Woman's best friend

This came around on the joke list at work a few days ago; seems pretty spot on:

“Man is a woman's best friend.  He will reassure her when she feels insecure and comfort her after a bad day. He will inspire her to do things she never thought she could do; to live without fear and forget regret. He will enable her to express her deepest emotions and give in to her most intimate desires. He will make sure she always feels that she's the most beautiful woman in the room and will enable her to be confident, sexy, seductive, and invincible.

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“No wait...... sorry....... I'm thinking of wine.

“It's wine that does all that.

“Sorry.”

Are you feeling lucky?

There I was, minding my own business, with the TV on—which is to say, not really paying attention to the screen, when all of a sudden I saw some personage blathering about a colonoscopy sweepstakes.

You heard me: colonoscopy sweepstakes.

Don’t believe me? Take a look at the video here. It features Ozzy and; Sharon Osbourne, so you know it’s legit.

What I wonder is: what's second prize?

Dragon year for high tech

Staying in the holiday spirit of the Year of the Dragon, here’s a story from the NY Times on why US companies are sending operations overseas. The focus is on Apple & China.

Foxconn, highlighted in the story, also manufactures the telecommunications equipment for the company I’m working for (until Friday, when my contract runs out). I myself don’t like the idea that the people in Foxconn’s factories threaten mass suicide because of the working conditions.

But I don’t know where to go, what company or industry to target, where that’s not the case. (Not mass suicide—not yet; just miserable working conditions.)

And I'm just wondering how celebratory the workers at Foxconn and the hundreds of other high-tech feeder factories are feeling about the Year of the Dragon?

Dragon year

Happy New Year. Again.

The Year of the Dragon roared in yesterday, with celebrations around the world. I rather like this video from Helsinki—a little heavy on the drums & then short bursts of dragon & lion dances.

It’s meant to be an auspicious year. I hope so.

You really have to hope for the best from a New Year’s party that lasts two weeks.

Bulken Balkans Part 2

Ah, someone at the Military Channel must have actually watched the “Beast of the Balkans” episode of their “Nazi Collaborators” series. The one about the Croatian Ustasha officer Dinko Šakić.

You’ll recall I noticed during the original broadcast that the banner across the bottom of the screen read “Beast of the Bulkens”:

 

Well, I happened to catch a rebroadcast of the episode yesterday. (Yes, I lead a very sad life.) And they’ve corrected the banner:

 

Someone must have called them about it.