WAY2GO!

MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. motorcyclist made the 5,632-mile trek from the northernmost road in Alaska to the southernmost tip of Florida in 100 hours and set a transcontinental record certified by the "Iron Butt Association" of bike enthusiasts.
"I'm a little tired ... a little bit bruised," biker Gary Eagan said by phone from Key West, Florida, on Tuesday, a day after finishing the journey on his Ducati Multistrada.
He bested the old transcontinental "Iron Butt" record of 114 hours and 49 minutes, set last year by a BMW rider from Maryland.
A few hours after starting his solo journey on a gravel road in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, a truck forced Eagan off the road and his motorcycle flipped over into the tundra, breaking his windshield, one rearview mirror, auxiliary fuel tank and shearing off the saddlebag containing his spare clothes.

U.S. Biker Sets 'Iron-Butt' Record Across Continent

Somehow, the local news hadn't mentioned that 2 of the 3 recent escapees are amputees (Cripples for the non PC crowd).

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Three inmates, two with artificial limbs, escaped from jail by squeezing through an 8-inch gap onto the roof and using bed sheets to descend three stories. Two were captured Monday.

William Clay Bohanan, 40, Berl Keith McKinnie, 38, and Billy Leo Potts Jr., 39, fled Saturday night from a special needs cell at the medium- and maximum-security jail in Nashville. Left behind in the inmates' beds were dummies made by stuffing newspapers into jail-issued orange jumpsuits, authorities said.

UPDATE:The last remaining amputee inmate was captured near music row last night. He was found sitting on a retaining wall and was waiting for deputies to "take him home". -sigh.

Cripples Escape from Nashville Metro Jail

Company Sponsored Lactation Breaks? WTF?!?!. I can't even visualize putting someone on hold so I could go "express".

Maybe, I'm lactation intolerant

In yet another sign that Silicon Valley is no longer the land of milk and honey, Sun Microsystems has cut much of its lactation services to breast-feeding mothers.
During flush times, Sun's lactation support program epitomized for some the best of the Silicon Valley experiment of trying to blend work and life. To others, it symbolized too much blurring of the lines. Now, with Sun struggling to become profitable after three rounds of painful layoffs, some of the outsourced lactation services went on the chopping block.

Nursing mothers at Sun are not happy. "Sun's lactation program was the flagship," said Laureen Hudson, a technical editor at Sun who has a 2-year-old son and is pregnant with her second child. Now that the program is being curtailed, Hudson is angry. "To lash out at women and children like this, I find deplorable."

Sun weans workers from healthy perk

wilpig wrote:
] ] The truth--as we all so bitterly know--is that
] ] the IT world is filled with certified, credentialed and
] ] accredited idiots. I bet you've hired a few. I know I
] ] have. The fact that someone has an aptly named BS from
] ] Harvard topped off with a misleadingly named master's
] ] from MIT does not a good developer (or employee) make. We
] ] have to ask ourselves why we make the assumptions we do
] ] about individuals with "elite" credentials.

Certs and degrees are no substitute for experience. Never have been, never will be. Good test takers are not necessarily good problem solvers. Unfortunately, we have tended to blindly give them carte blanche acceptance for a very long time.

RE: Hiding Behind Certification - Making I.T. Work - CIO Magazine Jun 15,2004

Are they smoking crack downtown?

Drug dealers can pay the taxes without getting busted. Metro's vice squad confiscated 26 million dollars of cocaine last year. None of it could be taxed. 

But under a new law, the state plans to make drug dealers pay.  And it will give those drug dealers a way to pay before they even get busted.
 
Loren Chumley, Revenue Commissioner says, "It's a way for us to get the fruits of the crime to pay to fight the crime."

The taxation of unauthorized substances - known on the streets as the crack tax, will cost the state at least a million dollars to put in place.  It is modeled after a 1999 North Carolina law that has netted that state six million dollars so far.
...
The system will take confidentiality into consideration.  A drug user would be able to walk into the state office building and pay the taxes on their drugs - without being arrested.

Anyone want to buy some Florida swamp land? I'll throw in a case of snake oil too. This is nutZ..

New Illegal Drug Tax Would Help Fight Crime

If Madonna can be Esther, maybe I can be Mordechai too and we can both be heroes of jewish history together...When did celebs get so weird?

It's Esther, the welly-wearing, Italian-Jewish-British country landowner. Julia Magnet reports

What's in a name? Not that much, it seems, as Madonna - mistress of the makeover - has announced she is trading her iconic moniker for Esther. Esther? Yes - and she's doing it as a testament to her belief in Kabbalah, a mystic sect of Judaism, based mostly on medieval, ethical texts and numerology. Except that she interprets this Jewish devotion as rather "punk-rock". "Call me Esther," she proclaims this week, à la Moby-Dick, in an American television interview.

Who's that girl?

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The head of a food company jumped to his death after a government investigation found that his company sold dumplings made with rotten ingredients, police said Monday.

A witness said he saw the man jump from a bridge in Seoul's Han River on Sunday, a police official said.

Police have yet to find the body but found his identification card and a recently written will.

He was identified in media reports only by his family name, Shin -- the head of Vision Food, a dumpling company.

Death plunge over rotten dumplings:

Woo Hoo!

As of this Sunday, June 13, wonder twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are legal adults. The girls will be able to vote and buy cigarettes. Their 18th birthdays also mark the end of an era for the Olsen Twins Countdown Clocks, the Internet sites devoted to tracking the years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds until the former Full House-rs come of age.

Mary-Kate & Ashley: Jailbait No More

Was in there yesterday for a fine Paleta (Mexican style popsicle) and noticed they had a perfect 100 score from Metro Health Inspectors.

Check'em Out Tuesday thru Saturday on 12 South in the Belmont area of Nashvegas. Oh, and they had the Chocolate Wasabi too.

2907 12th Ave S
Nashville, TN 37204

The Food
There's only one food here: Mexican popsicles made with whole fruits and fresh ingredients. Purity here is a religious experience; the fresh cantaloupe, honeydew and watermelon pops scream of ripe melon. Mexican favorites hibiscus and tamarind are sweetly perfumed. Even the prune pops melt into rich flavor. The spunky chocolate chili and cucumber chili pops rank ultra-high on the status list. Be forewarned--those who get hooked on the creamy coffee pops have a hard time branching out, so start with another flavor.

Las Paletas - Perfect 100 score

Engineer's Opinon: They should have used firewire instead of USB... 5Volts/1Amp could make a strong vibrator. Only USB 2.0 has any real power on the bus.... Ok. Enough geeking. I saw this in FHM and thought it was pretty cool. Reader Discretion Advised.

Do not read any further if you are offended by toyz

LVNI takes plug and play to a whole new level. Presenting the computer powered Matrix Vibe. Become one with your computer as you plug and play your Matrix Vibe into your USB port with the included USB cable. Reach orgasmic heights as your body pulsates through 10 different speeds and sensations, all at the touch of your finger. No batteries required. Serenity's purple Matrix or Jewel De'Nyle's red Matrix. Feel the power. PC and Mac compatible.

USB powered vibrator?