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Your week in Quickies (two weeks, we got behind)
Dec 01 2004, 11:01 EST [updated Dec 01 2004, 11:04 EST]
In forward chronological order, I'll change that for next week -jackdied.
Bittorrent as Tivo
[bobsalive]
Nov 14 2004, 09:15 EST
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4H denies a pardon.
Nov 25 2004, 13:49 EST
The local news had a local flavor story about 4H city kids who spend their weekends outside the city raising their own Turkeys. They pick their own chick, name him, and when the big day comes take him home in a box. The reporter did the normal city-kid-
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Thanksgiving day 2
Nov 25 2004, 02:34 EST [updated Nov 25 2004, 02:46 EST]
Went to a kegger and a bar and another kegger. Saw some people I knew a decade ago and made smalltalk. So not too much happened. One guy did call my number, when I'm home I enunciate like it is my job. Tight jawed and booming, everything a bit larger
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Thanksgiving for Thanksgiving
Nov 24 2004, 03:19 EST [updated Nov 24 2004, 03:20 EST]
Family fscking rules. A six hour train ride from Boston to Philly (involving a six pack and a nap) and I'm home. It is always easier to talk to my friends (who are almost exclusively my fraternity brothers and their adjacents) than to random people o
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Where's the Outrage?
Nov 23 2004, 15:17 EST [updated Nov 30 2004, 08:00 EST]
The world was quick to condemn the Abu-Grahib prison abuses and rightly so; the conduct of the guards was way out of line(though how 'atrocious' their actions is up for some debate).
What about this? Reports have been trickling out of the Congo of se
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Lehigh 10, Lafayette 24 (1 image)
Nov 22 2004, 16:17 EST [updated Nov 22 2004, 18:27 EST]
The KA Boston Lehigh population didn't make it down to Bethlehem for the game this year. We did go to The Harp with a hundred other Lehigh alumns (and about ten Lafayette alumns) for the game. The fact that "we" lost didn't bother anyone much - who eve
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Mises on Blue to Red wealth transfers
Nov 19 2004, 21:11 EST
Over at mises.org they have an article that tries to give some reasons why the Blue tax-me-harder states pay more in taxes that end up in the Red starve-the-beast states. The article is OK and makes a couple guesses at how this happens. I bring it up ju
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Photoshopping the Somerville News (3 images)
Nov 19 2004, 14:30 EST
Earlier I sent bobsalive a link to this badly photoshopped portrait in an article at The Somerville News (local MA news). He sent me a photoshop of same, so I decided to do one too. Instead of altering the portrait I picked another article from yesterda
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Fox Hunting Banned in the UK (1 image)
Nov 18 2004, 20:08 EST [updated Nov 18 2004, 20:44 EST]
Re-friggin-diculous, now with BBC coverage. The RSPCA (the British do not want for a 'Royal' in every acronym) is triumphant
RSPCA director of animal welfare, John Rolls, said the bill was a "watershed in the development of a more civilised society for
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Kim Jong Il finished?
Nov 18 2004, 14:19 EST
A string of strange happenings in North Korea. There were rumblings late last week that portraits were coming down supposedly for "cleaning." Kim's cult of personality is typical for a dictator, portraits everywhere and tales that he was divinely concei
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Power Outage
Nov 18 2004, 10:10 EST [updated Nov 18 2004, 20:54 EST]
My power went out just after midnight, eerily the lights and TV dropped out behind me and I was staring at a glowing monitor ($40 Uninterruptable Power Supply). So I shutdown all the computers before the juice could run out and then started looking for a
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Guest Denver Post columnist
Nov 16 2004, 16:04 EST
Strangely enough, the new head of St. John's Cathedral's Abrahamic Initiative had a guest column in the Denver Post today. Something I didn't mention yesterday (but was in the article I linked) was that Kazerooni had been imprisoned by Saddam in 1974 or s
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ECUSA hires Imam
Nov 15 2004, 22:41 EST [updated Nov 17 2004, 09:59 EST]
In the Denver Post last week, they reported St. John's Cathedral hired an Imam to head up their "Abrahamic Initiative, a bridge-building effort among Christians, Jews and Muslims." The Imam, Kazerooni, says "I really don't feel out of place here."
He's
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The CIA Joins the Hot War
Nov 15 2004, 21:56 EST [updated Nov 15 2004, 22:05 EST]
The CIA and the State Department have been waging a cold war against the President for decades. I have high hopes that this time real reform will happen, but this isn't the first time we've seen rattling sabers. Last April Newt took State to the woodshe
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Rue Arafat?
Nov 15 2004, 17:31 EST [updated Nov 15 2004, 18:03 EST]
The Jerusalem Post has a report that several French towns are considering naming a street after Yasser Arafat. Disgusting and completely unsurprising.
The paper probably doesn't have the most sympathetic views of Arafat and the French; I don't know h
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New Feature: Quickies
Nov 14 2004, 11:39 EST [updated Nov 14 2004, 12:50 EST]
To your right is a link to Current Quickies. We are using it to accumulate the small or humorous links that get IM'd around during the week but don't warrant a full post. Once a week there will be one big post on the main page and the Current Quickies l
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How the Mighty Have Fallen
Nov 11 2004, 16:38 EST [updated Nov 11 2004, 16:51 EST]
First Jake starves his snake, and now this.
Short version: The artist formerly known as Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake was working as a fare collector for the MBTA selling tolkens at a T stop(!). He forgot a bag of cocaine at his post and a rider misto
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Firefox 1.0 (1 image)
Nov 11 2004, 13:18 EST [updated Nov 12 2004, 14:11 EST]
Firefox, the open-source browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation, has finally hit version 1.0. This is relatively significant because it's the first time that a browser has been able to compete with Internet Explorer on every level since the demise o
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New Local Low
Nov 10 2004, 22:48 EST [updated Nov 10 2004, 22:52 EST]
Local news is awful everywhere, but I just can't help myself.
Here was a story on the 10 O'Clock news in Boston:
Do you leave it on in defiance or take it off in disgust?
Whether you supported Kerry, Dean, or even Nader how do you get that bumper
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Charged in 15 Minutes?
Nov 10 2004, 12:29 EST
Engadget has a post on a new battery charger from Energizer for NiMh batteries. What makes this one special is its claim to charge any plain-jane rechargeable battery in just 15 minutes. Rayovac has a charger that does the same, but it requires special
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Election Flashback
Nov 10 2004, 00:04 EST [updated Nov 10 2004, 00:06 EST]
Just got off the phone with my Mom and she asked me if I stayed up watching election night coverage. Our readership is smaller than I thought. That aside, here are some highlights of the election night IMs that didn't make it into posts. Chatting didn'
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My Histogram of 2004 (2 images)
Nov 07 2004, 17:46 EST [updated Jan 03 2005, 22:40 EST]
I liked the idea of the histogram below but obviously it had some serious data errors. I downloaded all the state-by-county information from USAToday (which you can examine yourself (40k gziped)). I only saw seven counties with no data, so I don't know
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2004 voting Histogram (2 images)
Nov 07 2004, 14:13 EST [updated Nov 07 2004, 15:15 EST]
Everyone is peddling their Red State V Blue State maps, but this page (doh, it was taken down). has them sliced & diced every which way. The cartograms by population (stretch blue counties, shrink red counties) are especially nice. The "aha" graph is th
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Comic Book Movies Galore!
Nov 06 2004, 13:17 EST [updated Nov 23 2004, 19:16 EST]
This is a handy summary of a bunch of comic book based movies that are or have been in development. By 'a bunch,' I mean lots. Check it out.
A few of my favorites:
Batman Begins and it's sequel: Christian Bale starring, Chris Nolan(Memento) direc
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World Council of Churches offers an olive branch
Nov 06 2004, 12:52 EST [updated Nov 06 2004, 12:57 EST]
Kinda, they issued a cryptic press release after the US election urging the US to bend more to international agencies. The WCC is a political organization (religiously they believe just about nothing), real churches don't issue press releases about the p
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Gasping for Reality
Nov 06 2004, 07:09 EST [updated Nov 06 2004, 11:08 EST]
NBC is turning auditions for Saturday Night Live into a reality
TV show. I may have to watch.
A few months ago, I listened to the audio book version of Gasping
for Airtime and enjoyed it. Though not high literature, the book contains many behind-th
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SLC Punk
Nov 06 2004, 03:15 EST [updated Nov 07 2004, 00:21 EST]
SLC Punk just finished on cable (IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes) and I have to say I like it without quite knowing why. A 60s coming of age story for the 80s, "I hate my parents but not really." The dialogue is always just awkward enough to be believable. T
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Kerry Wins!
Nov 06 2004, 01:46 EST [updated Nov 06 2004, 02:12 EST]
Greg Palast, contributing editor to Harper's magazine did a documentary for the BBC. Are bells ringing yet?
As a journalist examining that messy sausage called American democracy, it's my job to tell you who got the most votes in the deciding states.
W
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Iron Man revisionists
Nov 05 2004, 16:53 EST [updated Nov 06 2004, 12:44 EST]
Here is a plot preview of the upcoming Iron Man movie. With forty years of story ideas that appealed to millions of people they decided to scrap it and start over (well, he's still in a metal suit). I collected Iron Man back in his Silver Centurion days
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Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out
Nov 04 2004, 20:00 EST [updated Nov 05 2004, 18:44 EST]
For those that don't think they'll be able to stand four more years of President Bush and an expanded Republican majority in congress, here's a guide to renouncing your citizenship. It's not so easy.
The most serious barrier to renouncing your citizen
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Jake The Snake
Nov 04 2004, 19:25 EST [updated Nov 04 2004, 19:27 EST]
Remember pro-wrestler Jake 'The Snake' Roberts?
As part of the US wrestling show he would take a snake to the ringside in a sack. He would then drape the 15ft python over the bodies of his prone opponents after knocking them out.
He's on trial in Sc
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Now that the race is over
Nov 03 2004, 20:36 EST [updated Nov 03 2004, 23:30 EST]
The race is over and the Republicans won, now lets start sending people to jail. No, not the Democrats or the protesters. I mean the tens of thousands of people who committed election fraud. It can't be that hard to find them, right? I think states sh
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Voting in Chicago
Nov 03 2004, 15:04 EST
Blackfive is on my military blog list. Here's his fun time voting in Cook County.
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Accomplishments
Nov 03 2004, 11:47 EST [updated Nov 05 2004, 01:22 EST]
The Corner lists some impressive talking points this morning:
President Bush:
Became the first President to be re-elected while gaining seats in the House and Senate since 1936 and the first Republican President since 1924 to be re-elected while re-
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Died calls it
Nov 03 2004, 02:18 EST [updated Nov 03 2004, 11:33 EST]
I, completely unrepresentitive of the others here, and writing this post with a hand covering my right eye because otherwise I couldn't see - call it for Bush. Let the burning begin. Democrats can either double down or reject the crazies and steal from
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CBS candidate ordering
Nov 03 2004, 00:46 EST
So why is CBS so insistent on putting Kerry first (Kerry #, Bush #) in the electoral vote totals? Everyone else does Bush, then Kerry. Alphabet + Incumbent, I figure.
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Really local issues
Nov 03 2004, 00:03 EST [updated Nov 03 2004, 00:41 EST]
Looks like my town is going to sell bonds for a new police station. They have an old Albertson's supermarket that they own, but they hope to rent it out (again) for the tax revenue. It's sat empty for a year. Denver is going to shell out big bucks on more
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PA falls
Nov 02 2004, 22:57 EST [updated Nov 03 2004, 11:42 EST]
FNC just called PA for Kerry, Bush is down 400k with 65% reporting. Like I mentioned below, he can pick up 100k in rural counties that haven't reported yet. Picking up 300k in the suburbs is very very unlikely (hence the call).
Dammit, Specter win call
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Only in Japan...
Nov 02 2004, 22:20 EST
WARNING: This post not election related
This is a description of a strange, strange arcade game.
The object of the game appears simple, you have to jam a big plastic finger up someone's rear end. Why? I have no idea.
Built into the cabinet is a be
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Voting in CO
Nov 02 2004, 21:55 EST [updated Nov 02 2004, 22:00 EST]
Looks like it's mandatory to write about voting lines. I got to the polls about 6:50, caught the 7:30 bus to work. I figure there were about 20 or so people ahead of me, and I recognized many of the poll workers. They didn't have "I voted" stickers, whic
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Voted! (1 image)
Nov 02 2004, 21:19 EST
Made the trip to the polls today, with nothing too exciting to report. The polls were located in a gymnasium, the poll workers were all elderly women and everything went smoothly. There was a police officer, but he was observing from pretty far away(acr
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PA Numbers Post
Nov 02 2004, 20:54 EST [updated Nov 02 2004, 23:01 EST]
This is where I'll stick the newest PA numbers, newest at the top.
(for the counties with websites I compare the new subtotals with 2000 results to guess if there is a changing trend. No changing trend means Kerry wins). 4.5 million votes in the 2000 el
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PA Liveblogging
Nov 02 2004, 19:31 EST [updated Nov 02 2004, 23:28 EST]
My PA Republican campaign source was a runner between polling places today. RAMPANT and unabashed fraud with plenty of minor law infractions for chasers. She says MoveOn folks were handing out literature inside polling places. Get them ejected by the co
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Pulling the lever 2004 (2 images)
Nov 02 2004, 16:14 EST [updated Nov 02 2004, 16:34 EST]
In order to vote I had to run a gauntlet of kids on the playground. I don't know if I could take them all but I was damned if they would stop me from voting.
There were zero signs advocating candidates or parties anywhere nearby. About five poll
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Sudan up to no good
Nov 02 2004, 14:49 EST [updated Nov 02 2004, 14:50 EST]
Sudanese Army Surrounds Refugee Camps. With all the attention on US elections expect other despots and tyrants around the world trying to sneak in some abuses at home. Ahh, wasn't in nice to take your mind off the elections for a second?
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