Latebra, BushGuard, VW Shame, Spybot, and Top Fuel dragsters

Evening featured: Latebra, fruitcake, Coke, chat with Jillian and Steve about various amusing and/or intellectual topics (including languages and a Falun Gong pamphlet I was handed earlier), other people watching Trainspotting in the next room, and us plus Oscar watching Queer as Folk on another TV. Post-Latebra featured: checking for the St. Vinnie's van, gone already.

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Links!

From macguyver, a more authoritative examination of the gap in Bush's Guard duty back in the 70s.

In response to my drool over the VW Touareg the other day, xviragox offers an entertaining Shame On You story about its inability to actually tow an Airstream trailer. :)

From a post (about nasty new spy/ad/malware behavior) linked from a comment to a post, I learned of Spybot - Search & Destroy, which is apparently a better program than Ad-Aware for finding/removing ad/spy/malware, and the two combined will find just about anything.

And now, from Brooke's boyfriend Simon, some freaking amazing statistics about Top Fuel dragsters, that you don't have to be a revhead to appreciate:

( One dragster's 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower then the first 8 rows at Daytona... )

FunnyLink, QualityRantLink, NonLink

From lanikei: Andy Rooney on the Super Bowl. Short but sweet. :)

By profworm: Your Opinions vs. My Rights; or, Inalienable rights aren't what they used to be.

There's another post on my friends page that I'd comment on or link to, but I don't feel like arguing with a brick wall, especially one who is proud of being a brick wall.

'roos!

I saw kangaroos on the way home today, and I had my camera on me! Unfortunately, it was in my backpack and not my pocket, against my better judgment, and they'd moved away from a great photo by the time I got it out. However, they didn't move again as I biked/walked to a better location, so I got a few photos. The first two demonstrate poor use of digital zoom* in a dim setting, so I cropped them; the third one was closer and pretty good. :)

* Apparently the digital zoom isn't centered the same place as the viewfinder, so I unintentionally aimed high.

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Chinese dinner at Latebra again! I'll be providing cashews. Mmm, cashews.