short fat guy online

I’ve been seeing this headline on the AP wire the last couple days: “DVD in Firefighter’s Coat Blocks Bullet”.

Colleton County Fire and Rescue Director Barry McRoy says he was leaving a Waffle House restaurant in Walterboro [South Carolina] on Saturday morning when two men ran in fighting over a gun.  Police say a bullet hit one of the struggling men, shattered a window and then hit McRoy.

The bullet hit a DVD McRoy was carrying in his pocket. He suffered a bruise but didn’t realize he had been shot. As he told a police officer what happened he noticed a bullet hole in his jacket, the shattered DVD case and a piece of the bullet.

    One detail I was quick to notice was in the final sentence of the article.  The DVD “was a gift from an employee who had recorded a TV show about fire extinguishers.”  See that, MPAA?  If that DVD had not been illegally copied, a man could be dead!

An interesting article at TIME.com:

[N]ew research suggests that the body is not so easily fooled, and that sugar substitutes are no key to weight loss — perhaps helping to explain why, despite a plethora of low-calorie food and drink, Americans are heavier than ever.

    I’ve seen similar stories linking artificial sweeteners to weight gain; but what struck me about this article is that it involves testing animals.  It would be easy to explain why people who use artificial sweeteners can still gain weight—they could simply be rationalize they can eat more (I know I’ve done it)—but if tests on animals produce the same results, it suggests the problem is physical more than mental.  And this intrigues me a great deal.

I include a screen grab here, just in case the article gets changed.

    And I’d always been told a cop couldn’t find that with two hands and a flashlight.

Holy crap!  It’s even being confirmed!  It looks like there’s a possibility of a Bluth family reunion.
    First Serenity and now this.  It’s as if the movie studios are joining together to clean up the messes made by Fox’s stupid decisions.

Yay!  Lord of the Rings bloopers!  I hope there’s more where these came from.