This has got to be the most heartwarming thing i’ve read in weeks. To paraphrase it, four illegal mexican immigrant teenagers at a run-down West Phoenix high school entered the third annual underwater remotely operated vehicle comptetition sponsored by the Marine Advanced Technology Education Center. These four cholos soundly whipped the shit out of every other team in the most difficult class at the competition, placing ahead of MIT, CMU, UC Davis and UW Milwaukeee, among others.
Read, holmes.
i don’t know how many times i’ve said that in jest (because the key to humor is repitition). While going back through some pictures, i discovered one random shot taken out of the side of a plane slowly descending to Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Cobb Hosea Chattahoochee Duke Peachtree MARTA Gold Club County County Piedmont International Airport. In this picture, you can just make out enough detail to identify the streets and much to my suprise, The Fort. We lived there for 2 years, back in the day. May just be my imagination, but it looks like you can make out some of the goofy cartoony crap on the alley wall.
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I SAID, HAVE YOU SEEN THE LIGHT?
We knew stained glass windows were common in Chicago bungalows. Some time last month, while we were outside, we noticed (much to our suprise) we had one of these windows. Since we are still in the process of stripping the 80 years of shellac off the red oak window trim, baseboards and corner moldings, we decided to punch a hole in the drywall.
Sonofabitch. Looks like an original 1920s stained glass window to me. It’s still framed in red oak, too.
HEY HOLMES THIS SHIT BE WORKIN
