Archive for August, 2003

`Zingers’ land Kent woman in jail

by @ Saturday, August 30th, 2003. Filed under Links

KENT — A woman shopping at Top Food and Drug took offense Tuesday when another customer looked past her to ask a Top Food employee when a new batch of Zingers snack cakes were going to be put on the shelf.
“Don’t you talk around me,” said the 34-year-old Kent woman police described as “rather large.”
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Al Franken’s book: a Fair and Balanced review

by @ Saturday, August 30th, 2003. Filed under Books, Stories, etc

Hamster Babies

by @ Friday, August 29th, 2003. Filed under Links


I put a hamster-healer expression on my face and followed him into his bedroom. One of the little rodents was indeed lying on his back, looking distressed. I immediately knew what to do. “Honey,” I called, “come look at the hamster!”
“Oh, my gosh,” my wife diagnosed after a minute. “She’s having babies.”

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Spun

by @ Friday, August 29th, 2003. Filed under movie reviews and thoughts

Evil_Bastard had recommended this movie to me. Despite that, I decided to check it out.

This is one of those dirty gritty funny scarey movies of drug abuse and addiction, a la trainspotting. Brittany Murphy does her usual slut portrayal and I recognized Jason Schwartzman from his start on Rushmore although there’s not much innocence in [...]

Haliburton’s made about 1.7 Billion so far off of the Iraqi conflict.

by @ Thursday, August 28th, 2003. Filed under political perspective

“Often dressed in Army fatigues with civilian patches on their shoulders, Halliburton employees and contract personnel have become an integral part of Army life in Iraq.”

Birthday party gone bad

by @ Wednesday, August 27th, 2003. Filed under Links

A Pennsylvania woman was arrested after allegedly buying her son and 3 of his friends beer and stripping for them in a hotel in an attempt to make up for a failed birthday trip to ride go-carts.
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Ger. Clark says the Whitehouse pressured CNN to fire him.

by @ Wednesday, August 27th, 2003. Filed under political perspective

The White House actually back in February apparently tried to get me knocked off CNN and they wanted to do this because they were afraid that I would raise issues with their conduct of the war,” Clark told Newsradio 620 KTAR. “Apparently they called CNN. I don’t have all the proof on this because they [...]

Automatic Spamtrap

by @ Wednesday, August 27th, 2003. Filed under Misc

I’ve been playing around with SpamAssassin’s Bayesian mail filtering mechanism and it’s helping quite a bit. Now I see that Wireless Systems Design magazine has sold my email address, which I kind of expected.
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From: Military Electronics Show
To: wireless@zinger.org
Subject: There’s Still Time To Save!
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So now I just alias that address to the spam catcher, it [...]

Jesus shirt

by @ Wednesday, August 27th, 2003. Filed under Art

In Defense Of Prostitution

by @ Monday, August 25th, 2003. Filed under The Courts

IN AMERICA, I WENT TO JAIL FOR SELLING CONSENSUAL SEX. In Australia, I was asked to be an international ambassador of the first bordello to go on the stock exchange. The Daily Planet, founded in 1975 in Melbourne, went public last May, at 35 cents per share. One of the men who runs the Daily [...]

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