Tag: miscellaneous

…and just burning your house to the ground? 

It’s not funny anymore.

So I’ve been back in South Carolina for my third trip in the last eight weeks or so, and I’ve had some thumb-twiddling time here so I’ve done a bit of driving around and sampling local cuisine at non-chain restaurants, and one trip to a local movie house (tiny, two-screen, one-show-a-night), and I’ve noticed some things.

• Apparently there was a helluva recent storm (I expect it was Hurricane Matthew).  There are trees and highway signs down everywhere in various stages of being cleaned up. 
• There’s a lot more swamp in South Carolina than I realized.
• There’s a lot more trees in South Carolina than I realized.  Damn those woods are thick!
• There are more churches per square mile than I would have believed.
• Palmetto State Armory has a LOT of billboards up on major thoroughfares.  Black rifles – with suppressors! – don’t seem to frighten the natives.
• I’ve lived in the South before, and South Carolina is hands-down one of the most polite and friendly places I’ve ever been.
• Even small towns seem to have 2-3 Japanese restaurants of some kind or another.
• BBQ appears to be the State Food.
• At least in November and December the combination of cool air and lots of water makes for a lot of morning fog.  Coming from southern Arizona that’s kinda cool.  Haven’t seen fog in a while.

Anyway, that’s what I have to report.   Oh, and I saw a couple of deer this morning crossing a fairly major road.  Lots of “deer processing” places advertising on the side of the highways, too.  Given the thickness of the local woods, I don’t imagine there are a lot of long shots during hunting season, unless you’re on the opposite side of a farmer’s field.

If you ever bring bedbugs home in your luggage, just burn your house to the ground and start over. 

Also seen tonight:

If you can’t read it all, it’s a liquor store/deli that also sells groceries, ice and ammo.  Guess they don’t sell guns, though.  They should have called it “Alcohol, Tobacco, and Ammo.”

Two videos from Jay Leno’s Garage that just make me feel good:

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYzuqAX2A3A?rel=0&showinfo=0&vq=hd720]

There will be a 2016 Punkin’ Chunkin’ World Championship! It will once again be held in Bridgeville, DE, November 4-6.  I look forward to it being covered on the Science channel.

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I love this stuff.

And I hope Roger Waters chokes on it.

Firehand of the blog Irons in the Fire posted this over on Facebook.  I felt the need to share two Rabbis orthodox Jews (Haredim) known as The Gat Brothers (Gil and Arie) covering Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here and killing it:

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