Liveblogging the Fort Brag Speech

Wonkette:
"8:02: First mention of 9/11. Drink.
8:04: Second mention of 9/11. We're going to be soooo drunk.
8:05: 'Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed.'
Unlike most Americans, I could have prevented it."

Ok, back to work.

Some Recent Pictures

A colleague threw a party last weekend. Molly, Lilah and I attended, along with a few hundred of his neighbors and other work-mates

The value, for our purpose, is recent pictures of Lilah and Molly.

Wallace And Gromit - Were Rabbit

Yea!

So, this is how you find me....

So, every web site can have logs kept of every access. One of the things the logs can tell you is the Referer. That is, what link did the user click on to get to your page.

Someone, out in the great internet cosmos entered this search at MSN: copulate

Among the top five or so results was a link to this entry on my very own blog.

We're full service at Right Here, Right Now.

Giveaways - gnomedex - JotSpot

Giveaways - gnomedex - JotSpot: "David Geller and WhatCounts will be giving away an Apple Mac Mini and several iPod shuffles for no apparent reason other than they're all really cool and he achieves some degree of satisfaction buying them and helping convert people to Apple products one at a time. And this from someone that was a Windows developer since the Windows 386 and 2.0 days. Also, the Mac Mini is the only computer that will fit comfortably into the front pouch on the company Segway."

I don't know what it means, but it's cool to me that someone thinks they're saving the world by giving away Macs.

I may never get my car serviced again

My current and previous car have a feature that puts up a warning light on your dash when the next maintenance is due. At first the light just flashes at startup as the maintenance mileage approaches. As you get nearer to the designated mileage the light stays on.

Since we are trained to respond when a dash light comes on, I always get my car serviced so that they'll reset the thing and my tension level can ratchet down a notch.

I had the oil changed yesterday, the 10,000 mile service, and they forgot to reset the warning! I was torn between taking time out to go back to the dealership and driving with the light on for another 10,000 miles. I decided to go back, but I called to make sure I'd be in and out quickly.

The fellow at the dealership told me how to reset the light! I feel like I'm in on a trade secret - I'm an insider now! Whee. So, I was able to reset the light and saved the trip.

Life's little pleasures.

Update: I'm told the directions to do this are in the manual.... (I should probably read the manual.) :-)

GOP Congressman Wants Troops Out of Iraq

ABC News: "'When I look at the number of men and women who have been killed it's almost 1,700 now, in addition to close to 12,000 have been severely wounded and I just feel that the reason of going in for weapons of mass destruction, the ability of the Iraqis to make a nuclear weapon, that's all been proven that it was never there,' Jones said on ABC's 'This Week.'"

Wow. This is apparently one of the guys who drove the Freedom Fries French bashing in Congress.

WWDC2005

WWDC2005 - 76
Originally uploaded by dnorman.

Yea, the team is really working hard.... I'd be jealous, but I'm too old to share a hotel room with anyone other than family. I will rue the day I have to make a company trip.

Good advice

John advises: "You know, when you're a bull, you should stop looking for red flags."

That's right, you're not from Texas.

Chicago Tribune: Old South racism lives in Texas town

"They picked up Billy Ray Johnson outside a convenience store in this East Texas bayou town, a place where Confederate flags fly in some front yards and a mural of barefoot slaves picking cotton greets patrons inside the local post office.

On a cool September night in 2003, they drove the 42-year-old mentally retarded black man to a cow pasture where a crowd of white youths was having a party. They got Johnson drunk, they made him dance, they jeered at him with racial epithets.

Then, according to court testimony, one of Johnson's assailants punched him in the face, knocking him out cold. They tossed his unconscious body into the back of a pickup and dumped him by the side of a dirt road, on top of a mound of stinging fire ants."

You're not gonna believe the sentence those good-old boys got. (click the link, read the article.)

Addendum: I'm told you have to register with the Tribune to see the article. Sorry about that; I must have done that a while ago and forgotten. The bottom line is, the 'boys' got off, it was decided, since the victim was retarded, not just black, that the Feds couldn't come after them with civil rights charges and the local town folk, interrupted during their banjo lessons, don't understand what the fuss is about.

Your candidate is as dumb as mine.

CNN.com - Kerry, Bush had similar grades: "Sen. John F. Kerry's grade average at Yale University was virtually identical to President Bush's record there, despite repeated portrayals of Kerry as the more intellectual candidate during the 2004 presidential campaign."

Mighty Goods: Shopping Blog

Mighty Goods. Better living through consumption. Ok, we have to consume, don't we? And we need gift ideas? That's what this site is for.

Mark Felt; Hero

Ken Duberstein was a Reagan Chief of Staff and currently runs (we must assume) a conservative leaning Washington lobbying firm.

The Huffington Post: "Duberstein said that, in reading all the media reports of the last few days, he put himself back in his shoes as White House chief of staff. He thought, with the information Felt had in front of him, 'What options did he have?' 'He couldn't go to the White House Chief of Staff (Haldeman or Ehrlichman); he couldn't go to the Justice Department (John Mitchell); he couldn't go to the White House Counsel (John Dean). He did something responsible. The congressional committees hadn't been formed yet. What do you do? Felt put America first.'"

In case you are new to Watergate, all of the President's men mentioned in that paragraph went to prison for their various Watergate related deeds.

I don't watch news on TV (unless there is a natural disaster to learn up on), so this is second hand, but apparently the Nixon apologists are hard at Mark Felt, accusing him of traitorous behavior. Wait, I found a link.

It is just incredible.

Lee, Remember this site

The Vanity Fair Article

This is the Vanity Fair article that broke the Deep Throat story.