Fallout Shelter

No one expects...

... the Spanish Inquisition Central Virginia Seismic Zone! Least of all a seismograph in Blacksburg.  :)

Google Plus

If you're dying for a Google+ invitation, don't have one, & know me, lemme know.  But given how little time I have for stuff online lately, don't be expecting any content.  :/

Stuff

Working.  Shacking.  Tired.  No time.  I suck.  

 

Hope that helps,  

Joe

Done Booked

I've been really slack about updating my reading list in the sidebar here at Fallout Shelter.  I'm going to renew my effort there.  But this blogging thing is tough when I again find myself without a computer and have to borrow those of others.  Thanks to those folks who let me do that.  

Gerry Rafferty, RIP

 

Why do so many artists have to drink themselves to death?  Maybe Mr. Rafferty would have been better off to have continued being a busker on the London Tube for the rest of his life, but then we never would have heard songs like "Baker Street":

 

Mr. Rafferty made music that actually sounded nice.  I realize that's not the style these days, but I appreciated it then, and I appreciate it now.   Arrivederci, Gerry.  I hope you get where you're going.  

 

A Radiopaque Fourth Amendment

Via Peach: get your 4th Amendment protest on, literally.  I imagine these aren't suitable for a microwave or MRI  :)  I do await a Gadsden flag "Don't Touch My Junk!" variant.

Turkey Day kind of a Turkey for some Retail Workers

While lots of workers in emergency, utility, law enforcement, and the like have always had to work on holidays, it appears to be spreading into retail:

Samantha said she and her colleagues don't know whether to blame their employer or the shoppers who show up on the holiday.

Poor folks.  Give them a break; don't go shopping on Thanksgiving Day.  

 

Had Dusty Rhodes made it another 17 months...

... he could have heard "The Giants win the pennant!" again.  :)

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(N.b. The Say Hey Kid)

We're losing our place as #1

The U.S. is #1 at paying for a violent criminal society, & working on a good police state. When you're good at something, whadya do? Export it.  :(

Well, that didn't take long

Rape claim against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange withdrawn

Although I wasn't dismissing this outright to begin with, it stank from the start.  It stinks worse now.  

Since celebrity death always come in threes...

... who will be the next crooked former US Congressperson to croak? 

• Ted Stevens (wikipedia entry)
• Dan Rostenkowski (wikipedia entry)
• ????

Your US government, hard at work

Friends began to question whether he was John Doe when he was publicly identified with a second case....  [Nicholas] Merrill said he was forced to lie when asked about John Doe or simply refused to answer.

August?

Dear $deity, it's actually comfortable outside. How did that happen?

Hugo Chávez, top wacko

Chávez, in other words, is very close to the climactic moment when he will announce that he is a poached egg and that he requires a very large piece of buttered toast so that he can lie down and take a soothing nap.

Two requests

1. For local folks: I need to buy a used table somewhere.  I've tried Peters, TROSA, and Pennies for Change.  Next up: Salvation Army and Goodwill, if I can get there when they're open.  I'd like something kinda like a sideboard -- narrowish and long, at counter height.  Any suggestions?
2. For mostly non-local folks:  If any of you were in that APA with me and have a copy of the "Official Sherry Schedule" that you can easily get to and photocopy, can you make me a copy?  Mine has become misplaced.  I know I have another copy, but it's in storage, and not going to see daylight for a while.  I no longer have the original.  :(