11.29.2005
Richmond, most dangerous city in California, and ranked 11th nationwide.
The city just hired a new police chief. You want to know where the guy is from? Fargo, North Dakota.
In the same poll that ranked Richmond 11th most dangerous, Fargo s the 12th safest. Numbers of murders/homicides in Fargo in 2003: 0. So either this guy was really good at deterring violent crimes, or he's going to be in for a big surprise.
The city just hired a new police chief. You want to know where the guy is from? Fargo, North Dakota.
In the same poll that ranked Richmond 11th most dangerous, Fargo s the 12th safest. Numbers of murders/homicides in Fargo in 2003: 0. So either this guy was really good at deterring violent crimes, or he's going to be in for a big surprise.
11.26.2005
During our most recent Thanksgiving edition of poker night, we had a Jones soda tasting. I like most Jones soda flavors, such as the green apple or blue lemonade. But this party wasn't for just any Jones soda. It was the special holiday flavors.
This holiday pack comes with 5 different flavors: turkey and gravy, wild herb stuffing, brusell sprouts, cranberry, and pumpkin pie. These are supposed to be sodas. Jones occasionally makes exotic flavored sodas. During Halloween, I drank a caramel apple soda and they also had candy corn flavored soda. But as big of a soda drinker as I am, there was no way I was going to try any of these.
However, there were many braver souls than I. First up was the wild herb stuffing. A few people were getting excited about trying this interesting beverage. How could a soda taste like stuffing? Several cups were filled with about 1 oz. of this stuff that looked a lot like sewer water. People sniffed it. And then sipped some. I believe only one person actually got sick from it, but that's only because Ted was willing to drink the rest of the crap in his cup for a 25 cent poker chip.
The general opinion was that it was not very good.
The reactions of the testers was enough to make me not even think about drinking any of the other flavors, but maybe it was under the influence of beer, I don't know what drove them to try a second bottle of the holiday pack. This time: brusell sprouts. I don't even like normal brusell sprouts, so the thought of a brusell sprouts soda makes me sick. How can this stuff be put under the same category as Pepsi? And it looked nasty. Like swamp water with the moss and sludge. It smelled bad. Yet a few still dared to actually put this stuff into their body. Searcy made like a Hollywood actress and forced himself to hurl the crap back out. If he doesn't like it, it has to be bad.
We still have about half of the brusell sprouts bottle remaining. I'll pay anyone a dollar to drink it.
This holiday pack comes with 5 different flavors: turkey and gravy, wild herb stuffing, brusell sprouts, cranberry, and pumpkin pie. These are supposed to be sodas. Jones occasionally makes exotic flavored sodas. During Halloween, I drank a caramel apple soda and they also had candy corn flavored soda. But as big of a soda drinker as I am, there was no way I was going to try any of these.
However, there were many braver souls than I. First up was the wild herb stuffing. A few people were getting excited about trying this interesting beverage. How could a soda taste like stuffing? Several cups were filled with about 1 oz. of this stuff that looked a lot like sewer water. People sniffed it. And then sipped some. I believe only one person actually got sick from it, but that's only because Ted was willing to drink the rest of the crap in his cup for a 25 cent poker chip.
The general opinion was that it was not very good.
The reactions of the testers was enough to make me not even think about drinking any of the other flavors, but maybe it was under the influence of beer, I don't know what drove them to try a second bottle of the holiday pack. This time: brusell sprouts. I don't even like normal brusell sprouts, so the thought of a brusell sprouts soda makes me sick. How can this stuff be put under the same category as Pepsi? And it looked nasty. Like swamp water with the moss and sludge. It smelled bad. Yet a few still dared to actually put this stuff into their body. Searcy made like a Hollywood actress and forced himself to hurl the crap back out. If he doesn't like it, it has to be bad.
We still have about half of the brusell sprouts bottle remaining. I'll pay anyone a dollar to drink it.
11.21.2005
CNN.com - Group ranks most dangerous U.S. cities - Nov 21, 2005
Somehow despite recently being named the most dangerous city in California and the 33 shooting in a city of less than 100,000, Richmond, CA did not make the list. Richmond, VA did. The West Coast still gets no respect.
You want danger? There was a huge fire just a block away last night. I was driving up McBryde and even after I reached our house, I could see the flames shooting over the top of the trees in the park. It was a couple of houses on the other side of the ranger station. It would have been a mess if the fire had spread into Alvaraldo Park, but I guess the five or six fire engines did a pretty good job containing it.
Somehow despite recently being named the most dangerous city in California and the 33 shooting in a city of less than 100,000, Richmond, CA did not make the list. Richmond, VA did. The West Coast still gets no respect.
You want danger? There was a huge fire just a block away last night. I was driving up McBryde and even after I reached our house, I could see the flames shooting over the top of the trees in the park. It was a couple of houses on the other side of the ranger station. It would have been a mess if the fire had spread into Alvaraldo Park, but I guess the five or six fire engines did a pretty good job containing it.
11.16.2005
What kind of fruit is this?
I always thought the tree outisde our house was a lemon tree (similiar to the one that was taken away a few months ago), but I don't really know what it is now. It looked like limes at first, but they get as big and lumpy as grapefruits. Maybe we need to test our water for steroids.
I'll give someone a dollar to eat one of these.
I always thought the tree outisde our house was a lemon tree (similiar to the one that was taken away a few months ago), but I don't really know what it is now. It looked like limes at first, but they get as big and lumpy as grapefruits. Maybe we need to test our water for steroids.
I'll give someone a dollar to eat one of these.
