Once, North America was home to megafauna (big animals), but after the arrival of good ol’ human beings, the mammoths, cave bears, camels, saber-tooth cats, lions, giant ground sloths and all the other tasty megafauna went into serious decline and then extinction. Some scientists are now proposing to restore ecological balance to North America by … Read more
08-17-05_1825 Originally uploaded by Gridman. Remember the good ol’ days when food and drink were not welcome at the local grocery store? Now it’s “Come on it, buy a crappuccino at the Starbark’s and spill it all over the floor. We don’t mind, we’re here for you.” Anarchy! Pure anarchy. Next they’ll be letting people … Read more
What the heck are Tom Simplot’s minions thinking? Simplot is running for re-election in the Phoenix City Council election in September. What’s questionable is why his minions seem to have decided to find every closed business, fenced off, abondoned or demolished property in this district to post his campaign signs. Perhaps the idea is that … Read more
DSC00331.JPG Originally uploaded by Gridman. No real reason to blog this other than I liked the photo.
Red Devil Pizza Originally uploaded by Gridman. It’s a red letter day today! My flickr photo of a Red Devil pizza finally unseated my photo of a Lee’s salami sandwich as my #1 most viewed photo! Not to mention that, yesterday i noticed that if you do a Google search for “Red Devil Pizza” my … Read more
I just saw one of the smartest, sneakiest uses of the English language ever! My wife was looking through eBay, trying to find out what sorts of things are selling these days, and lo and behold, on the “Pulse of eBay” she found This auction: 2 Cardboard Boxes – Yes, our hero, the auctioneer, had … Read more
The military has begun fighting a war on new front: Attempting to combat declining participation in science education. The US Air Force and Army have setup a boot camp to train scientists to write and sell screenplays, in the hopes it will improve the quality of the science in Hollywood movies. read more | digg story
Earlier in the week, The Ninja Team Video Project got listed on Podcast Alley. Before we were listed, we had 3 subscribers… no doubt myself, John and Chu-Wan. But now, unbelieveably, we have 9 subscribers! That’s a 200% increase in subscriptions! 6 people I probably don’t know have probably seen one of the episodes and … Read more
Today when I was driving home, I came up to a traffic light that was backed up about 2 stops. I was heading west. The light had just turned red, so the eastbound traffic had almost completely passed by. In my lane, we were just beginning to inch forward as we filled in the gaps … Read more
I’d like to think they guy ahead of me at lunch today learned his lesson, but I know he didn’t. He wanted 4 6″ sandwiches, three of them identical, he also wanted them to be “specials” – that is, sandwich, cookie, chips. Pretty simple, eh? Yeah, you’d think. Instead, our protagonist decided he was going … Read more