Cuppabits October 9th

Posted by Walt 10 9th, 2006

Kim Kiminee, Kim Kiminee, KimKim Karoo North Korea flexes their nuclear powers and pops a cap. What makes me think someone’s yanking Kim’s strings? Doesn’t he know it’s election season?

The advice to American Expats in Korea is to watch CNN, and if they’re running new primetime specials on the starving children in North Korea, that means a military strike is being planned. [Don't Panic]

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Shout out to the Detroit Tigers for removing any of the last traces of Yankees from the baseball playoffs. Joe Torre will be given the axe today after managing the Yankees for 11 seasons. Torre’s last act was to make A-Rod bat eighth in the lineup, the baseball equivilent to walking into high school for the first time with a “Kick Me” sign taped to your back. It was like Joe Torre was telling the world that he knows the Yankees are the highest paid team in baseball, but you still can’t buy a hit. Torres will leave the Yankees a fairly rich man, so no tears here.

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Speaking of signs that say, “Kick Me”, someone paid $576,000 for a model of the Starship Enterprise

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What happens when you bed a famous guy, but he’s a dud in the sack?

Why, you blog about it, of course!

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The Space Shuttle had a bug hit its radiator - Unfortunately, when those little space critters hit, they punch holes in the thing.

shuttle radiator hole

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From the “How good are optics these days department”: Here’s one NASA mission taking a picture of another NASA mission –

Opportunity, on the edge of Victoria Crater, Mars

of one of our robots rovers on Mars, Opportunity Rover. Opportunity is about the size of many people’s breakfast tables, and yes, that’s a nice 65 foot dropoff at the edge of that cliff there.

If you squint your eyes, you can make out Opportunity’s tracks in this picture. Sweet stuff. Nice camera work, taken from about 150 miles above Mars. Here’s the home page for that camera

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And finally, the “Reykjavík spin cycle of death”: A Icelandic man calls police to tell them his washing machine had attacked him:

The shaken victim told police “he had placed dirty laundry in the washing machine but when he turned on the machine it began to jerk and lurch with a great deal of commotion, ending up propped up against the laundry room door and blocking the exit”.

Our Mephistophelean white goods analysis bureau says further details of the attack, including the make of the machine in question, are not currently available. It does, however, conclude that we are dealing with a new generation of super-potent cyberwashers which evidently cannot be disabled simply by pulling out the plug.
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The Register

deadly washing machine?

Who knew that it would be washing machines that would be the first of our labor saving devices to become self-aware??

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5 Comments to “Cuppabits October 9th”

  1. on 09 Oct 2006 at 2:13 pm1Emma

    What happens when you bed a famous guy, but he’s a dud in the sack?

    This blog can be read by invitation only?

  2. on 09 Oct 2006 at 2:40 pm2Ted Kord Lives

    I’m So Ronery
    I’m so ronery
    So ronery
    So ronery and sadry arone

    There’s no one
    Just me onry
    Sitting on my rittle throne
    I work very hard and make up great prans
    But nobody ristens, no one understands
    Seems that no one takes me serirousry

    And so I’m ronery
    A little ronery
    Poor rittre me

    There’s nobody
    I can rerate to
    Feer rike a bird in a cage
    It’s kinda sihry
    But not rearry
    Because it’s fihring my body with rage

    I work rearry hard and I’m physicarry fit
    But nobody here seems to rearize that
    When I rure the world maybe they’rr notice me
    But untir then I’rr just be ronery
    Rittre ronery, poor rittre me
    I’m so ronery
    I’m so ronery

  3. on 09 Oct 2006 at 2:45 pm3Walt

    Wow, by invitation only! Why, I feel downright privilidged to have read it without being invited only this morning! Upon futher review, the blog looks to have been invitation free for the last four months or so, and only made private after Page Six got ahold of the item…

    I’ll quote Page Six’s article on it:

    A BROWN-haired beauty who claims she had an unsatisfying one-night stand with Keith Olbermann is getting her sweet revenge - she’s launched a blog to warn other women about the acerbic MSNBC commentator’s boorish bedroom habits.

    The bitter babe, who calls herself KarmaBites1, says she doesn’t want others “to fall into the same trap . . . and I want him to feel some remorse for what he’s done . . . He sets his mind on a woman, lures her in, and once he gets what he wants, he refuses to ever speak to them again. And I don’t think he understands the damage he’s caused.”

    A 30-something office worker of Caribbean descent, KarmaBites1 said she struck up an e-mail friendship with Olbermann, whom she admired, and agreed to fly to New York to meet him last May. She says he came to her hotel room and opened a bottle of Merlot which he “spilled all over.” Then, when “sexual activity began [in] less than an hour,” Olbermann had difficulty. “I pretended he knew what he was doing,” the embittered blogger writes. “I adored the guy. I didn’t want him to think he was a dud in bed,” so she faked experiencing ecstasy.

    Next, he piled on excuses as to why he had to leave. “He told me he’s an insomniac and that it’s hard for him not to sleep in his own bed. He also mentioned he hadn’t had ‘company’ in a while. [He said] he had an early meeting with the Yankees [and] he might be allergic to the pillows in the hotel bed.”

    Six days later, she claims, Olbermann e-mailed her to tell her never to contact him again. “I practically begged him to explain what I did wrong. I told him I deserved some kind of explanation for such a dismissal, but I never heard from him again.” She said she’s since heard from six other women who say they had brief sexual relationships with Olbermann.

    She named her blog forthisreliefmuchthanks.blogspot.com, after a line from “Hamlet” she says the perennial bachelor quoted.

    Olbermann’s spokeswoman said she’d get back to us, but didn’t.
    http://www.pagesix.com

  4. on 09 Oct 2006 at 2:49 pm4Emma

    Ahh, what damage blogs has done to philanderers…

  5. on 09 Oct 2006 at 2:50 pm5Walt

    Yeah… and regarding Kim Jong Il, apparently I’m not the only one in the world to come up with his puppet pic when wanting to talk about him. I’m so unoriginal!

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