Cubs Opening Day: Goat Head Found Hanging Outside Wrigley Field
CHICAGO - As if the rain and cold weather threatening the Chicago Cubs' home opener against the Colorado Rockies weren't enough, there's another goat involved _ a dead one this time.
Chicago police say they found the severed head of a goat outside Wrigley Field early Monday morning, about 12 hours before the scheduled game.
Officers said they were treating the incident as a prank, since the same thing happened last year.
Goat and sheep's heads are available at a number of ethnic butcher shops in Chicago.
The goats' heads are presumably a reference to the alleged "goat curse" placed on the Cubs in 1945 by tavern owner William Sianis after authorities would not allow him to bring his pet goat into Wrigley Field for a World Series game.
Oh yeah -- bad management hates on QA because it exposes all the flaws, which they'd shortsightedly prefer to ignore. So one of my major warning signs that an IT department is going down the tubes is when they can QA.
And yet, they also get the largest share of the blame if something makes it out the door that souldn't have. Even if both SA and SE were behind schedule, but the release date didn't change. Not that I speak from bitter experience or anything...
Laundry Retrieved from Retriever
When Bailey the retriever went to the veterinary clinic in Corfe Mullen, Dorset, England, the doctor thought he had a tumor. What veterinarian Keith Moore found inside the dog was five golf gloves, ten socks, one stocking, and part of a towel!
“Vets obviously do a fair number of foreign object removals but I doubt I will ever see anything like this again in my career.
“Even for us, from a vet’s point of view, it was pretty amazing.
“It was like doing a magic trick. We were just pulling out one sock after another,” he joked.
Moore believes Bailey must have been eating laundry for years to accumulate such a mass. The dog has fully recovered from surgery and acts like a puppy again.
That dog must feel a lot better.
I first read that headline as "Landry Retrieved..." which had a whole 'nother vibe.
Feel like wasting $553,400?
With a name like "The Human Regenerator," you know it's a pretty ambitious device. But what exactly does that name mean? Well, the Human Regenerator is a "Quantum-Pulse-Device that imitates and generates the cellular body's natural frequencies. The machine helps regenerate unsound cells, strengthens the immune system and enhances skin structure. Making use of the theories of quantum physics, the advanced magnetic rays from the life machine recharge the cells in the body with positive energy." Ohhh-kay.
Does any of that mean anything? That's anybody's guess. But with so many scientific claims, you know this thing expensive. But even in the realm of expensive crap, this one is expensive: a whopping $553,400. Maybe you should just stick to aromatherapy salts and bubble baths for your human regeneration.
I've noticed a huge variation of price for various devices and elixirs that promise to give the body "positive energy." It's almost enough to make one wish for a systematic technique for measuring the effectiveness of various ways of enhancing "positive energy." Something that's not science, of course.
wrt: the Amazon issue... a few months ago, when Google was accidentally saying that everything on the internet was a malicious website, wasn't that an error with one truncated line of code?
(That being said, I should actually go find out what happened with Amazon...)
For anyone who missed last night's Cubs/Brewers game, a potential Catch of the Year. The Brewers were down by 4 in the bottom of the 5th, had the bases loaded, and Prince Fielder got up and belted one to the right field fence. Everyone thought it was outta there except for the Cubs right fielder Reed Johnson, who leapt up and snagged the ball as it went over the fence, thus robbing Fielder of his first ever grand slam.
An Exploration of Open-Mindedness
A video.
A look at some of the flawed thinking that prompts people who believe in certain non-scientific concepts to advise others who don’t to be more open-minded.
Perhaps useful to send to people you know.
Thanks. Just wanted to know.
Happy birthday Lillian!
