Some random crap:
My mommy got me a 40″ Sony LCD HDTV for Xmas. I was planning to get something in the 46″ range later in 2008, but 40″ turns out to be plenty big (plus, it’s free, yo!). That mother of mine is pretty cool. Even if she does have a thundering herd of Great Danes at her house (including this one and this one, who will make you cry).
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Did you hear the Lakota have decided to secede from the US? I figure this is roughly equivalent to them going on strike. They’re grabbing some attention and might get some sort fo concession from the US government, but in the end it will amount to nothing. Though, Brozo and I think it’d be fun if they started tolling traffic on I-90 and formed an army. How long do you think it would take for them to be labeled “terrorists” if they did that?
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Did you hear that monkeys are as good at mental mathematics as college kids?
“We had them do math on the fly,” Cantlon said.
The task was to mentally add two sets of dots that were briefly flashed on a computer screen. The teams were asked to pick the correct answer from two choices on a different screen.
The humans were not allowed to count or verbalize as they worked, and they were told to answer as quickly as possible. Both monkeys and humans typically answered within 1 second.
And both groups fared about the same.
Great. Just great.
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Maybe they can help economists decide whether there’s going to be a recession or not.
“A lot of the underlying resilience of the U.S. economy seems a bit unappreciated,” says Citigroup economist Steven Wieting. “It’s not clear that this is so large a burden that we can’t muddle through this.”
That’s the best this guy could come up with? Muddle through?
The Monkey Clone Wars are not far from us.
Begin training your children now, for they shall serve on the front lines against the Simianista menace.
Oh, HELL no!
Are you frick-a-frackin’ kidding me?! One month monkeys are going all Hitchcock’s The Birds on a deputy mayor in Delhi, the next we find out some baby-momma is leaving her not-even-a-month-old child in the knit-picking hands of an obvious Simianista recruiting operative while she does “chores”?
This cannot stand, your honor! I OBJECT!
This video makes me shake my fists at the sky…
The Deputy Mayor of the Indian capital, Delhi, was killed by a horde of moneys, if you can believe it.
SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.
The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by.
The Hindus consider monkey sacred, so they are basically allowed to reproduce like rabbits and generally fuck shit up all around town.
In other words, major cities in India are overrun by simian street gangs… To that I say, simply: No thank you.
(Props to Brandon via Twitter)
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Track o’ the post: Shock the Monkey, an obvious choice from Peter Gabriel’s greatest hits disc, Shaking the Tree
I find this story hilarious: Man Smuggles Monkey Into NYC Airport
The monkey escapade began in Lima, Peru, late Monday, when the man boarded a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said Spirit Airlines spokeswoman Alison Russell. After landing Tuesday morning, the man waited several hours before catching a connecting flight to LaGuardia Airport.
During the flight, people around the man noticed that the marmoset, which normally lives in forests and eats fruit and insects, had emerged from underneath his hat, Russell said.
“Other passengers asked the man if he knew he had a monkey on him,” she said.
Too good!
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In other monkey news: Escaped Monkey Recaptured in Miss.
Oliver was apprehended at Tupelo Stone & Masonry, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported, six days after leading park staff on a chase through the park’s trail system before eventually eluding them.
So, one primate in the wrong place altogether and another one finally return to its proper home. I’m sure there’s some sort of life lesson in that…
We sure do!
Here in the Colorado Front Range, the bubonic plague has long been known to fester amongst the prairie dog colonies that litter the landscape. Lately, though, it’s been encroaching on the suburban bliss of our “little boxes” by way of the squirrels that run our fences and the bunnies that ruin our lawns.
And now it’s in our monkeys.
Of course, how did the moneky catch the disease? BY EATING A DEAD SQUIRREL! Stupid monkey.
What baffles me is I have yet to see a single flea since moving to Colorado, but it seems they’re out there. Guess they grow ‘em invisible ’round these parts.
Oh, and check this part out:
Although the plague, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is the same disease that killed 25 million Europeans in the 1300s, it now can be treated with antibiotics if caught early enough. Still, it is fatal about half the time, according to health experts.
Well, which is it, young feller? Treatable with antibiotics or 50% fatal?
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