Dum Pendebat Filius

A sniff in the kortevar, that what you cry for, yeled? A prert up the cull, a prang on the dumpendebat?

Archive for the 'Misc' Category

The Internship from Hell

Posted: Friday, July 27th, 2007 @ 1:32 pm in Misc | No Comments »

A 22-year-old Ohio IT intern says he’s being made out to be the “scapegoat” in a case of 800,000 stolen Social Security numbers.
The problem started with the fact that the “offsite” backup tapes usually spent the night in somebody’s car:
A 22-year-old intern said today he’s the “scapegoat” for the loss of over 800,000 social security [...]

The creepiest face ever?

Posted: Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 @ 6:07 pm in Misc | No Comments »

Readers, have you ever seen a creepier human being than this?

That’s Curtis Michael Allgier, a prison inmate who allegedly killed a corrections officer during the course of an escape attempt yesterday.
I like tattoos, and have three of them myself, but come on — who would do this to their face? Only somebody who felt [...]

Annoying

Posted: Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 @ 5:37 pm in Misc | No Comments »

Michelle Malkin has revamped her blog. Her RSS feed now consists of nothing but hyperlinks (“Read this post >>”) to the blog posts themselves, so that you have no choice but to visit her site if you want to read her dreck. That is an incredibly annoying practice.

I hope I’ve tickal your mind a little

Posted: Monday, June 4th, 2007 @ 11:19 pm in Misc | 4 Comments »

Even though I live in Pittsburgh now, I still keep an eye on the Washington City Paper for its feature stories, which are sometimes fascinating. You should check out the latest cover story, “Letters From An Arsonist”. Here, a serial arsonist reveals some of the reasoning behind his choices of properties to burn [...]

Corporate communications are da bomb

Posted: Thursday, May 31st, 2007 @ 7:29 pm in Misc | 1 Comment »

Look at these two faxes, readers. The one on the right was what showed up at Bank of America branches across the northeast US. Not suprisingly, the picture of a disembodied arm lighting the fuse of a bomb got some folks a little nervous:

In a scene reminiscent of the Cartoon Network bomb scare [...]

Cemetry Gates

Posted: Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 @ 2:47 pm in Misc | 4 Comments »

Keats and Yeats were not on this guy’s side:
A night of drinking and tombstone tipping ended for a 22-year-old Merrillville man when one of the monuments came crashing down on his legs, police said.
Police said a security guard found Michael David Schreiber passed out and pinned under a 1,000-pound headstone shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday [...]

The Stalin Car

Posted: Sunday, April 29th, 2007 @ 2:55 am in Misc | 10 Comments »

Just in time to celebrate the first of May, readers, here’s the “Stalin Car.”

Uh… happy motoring, comrade.

Make me think (plus: Make me puke)

Posted: Saturday, April 28th, 2007 @ 9:23 pm in Misc | 8 Comments »

Gordo, the proprietor of appletree and a frequent contributor to The Liberal Avenger, has, far too kindly, named DPF as one of the “Blogs That Make [Him] Think” (as part of a meme that’s been circulating recently). Gordo is a fantastic blogger and one of the smartest people on my blogroll, and praise from [...]

No use crying…

Posted: Friday, March 23rd, 2007 @ 4:59 pm in Misc | 1 Comment »

There’s no use crying over spilt milk.

Weirdness

Posted: Saturday, March 10th, 2007 @ 11:59 am in Misc | No Comments »

Some weirdness from the news:

In Michigan, a 28-year-old woman left her dead 19-year-old roommate lying in the living room, covered up with a pile of dirty clothes, for three weeks. During this time, she called her dead roommate’s father several times, asking him to send money for his daughter, who he thought was still [...]