Outrageous!
Things that piss me off.
2009.04.28 11:23:22 EDT Are we putting too much faith in the savior? Hypothetically speaking, would it have been better for President Obama if, instead of the Democratic landslide of 2008, he was elected to face an adversarial congress dominated by Republican majoritie
2008.04.30 11:06:36 EDT Walk the plank! As the accusation of problems with Sequoia voting machines that were used in this past Presidential Primary escalate, I think I more and more agree with what Practicality says in regards to Sequoia's
2007.10.22 22:38:52 EDT The largest "landfill" on earth Some disturbing news: in the middle of the Pacific, roughly halfway between San Francisco and Hawai'i, is the North Pacific Gyre. It is a clockwise circulating vortex of ocean currents that covers abo
2006.06.14 15:47:48 EDT Backlogged Journal: NC Trip III, Mem Day--05/23-28 backlogged update 3 (May 23) After getting up relatively late in the morning, we drove from Ashville to the outskirts of Charlotte, where we would stay. T and P were originally intent on making a stop
2006.04.28 18:26:46 EDT On the Miyagawa/Dower incident Updated May 2nd S sends me a link at ESWN commenting on the same issue. The author there did more research than I did, and quotes more liberally. To see some examples of what I was riling about below,
2006.02.07 11:15:39 EST I blame it on the 1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry from Taiwan What if, on the SAT, you see the following question? 1. LOL :: :-D == a) OMG :: :-O b) ROFLMAO :: :-( c) WTF :: :-P d) TTYL :: :-) e) J/K :: :-X Ridiculous? Sacrilege? Perhaps you'd be thinking about
2005.12.09 20:30:11 EST Journal: snow, library computer bug, pooh have you ever witnessed lightning and thunder during a blizzard? i have now! Says S. White seems to be blanketing Massachusetts. Her flight out of Logan tonight was delayed until tomorrow morning. M
2005.09.10 13:09:18 EDT Katrina: the bleak aftermath The biggest threat of hurricane Katrina is slowly manifesting itself, and people are starting to notice. From the fallout of one the most horrifying disasters in American history, we can, unfortunatel
2005.09.08 00:28:52 EDT The decline of journalism in the U.S. I can't stand watching American TV news anymore. Just now, there was a segment on NBC 10, the local (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) NBC affiliate station, about the so-called liquid armour. How do I star
2005.09.02 12:59:10 EDT Unprepared for Disaster: Katrina Back in early 2001, "the Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked the potential damage to New Orleans as among the three likeliest, most castastrophic disasters facing this country.". The other two
2005.08.26 01:46:54 EDT Stupid! I am so tempted to use profanity at this moment. I needed to write a batch conversion script to convert the entries from my old website to a way that is readable by the new blogOhm engine. So I opened
2005.08.24 20:20:30 EDT Copyright Flowchart; Baby Terrorists; Police vs. Stormtrooper; Scientist Cards The Lawyers at Bromberg and Sunstein put together a flowchart to determine the expiry of a copyrighted work. This is one heck of a complicated flowchart... even worse then some of the Oulipo automatic
2005.05.04 21:55:00 EDT Courtney Love does the Math daviews hosts Courtney Love's message to RIAA. An excerpt: Tipping/music as service I know my place. I'm a waiter. I'm in the service industry. I live on tips. Occasionally, I'm going to get stiffe
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