November 5th, 2004
Done
Ok, this site is going nowhere fast, so I'd best just quit before forcing out even more crappy posts like the last, oh, no point in trying to pin point something so far back. Have a good weekend when it starts and enjoy the fact that the election is fucking over.
Posted by fad at 4:35pm
Simple Pleasures Of A Simple Man
Going to the video store thinking you owe 3 late fees and finding out it was just one.
Posted by fad at 4:08pm
No Celebration
Well, looks like Arafat won't die (or be allowed to die) before the weekend starts. Fucking death-tease. What a let down.
Posted by fad at 3:17pm
Reminds Me Of College
Please remember, if you are expecting guests, take the porn out of the VCR.Teachers had taken the students into the auditorium, ejected an unmarked tape from a video player and played the lesson on the three branches of governmentYou never know who might come along and press "play".
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Afterward, a teacher placed the original video into the videocassette recorder. That video, including pornographic images, began playing as teachers led students out of the auditorium.
Posted by fad at 1:37pm
Hope I Win
£10,000 for a poem? Shit, I'd better enter:I like money.
Yes, I do, I do, I do.
Give it to me now.
Posted by fad at 1:16pm
Random Horribly Deadly Thing That's Fun To Say
Chryptosporidium
Posted by fad at 11:02am
Arsenic Is Lagging Too
I expect Bush will see fit to reverse this trend now that he has another 4 years at it.For the fourth year in a row, the number of city children younger than 6 with elevated levels of lead in their blood has dropped.How the hell he let this happen during his first term, we may never know. Good thing this news didn't break until after the election or many of those children hating, environment destroying shitbucks who voted for him may have stayed at home. I mean, seriously, a Republican president who lets lead levels drop anywhere? What a shocking failure.
Posted by fad at 10:56am
Purdy Skies
Mmmm....conjunction.Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets visible to the naked eye, are converging in a dramatic conjunction that will only become better next week.Less than a degree apart, they'll be. Wish my (cheapy) telescope hadn't gotten busted in my last move.
Posted by fad at 6:35am
His Daughter's Name is 'Breeze'
See? This is the kind of stuff I was asking Arafat to get.A Kent, Wash. family arrived home yesterday to discover a gaping hole in their roof, apparently caused by a chunk of ice.Hopefully it was just a practice run.
The ice had slammed through the ceiling of [a man's] home and landed on his eight-year-old daughter['s] bed.
But no one yet knows where the ice came from.
Posted by fad at 6:26am
November 4th, 2004
Duck!
Shit! Bush has already started his war on us!A National Guard F-16 fighter jet on a nighttime training mission strafed an elementary school with 25 rounds of ammunition, authorities said Thursday. No one was injured.First he destroys the schools so that more of you are stupid and ignorant. That's how he creates his base, since only Jebus loving illiterates could possibly survive his coming iron rule. And if he takes out a kid or two? Meh. We already know he hates children, so who would be surprised?
Posted by fad at 3:08pm
Sails Windless
Bleah. Arafat not (officially) dying really shit on the day.
Posted by fad at 2:51pm
Bork Bork Bork
I may have to start paying bills again, if just to have an excuse to buy stamps.Among those appearing in the set are, of course, Miss Piggy, as well as Statler and Waldorf, the Swedish Chef and Dr. Bunson Honeydew and his assistant Beaker.Sweet. Speaking of "sweet", how much you wanna bet the boys of South Park never make it to US postal stamps?
Posted by fad at 1:17pm
Bad Parenting. Women And Minorities Hit Hardest
"Bush hasn't had chance to hug father yet"You mean all this war, violence, destruction of the environment, re-enslavement, disenfranchisement, barefoot and pregnantment could have been avoided if only he'd gotten a simple hug? Shame on you, George H. W., shame.
Posted by fad at 1:04pm
Cigar Is Waiting To Be Lit
Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease.UPDATE: This report (registration block crap) has him dead.
UPDATE: Dammit! That'll teach me to eat lunch. Stupid PM of Luxembourg getting my hopes up. Can we just get a small meteor strike and get this crap over with? I don't want him lingering on some machine so that they can keep saying, "'e's no' dead, yet!" I want that cigar!
UPDATE: You just know that since he lingers, and no one will say what it is, that this will forever fuel the conspiracies that he was poisoned. They'll try to make a martyr out of him yet, no matter how pathetic they have to reach.
UPDATE: When he goes, will we finally discover what was under the scarf? I'm guessing he keeps a constantly rotating nest of incubating squirrels up there. They feed his thoughts as it is well known that incubating squirrels are also murderous, Jew-hating fucks. Well, they'd be murderous if they could move a little better. Hence why the occupy the thoughts of men like Arafat.
Posted by fad at 10:35am
I Suggest Going Commando Yourself
Reports all over that AshKKKroft is about to resign. Don't you believe it for a second. What's really happening as that there has been a secret plan all along to create a new Department of Civil Liberties Deprivation and Wedgies. He's not resigning; he's merely going underground. From his bunker, somewhere safe and away from prying eyes, he and his crack team of CLDaW commandos will spring up at night to dig through the trash of bookstores and libraries and post your reading habits on websites. Whenever you say something stupid in public and someone challenges you or disagrees with you, they will make sure to do nothing to stop it. Yes, next time someone isn't convinced that single payer health care is the way to go by your screeching chant of "FASCIST! FASCIST! FASCIST!" you will know that it is the CLDaW whispering lies directly into their (tiny) brains preventing your logic from taking hold. Plus, every time you feel your underwear riding up a little bit? Yeah, you can bet AshKKKroft is the one tugging at your undies.It's the end, people. Night has fallen.
Posted by fad at 10:33am
Stupid Announcement
Ok, I decided to renew this domain and stick with it for a while yet. It's been nearly a year, and I really do like change for change's sake. Plus disappearing and shaking off the chaff is always fun. But I'm also lazy, and it would be a bit of a hassle. Also, I'm hoping to start up another part of the site again, and wouldn't want that to get lost.You may all resume breathing and free your squirrel hostages.
Posted by fad at 10:17am
Makes The Bats Swing 'Round
What another tender story of love.A 29-year-old man got the answer he was seeking Tuesday night when he proposed to his girlfriendAwww....
The woman, 34, was staying with her ex-boyfriend in Gold Bar when her 29-year-old boyfriend arrived and proposed on the front porch of the home. She accepted.Well, that's just fantastic that she still got along so well with her ex that she couuld live with him. How healthy and secure they all are.
The ex-boyfriend, 62, witnessed the proposal and became upset, Jorgensen said. The three got into a fight, and the suspect got a baseball bat out of his car and allegedly beat the ex-boyfriendOh, ok, one little snag. But I predict happiness all around because this is love we're talking about.
Posted by fad at 9:28am
Probably Could Have Gotten Cuts
And some people thought an couple hours wait to vote was tough.Dr. Andrea Shaer wanted to vote before she went to the delivery room to give birth to her third child, so she and her husband went first to their polling station at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center's fitness facility.A hundred years ago, she woulda gone back and finished the harvest, too.
But more than 100 people were already in line, so Shaer went to the delivery room, gave birth, and returned to vote Tuesday night 30 minutes before the polls closed, intravenous drip in tow.
Posted by fad at 9:00am
Ramble
After elections, everyone likes to do their "real" winners and losers list. Being a sheeple, I'm going to play along.[Read if you like. Not really worth your time, trust me.]
Posted by fad at 6:40am
November 3rd, 2004
Celebration Still On Hold
Die, dammit.
Posted by fad at 6:39pm
Never Trust One
There is a kid in my apartment complex who is trying to learn to play the violin, which, of course, instantly makes him evil since all who play that instrument are. Most of the time it sounds like an angry cat trapped in the rain. Coming home from the store just now, I heard that sound and thought, "Crap..he's practicing again." Until, that is, I looked up a bit and saw that this time the sound really was coming from an angry cat stuck out in the rain.
Posted by fad at 5:09pm
A Dragon
That stupid "Blind Date" show has actually done some good.A rape victim spotted her alleged attacker on the "Blind Date" television show and notified police.They'd been looking for him for over a year when the asshole decides to put his face on TV.
Posted by fad at 3:41pm
Site Shit
The farmaccidentdigest.com domain expires at the end of next week, and I still haven't decided if I want to renew it or not. Right now I'm leaning against, but don't know what I'd do instead yet. Most likely is another new name, or maybe go back to blogspot for awhile. So there's a chance this place will just stop working at the end of next week with no decision made yet and no way to let you know where to find me. I know. That would break your hearts and cause mass suicides. Most likely is some sort of blogspot transition until I make up my mind.
Posted by fad at 3:03pm
Fire Pretty
Geeks are scary.Beneath the eight grave markers, and perhaps in a rumored unmarked grave nearby, lie reams of paper printouts of code for software that has left this mortal operating system.Personally, there's a lot of code I've had to work with that I'd love to send off via a huge funeral pyre. I'd wear a helmet with horns.
The cemetery is a quirky tradition among the programmers at LexisNexis, which provides online legal and business information. Rather than simply delete programs that are retired or replaced, they print them out for a proper send-off -- not always with fond regards.
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In 1992, up to 50 mourners followed pallbearers carrying a wooden coffin with a printout of the former Database Update Control System as a trumpeter played "Taps," project consultant Alice Kaltenmark said. Eulogies were said and chocolate cake served.
Posted by fad at 2:42pm
Team America Humor
Want to crack up a table of election watchers? When Ralph Nader's mug pops up on screen just say, "Ralph Nader" in a TA:Matt Damon style. Works like a champ.
Posted by fad at 12:47pm
Reason #5647773 To Hate All Posting Boards And Forums
Nothing like stopping by the posting board of one of your favorite bands because it's the best source of up-to-date news, only to discover the conversation has turned into something that the average DUer would say, "Woah...they're, liKKKe, out there...." Did you know that all you Bush voters plan to get liquored up on corn squeezins and shoot all the gays and minorities? But no dancing afterwards because you're all fundamentalists who disapprove of all that. Oh, and dropping the letters "kkk" randomly around is proof of your reasoning and writing ability. At least they are comfortable in knowing that no one who would be so foolish as to disagree with them would ever listen to their music since it's, like, deep, and stuff, and so are they.Yeah, won't be going back there again soon.
UPDATE: Well, that's two sites in a row. Guess my surfing habits will be curtailed for awhile until some people realize the camps really aren't in their future.
Posted by fad at 12:40pm
His Underground
And I thought I was pathetic.Shy, slight and forever single, the 37-year-old son of a local multi-millionaire dreamed of love, of being noticed, of sharing walks on sandy beaches.Me? I write stupid shit on an intarweb site, but ricin is an option I'm considering. Actually, this is a sad, but fascinating story of a man unable to connect.
When the love of his life failed to materialize, [he] came up with another obsession: making deadly ricin. He was much more successful at that.
"Robert began a descent into an abyss of loneliness and depression, which left him completely isolated by April of this year," his attorney wrote. "The driving force was his inability to form any kind of attachment with a woman."Coming from a wealthy family, he will get help instead of jail, most likely. But that disconnection distilled to a monomania fascinates.
"I been single all my life," he wrote in song. "I been single every day and I been single every night ... "
The loneliness fed on itself. He refused to attend family holiday celebrations because married people would be there. He bought his groceries in the dark of night. He duct-taped his windows.
Posted by fad at 11:27am
Over
Reports have it that Kerry has called Bush to concede. It's over. What a relief that it won't drag on any more.
Posted by fad at 10:23am
This Post Never Happened
I fear the purges at Communists for Kerry will be quite terrible. Here's to the disappeared before they disappear.
Posted by fad at 10:15am
Desperation
Thankfully they haven't seen me with the local statuary.Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris has fenced off a famous tomb to prevent lewd acts being performed on a statue.Disgusting! Things like that should be reserved for in the home. With inflatables.
The effigy of 19th Century journalist known as Victor Noir has long been popular with women visitors.And then kill him.
[...]
According to the story, he was due to get married the day after he was killed.
The statue shows Noir in a frock coat and trousers lying flat on his back, with a distinct enlargement in the groin.
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It is said that a woman who kisses the lips of the prostrate statue and slips a flower into the upturned top hat will find a husband by the end of the year.
Posted by fad at 9:57am
Next Up: Springfield Tire Fire
Another century old tradition snuffed out by our modern world.A fire that broke out more than 100 years ago at a Chinese coalfield has finally been extinguished, reports say.That must have been lovely on the local environment.
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Local historians said the fire first broke out in 1874, Itar-Tass reported.
Posted by fad at 9:51am
Decomp Channel
You can donate your body to science, but the fascists wouldn't let you donate it to something more important: TV. Until now, that is, when you can do both.Channel 4 is searching for volunteers to take part in a documentary which will show the decomposition of their bodies when they die.Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like they'll just flop you in a room with a camera on you 24/7. That'd be a heck of a channel.
Posted by fad at 9:47am
Pluzzappy
Perhaps there is a light after all.Researchers at Wake Forest University have released a study in a British medical journal that says electro-shock therapy helps the mood and quality of life of people with major depression.I do have all these wire hangers and outlets I'm not using right now...
Posted by fad at 9:13am
Quick Election Rundown
Well, my guesses appear to have been wrong on two races, but right otherwise. Not much about the big ticket election since it seems to be pretty much, as Kim Il Jong would put it, inevitable. Matt Blunt managed to win governor here with a pretty comfortable margain. My expectation he would lose was based mostly on the pure desperation that leaked from his attack ads in the last week or so. Whether that's just how he chose to run or they put him over the top, I don't know. Right now I'm just grumpy that my Lillywhitevian city (the Republican state rep ran unapposed. Not even some batshit Libertarian on the ballot), whose parks need no real improvement (unless you consider overfancifying "needed"), decided to add another 0.5% to the sales tax specifically towards that nothing. Poopheads.
Posted by fad at 8:41am
Not That There's Anything Wrong With That
Here's the strangest aside I've seen so far this morning in election coverage. As of when they stopped counting for the night in the Washington state governor's race, the Republican was up 861 votes, but more votes are to be counted. Plus the Libertarian candidate is polling at 2% and could prove a spoiler as has happened before in Washington. Votes for the Libertarian candidate likely put Maria Cantwell into the Senate years ago. But here's the mention of the Libertarian candidate:Ruth Bennett, a lesbian who ran as a Libertarian, was polling 2 percentSo she's a lesbian first who just for shits-n-gigs is running as a Libertarian? Or maybe, just maybe, she's a Libertarian who happens to be a lesbian.
Posted by fad at 8:36am
Oh Yeah
And thank God we made it through yesterday with no attack. Who knows how much effort was put into that, or if it was cumulative from the last 3 years, but the worst they could pull were video tapes. And, looking back on the content, they pretty much conceded they weren't going to be able to pull off an attack before the election. Those were threats of attacks sometime later when and if they finally could.I don't want this to sound like an all-clear, or to jix the situation, but it has to be an achievement (or, in your fevered dreams, proof there was never a threat).
Posted by fad at 6:19am
November 2nd, 2004
Whee
No, I wasn't able to avoid it all tonight. I have to say that even if a winner is declared before I crash tonight, I won't believe it. I'm going to wait until at least after noon tomorrow before I believe there's a winner. If, by then, there even is one.
Posted by fad at 11:21pm
Wheels Go Round And Round
Finally, the idea to get me on mass transit.More than a decade ago, Metro Transit initiated its Poetry Bus Project, soliciting poetry from King, Snohomish, Pierce and Kitsap county residents. Each year more than 1,000 people apply.Society has reached perfection.
The 2005 Poetry On Buses competition is open now. A panel will pick up to 60 poems to be featured in buses for up to one year. Payments of $125 will be made to the authors.
Wheels go round and round.
Busdriver once dared have dreams.
Drive and cry, loser.
Posted by fad at 6:43pm
Was It Cambodian?
Damn, I wish I was a celebrity.Vanity Fair says [Kirstie] Alley once brought her pet possum to an event and when it started squeaking because it was hungry, Alley asked her publicist "say, aren't you nursing a baby right now?"Seems reasonable to me. Plus, as I like to ape celebrities and do everything they do, I need to get a pet possum.
Seeing the possum's teeth, the publicist refused to breast feed it, but she did express her breast milk into a bottle, which Alley fed to her pet.
Posted by fad at 5:24pm
Headline From The Onion
"Millions Of Work Hours Lost To Voting"It's a joke, of course, but I'm actually pretty surprised we haven't seen one of those bullshit studies about the "cost" of voting or "lost of productivity" to voting.
Posted by fad at 5:13pm
Poll Watching Too Hard Outside Pacific Timezone
Now to decide what movie to watch instead of watching returns...
Posted by fad at 4:56pm
Bang
Ah, nothing like celebrating the vote with some time down at the range.
Posted by fad at 4:39pm
Sigh
Phone message update: You can add George H. W. Bush to the list. Why aren't the calls done?
Posted by fad at 12:13pm
Cheeseburger
Too bad the fascists won't let me back into LA.Elvis Presley impersonators and wannabes are invited to descend on Los Angeles' CBS Television City on Nov. 10 when the network holds open auditions for the lead role in the upcoming four-hour miniseries "Elvis."The others wouldn't have a chance. But I really hope Triumph the Insult Comic Dog hears of this and decides to mingle.
Rather than going with an established name for the part, CBS is inviting actors ages 18-33 to show up and sing 10 bars of an Elvis song for a chance at stardom. The only requirements appear to be a headshot, a résumé and "singing ability, charisma and likeness to Elvis."
Posted by fad at 10:35am
Flume Ride
Earlier this year I was in a shop that had recently expanded into some gourmet (overpriced and fancy-lad) stuff. This particular day, they were holding a tasting of the various olive oils they had. So we did about 8 shot sized samples of olive oil thinking we were being horribly decadent. Well, the FDA has shown me how right that actually was.Food containing olive oil can carry labels saying they may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, the government says, citing limited evidence from a dozen scientific studies about the benefits of monounsaturated fats.If you'll excuse me, I have to go pour a "drink".
Posted by fad at 9:58am
Safekeeping
So, wait...we're not supposed to store plutonium in our car holes?A former Russian nuclear scientist has handed over to police eight containers of plutonium-238 he had stored at home for eight years.I wonder if there was an upswing of two-headed squirrels around his house. That'd be cool.
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Mr Grigorov is quoted as saying he had written letters to his former bosses warning of the risk posed by radioactive material left in the laboratory in Zmeinogorsk, which was abandoned and looted after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
When his letters failed to elicit a response, Mr Grigorov says he was obliged to remove the material himself "to prevent anything bad from happening".
Posted by fad at 9:48am
I Am Votar!
Well, that was pretty easy. Whole thing took about 15 minutes, but that's mostly because of the 50 or more people there at the time, I was the only person whose last name was between P and Z.
Posted by fad at 9:21am
Let's See How Long This One Lasts
Just before the election in 1988, I was over at a friends house when his big sister -- just 18, voting for the first time -- came into their living room, flopped down with sample ballot and a notebook, looked at her parents and said, "Ok, how am I voting?" They told her exactly how to vote all the way down the line and that is how she voted the next day.For years I thought that was the worst example of empty voting I would see. Then I got older and discovered that people actually vote based off what some recorded phone call says or, even more, what some celebrity says while drumming high turnout as being more important than a smaller, actually somewhat informed turnout. Classic quantity over quality thing.
Back in college, I rarely ever spoke up in any class preferring to know I was a fool rather than open my mouth and prove it to everyone (whenever I did speak up, usually I was informed I was wrong, so I quickly learned to shut up). Once, though, I grew so frustrated with a classmate, I got into a argument. She kept quoting things at me saying, "Well, Plato says this" or "Kant made this point". Finally I blurted out, "I don't give a damn what Plato thinks! What do you think?"
That's a general rule I have. If you cannot articulate your idea to me in your own words, without a call to some authority through quotes, I rarely have interest in your point because it's not yours. You're just an empty echo. Same with voting. If you cannot articulate in your own words, without falling back on some talking points, why you are voting a certain way, probably best to stay home. Even more, if your "reason" is rhythmic or rhymes, probably the same. You're just someone's echo, not your own person.
There's nothing wrong with not voting if you don't really have a clue or don't really care. Should you care? Yeah, I think so. But if you don't? Hey, you don't. It's better not to foist that on the rest of us.
Posted by fad at 9:16am
November 1st, 2004
Can The Calls Stop Now?
Had a message on the machine from the Dubster himself today. He told me to be sure to take my friends and family to the polls with me tomorrow. Bastard. Doesn't he realize I have no family or friends? George W. Bush: mocking the alone since 2004.UPDATE: Anyone know the cutoff time for these calls? 8:31pm and I just got one from Giuliani reading a script in favor of his "good friend" Matt Blunt.
Posted by fad at 5:44pm
Many Words; Little Said
Though I earlier said I was thinking about doing live coverage of election results here, as of right now that seems unlikely. I may do some or I may do nothing. It won't be known until tomorrow. As of right now my main impulse is to get myself into such a state tonight that by the time I finally drop, I won't even wake up until mid-Wednesday at the earliest. I did get a mass note that that Command Post site will be covering it, so I suppose you can go there for coverage. It just won't have my flair or descent into self-loathing.
Posted by fad at 4:15pm
Philips And White Owls
Dammit.Fidel Castro is healing nicely after shattering a kneecap and breaking an arm in an accidental fall, his older brother Ramon said Monday, adding that their family has always enjoyed good health and longevity.Those who get in their way? Not so much. And I was really looking forward to that rum and cigar party when the fucker finally dropped.
Posted by fad at 2:30pm
I Have No Other Comment
Ladies and gentlemen (and you outliers), there is something called the American Cornhole Association.
Posted by fad at 1:36pm
Cause Of And Solution To
Dissent crushed!The case started Friday, the last day of Georgia's early voting period, when Dodds' wife went to vote accompanied by an infant wearing a Kerry-Edwards shirt. Poll workers asked the woman to turn the child's shirt inside out so she could remain and vote, but she allegedly refused and left.How can this injustice be fought? Oh, he found a way.
A man wearing a John Kerry T-shirt and President Bush mask at an election office was charged with disorderly conduct for breaking a law that bans campaigning outside polling places, police said.Where did he come up with this genius idea? Well, no one is sure, but we have a hint.
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A police report said Dodds stood outside screaming, sometimes using foul language, and refused requests to take off his mask.
When Dodds, 35, was arrested, he "reeked of alcohol,"Ah, so many of our best ideas have always reeked of alcohol. Word is they feared getting the original draft of the Declaration of Independence too close to any open flames for fear all the tequila Jefferson had spilled on it would ignite.
Posted by fad at 12:59pm
Woodpecker Tattoo
The going rate for babies has really crashed.Police in Alton say they are looking for man who allegedly tried to sell a seven-month-old baby for 25 dollars on a street corner yesterday.Back in my day, I'd get at least $37 for the ones I sold. These truly are dark economic times when you can only ask 25 bucks for a healthy baby.
They have arrested the infant's father, saying he stood idly by while the other man tried to sell the baby.
Posted by fad at 12:55pm
The Voices Let Me Know I'm Never Alone
Dear P. Diddy,Obeying the commands of your voice in my head last night, I have hung posters everywhere telling people to put their "I Voted" sticker on their front doors when they get home. Tomorrow night, as you have command me, I shall crawl through the streets, and, for every home without a sticker, your will shall be done.
Sincerely,
fad
Posted by fad at 12:00pm
Though He And Kerry Agree On Mandatory National Service
Ah, Illinois politics. So fun, from a distance."There is no way on this Earth that I would leave the good people of the Republican Party I've met prey to some of the leadership I've seen ... that is corrupt, that lacks integrity and has betrayed their best values and their best interests," Keyes said. "They are history."That's batshit Alan Keyes pledging to stay on as an active force in the state of Illinois. That sound we in the border states heard this morning was the groans of Illinois Republicans amazed that their party truly could get even more inept.
Posted by fad at 11:49am
I Freely Admit To Being A Fucking Moron
I love this quote in a story about the numerous and sometimes confusing ballot propositions in California."I find it incredibly confusing, and I'm resentful," said Los Angeles artist Shelley Adler, who was shuffling toward the voting booth at a downtown library last week. "I'm very smart, and it's difficult for me."Mostly because of the implied and unsaid about everyone else around you by such a statement.
Posted by fad at 11:01am
But There'll Still Be Plenty Of Comfy Bureaucrat Jobs
Uh oh. France is starting to worry that the EU won't just be an extension of its will. That just can't be allowed.There are fears that the French vision of a politically-integrated, socially-minded Europe is being threatened by a looser, Anglo-Saxon-led liberal economic model, an EU which risks turning into little more than a free-trade area.Horrors!
Posted by fad at 9:18am
Eat Who I Eat. Defile What I Defile
I suppose it's much better than those cassette tape tours that you always end up pausing and restarting because some wanker up ahead has to lollygag.The old-fashioned audio tour of historical places could soon be replaced with computer-generated images that bring the site to life.For an extra few bucks, and proof of age, you'd get to tour bedrooms or catch a few virtual orgies. Ah, yeaah.
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It would require the visitor to wear a head-mounted display with a miniature camera and a backpack computer.
The camera captures the view and feeds it to software on the computer where the visitor's viewpoint is combined with animated virtual elements.
At Pompeii for example, the visitor would not just see the frescos, taverns and villas that have been excavated, but also people going about their daily life.
Posted by fad at 9:14am
Speedier Than That
"Redistricting Endangers Sandlin in Texarkana's 1st CD"Well, maybe if he pledged to work hard to keep all that Coors beer from being sent east bound and down to the thirsty in Atlanta he wouldn't have so much trouble.
Posted by fad at 7:15am
At Least He Didn't Have An Onion On His Belt
On the political phone message front, I'm now up to three different messages reminding me that Claire McCaskill wants to pee on old people and burn them in their beds (and, new twist!, build a mansion with money they should be getting!). Laura Bush called last night from what sounded like a cell phone on top of Everest. The longest was the call from a 400 year old volunteer hoping, amongst the "ums" and "uhs", that I would vote for the president. Thank God politicians exempted themselves from the no call stuff or I could never have this sort of entertainment.UPDATE: Oh yeah, and despite not being registered with any party, I have yet to receive one call or flyer or anything from the Democratic Party. I guess I'm a victim of zip-code profiling. Lucky for them I don't base my vote off recorded messages. No, tonight, as always, I'll be ripping apart a chicken to read its bones.
Posted by fad at 7:05am
Quick Election Post
One day out, and I still think Kerry will end up President with Bush getting more of the popular vote. Again, no huge breakdown of why, just a gut call on what I'm seeing. If so, I suppose it will be interesting to see what it's like, as an adult now, to have a Jimmy Carter-like without the sanctimony as president. In other words, with a President who is frustrated that too many of his fellow Americans simply refuse to accept that as a nation they are unexceptional and need to start packing it in and be like everyone else.He is almost assuredly a one-termer, though, as not one person I know who is voting for him can stand him (this not to make the mistake that those I have heard from are completely representative of everyone). One has even said, to the nodding agreement of others, that upon Kerry's assuming the Presidency, he will do everything in his power to replace him. The main problem a Kerry presidency will face is retention of armed forces. Enlistments and especially re-enlistments will plummet.
Here in Missouri, since Kerry has apparently given up on the state, my vote doesn't matter (as long, of course, as I'm the only one who takes that attitude) meaning I can vote for someone, against someone, or do the ole protest vote thingy. For a second there it looked like the Libertarian Party, by casting off the old, corrupt Harry Browne machine, could be an option, but I can't vote for any candidate or group who thought September 11th was the appropriate day to gather in protest of all the foreign deaths caused by US foreign policy.
Other quirks of the election: Republicans will pick up seats in the House and Senate. The number of seats pickup in the Senate still won't be enough for the Republicans to do much since Senate Republicans, as a whole, are so spineless you don't even have to tell them to bend over and take it as they are already there, chin resting on a comfy pillow.
Ok, that's enough of sounding stupid, at least on this topic.
Posted by fad at 6:57am
October 31st, 2004
Random Movie Confession
I've never seen the movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas"
Posted by fad at 4:46pm
The Horror
Dear Cingular,Fuck you and the goats you rode in on and then fucked to the strains of "Send in the Clowns" for putting that image of Roger Clemons' and Randy Johnson's faces morphed into one on TV. You suck.
Sincerely,
fad
P.S. Fuck you.
Posted by fad at 11:04am
Photo Requests
Ok, I did the best I could on the photo requests. But to see 'em, you have to click here.
Posted by fad at 6:36am