~December 21, 2004

Got hitched

It was very quiet, and no one was invited, much to the chagrin of just about everyone, apparently, but, hey. Wilder and Christina witnessed it, Judge Bergman officiated it, power was vested, etc. Angela will remain Piller, because, c'mon, do you know how much of a pain it is to change your name?

And, on a related note, here's some jackass' blog entry that takes the top spot on google for "fatrimony."

As a wedding gift to myself, maybe I should change this goddam template to something other than exactly what everyone else is using.

~December 06, 2004

The Web Has Everything -- SUV Edition

So I'm reading this on Metafilter, and I go googling for quotes.

  • "I don't know what happened to her," said Newell. "She's a wonderful person, she's a churchgoing person."
  • "She charged them. This was the most deliberate act," witness Russell McPhee said. "After she ran them down, she got out of the car and lit a cigarette like a movie star."
  • "If the kids were throwing rocks at her, she probably felt like anybody else would," Newell said. "She would never hurt anything."

Okay. Mission accomplished. I was hoping for more, but of Google's 146 hits, there were only a half-dozen different bits of news copy, and most of them were in compressed and quote-less News Of The Weird format.

But then, what happens? Fellow MeFite chaz finds this:

The Women in SUVs blog. Weird, weird, weird.

Of course, they missed this one: SUV washed into ocean. But then, Women In SUVs might have caught it and declined to post it because they couldn't verify that any women were involved -- having paged through all five (five? How paltry, Google News!) linked articles, I couldn't find any reference to gender.

People. Occupants. Teens. And there was, apparently, drinking, but no one, thankfully, was hurt. I'm presuming that's because no golf balls were involved.