Archive for February, 2007

Our product isn’t selling well, so we will make it even more painful for legitimate buyers. In a related note, Balmer announced that the floggings at Microsoft will continue until morale improves.

Ballmer blames pirates for poor Vista sales

Will crank up the WGA
By Nick Farrell Monday 19 February 2007, 15:50

THE SHY and retiring, softly-spoken CEO of Microsoft, Steve “Sounds of Silence” Ballmer is blaming software pirates for Vista’s poor sales.

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Stopping your car in the fast lane to do the deed reminds me of a certain scene from The World According to Garp.  I would rather not have mine removed surgically or otherwise.  Fortunately, the Israli police intervened before any naughty bits were damaned.

Sex in fast lane halts traffic on Israeli road

Couple snarls travel on major highway

JERUSALEM – Israeli police investigating why a car was blocking traffic in the fast lane of a major highway on Sunday found a couple inside having sex.

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This is one way.

Dad jumps into wrestling match, tosses son’s opponent out of ring

AURORA, Ill. (AP) – A father bounded into a youth wrestling match, picked up his son’s winning opponent and launched him out of the ring, an episode caught on a home video.

After tossing the 11-year-old boy into the air Sunday, the angry father headed toward the cameraman, the father of the airborne boy. “I was just wrestling, then the guy throws me,” the boy, Nick Nasenbeny of suburban Aurora, told WMAQ-TV in Chicago.

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And I’m NOT going to apologize afterwards.

Quote Mr. Hardaway:

“You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don’t like gay people and I don’t like to be around gay people,” Hardaway said while a guest on Sports Talk 790 The Ticket in Miami. “I’m homophobic. I don’t like it. It shouldn’t be in the world or in the United States.”

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How about here?

Menu for the $25,000 dinner in Bangkok

February 10, 2007

BANGKOK, Thailand –A luxury hotel in Bangkok charged $25,000 a head Saturday for this 10-course menu prepared by six world-class chefs and featuring some of the world’s rarest wines:

If I am paying 25k for supper, I want my steak cooked thank you very much. Makes me think that maybe those Maloof brothers swilling $2,500 a bottle wine with their greasy CJ burgers aren’t so bad after all.

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