Monthly Archive for March, 2006Page 2 of 5

Whoa! Whoa! WHOA!!!

Monkey menace? Simply cook and eat them!

Fed up by an army of monkeys that has made life miserable in rural Uganda, a minister has come out with a simple solution: eat the animal!

Junior Agriculture Minister Israel Kibirige Sebunnya has warned that crops would be wiped out if the problem was not addressed. And he has suggested a novel solution to the problem.

‘I wish we could adopt the habit of eating monkeys like they do in West Africa,’ junior Agriculture Minister Israel Kibirige Sebunnya said here.

Haven’t we already established that monkeys are far to similar to us biologically to be consumed? I mean, seriously… How does this seem like a good idea to anyone?

Lockbox Brain

Woman With Perfect Memory Baffles Scientists

That level of recall suggests another hypothesis. Some people are able to recall past events by categorizing them. Certain events, or facts, are associated with others, and filed away together so that they may be easier to access. That’s a trick that is often used by entertainers who use feats of memory to wow their audience.

AJ does have “some sort of compulsive tendencies. She wants order in her life,” McGaugh says. “As a child, she would get upset if her mother changed anything in her room because she had a place for everything and wanted everything in its place.

“So she does categorize events by the date, but that doesn’t explain why she remembers it.”

Fascinating… She remembers when tax inititatives were passed in her childhood, for crying out loud!

Call It a Night

BU is currently trailing BC in the NCAA Men’s Ice Hockey Northeast Regional Finals by a 4-0 score after two periods, which includes a couple of shorthanded goals allowed.

*sigh*

Update: 5-0 final

”We were dominated tonight,” said BU coach Jack Parker, who admitted he was ”flabbergasted” by the outcome. ”We picked a bad night to have a not so good game for ourselves. And Boston College really jacked it up a notch or two. We didn’t control any of this game.”

Ed was right…

When Miracle Ed came to visit he bought us Firefly and Serenity.

To get me to watch it, he told me “You’ll like it. You’re in it.” Meaning the Captain Malcom Reynolds character reminded him of me.

It turns out he was right:

Continue reading ‘Ed was right…’

Go BU!

Beat the Mavericks!

(Note: If you can’t watch the game on ESPNU, you should be able to listen to the game at the BU site. Game starts at 4pm Eastern.)

The AB in the OC

Monster’s Ball: Feds, Aryan Brotherhood come to paint the OC courthouse white

Based on claims by prosecutor Emmick and Smith, the AB—though much smaller than the Dirty White Boys, Nazi Low Riders, Mexican Mafia and Black Guerrilla Family—is the elite prison-based criminal organization in America. The Brotherhood recruited people who were fiercely loyal and street-smart; more than anything they were “psychopaths,� according to Smith, not excluding himself from that category.

An interesting peak through the window at the Aryan Brotherhood (You all know how fascinated I am with hate groups and gangs…).
Purely coincidentally, I watched American History X last weekend while The Wife was away at work. Effing fantastic, that movie.

Also note, this OC Weekly site always seems to have some good stuff. I think I need to add it to the regular rotation.