Lots of places (like restaurants and cafes) have single-seater restrooms. Generally, one for men and one for women. When you go in, you lock the door, you do your business, then you leave.
So why is one for men and one for women? Does it really matter? Everyone’s in their alone.
I pondered this [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Why?
February 28, 2007"So Satan and Al Gore walk into a bar…"
February 28, 2007Oh, that Jerry Falwell. Now he’s worried that Satan is distracting good Christians from the important work of crapping on gay people and sending him money by distracting them with global warming:
The Reverend Jerry Falwell says global warming is “Satan’s attempt to redirect the church’s primary focus” from evangelism to environmentalism.
Falwell told his Baptist congregation [...]
Testicle Panic, continued…
February 27, 2007 It’s not just books that say “scrotum!” In Maryland, a lawmaker has proposed a bill to ban the hanging of fake bull testicles from your rear view mirror.
I guess it was inevitable that Maryland would get to this, having implemented universal health care, achieved full employment for its citizens, eradicated poverty in the state, and… [...]
The Language of Real Estate
February 26, 2007Real estate is the profession with a special language all its own.
Apart from the usual strange set of adjectives with new meanings (“cozy” means “cramped,” “interesting” means “pained in colors only someone on acid could appreciate,” and so forth), there’s the interesting terms to describe the condition of a property.
For example, scanning listings on [...]
Get Your Hands Off My Virgin Mary Cookie Sheet!
February 25, 2007Well, it didn’t take long for a dispute about who gets to keep the Virgin Mary cookie sheet to break out, but now HISD to figure it out!
A baking sheet stained with what some believe is an image of the Virgin Mary will be returned to the lunchroom worker who found it. The decision came [...]
Baking with Mary
February 24, 2007So, apparently here in Houston the Virgin Mary was spotted on a cookie sheet. And these are the kinds of things that I think of whenever someone is complaining that people aren’t respectful enough of religious faith. I’m sorry, but on my most sarcastic day, I couldn’t come up with something that trivializes Christian beliefs quite as [...]
The RIAA Hates Your Local Coffee Shop
February 23, 2007Those wacky folks at the RIAA, whose operating philosophy seems to be that if they attack all their customers enough they’ll have a future of fun and profit, have found a new enemy in an indirect way: anybody running an open wifi hotspot.
But if the RIAA’s appeal is granted, open Wi-Fi hotspots could become [...]
METRO and Modern Annoyances
February 22, 2007 The Houston METRO’s blogger talks about annoying cell phone use on public transit today:
What do you think, riders? Should we ask customers to limit calls? Or should we say nothing about limiting calls but instead, ask passengers to talk in a low voice? When does your right to talk on cell phones impinge on another passenger’s [...]
Today’s Mac-Windows-YouTube Fun
February 21, 2007This is pretty funny, though it loses its way toward the end.
Technorati tags: I’m a Mac, Black Turtlenecks
They’re Watching!
February 20, 2007Amazon, that is. When I wrote about the scrotum brouhaha yesterday, I did a Google search to see if anything amusing to work into it would pop up. The search included some Amazon results, which I looked at. And so this morning, when I went to Amazon to track an order that’s on its way [...]
