Fun facts

Yeah, it's been mad long since I last posted and, from what sitemeter tells me, my limited readers have given up on me. Oh well. I never really intended for anyone to read the verbal diarrhea I irregularly eject onto this page. I was bored one day in the summer and decided to write a little rant, and then felt compelled to keep posting. So it was mostly by accident that I have a blog. Well, that's my excuse anyway (and I've got lots of those).

My honours project is a never ending saga. I'm profiling a former Daily columnist who, in spite of the paper he works for, is a fairly important dude. But regardless of my best efforts, the reporting looks sloppy. He's a recluse, keeps to himself and rarely talks about his past, so nobody knows that much about him. And he says most people he knows from before he came to Halifax are either dead or awol. In sum, I've discovered I hate writing profiles. Good thing I have another one due for Tidings in a couple weeks, eh? Fack.

In other news, Reuters has got some pretty sweet gems posted at the moment, and I've pasted some of them below for the perusing pleasure of, well, me and that person from Maine who seems to be the only one who frequents my blog.

Over a million motorists think about sex rather than the road ahead and millions more who don't indulge in intimate thoughts are worrying about work or thinking about their families, a survey said on Thursday.

I think this really means a million motorists are sexually frustrated. I wonder how many are women. Chris, I think you should head over to the states...

[A] survey of 1,505 American adults, conducted by market research firm Harris Interactive, found that over half of the respondents admitted to "re-gifting" with passing on gifts becoming a far more common and acceptable phenomenon. In fact, 78 percent of consumers who were polled felt that it was acceptable to re-gift some or most of the time.

So does that mean I can finally give away that Buck 65 CD my sister gave me a few years ago? Can't stand that paris-posh dooshbag.

U.S. police arrested an 83-year-old woman on suspicion of entering California from Mexico with 10 pounds (4.5 kg) of methamphetamine strapped to her body, officials said on Thursday.

Now that's one cool granny. I bet she gives the BEST christmas and birthday presents.

A German lawyer hopes to drum up more business by pursuing state compensation claims for people who believe they were abducted by aliens.

Well, that ends another post that I've managed to squeeze by without adding much of any original material.