Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Everything you ever needed to know about Glenn Beck

From Glenn Beck becomes damaged goods | Salon News:

"The animosity between Beck and Kelly continued to deepen. When Beck and Hattrick produced a local version of Orson Welles' 'War of the Worlds' for Halloween -- a recurring motif in Beck's life and career -- Kelly told a local reporter that the bit was a stupid rip-off of a syndicated gag. The slight outraged Beck, who got his revenge with what may rank as one of the cruelest bits in the history of morning radio. 'A couple days after Kelly's wife, Terry, had a miscarriage, Beck called her live on the air and says, 'We hear you had a miscarriage,' ' remembers Brad Miller, a former Y95 DJ and Clear Channel programmer. 'When Terry said, 'Yes,' Beck proceeded to joke about how Bruce [Kelly] apparently can't do anything right -- about he can't even have a baby.'"

Joe Wilson at the Gettysburg Address

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Let's ask doctors about health care


Poll Finds Most Doctors Support Public Option : NPR: "Most doctors — 63 percent — say they favor giving patients a choice that would include both public and private insurance. That's the position of President Obama and of many congressional Democrats. In addition, another 10 percent of doctors say they favor a public option only; they'd like to see a single-payer health care system. Together, the two groups add up to 73 percent."
Communists... or something;)

Monday, September 14, 2009

The original Mac?

MAC PANEL computer tape (Dec, 1961)

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Ghost Fleet

Some of the hundreds of container cargo ships of the "Ghost Fleet of Malaysia".  The ships sit at anchor of the coast of Malaysia as the global economic downturn has left them without cargo to ship.



Do not tell these men and women about green shoots of recovery. As Briton Tim Huxley, one of Asia's leading ship brokers, says, if the world is really pulling itself out of recession, then all these idle ships should be back on the move. This is the time of year when everyone is doing all the Christmas stuff,' he points out.  'A couple of years ago those ships would have been steaming back and forth, going at full speed. But now you've got something like 12 per cent of the world's container ships doing nothing.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1212013/Revealed-The-ghost-fleet-recession.html#ixzz0R6CY9JND


Wednesday, September 09, 2009

09:09 09/09/09


Five nines.  (First one to mention that my camera's timestamp is set an hour off gets a prize.  Unfortunately the prize is scorn.)

Monday, March 02, 2009

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Lee Ogle Spelling Bee 2/26/09

9:46 Auditorium filling quickly. No wireless so this is a non-live blog.

9:55 Guy in front of me has a point and shoot 35 MM film camera.

Henri went out on alleviate in the third round in 13th place.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Will Leitch's review has to be better than the movie

The Will Leitch Experience -- FRIDAY THE 13TH:

"Jason should only be about killing stuff: That’s as complicated as he needs to be. I prefer to think that when there aren’t any teenagers around, Jason just hacks at inanimate objects with a battle ax, waiting for them to start spewing blood and sighing quietly when they don’t. Walls, lamps, picture frames, pianos, whatever."

Thursday, February 12, 2009

The fools who run this place

DispatchPolitics : U.S. Rep. Austria blames Depression on Roosevelt Columbus Dispatch Politics:
"'When (President Franklin) Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression,' (US Rep Steve) Austria (R-MoronOhio) said. 'He tried to borrow and spend, he tried to use the Keynesian approach, and our country ended up in a Great Depression. That's just history.'"


Shouldn't a basic grasp of a country's history be necessary to be a member of one its parliamentary houses? Further, I wonder if right this second King could pass the citizenship test administered to people trying to become naturalized citizens. I would bet against him. Honestly, just based on the above statement, I would bet against him passing it.

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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Mic in track

Remember searching Napster for "Mic in Track" to find MusicMatch Jukebox recorded audio? I do, and so does this guy. The difference is he still has the mp3z, and you can download them from him. Check the link for what the page's author calls "unique examples of audio vérité."

Stark Effect - mic in track

Some neat stuff.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

On the 100-0 high school basketball game

Dear Micah Grimes,

You know normally I'm supportive of my fellow namesakes, but you really screwed the pooch on this one. If this report is even remotely accurate, you seriously screwed up and got the proper punishment.

Having been a coach on both sides of debacles like this (though not this bad obviously*), you deserve your firing You were running up the score. If you can't keep your team from doing something like this, you lack the discipline and judgment necessary to coach. If you lack the coaching ability to figure out ways to prevent your team from scoring quickly, you're not innovative enough to coach. You had kids shooting treys in the fourth quarter!

This was a ten round boxing match that should've been a second round KO, but the ref was powerless to stop it. The manager, you, instead of instructing your fighter to stand over his opponent for eight more rounds, told your fighter to go out there and wallop them while they were down.

Learn your lesson. Have a good life. If you truly see the err of your ways (and not that you were fired), I wish you success in finding another coaching gig, but know that you will always be the guy that ran the score up 100-0 on a school for kids with learning disabilities.

Thanks,
Micah

*Getting beat 14-0 in soccer is pretty dang close though.