Curly: Day ain't over yet...
--- City Slickers
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Biofuels have caused world food prices to increase by 75 percent, according to the findings of an unpublished World Bank report
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You can’t make this stuff up
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For starters, version 8 was a 22 MB download. Version 9 is a mere 33 MB — a whole major version up, and not even twice as big.
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But in Internet Explorer, the image is not checked for it’s meta-data and the code inside it’s source will be rendered as HTML because HTML is present in it.
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Adobe seems hell-bent on taking a great format (PDF) and epitomizing the worst of all things bloatware with it.
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A recently passed law requires that Texas computer-repair technicians have a private-investigator license
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Tax money: Some taxpayers told the board they weren’t thrilled with the idea of paying nearly $100,000 for a musical instrument for teenagers.
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No school district needs a $97,000, top-of-the-line grand piano.
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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense in their homes, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.
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We were once a country that saw any problem as a potential opportunity, and here the opportunity is obvious
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the highest-ranking officer among the accused is considering a lawsuit against Democratic Rep. John Murtha, who fueled the case by declaring the men cold-blooded killers.
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The formation, measuring 150ft in diameter, is apparently a coded image representing the first 10 digits, 3.141592654, of pi.
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Michael Moore steals one of Michael Yon’s images for the header of his website.
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politicians and activists are already lining up against the deal, saying it could cost jobs in the United States and send ownership of an iconic American company overseas.
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The U.S. Justice Department cleared the merger of Molson Coors’ and SABMiller’s domestic beer operations. Federal antitrust officials said the proposed joint venture, to be named MillerCoors, “is not likely to lessen competition substantially.”
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The antitrust enforcer’s approval, which largely had been expected, allows the brewing giants to form a company that will control nearly 30% of beer sales in the U.S.
Well that pretty much sums up my day (ok, so there was a bit of a comment).
Another typical ‘der’ Government moment:
rabbittransit KICKS OFF DUMP THE PUMP MONTH WITH GIVEAWAY AT SOVEREIGN STADIUM
in an effort to raise awareness regarding transportation alternatives, rabbittransit announces June as “Dump the Pump Month”. The kick-off event will take place at Sovereign Stadium in York this Sunday during the York Revolution and Somerset Patriots game. To promote the use of alternatives, rabbittransit will give away a new bicycle, a one-month pass and one 11-ride pass – all of which can be used for transportation on rabbittransit.
Well thats all very nice. A bicycle and a two bus passes. That’ll really get a lot of people to ‘dump the pump’.
You know what would REALLY work well here? Actually having BUS SERVICE to and from the games at Sovereign Bank Stadium. I’m just saying….
You know you’re busy when you have to take off work so you can work.
I did have a legit reason to take a personal day (taking myself and two of the kids to the dentist) but it also gave me the opportunity to catch up on a ton of side jobs that had stacked up over the past month. Basic things like a wireless router install, a spyware/virus cleanup, a new computer install and one case of fixing an XP SP3 install gone bad. Nothing challenging, just time consuming.
The only thing that tripped me up a bit was putting a linksys wireless router onto a Verizon DSL line. The Linksys and the Verizon DSL modem refused to talk to each other. At first I thought Verizon was doing some kind of proprietary PPPoE crap which was blocking the Linksys. Turns out that this Verizon install used a Westell modem which likes to pretend it’s a router as well… on the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. The same default subnet of the Linksys. After I changed the subnet of the linksys everything worked fine.
It’s small, annoying problems like that that add 15-20 minutes to an otherwise plug and play install that drive me nuts. Thanks Verizon.
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the seat pole decided to snap and then I had four kilometres with a long elongated device very close to my posterior,” he said.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Belgian brewer InBev’s $46 billion bid for U.S. giant Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc will shake up Mexico’s cozy beer duopoly.
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n InBev NV purchase of U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch Cos. may trigger more mergers among beer producers
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Asahi will import a further six brands to Japan, including Stella Artois and Hoegaarden
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Sapporo Holdings plans to make around 100 bottles of the special brew, using the offspring of barley grains that spent five months onboard the International Space Station, as part of a joint Japanese/Russian experiment.
Can anyone tell me how/why this movie won so many damn awards? I attempted to watch this movie last night with the wife and it bored the living hell out of us. It was one of those movies where you keep glancing at the timer hoping it would end soon but also hoping it would, at some point, actually wake up and be an entertaining movie.
Didn’t happen.
At first I though maybe I just didn’t ‘get it’. Maybe I’m not the type of movie person who enjoys Academy Award ‘Best Picture’ kind of flicks (my tastes do tend to lean towards Army of Darkness and Monty Python’s Holy Grail kind of films after all). After checking the list of Best Picture winners I realized this wasn’t the case. The Departed, Crash, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Gladiator are all recent winners which I thought were great movies. No Country for Old Men doesn’t belong on that list. After reading the forum for the movie on IMDB I see a lot of people agree with me.
Conversely, we recently watched the 2005 movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (which only won 4 awards (no Academy) compared to Country’s 88 awards) and thought it was great… far, far better than that boring, monotonous, piece of crap Country. I’m not sure how I missed this one when it came out. I just happened to stumble upon it while browsing through Blockbuster online and added it to the queue.
Harry: I peed on the corpse. Can they do, like, an ID from that?
Perry: I’m sorry, you peed on…?
Harry: On the corpse. My question is…
Perry: No, my question. I get to go first. Why in pluperfect hell would you pee on corpse?
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang gets the Psycho award of two beers up. Rent it.
Weezer’s great new video for their upcoming single “Pork and Beans”
So I was a little overzealous in my spam cleanup and ended up deleting a couple of valid comments (I thought I was in the moderate queue when I was actually in the comment queue (which comments waiting to be moderated also sit in for some reason)). So if you’ve noticed one of your recent comments missing, sorry.
A couple of days ago I stopped in the Hunt Valley Gamestop to pick up a DS game for the oldest daughters birthday. I quickly found what I was looking for and headed for the counter. Unfortunately for me, the two clerks currently on duty were involved in a very heated, loud and thought provoking discussion. It went something like this (paraphrased, but 99% accurate):
clerk1: All I’m saying is that I don’t like Racer X in the movie. They totally changed his costume and didn’t stay faithful to the original show.
clerk2: But it looks much cooler now! The original black mask with white spandex looked stupid.
clerk1: But thats the way it was! They shouldn’t go messing with the basic cannon of the show.
clerk2: But dude! The white spandex costume just looked so gay! It was horrible.
clerk1: It didn’t look that gay!
clerk2: Yes, it did. It looked totally gay. The new all black costume is much cooler.
clerk1: What about Batman?! He wears spandex and I don’t hear you calling him gay.
clerk2: Thats because Batman wore spandex to dress like a giant, scary BAT! That’s totally not gay!
me: Hey! GUYS! Can I buy this now or what?
I swear it was like I was stuck in some Kevin Smith movie. Honestly, it was actually kind of pathetic. These guys looked to be at least in their mid-twenties and this was some serious shit to them.
The kicker was that they couldn’t actually find the game I was trying to buy so I ended having to stop buy the Shrewsbury Gamestop on the way home and get it there. Fortunately there was no gay spandex movie fight going on at that location.
If you just ignore the obvious.
Vista selling really well, says Ballmer
“Vista sells on almost 100 per cent of all the new consumer PCs around the world,” the Microsoft CEO proclaimed. He added that the operating system was also selling on, “45 percent of all of new business PCs”. Which is enlightening, since business users are about the ony buyers of new PCs that get a choice.
Which really is the point isn’t it? You can’t exactly walk into a Best Buy or WalMart and pick up an XP box anymore can you? Microsoft took care of that little issue a while ago. The only place you can get an XP box (that I’m aware of) is online and thats getting more difficult by the day.
In any case, I maintain that Vista’s actual numbers are inflated. Just because a machine shipped with Vista doesn’t mean its actually running Vista when it hits a users desk. Case in point: we just did a hardware refresh for five laptops in the company. Every one shipped with Vista install but that so called operating system was blown away with an XP install as soon as they hit our bench. Microsoft still counts those as Vista installs. Second case in point: we just recently rolled out an upgrade to 50+ desktop machines moving them from Windows 2000 to XP Pro. Of course you can’t actually buy Windows XP volume licenses anymore. You have to buy Vista volume licenses which, while currently allowing you to install XP instead of Vista, are actually recorded as Vista sales.
Vista just simply is not doing as well as Microsoft would have you believe.
A few years ago I wrote about an experience I had in the (back then) new Baltimore Orioles stadium Camden Yards. I’ve related the story many times since then but many times people simply do no believe me. So once again, I’ll refer back to my ‘I used to love Baseball‘ entry and the time an usher told me to shut up.
Once I got in, I watched men in suits drink wine and eat pastrami sandwiches while reading the paper or having a ‘client meeting’. They didn’t even appear to know there was a game going on. And if you can believe it, I was ’shushed’ by an usher because people nearby complained I was cheering too loud!
Yup. People have a hard time believing I was told to shut my trap for cheering at a Baseball game (for the home team no less).
So… as exhibit A in my attempt to defend my story, I present you with this article from todays Baltimore Examiner:
Hey, whose ballpark is this anyway?
It certainly was a great night to be an Orioles fan — one so great Thompson, 23, and Ward, 21, will remember it forever.
After all, it’s not every day you are honored by your beloved team for being the “Fans of the Game” one inning — and then get thrown out like Uncle Phil tossing D.J. Jazzy Jeff out of the Fresh Prince’s mansion the next.
side note: I’d just like to say that I have no clue as to why the author made that Will Smith reference here. Really, I can’t figure it out. Anyways….
The reason they were shown the exit faster than a Danys Baez fastball? Thompson, Ward and Co. apparently cheered too loudly for the home team that — get this — surrounding Red Sox fans complained enough to have the crew kicked out just minutes after being highlighted on the Jumbotron.
Thats right…. Just minutes after they had been selected as the Orioles ‘Fans of the Game’, they are removed from the stadium for cheering too loudly.
Admittedly I’d like to hear the other side of the story. Was there profanity, threats or anything else inappropriate for a ballpark? It sure doesn’t look like it. The Orioles aren’t talking about what happened and there where quite a few people who were at the game who called into a local radio show supporting the ejected fans saying that they did nothing wrong. Right now it doesn’t look good for the Orioles.
Money quote from the story:
“It’s bad enough we’ve had to watch bad baseball for 10 years, then they do things like this on top of it,” Thompson, a Parkville resident, said. “Some of us still support and love them, but the same ushers who reprimand Orioles fans let Sox and Yankees fans chant, stand and do whatever they want. They take over our stadium, and we’re the ones who are asked to leave. Go ahead and kick out the true fans they still have and see where it gets them.”
I’m reminded of the movie Major League. Maybe Angelos wants to move to team someplace warmer so he’s doing everything in his power to get attendance down to zero. If thats the case, its working.
Memo to Mr. Angelos and minions: Marketing doesn’t always mean having the catchiest jingle or leading the league in floppy hat and bobblehead giveaways. Often times, the best marketing is free. It’s in the way you treat people — the ones who spend their hard-earned dollars so the Orioles can pay grown men millions to play a kids’ game.
Yup… I used to love Baseball. Thank god for the Minor and Little leagues…. because thats all I care about anymore.
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John Little doesn’t look like a criminal. There are few states outside of Alabama where he would be one.
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2008 World Beer Cup Winners Announced!
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Free the Hops emerged in 2004 because some of the state’s most dedicated beer connoisseurs believed Alabama’s beer laws were so outmoded that the state had become out of sync with the rest of the country.
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Once again, Government attempts behavior modification through taxation.
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Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul’s newest book, “The Revolution: A Manifesto,” is number one on the New York Times Best Sellers list for May 18th, 2008
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Mr. McCain’s position as one of the wealthiest members of Congress is derived from his wife’s share of her family’s Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship here and extensive real estate investments through the company, holdings worth more than $10 million.
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London-listed SAB has paid an undisclosed sum for a 99.84pc stake in CJSC Sarmat, which operates a brewery in the east of the country.
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