Just now, I got a call from a man who was hit in the head with a laser and was implanted with a chip that reads his thoughts. And he wants to know if we know what kind of laser this is and how to remove the chip. I told him we don't have those kinds of lasers here, and wished him luck.

Was his name William, or any derivative thereof?

How could you lie to him so brazenly?

Because she's in service to them, Laura. I, for one, welcome our laser hoarding, chip-implanting overlords.

Even though I only use it once a month or so, I have the EZ-Pass, which means that I don't have to go fumbling around for change, and get to wave merrily at all the toll-payers in their long long slow lines as I carefully zip past through the EZ lane. It's like a TiVo for your car, sort of!

The Hampton, NH tolls are such a clusterfuck, if there is traffic, you don't get to the EZ-Pass lanes any quicker than you get to the cash lanes. You almost don't go through any more quickly once you get to them, and if you do, it's only after many attempts on your life by Mass. drivers who aren't yet used to the toll change, and get in the wrong damn lane, anyhow. When the traffic isn't bad, there's hardly any difference.

tell us all about it bon.

She's a video diarist on youtube whose production values and intriguing storylines have had a lot of people speculating that she's fake. I've been reading some of the metacommentary about it, though not really watching her diaries. I was wondering if anyone here had a take on it. Seems fake to me, but the mystery is interesting-- they've managed to make more compelling mystery than Lost, though YMMV.

Article with more info: [link]

This year I was flabbergasted to find Memphis liquor stores closed on July 4th (along with a lot of restaurants). I wasn't aware that the Fourth had become a close-the-shops-and-roll-up-the-streets kind of holiday like Christmas. And I would have thought it to be a prime selling time for liquor stores—next they'll be closing on New Year's Eve!

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- The owner of DataUSA Inc., a company that conducted political polls for the campaigns of President Bush, Sen. Joe Lieberman and other candidates, pleaded guilty to fraud for making up survey and poll results.

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According to a federal indictment, Costin told employees to alter poll data, and managers at the company told employees to "talk to cats and dogs" when instructing them to fabricate the surveys.

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hunh, never heard of it. I didn't realize there were youTube communities and serial youTube production.

offa my lawn.

That's awesome! Best I got was people accusing us photoshopping out the aliens.

I once got a call from a woman who was screaming at me to remove a link to our research group from her website. I told her we couldn't have put it there and she needs to just remove it herself. She wailed that she didnt know how. I told her to just log into her server and delete it. She screamed, "SPEAK ENGLISH!"

And then there are the crackpots who call to disprove GR, but I'm not sure why they choose my groups for that. They're usually engineers with delusions of being physicists.

And then there are the crackpots who call to disprove GR

GR = general relativity?

yeah.

According to a federal indictment, Costin told employees to alter poll data, and managers at the company told employees to "talk to cats and dogs" when instructing them to fabricate the surveys.

Not sure it would work at our place. Teddy is a staunch Democrat. And Marie and Max are apolitical, which is acceptable in 8-year-olds.

Don't mind me. I'm laughing because I'm too unsurprised to be angry, and I'm too old to cry.

I told her to just log into her server and delete it. She screamed, "SPEAK ENGLISH!"

When hubby worked in a survey job, he had one respondent yell "WORDS!" at him several time, then hang up.