Obscure Observations and Obtuse Obfuscations

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84554132012-01-16T15:59:02.742-09:00Obscure Observations and Obtuse ObfuscationsSeldom heeding the 'Stay on Path' signs on the Road of Life...AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-81747945577811177312007-03-31T16:42:00.000-08:002007-03-31T16:55:47.017-08:00Emotional Reunion

A U.S. sailor surprises his son when he returns from Iraq. You may want to have some kleenex on hand for this.

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-88477093227966292512007-03-30T14:10:00.000-08:002007-03-30T14:13:34.300-08:00Caution: This Area Under Construction

Philosophers for millennia have ponder the over the question "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to witness it, does it make a sound?"Well, if a crapblog undergoes several major template changes and no one ever visits it, does it really even change?Anyway, if someone were to happen upon this corner of INTERNET, they would see several very different templates in a short space of

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-36468356522263456662007-03-29T18:16:00.000-08:002007-03-29T18:30:53.291-08:00Adventures in Crass Commercialism

Aaarrgh...Have you seen the new commercial for Swiffer™'s new spray?Supposedly, it makes the Swiffer picker-upper-thingy work better.Well... yeah. If your using something dry to pick up dust, it won't work as well as it would if you got it moist first.I'm all for Capitalism. Love it, in fact. It's part of what makes this great country of ours great.But, c'mon... How stupid do these advertising

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-14201899221961322452007-03-28T15:46:00.000-08:002007-03-28T15:49:28.284-08:00What can you say? S*** happens...

In the words of Lisa Simpson...It's apt! AAAAAAAAAppttttttt!!!h/t to his Rottiness

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-68723407129916444972007-03-26T22:19:00.000-08:002007-03-28T15:11:03.919-08:00Fun Facts About Alaska

I surf the web a lot at work. No, really. A lot. I find a lot of things that interest me. Some funny, some not so much. Some serious but most of it dreck. Occassionally, I find a blog author that I just get, you know? Shamus Young and his 'DM of The Rings' is one such. So are FrankJ. of IMAO and Harvey of Bad Example.I like IMAO. It's one of my favorite reads online and I've been going there

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-78615757040319817902007-03-20T14:35:00.000-08:002007-03-20T14:40:12.643-08:00Fight Fire With Fire

From Misha, we get word of the newest fighting weaponry available to the brave men and women in the military.Introducing the RPC - Rocket Propelled ChainsawClick the link above to see it in action.

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-20757281315885706152007-03-19T20:27:00.000-08:002007-03-19T20:45:17.690-08:00Big Wild Life

Well, Anchorage has a new slogan: "Big Wild Life"Not sure if it quite grabs me as well as the old "Wild About Anchorage" and it's kitschy song did, but it's nice enough and I'm sure that with time I'll grow to regard it with the same fondness I did the old one.Anyway, there's a website you can go to to learn all about the new slogan as well as some of the contests going on to promote it.The site

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-72981946665652647162007-03-19T15:37:00.000-08:002007-03-19T15:39:30.531-08:00Random Poem for the Day

Roses are #ff0000Violets are #0000ffAll of my baseare belong to youHey, I think it's rather clever if you ask me...If you don't get the reference, just ask.

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-45957547226547502872007-03-19T15:12:00.000-08:002007-03-19T15:17:51.171-08:00A Million Physicists and a Half a Dozen Philosophers Just Got a Little Queasy

I have nearly 60 hours ofrollover minutes.wtf.maybe I can give thoseback…Wow. The notion of taking timethat you DIDN’T use in the PASTand GIVING it to somebody.Stephen Hawking just threw upa little in his mouth.

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-62627511210729894792007-03-19T15:03:00.000-08:002007-03-26T21:25:44.529-08:00Know Thy Enemy: Halliburton

I shamelessly lifted this post from Frank J., of IMAO fame. Hey, I work for Halliburton and have for the past 4 years so, you know, I'm entitled. Or something. (Please don't ninja me Frank)Know Thy Enemy: HalliburtonAs we all know from the media, Cheney serves at the behest of his Lord and Master the corporation Halliburton, the most evil corporation there is. Thus I sent my crack research staff

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-59990594876317058942007-03-07T23:06:00.000-09:002007-03-07T23:18:31.890-09:0040 Reasons for Gun Control

From Conservative Babes, via an anonymous tipster, I bring you this well written piece. Enjoy.40 Reasons for gun control.1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, & Chicago cops need guns.2. Washington DC’s low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, and Indianapolis’ high murder rate of 9 per 100,000 is due to the lack of gun control.3. Statistics showing high murder

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-73575930113145837122007-03-07T20:11:00.000-09:002007-03-07T21:06:03.201-09:00A Very Well Linked Story

Rob Cockerham, of Cockeyed.com has finished his Very Linked Short Story.Rob came up with a brilliant idea for his story. To make it special and more interesting than a mere story posted on a website, he decided to create a link for each word in the story. For example, The first four words "It" "was" "a" and "dark" would all link to different web pages. He asked for his readers to sign up to

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-40136180801030390132007-03-02T15:25:00.000-09:002007-03-02T15:30:47.112-09:00As falls from grace go, that's a long way to drop...

Lisa Nowak, the crazed 'Diaper' astronaut who allegedly drove from TX to FL to kidnap a rival for the affections of fellow astronaut and pilot, Bill Ofelien, managed to avoid the charge of attempted murder today. [Insert random witticism about astronauts being angels orbiting above and how far a plunge Lisa's fall from grace must be indeed.] Man, I really feel for this guy, Ofelein. You know,

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-76197525895159017132007-03-01T14:25:00.001-09:002007-03-01T14:47:25.292-09:00Near a Raven

The poem below, which bears an uncanny similarity to a certain famous poem by Edgar Allen Poe, is the latest and most difficult attempt at constrained writing. Constrained writing is the art of constructing a work of prose or poetry that obeys some artificially-imposed constraint. For example, there are two published novels from which the letter 'e' is absent - Gadsby, by Ernest Vincent Wright (

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-83490222989486398622007-02-27T23:16:00.000-09:002007-02-27T23:36:49.418-09:00Random homework assignment

“The integral of z squared d z,from one to the cube root of three, times the cosine, of three pi over nine,equals the log of the cube root of e.” and, in symbols:1 ò 31/3 [ z2 dz ] cos (3p/9) = ln (e1/3)Such mathematical beauty is astounding, and surprisingly, not all that rare. However, before you begin to wax poetic yourself, note that your homework assignment is to prove the limerick

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-49612817425475989312007-02-27T15:18:00.000-09:002007-02-27T15:26:48.929-09:00Old, but still funny.

See also...The fighting styles of Donald Rumsfeld, Revealed!

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-4018812803121065872007-02-23T14:35:00.000-09:002007-02-23T14:41:27.910-09:00US Senior Mercenary, On Vacation, Kills Mugger With His Bare Hands

He's a retired soldier, of course.Ex-mercenaries: Don't take them too lightly either.A tour bus of U.S. senior citizens defended themselves against a group of alleged muggers, sending two of them fleeing and killing a third in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, police said on Thursday. One of the tourists _ a retired member of the U.S. military aged about 70 _ put assailant Warner Segura in a head

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-59883304071285041932007-02-23T12:49:00.000-09:002007-02-23T13:13:32.778-09:00Yea-up, Our soldiers are no more than mercenaries...

US Soldier Wrestles Suicide Bomber To Ground To Allow Intended Victims To Take CoverHe did it all for the paycheck, of course.He will be fondly remembered. Even better, he gets to do some of the remembering himself, because he followed Patton's rule:As ANP forces chased the suspect, Coalition forces verbally instructed him to stop. When he did not, they engaged with small arms fire, hitting the

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-73277784919824136612007-02-22T22:39:00.000-09:002007-02-22T22:42:36.411-09:00Demons

My screams are never loud enoughI don't know who I amI can feel my demons start to rise;it's the beginning of the endMy emotions just don't matter;I'm numb right to the coreI can't control my actions,my conscience lives no more.These words that I now write,Can't be called my ownMy demons have taken over;they've turned my heart to stone.I'm trying to go back,and right the wrongs I've done.But my

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-80454750442797638202007-02-06T20:29:00.000-09:002007-02-06T20:38:44.361-09:00Yeah, I did it

De-rezzed all my old posts in a fit of... well I don't know why I did it, exactly. Was feeling a bit exposed, I reckon.No matter. I've got my hoodie on, pulled my Adidas cap low and I'm feeling... well I don't know what I'm feeling exactly. Could be hunger.

AkRoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256937329201995135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455413.post-11348606495164689152007-01-23T19:51:00.000-09:002007-01-23T20:04:45.432-09:00Top Ten Answers to "Why did the chicken cross the mobius strip?"

10 - She had a one-track mind.9 - She'd wandered into a discarded Klein bottle while hunting for worms and couldn't find her way out.8 - Variety is the spice of life.7 - After years of all these stupid chicken jokes, she'd gotten tired of being a one-dimensional character.6 - It was a lateral thinking exercise.5 - She'd spotted some yummy-looking bugs a few hundred feet away and, being

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