’s interested, here’s the error script: [I think I said that correctly, remember ... I am not a geek, I just play one on [...]
Flickr is amazing. If the folks who created it ever come to Eastern NC (and poor folks, I hope they never have to — no one should come here unless it’s to pick up a million dollars and then leave) I will make them a pitcher of sweet tea, a huge pot of cheese grits, [...]
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there’s a new frontpage photo on The Dead Mule. I’ve been told to try Flickr for loading some of my photos for public viewing since I can’t get my old photo program on the Mule to load (it’s a scripting problem on the server end). So far, I’ve tried 8 [...]
