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Teeth found in wallet at Falmouth Wal-Mart

An unidentified shopper was browsing through the wallets at a Falmouth, MA Walmart, when he unzipped one of the compartments and found a surprise — ten human teeth. One of them even had a filling.

The man turned the teeth over to the store’s management but left before police arrived. According to the paper, the teeth are from an adult and because they had no blood or gum tissue attached, they can’t be tested for DNA.

“We’re not aware of anything like this happening in the past, and we believe this to be an isolated incident,” said Ashley Hardie, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman.

Police are hoping the shopper will come forward so they can speak with him.

Spooky.

What better way to inaugurate a new posting spree to the blog than another Stupid Thing I Want to Own!

 
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Time to blow the dust off this thing. Now that I’m back on the overnight shift, I figure I’ll try to get back to posting to this thing semi-regularly. Let’s do-it to-it, as it were.

Being able to brew your own beer seems like a handy skill to have. I haven’t run the figures, but I have a suspicion that it’d be cheaper than walking across the street to the Loudoun Street Mini Mart for beer. Well, once the initial equipment investment has been made. Of course, if I were to get into this, I can’t go in with anything less than top-of-the-line:

Blichmann Engineering makes a line of fermentors and brewing pots that looky mighty swanky.

This is their BoilerMaker brew pot, with built-in level gauge and themometer.

This is the FERMENATOR, the Terminator of fermanation tanks. No lame plastic bucket for me.

I’d probably go for the littlest one pictured, the 7 gallon model, which makes 5 gallon batches.

I guess I’ll have to do some reading, because I’m not sure what other gear I’d need. So far it’s looking like almost $1k initial investment (including a cheap fridge for the Fermenator to sleep in). That’s not including ingredients. Maybe I should stick to a $30 plastic bucket system…

Because I can’t arsed to write anything regarding what’s been going on, I will instead rely on pictures to be substituted for the proverbial 1,000 words.

This is Laser, aka Mr. Beams. He is a dapper gentleman.

‘Bugs is quite taken with the new addition to the family.

Max has accepted the new puppy with stoic dignity, as befitting a creature with such a fine neckbeard.

You know what I haven’t done in a while? Played paintball.

Oh, and somewhere along the line I got married.

Click on any of the above pictures to see tons more related pictures.

Having had a brief moment to reflect, I realized today that of all the gaming systems I’ve bought and read in the last six years, I’ve only actually played two: Decipher’s 2d6 system (used in their Star Trek Role Playing game), and d20. And of the two, I’ve only played the Decipher system two or three times. That’s six years of d20 gaming under my belt.

And y’know? I still don’t like it.

I’ve played and run D&D (3.0) and Star Wars (Revised). I’ve bought and read Weird Wars, Call of Cthulhu, Swashbuckling Adventures, and Perfect20. None of them really do anything for me, as systems go.

On a whim the other night, I picked up a copy of Castles & Crusades at Game Parlour in Chantilly. It professes to be a simplifed version of the d20 ruleset (a noble goal), with the aim of capturing the old Basic D&D gaming feel. I haven’t had a chance to crack the cover yet, but I’m already thinking it’s not going to scratch me where I itch. Continue Reading »

Because writing blog entries is boring, here are some photos of what I did in the month of July:

On July 2nd, Mari and I joined the rest of Mari’s Maryland crew at the last hurrah for Pargo’s Restraunt in Frederick. It was a bittersweet farewell, as Kenny had put in some serious time at the bar, and his status as a regular got us a very nice discount on our bar tabs. There’s talk of the Pargo’s crew moving over to the Green Turtle when it opens up in a month or two, but it’ll never truly be the same.

On July 7th I coaxed my lil sister into coming up from Richmond with promises of drinking and BBQ. In this, I believe we succeeded. The Innaugural Bushway Invitational was well-attended by both Mari and I’s respective coteries, and much full-contact beer pong and asshole and three-man was played. The only problem was that we ended up with more alchahol than we started, which was a big problem considering how much we already had leftover from the wedding.

The weekend of July 20th we had our first Natural Bridge/Busch Gardens trip of the season. Normally we hit each spot at least once during the summer, so we thought we’d combine the trips into one. First stop was Williamsburg and Busch Gardens. The new Griffon coaster is pretty tite, defintely securing a spot in the top three coasters at the park (the other two being Apollo’s Chariot and Alpengeist). We’ll be back to exercise our season passes come Hallowscream.

Stop #2 was Natural Bridge, home of the Natural Bridge Safari. The place has been open for 4 years or so, and we’ve been visiting at least once a year for 3 of them. They’ve been expanding and cleaning up the place, but it seems less fun these days: Maybe they had to take out some insurance to gaurentee the investment dollars needed to expand. Whatever the case may be, it means they’ve got a lot more rules than they used to. If a zebra steals my bucket of feed, you damn well better believe I’m gonna punch that zebra. Apparrently that’s against their new “rules,” so this may have been our last trip to the the ol’ Safari.

Anyways, that was July. August wasn’t nearly as picture-worthy. We do have a couple of new pics of the puppy in her gallery: You can view each gallery by clicking the pictures above, or view all my Picasa galleries at this link. Knock yourself out.

And here are some pictures to prove it!

Click the picture to view the full photo album.

Day 8: Sunday, June 17, 2007

8:00am: Wakeup!
9:00am: Breakfast, checkout, shuttle to airport (NAS)

Flight 6004
Depart: Nassau, Bahamas (NAS) 11:25am
Arrive: Atlanta, GA (ATL) 1:40pm
Distance: 729 miles
Duration: 2hr 15mn
Seats: 10B, 10C

2:00 - 3:00pm: Layover

Flight 1874
Depart: Atlanta, GA (ATL) 3:11pm
Arrive: Washington, DC (IAD) 4:58pm
Distance: 541 miles
Duration: 1hr 47mn
Seats: 14B, 14C

5:00pm: Fin.

Day 4: Wednesday, June 13, 2007

7:00am: Wakeup!
8:00am: Breakfast, checkout, shuttle to airport (MCO)

 Flight 6085
Depart: Orlando, FL (MCO) 10:20am
Arrive: Nassau, Bahamas (NAS) 11:40am
Distance: 343 miles
Duration: 1hr 20mn
Seats: 05A, 05C

12:00pm: Complimentary shuttle to the Cove at Atlantis

Day 5: Thursday, June 14, 2007

Chillax. 

Day 6: Friday, June 15, 2007

Chillax. 

Day 7: Saturday, June 16, 2007

Chillax, optional Maxin’/Relaxin’.