Day: July 8, 2004

Last night, long before I actually left work (more on that later), Lisa called me after finding a little parakeet on the sidewalk. Obviously not one of Hoboken’s indigenous feathered friends, she quickly noted his dire predicament. A kind (though somewhat confused) old man who also bore witness to this little lost birdie suggested using her sweater to rescue the little guy. Being the sweet soul that she is, Lisa swept him up and gently carried him back to her place. Of course that left me with the task of picking up bird feed on the way home 😛 .

Well, he is adorable, and I certainly bear no ill-will for her rescue. But I do hope that the real owner will see one of the many posters she put up last night:

If you don’t know the Wikipedia* by now, you really should. It is a wonderful source of information freely provided by your fellow netizens. Nevertheless, it is not without its issues (although these are generally fixable). Today, for example, I was browsing their pages on the Presidency (now I know exactly where to go whenever I need some quick info on any of our past leaders) and decided to check out the entry on Dubya himself. It may have been has already been corrected by now, but at the time it looked like this (click for a larger image):

I’ve highlighted the relevent material, and now I will enlarge it for easy reading:

For those who can’t see the image, it reads, “He is also a member of MENSA and is widely regrded [sic] by scientists as the ‘Smartest Man Alive'”. Possibly the most humorous part would be the misspelling of “regarded” and the lack of punctuation. Way to hammer home why it’s the liberals who are known for their intellect. If you go to the history page of this entry you can see that this has gone back and forth, including my personal favorite edit: “Like his father, Bush is a liar, idiot, asshole, fraud and was educated at Phillips Academy and Yale University.”

Ah, the power of the Interweb.

* – I won’t bother going into the concept of a Wiki, but for the purposes of this post it is a site that can be edited by anyone, thus allowing for public contributions.

Of course you know I’m not really sexist, but holy crap is this incident too damn funny. Thank God they got a picture to capture the surrealness of the accident.

(Courtesy of Mindful Musings)