What The Hell Am I Doing Here?
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Saturday, December 13, 2003 |
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Dept. of Boo-'Effing-Hoo When a One-of-a-Kind Car Looks So Last Year. Chrysler had no idea that the PT Cruiser would be such a hit when it went on sale in the spring of 2000, or that its buzz would evaporate three years later. By Micheline Maynard. [New York Times: Technology] Dude, it looks like Col. Klink's staff car!!! Trendy? Nazi? Trendy?
Either way, we're talking dated. |
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A fascinating panorama from Peter Murphy:
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Thousands of Jehovah Witnesses are in town for a big Convention at Olympic Park. Part of the action today was this mass baptism ceremony - |
Dept. of We're Not, In Fact, In Kansas
It just keeps growing, especially when the dryer is running, as it vents to the roof. |
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Dept. of The Squirrel Who Came Out Of The Cold
2004: A Squirrel Odyssey!
The arctic ground squirrel can drop its internal temperature to as low as minus three degrees Celsius. While another animal's blood would freeze in its veins, the hibernating squirrel's keeps right on flowing. I can see it now.... "Open the Habitrail doors, HAL."
"I'm sorry Rocky, I can't do that." |
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Friday, December 12, 2003 |
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Dept. of Mission Acomplished
Remember our other war? The one that isn't going so well?
I know, it's hard to keep the debacles straight. |
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Dept. of Commerce
Go forth and purchase.
I gotta drive dad around town again today. Catch y'all later. |
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Dept. of Hanging In
Damn cold out today: |
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Dept. of Connections
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Dept. of The Usual Suspects Pentagon Finds Halliburton Overcharged on Iraq Contracts. The Pentagon found evidence of violations in billions of dollars worth of reconstruction contracts for Iraq that were awarded to Halliburton. By Douglas Jehl. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Shocked. |
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Thursday, December 11, 2003 |
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Dept. of Co-Pilots
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Dept. of Sweet And Lowdown
Long day, spent ferrying my dad around town and other errands. I'm too pooped to really blog as usual and even with my new reading glasses, the stories in my news aggregator still look too overwhelmingly crowded to go through.
So, I'm listening to Django Reinhart and lusting over a Gitane guitar. (makes a great gift!) |
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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 |
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Props to BoingBoing for the laugh of the day:
What else is there to say? |
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Dept. of Glaciers Pt. 2
You know the clicking drill. |
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Dept. of Glaciers, Backyard
As always, click on the photo and make it BiG. |
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Pixies to release DVD! Cool! One of my favorite bands of all time, releasing a collection of videos and a documentary:
The DVD will feature eight Pixies videos, for such tracks as "Debaser," "Here Comes Your Man" and "Monkey Gone to Heaven." Also included is the documentary "Gouge," which was shown on British television a few years ago and sports interviews with Radiohead's Thom Yorke, David Bowie (news) and U2 frontman Bono.
::drool:: |
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Tuesday, December 9, 2003 |
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Dept. of Let It Snow! Let It Snow! etc...
Happy Northern Hemisphere Holiday Greetings from Domino!
As always, click on the snowy photo to make it BiG. |
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Dept. of Que
And it truly is. Watch it all the way to the end.
Tokyo LOVES Apple. Yes they do. |
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Dept. of Wild Blue Yonders
Hey, things are going along swimmingly for the gang at Scaled Composites! Who knows, maybe I'll get that ride into space after all.
SS1 performed a set of maneuvers during the flight, including a 4-g pull-up and stability tests. The vehicle also performed a "full functional check" of its propulsion system by cold flowing nitrous oxide oxidizer during the flight. "All propulsion components, displays and functionality performed as designed," the company noted in a description of the flight on its web site.
Note to my buddy Jason- they're using nitrous as fuel, though it's some sort of secret solid type. |
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DEPT OF I WAS HAVING A SANDWICH
...WHEN I NOTICED THAT I WAS VERY INSPIRATIONAL TO DEPRESSED NORWEGIAN PAINTERS WHO MUCH LIKE ME ARE TORMENTED BY CHILDISH ROOMMATES AND WHO LONG TO HAVE A PUPPY.
This familiar painting, "The Scream," is Edvard Munch's most famous work. Yet for more than a century, the event that inspired it has eluded identification. THAT IS ALL.
Yes, it's an in-joke. |
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Dept. of Weather
As always, click on the photo to make it BiG. |
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Monday, December 8, 2003 |
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Dept of Madness
This is very disturbing news. Let's face it, it makes the U.S. look like a pawn of Sharon's Israel. And that's not just my opinion.
US special forces teams are already behind the lines inside Syria attempting to kill foreign jihadists before they cross the border, and a group focused on the "neutralisation" of guerrilla leaders is being set up, according to sources familiar with the operations. So, it looks like we've given up on winning hearts and minds and have decided to just kill Arabs.
Does this sound like an American commander:
Colonel Ralph Peters, a former army intelligence officer and a critic of Pentagon policy in Iraq, said yesterday there was nothing wrong with learning lessons wherever possible. This tragic mess gets more tragic and messy with each new development.
Illustrations from Gush Shalom |
Obscene. And stupid.|
Dept. of Writ
Washington DC and Lindon Utah -- During a fictitious teleconference yesterday, three of America's most active intellectual property litigators announced that they have decided to pool their efforts and jointly file what they're calling "a reverse class action suit against every human being on the entire planet."
Now we know why the Cylons are so pissed off. |
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Battlestar Galactica progress report: YEAH!!!!! kickass.
Much better than I expected. |
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Initial report- the first fifteen minutes of Battlestar Galactica have kicked ass. Love the new Cylons. That is all.
For now. |
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Dept. of Hakuna Mutata
I love meerkats. |
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Dept. of I Didn't Go To Burger King
Fuuuuuuck.
Link props to Adam, such as they are. |
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Korean trio missing in Antarctic. [BBC News ] UPDATED>Three South Koreans still missing and another is reported dead as an Antarctic mission runs into trouble. [Nippon Goro Goro] Damn, nasty business.
Antarctica will kill you if you aren't 100% on your game. |
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Signs of Intelligence: Please Help Me Help Others!. Just three weeks left to get a tax deduction for this year! Help me help others with AIDS/Lifecycle! Lots of exclamation points!!! [Morons Dot Org]
Help Nick help others and contribute to his pledge drive, please. |
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Dept. of The Man Is Hard At Work
The stupidity of school administrators never ceases to amaze and infuriate me.
A student expelled from Parkway High for a year for having Advil, an over-the-counter pain reliever, will not be allowed to return to the school.
At what point did people in the U.S. lose all common sense and start using bazookas to hunt down every little mosquito that bothers them? |
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Dept. of Going Down (with the ship)
ARRRR! A cyber-pirate ship sinks on the shoals of commerce, me mateys!
Sharman Networks, the company behind the original Kazaa, approached the ISP of every website that hosted the program and ordered its removal on grounds of copyright infringement. 4:06:02 PM  leave/read comments []
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Dept. of Today It Hit The Fan
And they say fish can't express emotions? I know just how the little fish feels.
For that matter, I know how the big one feels, too- Muuuummmmm, trout! |
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Stocks Set to Slide as Dollar Continues to Fall. Stocks were set to open lower as the dollar slid against the euro, deepening concerns that U.S. investments are losing allure internationally. By Reuters. [New York Times: Business] Welcome to the recovery-less recovery!
War is peace! etc... |
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Dept. of Reflections
Excellent extended article about the birth of queer agitprop. I can't help but wonder if the silver lining inside the cloud that is AIDS is that the AIDS crisis galvanized Queer society and gave it a focus and a legitimate moral voice that even the mainstream could no longer discount.
Perhaps, the multitude of souls who perished of AIDS did not die in vain, perhaps they were the brave warriors whose sacrifice will bring freedom to those of us left behind. |
Opening the door to a new week. |
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Sunday, December 7, 2003 |
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Dept. of Tis The Season
Ho. Ho. Ho. |
Took photos of my nieces and the dog for my folks' Xmas cards this afternoon.|
Dept. of Cojones
Go go Graydon!!!
Carter has turned his normally innocuous monthly Editor's Letter into a campaign for 'regime change'.
Love it. |
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Japan-U.S. Embassy (Kyodo). It appears that the United States has not paid the rent for its embassy in Tokyo since 1998. The U.S. State Department contends it owns the land. Japan says the property belongs to the Foreign Ministry. No plans, so far, to evict the Yanks. [Nippon Goro Goro] It's amazing how the U.S. government keeps finding new ways to piss off our friends and neighbors.
It's quite a, um, errrr, uh, talent. |
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Dept. of BiG Evil
And to think that there are actually people who buy the LIE that Republicans are the party of "small government." More like small-minded and hard-hearted and patently criminal.
President Bush and the Republican-led Congress are spending money at a rate not seen since World War II - and America's expanding war on terrorism isn't the main reason.
Read his lips- you're all screwed. |
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U.S. Remembers Pearl Harbor Attack. PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) -- With a giant American flag waving at half-staff under a cloudy sky, an aging and dwindling group of Pearl Harbor survivors gathered Sunday to commemorate the Japanese attack that launched the United States into World War II 62 years ago. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Today was reached at his home in Infamy, where he refused comment. |
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Japan-WWII Brothels (Los Angeles Times). A recently declassified report reveals how Japan ran brothels during World War II. [Nippon Goro Goro]
This is not the chicken ranch. |
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Zimbabwe quits Commonwealth. Zimbabwe withdraws from the Commonwealth after member states decide to extend its suspension. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Was that the sound of the shit hitting the fan?
Is there anything that can stop Mugabe from dragging his country down into hell? |
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Dept. of Awards
Th photo's caption, a quote from Perry, pretty much says it all.
Perry accepted the award in a dress, as his female alter-ego Claire, thanked his wife and said he was "stunned". 6:05:51 PM leave/read comments []
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Dept. of Relaxation
Click the photo to make it BiG. |
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Dept. of What To Watch The power of prophecy. Mike Nichols' HBO production of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" brings the most glorious, most thrilling and most painful work of contemporary American theater into the living room. [Salon.com] For you folks with HBO, be sure to catch this tonight. But wait until you've seen it to read the linked review- its chock full of spoilers.
Better go to the store and get some more kleenex...... |
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