With Bourbon some people believe that a little water "opens it up" of those people some choose to do it with ice. Personally, I take it straight with a Ginger back to cleanse the palate. But I'm open to siting down at a good Whiskey bar and taking the "Pepsi Challenge" one day.

Way bigger than the last two years. We arrived at 2ish and had to be bused in from the CalTrain station. My finance had no idea what she was in for and walked away very happy I dragged her there. And my teenage son was inspired. Anyone with a teenage son will appreciate the gravity of that statement.

Their future's so bright, they gotta wear shades.

Which is likely due to the repeated glazing of the Earth's surface be increased solar flare activity. Hence it is illegal to live past the age of 18 for population control reasons. You are ground and feed to the next generation when the crystal embedded into your skin turns red.

Once you've used kosher salt you'll never go back. I agree about the tongs. If you go through the comments on his site, he says that they are overused and damage food. I think he's using that metal slotted spatula as a substitute. You wouldn't get within ten feet of my non-stick skillet with that thing. I have more control with tongs. But I see his point. Sharpies for labeling and dating bags going into the freezer and I label glass jars with them and buy spices in bulk. I can just look at the spices and tell what they are but the rest of the family aren't so savvy.

I have enough personal confirmation on this to accept it as truth. I cannot think of anyone with exception to my parents who's actions had more direct of an impact on my life. The cultivation of thought and imagination should be the goal of using substances that alter your perceptions rather the numbing of the senses. Rest well, Albert. You deserve it.

Oh I thought that was like a critique of my opinion or something.

Also, whatever you did recently fixed my comments and favorites showing up in my profile. Thanks!

"Next on Pimp my Mom...."

I wanted a divorce 30 seconds in.

Crazy ass honky shouldn't have spoke of "the mission." Now they'll kill him.

Title was too good. I couldn't get past the mental image and concentrate on whatever the hell the article was about.

@106

Something is broken somewhere. November 29, 2007 is my last "latest comment" in my profile (I tend to comment 3-4 times a week)and none of my Favorites have shown there since late January.

Up-to-date Firefox on both XP and OS X

@ wolfrider

Yeah, we Potrero Hill residents like to keep that fact hush hush. (THANKS CORY!) It's been like a secret handshake at times. "Oh, you live in Potrero Hill? So, I guess you know where the curviest street is." Winking and nudging follow. But now the party's over, CORY. I'm sure the tour buses will be here any minute.

I've been through points of near homeless poverty and points of comparably great wealth and I'll have to back up Jack here. Money doesn't have one damned thing to do with happiness.

You'll find dark green versions around some of the more touristy areas of San Francisco and up and down Market St.

I wouldn't use one but then again I know enough places where I don't have to pay to pee in this city that I don't need to.

Thank you for allowing me to start my day with my all time favorite Looney Tunes. I actually begged for and got a bunny rabbit that I then named George because of it. Being five or six at the time, I wasn't quite well read enough to get the reference.

I am both shocked and appalled! Link plz.

If that was my kid, Officer Rivieri would be sitting in court on a civil suit right now. Oh, and I'd also burn down his house. Yeah. That's how I roll.

Humanity has jumped the shark.

Lawyers are conniving, wiggly little bastards. God bless them. God bless each and every one of them.

Steve Ballmer is not a man know for his photogenicness.

@ cr0m

Thank you so much for that. As a big B5 fan, that hit me completely out of the blue and gave me the best laugh I've had in months.

Yep. That's about the level of cardio needed to burn off a Big Mac.

The old "pie in the face" has become almost nonexistent in modern society. Crying shame.

Come to think of it, I'd find it damned suspicious if someone was walking up to me with a cream pie at all.

Feigned ignorance. She's a poopie leaver if I've ever seen one. I think CNN should go undercover and document her poopie leaving ways. Because, for the love of sweet cement Jesus, this is news.

"Polly shouldn't be." SQUAWK!

The amazing thing is that he has a $600 apartment in San Francisco. Also, I'm totally buying this.

I don't eat McDonalds or play video games and I'm fat. Discuss.

I'm goin' down to tha store ta get me one of them websites, ya'll want a slim jim or anythang?

"...it is Batman in the operating room."

WTF does that even mean? I'm going to have to work that into a sentence today.

#9 M242: I forgive you. Sorta.

Loved Netscape. I remember being so upset when AOL got a hold of it. It was a "The bastards won!" kind of feeling. Now it seems so trivial and long ago.

They should change their name to Muslim Hunters R Us.

Crash,

Good ole' Jacksonville Beach, FL. But I noticed that particular statement disappearing in other places around the same time.

And maybe this was just a "Southern hospitality" thing but I'm just old enough to remember police helping old ladies change their tires and carrying slim-jims in their trunks to help people who locked their keys in their cars. That was the mid to late 70's.

I remember sometime in the mid to late 80's when my hometown police scraped the "To serve and protect" decals of their cars. You could still see the glue residue. I asked one why they did that and his response was, "That's not our job anymore."

I feel the need to speak to this subject as have some personal insight. I work as in an office that builds Federal office buildings and like any other public or private entity that deals with large construction projects, we generate a LOT of paper. Our document storage space needs outnumber our personal office space 2:1 and that is just the documents that we keep.

Regardless, we are an office of socially conscious people and the Federal Government has a recycling program that we would all happily utilize for non sensitive documents. Sensitive documents would go into one of our many high volume shredders.

About two and a half years or three years ago a high level employee walked by the white paper recycling bin in the basement and noticed a roll of building drawings right on top. This was rightfully categorized as a security breach but what happened next was, in my opinion, heavy handed.

It was deemed that the employees that handled the documents were not to be trusted to decide whether a document was sensitive or not. Paper recycling bins were pulled from the building and an attitude was taken "if it is printed material, it is sensitive material and it should be shredded." The shear volume of the shedding that that attitude has generated would necessitate a full time employee that does nothing but feed paper into a shredder all day, hence our need to involve outside companies and list it as an expense rather than just do it ourselves. I should also note that if you want white paper to be recycled in our building, the only way to achieve that is to have it shredded.

While this is just one instance, I see it as being indicative of the paranoia that has affected the decision making process in the government and has in turn driven that graph higher. Unfortunately, this has made the public more distrustful of an administration who has as much to hide as any other administration but has shot itself in the foot by making it's employees shred it's Dilbert cartoons.

First off, this is the most summarily f*cked up thing I've ever heard of. I have returned found wallets and purses and had mine returned. (From New Orleans Jazz Fest no less) Secondly, it is a prime example of the inner working of the mind of a police officer. They tend to look at everyone as a criminal who's crimes have yet to be discovered.

@ deliciouscheeseburger, Delicious Cheeseburger is an awesome name but if you want to hear a hippie name, I used to work with a goth girl who's Deadhead mother named her Sunny Smile.

Wait. What about the puppeteer?

Last time I was called for jury duty, a sign was posted in the jury commons room, "Cellphones must be turned off in the courtroom." Then a woman came in and told us the procedures mentioning, "Cellphones must be turned off in the courtroom." Then we went to the courtroom and were told by the bailiff, "Cellphones must be turned off in the courtroom." Then for the next four hours people wiggled their way out of their civic duty while the poor judge tried his damnedest to hobble together 12 jurors and 3 alternates who understood English, had the ability to be remotely impartial, and could follow a simple set of instructions. Then the cellphone of the woman sitting in front of me rang. The judge said, "Oh please, take the call. It must be very important for you to interrupt all the people in this courtroom with." So the woman says "OK" and TAKES THE CALL. So... I'm with the judge on this one.

@ Fried Gold

There are (or were at least) a few MTA drivers with a sense of humor. You have to have a sense of humor in NYC. And they have strong enough of a union to express it with out fear.

and re: the airport announcements. When Phish tour was going strong I'd often hear prank paging in tour related airports. People would page names out of songs or band members nicknames. Average traveler would think nothing of it. Purely an inside joke.

Today they would probably arrest you. All the fun is gone.

They should accompany these with podcasts of annoying people you get stuck next to on long flights.

I find that picture oddly erotic.

@ xspook
I defy you to get high utilizing a speeding bus.

Also there might be more to this arrest than meets the eye. I know that at least at one point under Florida law if you were caught with mushrooms, they couldn't charge you unless you admitted that you were taking them for their hallucinogenic properties. I watched a friend swear up and down for half an hour that his only intent for the grocery bag of mushrooms he had was to go home and make some soup.

If the guy (stupidly) said that he was licking the toad to get high, that might have been enough to arrest him.

Disney is just pissed because the dead people are getting in for free.

I love this guy! He's got pieces all over the Mission. The bears are a running theme.

@ CarnyTrash Are you sure that's the correct spelling of his name? Google has nothing on the guy. I'd like to price some of his work.

"Now -- you will stay in the Comfy Chair until lunch time, with only a cup of coffee at eleven."

This administration has become absurdly implicatable in some many wrongdoings that I find myself completely numb to these revelations. I figured out years ago that Republicans holding office and plentiful cheap cocaine go hand in hand so it is inevitable that a connection with a government entity would eventually surface.

Now what I would find amazing is if this story were to end in a meaningful arrest or will another bunch of middlemen be scapegoated into a short jail term.

That was so painful I couldn't even make it through the whole thing. I know "the show must go on" but I don't know what I would have done if I was Eddie up on that stage. The funny thing is I bet most of the people there thought the problem was him not knowing how to play the song.

@ cajunfj40

Yeah by vaporizing the peppers you were basically making pepper spray. I a skillet. In front of your face.

I don't have an exhaust hood in my kitchen and I love spicy foods. Thai, Indian, Southwestern, and of course Cajun. Most recipes, I can add the spices at a point in the process that they don't vaporize and cause, uh, pain but occasionally I get begged for some blackened fish and we open all the doors and windows and tough it out.

The things you do for food.

Very cool looking effect. Concert lighting technicians, start taking notes.

I was going to suggest putting Keepon up there but the little guy would be lonely and have no music to dance to. That breaks my heart.