Oh my….never seen such a funny, profane, pissed-off squirrel

Latest Gossip:

Chris Brown is a full-time minster of worship and students at broadway baptist church in lexington.

Geeze…this is a what’s known as a slow news day:

Asexuality: It’s not just for amoebas anymore

Study links gene to homosexuality

Intellectually, the article is attractive. Gay men inherit a gene that in women causes fruitfulness and in men causes fruitiness.

Does explain the prevalence of homosexuality throughout history, when, logically, such men cannot reproduce and pass-on their genes.

Still, I’d argue there’s much more nurture than nature at work here. The distribution of homo/heterosexual men within a given society varies much too widely: In ancient Greece, nearly every wealthy man was wholly or partly homosexual; it was a societal norm. Unless all of their mothers were carrying this ‘fruitful’ gene, such a skewed distribution points towards learned behavior to me.

Watching the debate tonight:

“The solution to all our problems is getting people retrained for the jobs of the 21st century.”
-- George Bush

You know what? Not everyone needs to be a programmer, or a database administrator, or a .com CEO. Not everyone needs a college diploma. Forcing adults to endure another 4 years of school just for the sake of getting an entry-level job belittles both those unfortunate students and the for-pay institutions that must digest them.

Well, after sliding SIDEWAYS onto the interstate yesterday in the rain, I have a new set of Yokohama Geolandar’s in 245/75R16 headed for Ashley’s Wheel and Brake.

should be there either friday or early this coming week.

Some days you slack, some days you procrastinate. And then, there’s today:

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Idyllic weekend spent up in Louisville, relaxing away from the hustle and bustle of life. Lovely :)

Watched quite a few movies:

The Girl Next Door

Good, not great flick. All the players are B-list, aside from Elisha Cuthbert, but the story’s heartwarming and somewhat interesting. It’s an unoriginal rip-off of “Risky Business” in many ways.

Porky’s

Ah, the infamous Porky’s, the movie that reminds us why we’re really glad we’re not horny teenagers in 1950’s Florida. There is ONE scene that makes this movie watchable: The hilarious sex scene with a young Kim Catrall as Miss “Lassie” Honeywell. Aside from that, this is a diffuse, pointless, anacrhonistic period piece that tries to string together a series of moneyshot vingnettes (“Girls in the shower”, “Having Honeywell in the morning”, “Boys at the whorehouse”, “I’m just a Jew”) with the merest hint of a unifying thread. It commits the only unforgivable sin of the teen sex romp–It’s BORING!

Random “Apprentice” complaint:

Okay, so you set-up the only woman with a molecule of leadership skill to fail, then you FIRE HER!?

Disgusting.

Props to William Randall, Esq. ( a.k.a. Bill-san ) for an awesome postcard with a cool picture of the Buddha of Todaiji Temple in Nara, Japan.

This is the place where an inflammatory blog entry that would’ve gotten me fired once was.

If this had been an actual emergency, the announcement you just heard would’ve been followed by official news or instructions. We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog.

Quick reactions to the Vice Presidential debate last night:

Edwards: Sharp, smooth, and effective throughout, thought at times he came across as the Southern Snake Oil Salesman. He spoke directly to Cheney, toe to toe, and his closing remarks were moving and they’ve stayed with me. He scored several blows, particluarly on health care, Iraq, Halliburton, and jobs, but none was a knockout. Honestly, I’d like to live in the America he described, a place of strong middle-class, consensus, health-care, good environment, and progress.

Book of James in one sentence: “Have some self control, and do God’s work”.

I don’t know why, but I got up this morning with an urge to read the Bible. I made myself some coffee, turned off the radio + tv, and sat down to read whatever struck me. My marker from the last time I was at church was in James, so I began reading this tidy, direct book and it just floored me.

Great…that annoying Mr. Dyson who invented the vacuum with per-fect suckshion was inspired by the Mini

Haven’t been able to post from work for the past two days…so here goes.

Cool Article on a MINI in a rally

I think they’ve blocked me from posting to blogger at work…or else blogger is down.

Testing 1…2…3….4…

Joe, have a look at this.

Basically, it’s Kodak (KODAK!) suing Sun Microsystems over a horribly generic patent they bought from Wang computers back in the 1990’s. It also means (depending how you read it) that every software system that uses dynamic-linked libraries, e.g. ALL OF THEM, infringe upon this patent.

Software patents are insanity.

Rant I saw on slashdot this morning while I tried to avoid thinking about how utterly dead our project is:

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What it does meen is I now have a legal basis for beating the cr@p out of the Starbucks clerk when he doesn’t understand I just want plain black coffee.

It’s worse here in Israel, where the idea of coffee is synonymous with milk. Every time I go somewhere for coffee it’s a 5 minuet ordeal, that I am not caffinated enough to deal with.

viciously stolen from Fark:

Alabama: Yes, We Have Electricity

Alaska: 11,623 Eskimos Can’t Be Wrong!

Arizona: But It’s A Dry Heat

Arkansas: Literacy Ain’t Everything

California: By 30, Our Women Have More Plastic Than Your Honda

Colorado: If You Don’t Ski, Don’t Bother

Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only The Kennedys Don’t Own It Yet

Delaware: We Really Do Like The Chemicals In Our Water

Florida: Ask Us About Our Grandkids

Georgia: We Put The “Fun” In Fundamentalist Extremism

Moved to wretch about the latest TV disaster, LAX

It’s AWFUL!

It’d be one thing if they played it kitschy like they do on “Las Vegas” (Baywatch in a Casino, table for one?), but they’re playing this “drama” like it’s CSI or something…

Okay, let’s look at the facts:

- Heather Locklear is past her prime, and couldn’t act when she was in her prime. And this material is just a bit heavier than “Melrose Place”