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Saturday, July 19, 2003
Popular Science investigates the claim that Dockers' new slacks use nanotechnology.
.: posted by andy 7/19/2003
Friday, July 18, 2003
I shot a Barrett M82 this afternoon. The kick really is about the same as a 12 gauge. What you won't be prepared for is the shockwave from the muzzle blast, which is vented back toward you to reduce recoil. The manual says to keep your mouth closed when firing, but I guess I had mine open. I nearly chipped a tooth.
Anyway, it's a very neat gun to fire. Somehow, though, I can think of better ways to spend 7000 dollars. In fact, I think I can come up with better uses for my money than assault style rifles. We fired the Barrett and the AR15, and the guy who owned it all also fired one of his AK's. If you're just going to target shoot all day long, why not buy a good target rifle and shoot that? Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
.: posted by andy 7/18/2003
Who wants to go in on this island castle with me? It's only half a million Euros. Euros are about the same as pesos, right? I think Beth and I can put up about half the cost.
Property tax in Ireland is about 50 Euros per year. Here's more information on buying property in Ireland.
.: posted by andy 7/18/2003
President Bush claims we went to war with Iraq because they wouldn't allow inspectors into the country. This is the first news article I've read that did anything but reproduce, verbatim, the ridiculous claims of the Bush Administration. They also point out that Bush and his aides told two completely different stories about the Iraq/Niger claims--Bush said the Administration didn't know the documents were questionable until after the State of the Union Speech, while his aides said they knew four months in advance.
I'm completely onboard with Graham, but I think Bush is really just a patsy in all this. He'll be impeached, and suddenly Cheney will come out of the shadows and be the new president. I think Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft are the real Axis of Evil.
The Senate voted to cancel funding for the TIA. That's good news. They voted unanimously, it looks like.
.: posted by andy 7/18/2003
Thursday, July 17, 2003
Why do some people insist that crop circles could only be formed by some kind of higher intelligence? As if to say that we've got the Bomb, but there's no way in hell humans could ever trample some wheat? Idiots.
And for that matter, it reallygets to me the way that some people insist the Egyptians must have had alien support in building the pyramids. They don't have a problem with the Pantheon or acqueducts or the Great Wall of China, but there's no way in hell humans could ever have been smart enough to stack a bunch of big rocks into a simple geometric shape.
If you want to believe in aliens contacting primitive peoples, here's a good starting place.
.: posted by andy 7/17/2003
According to this article on drkoop.com, I'm 33% less likely to get prostate cancer later in life. I found that link on news.google.com. Hmmm.
So I have not found a job in Austin. Not even a damn interview. Not even a phone interview. So tomorrow I'm packing up my shit and moving back to houston. I hate that I can't stay here, coz I've done more stuff in the past 4 weeks than I had done in the entire 2 years prior. Yesterday I was sitting in Flightpath (coffee shop in hyde park) with my laptop, searching for jobs, reading a book, and listening to my mp3 player. I came accross this article in the onion, and was really happy.
.: posted by Jeremy 7/17/2003
Monday, July 14, 2003
Go to Google, type in "french military victories" and hit the feeling lucky button.
Alternately, go to Google, type in "weapons of mass destruction" and hit the lucky button.
.: posted by andy 7/14/2003
Google
DrinkBoy
Modern Drunkard
DMOZ.org
The Agonist
Metafilter.com
Fark.com
RobotWisdom.com
Memepool.com
Plastic.com
news.google.com