Caffeine

It's "Hump Day", Wednesday to other folks.

More rain, more lightning, lots of humidity in the air and it's all good.

I found a couple of odd-ball photos and a very weird news story coming from Australia. I'm sure you've read the article, but for those that missed it - here it is.

An Australian woman was rescued after spending a week wedged between her toilet and the bathroom door, an official said Tuesday.

The 67-year-old woman, suffering from dehydration, was taken to a hospital after firefighters in the eastern city of Ipswich ended her ordeal Sunday by removing the bathroom door from its hinges, Queensland state government spokesman Chantelle Rule said. The woman, who is diabetic, was not seriously ill, Rule said.

The woman, who has not been named, fell during the early hours of July 19 and somehow became trapped with her feet stuck on either side of the toilet bowl and her body wedged against the inward-opening door, Rule said.

Neighbour Michael Hibberd said he heard her cries for help as he hung his washing in his backyard Sunday morning. He could not open the door to her house and called police.

Hibberd said it was a reminder that people should look out for their neighbours.

"Just make a note of their movements and whatnot," he told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. "If anything becomes a bit off - like, you haven't heard or seen them for a week or so - maybe just knock on the door and see if they're OK."

I really don't know what to say about that - on one hand its hilarious and on the other ...it would have been a crappy way to go.



and this one os just totally out there!

Friday, is there a better day of the week?

Okay - Saturday is pretty good too but Friday is my day to find and share wacky news; and find it I have.

I just read a little article about an air mattress; nothing too spectacular until you discover that he tried to blow it up and ended up blowing up his apartment instead.

Man tries to fix airbed, blows up apartment.
A man who tried to fix his leaky air mattress blew up his apartment instead, the fire brigade in the western city of Duesseldorf said Wednesday.

The 45-year-old man used tire repair solvent to plug a hole in his airbed and left it overnight.

But it blew up when he went to inflate it the next day. "A spark from the electric air pump ignited it," a fire brigade spokesman said.

The blast pushed his living room wall into the building's stairwell and caused extensive damage to walls, windows and furniture.

Fire fighters evacuated the 12-apartment building and a neighboring housing block while they checked for structural damage.

Dumb Stunt
German police had to rescue a 20-year-old man from a train station suitcase locker after he shut himself in for fun and began to suffocate. After a night out drinking with friends, squeezing into the locker had seemed like an amusing idea to the man, police in the southwestern city of Ludwigshafen said Friday.

The laughter faded when he started to run out of oxygen and his companions couldn't open the locker. Police broke open the door and dragged the groggy man to safety.

And Finally
For Dr Seuss fans everywhere.

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is corrupted cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house, says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol, that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall.

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse; then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'cuz sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang.

When the copy on your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk, and the macro code instructions is causing unnecessary risk, then you'll have to flash the memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM, and then quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your Mom!

Work - work and more work. Yep keeping myself as busy as a one legged man at a butt kicking contest. Hopping from one place to another, spreading joy wherever I am.

Okay now that you're busy laughing, I'll continue on.

Reading the papers, it seems our (ahem) beloved leaders have decided they can't do much about the world economies but they can control the weather! Alrighty then, lets have a couple of more degrees heat around here and a lot more sunshine please. Does this mean countries can have their very own individual thermostats?

Speaking of weather, it seems today is the one day of summer this area is going to get. Yes folks, Ottawa has packed summer into a 24 hour period and today is it. Average temperatures so far have been way below normal, rain fall is up and the lack of sunlight has led to an increase in the use of tanning salons.

Tanning beds have one city councillor here up in arms. Alex Cullen thankfully not my councillor wants to put a ban on under 18 year olds using these tanning devices. He's also responsible for wanting to put hand sanitizers on the buses, attempting to ban trade shows at city owned facilities, increases to bus fares after a 51 day strike by drivers; the list could go on but you get the idea.

Pictures are worth a thousand words.

It would take a lot more than that to explain some of the photos over at Awkward Family Photos. We've all got them stuffed away in shoe boxes hidden under beds or buried in closets, why not show them off!

Got an hour to kill? Then head on over and enjoy the photos! Seeing other people looking silly might make you feel better about the photos you've got hidden from from sight.

Who the F#%K dresses up as a bear?




Speaking of family life

I found this really interesting site Why Not, Right? The site is devoted to the joys of parenting by obviously pretty bad parents.

Around here, you need a license to have a dog but it seems anyone can have kids. Looking at some of the photos I've got to wonder if this is the norm these days.

God help us all.


It's Friday I'm out of here - Bluesfest is up and running.