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Friday, May 10, 2002
"It's probably not possible to make aerogel any lighter than this because it wouldn't gel."
Hmm... profound.
.: posted by Jeremy 5/10/2002
Thursday, May 09, 2002
This morning I learned that when a resident calls to report a broken mirror in her room, it's not very funny for me to say, "You must be really ugly."
.: posted by andy 5/9/2002
Zionist death-bot attacks innocent palestinian civilian.
.: posted by Jeremy 5/9/2002
Wednesday, May 08, 2002
Why race is an issue in medicine. If you don't have a New York Times login, use the wwff generic login (to your right).
.: posted by andy 5/8/2002
Devin, didn't you buy some X10 cameras? Were they any good? I just found this damn funny parody of the X10 Website.
.: posted by andy 5/8/2002
Canada, the cheap knockoff of America, is crying because we don't think they're our closest international ally. The whole thing makes me think of those cartoons where there's a big dog and a little dog, and the little dog is always hopping around the big dog saying things like, "ain't I your closest ally, Sykesy?" Look at the war in Afghanistan if you want to see how things really are. The US and the UK mix it up with the Taliban and Al Qaeda, while Canada gets grave-digging duty.
According to the very end of this article, 2% of Americans mistakenly regard France as our closest international ally. The French are too snooty to be a reliable ally, until they're invaded by the Andorrans or whoever feels like it this week. Then suddenly they'll be our best buddies in the whole world, until they're back on their feet again. Who am I kidding? As soon as Andorra invades France, the French will cook up a collaborationist government, and be Andorra's biggest ally until we bail them out.
.: posted by andy 5/8/2002
Apparently France has the week off this week. Why don't they ever tell me about this stuff? Why do I have to work with all the french semiconductor companies? Oh wait, I remember why, it's because everybody here hates me.
On this day in some year in the Second Millenium AD france surrendered to somebody, odds are.
.: posted by Jeremy 5/8/2002
On this day in 1945 Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies.
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 5/8/2002
Tuesday, May 07, 2002
Penthouse bit off more than it can chew with the faked Kournikova pictures. A federal judge ordered them not to post the pictures on their site, and not to distribute any further copies to newsstands. They may even be forced to call back issues already distributed. Benetton, the woman actually shown in the pictures, has filed suit for more than I can earn in a lifetime at my current job, and Kournikova is filing a separate suit. The best part, though, is this quote: Penthouse lawyer Victor Kovner said the magazine "may well have made a mistake" by claiming the shots were Kournikova, but insisted, "It was not a reckless act � at worst it was an innocent error."
The other day I ran over a blind man's seeing eye dog in a crosswalk. THAT was an innocent mistake. Buying criminally invasive photos from some shady freelance photographer, claiming they're of one person when they're actually of another, and then publishing them in your nationally distributed magazine against the wishes of all involved? Not so innocent.
.: posted by andy 5/7/2002
Jeremy, you can go buy stuff from Kenneth Lay's houses at his wife's new thrift shop, "Jus' Stuff."
.: posted by andy 5/7/2002
Holy Crap, they already arrested Helder. Amazing. And I saw it on BBC first.
.: posted by andy 5/7/2002
Good story about the quality of bookstore help in the UK. They kind of make fun of the clerks, but honestly, how knowledgable can you expect them to be for the pay? It's still a funny article. "I bought this book the other day," I say [referring to James Joyce's Ulysses], "and I want my money back. It's full of typing errors and there's no punctuation."
Enron may have been partially responsible for last summer's rolling blackouts in California. Crookeder and crookeder...
The FBI wants to speak with Luke John Helder regarding the recent pipe bomb incidents. Helder is in a band called Apathy, the official site of which is here. Luke's personal site is here.
.: posted by andy 5/7/2002
Dusty is also a fraction Portuguese. He speaks Spanish pretty fluently, but I hear Portuguese is closer to Italian, or at least sounds like Italian.
.: posted by andy 5/7/2002
Apparently, big robberies also happen in the US, they're just harder to find out about.
.: posted by andy 5/7/2002
My sister's boyfriend is half portuguese. I don't know if he speaks the language, though. If he does we're in business, though, coz I have amazing powers of influence over my sister's boyfriends.
.: posted by Jeremy 5/7/2002
One more, because it's so funny. This Venezuelan armored transport driver received a $1400 bonus for foiling a robbery. A month later, he and accomplices stole $5.6 million. The old yep-no, eh?
.: posted by andy 5/7/2002
A little more crime blogging:
$1.5 million stolen from a plane in Brazil. Kind of like the movie The Heist.
$2.3 million in gold stolen from a different plane in Brazil. Even more like The Heist. Does anyone speak Portuguese? Ellen's going to Portugal soon. Maybe she'll scout things out for us.
Thieves in a German heist took a Cuban boatload of Deutschmarks, but left bundles of Euros untouched. Possibly because the Deutschmarks were nonsequential used cash, while the Euros were sequential uncirculated cash still in the mint wrapping.
.: posted by andy 5/7/2002
The Arcata, California police logs. Pretty funny reading.
.: posted by andy 5/7/2002
404 Haikus at Yahoo! Internet Life.
.: posted by andy 5/7/2002
To follow up on Uncle George's Pike article, here's some information on the frogs that are beginning to infest Hawaii, which evidently is not supposed to have any amphibians. Also, there are some interesting occurrences of FLESH-EATING BACTERIA in Hawaii.
.: posted by andy 5/7/2002
Monday, May 06, 2002
Beth and I saw Spider Man over the weekend, and it was very good. Probably the best comic book adaptation I've seen so far. Gosh I liked that movie. Kirsten Dunst was in it. I really admire her. She's a very talented young actress.
.: posted by andy 5/6/2002
I just saw The Sum of All Fears preview on teevee for the first time tonight. It looks pretty good, overall. I'm not the type that gets upset when a movie is changed a little from the book. I don't even care when the story changes a lot. As long as it's a good story and/or fun to watch, it doesn't matter to me because I can separate the two in my mind. But, I think it's really lame that they changed the terrorists to "Neo-Fascists". That is just about the biggest politically correct bullshit cop-out I've ever heard of. Movie studios are such weak minded group-thinkers. But whatever, I'll still go see it, and I'll get a kick out of seeing Denver, or whatever city, flattened.
.: posted by Jeremy 5/6/2002
A good article about Saddam Hussein. Extremely long, but a good read.
.: posted by andy 5/6/2002
.: posted by George 5/6/2002
Sunday, May 05, 2002
The United States won't ratify the treat establishing the International Criminal Court. I think this is a good thing. While I don't feel the US is currently accountable for its international behavior, I think the current setup for the ICC is ridiculously Euro-centric. Why should we (or anyone else) be held up to Europe's prissy standards of acceptable behavior? They'd probably try to put American governors on trial for every State execution that takes place.
I also think President Bush should dissolve the UN. What a bunch of worthless hand-wringers.
.: posted by andy 5/5/2002
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