Ahoy!
In celebration o’ International Talk Like a Pirate Day, all posts on me blog will be translated into pirate, for today only.
Remember, Talk Like a Pirate Day only comes once a year, so get out thar and drink some grog, lads!
Category: General Spew
Ninjas, taking back the streets!
I guess if you’re going to be a vigilante, then you may as well try to do it with a little style.
The Clifton police in New Jersey recently arrested a couple dudes who were dressed like ninjas and armed with “Asian martial arts weapons” while they were delivering warning letters to drug dealers and users.
It gets better. They claimed to be “Shinobi warriors”, and had knives, throwing stars, swords, nunchucks, and bow and arrows on them. They got charged with weapons possession and one of them was charged with leaving a harassing letter for his ex-girlfriend (if you’re going to be harassing drug dealers, then I guess you might as well get some personal grudges settled at the same time).
The letters stated that the “Shinobi will stop your cruel and sadistic intentions with justified yet, merciful force.” and accused the dealers with having “committed sin of passing impurity” to others and that the “wind guides us to those of impure heart and intent.”
Nerds with weapons. Wow. This could be an extremely entertaining trend. 🙂
Chicago Trip
So, you may have noticed the pictures appearing here this weekend. Or you may not have. I was playing with the blogging-from-the-phone thing that you can do with Flickr. I’m not entirely pleased with the results, so I deleted those, and now I’m playing with WordPress’s gallery feature instead.
Click on any of the images for more details on it.
Chicago Air and Water Show
I’m taking the weekend off to go up to Chicago for the Chicago Air and Water Show, and to hang out on my friend Chuck’s boat. Should be a good time.
Expect more than a few Twitter posts while I’m there. For this reason, I might disable the auto-blog-posting of those during this weekend. If so, you can still see the latest ones on my Twitter feed, to see what I’m up to.
The plan is to drive up there late Thursday, stop at a notel somewhere for sleep, and continue on in early Friday morning. I’m not a huge fan of that idea, but I’ve got people coming with me, and they’re not really the drive-for-8-hours-and-then-continue-to-party-for-24-more types… So a good nights sleep at some point is likely the best course of action.
I also hope to get some good Chicago pizza and have a few drinks at the top of the Hancock building (that’s where everybody says to check out). But mostly, I plan on sitting on the boat, having a few brews, and enjoying the lakefront.
I’ll post a gallery of pictures upon my return. 🙂
Lightning in Slow Motion
This ranks among one of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen.
Yeah. Fuckin’ metal.
Found on Today’s Big Thing.
Ribs!
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The girls at Hoop's bar
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Superior Bar
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The Liquor Fairy
Ode to Joy
One of my favorite songs is Beethoven’s Ode to Joy (Symphony No. 9, fourth movement). I’ve always really liked it. Really dunno why.
Well, somebody took something awesome and made it awesomer. Witness the glory:
Memphis BBQ Map
Paul posted a link to a damn useful map he found today, showing all the BBQ places in Memphis. Since I know some of my out of town friends would appreciate this information, I figured I’d copy it over to here:
The creator of this map even color coded it. In his words: “Green I recommend without hesitation, Yellow I recommend but have at one time or another had less-than-stellar experiences or food, Red I don’t recommend at all, and Blue I’ve not visited…”
So there you go. I agree with his recommendations for the pitifully few places on that map that I know well. Hey, I don’t get out of downtown much. 🙂
