Hmmmm, Postcards that come in Black Plastic...?

Image may or may not be of real Ummm "assists" no no Product For sale, ON THE POST CARD..



Sexy postcards won't have stamp of approval? Wed Oct 26,12:53 PM ET

The "Girl from Ipanema" may soon have to cover up, at least if she wants to appear on a postcard in Rio de Janeiro.

Postcards of bikini-clad beauties frolicking on Rio's famed beaches could be banned from sales in the city's shops and newsstands in an attempt to discourage sex tourism.

The Rio state assembly approved the ban on Tuesday night, and state governor Rosinha Matheus has 30 days to ratify it.

"These postcards ... attract to our city the wrong kind of tourist and promote deplorable sex tourism," said the bill's sponsor, deputy Alice Tamborindeguy.

"I hope the governor sanctions this proposal because otherwise we are doing a disservice to the state and showing disrespect for women."

Postcards of lithe and tanned women in bikinis on beaches such as Ipanema and Copacabana are ubiquitous at sales points in Rio. The image was immortalized in the bossa nova song, "Girl from Ipanema."

With its sun, sea, mountains and sultry lifestyle Rio is a popular tourist destination. But prostitution is also rife, and the United Nations and other groups have expressed concern that it is growing as a magnet for foreigners seeking cheap sex.

Last March the Brazilian government launched a campaign to stop the sexual exploitation of minors by tourists, which including involving hotels in cracking down on their guests.
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How would you react if a buddy sent you a post card wrapped in foil?
- TVG

{Photo from:
http://www.jaymekohler.com/archives/ind-20031115-0505.html }

Cat Nap?

Suspect in W.Va. Break-In Found Asleep Fri Oct 28, 5:35 PM ET

A suspect in a break-in at a veterinarian's office wasn't hard to find. He was sleeping in his office at a neighboring business and allegedly had some stolen items in his pockets.

Chad Lee Mays, 26, of Malden was charged Thursday with breaking and entering. Mays owns a tire shop next door to the Kanawha Boulevard Animal Hospital in Charleston, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

Charleston police responding to the break-in saw a tire shop employee outside that business early Thursday morning, waiting for it to open. The employee said Mays was inside sleeping.

Mays told police he had heard an alarm go off at the veterinarian's office but did not see anything. He then said he needed to use a restroom and walked into another room where Patrolman S.S. Midkiff saw a computer similar to one that had been reported stolen, the complaint said.

Police searched the suspect and allegedly found cash and vials of veterinary drugs in his pockets.

Mays was being held Friday at South Central Regional Jail in Charleston.

Information from: The Charleston Gazette, http://www.wvgazette.com
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Those Cat Naps will get ya every time!
- TV

What about the twisted moose?

Landing in Alaska? Fear moose collisions no more
Fri Oct 21,11:15 AM ET
Pilots flying into and out of a small airport north of Anchorage, Alaska, no longer have to keep an eye out for stray moose on the runway. The municipal airport at Wasilla, a town about 40 miles north of Anchorage, has installed an electric anti-moose mat around the airfield. The barrier, similar to grated cattle guards on ranches, aims to prevent collisions between aircraft and the area's large moose population. "They'd feel a shock and they'd also hear a snap. Those two things would cause the moose to not go in there," said Archie Giddings, public works director for Wasilla. Airfield workers regularly had to chase the large ungulates away and moose have proved adept at getting through the gates of the airport's conventional fence, Giddings said.
A bull moose can weigh 1,000 pounds and stand 6 feet high. "If they ever did come to the runway and have a collision with an aircraft, that could be disastrous to the pilot," Giddings said. "An airplane could disintegrate if it hits a moose."

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Or the area moose will learn to like it and all park on the mat.

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Dead man gets parking ticket
Fri Oct 21,10:38 AM ET
Australian authorities have apologized to the family of an elderly man who was given a parking ticket while he lay dead in his car in a suburban shopping center. The 71-year-old man, known to be seriously ill, went missing nine days ago and his body was found in his car in a shopping mall car park in a Melbourne suburb, police said. A parking ticket had been placed on the car the day before his body was found. "It's just tragic. It must be just so sad for the family and we extend our sincere sympathies to them," local mayor Paul Denham told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio on Friday. "The circumstances surrounding the location of this poor fellow must make it all the harder for the family. It is simply a case of the parking officer not noticing."

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So .... Do they still have to pay the fine?

- TV

Snow Bunny?

Have your attention? One Playmates stand aganst KFC.

Nice thought, however...

New gadget to make theft of mobile phones harder
Thu Oct 13, 2:42 PM ET
Finnish scientists have invented a device to make it harder to steal mobile phones and laptops by enabling them to detect changes in their owner's walking style and then freeze to prevent unauthorized use.
The VTT Technical Research Center of Finland said the device, which is has patented but has yet to sell, could prevent millions of portable appliances being stolen every year.
"A device is equipped with sensors that measure certain characteristics of the user's gait. When the device is used for the first time, these measurements are saved in its memory," VTT said in a statement.
The gadget would monitor the user's walking style and check it against the saved information. If the values differ, the user would have to enter a password.
"Compared with passwords and traditional bio-identification, the new method is simple: confirmation of identity takes place as a background process without any need for user's intervention," the researchers said.

One problem I see with this is that as some one is being chased or, is thought be being followed, your gate changes, you go from your normal la de daa, mode to a defensive mode. I wonder if the phone would still lock and prevent you from calling for help? Hmmm, I will need to see more data. I still think a fingerprint scanner would be a better option on the phones, some computers are putting them in.

- TV

Odd little smiles...

Some of the things that I do while, hmmm how does one say this, spending valuable time on the internet ... Is visit on line cartoons. What I like is that these cartoons are also in the paper, however you can go back and review the last months toons here. 2 of the toons that I like are

&

9 Chickweed has changed a little, however I have been reading it for so long that it still holds my attention. Someone just jumping in on the toon, it may be a little strange.

Get Fuzzy is just Odd, I like it that way. Check them out, let me know.

- TV

This fire truck brought to you by ...

STOCKERTOWN, Pa. They may not be able to change their tires in less than 20 seconds, but Stockertown's fire department is looking for something decidedly race car-like: sponsorship. The tiny borough of 650 residents bought a fire truck but hasn't been able to scrape enough money to pay for it. So the fire chief and the City Council president dreamed up the idea of selling advertising space on the fire truck. So far, no one has signed on. /

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Hmmm I wonder why, Hay Match makers, would you be interested insponsoringg our fire truck? Or how about, Hay Local Liquor store, would you be interested in sponsoring our DUI program?

Yes, Yes, Yes I know, now here in the above clipping do they use any of the examples that I have used here however, how would you like to be the business owner of "ABC Demolition" and have a reporter standing by a fire truck (reporters like flashing lights) with thebillboardd "Brought to you by ABC Demolition while at a fatality accident, or a house or business fire. Not so much thank you. How do you also let visitors know that this is an ad and not an endorsement for said business. Just some thoughts. What do you think.
- TV

Who gets to blow out the candles?

Expect a big birthday party next year in the Greco household. Suzanne and Michael Greco celebrated their shared birthday Saturday by welcoming their first child, 8-pound, 8-ounce Maxwell Allen Greco. ''We're wondering what the odds are of having the whole family born on the same day,'' said Vicki Greco, Michael's mother. ''It's just amazing.''

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That is just weird.
- TV

See Alaska be fore you die (B4UDIE)

I am mixed about the following promo drive to get people to come to Alaska. Check out the article:
http://www.ktuu.com/cms/templates/master.asp?articleid=185&zoneid=1

personally I like the fact that we can strech out and not knock the block off of our neighbor. Or that one can pass gas (fart for the younger generation) with out the neighbor calling and say "Liver & Onions again eah? LOL, I used to have a friend who used to say "ampersand" instead of "And" .. Kind of funny Kind of strange. Anyway YOU Tell me, would this billboard make you want to rush home and pack your bags to come to Alaska? Until next time...

- TV

Blog Dumpers...

Groan,
Ok, it may just be me however I do find it cool when I post and suddenly I see some one has commented to the post. It is like Christmas time and some one has left a present under the tree, I hit the post and find that it is not a gift, it is a flaming bag of Poo - Poo called E-spam. What the heck! Don't I already get enough E-mails from estate members of wealthy bankers or country men that have passed on, been kidnapped, or 'taken out' who want to share their 40,million dollars with me just out of random chance because my screen name seamed nice. Please I would get these e-mails if my address was:

BabbyEater@RiverOfStix.death
rather than
HayIAmANiceGuy@willingtogivebankinfo.com (duh, not real addresses)

Not born yesterday people.

It all comes down to this, have you used or would you use the anti-e-spam devices that are out there? If some one was using a device that made you verify that you are a real human behind the keyboard and not an automated mass mailer, would you take the extra step to place a posting or just clear them from your favorite places? Let me know what you think. Unless it is that I should enter into a time share deal, for a next to nothing price, you can just hang on to that one.

That is the rant... yup, that is it. If you are a real person and have posted, thank you I am interested in hearing/seeing what you have to say/type. Lets keep it up.
- TV

Reminds me of Humpty Dumpty ... In A Good Way.

Care to Comment? I thought that this was cool, however I think that I would like to driving the frying pan that, of course, is sold seperatly...

New concept car: a rotating egg on wheels
Fri Sep 30, 3:46 AM ET -

Tired of all those three-point turns? Nissan Motor could have a solution.
Japan's second-biggest auto maker has developed a concept car featuring an egg-shaped cabin atop a wheeled platform that can swivel around 360 degrees, doing away with the need to reverse when emerging from narrow spaces.
"With this feature, parking in tight spots is a cinch," chief designer Masato Inoue told reporters at a sneak preview of the bubble-shaped, three-seater electric car this week.
The car, named Pivo after the word "pivot", operates on an experimental system called drive-by-wire, which eliminates the mechanical linkages between cabin and chassis to enable steering, braking and shifting through electronic signals.
The system is the car's version of fly-by-wire technology, which has controlled commercial jets for more than a decade.
Nissan will showcase the Pivo at the Tokyo Motor Show, which opens to the public on October 22.
At the preview this week in Zama city, near Tokyo, a driver slid the 2.7-metre (8-foot) long Pivo into a tight imaginary parking spot, then rotated the cabin with the push of a button to face "backwards" to come out of the space in one motion.
"With the Pivo concept, we want to demonstrate the myriad possibilities that drive-by-wire could achieve," Inoue said.
Shiro Nakamura, Nissan's celebrity design chief, said on Friday the real-world application of the concept could be but a decade away.
"Who knows, in 10 years our March (or Micra, subcompact car) could look like this," he said at a media event at Nissan's showroom in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district, where the car was being prepared for display to the public.
Other auto makers such as General Motors and DaimlerChrysler have also developed drive-by-wire concept cars featuring cabin interiors that resemble cockpits.
Quirky concept cars are always crowd-pleasers at international motor shows, which auto makers use to show off next-generation technology and draw attention to their newest production vehicles.