Archive for September, 2004

Top 10 Secrets they don’t want you to know about the debates.

by @ Thursday, September 30th, 2004. Filed under political perspective

(10.) They aren’t debates! (8.) The “independent and non-partisan” Commission on Presidential Debates is neither independent nor non-partisan. (7.) The secretly negotiated debate contract bars Kerry and Bush from any and all other debates for the entire campaign. (5.) All members of the studio audience must be certified as “soft” supporters of Bush and Kerry, [...]

Word of the Day – Frag

by @ Thursday, September 30th, 2004. Filed under Misc

frag (frag) noun Fragmentation grenade: a grenade designed to scatter shrapnel over a large area. verb tr. To kill (especially an unpopular superior) by throwing a grenade or other explosive. [From shortening of fragmentation.] The term had its origin in the Vietnam War. How common was fragging? The OED includes this 1971 citation from the [...]

LinkedIn

by @ Monday, September 27th, 2004. Filed under Misc

Today I found out about LinkedIn. This will be about the third one of these user address/friend-of-a-friend things that I’ve signed up for, and this one actually seems to be the best. With three contacts, I’ve got 21k+ networked users that I can search by company, name, skill, profession, etc. You can also endorse people. [...]

Ok, I’m just a wuss.. no question now.

by @ Thursday, September 23rd, 2004. Filed under Misc

I used to work with Caleb, and thought it was pretty hardcore, when he left his job as a sales person and went to study Jiu-Jitsu with the Gracies in Brazil, and Muay-Thai from the International kickboxing champion. Sorry Caleb, the MCI datacenter engineer who moved to Thailand and now’s a professional fighter has got [...]

new bumpersticker

by @ Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004. Filed under Art

Happy Birthday to Roland James L.

by @ Tuesday, September 21st, 2004. Filed under Adrienne's Head

Born at 9:34 this evening, 7pounds 4oz, 21+ inches, mother and child are doing just fine. One of these days, we’re going to put up that webcam.

West VA Spookhouse

by @ Tuesday, September 21st, 2004. Filed under Misc

Like that line from the original Jeepers Creepers, you know that scene in horror movies where somebody’s getting ready to do something really dumb, like go into that big scary house? One of my coworkers was driving through WestVA and saw this place – he actually climbed over a fence and took a bunch of [...]

New T-Shirt

by @ Monday, September 20th, 2004. Filed under Art

From BoingBoing:

ah, the memories

by @ Thursday, September 16th, 2004. Filed under Security

If romper room were run by bipolar dominatrices

by @ Wednesday, September 15th, 2004. Filed under Uncategorized

Then it would look a lot like Northern California. No smoking, no sthmoking, ooh, it’s so bad, you shouldn’t smoke, it’s killing us, too, and WE FUCKING HATE YOU AND WANT YOU TO DIE, sthmokers.

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