One particularly remarkable proposal suggested that live chickens should be included in the mechanism. The chickens would be sealed inside the casing, with a supply of food and water; they would remain alive for a week or so. The body heat given off by the chickens would, it seems, have been sufficient to keep all the relevant components at a working temperature. This proposal was sufficiently outlandish that it was taken as an April Fool’s Day joke when the Blue Peacock file was declassified on April 1, 2004. Tom O’Leary, head of education and interpretation at the National Archives, replied to the media that, “It does seem like an April Fool but it most certainly is not. The Civil Service does not do jokes.
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Blue Peacock - Wikipedia
How else would you keep a buried nuclear weapon warm up to a week so it wouldn’t fail to detonate?
All things, not just some things, are workable. This teaching is a fearless proclamation of what’s possible for ordinary people like you and me.
After all the never-ending tests in Los Angeles, we flew to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and as soon as we arrived, we got a call from the MD Anderson Hospital that they had an appointment for us with the doctor we originally wanted, so we then flew to Houston to the clinic, and, of course, MORE tests, but Ronnie finished receiving his first chemo treatment on Wednesday, and all is going very well.
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Wendy Dio, providing an update on Ronnie’s health. And the reason Taylor and I never got to drop off our care package. (from Taylor in email)
I’m happy to hear positive news.
The simple fact behind F The S is that to realize human potential in the individual and societal sense, we each must set about the task of fucking all night and partying all day; we must ensure that the unsightly must be both scorned without pity and doused with ejaculate; each of us must gobble drugs and be a supportive companion to our society’s emotionally-damaged strippers. Truly, there must be two in the pink and one in the stink for all. Steel Panther knows all this, so in their world, blowjobs are legal currency. In Steel Panther World, a trip to the STD clinic is a benchmark of free living. In Steel Panther World, Tiger Woods is a Van Halen t-shirt away from honorary citizenship. Feel The Steel might be hilarious, but is no joke. It’s our constitution.
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Anso DF’s review of Steel Panther’s Feel the Steel, in his Top 20 Metal Albums of 2009.
I have no excuse for not knowing who these guys are. But I do now, and you should, too.
Incognito mode-
When you don’t want your website visits to be recorded in your browser history, you can browse in incognito mode. (A handy feature for planning surprise gifts and birthdays!)
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-Google Chrome features.
It’s a “handy” feature alright, but nobody will use it for the kind of surprise gifts they’re implying.
Inspired by this which was inspired by this.
2000: Washington state, discovered weed
2001: Promoted 4 times in my new job, discovered Everquest
2002: Dated a crazy person, replaced a lot of glass on my car, my first apartment
2003: Mitch (5 foot boa constrictor)
2004: Lost my job to India, married, moved to Utah
2005: Divorced, moved back to Minnesota
2006: Freed myself of all debt
2007: Bought my first home, totaled my trusty 9 year old Nissan, took on some debt
2008: Solidified amazing friendships, turned 30, saw Megadeth live
2009: The end of a lot, lost 25 pounds, saw Motorhead live
If you could go on vacation for the next month with an unlimited budget, where would you go?
A week or two in San Francisco and Napa Valley, then somewhere tropical and remote for the remaining time.
