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But… This isn’t Even Odd!

I have several “clip services” attached to my browser’s default page so that I can keep tabs (at least a little) on what’s happening in the real world. One of those is called Odd News from AP, and as you might expect, it collects the most unusual stories recently spat out by the Associated Press. Or so I thought.

Today, this story showed up. Here’s a rundown:

1. Neighbors complain because dog nearly bites them.
2. Officers visit dog’s owner, warns him to restrain dog.
3. The owner fails to do so, and the dog bites the officers.
4. The officers arrest the owner and send the dog to the pound.
5. The end.

Not exactly Twilight Zone or even Mad TV material, is it? Now if one of the officers bit the dog, or the dog bit off one of the officer’s fingers and they had to wait a couple days for nature to run its course so that the cop could get his wedding ring back, then I’d say “okay.” But the police doing what they’re supposed to do? That’s odd?

Maybe in Detroit it is…

Hot Box

This item was advertised in a recent flyer we received in the mail from Bed, Bath & Beyond. While I have no grudge against the store or anyone involved… I gotta say, doesn’t this device just reek of danger? I know how hot many of the power chargers for my small electronics can get. Can you imagine what it would be like putting four of them in a power strip inside a small box? It seems like that’s just asking for the chargers to overheat and/or start a fire. Yes, I’m sure there’s some ventilation, but still.

It makes me wonder if Underwriters Laboratories have any say-so when it comes to furniture to house electronics. I know they approve the electronics themselves… Sadly, we’ve got a deadline looming and I don’t have time to look it up right now. But I will!

Mets math

I didn’t take statistics in college, so maybe I’m missing something. But this article makes me think. If you don’t want to bother to click through, the article cites a Web source containing odds for teams to reach the 2008 World Series. What I don’t get is that five out of the top six teams are American League teams. The Mets are the only NL representative among those top six.

Now, only one AL team and one NL team makes it to the World Series. So how can you have five different AL teams at 7:2, 5:1 and 10:1 odds, but only one NL team at better than 12:1 odds? If the Mets were big-time favorites, I guess it would make sense, but they’re 4:1.

I’m usually good at math, so someone please explain this to me.

Throwing stones

Madonna’s just been inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame? Hmmmm. The definition of rock ‘n’ roll must have changed a whole lot since I was younger.

The path of armageddon?

I went to check tomorrow’s weather, and saw this:

Is it the Russians? Are we all dead?