Archive for July, 2006

An evening with Kevin Smith

by @ Monday, July 31st, 2006. Filed under Art, Misc

A couple years after Evil_Bastard’s suggestion, I finally watched this recording of Kevin’s lectures of misc colleges. It was interesting, I had to check the numbers on some things. Chasing Amy and Jersey Girl both booked $25M in box office returns. The difference is that Chasing Amy cost $250k to make and Jersey Girl cost [...]

Hugh Glass

by @ Friday, July 28th, 2006. Filed under Links, Misc

Hugh Glass (c. 1780 – 1833) was an American fur trapper and frontiersman noted for his exploits in the American West during the first third of 19th century. A sailor, a reluctant pirate, an honorary Pawnee, and an explorer of the watershed of the Upper Missouri River in present day South Dakota and Montana, Glass [...]

Cell Phone Picture Called Obstruction Of Justice

by @ Friday, July 28th, 2006. Filed under Misc

Who do you call when the police are the armed thugs in your neighborhood? ———— PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia family said they are outraged over the arrest of one of their family members. The family of Neftaly Cruz said police had no right to come onto their property and arrest their 21-year-old son simply because [...]

I Won’t Return to Reston Multiplex for Superman

by @ Thursday, July 27th, 2006. Filed under Adrienne's Head, Misc

This is the letter I’m mailing today to the Reston Multiplex Theater Manager because of the ultra crappy experience I had last Friday Night at Superman Returns.  I did leave out how it was being shown in an ultra crappy small theater because he can’t control the theater infrastructure.  He can control his staff though.  I’ll let you [...]

Pizza in the future

by @ Monday, July 24th, 2006. Filed under Security, Technology, The Courts, political perspective

Back in the saddle…

by @ Monday, July 24th, 2006. Filed under Adrienne's Head, Misc

This morning I rode to work for the first time since my infamous crash on May 31st at the Guard Shack where I flipped over my handlebars.  I was taken by ambulance to the hospital and got six stitches in the chin, had a banged up knee, cuts around the eye, fat and bloody lip, [...]

You can feel it – it’s electric! Boogie-woogie-woogie.

by @ Sunday, July 23rd, 2006. Filed under Fishtank/Reef, Technology

Tonight I was working on my fishtank. I’d recently rearranged some corals to let them get a little more light and also free up some new space for some new ones. The side effect was that I’d noticed that one coral was stinging another one (too close together) and had decided to move them apart. [...]

What happened to “no one is above the law”?

by @ Friday, July 21st, 2006. Filed under Asshats in the News!, Misc, political perspective

“WASHINGTON – President Bush effectively blocked a Justice Department investigation of the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program, refusing to give security clearances to attorneys who were attempting to conduct the probe, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday.” http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4056228.html

Conversations

by @ Friday, July 21st, 2006. Filed under Humor

me – “This nicotine patch says to apply to a dry, hairless locations.” steph – “Do you have locations like that?”

Buy a laptop for $300, give two to children

by @ Friday, July 21st, 2006. Filed under Misc, Technology

“I will purchase the $100 laptop at $300 but only if 100,000 others will too.” Nicholas Negroponte has previewed of the $100 laptop that he has designed for students in the developing world. ” One Laptop Per Child – a Preview of the Hundred Dollar Laptop http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/00… ” The suggestion has been made that he [...]

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