It was so hot, I put the top up on my car.
How hot was it?
It was so hot, I put ice in my drink.
Why science is the best thing yet to explain things
Time to start using jabber!
AIM’s New Terms Of Service are going to be the best thing to happen to jabber, ever!
Also, check into using gaim.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
CNN.com – Pope: Gay marriage is ‘evil’ – Feb 23, 2005, and also that abortion is like the holocaust.
So, this is the same position held by the leader of the catholic church who, during WWII, sat idly by and let the Nazi’s exterminate Jews, political prisoners, and gays? Yes? Yes.
The password is “irrelevant”.
Speaking of roads…
Let’s see if this one pisses anyone else off.
We live less than two blocks from the neighborhood big park. There is still quite a bit of construction going on closer to the river, so there are many large trucks passing by during the day. A few of them are going the speed limit (35 mph). Many are going 5 to 10 miles per hour over the speed limit. Some, I suspect, are going 5 to 10 miles per hour over the speed limit of light.
We rarely take the kids to the park, as it involves crossing Riverplace Blvd. Instead, we put up a “Slow — children at play” sign at the end of the cul-de-sac, and tell the kids to never approach that zone.
Last week, when the weather turned nice for the first time in a few weeks, it was up, the kids were riding trikes and running and having a blast, when a nice fellow pulled in to ask where we got the sign, and to relate this story to us:
They called the Travis County sheriff’s department, and asked how to get a speed bump or speed hump put in. The answer?
“We can’t do that until there has been a death.”
My question is, “Does that death have to be related in some way to an engine, or can we get the brain-dead policy-based decision-makers out here to meet with the neighborhood parents armed with thousands of pounds of diapers, many with the diaper genie still wrapped around them?”
Hopefully I’ll be able to verify this claim at the next homeowners association meeting.
Nature has it’s place
and that place is outside. Seriously, anything with more than three legs had better be pretty damn cute before it thinks about crawling in here.
Why should that matter? I was driving Grace down to Grandma Albertson’s, and that last stretch of MOPAC between 290 and William Cannon is almost complete. It used to be trees, as recently as six months ago. Trees and presumably small furry woodland creatures. And spiders. And snakes, and scorpions, and iguanas, and geckos, and gnats, and mosquitos, and leeches, and ticks, and who knows what else.
Oh, yes. I did claim to have a point, didn’t I?
My point is that all that crap was outside. Where it belonged. Where do you think all those things went to live now?
I’m damn glad I don’t live within a mile radius of that area. I’d have our exterminator on speed-dial.
Oh, and at least the fsck-heads that were appointed changed their minds for the fifth time and decided not to make that little stretch a toll road, ten years after the bonds to pay for it were approved and sold. But wait! There’s time for them to change their minds five or six more times before it opens, and countless times after it opens.
Let’s just rename that little bit of road to “Whimsi-toll Road”, and watch everyone veer around it (unless they’re from out of town, on their first trip to Austin).
It’s not easy to get good debate about the evolution/creation debate
Except perhaps in the interesting people mailing list.
From John S. Quarterman
This isn’t something that many of us particularly want to do; science isn’t about attacking religion; it is about science. However, this isn’t science; it is politics. What creationists believe and teach in their own homes and churches is their affair. But when they interject their dogma into public school systems as fact, they expose it for critical examination, not to mention ridicule.
It’s pathethic when a 12-year old child…
is more capable of learning than our new education secretary.
A Child Learns a Harsh Lesson in Politics [registration required]
MCI/Worldcom is profiting from stealing your inbox
Spamhaus Accuses MCI of Hosting Spam Gangs.
Oh, and Should MCI Be Profiting From Knowingly Hosting Spam Gangs?
No.
Let us not forget, however, that they are the twits who created the largest fraud-induced bankruptcy in the USA until Enron. They still hold second place.
Anyone who knowingly does business with spammers is ethically challenged.
Take the Boulder Pledge!
Half a fscking hour…
It took less than 30 minutes for some user — notice that that is luser with a silent ‘l’ — to try to spam some magazine site on here.
Guess what! Everything is going to be moderated! Everything is going to have to be moderated! You know, I was hoping that this would be so much more work, as I’m not getting nearly enough spam in my life.
Not that I’m advocating that groups of 800 to 900 anti-spammers start taking house-to-house searches of known spam gangs in which everyone fires — oops — I mean misfires — a gun, so that there is no way to know which bullet killed that specific spammer.
No, I would never advocate that. That would be wrong. It would feel fantastic, it would better the ‘net as a whole, but it would be wrong.