I'm writing to address a real, urgent problem. One that needs to be addressed right now. When I was a child, I was victimized by injury from a terrible monstrosity. That's right. A TREE. Later that week, a drunk driver slammed into a tree and DIED. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the number of tree related deaths in America is substantial. Therefore it is our responsibility as Americans to outlaw these denizens of death, these foul plant beings whose very purpose is to endanger our...
Ok, so here's the kicker. I'm perusing Weird Al's tour info to find out when this rabid sycophant can catch one of his all time favorites on tour. Scanning, scanning. Nope, he's in Oz now, and unless Toblerone, Cacto or Dynamaso can spare a bunk, I don't see myself heading out that way (just kidding, guys, although if I ever DO find myself on your continent, I'm looking you blokes up!). I tried once to head out there when my sis-in-law was doing graduate work in Sydney, but couldn't come up with...
Note: this is NOT under the "sports" section because, umm, nobody READS it! With baseball season being shortly upon us, I am considering my options. For those who don't know, I am a diehard Seattle Mariners fan, and living in Texas find myself unable to get broadcasts of their games. Enter the Internet. This year I intend to listen to/watch every game I can, but I need some help. I am looking for audio broadcasts I can download. They have Gameday Audio at a very good price, and I am con...
I have made 1927 posts before this one. But this post is different than every one of the posts before it.This post is the first post I've made on a Linux machine where I installed the OS and the NIC. This was a clean install, so there's not a shred of Windows on this machine.The OS for this machine is Ubuntu 6.06, and everything was MUCH easier than I had been led to expect from Redmondites. From the point of install to this point, the ONLY problem I had was with the codecs. That was easily over...
Somewhere in the process of arguing, many people have lost sight of what the word "hypocrite" means. I was thinking about this today while trying to get things together to fill out my FAFSA for 2007-2008 (still waiting on 1099 from the newspaper, I'll be waiting for another month, but it's good to get the rest of it together now). I have had to wrestle with the idea of receiving government money for going back to school when I don't think the government should be so heavily invested in social pr...
We were sitting in class today. It's late enough in the semester that we've gotten back the "extra" money from our grants, scholarships, and stuff that allows us to eat, and pay transportation and living expenses. So, generally a pretty happy day for all, right? Wrong. One of the people in the class came in with a sour look on his face. He was upset because he was "only" getting $700 cash back. Now, normally, this would have meant a double jet of heavily agitated Dr. Pepper launching from ...
One of the biggest things that stand out about me to other people is the fact that I am never tardy. Ever. In fact, I go to grat pains to ensure that I'm not late. Every clock in my house is set five minutes fast, I wake up with two hours to shower, get ready, and get to work in the morning. This leaves me with more than ample time should my tire go flat, my engine blow up, or I get abducted by aliens (I've left instructions that should they abduct me, they are to drop me off at my destination o...
(Putting coin in the cup and requesting a "Linux" topic in the PC category on the forums). OK. Step one is out of the way, and Ubuntu has been installed on my Linux test machine (PIII 866 Mhz, 256 MB RAM, 10 GB hard drive). The video looks sweet; I'm beginning to think the "problems" I was told about when I bought the computer were XP compatibility issues and not hardware problems, as they do not appear in Ubuntu. That's good; I don't have to find or scrounge a video card and driver to get th...
As the debate (?) rages on about Bush and Cheney's need for impeachment, I can think of one compelling reason why it should never be allowed to happen: President Pelosi.
It was 1971, and a 32 yard field goal cemented the Baltimore Colts' victory over the Dallas Cowboys, a 16-13 victory that would be the team's final NFL championship in the city of Balimore. 36 years and a move halfway across the country later, and a player with a familiar surname took the trophy, the MVP, and his family's honor home with him to Indianapolis, an unassuming heartland city known more for its famous racetrack than its American football. Of course, we all know the outcome, whether...
As the loonies of the eco-left march demanding that we need to act now to save the environment, act now to halt global warming, there is much that they are missing. And what they are missing is vitally important. The truth is that, while it is possible we are in a natural warming cycle, it is also possible that a portion of the environmental problems have a man made genesis. The truth is, that, had our founding fathers had perfect foresight, they could have halted global warming entirely...
Everytime someone wants to build something, environmentalists step in to save the spotted mole rat, or some such animal. The environment is precious, they insist, and it must be protected. So it is shocking, nay even appalling, that they have not protested the latest reports ( http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070205/ap_on_re_us/risky_levees;_ylt=AsuFMyKM5hANv8BfaATiH.PMWM0F;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MjBwMWtkBHNlYwM3MTg- -) that California and other states are at risk from failing levees. Restoring wetlands wo...
NOTE: I've stopped sharing a lot personal because, frankly, I don't have the same values as a lot of people on this site, and I really don't want flack over someone's opinion. This is the rare personal blog, and, because it is such, I will have a short hook. This is not the place for editorializing: There's been a lot of talk about "anchor babies", about illegals coming across the border and having babies in the United States to gain the automatic citizenship for their offspring. As many o...
The three title words were almost painful to write. I'm not a dittohead by any means, but I'm going to have to give Rush props on a very solid point, one that cost him a job. Some years ago, Rush commented on McNabb that the media loved to hype black quarterbacks. You'd have thought he called for the mass deportation of anyone with less than complete Aryan ancestry by the way the media attacked. Rush attacked their darling, and there was no way, no way at all, he was their darling simply beca...
I'm stoked! For the second time in a week, I hit the "bargain bin bonanza". Last week, I pulled three goodies out of the used CD rack. They were: Midnight Oil: Blue Sky Mining (Not "Diesel and Dust", but a solid album...especially for two bucks. And the track "Blue Sky Mine" has a little more punch since I've actually BEEN a miner) The Fixx: Greatest Hits (Again, a solid hits...I think this one cost me three bucks. Very good buy, IMO) REM: Automatic for the People (in my opinion, R...