- If you’re a geeky kid who likes inventing electronic gadgets your name better not be Ahmed Mohamed. Poor kid. That’ll teach him to want to be a maker instead of a destroyer. (UPDATE: Looks as if Ahmed might come out of this in good shape, though.)
- I love it! And A.G. was so right when he asked in comments, “How did this ever make it into the New Yorker?” (Speaking of coming-of-age novels, as we were) “The Politically Correct Lord of the Flies.”
- Ulp. I always thought snakes in toilets was a myth.
- Damn! The world is ending. Again. This month. I wish it would stop doing that.
- Selfie-generation dimwits.
- Google. It’s really, truly everywhere. Perhaps even in your front yard.
- Per Laird in comments: Here’s one small town that’s dealing with police brutality the right way.
(H/T to the Usual Suspects 😉 )
The end of the world. Evil google machines, police brutality… Yeah, sure. I’m afraid I have crisis fatigue and frankly don’t much care right now. Time for my afternoon snack!
I promise to get all upset about it tomorrow… or not. Depends on what I wake up to – or IF I wake up, of course. 🙂
I think “allegations made by his fellow officers” is the biggest surprise in the police brutality article.
Those uppity librarians have turned their Tor relay back on.
Along the theme of selfie dimwits, here in Colorado the hiking trails up Waterton Canyon were closed because the self-infatuated were taking photos of themselves with bears. I kid you not. And this year, forage for the bears is in short supply due to a late spring freeze killing much of the fruit blossoms. They are extra hungry.
I always thought snakes in toilets was a myth.
Nope. BTDT. At least you can easily spot the snakes before sitting. Last summer (very dry) we had an infestation of scorpions at the shooting range, where they really liked the cool, damp, porcelain surfaces of the toilets.
The government-collapse and natural-disaster preppers I understand. (I are one.) But I can’t buy the Biblically-based folks’ idea that if God smites the Earth, He’ll leave loopholes for freeze-dried food and flashlights.
OT: Hanging onto home. http://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/us-air-force-threatens-to-destroy-property-next-door-to-area-51-after-owners-refuse-to-sell/story-fncq3era-1227530415095
Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House?
“I just got away from the school cops. Secret Service? Nothankyouverymuch.”
They are extra hungry.
But bears are really big, misunderstood forest clowns. Just ask Timothy Treadwell. Or his gf.
Indeed, bears are not pets. One person told me that all you had to do was “play dead.” I reminded him that bears have no problem eating dead meat.
Around here, we don’t see bears often at all, but there are other dangerous critters. Some city folk visited and wanted to go get close up pictures of the deer that hang around here. I warned them that deer can be very dangerous, but they looked at me with “Bambi” eyes and went out anyway. I stood by with a rifle, just in case. Luckily, the deer just walked away and my friends didn’t want to bother following them.
Idiots in Yellowstone (and elsewhere) insist on trying to pet buffalo all the time. Lots of them get hurt and a few have died.
Col. Cooper’s Bear Rules:
1. Be alert.
2. Remember that bears are not cuddly.
3. Never enter bear country without a powerful fiream and the skill to use it well.
4. Never camp on a bear thoroughfare.
5. Be alert.
My favorite Twitter quote about the teacher who thought Ahmed click looked like a movie bomb: @billstclair: “The stupid is so strong, it physically hurts.”
An extremely unwise bear encounter: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/man-in-bear-costume-taunts-bears-in-alaska-1.3191389
And an opposite type of interaction: http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/man-saves-375-lbs-black-bear-from-drowning-with-photos-and-video.html
Can’t remember if I saw that second one on this site or not.
“If you’re a geeky kid who likes inventing electronic gadgets your name better not be Ahmed Mohamed. Poor kid.”
And whatever you do, don’t chew a pop tart into the shape of a gun. That’ll go on your permanent record.
If the world is going to end I wish it would get on with it. I’m getting tired of all the false starts.
Jed, good news from that NH library. Thanks for the link. Hopefully many other libraries will climb on that bandwagon.
For those of you who read the story about the fired SC cop and were confused by the references to “SLED”, that’s the “State Law Enforcement Division”, a state agency which investigates this sort of thing.
[Hanging onto home.]
Shades of Edward Abbey’s book, “Fire on the Mountain”…
Good on the library for turning TOR back on. Looks like they are turning it into an exit node eventually.