Your intrepid SP crew took it upon themselves to tackle the Great Minnesota Get Together last week, and I decided to take a low-quality snapshot tour for everyone’s enjoyment. Click on past the jump to see all of the technicolor goodness.
one of the more frightening child safety warning images, courtesy of dell and the packaging from sara’s new laptop:
to me, it seems to be warning people to not see the movie scream, but i’m happy to take other nominations.
On a recent trip to New York I was driving to LaGuardia at the ungodly hour of 4:45 AM, when a fancy car zoomed past me with a license plate giving me the distinct feeling that I was just passed by Dom Imus.
Watching his luxury sedan speed off into the pre-dawn darkness, my recent thoughts on life and career suddenly crystallized.
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Per usual I was reading the Star and Tribune, and came across this article about new driving laws.
The first one I can accept: it’s now illegal to drive and text/send email from your phone. But how do you enforce that; outside of actually seeing someone typing on their phone while driving 80 down the freeway? And besides, how do you know they are texting and not dialing a number? Is making a phone call also going to be illegal?
But what concerned me more was the other set of laws aimed at teenage drivers. It would seem that teenage drivers have been severely limited in their ability to drive, any place, at any time.
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I thought I’d blogged about this before, but my quick search for the orange cat on this site didn’t turn up anything, so I’ll try to set that right this time.
Anyway. I found an old article in the Washington Post this morning, that highlighted one of my newer internet finds: Garfield Minus Garfield. And as it turns out, Jim Davis actually reads and approves of it.
Very nice to see an author who’s cool with someone taking their work and extending/expanding it. Not that he’d authorize a GMG book, no doubt, but still. And seriously, check out Garfield Minus Garfield, it’s kind of like watching a train wreck…
