Wednesday, March 31st, 2004
Live Nude Photos!
O.K. That does it. My parents were quite skinny when they were first married. For example, here's a picture of my Mom shortly after she had me: However,
Entries from March 2004
Tuesday, March 30th, 2004
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen — billionaires
You know, I laughed when I saw “Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen” magazine on the stands a few years ago. “Ha, that'll never work,” I thought to myself. “Who would buy that tripe?” Apparently, lot's and lot's of 11 year old girls. Now 17, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen move about $1.5 billion in movies, magazines, [...]
Tuesday, March 30th, 2004
Taming Foxes
Via Flutterby: Ever wonder why many dog breeds have floppy ears? Or why horses often have a white patch in the middle of their forehead? The results of a 40+ year experiment to domesticate foxes suggests that these physical characteristics co-vary with the endocrinal and developmental changes associated with breeding animals for friendliness to humans: [...]
Monday, March 29th, 2004
Dear residents of 1929E…
Dear residents of 1929-E, Intellectually, I'm very glad you enjoy a vigorous sex life. Or enjoy chasing cats with jack hammers at 2:00 a.m. Whichever. However, if you would be so kind, please move your bed about 5 inches away from your east wall. Thank you. Grumpily yours,
Monday, March 29th, 2004
Do parents matter?
http://www.gladwell.com/1998/1998_08_17_a_harris.htm “Do Parents Matter? Judith Rich Harris and child development “, by Malcolm Gladwell. The New Yorker, August 17, 1998. “If adolescents didn't want to be like adults, it was because they wanted to be like other adolescents. Children were identifying with and learning from other children, and Harris realized that once you granted that [...]
Sunday, March 28th, 2004
Police monitor utility bills
Huh. The police monitor your utility bills. Good to know. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=3&u=/ap/20040328/ap_on_re_us/electricity_probe_1 CARLSBAD, Calif. – When police noticed Dina Dagy's family was spending $250 to $300 a month on electricity, they suspected a marijuana farm was flourishing under high-intensity lights inside their suburban home. What they found when they showed up with a drug-sniffing dog and [...]
Saturday, March 27th, 2004
Removing people from your "friend's of" list
BTW, you can now remove people from your “friends of” list, if you so desire: http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_biz/220241.html
Friday, March 26th, 2004
Shuttle Bike
http://www.shuttlebikeusa.com/ http://www.ihpva.org/pipermail/hpv-boats/1999q4/000099.html Return-path: NSwhitecap@aol.com From: NSwhitecap@aol.com Full-name: NSwhitecap Message-ID: <0.d7323b3a.259bc9a7@aol.com> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:31:35 EST Subject: Shuttlebike response To: hpv-boats@ihpva.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 54 Hi everyone, This answers a couple day's worth of questions, so it's ended up being rather long… I tried to be [...]
Friday, March 26th, 2004
John Benditt's amphibious tricycle
http://www.jbenditt.50megs.com/index.html
Friday, March 26th, 2004
Ramphos amphibious flying tricycle
http://www.ramphos.com/index_e.html Emerging from its earthbound roots and growing wings to fly into the unbound, RAMPHOS is an amphibious flying hull with wings made of anti-UV mylar of 15 mq. mounted as standard. Wings up to 21mq can be mounted too. Ramphos comes as bi or three-cycle configuration, where different engine size can be mounted ranging [...]
