Archive for October, 2006
Monday, October 30th, 2006
Friends don’t let friends go nucular
A few weeks have passed and most of us have already forgotten about North Korean nuclear weapons, which is understandable what with more important things going on like Sara Evans leaving Dancing with the Stars and Michael J. Fox pretending his Parkinson’s is actually a problem. We’ve also got eight and a half good […]
1 Comment » - Posted in (In)security by shelbinator
Friday, October 27th, 2006
No do-overs
Wow, coffee? Yeah, you really only get one crack at making it. No matter how tired you are nor how badly you need just a little somethin’ somethin’ to get you through a dull morning teleconference, if you’re out of coffee, you’re out of coffee. Don’t start tryin’ to be Jesus and […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Homelife by shelbinator
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
They don’t support our troops
Turns out, surprise surprise, GOP only pays lip service to troops, says Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America.
To calculate the Ratings, IAVA reviewed all legislation voted on in the Congress since September 11, 2001. For each piece of legislation that affected troops, veterans or military families, IAVA took a position either in support of, […]
No Comments » - Posted in File this, Politics by shelbinator
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
All better
Well, I went through all of the best- and worst-case scenarios I could muster at a loud bar, went home and continued my little pity party, and turned off the alarm so I could sleep today until my body was good and ready. Oddly enough, I dare say I feel fan-flippin’-tastic. Hear hear! […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Cracktastic, Homelife by shelbinator
Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Oh. Well. Isn’t that a pisser.
I’ve been trying to be better with setting realistic, bite-sized goals lately, and not going home until I knock at least a couple of them out each day. Right at the top of today’s list, after a few days’ postponement: print out application for the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, so I can […]
13 Comments » - Posted in Cracktastic, Rant by shelbinator
Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Code 46
“One of the best bad movies I’ve ever seen.”
1 Comment » - Posted in Cool things, Recommends by shelbinator
Friday, October 20th, 2006
Flying across the line
Wednesday night, it was Miller Time. I had received my shipment of PMMA rods (heh heh, “rods”) a couple days before and, unlike the wildly expensive and six-months-delayed pieces of titanium crap my research sponsors provided, they were straight, round, and consistently within a couple thousandths of the target 1″ diameter. I may […]
No Comments » - Posted in Cracktastic, Scary by shelbinator
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Wow, seriously? What a dick.
Once again acting like they don’t realize just how hostile their actions seem to the rest of the world, the Bush Administration
releases a new space policy:
Michael Krepon, co-founder of the Henry L. Stimson Center, a nonpartisan think tank that follows the space-weaponry issue, said the policy changes will reinforce international suspicions that the United States […]
No Comments » - Posted in File this by shelbinator
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Let’s do the time warp again
What ever happened to time capsules, anyway? I mean, besides the obvious fact that they are somewhere in the ground, rusting, rotting, and being churned up by backhoes in the wake of so many condominium developments. (I said backhoes.) I seem to remember a period of my youth in which “time capsule” […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Nostalgia, Social by shelbinator
Friday, October 13th, 2006
Fuzzy wuzzy wuzzannoying
Partly out of laziness and lack of creativity, and partly out of a desire not to let go so easily of the claws I spent many hours constructing three years ago, I’ve decided to recycle my Wolverine costume for Halloween this year. Pretty though they are, the claw assemblies are just thin pieces of […]
