Schiver's Randomness: Archive

$138 box of rocks?? →

Awesome. This is just awesome.

Apr 29th

Sarah, on hearing things correctly

Me: Cole Hamels sprained his ankle tonight. Sarah: How can you tell? Is he walking funny? Me: What? He sprained his ankle in the game tonight. Sarah: Wait, what did you say? Me: Cole Hamels sprained his ankle tonight? Sarah: OH! I thought you said Neville sprained his ankle! (Neville, as our cat Neville. Speaking of which, can a cat sprain its ankle? Does a cat even have ankles??)

Apr 29th

Sarah, on geography

Me: I found this Chinese restaurant online. It looks pretty good. It’s called Hong Kong Chef. Sarah: Why is it Hong Kong? Isn’t that in Japan? Me (shaking my head): Nope.

Apr 29th

GM to pull the plug on Pontiac car brand →

R.I.P. Pontiac. I had a Sunfire when I was in high school and it was fun to drive but was quite unreliable.

Apr 27th

'BioShock' movie put on hold by Universal →

:( The good news is that it has a gi-normous budget ($165 mil) and Wentworth Miller (“Prison Break”) is cast as the lead character!

Apr 27th

'Cancer risk of nicotine gum and lozenges higher... →

And now, something from the irony department…

Apr 23rd

Schuster has 17 K's in 4th straight no-hitter →

WHAT… this is crazy insane, even for high school. How old is this kid? Throw a Phillies uniform on him NOW.

Apr 21st

Pirate Bay four jailed for breaking copyright in... →

The Swedish judge ruled on the Pirate Bay case and the creators of the website received one year in jail and over $3 million in fines. Could be a breakthrough for the evil empires of the RIAA and MPAA, among others.

Apr 17th