The Crawling Tentacled Plastic Horror

12/8/2006

Ia! Its wretched green plastic cuteness eats at my sanity!


Cowpants

12/4/2006

Today is the day we celebrate Cow Pants.


Vitamin K as an antidote to rat poison

7/5/2006

While speaking with the exterminator today, I picked up a nice bit of trivia: Vitamin K is an antidote to Warfarin — aka “rat poison”.

The exterminator asked if there was dog food left out where the rats could get to it. He explained that dog food contains vitamin K, which would neutralize any rat poison he left out.


Berry Plastics Corp.

5/30/2006

Berry Plastics Corp. makes the monstrous 32oz plastic cups found at QT.


Galactica

4/30/2006

I lust for this shirt.


The Bomber Complex, Inc. – Restaurant, Catering, and B-17G Restoration Project

3/11/2006

In Milwaukie, OR, someone turned a B-17 Bomber into a gas station/restaurant.

From The Register:

“Milwaukie, Oregon – only in America can you beat a B-17 into a gas station.

Shortly after WWII a guy named Art Lacey (he had a British wife) went to Kansas to buy a surplus B-17. His idea was to fly it back to Oregon, jack it up in the air and make a gas station out of it. He paid $15,000 for it. He asked which one was his and they said take whichever you want because there were miles of them. He didn’t know how to fly a 4 engine airplane so he read the manual while he taxied around by himself. They said he couldn’t take off alone so he put a mannequin in the co-pilot’s seat and off he went.

He flew around a bit to get the feel of it and when he went to land he realized he needed a co-pilot to lower the landing gear. He crashed and totaled his plane and another on the ground. They wrote them both off as “wind damaged” and told him to pick out another. He talked a friend into being his co-pilot and off they went.

They flew to Palm Springs where Lacey wrote a hot check for gas then they headed for Oregon. They hit a snow storm and couldn’t find their way so they went down below 1,000 feet and followed the railroad tracks. His partner sat in the nose section and would yell, “TUNNEL” when he saw one and Lacey would climb over the mountain.

They landed safely, he made good the hot check he wrote, and they started getting permits to move a B-17 on the state highway. The highway department repeatedly denied his permit and fought him tooth and nail for a long time so late one Saturday night he just moved it himself. He got a $10 ticket from the police for having too wide a load.”


How to Make An Organic Light Emitting Diode

1/17/2006

Just in case you wanted to know, here’s how to make your very own Organic Light Emitting Diode.