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Saturday, December 22, 2001
Some guy apparently had explosives hidden in his shoes and tried to set them off on a plane today. Two doctors who were passengers sedated him. I like the idea of doctors carrying Demerol with them, just in case.
From the headline, it sounded like he was trying to do a Sammy Davis Jr impression.
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 12/22/2001
Friday, December 21, 2001
And I thought Andy had it good back when he got free meals and massages at koop. Australians take the whole 'perks' thing much further.
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 12/21/2001
Word of the day: collectivist
I didn't know what collectivist meant until I read about someone who wrote a threatening letter calling some G-man a collectivist. Turns out its a fancy way of saying pinko. Color-based political terms are fascinating. Greens is pretty straightforward, I guess. Reds. Maybe something to do with blood of the revolution, or as in the red-blooded working class. Pinks; kinda red? Brown Shirts = Nazis, or, according to dictionary.com, racists. Black Shirts are also fascists, but not hatemongers, I guess. That's all I can think of right now. The only terms I can think of used against democratic capitalist regimes are things like imperialist, colonialist, and capitalist. They just don't have the same ring as pinko commie baby-eater.
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 12/21/2001
More good news for the DFW area's local EMIC. I was going to get to work on the simulator for the Osprey until those two wanker-officers got caught lying about flight tests and Bell-Textron stopped hiring for the program.
.: posted by Jeremy 12/21/2001
DrKoop.com finally dies.
.: posted by Jeremy 12/21/2001
Thursday, December 20, 2001
Rapists Love Trigger Locks from Geeks with Guns.
.: posted by andy 12/20/2001
They just told, on the History Channel, how the CIA implanted a listening device in a cat, including batteries, with a transmitter whose antenna ran out the cat's tail. They took the cat to a park to try it out, but the cat was run over by a taxi before they started the tests. I think the 1950s were probably the best time to be a CIA agent. A bunch of guys with a virtually unlimited budget to try anything they could think of. If they decided the United States needed a special dog that shoots bees out of its mouth to fight Communism, they'd have veterinarians building the first prototypes by the end of the week. Good times.
.: posted by andy 12/20/2001
.: posted by andy 12/20/2001
Wednesday, December 19, 2001
I don't want to belittle your bad tuesday or anything, but sometimes it helps to look at your situation through a different perspective.
.: posted by Jeremy 12/19/2001
Tuesday, December 18, 2001
shitty shitty tuesday. i can't believe i just backed into a pole. that's the second time i've done that. the first time i knocked over a lamppost in someone's yard. but that was in my station wagon, so i just scraped some paint off the shiny STEEL BUMPER and it was as good as new. and the lamppost was flattened. so now i have this fancy japanese car that totally got taken out by a sign post. my car is probably totalled, you know that? it looks like the bumper just has a big dent on the back left corner, and the taillight is smashed, but i'm sure i have frame damage or i initiated the self-destruct sequence or something. christ, i drive like an 80-year old.
.: posted by andy 12/18/2001
Good lord! I was just humming along, doing my thing, downloading US Army manuals from Limewire, and lo and behold at the back of the hand to hand combat manual I found another little zip file called "White Resistance Manual v 2.4". Some of the files in the "Manual": Booby Traps & Mines, Arson, Sabotage, and Selective Assassination. In other words, it's the Dummie's Guide to Terrorism for Rednecks. I'm so pissed off, and so glad I pulled this file out of my share folder before someone downloaded it. The world is evidently full of jerks.
.: posted by andy 12/18/2001
The Megway Transporting Human. I suppose it was only a matter of time.
.: posted by andy 12/18/2001
Monday, December 17, 2001
I know where I'm having dinner tonight.
I found an Xbox at Target today. I was just shopping for some chairs for my balcony. I feel so lucky. I'm not going to feel so lucky when this credit card bill comes in the mail, though.
.: posted by Jeremy 12/17/2001
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