Yeah, you read it right.  Apparently there are now several marijuana vending machines in Los Angeles where those who are prescibed the drug for medicinal purposes can get their weed 24/7.  Read all about it in this MSNBC story.

Once in awhile the junk e-mail in my inbox is actually interesting, like these little bits of trivia:

1. “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
2. And “lollipop” is the longest word typed with your right hand.
3. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
4. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “MT”.
5. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
6. The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
7. There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
8. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
9. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
10. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
11. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
12. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
13. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
14. A snail can sleep for three years.
15. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
16. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
17. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
18. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
19. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
20. If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
21. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
22. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
23. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
24. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
25. The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
26. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
27. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
28. There are more chickens than people in the world.
29. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
30. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

 

Hey, just wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. I hope Santa wrecked his sled at your place and you got everything you wanted! Merry Christmas to you, and Happy Birthday Jesus!!

This is just wrong on so many levels.  A 60 year old man is suing an 8 year old and his dad for about $75k in losses he claims to have suffered as a result of a skiing accident caused by the then 7 year old boy.  I could rant on this for hours, so I’ll just leave it at that.  See the full story in the Rocky Mountain News.

In Boston a burglar stole some gifts from under a neighbor’s Christmas Tree, then returned for his TV. Obviously not the brightest bulb on the strand, the crook was nabbed when police followed the trail of tinsel from the crime scene right to his door. Reported by KDKA News.

Here’s a unique widget I just came across called the human calendar. I think the idea is self explanatory from the widget itself. Just click on it to check out the site. At first I sorta had a brady-bunch flashback. Then i thought, wouldn’t it be neat to do something like this with mugshots?You can grab it for your website or blog at HumanCalendar.com

If you love something, set it free.
If it comes back, it will always be yours.
If it doesn’t come back, it was never yours to begin with.

But, if it just sits in your living room,
messes up your stuff, eats your food,
uses your telephone, takes your money
and doesn’t appear to realize that you had set it free…

…You either married it or gave birth to it.

-Author Unknown

Interesting story today from metro.co.uk about a Connecticut high school where the janitor and 2 students (who thought they were alone) did their version of Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle.  A teacher who mistook the lyrics for a death threat locked herself in the classrom and called the cops. 

When 6 police officers and 3 K-9s respond to your karaoke act… don’t quit your day job.