12.11.2007

Amnesty International: Signature spot commercial ad

Amnesty International, along with Doctors Without Borders, were two of the very few organizations that helped the Rwandans during the genocide in the nineties.

moot or hooey?

12.06.2007



our server at work has been down for three days now.
one might ask "what can happen in three days"
apparently, 160,000 emails!

two computer geniuses and hours of sweat later and the server is apparently up and running again… sort of…

picture a single mom of eight, all under the age of seven, sprawled out on the living room couch. it's 10am, no one's been fed, changed, or cuddled, and they're all vying for that elusive coveted lap time.... you get the picture
like swimming in a sea of bread dough. thank god for those semophore lessons in Brownies…

moot or hooey?
some software actually comes with bugs that can crash your computer.

12.02.2007

the elephant man cometh



165,000 pounds for 3.3 pounds. sound like a fair exchange?... that's £s for lbs.

this is a big fat truffle that was dug up by Luciano Savini's truffle dog Rocco, near Pisa Italy. what i'd like to know is how long they figure it'd been buried there. sheesh, this thing is so big i could have dragged my grandfather out of a smoke filled pub after a three day binge and he'd have been able to sniff it out.

moot or hooey?
a classic report in the 1960s noted that California-gas-company repair crews found leaks in their lines by watching for circling turkey vultures attracted to the carrionlike scent added to the gas as a safety alert. (ah, those Americans)