The Off Topic Topic

[Barrister]

So bored...

It's only happened to me maybe 3 times in the last 5 years, but I have zero files on my desk.  At all.  I have no freaking work to do.

I'm reading statutes right now (which has been on my to-do list for almost 3 years because it's so utterly low priority).   Let me tell you, there is nothing drier than trying to force yourself to read the Legal Profession Act from cover to cover.

[jimmy olsen]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Louisville Set to Register Coolest July on Record
Stephanie Sanders July 28, 2009, 2:24 pm

Throughout the entire month of July, the National Weather Service in Louisville has yet to record a high temperature of 90-degree or above – and that means Louisville is on track for its coolest July on record.

July ends Friday, and forecaster Nathan Foster says it doesn't look like the mercury will hit 90.

"We're expecting low to mid 80s all the way through the end of the week," says Foster. "Right now it looks like Thursday is going to be our warmest day, we're expecting about 85 in Louisville. It's possible if we got a little more sun, we could pop up to 90 degrees, but it's looking pretty doubtful right now."

Foster says if that's true, it will be the first time ever Louisville hasn't recorded a high temperature of 90 or above in July.

The National Weather Service's temperature records go back to 1871.

Foster says the cooler temperatures are the result of a persistent low pressure system over the Great Lakes.

It was 93 here today.

[MadBurgerMaker]

So it appears two chicks from the Today Show are here doing a live broadcast from the River Walk, and it seems they've decided to give Lone Star a try for some reason.  8 in the morning and they're drinking $3/six pack poor people swill.

I guess it's somewhat entertaining to watch between their squeals about it being too hot (it's in the low 80's atm).  Not sure why they didn't go with the standard frozen margarita though.  I have also discovered that I am unable to chip golf balls up my stairs (without hitting the ceiling, or course), which is disappointing.

[Neil]

It was 93 here today.

Barbarians.

[Caliga]

Caliga:

Yukon has had a warmed summer than you.

It's so fucked up to have days in July IN KENTUCKY that are actually chilly (much of the 4th of July weekend was chilly).  Apparently this is being caused by some low pressure system over the Great Lakes that refuses to GTFO.

[Savonarola]

It's so fucked up to have days in July IN KENTUCKY that are actually chilly (much of the 4th of July weekend was chilly).  Apparently this is being caused by some low pressure system over the Great Lakes that refuses to GTFO.

Sorry about that.   

[Caliga]

Detroit: ruiner of everything.

[Savonarola]

Detroit: ruiner of everything.

New York City is the Big Apple.  We're the Bad Apple.

[garbon]

San Francisco is the Banana.

[Savonarola]

Now we'll never know who the killer was:

Police: Discovered jawbone appears to be more than 200 years old
Delores Flynn / The Detroit News

Bloomfield Township -- Police have determined that the human jawbone found Monday belonged to a man who died at least 200 years ago, and officials will not be launching a criminal investigation.

A landscaping crew was working on a project that's near completion on Lochridge Road near Club Drive when one of the landscapers unearthed the jawbone along Lower Long Lake, according to Bloomfield Township Police Captain Steve Cook.

The jawbone was sent to Dr. Todd Fenton of the Michigan State University Forensic Anthropology Department for forensic testing Tuesday. The results show that the jawbone belongs to a 20-year-old man "who has been dead for anywhere from 200 to 1,000 years," Cook said.

As a result, the police department will not be opening up a criminal investigation case, he added.

Officials are, however, searching the residential property today to see if any other human remains are in the area.

[Josquius]

Damn lazy police.

[Malthus]

Had a vivid dream last night: together with my whole family, I was somehow transported millions of years into the future and into an underground moon base of incredible labyrinthine complexity and antiquity. It was filled with ancient machines that still worked and staffed by a race which had evolved out of humans but now resembled nothing human - there were two castes, a sort of giant slug-like brain and a small, chimp-like worker caste that did stuff like repair the machines.

They were quite hostile to us and we had to flee. Fortunately, there were not many of them and the "chimps" did not wander far from the "brains".

We stole an ancient crawling vehicle and attempted to leave the base, only to be attacked by an entirely different race evolved from humans based on Earth that evidently hated the moon-dwellers and attacked anything that emerged from the giant underground moon-city.

[Josephus]

Had a vivid dream last night: together with my whole family, I was somehow transported millions of years into the future and into an underground moon base of incredible labyrinthine complexity and antiquity. It was filled with ancient machines that still worked and staffed by a race which had evolved out of humans but now resembled nothing human - there were two castes, a sort of giant slug-like brain and a small, chimp-like worker caste that did stuff like repair the machines.

They were quite hostile to us and we had to flee. Fortunately, there were not many of them and the "chimps" did not wander far from the "brains".

We stole an ancient crawling vehicle and attempted to leave the base, only to be attacked by an entirely different race evolved from humans based on Earth that evidently hated the moon-dwellers and attacked anything that emerged from the giant underground moon-city.

Sounds like you got the basis for a novel there. Let me know if you need an editor to work with.

[jimmy olsen]

Sounds awesome Malthus.

[derspiess]

So is anyone familiar with the Flemish kids TV show "Hopla"?  It's basically really, really bad 3D animation with zero plot, no dialogue, just a bunch of slowly moving shapes (some of which are abstract animals like Hopla himself).  They often have polka-type music playing in the background, and occasionally you hear some depressed-sounding kid say "Hopla".

But what puts it in the 'WTF' category is that kids apparently love the show.  My kid sure does.