Monthly Archives: March 2007

You too have a chance to have Saturn’s hexagon named after you.

A quick history of how Mugabe got power.

True words, but I don’t think Europe is going to change any time soon from it’s anti-Americanism.

In the future, smaller nations in dangerous neighborhoods must accept that in their crises ahead, their only salvation, even after the acrimonious Democratic furor over Iraq, is help from the United States.

Quite simply, there is now no NATO, no EU, no U.N. that can or will do anything in anyone’s hour of need.

Scary and painful. Our brains are interesting things how they manipulate us and all.

How to output your RSS feeds via Morse code. So handy.

Awesome keyboard, btw.

Every so often I go watch a batch of the I’m a PC/Mac ads.

I recommend:

• Self Pity
• Meant for Work

13 wacky things about the universe to keep you up nights.

Yes, the future will be completely different from today. Why look at my nuclear kitchen and my robot slaves and my trips to the moon, and my rocketpack!

WHERE’S MY ROCKETPACK!!!

Despite the serious consequences of delay, I think I’m still all for Congress not doing anything.

Mark Steyn gives us all another thing to worry about.

Lesson learned: Women, don’t take math tests in swimsuits.

Legos were temporarily banned then after some communistic re-education re-allowed at one school.

And in Hilltop’s new Lego regime, there would be three immutable laws:

• All structures are public structures. Everyone can use all the Lego structures. But only the builder or people who have her or his permission are allowed to change a structure.
• Lego people can be saved only by a “team” of kids, not by individuals.
• All structures will be standard sizes.

Woohoo! So much for letting your imagination run wild.

You know those “road ends” type signs? You should believe them rather than your GPS unit.

My sister on some intarweb TV thing talking about Darfur.

Apparently you need some massive bandwidth to watch more than 5 seconds consecutively. Otherwise the audio runs fine and you get the funnest looks on their faces when it freezes. Good luck.

This is a fun little “war”.

Flash point for WWIII?

Scott Ott is running for President money. That’s worth a buck.

Better Living through Activism. Excellent voice work.

via IMAO

The real reasons the Iranians are holding British sailors.

Soon it won’t matter where you buy your full-price books.

$7.99 for a 300 page paperback indeed.

Blackmailing greens on Ebay.

It doesn’t seem to be working. I think he needs bigger trees. Hmm, I could threaten the 30′ pines in my yard. I hate all the raking they cause me anyway….

No posts yet today. I wonder what I’m doing with myself. Maybe some later, possibly. You should probably just amuse yourself with the links to the right though.

Fry’s, $25.00 this week.

IMHO, taking people’s wash out of the machine and stacking it somewhere is not a breach of etiquette. The other person should have been there to take it out themself. If you relinquish that responsibility don’t be getting upset when someone does it for you. And don’t dump a used litter box into the washing machine.

Also, taking stuff out of the dryer is appropriate too. Really, really nice people will fold it for you.

Well, the Executive branch’s ferocity in silencing critics is legendary.

A NASA scientist who said the Bush administration muzzled him because of his belief in global warming yesterday acknowledged to Congress that he’d done more than 1,400 on-the-job interviews in recent years.

via Inoperable Terran

A new random Strongbad cartoon.

I want one.

This and this.

Which causes me to think, once again we had our Gay ’90s (I mean that in the classic sense and you know it) when all was well with the world, more or less. Leading to a bit of turmoil in the ’00s and what’s next? Another world war based on obscure reasons that are never clearly taught in history class, in a decade or so?

Somebody did say something or other about history repeating. Miss Shirley Bassey, I think.

Fred Thompson on Iranian sensitivity to 300.

Because even though I know all the words in the sentence, they don’t make any sense when they talk about cricket.

Windows versions through the years ranked for you convenience.

Annoying PETA is fun! I have no idea what I’m going to eat today, but no doubt meat will be involved.

It looks like idiots and the insane will no longer be barred from voting in New Jersey.

Who looks at the word idiot and thinks it applies to them?

The test said so.

Average score: 17.5
My score: 26
I’m 44.6% smarter than average.

And I clicked the wrong button at least once. So I’m smarter than I am coordinated. Or something.

GrandCentral.com is way too cool for the phone companies to let go on unchallenged for too long.

Now maybe electrons are just the end of long noodles of something or other. And there’s another state of matter to memorize.

Solid, liquid, gas, plasma, string-net liquid. It doesn’t flow. They need to work on that.

Unless you’re a Caesar with dictatorial ambitions. In that case, watch out.

IM conversation with my brother. He lives in Alaska and I’m afraid he’s turning into a hippy.

Josh : I don’t believe in summer anymore
Kristin : Ah. Yes, you’re just confused.
Josh : Well when I get to see summer again in 2008 then I might be straightened out but with moving in Sept I shall not see summer this year……Al Gore was right…..all of it!
Actually it was a decent watch for a documentary but that’s beside the point
Kristin : good to know. Still don’t plan to watch it.
Kristin : Watch out for swimming polar bears.
Josh : I’ll hug them and offer them hope.

Victor Davis Hanson on the Hugh Hewitt show.

Where have you people been for the last 6 years?

“Although we know the deficit is the symptom and spending is the disease, taxpayers ought to have the right to have their budget balanced, and balanced without tax increases.”

You only laugh because you think it’ll help.

I dunno.

This week’s Strong Bad email got a chuckle out of me. Therefore you should watch it.

/Coach Z ftw

This is the kind of hard-hitting bullet-pointed political advice I need about the potential presidential candidates.

Daylight savings time bites. I’m not opposed to more daylight, or saving energy, or farmers having more light to work with, or any of those things it’s supposedly for. What I am opposed to is altering my internal clock. Why can’t we keep this time throughout the year if it’s so gosh darn important. I love the fall back part of the whole thing, but I’d gladly forgo it if it didn’t mean having to spend a couple weeks as a zombie a few months later. So enough with this wishy-washy switching back and forth. Congress, pick something and stick with it year round.

If you’re looking to buff up your geek status here’s a little musical help remembering the ST:TNG show titles.

Searchable Calvin & Hobbes database.

via EO

They have a name for the next Star Trek movie. Drum roll, please…..

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Star Trek.

tada!

The Super Doughnut. An important part of this complete breakfast.

“I started my company, Super Foods, in 1990 with the goal of improving the doughnut,” said Harris, who studied food service and administration at Penn State before joining the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1972.

This man is living the American dream.

Adobe plans to put out plug-ins that detect alterations in photos.

South Korea and the European Union are setting up Laws of Robotics. They only need 3, or possibly 4, but I’m sure this will be some big old complex thing.

Yes, it’s changes in baseball that will save us from global warming. The impact of baseball on the planet cannot be exaggerated.

Some of the scariest and coolest VW Beetles you’ve ever seen.

The sneaky large-billed reed-warbler is fitter than conservationists thought.

I’m just going to say it. I think it should be a blanket rule that when security finds anything foreign (especially metallic items) in a body cavity search, you and your luggage shouldn’t be allowed to travel.

He made me laugh. Aloud.

“It’s not about sales,” I protested. “What profiteth it a man if he maketh a gazillion bucks but loseth hith entire thivilithathion?”

Yes, it’s cheap. That doesn’t make it less funny.

VDH reviews 300.

Commodore wants to bring back the glory days with high end gaming PCs.

I think C64 and I think Axel F, cause one summer we programmed them to play the song. Sweet.

Drew Curtis solves the news problem.

No more Nintendo for you.

If so, the researchers said, health officials who want to reduce obesity may need to broaden their approach: “Perhaps the most productive interventions will be those that target children’s behavior not only during school hours but also, and most important, after the bell rings.”

I can’t wait for health officials to intervene in children’s private lives. That will end well.

I’m underwhelmed.

I have a nationally recognized ID, my passport. It’s what I use when I fly nationally and internationally specifically because no one argues with it. The Idaho driver’s license gets funny looks.

Now I just know I’m going to have to pay more when I get my driver’s license renewed to pay for this secure new driver’s license which will be hacked within days, if not before, it comes out.

Finally, maybe the game will do what I want it to, instead of what buttons I accidentally push.

You thought we’d always have Paris, but the AP editor says no.

When did “denuclearize” become a word?

I would watch local news if it were more like this.

That’s right, offensive to all. No more bland, milksop reporting. I want comedy. I want to be entertained.

The DMV must be stopped.

Back in the day this promised fun thrills for kids. Today, fun thrills for lawyers.

It’s all been done before.

The high-stakes war to stabilize the fragile democracy in Iraq is a serious, costly and controversial business. But so have been most conflicts in American history. We need a little more humility and knowledge of our past — and a lot less hysteria, name-calling and obsession with our present selves.

Robots, WETA, biological studies, and tuataras.