Arnold Assaults 14 women; people plan to vote for him anyway.

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At first there were seven women, over the weekend, seven more have come forward to say that Arnold Schwarzenegger has groped, fondled, manhandled, attempted to undress, or did undress them against them against their will, as recently as 2000.
And yet millions of people plan to vote for him anyway. If he wins, I won’t be visiting California with my tourist dollar anytime soon. And this pretty much guarantees I’ll never see T3 or any other movie he’s in.

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World Beard Championships

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I have long been a proponent of elaborate, artistic facial hair styles. Sadly, I have little to no influence over my male friends and family in their choice of facial grooming habits, or they would all look like this. Fu manchu! Fu manchu!

As my co-workers examine the various facial hair styles available to the contestants, One co-worker projects what he might try to grow himself:

Rich

Whereas Mike suggests that the Championship is elitist, because they leave out the most interesting possibilities.

Facial Hair Options

Rich projects what Jerrod might look like with the “verdi” style beard, Jerrod declines to grow one.

Jerrod

Sigh. I’ll have to settle for a monocle for myself.

2019-04-18 update: Oh, this is a really funny post looking back after 16 years.

Hawthorn Mineart
Hawthorn Mineart
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a Real E-mail Conversation We Had At Work

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From: Mundy, Brent
Subject: Zeldman on Slashdot

[Regarding Zeldman’s Designing With Web Standards]
His book was reviewed and got a 9 out of 10!
From: Evers, Richard
And QUE’s “Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building Robots” is getting some attention! (Is Que finally moving out of the dreary realm of desktop apps? Hmmm.)
From: Mineart, Steph
That’s because it’s a cool book. “No previously robot building experience necessary.” Who doesn’t want to build their own robot? I’m planning a bot that will scrub the kitchen floor, and also will assist me in my nefarious plot to take over the world.
From: Mundy, Brent
Best of all, you all have access to it! Maybe we should have a robot project….
From: Mineart, Steph
I got the print copy instead of the Safari Online for the 10% off coupon for robot parts. The only quibble I have is that they cover all sorts of power sources, but they leave out nuclear. So I don’t know how to hook up that yellowcake uranium I bought from Niger.

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Overheard at an International Medical Convention

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An Israeli doctor says to a small circle of physicians, “Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks.”
A German doctor says, “That is nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks.”
A Russian doctor says, “In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks.”
A Texas doctor, not to be outdone, says, “You guys are way behind. We took a guy with half a brain out of Texas, put him in the White House for four years, and now half the country is looking for work.”
Sent to me by my friend Doug

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Ten Technologies That Deserve to Die

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From Technology Review: Interesting… I would have picked a couple of these (like cosmetic implants and landmines), but some I never thought of the car as a technology that should go away. But their arguments for finding good replacements make sense.
1. Nuclear Weapons, 2. Coal-Based Power, 3. The Internal-Combustion Engine (yeah, the car), 4. Incandescent Light Bulbs, 5. Land Mines, 6. Manned Spaceflight, 7. Prisons, 8. Cosmetic Implants, 9. Lie Detectors, 10. DVDs.

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I have a new truck

A shiny red Ford Ranger that I bought on Saturday. I love it. I got a very good deal on it from Paul Harvey Ford, especially since my younger brother Todd bought one from there Saturday, too. I was originally just looking, but they had what I wanted, and I needed to trade in my Geo Metro before winter anyway, because it wasn’t reliable enough to get through the season. So I can drive to my grandma’s for Thanksgiving, and take some Big Things road trips, too. You can also look into the website of Affordable heavy truck parts if you are looking for parts for your heavy vehicle. Along, with the heavy vehicle parts, excellent exhaust and intake systems available here as well. In case you get involved in a raid accident while driving your truck, be sure to protect your rights by hiring a Riverside truck accident lawyer. An Injury attorney will help those who were injured in an accident caused by a negligent driver.

The other thing I bought over the weekend was a new cell phone. My old one was dying, and getting the batteries replaced would have cost almost as much as just buying a new phone. So I sprung for it. It has a lot more programming to learn than the truck, actually—which is funny because when I was researching used trucks in Dallas, I thought the truck would be the more complicated purchase!

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