Frank! How are you doing?
Not bad. The weather has gotten really nice since the inferno that was Saturday/early Sunday. Work's craxy, but that's per usual. Once I get through this week, things should be a bit better, and I'm hoping to take a few days off next week.
Did you know they've started releasing complete seasons of The Muppet Show on DVD?
It was cool enough this morning that I put on a sweatshirt when I went downstairs! And the cat stayed on my bed all night, instead of wandering the house in search of a mythical cool spot.
An Illinois man claims a $10 pet rabbit saved the life of his pregnant wife.
We've come a long way from killing rabbits to do pregnancy tests.
We've come a long way from killing rabbits to do pregnancy tests.
Heh.
Did you hear about the rabbit that saved a woman from being run over by a cosmetics truck?
For the longest time I thought it was an Arabic name or something. IMAQT.
All I'm coming up with is "I'm a Q.T." Help??
Is it just me and all the flying I've been doing lately, or have there been a lot more stories about plane crashes recently?
ABC is releasing a 2 disc dvd set of 6 Peter Jennings specials -- [link] on October 18.
Including How to Get Fat Without Even Trying, No Place to Hide, and Guantanamo.
Evidentally there are other specials already available on dvd.
t geek
I'm rather excited about the chance to see these, I missed most of them.
t /geek
Just read the Legal Urban Legends article. I had heard that the large punitive award from the jury was because, when the victim's injuries were described as "severe burns on the inside of both upper thighs and on the groin region," the McDonald's attorney said something to the effect of "What's the big deal? It's not like anyone's going to ever see them."
I have no idea if this part is true. However, I do know that McDonald's had been serving really hot coffee for a while, had received several complaints about people being burned, and had decided not to lower the temperature of their coffee because "their customers liked it that way" (even though if drunk at the temp served it would have caused 3d degree burns). I think the jury award was the cost of the woman's medical bills plus profits McDonald's gets from one day of coffee sales.
In one of my law school classes, we did this entire experiment with boiling water, measuring how long it takes to cool and what sort of burns you get as it cools. I've been a defender of Stella Liebeck ever since.