Lattice of Coincidence

Whitey at it again

2010-01-06T12:12:00.001-06:00

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-25T23:19:00.006-06:00

Ho! Ho! Ho!

2009-12-25T13:35:00.005-06:00

Chan Ho Park sues ex-Dodger battery mate, claiming $460,000 loan hasn't been paid in full

News item — Chan Ho Park has sued his former Dodger battery mate Chad "Gimme Back My Phokking Cap" Kreuter, accusing him of failing to fully pay off a $460,000 loan.

Smiff and k-mad were there for Kreuter's most thrilling night in the majors!

New Opening Day tradition at Wrigley?

2009-12-24T09:40:00.005-06:00

Not again! Giant Swedish Christmas goat statue gets torched

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Arsonists set fire early on Wednesday to a giant straw statue of the Swedish Yule goat, a forerunner to Santa Claus in Sweden, defying security measures for a third year in a row.

Last Minute Gift Ideas

2009-12-23T09:08:00.000-06:00

Found this lovely one in Skymall...

Well you know, so much was going on during the campaign, it's hard to remember it all

2009-12-23T08:55:00.004-06:00

Obama now says he didn't campaign on the public option. The Google says he did, a lot.

Alexi the boy-genius

2009-12-22T10:21:00.004-06:00

April 22, 2208: Morningstar, Inc. named Illinois’ Bright Start College Savings Program on April 16 one of the top five college savings plans in the nation... After taking office, Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, above, overhauled Bright Start, selecting OppenheimerFunds Inc., through a competitive bid, to manage the program, starting last July. Oppenheimer made it among the lowest-cost programs in the nation, and offered investment options that gained a higher return rate.

Woops!

Decemeber 22, 2009: The state of Illinois has reached a settlement in its lawsuit over losses in the Bright Start college savings program under which parents will get back $77.23 million — slightly more than half of what they lost in investments handled by Oppenheimer Funds Inc.

Our long metropolitan nightmare is over

2009-12-18T15:19:00.003-06:00

A reminder

2009-12-14T10:44:00.000-06:00

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

It's phokking cold here

2009-12-10T14:21:00.003-06:00

Smiff was complaining about 32 degrees. Well it's 0 here. 0 F, not 0 C that you're whining about. We've also got snow n $#!+. With more of both to come. So la di frickin da Smiff, your weather is positively balmy compared to da city of da Daleys. We know how to run winter up here.

Fung has his knit hat on in da office. Dat's how cold it is up in here. I knew I shouldn't have cut my hair...

Which reminds me, perhaps I should take a pic for Briggs to add to his knit hats collection. Where's the phone?

Ineptitude

2009-12-10T12:55:00.003-06:00

So we're on pace for what, under a quarter of the number of posts in 2008? Yet we have more authors now than we did then? Wha happen? I know W is gone n all, but, was he really that instrumental to the content on this blog? No healthcare debate? No wars debate? Maybe more stats from K-Mad would inspire us, but somehow I don't think they've changed much from the last time he ran them. No Tweets? No Facebook page updates? Is everyone, like, getting a life or something? How many questions can I ask in a row?

Birthers? Palin selling a book? Blago selling a book? Daley selling annudder part of da city? Bearzzzzzzzzzz........

That's a spicy zettabyte

2009-12-10T12:42:00.004-06:00

The American Diet: 34 Gigabytes a Day

A report published Wednesday by the University of California, San Diego (Smiff's people? ed), calculates that American households collectively consumed 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008.

Clearly, this chart is inaccurate. There should be a large slice of the pie going to the Lattice of Coincidence. No word as to whether we need to cut down TV or computer in order for us to lose weight.

News item: It gets cold in Chicago

2009-12-10T09:33:00.008-06:00

News item: City parking meters freeze up

(Crain’s) — The city’s newly privatized parking meters weren’t prepared for Chicago’s first cold snap.

Some of the new parking meter kiosks operated by LAZ Parking (Ok, was that really a good choice for the name of the company? Was that the first decision they made at their first meeting around the conference table, and it all went downhill from there? Just askin... Ed.) under a controversial lease deal that has already experienced operating difficulties froze up overnight as temperatures plunged into the single digits.

Bacon and chocolate can relieve gift-giving stress

2009-12-09T20:10:00.004-06:00

Salty and sweet collide in these chewy cookies

Maple Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Brain-Dead Americans (cont)

2009-12-03T11:03:00.005-06:00

So I got this joke in my inbox of my emails on the Internets...

What do baby seals and Tiger Woods have in common?

They are both in danger of being beaten to death by a Norwegian with a club !

'Course, she's a SWEDE, but you know, don't let FACTS get in the way of a lame joke. Besides, who even knows the difference between Norway and Sweden? Aren't they, like, in Finland or something? No, that's Denmark...

How does that saying go?

2009-12-02T13:31:00.001-06:00

Acorn doesn't fall far from the tree? Like father like son? Dollar dollar bill y'all? If it's not one thing it's another?

Wirtz lawsuit over booze tax hike holds up CTA capital dollars

LoC=Spam? (cont)

2009-11-30T16:01:00.003-06:00

Apparently the new big thing is to post a spam comment in a post we made last year. That way if you just go to the blog you don't see it (Briggs & I saw them coz we subscribe to the RSS feed for comments), but we then become one of them spamming blogs that Google hates sooo much. So I's made a coupla changes unilateral style - no more anonymous commenting (sorry brain dead bob et al) and comments on older posts will have to be approved before posting. If anyone thinks I've overstepped my authoritah, you suck, if anyone has (a) better idea(s), you suck, and if you are a spammer, you especially suck.

Even A Caveman Can Do It

2009-11-25T14:49:00.002-06:00

Newly signed Chargers OT Jon Runyan plans to retire after the season.
Runyan will run for Congress in New Jersey's 3rd district in 2010. "I look forward to a successful end to my career on the field," he said, "and a spirited campaign against Congressman (John) Adler." He will run as a Republican.
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Could dis be Da Berz fate?

2009-11-25T11:58:00.002-06:00

School Northwestern is often confused with shuts down American Football program

Better Wear Shades

2009-11-24T19:35:00.001-06:00

World's Most Garish Candidate Website

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What can we sell off for short-term gain next?

2009-11-24T14:47:00.001-06:00

Maybe da Bears?

Company Piles Up Profits From City’s Parking Meter Deal

My new intern

2009-11-23T11:19:00.001-06:00

Not quite ready for primetime...

Night of the Living Dead Hoosier Wingnuts

2009-11-20T12:35:00.005-06:00

Maybe she had to rush back to work... Oh, right...

"Moose -- holding eyeballs of"

2009-11-19T15:58:00.007-06:00

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Another indication that the world is ending

2009-11-17T20:08:00.012-06:00

The Main Stream Media says it isn't.

Is Doomsday Coming? Perhaps, but Not in 2012

Apparently, the New York Times isn't impressed that the current 5,125 year cycle of 13 bak'tuns will end on December 20, 2012. (Did the Mayans have to make the world end right before Christmas? Why did they hate Jesus?)

"If you want to worry, most scientists say, you should think about global climate change (I think this blog has successfully debunked that myth - Ed.), rogue asteroids (NOW we're talking! :-) - Ed.), or nuclear war (tried it - didn't work - Ed.)."