posted by Claude on Jun 20
BlackBerry prayer: The hunched over posture common among the PDA-addicted, absorbed in using their mobile devices, similar to the pose of someone deep in prayer.
Archive for June, 2009
posted by Claude on Jun 13
I’m the first to admit that I am obsessed with the weather. I keep an ear and an eye out for weather alerts and watch the skies for signs of rain or storms. I’m especially cautious when it comes to lightning, as a good friend of mine was killed in a lightning strike just a couple years ago.
For years pilots and other non-scientists have known about a natural phenomenon with lightning, called Sprites. These are short bursts of light that rise up above the storm clouds and then fall back down into the cloud. They last for just the blink of an eye, so it was hard to capture them on film until this past decade or so. Now we do have cameras and video of the sprites and they look like amazingly like jellyfish for their short violent lives. I saw a video of sprites on the LiveScience web site.
posted by Claude on Jun 7
Just bought the DeNiro and Pacino movie that came out on DVD called “Righteous Kill.”I always beef up my DVD collection over the summer when there’s nothing worth a hoot on TV at night.
It’s a good story line but I have to take issue with the writer giving these guys the nicknames. I don’t think every grown man needs a nickname, espcially cops. The name “Turk” and “Rooster” sound more like comedic biker names than tough guy cops.
It was written by Russell Gewirts, if you remember “Inside Man.” So I’m looking for a few more hit thrillers from this guy in the future.
posted by Claude on Jun 3
Funny how the real story behind the news flashes can change dramatically by the time all the facts come out. Especially the body counts on big disasters.
Yesterday they talked about a fisherman finding a leg in a lake. Then it became the river. Then it became a leg bone. Now it turns out that an old Indian burial ground was washed away in a flash flood from all the rain. The bone is supposedly hundreds of years old from an Indian.
Right.
posted by Claude on Jun 2
Later tonight the news will have a fishing story. Some guy at a lake pulled in a human leg today. I can’t imagine what lake this guy was fishing. But I want to watch the news and find out. And I wonder about the rest of the body that goes along with that leg.