Lots to be done this weekend, including three Saints games. They’re home from the road trip, after a good attempt to catch Joliet for last place in the Southern division. They even helped Edmonton pull within two of Sioux Falls, possibly sending the Canaries back to the cellar. There’s other stuff, too, and it comes just as I’ve actually got a few small jobs that need to be done relatively quickly.
And on top of it all, I started reading a book last night, thinking I’d be asleep pretty quickly. I ended up four-hundred odd pages into the book when I finally dropped off at 3:30 AM. I like good books, and this is shaping up to be one, but why do I always start reading one just when things are getting busy around here? Because you’re an idiot.
Oh yeah, that’s it.
- Looking at The Pabst and the present of some cheap beers. Pabst, Old Style, Special Ex, Blatz, Old Milwaukee, Lone Star, Rainier, Colt .45, Schlitz, Schmidt, Bohemian, Stag, Stroh’s, McSorley’s, Schaefer, St. Ides, Pearl, Ballantine, Olympia, Champale, Black Label, Piels, Country Club, and Haffenreffer. They’re all owned by Pabst Brewing of San Antonio, TX, which has them contract brewed around the country. Why are they popular? Well, they’re the brands that used to be local favorites among the working class, and are now riding a wave of nostalgia. Oh, and they’re cheap, too. [fark!]
- Hmm. I wonder if you could use the Car Whisperer combined with some Slim Whitman recordings to make the heads of people in boom-cars explode. I’d really like it if that would work. Actually, I’m not sure if you can really appreciate how much I would like that. Does this officially make me a cranky old man? [boing boing]
- The Copyright Office has issued a memo on Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims which says
this notice seeks information whether any potential preregistration filers would have difficulties using Internet Explorer (version 5.1 or higher) to file preregistration claims, and if so, why.
If you’re using some other browser, you may wish to comment before the August 22nd deadline. - Maciej, over at Idle Words, hasn’t written anything for months, but wrote about the space shuttle’s problems in A Rocket To Nowhere. Funny/sad commentary.
- Here’s a hobby: take things, put them in a condom, and take a picture. Make a website you call Things In Rubbers to hold the pictures. Kinda cool. [flutterby]
- The City Pages points out how northern Minnesota is being overrun by the Sprawl Of The Wild. Nothing new, as such–the problem’s just gotten to the point that in-town newspapers are noticing.
- Slate takes a look at Meth Madness at Newsweek and says
This is your magazine on drugs.
Someone’s making a bigger deal of this “epidemic” than it really is? Inconceivable! [claire]