Mike Franklin

Sat
Jul
4
Alaskan Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, who will succeed Gov. Sarah Palin after she leaves office later this month, called Palin Alaska’s greatest gift to the United States on Saturday.
Basically, the point was that Palin is quitting as governor because she’s not a quitter. Or a deceased salmon.
Of all the things that are expected of you when you are elected to office, the most minimal is serving out your term,” he said
Thu
Jul
2
Because changing phone number is rarely a smooth process -people to notify, forms to update, etc.. - we have added a few extra touches to make the process as painless as possible. After you pick a new number, it will become effective right away, but your old number will keep working for another three months, so you have time to update everyone. During that period, calls and SMS to both numbers will show in your account. And before your old number expires, we’ll let you know who’s still calling it so you can update them individually.
Planetdan - Where babies come from.
click to view the book pages.  found in a tweeted retweet of another tweet, etc.

Planetdan - Where babies come from.

click to view the book pages.  found in a tweeted retweet of another tweet, etc.

3. Steve had two livers installed, one as fail-over. Calls it “RAID-1” configuration.
Wed
Jul
1
090622-N-7780S-014 GULF OF ALASKA (June 22, 2009) An Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). John C. Stennis is participating in Northern Edge 2009, a joint exercise focusing on detecting and tracking units at sea, in the air and on land. (U.S. Navy photo by Sonar Technician (Surface) 1st Class Ronald Dejarnett/Released) (via Navy News Service - Eye on the Fleet)
(via jalopnik, via gizmodo)

090622-N-7780S-014 GULF OF ALASKA (June 22, 2009) An Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). John C. Stennis is participating in Northern Edge 2009, a joint exercise focusing on detecting and tracking units at sea, in the air and on land. (U.S. Navy photo by Sonar Technician (Surface) 1st Class Ronald Dejarnett/Released) (via Navy News Service - Eye on the Fleet)

(via jalopnik, via gizmodo)

Tue
Jun
30
Heating and hot water are provided by natural hot springs and geysers, which is very common in Iceland; there is no furnace or water heater.
I think old age begins when you give up…

maybe iPhone IM isn't the best idea...

  • Edward: hey
  • Mike: hey
  • Edward: on bus :|
  • Edward: like 2 more min to go
  • Mike: and then you're home?
  • Edward: yeah
  • Edward: walking now :D
  • Edward: need to be careful
  • Mike: yes
  • Edward: not to bump into trees
  • Edward: openin door...
  • Edward: walking up the stairs...
  • Mike: wow
  • Mike: play by play
  • Edward: ;)
Perhaps most painful, how could John McCain, one of the cagiest survivors in contemporary politics—with a fine appreciation of life’s injustices and absurdities, a love for the sweep of history, and an overdeveloped sense of his own integrity and honor—ever have picked a person whose utter shortage of qualification for her proposed job all but disqualified him for his?
The Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), so it’s called, has provided Apple notebook computers to all Maine middle school students since 2002 – making Maine the first and only state with a statewide implementation of notebooks for every student. The high school expansion will see the initiative become the world’s largest educational technology program of its kind.

The University of Cincinnati was hosting the North American Paleontological Convention… In a break from the lectures, about 70 of the attendees boarded school buses for a field trip to the Creation Museum, on the other side of the Ohio River.

“I’m very curious and fascinated,” Stefan Bengtson, a professor of paleozoology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, said before the visit, “because we have little of that kind of thing in Sweden.”

I’d call this a crazy conspiracy theory, but doing so would actually be unfair to crazy conspiracy theorists.