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April 30, 2003
Illuminated manuscripts, from the collections
Illuminated manuscripts, from the collections at The Bibliothèque Nationale de France. What a beautiful collection of documents! From David Battling the Lion to The Martyrdom of Stephen to a study in Minerology, to the Harrowing of Hell, there are several hundred very nice JPG pictures here to browse, and admire, and wonder upon. [via MeFi] Further study on The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, the documents at DScriptorium, the Web Gallery of Art, and the Philadelphia Collections at Leaves of Gold is encouraged. Keelhauling hereby disclaims any responsibility for the annihilation of your work productivity.
Posted by John at 09:16 PM | Comments (0)
I was joking with Colin,
I was joking with Colin, age 9, last week and I told him he was dire need of trepanning. He of course asked for an explanation, and when I told him, he was aghast. He - and his brothers - were certain I was making it up. However, I was able to direct him to www.trepan.com, which is pretty much an all-encompassing site for the topic. Everything from a sample medical release form for a parietal trepanation procedure to a trepanning procedure coloring book. The t-shirts look pretty good. Have to get Colin one for his birthday, hehe.
The URL www.trepanning.com is taken, but not developed yet. The placeholder design is interesting though.
Why all this morbid interest in such a weird practice? Well, since you ask, it was today's news item confirming that do-it-yourself trepanning is a doubly bad idea. In fact, I think government regulation is called for. We ought to all be forced to get tattoos on our foreheads that say "Caution! No user servicible parts inside."
Made it up? Nah, no need. Truth is way stranger than fiction.
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April 29, 2003
You know what it's like
You know what it's like not to be wanted? Poor Baghdad Bob. The guy doesn't make it into the deck of playing cards, and now he can't even surrender. If he wants to stay in the spotlight, though, the job offers are lining up.
Posted by John at 06:23 PM | Comments (0)
If pictures like this
If pictures like this little girl gathering eggs in her fancy Easter dress don't make you smile, you need therapy.
I've posted a few pictures from the Tiburon Baptist Church Easter luncheon and the Easter Egg Hunt. A word of explanation before you go look... We normally have lunch out on the patio, but there was what looked like a hive of bees in a tree right outside the door. Bigger than an NFL football, totally covered with bees. No lunch on the patio. About an hour later though, they disappeared. Turns out they were swarming, on the prowl for a new nesting site. I guess all the Easter fuss and commotion made them decide the church patio was not ideal, as they took off in a cloud that swooped down off the patio (toward the children on the lawn gathering eggs!!) and off down the street to the south.
So my bright idea was to create a swarming bee cursor for the picture page. It worked, and it freaked me out. Now I can't go back.
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April 28, 2003
Things to Scale (via MeFi)
Things to Scale (via MeFi) lets you drag around various large -- very large -- objects and compare them side by side. The Star Wars space slug almost made me spill my coffee. Looks like some of the images were lifted from Starship Dimensions, and some from Skyscraperpage.com without proper attribution which is very uncool. But the concept is still neat.
Posted by John at 11:48 PM | Comments (0)
At every high school and
At every high school and college graduation, you hear the list of things this generation takes for granted, quantifying the differences between you and the current graduating class in terms of age and experience, gaps that grow wider with each passing year. It's such a consistent phenomenon, and you frequently see the list show up in newspaper and magazine articles (along with that damnable sunscreen speech), but did you ever wonder from whence it arose? Me neither. But it turns out it's from Beloit College. They put the list together every year, and now it's online. Herewith, the basis for many of the upcoming commencement addresses for the Class of 2003, the Mindset List.
Posted by John at 11:39 PM | Comments (0)
Today's issue of The Filter
Today's issue of The Filter has an excellent overview of Friday's decision by a federal judge in Los Angeles, finding Grokster and StreamCast Networks not liable for copyright infringement by users of the companies' peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software. All the arguments can be pretty neatly summed by this quote from one of the hearing onlookers:
"When you've got Verizon, the American Electronics Association, Harvard Law School and the ponytail gang all against you, then you've got a problem."
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April 27, 2003
Police sketch artist. I really
Police sketch artist. I really want to see if I can use this to build a picture of Julie and the boyz, but this looks like a terrific time sink. Fun later, work now.
Posted by John at 09:35 AM | Comments (0)
April 26, 2003
WebCollage is a dynamic, evolving
WebCollage is a dynamic, evolving work of art. Brilliant and fascinating - makes a good screen saver, too. Random words are input into Google's image search, and the resulting pictures are assembled automatically into a collage. The display changes every minute or so. (If you want to leave it up as a screen saver, you can grab the collage URL directly and get rid of the header bar.)
Posted by John at 08:42 AM | Comments (0)
April 25, 2003
I tried to come up
I tried to come up with a clever little opening line for this entry, but I couldn't beat "The 60-year-old canned mushroom mogul recently opened an odd-ball park that mimics a Soviet prison camp". Stalin World, the new Lithuanian theme park, should be within everyone's reach with an admission price of about $2 USD. It also boasts a café, playground and small zoo. Fun for the whole family!
Posted by John at 09:30 AM | Comments (0)
April 23, 2003
I think everyone's tired of
I think everyone's tired of the "Which XXX are you? quizzes online, but every once in awhile one comes along that still tickles my funnybone. My results were amazingly accurate.
Well, u-- um, can we come up and have a look?
What Monty Python Character are you?
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April 21, 2003
300 Reason Why We Love
300 Reason Why We Love the Simpsons is a fond, nostalgic look back over 14 years of Simpsons history, celebrating the 300th episode of the show. Lots of great quotes from the show, guaranteed to get you laughing.
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April 19, 2003
A friend of mine, George,
A friend of mine, George, is a US Navy chaplain, who passed this tidbit along: "John: Interesting choice of words for your email address. A bit of Naval history: it was chaplains who were influential in banishing keelhauling as a disciplinary measure in the sea services." Just another in the long litany of misdeeds done in the name of organized religion. It seems like something George is taking pride in, but perhaps I'm reading it wrong and instead, it's his confession. Maybe he's owning up and taking responsibility for the travesties of justice effected by his predecessors. There could be hope for him, yet.
Posted by John at 09:51 PM | Comments (0)
The Honda advertisement entitled "Cog"
The Honda advertisement entitled "Cog" (alternate site here) is a truly beautiful and memorable piece of art. A Rube Goldberg design of precisely orchestrated mechanical events performed using parts from the 2003 Honda Accord, it unfolds in a 2-minute film, ending with Garrison Keillor, the American author, announcing: "Isn't it nice when things just work?"
And now, as Paul Harvey says, for the rest of the story. It took 606 takes to get the entire sequence to unfold correctly, and the making of the commercial nearly drove the film crew mad. Proving the corollary, I guess, that it isn't nice when things don't work. The Telegraph has a very funny writeup of the making of the commercial.
Posted by John at 06:55 PM | Comments (0)
How male or female
How male or female is your brain? Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, has a theory, and the tests seem to bear it out. While not all males have "male brains" and not all females have "female brains", in general males tend to be systemizers - sorting, categorizing, quanitifying. Females tend to be empathizers - identifying, sympathizing, and sensitive to emotions. You can take two tests - the EQ test and the SQ test, each designed to score your personal brain quotient on a scale of 1-80.
Posted by John at 12:01 PM | Comments (0)
Burt Rutan, who in
Burt Rutan, who in 1986 together with his brother Dick and Jenna Yeager conducted the first circumnavigation of the earth in an airplane without refueling, is back. This time he's planning the world's first private, manned space flight. The launch plan is similar to the old X-15, which was carried aloft by a B-52 and rocketed into a suborbital trajectory. Dubbed SpaceShipOne, it was unveiled today in Mojave, California.
A space shot would begin with the spacecraft mated to the underbelly of the gangly twin turbojet, which would take off from Mojave and climb to an altitude of 50,000 feet. The spaceship would be dropped, ignite its rocket and soar on a parabolic trajectory to 62.5 miles before plummeting down.
The twin tails would then pitch up -- rotating on booms attached to the wingtips -- to increase drag as the craft plunges like a shuttlecock, reaching a maximum speed of Mach 3.5. At 80,000 feet the tails would return to their normal position and the spacecraft would glide back to Earth, setting down on two main wheels and a nose skid. The time from launch to landing would be about 30 minutes.
Click on the picture above for a link to the design firm and more pictures.
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April 17, 2003
True genius does not long
True genius does not long go unrecognized, and so it is that Jan points us to yet another site, CroqueFAN, dedicated to the wisdom and sayings of the Figurehead of Fabrication, the Baghdad Braggart, the Minister of Denial, the Imam of Imagination, the Iraqi Minister of Information, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, a.k.a. "Comical Ali". This one isn't quite as comprehensive in the news coverage as WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com, or as original as Baghdad Bob's weblog, but it's got soundclips! And merchandise! And the nifty Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf soundboard, where you can create your own lies quotes. It's worth prowling around that CroqueWeb site, there are some hidden jewels in there. The SmartCar page cracked me up. Definitely a winner! Thanks, Jan.
Posted by John at 09:58 PM | Comments (0)
ESPN offers a glimpse of
ESPN offers a glimpse of what it might be like to have the Iraqi Information Minister announcing a Yankees - Red Sox game. Of course, he's backing the Yanks. Praise Steinbrenner! Very funny column.
Posted by John at 01:15 PM | Comments (0)
April 16, 2003
Nice little Flash Middle East
Nice little Flash Middle East geography quiz I received via email from one of the kids' teachers. This quickly and easily made me feel like a complete idiot. Nothing like a keelhauling first thing in the morning!
Posted by John at 07:33 AM | Comments (0)
Correction: The Power Tool Drag
Correction: The Power Tool Drag Races are May 11 this year. Link on 4/1 was to last year's page. Pictures from last year here. Can you think of a better way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon? Makes me homesick for Georgia. I'll bet you they've got hot dogs and sno-cones, too.
Posted by John at 01:10 AM | Comments (0)
April 15, 2003
Ben Affleck as Rick and
Ben Affleck as Rick and J-Lo as Ilsa? NOOOO!! They can't do that to Casablanca, can they? Make it stop!
I have no words to express my dismay at this unmistakable sign of the apocalypse. This is so very, very wrong. Please go sign the petition to stop this right now.
J-Lo??? HOLD ON a second. Did you forget Maid in Manhattan? Anaconda?!? Money Train?!?!? Ben Affleck??? WAIT A MINUTE! What about Daredevil? Reindeer Games?!? Mall Rats?!?!? Dazed and Confused?!?!?!? I think my head is going to explode. Getting panicky. Punctuation getting out of control. Time to up the meds.
Posted by John at 09:53 PM | Comments (0)
A couple of people sent
A couple of people sent me links to this OpEd piece from the NY TImes (registration required: keelhauling/keelhauling), The News We Kept to Ourselves, but I didn't have time to read it until now. Oh dear. As predicted, the horror stories start to emerge from Iraq. These are from the former CNN bureau chief in Baghdad, talking about things he could not talk about, until now.
Posted by John at 09:17 PM | Comments (0)
Happy Tax Day! Personally, it's
Happy Tax Day! Personally, it's a non-event since I have 4 kids and a mortgage the size of Texas and I always get a refund, so I always file early. But I remember... so here's a little something to fuel the fires of your resentment. Don't thank me, it's what I do.
Did you know the income tax amendment was never actually passed by the voters? Apparently, there were some... irregularities... in the amendment's voting procedure. But back in 1913, the government really needed the tax and Secretary of State Philander Knox simply announced that voters had passed it. Seventy years later Bill Benson, a former tax collector for the state of Illinois, did the groundwork, researching voter records state-by-state through over 17,000 historical documents. In 1985, he published The Law That Never Was, but needless to say nothing was ever done about it. Bill was so outraged by this miscarriage of justice that he refused to pay his taxes, so the authorities promptly carted him off to prison.
Posted by John at 07:34 AM | Comments (0)
In Saddam's palace, the silverware
In Saddam's palace, the silverware adorned with the emblem of the Ba'ath Party has "Made in France" inscribed on the back.
Posted by John at 12:06 AM | Comments (0)
April 14, 2003
I have to admit, it
I have to admit, it does look like that statue of Saddam being pulled down by the American tank was done under very controlled circumstances. Maybe, as some suggest, it was a carefully staged press event. Or maybe the troops were just trying to keep people clear of the plaza while 10,000 lbs of concrete came crashing down. When I saw this media exposé, my first thought was "Good! At last we're learning how to play the propoganda game!" It plays in Peoria, baby, it plays.
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April 13, 2003
"Iraq will not be defeated.
"Iraq will not be defeated. Iraq has now already achieved victory - apart from some technicalities."
-- Mohsen Khalil, Iraq's Ambassador to the Arab League
WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com is back up and running, with a plethora of notable quotes from that lovable wag, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information (currently on administrative leave).
"We have destroyed 2 tanks, fighter planes, 2 helicopters and their shovels - We have driven them back."
If you know where there are video clips of the two most notable press conferences, (1) on the day we entered Baghdad, when he was giving a "chalk talk" and showing on a map the line around Baghdad which would "never be penetrated", while bombs were shaking the building he was in, or (2) the famous "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" speech in which you can actually see a Bradley fighting vehicle full of US troops driving through the streets in Baghdad over his shoulder, please send me the links. This guy is priceless.
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April 12, 2003
With Travis off to college,
With Travis off to college, Nick having a pre-race dinner with the crew team, and Matt and Colin off to the Grand Canyon with the grandparents, Julie and I decided to take in a movie. We went to see John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in BASIC, a military thriller from director John McTiernan (Die Hard). I was pleasantly surprised. There were lots of twists, given that we were seeing the same story unfold from several different people's perspectives with several different versions based on lies and misdirection. This confuses a lot of movie reviewers, who seem to find the movie frustrating. I thought McTiernan did a good job of keeping things in context, though, by keeping the cast of players small. While this certainly doesn't stack up to the last time Travolta and Jackson shared the screen (Pulp Fiction), it was satisfying, particularly for the nice ending twist and sharp conclusion. Very fun, highly recommended.
Posted by John at 11:32 PM | Comments (0)
The spider game went right
The spider game went right to the Game Hall of Fame page. Very unusual controls, nice look and feel, and very fun to play.
Posted by John at 10:20 PM | Comments (0)
April 11, 2003
The Iraqi playing cards are
The Iraqi playing cards are a wonderful idea. Every solder should have one =)
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April 10, 2003
Andy Rooney: "I was wrong,
Andy Rooney: "I was wrong, Bush was right." I've always liked Andy, and this just confirms why. He's got character. If there were justice in the world, this would become a flood of people saying exactly the same thing.
But that seems, well, unlikely. The pro-Saddam demonstrators are attempting to change their image after having incurred much ill-will from the American people for their disruptive and sometimes violent protests. When they figured out that anarchist tactics were earning them the enmity of the silent majority of patriotic Americans, they switched to targeting specific companies and federal and local government offices that, in their view, support the business of the war.
So the police started arresting them. And firing on them with beanbag loads from shotguns.
It became clear that this increasingly marginalized movement had to come up with something different. It is a mark of their desperation that they’ve now adopted a policy of calling themselves ''peace patriots.'' Our local leftist fishwrapper, the Chronicle, writes glowingly of this change in tactics, applauding them for their adeptness in managing the media. Suddenly, ''Peace is Patriotic'' bumperstickers are everywhere, while ''Support Our Troops, Bring Them Home'' is the new mantra at protests.
As the Iraqi people dance in jubilation in the streets and the statues of Saddam tumble down, I think it's time to start THE LOSER LIST:
1. Saddam
2. Uday and Qusay
3. The Baath party
4. Liberals worldwide, now suffering shock and awe
5. Anti-Americans, here and elsewhere
6. Jacques Chirac
7. The French
8. Anti-Bush critics
9, The U.N. General Assembly and Debate Club
10. The U.N. Security Council
11. Peter Arnett
12. Any journalist who wrote about a "pause" in the war
13. Any news anchor who talked about our military "quagmire"
14. Anyone with a "No War in Iraq" bumper sticker on their car
15. Saddam's minister of information, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
16. Retired generals consulting for TV news who said our strategy was mistaken
17. Anybody who compared the pro-Saddam protests to Vietnam in the 1960s
18. Geraldo Rivera
19. Peter Jennings
20. "Chemical" Ali
Did I miss any A-list Losers? The list, of course, could go on and on and on, from the idiots blocking traffic in city streets to the idiots carrying coffins down the sidewalk. As the reports start to roll in about husbands and sons stolen away in the middle of the night, tortured to death or hanged, wives and daughters raped and killed under the despotic Hussein regime, I hope it gets harder and harder for these people to look themselves in the mirror.
Of course, it probably won't.
But hey - anything can happen! I went to my son's open house at Redwood High School tonight, and while one of the students sang the national anthem, every single adult in the bleachers stood up and faced the flag. Even here in the People's Republic of Marin County, anything can happen.
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April 09, 2003
When I was a kid,
When I was a kid, roughly in the 15-18 year old range, I could control my dreams. I spent about six months flying, soaring on thermals and power-diving for maximum speed, then skimming along the ground. Another few months at sea, riding some pounding waves and hiking out on the big cat in high winds. I spent several weeks with Leonardo Da Vinci. I got elected to public office. I traveled the stars.
I frequently had lucid dreams in my twenties, far fewer in my thirties. It's been years since I had one. I still dream, of course, but my dreams are more disjointed, hectic and chaotic, dealing with fast-changing events and landscapes so that I'm struggling to keep up. I have a conscious sense that my subconscious is busy trying to reconcile the daily stresses and hectic pace of life, particularly those arising from my work.
Caution: Psychological repair work in process. We apologize for the mess.
Now, maybe... perhaps... with NovaDreamer I could take control again. I sure would like to take one of these things for a test drive.
Posted by John at 12:56 AM | Comments (0)
April 08, 2003
The thought for the day
The thought for the day from Richard is "Upside Down":
You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war!
Posted by John at 10:28 AM | Comments (0)
April 06, 2003
Saddam has no idea who
Saddam has no idea who we are holding in reserve. If he thinks it's been bad so far, wait until we unleash Optimus Prime on him.
Posted by John at 08:29 PM | Comments (0)
HowStuffWorks has an excellent overview
HowStuffWorks has an excellent overview of the Technology of War. Briefing pages on bunker-busters, dirty bombs, Stinger missiles, gas masks, night vision goggles and everything in between.
Posted by John at 08:12 PM | Comments (0)
A man named "Mohammed" (last
A man named "Mohammed" (last name withheld for obvious reasons) gave US forces the information about where Jessica Lynch was being held as a prisoner of war in the Iraqi hospital in Nasiriyah. If you haven't read his story, you should. He got mad seeing her being slapped by Iraqi soldiers, and walked six miles through the desert, with bombs flying overhead, to find American troops and tell them where she was. He then walked six miles back to the hospital, at the soldiers' request, to map the hospital layout and count the number of Iraqi troops on site, then walked six miles back to convey the intel. He - and his wife and daughter - are now staying at the Marine Combat Headquarters for fear of reprisal from Saddam's army.
This man is a true hero. I wish the pro-Saddam demonstrators in this country could get a chance to talk to him.
"Believe me, not only I, all the people of Iraq, not the people in the government, like Americans," Mohammed said. "They want to help the Americans, but they are all afraid."
Posted by John at 07:53 PM | Comments (0)
Rumsfeld the poet. "Every day,
Rumsfeld the poet. "Every day, Rumsfeld regales reporters with his jazzy, impromptu riffs. Few of them seem to appreciate it." You can laugh all you want, but when is the last time you wrote a poem? For anyone in the spotlight of the press as much as Rumsfeld is, it is a courageous thing to put your artisitc musings down on paper for all the world to see. And I'm glad he has this aspect to his character; in his position, he needs it.
Posted by John at 07:29 PM | Comments (0)
April 05, 2003
Found a new little mini-golf
Found a new little mini-golf game called Mini-Putt, and it went right to the Keelhauling Games Hall of Fame page.
Posted by John at 10:58 AM | Comments (0)
I'm unsubscribing to The Morning
I'm unsubscribing to The Morning Fix, Mark Morford's daily email column, the feature story of which is carried by The San Francisco Chronicle. Morford has become a vitriolic anti-war mouthpiece, so typical of our media here in Iraqifornia. It's a very sad situation, because he is a really funny and insightful guy and I'll miss his skewed sense of humor. His current commentary, however, turns my stomach. Since I know he won't print it, here's my note to him:
Posted by John at 01:16 AM | Comments (0)
April 04, 2003
The British want to drop
The British want to drop 1,000 lb. blocks of concrete on the Iraqis, hoping that without explosives civilian casualties can be kept to a minimum. For air strikes on tanks and other military vehicles inside the confines of Baghdad, this is an ideal solution -- all the impact, but none of the surrounding collateral damage. It does, however, kind of remind me of that Simpsons episode in which Bart had a nightmare where Earth was invaded by the Rigelian siblings, Kang and Kodos. But Moe manages to chase them off: "Run! He's got a board with a nail in it!"
Of course you have to remember the cautionary moral to that story...."That board with the nail in it may have defeated us, but the humans won't stop there. They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails. Soon they will make a board with a nail so big it will destroy them all!"
But maybe that's just me.
Posted by John at 05:41 PM | Comments (0)
SARS killed Air Canada on
SARS killed Air Canada on Tuesday, and in the weakened state of global business, it may kill the rest of the world economy this year.
Posted by John at 07:35 AM | Comments (0)
April 03, 2003
If you're in New York
If you're in New York as often as I am, you should know about the New York City Department of Health Restaurant Inspection Information website. Before you choose a restaurant and make your reservations, you might want to check that restaurant here, since over half of the restaurants in New York were cited for health code violations during inspections last year. When the Dept of Health inspects a restaurant, they check the food practices of employees, food storage, preparation or service areas for signs of vermin or insects, and the temperatures at which food is cooked, stored, and reheated.
Posted by John at 11:27 PM | Comments (0)
Joshua sent me a link
Joshua sent me a link to the proposed TIS-1 (Tactical Infantry System-1) Gasdynamic Laser Weapon System, a shoulder-mounted nuclear powered laser weapon. There are obviously a few engineering and production hurdles to get through before we're ready to equip our soldiers with this baby. I think, however, the main problem is with the delivery system. With a few mods, however, we could be on to something here...
If you're at work, you might want to turn down the speakers before you click on the shark.Posted by John at 08:16 AM | Comments (0)
Metafilter has proven so popular,
Metafilter has proven so popular, and such an excellent example of what the community weblog can be, the MeFi concept has spawned an open source clone, FreeFilter, which in turn is giving rise to a network of niche *filters. BookFilter, MusicFilter, HumorFilter and many others have arisen in the past few days and weeks, and some of them have a solid start and bear watching.
I'm unsure as to how controllable the community weblog phenomenon is, though. As a longstanding (26 months and counting) MetaFilter participant, the value of that forum for me is a direct reflection of the general levels of intelligence, scholarship, interest and passion of the participants. Very few idiots, very few trolls. Even assuming proactive and diligent administration of the weblog (not a trivial undertaking!), how do you get the "right" group of participants together?
Meanwhile, the April Fool's joke at MeFi has to make you wonder...Posted by John at 12:52 AM | Comments (0)
April 02, 2003
Arrest 'em, lock 'em up,
Arrest 'em, lock 'em up, restrain 'em. With all the gonzo peace demonstrators blocking traffic and "occupying" buildings, plus all the Iraqis surrendering, the demand for disposable handcuffs is booming. One company employs developmentally disabled workers to put the nylon ties together, making it a triple win situation -- armed services and police departments save money on handcuffs, bad guys and idiots get carted away, and disabled workers are employed. All with a great new advertising slogan: "We tied up the Taliban."
Posted by John at 07:13 PM | Comments (0)
Please visit the Department of
Please visit the Department of Defense web page and sign in thanking the men and women of the U.S. military services for defending our freedom. The compiled list of names will be sent out to our soldiers. Say thank you to our troops. Adding your signature takes about 10 seconds. This was forwarded to me by email and on 3/27 there were only 6.7 million names. Today, 4/2, there are 12.5 million. The list is growing quickly but is still embarrassingly small. What a shame.
Posted by John at 06:41 PM | Comments (0)
April 01, 2003
A nice April Fool's joke
A nice April Fool's joke by the IT department at my company today, who set up an email address that looked like the President of the company (it only differed by one letter). This was received by company employees this morning:
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Posted by John at 11:17 PM | Comments (0)
Mark your calendar! Sunday .
Mark your calendar! Sunday . . . Sunday . . . Sunday . . . April 21 in Berkeley California, it's The Shipyard Power Tool Drag Races!!!! Tickets are $10, gates open at 10am, races at 1pm. There are prizes for categories like "Most spectacular crash", "Most dangerous machine", and the ever-popular "Machine most likely to get its maker laid." There is an ambulance standing by, so bring the family for an afternoon of fun! See you on race day for plenty of saw spinnin', chuck strippin', crowd skinnin' power tool action . . . action . . . action . . .
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