Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Web Miscellany

Nanny state alert: in Belmont, CA it's now illegal to smoke in your own home.

The trials and tribulations of an LA area coyote trapper.

A delicious sounding recipe for braised rabbit.

According to this piece, self-publishers flourish. Money quote: "The point may soon come when there are more people who want to write books than there are people who want to read them."

Vanity, vanity: baby boomers hate being called grandma and grandpa. Well, we do have a friend who insists her grandchildren call her "Mimi". Don't trust anyone over, uh, 70.

Couldn't have made this one up: 1,800 pounds of pot found in lawn statues .

The Hudson Valley hosts bald eagles and their fans.

The spread of second-growth tropical forests complicates the environmental debate. You'd think this was a shred of good news, but some don't act like it.

Carnigans rule!

Tail thieves are plaguing my horse-owning neighbors over in Elbert County. They used to hang people for stealing the whole horse, didn't they?

I don't know about you, but I'll sleep better at night knowing that West Hollywood is cracking down on rogue hot dog vendors!

7 comments:

Mark Churchill said...

Pot in lawn statues? Well, that explains the proliferation of garden gnomes in my grandma's old neighborhood in the Maryland suburbs...

dr. hypercube said...

Mmmm - The French do it too: Cervelas au Bacon et au Gruyère.

Anonymous said...

A 25 lb coyote can kill and drag a 70 lb dog over a 6 ft wall? In what world does that happen?

stevea said...

"A 25 lb coyote can kill and drag a 70 lb dog over a 6 ft wall? In what world does that happen?"

You've never lived in LA. Anything, real or not, is possible!

Heather Houlahan said...

"A 25 lb coyote can kill and drag a 70 lb dog over a 6 ft wall? In what world does that happen?"

They'll also steal your PIN number, screw up your kid's SAT scores, and replace your single-malt with Canadian Club.

Damn coyotes.

I bet those McMansion dwellers will be screeching a different note when they find little Dakota the schnoodle strangled in a snare.

Neutrino Cannon said...

You've never lived in LA. Anything, real or not, is possible!

You noticed that the story about the garden statues filled with pot came from the LA area, right?

The strangest variation of bacon I have so far seen is tactical bacon:

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=124&t=423961

I'm not sure what it is about the bacon that makes it tactical, but as their diagram clearly shows, other leading brands of precooked bacon have no tactical application.

I'm half sure that it's some kind of joke, but I think the product is real.

Neutrino Cannon said...


See also this helpful bacon flowchart from the same people.