Adorable People in Government  

Posted by Captain of the Poop Deck in ,

1. New Surgeon General Regina Benjamin:



2. Sheriff Keith Nygren of McHenry County:


3. Mark Dickson, IT Manager, Hillsborough County, FL:


4. Every Lord Mayor ever:



5. District Attorney Pupperton and State Appeal Court Judge Tokes O'Muffin:


6. Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, pre-Benedict Arnold:


Holy Shit I Would Live Here  

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This guy built this house with, apparently, little experience. His "plans" are just this shitty little sketch from two angles, but this looks fucking cool. It's in Wales, and cost 3000 pounds in materials; the land may have been donated.




More 4th of July  

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Yeah, bunch more of this shit. We actually almost got blown up this time. An errant rocket flew from a cliff above down a few feet over our heads and landed in the sand maybe 10-15 feet away, then exploded like a grenade.



New York  

Posted by Captain of the Poop Deck in

...was amazing, although this video of a firefly is probably the worst way to communicate that:



Maybe I need a new camera...

...or more fireflies.

My life is baseball  

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But not in the sense you might think, since I haven't been to or watched a game in years. My life is, or has been, waiting, relaxing, concentrating, focusing and waiting for the perfect moment to make the perfect play. The catch is, in baseball you don't have as much control as you like to think. You know what you're "supposed" to do when you get the ball, but sometimes it takes a bad bounce, sometimes your teammates throw wild, and sometimes you just didn't practice enough and you let everyone down. That last one tends to happen a lot. But it's not for lack of trying, or dedication, or motivation. It's focusing in the wrong things, making the wrong changes, the wrong improvements. I focus on fielding a better grounder instead of waving to the girl in the bleachers watching me, and I hope she's still there when I look up.



Baseball, I'd forgotten how great you were, and how amazing Ozzie Smith is.


Nice headline, fellas  

Posted by Captain of the Poop Deck in


AHH! Must click to avoid...moderate worry? Actually, the story's about the NRA being worried that Sontamayor will "inject her opinion" into Supreme Court cases. Also, I am on the edge of my seat waiting to hear the next big story about the Miocene Epoch:





Sting Ray Escapes Shark Attack  

Posted by Captain of the Poop Deck in ,

This one's for you, Stephanie. They're smarter than we thought.



And just because: