Osler's Razor

Thats definitely a duck.

Speaking of interesting buildings... My ride to work takes me through an industrial park and I noticed a sign on a large cinder block warehouse that read:
Food Court Inc.
Fortune Cookie Division
I imagined the manager of this operation in conference with his staff.
"Lucky numbers are down. Smithers your group is slacking. Do something to raise the lucky numbers numbers. Acton, no man is an island, hire some new blood in Cliche'Corp. Yamagaki, I see you taking trip in the near future. Enjoy Newark."
 

Walleye--

So, you're telling me that fortune cookies come from an industrial park in Minneapolis? Somehow, that's disconcerting. Plus, it makes me want to go to Pei Wei.
 

Regarding yesterdays post:
The greenhouse effect and the ozone hole are two separate problems. The ozone layer reflects some of the suns radiation back into space before it penetrates the atmosphere and roasts our skin. The radiation of most significance in this case is UV radiation. The greenhouse effect involves infrared radiation (in simple terms: heat) being trapped under the atmosphere.
Note: the folks who "don't believe in global warming" never seem to offer any logical empirical argument for their opinions. They may claim that there are some scientists that don't agree with the global warming scenario. Well, I can refer them to some historians who think the Holocaust didn't happen, or some some geographers who think the earth is flat. A few opinions don't weigh much in the face of overwhelming evidence.
I gotta go. I'm getting riled up.
 

Having been to Newark thrice in the past few weeks, I have noticed more than a few Chinese restaurants/carry outs in the town.
 

Prof Osler,

It's one of those hideous ducks in Cameron Park. There are a few near where I live in Dallas too. My father (bird-watcher extraordinaire) said that they were Muscovy ducks. (One truly ugly one was actually a hybrid - apparently Muscovy ducks aren't very picky about their bedfellows.)

Walleye,

You kick ass.
 

Yee--

You are right about the Walleye. I'm thinking that if I can get that Walleye down for commencement, I will have the Walleye do battle with Jen Seale and Danny Back for the ass-kicking championship.
 

If it is a buzzard, it is no doubt waiting for fresh PC meat.
 

Yee,

I've spent quite a bit of time in Moscow, and I'm telling you that Muscovy ducks don't look anything like that. They glow in the dark, for one thing.
 

It's interesting to me that people seem much more interested in the duck than in the possibility of having a "La Fiesta Party Room" attached to the law school...
 

Actually, I think a La Fiesta Party Room would make a great addition to the law school environment.
 

Dude, having a bi-lingual party room in the law school rocks! Especially 8,000 square feet of it. Who gets the concessions? And will all drinks be consumed in the special Anna Nicole Smith Memorial Tip-proof Jugs? The whole world wonders.
 

WElll I am from Michigan and I know only the diff between a duck and a goose. I would not know a buzzard if it flew over me.

And Walleye I DO think global warming exists, and and all of that AL Gore stuff is true. and I saw the movie "Who killed the electric car?" and I wanted and still want to drive my husband's Expedition off a cliff. In fact I would do it if there were a cliff around here besides Mt Hood, which I refuse to drive it up there.

Also I would love to trade it in for a PRIUS. We do need the van, for Bill's biz and the kid stuff, BUT we do NOT NEED the Expedition and I would love to trade it for a PRIUS but they are like $25K. THis year we spent twice that on floor tiles and spackle.

So I suck But I do think it all exists. If anyone wants to buy me a PRIUS, I will give YOU the Expedition and YOU can shove it off a cliff.
 

It's a durkey.
 

I think Global Warming exists... but what I don't know is if we can realistically do much about it other than tiny measures.

Not that we shouldn't try, but a lot of this may be way beyond our control even if we could shut down every coal burning plant in the world.

In any event, duck/buzzard spotting by its very definition is far more amusing than a party room. Just look at the words:
Duck
Buzzard
Party Room

Which ones make you chuckle?
 

Yee:
I'm pretty sure that's the durkey I was talking about the other day that, from the rear, I momentarily thought was a puppy or a platypus.

(Others: I don't sleep much.)

IPLawGuy: Of those choices, I pick buzzard, but I think that platypus is better.
 

Yee,

Yes, Platypus is WAY funnier.

But that's not one.