Fallen Into Knowledge

And his Snow-Art

This morning, on NPR, when it was time to announce the weather, the lady reading the report said:  “…in the gorge tomorrow, freezing rain in the morning changing to melting rain …[snicker]… in the afternoon.”

Melting Rain.  Only in Oregon

Lawyers representing several record companies have filed suit against an 83-year old woman who died in December, claiming that she made more than 700 songs available on the internet.
“I believe that if music companies are going to set examples they need to do it to appropriate people and not dead people,” Robin Chianumba told AP. “I am pretty sure she is not going to leave Greenwood Memorial Park to attend the hearing.”
RIAA sues the dead | The Register
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Remember the book Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day? well, by day hasn’t been that bad, but it certianly has been a series of unfortunate events. I woke up this morning at 5:30, so as to get to work at 7:00.
6:10 - Leave house on bike
6:14 - arrive at bus stop (about hawthorne and MLK Jr.)
6:15 - watch bus go by with two bikes filling the bike rack (which meant I had to wait for the next bus to come. At this point I am not worried, in fact, I left early just in case this happened)
6:30 - watch bus go by with two bikes filling the bike rack (I did not allow for two busses in a row to by full)
6:30 - start riding to work, very quickly.
6:53 - POP! my rear tyre actually makes a loud noise as it explodes. I am 1/4 mile from downtown milwaukie. At this point I realize that short of time stopping (the sun, which will not rise for another hour doesn’t offer to stop, besides which I am not carrying the right staff for the job) I am not making it to work on time. I call work to inform them as much and then start walking toward the Milwaukie transit center to bus the rest of the way to work.
6:57 It starts raining. Perfect.
7:30 I make it to work.
moral of the story: lateness sometimes happens, no matter how hard one might try to prevent it.
epilogue: when I got home this evening and set to fixing said flat tyre, I noticed how torn up it is. Now, let me explain, this is no ordinary tyre - under the rubber is a layer of kevlar (the stuff used for bullet-proof vests), so popping this tyre was no easy task. The rubber is pitted in at least a dozen places from road crap. so please, next time you are driving down the road and are finished chewing on that nail, or sucking the soda residue off the broken glass bottle, don’t just spit it out the window. dispose of it properly. for my sake. for my bike’s sake. please.

Other than having to work at Starbucks today, the rest of my day has gone better. So perhaps I will not move to Australia just yet.

Oh My! Now This is cool. Go there now.Virtual Bubblewrap - Pop Now! Pop bubble wrap online - since 1996

Oh, while I am posting - Watch This:
Iconwars! Its funny.
(uh, Mr. (or Ms.) Tech Support Person, I think my computer has a problem….)

Oh come on, you know you want to laugh: Overheard in New York yea, feels good don’t it? (unless you are at work, then you are feeling silly for laughing out loud when no one else is sharing the joke. So share.)

Titanic in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies. yes, you heard (or, in this case, read) that correctly.
Titanic in 30 seconds with bunnies.: “Titanic in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies.”

Check this out! somebody with far too much time on their hands constructed a map of springfield (not oregon) by watching episodes of the simpsons and noting geographical markers. Ever wondered what streets Homer uses to get to work? Neither have I, but now you can know anyway! Guide to Springfield USA