This has always been my problem...

My mind and interests are too varied. I can be come rather good at many things, but I never really excel at any of them because of lack of focus.

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Odd News to Scratch your Head by.

Edited to add these two tales:

anklebiters and plains dumb.

A woman who went to hospital fearing she had eaten a dodgy kebab was stunned when
Helen Smitham from Distington, Cumbria, had no idea she was pregnant when she felt stomach pain.Her mum took her to hospital - and 60 seconds later shocked Helen gave birth to a 4lb 11oz boy.

This type of tale sends me into orbit. I don't understand how any woman can not KNOW she's pregnant. I suppose it is possible, but I seriously, seriously doubt it.

On the other hand this story actually makes some sense:

The German post office has started giving mail workers lessons in canine psychology.

Official say the number of dog attacks on postmen this Xmas were the lowest in 10 years after the lessons.

Perks for those on the dole queue.

I admire the chutzpah this kid has, but he's nuts!!

Forget Breaking Bonaduce It's time to Dress Mrs. Partridge.

Anti-Christian Jeans Are a Trend in Sweden.

This is silly, and yet the designer says he wasn't trying to start a 'trend'. Yeah right.

"If he could have written a way to go out, this would be it,"

From crime evidence to a Civil War shell, Roto-Rooter plumbers find some strange things in pipes, toilets and sewers.

And my last Morford fix of 2005, sigh...

Is this the year? Is this the time you reset your intent and cut a wide swath and upset your preconceptions and infuriate the fearmongers and the fundies and the sexually terrified, even as you disavow your grudges and cleanse your spiritual colon and wave your bitchin' flame of self around like a Bic lighter at a 1984 Journey concert?

San Francisco Chronicle's "WORD OF THE YEAR"

Hubris' Chosen As Word of the Year
"Hubris" is the word of the year -- just as it could have been 24 centuries ago.

The Greek term for "excessive pride or self-confidence" was chosen by 41 percent of the nearly 2,300 SFGate readers who participated in our online poll. "Disaster," which got the most nominations from readers, finished second.

"Hubris" joins four far more modern words -- "nine-eleven," "nukular," "metrosexual" and "red state/blue state" -- as a winner of the five-year-old SFGate.com contest.

Hubris was a central theme of Sophocles' play about the fall of King Oedipus, which was honored at Athens' annual drama festival about 427 B.C.

This year, numerous commentators cited hubris as the cause of what they considered human overreaching, from the below-sea-level development of New Orleans to the U.S. war in Iraq.

Reached by river ferry at his home in Hades, the shade of Oedipus allegedly commented: "Can't the media just forget about my lapse in judgment after all these centuries? 'Tis enough to give one a complex."

Hubris is an annagram of iShrub and also (EDITED:) iBrush.
And, as a co worker pointed out, another Annagram of Hubris is Uh, ribs.

:)

Don’t You Know the BART Fare is Going Up, Up, Up, Up, Up?

From http://www.sfist.com

To Live in This Town is Tough, Tough, Tough, Tough....

A lot of things are changing come this new year. Like our sobriety. And our slack attempts at losing weight. But perhaps the biggest change that will affect us is that starting Sunday, our commute will now be costlier as those long-rumored BART fare increases will finally be happening.

Starting Sunday, fares are going up by 3.7 percent. The minimum ride (say from 16th & Mission to the Embarcadero) will go up from $1.25 to $1.40. Red and Green discount tickets will be going up from $6 to $9 and to help offset the costs of the SFO extension, rides to San Mateo county will be going up $1.10. Fares in Alameda County will also be going up.

Oh yeah, you know how BART officials were whining about how BART was suffering due to lower than expected ridership? BART officials are now whining about ridership going up. The reason for the kvetching is because increased ridership means more service will be needed and more service needed means more money will be needed. The two main reasons for the expected rise in costs are trying to replace an aging fleet (a much-needed thing if you ask us-- have you looked at the condition of most of the trains? They're filthy. The carpets and seat covers look like there’s been twenty years worth of keg parties held on them) and energy costs.

Some people are never happy.

A blustery, rainy night

The little cottage rattles and shakes as wind gusts blow against the windows and the shingles. I'm sitting here bundled up in fleece from had to toe and still I feel cold just from the suggestion of the damp outside.

There will be no walking the dork dog tonight. Not in this soup.

It is becoming more difficult to chase down the frankenkitty to give her medicine. This is actually a good sign, it means she's feeling better...and annoyed. She is currently glued to one side of the space heater while her adopted little brother is sprawled on the otherside looking for all the world like a beached whale with four legs and fur.

Frankenkitty


And a weary dork dog