The site for ranting and reporting by John Masters
Sometimes I just stumble across fun little facts and/or tidbits. When that happens, they will wind up duly noted in this category.
I’m headed to Dallas on business. My American Airlines flight was due to leave at 2:40 this afternoon. It’s now schedule to leave at 4:45. If it does, I make it in time to give my presentation tomorrow, but I miss the dinner this evening.
Read moreI’m from a small town, Kings Mountain, North Carolina, just across the South Carolina state line. It’s right off Interstate 85. Recently my Mom sent me a clipping from the local paper. The main article on clipped page was about an effort to restore the downtown local theater. This started me thinking back to the downtown where I grew up, and considering how it’s changed.
Read moreOnce in a while in certain newsletters I receive, they give a list of links to fun and interesting things. This YouTube is only a few seconds long, but very cool.
Read moreBased on the groundbreaking revelation that surfing was actually invented by penguins. In the film, a documentary crew will take audiences behind the scenes and onto the waves during the most competitive, heartbreaking and dangerous display of surfing known to man, the Penguin World Surfing Championship.
Read moreIt’s hard to believe, but Deep Sand debuted on May 24, 2004. I can’t believe I’ve maintained this blog for that long. Lot’s of blogs out there have been abandoned over the years. Here’s to the last four years of blogging on Deep Sand, here’s to the unbelievable team of developers and the open source community that make WordPress and unbelievable software platform, and here’s to four more years of raising hell.
Read morePeople were asked how they feel about how they look, and Aardman put it animation. This is hilarious.
Read moreThings have been very busy with work, and they will continue that way for a while. I wanted to go home and seem Mom this weekend, but I can’t take the days off for the trip right now. There are several major projects all due next week.
Read moreYou will be pleased to know that the hardworking men and women in the Florida State Senate have now protected you from one of the greatest threats to civilization as we know it…the bull testicles hung from trailer hitches….oh, and it appears to also mean Calvin whizzing on the Ford/Chevy/etc. logo. I’m wondering about all the truckers who will have to remove their mud flaps with the chrome women on them when they cross the state line.
Read moreThree chipmunk brothers, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are adopted by a man named Dave.
Read moreWe now have “take your gun to work” here in Florida…not just on a specific day, but everyday, and we’ve got airline pilots shooting through the cockpit with their TSA issued handguns due to another idiotic TSA procedure.
Read moreThis is the catch all basket for odd news items for the week ending April 11, 2008. We’ve got an escaped monkey in Orlando, Verizon employees picketing because their customer service is so bad, and a guy hitting a police horse. The elections supervisor can’t seem to get around to paying his property taxes either.
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