I’ve said it before: Bathroom breaks are a basic human right. Skywest Airlines is learning that lesson today after a man had to relieve himself into an air-sickness bag during a flight from Boise to Salt Lake City.
Apparently, the pilot had declared the plane’s bathroom “off-limits” because a light wasn’t working. I can’t tell from the article whether or not that means that it was an indicator light saying that the toilet was broken or whether it was just a light fixture.
Here’s what I can’t figure out: According to the article, none of the other passengers noticed him relieving himself. How did he did pull that off? In his seat, covered by a blanket? Standing in the back of the cabin? Maybe he did his business while the drink cart was coming by and everyone was distracted.
Maybe the airlines can use this as a cost-cutting measure. They’re already providing everyone those little air-sickness bags; why not save lots of money by disabling the airline toilets, saving the cost of the toilet paper and that weird blue water? Sure it will mean a loss of privacy for the passengers, but they’re pretty much used to that already.
I want this.
It’s a Nintendo Wii that some awesome guy has modified by hand with the symbols from the Legend of Zelda. Apparently, it still works, even after all the modifications. He’s selling the thing on eBay, where there a lot more pictures and details on how he made it. It’s currently at $355, but I am certain that it will sell for much more.
I love this sort of geeky craftsmanship. I wonder if he’ll do a Metroid one next.
UPDATE: He had to relist the auction, in accordance with eBay’s policy of always pulling auctions that get attention.
This is really neat. I found a webpage widget that simulates the newspaper sequence you see in older movies. The neat thing is that you can feed it any RSS feed. The original site uses the BBC news feed, but I decided to make it the headlines from my website.
Here’s the code if you want one for your site. Replace the words in red with the address of the feed you want to use.
<style>
iframe#flowpop { margin: 0; left-margin: auto; right-margin: auto; width:300px; height: 250px; border:1px solid black;; padding:0; background-color: #000000; }
</style>
<div style=”text-align:center;”>
<iframe id=”flowpop” src=”http://www.coverpop.com/flowpop/getTicker.php?url=http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/feed/&ticker=spinningPaper&w=300&h=250&bgc=000000″ scrolling=”no”>
</iframe>
</div>
Mmmm… Chicken Fried Bacon.
Here’s a video clip of a reporter discussing this Texas delicacy.
Thanks to Transbuddha, via someone else whom I’ve forgotten (sorry!).
Don’t make the cute robot vacuum too smart.
An Anderson County sheriff’s deputy is on administrative leave tonight after his gun was fired during a gun safety class.
The gun fired Wednesday morning after a student grabbed it as the deputy told them how hard it was to take a gun from an officer’s holster, Sheriff David Crenshaw said.
The student’s finger apparently was small enough to get inside the holster and pull the trigger, the sheriff said.
No serious injuries, thankfully.
The great folks over at Engadget installed the software for the Zune, Microsoft’s answer to the iPod, onto one of their computers and blogged about it. As I was reading the (rather unfavorable) review of the program, I couldn’t help but notice some subtle messages hidden in the installation wizard, which I have highlighted below.
Please, stop now, before it’s too late.
The Zune will attack your soul.
It hurts…
The Zune! It’s almost as good as getting kicked in the crotch!
The Zune! It’s not just for white people!
Thumbs down for the Zune.
Previously, I said that I’d vote for any Democratic presidential candidate except Hillary Clinton. I need to revise that to “except Hillary Clinton or John Kerry.”
(Source)
Combining two of the things I hate the most:
It’s a football made out of solid balogna.
