Adventures in My Mind
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Aug 31, 2005
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Do, do, do, do, do, doo. You say it's you're birthday. Do, do, do, do, do, doo. Well it's my birthday, too. Yeah!
And also on this date:Today is also BlogDay, International Day of Bloggers.
- 2 - Roman Emporer Gaius Caligula is born
- 651 - St. Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop, missionary, and namesake to my son dies
- 1422 - King Henry V, king of England dies
1888 - Jack the Ripper claims his first victim, Mary Ann Nichols - 1897 - Thomas Edison patents the kinetescope, the first motion picture projector
- 1907 - England, Russia, and France form the Triple Entente alliance
- 1948 - Rudolf Schenker, guitarist for German hard rock band Scoprions is born
- 1973 - John Ford, American film director dies
1980 - Soldarity trade union is formed in Poland
Cheers!
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Aug 26, 2005
Hello Spool?
Jared gets recruited by Microsoft. Yet another grand slam for their "user experience" philosophies.
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Aug 25, 2005
How to Escape the Oil Trap - Newsweek
Fareed Zakaria wisely suggests that our frightening dependence on oil is the greatest problem facing U.S. foreign policy. This is a point that can hardly be argued. Think puppet regimes. Think unilateral decisions. Think armed intervention. Think pre-emptive warfare. Think American hegemony. Think oil.
Now think alternative fuels. Think increased fuel efficiency standards. Think renewable resources. Now try to imagine us supporting feudal theocracies like Saudi Arabia with these technologies rapidily lowering our daily oil consumption.
Admittedly, complete dependence from oil may be many years away but as Zakaria states ...We don't need a Manhattan Project to find our way out of our current energy trap. The technologies already exist. But what we're searching for is perhaps even harder—political leadership and vision.It would be easy to single out the Bush administration as being singularly incapable of embracing any vision that leads us from the oil trough, but they are not the first to help their cronies in the international oil industry exploit our greed for oil. Nor, I regret, will they be the last.
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Aug 24, 2005
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Aug 23, 2005
Listen up all you empty suiters and Stanford MBAs.
You need to read What Bootsy said
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U.S. evangelist calls for assassination of Chavez
Apparently Pat is an Old Testament kind of Christian.
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Aug 13, 2005
The blogs are busy talking about Cindy Sheehan. So is traditional media. I just watched a report on my local CBS affiliate here in Pittsburgh. I've heard stories or reports on NPR everyday for the last week.
One reporter called her the poster child for the anti-war movement. I guess I grudgingly agree with that epithet. Grudgingly because I really hate the term to begin with. Poster child is a necessarily exploitive term. The person on the poster, whether it's one of Jerry's Kids or a grieving mother posting a vigil on a dusty Texas road, has one aspect of their lives become the sole defining attribute. One has MD the other a son who died in a foolish war. Each is much more than that.
The flipside, of course, is that Sheehan has also become a lightning rod of protest herself. Bus loads of so-called troop supporters have been arriving daily in Crawford to inform her of their disgust for her position. After all what right does she have in protesting the President's choice to lead us to war in Iraq? Doesn't she know that the only way to support the troops is to unquestioningly approve of such actions? Isn't it perfectly clear that the price of freedom is her son's life? I'm not so sure. Clearly, neither is she.
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Aug 9, 2005
Adventures now available for syndication
That's right. After putting it off and putting it off, I have finally made this RSS compatible. Please see the upper right column for your syndication method of choice. If I don't use a method that you prefer, I am sorry. But this is all that I have available right now through Feedburner.
For all of you who have blogs and haven't syndicated yet, I highly recommend it. As more and more aggregation services become available (and easier to use) the days of typing in your favorite blogs' URL may be numbered.
Plus it's really, really cool to see my content on My Yahoo!
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Aug 8, 2005
Some things should be avoided while driving
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Aug 7, 2005
I know I am not the only one, but I am saddened by the current state of American cinema. The dreck that is being pushed out by Hollywood is simply appalling. The IQ required to watch this drivel is somewhere south of "mentally incompotent to stand trial" and sinking fast.
I sat at a cookout last night and heard these words: "Dukes of Hazzard was hilarious. It's the best I've seen since Wedding crashers." Optimism tells me that I don't have to explain the shock value of that statement. If so, please click to your next blog,you will find nothing of interest here. (Wow! That was spoken like a true Film School snob. Heh, heh.)
Granted I was eavesdropping on a group of late teens and early 20 somethings, but still ... Dukes of Hazzard was hilarious? My generosity can only be extended so far! Of course, oncoming middle age has hardened me to senseless frivolity, but I certainly have not forgotten what good comedy is.
Anyway, I'm ranting. But, since this is my space, I'm allowed.
Final thoughts: Hollywood sucks. Teens wouldn't know a good movie if it hit them in the face. And I am a movie snob. C'est le cinema!
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