Archive for September, 2006
Friday, September 29th, 2006
Microsoft must die
I need help from anyone out there who works on both a Mac and a Wintel box on a regular basis. Either I’ve got a particularly defective copy of Microsuck Office 2004 for Mac, or I’ve discovered a gaping pus-oozing hole of retardedness in Excel for Mac. Either way, those security-sucking monopolistic pricks […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Geekery, Rant by shelbinator
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
I confess
I was listening to some news program on the ol’ podcast format the other day, and they were talking about sleep deprivation as an interrogation technique. The commentators were discussing the public opinions of some public official — I think in Israel — who was deploring sleep deprivation from personal experience, saying that the […]
No Comments » - Posted in Cracktastic, Get physical, Homelife by shelbinator
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Don’t mind me
I’m in a losing battle against the clock to finish a new and hopefully final (for this phase anyway) set of simulations in my research so I present them in a teleconference with my customer and NASA on Friday. I thought I was in decent shape, even after the Great Coredump of 24 September; […]
No Comments » - Posted in Cracktastic, Geekery by shelbinator
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
So dirty
This country is fascinating in the way that it can sometimes fill you with joyful awe and utter revulsion in the same moment.
Much closer to the happy end of the spectrum, this week Georgia Tech’s campus was visited by “The Christians” as I like to call them. They pop up about once a semester […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Culture, Politics, Religion, Scary by shelbinator
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
House report: America less safe
House Intel Committee confirms what everyone but Bush admin already knew: they’re putting us in greater danger, not protecting us.
The al-Qaeda terrorist network has replaced leaders killed or captured, and Iraq has served as a breeding ground and a training opportunity for new terrorists, says the report issued yesterday by the House Permanent Select Committee […]
No Comments » - Posted in File this by shelbinator
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
What a croc
I have a lot of cargo needs. Over the last several weeks I have been attempting to deal with these cargo needs by adding various claptrap to my bike or my person: first a cargo rack, then a rack trunk bag, and finally a messenger bag that should be out of my price range […]
9 Comments » - Posted in Homelife, Random by shelbinator
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Total spazz
When one is too tired to write, there is always video.
Crazy dog
Sarah, she don’t like to swim too much, so she just gets mad at the water.
2 Comments » - Posted in The Dogfather, Video by shelbinator
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Phone is ringin - ohmahgawd
To this day, researchers have not been able to pinpoint exactly what it is about the Fall London Program at the University of Notre Dame that increases the risk of mental defect by several orders of magnitude, and without conclusive evidence the university carelessly allows the program to continue unfettered. While many suspect the […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Nostalgia, Social by shelbinator
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Muslims reject allegations of violence by calling for violence
It’s like the retards don’t understand the word “irony.” Maybe it just don’t translate into Arabic.
“We will smash the cross,” it added, promising Muslims they would “conquer Rome… as they conquered Constantinople.”
Another armed group linked to Al-Qaeda, Ansar al-Sunna (Partisans of the Precepts of the Prophet), threatened in a website statement to attack the […]
No Comments » - Posted in File this by shelbinator
Monday, September 18th, 2006
Diebold: stealing elections, or just giving them away?
Why shouldn’t we trust the guy who promised to “deliver Ohio” to George W. Bush?
Hotel minibar keys open voting machines
The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine — the door that protects the memory card that stores the votes, and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus — can be […]
