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January 21, 2005 -- 11:28 AM
posted by Par

Al, you seem pretty bitter towards bureaucratic organizations, for someone who hasn't ever had to work at the bottom of one.

Tay, the Mundare thing led me to this page of large Canadian roadside attractions. Of (depressing) note are some of the Alberta ones:

  • World's Largest Mallard Duck -- Andrew

  • World's Largest Beaver -- Beaverlodge

  • World's Largest Putter -- Bow Island

  • Susie the World's Largest Softball -- Chauvin

  • Biggest Piggy Bank in the World -- Coleman

  • World's Largest Chuckwagon -- Dewberry

  • World's Largest Lamp -- Donalda

  • World's Largest Dinosaur -- Drumheller

  • World's Largest Western Boot -- Edmonton

  • World's Largest Bee -- Falher

  • World's Largest Pyrogy -- Glendon

  • World's Largest Sundial -- Lloydminster

  • "The Legacy" - The World's Largest Bucking Saddle Bronc and Rider -- Ponoka

  • World's Largest Oil Derrick -- Redwater

  • World's Largest Badminton Racket -- St. Albert

Those are just the "World's Largest" ones. I haven't even mentioned our Baseball Bat, or Vulcan's 'Tourist and Trek Station,' or Willingdon's Giant Lapel Pin, or even Eugene the Pipefitter. And I get some of the World's largest stuff (like the Dinosaur, or the Oil Derrick, or the Beaver.) But the Badminton Racket? The Lamp?! The Putter?!?!

January 21, 2005 -- 9:50 AM
posted by Al

That DNA activation thing seems pretty sketchy to me. Do people actually believe all that junk on the internet? You wonder why this world is going to hell in a handbasket.

January 21, 2005 -- 9:42 AM
posted by Al

Do you guys know what's weird? Sitting in front of your rival for a design project and hearing all about the plans they have for their designs. I don't think they remember I'm doing the same project. Hilarity will insue.

January 21, 2005 -- 9:21 AM
posted by Al

The head scientist still sounded fairly optomistic about the whole thing. But NASA are a bunch of bureaucratic jerks who sit behind desk all day and jockey for funding for their own personal experiments. They take money away from maitenance and their shuttle fleet is suffering because of this. It is another one of those sad stories of a once great organization falling apart due to in-fighting and the bureacratic bloat which render most organizations into ineffectiveness. They never streamlined the company and are therefore ineffective as any governmetn agency out there.

Another ineffective agency is the IRS. In one example of their incompetance, it took them pratically 10 years to fine Richard Hatch the winner of the first survivor for tax evasion. Kind of funny considering 56 million people saw him win a million dollars and it took the IRS this long to figure out he didn't report the increased income. The incompetance of organizations make you wonder why this world just doesn't grind to a halt.

Sorry for the ranting.

January 21, 2005 -- 9:12 AM
posted by Par

Depressing story of the day:

You've just spend 10 years prepping an experiment. You want to learn more about winds on the largest moon of Saturn. Fortunately, the ESA and NASA are sending a mission to Saturn, with a probe landing on said moon. "Excellent!", you think. "All I have to do is get my experiment on and, in eight years, I'll get data." Fast forward to 2005, the probe lands. And you wait for data. And wait. And wait. And wait

Turns out that the instrument needed to perform your experiment, the results of which are 18 years in the making, didn't get turned on.

January 21, 2005 -- 1:35 AM
posted by nobody knows my face

he's too smart to give himself up... but he's sure as fuck getting cocky. Just one little slip and it's all over...

January 20, 2005 -- 11:44 PM
posted by Jere

Hey Tay,

The guy from the cobrasnake almost gave himself away in this photo



Yeah that's right... I check out the cobrasnake

January 20, 2005 -- 10:28 PM
posted by P

"If you can't find a solution, change the rules." I like the sound of that. Instead of "Glazed and Confused" how about "The Glazed Eye?" MMM? Eye? Donut? ...whatever. Get back!

January 20, 2005 -- 6:42 PM
posted by eric

NOT MY PRESIDENT! Punk Rock Counter-Inaugural Ball

ANTI-FLAG
Q and Not U
19o5
Del Cielo

Speakers and/or Tables from Iraq Veterans Against the War, Empower DC, Positive Force DC, Brian MacKenzie Infoshop and more to come...

Doors at 6pm
$5 to benefit Empower DC and Jan. 20th Protest efforts against the 2005 Presidential Inauguration

At: Sanctuary Theater in Casa del Pueblo of Calvary Methodist Church 1459 Columbia Rd. NW (btw 14th and 15th near the Columbia Heights Metro)

Presented by Positive Force DC in conjunction with the Rorschach Theater

http://www.positiveforcedc.org/

January 20, 2005 -- 6:36 PM
posted by nobody knows my face

Paras, look!

Remember- it's called "Mundare".

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