I’m just saying..

http://www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-ralston.html

3 pages of wtf.

Geek note: I found the incompatibility that made a perl build on one Debian Sid box spew errors about errno, and not the other. It was in the libbind-dev package. When it is installed, perl automatically links with -lbind and that library is not compatible with the new glibc, thus causing the tiresome error.

Now there’s a week of debugging I’d like back. HURF! But done now.

Garbage pail kid:

Carjacking Suspect Dies in Bin
Stanley Allison

November 12, 2003

A carjacking suspect was found dead inside a trash bin in a Costa Mesa shopping center where he apparently hid from police, authorities said Tuesday.

The unidentified man, reportedly armed with a handgun, tried to take a car from a woman in the Ralphs supermarket parking lot at 380 E. 17th Street about 11:20 a.m. Monday, police said.

They said the victim thwarted the man, who ran into an alley behind a condominium complex on Tustin Avenue. Police said they searched the area and heard noise coming from the trash bin.

Officers said they saw the man inside the bin and ordered him to come out, but he refused.

Using a loudspeaker, police said, they tried in vain for nearly an hour to get the man to surrender. Police in a helicopter over the shopping center reported that that the man was not moving.

While browsing the Trojan Games site (not safe for work) I saw an ad for a Romanian bank:

I know things are kind of primitive there, but is Andy Kaufman writing their ads?

<zebulon_y> today has been like a busload of geriatrics taking sequential poos in my mouth
<zebulon_y> jerk me, pea
<pea> WANG CLAMP
<ignatz> ow

ITEM! My powerbook’s battery compartment has failed, causing unwanted battery eject. It is gone for ~1 week.

ITEM! I hate the happy couples at D’s and the Napa, and elsewhere. Fuck y’all.

ITEM! I will likely eat more eggplant tonight.

ITEM! I want to kiss you right there.

Whatever with: The Matrix, birth months, and blogerati.

What’s not to like? Photo updates:

http://iggy.fringehead.org/album/november_10/

A rose by any other name would bark less. Glad to see Toby’s getting a BIT smaller.

Woman Sues Over Condom Found in Soup
Irvine restaurant’s lawyer says it’s a mystery how the rolled-up item got into the chowder.
By Jeff Gottlieb
Times Staff Writer

November 10, 2003

An Orange County woman is suing an Irvine restaurant, saying she found a condom in her clam chowder.

Laila Sultan, 48, said she was eating at McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant on Feb. 26, 2002, when something rubbery stuck to her tooth. “We said, ‘Of course. You’re chewing on a clam,’ ” said Paula Wild, one of three friends with her — all eating clam chowder, and all of whom have joined the lawsuit.

Sultan spit out the offending material. She said it was an unwrapped, rolled-up condom. “There was no question what it was,” Wild said.

“We’re all adult women. Believe me, I’ve seen one in my lifetime.”

Sultan said she ran to the bathroom and threw up for 15 minutes.

The case is scheduled for trial Jan. 12. Sultan and Wild, along with Cindy Hammond and Annamarie Sigala, are suing for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The question is: How could a condom get into the chowder?

“It’s as big a mystery to us as it is to anybody else,” said Patrick Stark, attorney for McCormick & Schmick’s.

The restaurant sued American Roland Food Corp., which supplied the clams. A judge ruled in favor of the supplier in September.

“We are going to argue there is absolutely no evidence to suggest the restaurant was the source of the condom, or any employee of the restaurant,” Stark said. “Either it came from [the four women] or it was thrown in as a practical joke by another patron at the restaurant.”

The condom itself was seized by the restaurant manager, the women said. They said he told them the insurance company had instructed him not to return it or let them photograph it.

Stark said that because the condom was rolled up, “it was clearly unused” and for that reason hasn’t been tested.

The lawsuit says the condom was “a possibly used one.”

Sultan and Wild said the women have tested negative for HIV. McCormick & Schmick’s is a privately owned chain with 42 upscale restaurants in 19 states.

Sultan lives in Stanton and works as a reservations agent for a travel company.

She said she had been to the McCormick & Schmick’s previously and had never had any problems. She said the women ordered drinks, appetizers and then soup. Because the soup was lukewarm, they sent it back. When the food returned, Sultan said, she bit into the condom.

Sultan said that the condom discovery has caused psychological trauma and sent her to a psychiatrist for a year and a half. She said she has taken a variety of medications for depression and anxiety.

“I can’t touch fish,” she said. “I can’t smell fish. I get sick. I can’t eat soups anymore.” She said she has lost her appetite for sex and food, and lost about 10 pounds.

“I went through hell,” she said. “I don’t know how to describe it.”