Intrigued by the user of fire in this cocktail, I watched the video. Oh, that a very involved recipe.

Air Force One over NYC

Yesterday, CNN reported on the Air Force One photo op.  I passed by the TV at the office with my headphones on and saw the footage.  The big swath of blue on the airplane certainly looked like the presidential airplane.  There’s a video online, also at the CNN article, showing a thin crowd of people running as the plane passes.

I imagine a conspiracy theory for doing this is to gauge America’s paranoia.  A quick Google for conspiracy theory around this stunt turned up nothing, but the present outrage and material about 9/11.

The swine flu is a pressing concern now with discussion of centralize planning to address this, rather than letting the pharmaceutical industry distribute products without prescription.  The employers or stores make arrangements for shots for the seasonal flu.  Why not sell those products OTC? Leaving the problem to the market diversifies the solutions and task force, rather than relying on a one-size-fits-none approach.

Bacon fans at the office call the swine flu bacon flu in jesk.

With a huge tax hick on cigarettes, a USB cigarette (Google translated Product page) is inevitable. Wired offers a vivid antagonists opinion:

Smokers are pariahs. Evil, stinking polluters of the sweet city air, the smoke from a single cancer stick is worse for the lungs of passersby than the exhaust fumes of a thousand SUVs. Or so say non-smokers (and the Californian authorities).

Uh, Star Trek icons. Now where can I get a Federation ring? ThinkGeek is offering a Star Trek spork. I want one…for my Wolf Brand Chili. However, the plain one is cheaper and appeals to my inner Scrooge. Now these icons are free.

on Flickr.  Article on Wired.

Featured in a photogallery of BattleStar Galactica, I want one!  I have some cheap plastic ones that eventually leaked into the inner chamber.  These glasses are just nice.

I saw beer mug candles at Kroger last August.  Oh, so wanted one!

Beer Mug Candle Glass mug & candle.

• Candles look just like a frothy mug of beer.
• Citronella gel keeps pesky bugs at bay.
• Gel filled glass mug.
• Very cute addition to your next picnic.
• Each is about 3 5/8″ dia. x 5″ tall.
• Sold individually.

You can make your own, but that ruin some beer mugs

It’s not a pancake.  It splintered into a scrambled wreck.  A pancake implies a sigle flat peice.  A car crusher certainly pancakes a car, but compresses the car horiztonally, not vertically.

Now a rocketsled on wheels would make a fun, fast ride.  Anyone remember Greezed Lightnin’?

A tax form states,

If you have suggestions for making this form simpler, we would be happy to hear from you. See the instructions for your income tax return.

My suggestion is simple: Repeat the 16th Amendment.  However, the IRS thinks it’s frivolous.

Yikes! and there’s a Jackson Hewitt office just up the street.

U.S. Government Sues Jackson Hewitt Tax Preparation Franchises in Four States, Alleging Pervasive Fraud

April 3, 2007

WASHINGTON — The United States has filed civil injunction suits against five corporations that operate Jackson Hewitt tax preparation franchises, as well as 24 individuals who manage or work at the franchises, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. According to the four lawsuits — filed in federal courts in Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit and Raleigh, N.C. — the corporations operate under franchise agreements with Jackson Hewitt Tax Services Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., the nation’s second largest tax preparation firm.
– irs.gov

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