“Over Thanksgiving break, I enjoyed reading about this small, energy-efficient home in North Carolina built using the Harbinger plan offered by the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. Built to International Building Code requirements, the plan includes a loft, home office, kitchen, bathroom, living room, and deck — tightly placed in less than 500 square feet! Details are hard to come by, but Tumbleweed sells this plan for $695 and estimates that it costs about $33,000 in materials to build.…”

https://www.jetsongreen.com/2011/11/harbinger-tiny-house-north-carolina.html

Hi, there,

Just saw Lloyd on Boing Boing talking about skateboarding. Truly inspirational. I’m 40 and have wanted to take up longboarding for a while, since I surf and need to keep training in the off-season. Can he please recommend to me what board is a good one to start with, and prefeably something not too pricey?

Thanks,

Lee

Lee: There are lots of good boards out there. I like the Loaded Boards, they’re made of bamboo, assembled in the USA, and designed for carving, fun, and even dancing. (They are LONG boards, not the boards used by kids in the streets and on the ramps.) I have a Bhangra with Orangutang wheels and love it.

https://loadedboards.com/boards/bhangra

I also have n Indo Board, which is great for practicing balance at home. https://indoboard.com/shop/product-info.php?original_natural-pid1.html 

“Amazing pictures from Switzerland show where “jetman” Yves Rossy gave this incredible flying display, using a tailor-made jet pack. The aviation enthusiast leapt from a helicopter and performed a series of aerial acrobatics above the Alps. He then joined two jet planes in a synchronized flight. To synchronise their flight paths the jets reduced their speed to 220 kilometres per hour (137 miles per hour), which put their engines at a point close to stalling. Rossy’s previous aerial feats include flying the English Channel and looping the loop around a hot-air balloon.…”

https://pkcrunch.com/amazing-video-jet-man-stunts-alongside-fighter-jets-over-alps/

I just ran across Baby, What You Want Me To Do? when I was looking for.Etta doing a remarkable version of Dylan’s “Gotta Serve Somebody” I heard on the radio last week. Both Etta and Dylan fans, check this out. Graphics could be better, but its great to read the lyrics. What a poet! What a singer!

The United Way realized that it had never received a donation from the city’s most successful lawyer. So a United Way volunteer paid the lawyer a visit in his lavish office.

   The volunteer opened the meeting by saying, “Our research shows that even though your annual income is over two million dollars, you don’t give a penny to charity. Wouldn’t you like to give something back to your community through the United Way?”

   The lawyer thinks for a minute and says, “First, did your research also show you that my mother is dying after a long, painful illness and she has huge medical bills that are far beyond her ability to pay?”

   Embarrassed, the United Way rep mumbles, “Uh . . . no, I didn’t know that.”

   “Secondly,” says the lawyer, “did it show that my brother, a disabled veteran, is blind and confined to a wheelchair and is unable to support his wife and six children?”

   The stricken United Way rep begins to stammer an apology, but is cut off again.

   “Thirdly, did your research also show you that my sister’s husband died in a dreadful car accident, leaving her penniless with a mortgage and three children, one of whom is disabled and another who has learning disabilities requiring an array of private tutors?”

   The humiliated United Way rep, completely beaten, says, “I’m so sorry, I had no idea.”

   The lawyer concludes, “So… if I didn’t give any money to them, what makes you think I’d give any to you?”

From Lew Lewandowski

We published a little book (edited by Michael Rafferty) called Skid Marks: Common Jokes About Lawyers, in 1988. Maybe we’ll get it into eBook form one of these days. It’s wicked.