Even helicopters are not safe from the moose.
A helicopter is not necessarily a match for an angry moose.
Instead
of slowing down after being shot with a tranquilizer dart, a moose
charged a hovering helicopter used by a wildlife biologist, damaging
the aircraft's tail rotor and forcing it to the ground.
Angry Moose indeed.
Firefox!!! Here it comes.
Just got done "watching" the Superbowl via NFL Gamecast, I would have preferred watching the real thing, but Monday == work. Don't want to spoil it for anyone, so the results of the game will remain a secret.
This time last year, I was watching my Seahawks play the Steelers and lose (though Seattle fans still believe that the officials took the game away from them) with Ted. I was chatting with Ted during the game and we both concluded that it hurts more for your team to make the Superbowl and lose than for your team not to make the Superbowl. Indeed I was in great pain last year.
In a related subject, I find that it hurts more when your team makes the playoffs and loses than not make the playoff at all. For baseball, anything can happen in the post season, so I usually find myself believeing and then having my dreams shattered.
In basketball not making the post season can if even by the slimmest of margins can in fact hold your dreams over for a couple of months because of the draft lottery. Though the only time the Sonics got lucky was when they got Gary Payton with the #2 pick (#1 was Derrick Coleman). I've already blogged numerous times of the pain of being a Seattle sports fan, so I won't get into the details.
Here's the next question though, can I? Oh, can I allow myself to look forward to the baseball season?
お、福西がFC東京に移籍してきた。どうだー！！！関村さん？
Just saw the first four episodes of Season 6 of 24. . .hmmm. . .at this pace it might not be Jack Bauer but, the US that might not be around in a couple of seasons from now.
24のシーズン6をエピソード4までみた、こんな調子で後20時間か。。。後2シーズンぐらいしたらアメリカは地球から消えるのかも。
The Seahawks lost, the Sonics are playing poorly. Bill Bavasi doesn't seem to do anything even half way interesting during the hot stove league. I'm looking at one, long, slow season.
Should I be looking forward to the NBA Draft Lottery?
Speaking of the hot stove league. . .as expensive as Matsuzaka ended up being, the Mariners surely could have afforded Igawa's price tag (which was a lot more reasonable), I'm assuming that they were just outbid by the Yankees, but it still hurts. I believe that we're looking at a net minus with regards to the rotation. And the only other "upgrades" are players coming off of fairly major injuries. . .and Sean Burroughs.
Sigh. . .
God. . .I miss Bill Clinton
When you're team is having a bad season, fun and joy can be found in spoiling other teams' seasons. The Mariner's just swept the Boston Red Sox pushing them further back in both the AL East and Wild Card races. Yes, this makes me happy, welcome to the life of a Seattle sports fan.
For real? AOL has gotten a judge's order to dig up the backyard of a spammer's parents in search of platinum and gold bars that they believe he hid there before running away to. . .somewhere.
AOL said Tuesday it intends to search for gold and platinum bars the company suspects are hidden near the home of Davis Wolfgang Hawke's parents on two acres in Medfield, Massachusetts. The family said it will fight in court to oppose AOL's plans.
AOL won a $12.8 million judgment last year in U.S. District Court in Virginia against Hawke but has been unable to contact Hawke to collect any of the money he was ordered to pay. AOL accused Hawke of violating federal and state anti-spam laws by sending unwanted e-mails to its subscribers and won its case in a default judgment against Hawke, who didn't show up in court.
I've been looking for good hard interesting news lately to no avail. . .thank god for AOL for going out and making news just for me. Now. . .now, I can sleep.
Fun article from The Economist comparing how corrupt a country is versus the number of parking violations their diplomats to the UN in New York have against them. I, of course wonder how many violations the Japanese diplomats have racked up.
Sleazy countries are best at breaking New York City's parking rules “THE UN needs a good smack in the face,” fumed one city councillor. New York has long been fed up with the United Nations and its diplomats. The city has 1,700 of them, about 1,699 too many. Their meetings cause endless traffic jams and annoying multi-car motorcades. As for their outstanding fines for traffic violations (more than $18m at the last count), these have so infuriated Michael Bloomberg, New York's mayor, that in 2002 he vowed to tow away illegally parked consular vehicles. Colin Powell, then secretary of state, had to step in to broker a compromise. Can anything be done? In 2002 Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton, New York's senators, added an amendment to a foreign-aid bill that allowed the city to recoup unpaid parking tickets from foreign-aid disbursements to offending countries. But now a new weapon has been discovered: shame. Two economists have found a direct correlation between the number of people who park by the city's fire hydrants and in its loading bays, and the level of corruption in their home countries. A study* by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel, economists at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley, gives a rare picture of how people from different cultures perform under new cultural norms. For instance, between 1997 and 2002 diplomats from Chad averaged 124 unpaid parking violations; diplomats from Canada and the United Kingdom had none. The results from 146 countries were strikingly similar to the Transparency International corruption index, which rates countries by their level of perceived sleaze. In the case of parking violations, diplomats from countries with low levels of corruption behaved well, even when they could get away with breaking the rules. The culture of their home country was imported to New York, and they acted accordingly. The same applied to high-corruption countries. Their diplomats became increasingly comfortable with parking where they liked; as they spent more time in New York, their number of violations increased by 8-18%. Overall, diplomats accumulated 150,000 unpaid parking tickets during the five years under review. Yet any moral superiority New Yorkers may feel should be tempered by the behaviour of the American embassy in London. Last year, embassy staff stopped paying the congestion charge—now £8, or over $15—for bringing cars into central London. The growing pile of unpaid charges now stands at $716,000.
