Tag: random

Following a headline from CNN's website I read this article: Winter weather causes 50 car pile-up. The article was scant on details, but for some reason I'm skeptical that it's really the fault of the weather that this massive pile up occurred. Seems to me the headline should read something like "Crappy driving results in 50-car pile-up during slippery road conditions".

My favorite part of the article, however, is at the bottom:

The crash happened right in front of WAVY News 10's Lori Crouch and photojournalist Matt Mrozinski. They watched as accident victims went to check on others.

"Our employees sat around and did nothing while other people made sure no one was seriously injured. More at eleven."

Both of our laptops suffered unfortunate deaths over the last few months. Well, mine died way back in the spring, and Jess' was suffering from a degenerative condition resulting in it being mostly inoperable. I held on to my laptop because most of the pieces were still good, so it seemed a shame to just get rid of them. Now that both the computers were dead, I decided it was time to get rid of the pieces. So I dismantled all the usable stuff (memory, batteries, optical drives, whatever). I looked on eBay and decided it wasn't worth trying to sell any of it so I listed it for free on Craigslist. The posting starts out like this:

My laptop died a couple of months ago, and my wife's died last month. So I have a couple handfuls of parts to get rid of. They don't seem to be worth trying to sell on ebay, so I'm offering them up for free here.

Apparently, some of the people missed the possessive on "wife". I received these replies:

From Keith:

So sorry to hear about your wife....but life must go on....

From Lorimer (in the form of an eCard with a picture of flowers!):

I'm so sorry to hear that your wife is in a better place now. I hope she had a good life. My sincere condolence.

As for the laptop parts that you're giving away on Craigslist, if it's okay with you, I would like to take them all off your hand in light of relieving some of the burdens off your shoulder

We had this for dinner at some point. Doesn't it look tasty?

Did you hear Kellogg's got a Twitter account?

Now they make Rice Krispies Tweets!