Category Archive: Off-beat news

The new TheOtherDrummer.com logo!

What do you think? Do you love it? You love it. I can tell. Does it make you want to buy contemporary casual clothes? No? Why not? Gap thinks it will.

You can make your own Gap logo at MakeYourOwnGapLogo.com. And see what everyone else thinks of the new Gap logo on Twitter.

Thanks to @cameronmoll for the link.

NKOTB are back!

I can hear the phone call now: “Jordan, stop! Don’t cut your mullet – we’re getting the band back together.”

Why is this monumental news? Here’s some background from their website:

… People…now see our place in pop history. We’ve read that we `begat the boy bands” like Backstreet Boys and N’Sync…. But hey, what about New Edition? There would be no New Kids without them. And of course, the Jackson Five begat New Edition. So I guess we were really just the first white boy band.

That’s right. The first ever white boy band is getting back together after fifteen years. Fifteen long, empty, meaningless years.

Image courtesy of here.

Gmail introduces "Custom Time" – send e-mail to the past

Using Google’s revolutionary “e-flux capacitor”, you can “Just click ‘Set custom time’ from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient’s inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by selecting the appropriate option.”

Very handy indeed! Now on Saturday when I remember my dad’s birthday was Friday, I can send him an e-mail and using Custom Time, have it show up in his Inbox like it arrived on his birthday! I can even “mark as read” so he thinks he looked at it and forgot!

For more information on this feature, click here.

Google, what will you think of next? By the way, what’s the date today?

CNN Headline: Snake eats family dog as kids watch

True story. Their yippy little Chihuahua dog was devoured by a 16-foot python. And, like any good parent, mom let the kids (5 and 7 years old) out in the yard to watch.

“Now see how the snake is squeezes tighter each time Yippy inhales? That way Yippy can’t exhale to take a breath and will slowly die. Stop crying! This is nature!”

As if that weren’t bad enough, the family knew the snake had been hanging out in their yard.

“It actively stalked the dog for a number of days,” said Stuart Douglas, owner of the Australian Venom Zoo.

“The family that owned the dog had actually seen it in the dog’s bed, which was a sign it was out to get it,” he added.

Thanks for that tip Mr. Snake Expert.

If I’d seen a python coiled up where my dog slept, I would probably keep my dog (and kids) indoors. Then again, I’m a new parent so I’m probably overly-cautious about such things. Maybe once you have a few kids the idea of them playing in the yard with the dog and the scrub python isn’t such a big deal.

CNN story here. Image from here.

$5 bounty on stray cats? Sign me up!

So this city in Iowa is having problems keeping their stray cat population under control. The city council decided to pay alert, proactive, responsible citizens (you know, people who don’t have cats) five bucks for each stray cat they bring in.

Unfortunately, it appears that you have to bring the cats into the vet alive so the vet can do what? Kill them. Seems like you could follow Jim’s example (see above photo) and save some money – a .22 round is cheaper than a shot at the vet.

Dang it. I thought I could retire early. Rob, our dream will have to wait.

Photo from here. See the original CNN video here.