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May 7th, 2008
05:48 pm [Link]	Proof that Baptists Cause Tornados... Interesting post. There is a positive correlation between the number of Baptists and the incidence of tornados... Curious... Current Location: cumfy chair Current Mood: laughing Tags: freelink, funnee (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
01:54 pm [Link]	Iron Sky : Attack of the Space Nazis!!! In 1945 the Nazis fled to the moon. In 2018 they are coming back. A new movie from the people who brought us Star Wreck. You've got to watch the new Trailer. This could be interesting... Current Location: wurk Current Mood: curious Current Music: Give It Away-Red Hot Chili Peppers Tags: cool (Leave a comment)
May 2nd, 2008
12:57 pm [Link]	The Japanese are Strange: IV Drip Cafes I'm sorry, but the idea of going to a cafe and getting an IV drip is just too weird... Just too damn weird... Current Location: wurk Current Mood: disturbed Current Music: Fifteen Minutes-Gravity Kills Tags: weird (Leave a comment)
11:34 am [Link]	Graphjam: Pop Culture for People in Cubicles... Handy site for extraneous graphs for your next presentation... see more song memes Current Location: wurk Current Mood: amused Current Music: All the Young Dudes-World Party Tags: funnee (Leave a comment)
May 1st, 2008
09:53 am [Link]	Creationism/Evolution 101 Reading List A very handy list by the National Center for Science Education that lists both accessible and technical books defending the teaching of evolution. I'm going to add a few to my library soon. Current Location: wurk Current Mood: curious Current Music: Girl-Stereophonics Tags: freelink (Leave a comment)
April 30th, 2008
03:27 pm [Link]	Stoopid user alerts... We just got a request from our Pointy Haired Boss to create a new user account... This is annoying since it seems a real dumb use of resources to create accounts for users when they can just click the same buttons and do it themselves (not to mention the security implications of our entering their passwords)... But in this case, the user to be created is the new guy who is supposed to be overseeing our contract and work... If our own supervisor can't handle creating his own account into the system, I'm more than just a little reticent about the future direction of the project... Current Location: wurk Current Mood: depressed Current Music: Filthy , Gorgeous-Scissor Sisters Tags: idiots on the loose, stoopidity (Leave a comment)
01:13 pm [Link]	Sportsmanship Here's a story about true sportsmanship. A senior softball player in one of her last games hits the first home run of her career. On the way around the bases she tears a tendon and can no longer walk. If anyone on her team touches or helps her, it will be an out. If she can't make it around, they will have to change it from a home run and record it as a single. Two players from the other team step up and carry her around the bases so the run will count, even though the home run could mean their team loses and misses a chance at playoffs... I've got to take a break now, there's something in my eye... Current Location: wurk Current Mood: inspired Current Music: Novocaine For the Soul-Eels (Leave a comment)
April 23rd, 2008
08:25 pm [Link]	Damn Tree Sex!!! I'm not particularly allergic, but we had a few days of rain followed by a great 80 degree day, so that means it a damn tree and grass orgy out there! In one day, my purple van is now almost yellow with pollen, the air is thick with flower goo, and my eyes are red and irritated as hell... I can't imagine how anyone who is actually allergic could even survive this... Current Location: cumfy chair Current Mood: irritated Current Music: Rodeohead-Hard 'N Phirm (Leave a comment)
April 22nd, 2008
12:09 pm [Link]	Tetris - The Movie A Brother Dies. A Hero Is Born. Get in Line For Adventure! Tetris - The Movie Sorry... the concept is just so stupid and the trailer is so cliche filled that it just made me laugh... Current Location: wurk Current Mood: laughing Current Music: Oh Yeah-Yello Tags: funnee (Leave a comment)
April 21st, 2008
12:40 pm [Link]	GRRRRR... Ranting... Ok, so my boss is having another "requirements gathering" meeting with another group out there. This is good, since it means our project is getting more recognition and the more external data sources we can identify, the better off our dataset is going to be. The problem is my boss is very stuck in the "developers develop, analysts analyse" mindset, so this meeting is just for analysts and I'm a developer. Despite the fact that there is no one who knows the data model even remotely as good as I do and the fact that I am far better at boiling down customer requests to real requirements than anyone else on our project. So the analysts are going to get a list of what the customer thinks they want, which may not in any-way line up with what the customer really wants or with what is actually practical to implement with the current data model or the way the data model should be given what the customer wants done. So they are going to develop a set of requirements and bring them to me and when I complain about it my concerns will be ignored or dismissed and we'll go forward with an unreasonable timeframe to implement something the customer likely doesn't really need and features that will not be used because the analysts didn't ask the right questions during requirement gathering. And worse there will be another round of feature requests to implement things that should have been included in the 1.0 if someone had bothered to find out what the customer actually needs. sigh... Current Location: wurk Current Mood: depressed Current Music: With You-Linkin Park (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
11:33 am [Link]	Pepsi-Stuff I've been collecting Pepsi-Stuff points. I figure since I'm going to drink soda anyway, I might as well get something back for it. I've bene using them to buy a few new songs for my 'pod... But its really annoying that the songs I can get with points are restricted to a few thousand that Amazon has picked out, apparently mostly from new hits and acts with a large selection of old classics. Well, what if I want something else?? Something that apeals to my alternative tastes or weird sensibility??? I can't use the points for just any song on Amazon I want to get. For example, I recently stumbled across the Puppini Sisters. Amazon has a their albums and songs, but none of them are available thru the Pepsi-Points system. ~~Same problem with Screeching Weasels and Me First and the Gimme-Gimmes... :-/~~ figured out how to get those to use Points, but still cant get Puppini Current Location: wurk Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Barely Listening-Pilot Speed Tags: stoopidity (Leave a comment)
April 18th, 2008
10:26 am [Link]	Answers in Genesis: BUSTED! Followup to yesterday's post. Bounced around a few links off yesterday's article and found an exchange between the Answers in Genesis: Busted! site and some random spokesbeing for AiG concerning experiments that verify evoluton. Its an excellent read and has well cited references to several experiments that support evolution. Current Location: wurk Current Mood: educated Current Music: Like a Drug (Bonus Track)-Queens Of The Stone Age Tags: freelink (Leave a comment)
April 17th, 2008
09:10 pm [Link]	Music: The Puppini Sisters Modern swing music. Imagine the classic sounds of Andrews Sisters singing covers of modern songs like Walk Like an Egyptian or even I will Survive. You can hear some of their songs on their myspace page and on their official page: http://www.thepuppinisisters.com/ (warning, flash powered site). I like their cover of Walk Like an Egyptian and just like the concept of an acopella swing group intrigues me. I think I'll spring some Pepsi-points and get some of their songs... Current Location: cumfy chair Current Mood: intrigued Current Music: You're so Damn Hot-Ok Go Tags: music shuffle (Leave a comment)
08:50 pm [Link]	NewScientist: 24 Myths and Misconceptions about Evolution NewScientist magazine has an excellent article debunking 24 common misconceptions about Evolution. Topics range from "Survival of the fittest" justifies "everyone for themselves" to Mutations can only destroy information, not create it. Its an informative article even for non-deniers. Current Location: cumfy chair Current Mood: thoughtful Current Music: Walk Like an Egyptian-The Puppini Sisters Tags: freelink (Leave a comment)
April 16th, 2008
11:03 am [Link]	Very telling quote from a lobbyist I'm a big supporter of sunlight laws that would open up the process of legislation and make it more transparent so citizens can know just what our politicians are up to. In this article about a sunshine law being proposed in Texas, a lobbyist makes a very telling statement "Are we going to let the American people decide our defense policy, our trade policy, our immigration policy?" Well, since these are all laws that affect Americans, and since those politicians lobbyists are lobbying are supposedly working for those Americans, why can't Americans know more about these laws or be given the opportunity to voice an opinion? I've long equated lobbying with bribery and government corruption. By expressing concern for public input, he only confirms my sentiment. Lobbyists that they aren't there for our interests, but for their own and they certainly don't want us to know more about what they are doing or how badly it impacts us. Current Location: wurk Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Eureka Pile-Ministry Tags: corruption, idiots on the loose, stoopidity (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
April 15th, 2008
06:57 pm [Link]	Ooooooohhhh!!! A warning letter from Comcast! I got a "notification by a copyright owner" today from Comcast... It seems that somewhere between 12 March 2008 and 20 March 2008 my BitTorrent client picked up a trace of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Curious since I don't own the file, I don't remember ever trying to get that file, nor can I find a trace of it on my box now. Maybe there's a portion of it burried in the deleted side of things, but nowhere I can find without diagnostic tools. I keep a torrent client running in the background of my server on the off chance that I want to download some file or another. For example, after Nine Inch Nails made public their Ghosts album, I fired up a torrent of it and got my copy and did my part to spread the file by leaving my torrent running. I also snagged a recent copy of Oracle server that was torrented by Oracle. Woohoo, so it looks like I'm going to join the ranks of the evil elite who get subjected to endless legal assaults by clueless legal and corporate types. I might just have to save and frame this first contact warning sheet. This would be interesting if I didn't know it is most likely going to be extremely annoying... Current Location: cumfy chair Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Do It Again-Chemical Brothers (Leave a comment)
12:45 pm [Link]	My latest brilliant idea... someone market this for me... I've been enjoying using Twinkle, a location-aware Twitter client for the iPhone. It not only posts your entry with location information, but also lets you see recent tweets from whatever area you are in... So here's my latest brilliant idea: Make a location-aware traffic alerter. You click "Traffic Sucks" and it sends a localized note. You can pull up a list of recent Sucks alerts relative to where you are so you can get a feel for how bad traffic in the area is. Ideally it'd link into Google maps for a real-time Sucks dotter... Somoene get on this for me... Current Location: wurk Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Do I Creep You Out-"Weird Al" Yankovic Tags: ideas (Leave a comment)
April 9th, 2008
11:04 am [Link]	Followup: Rep Davis called out by Keith Olbermann Following up to my earlier story about Illinois Rep Davis going off the bend on atheism, Friendly Atheist has comment and a video clip from Keith Olbermann calling Rep Davis to the mat. Current Location: wurk Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: Just Like Heaven-The Scooterz Tags: freelink (Leave a comment)
10:19 am [Link]	Ziggy Marley - Drive Since its on right now, I just wanted to blog how much I like Ziggy Marley's version of Drive from the movie 50 First Dates... I'm not much for reggae, but I kinda like this one. I'll also catch flak for it, but I like 311's reggae cover of The Cure's Lovesong... I wont say 311's version is better, but I really think they bring a distinct new interpretation to the classic that is more than just another version of the song. Current Mood: mellow Current Music: Drive-Ziggy Marley (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 4th, 2008
08:02 pm [Link]	Illinois State Legislator: "it's dangerous for our children to even know that [atheism] exists Errrr... wow... Now this is scary for religious freedom. It seems Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) thinks the very existence of atheism is dangerous and equates atheism with the destruction of society. Davis: You have no right to be here! We believe in something. You believe in destroying! You believe in destroying what this state was built upon. Here's an article from the Chicago Tribune on the issue. Current Location: dining room table Current Mood: disappointed Tags: freelink (1 comment \| Leave a comment)

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