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Life is strange, but that’s about par for the course. And thus, I’m probably continuing to contribute to my dental downfall by eating and drinking merrily, just adding on the additional brush-n’-floss routine at night. (Oh, and mouthwashes. Someone needs to design a good flavor of those.)
Stephen Colbert throws his hat into the ring - no word yet whether this is character or actor, but probably character, and we’ll see how far he takes it.
An Earthlike planet has been discovered, 20 light-years away. It orbits a red sun, rather closely, and is about 1.5 Earthsize. This one looks like it might be a candidate for finding other carbon-based life forms.
Career Marine sees Iraq as winnable, and some military folk are declaring al-Qaeda beaten, perhaps prematurely. Training is going on to acclimate soldiers to the cultures they'll be swinging weapons in, in addition to training in the use of high-tech unmanned cameras to cover ground. A former general that speaks out against Iraq gets mixed reviews, the Justice Department's new priorities have some interesting effects, focusing in new areas, and piracy off the coast of Somalia and Nigeria is still going strong. Finally, the Democrats and liberals want to get the potential new attorney general to promise some cleanup and investigation before they let him through. And Rudy decides that accepting checks with 911 as their digits is probabyl not a smart political move.
Our parade of brainless candidates for a Quiching begins in Philadelphia, where gentlemen accused of rape of a prostitute had their sex and assault charges wiped, but the robbery indictment stuck. Um, guys, no means no, prostitutes included. Really.
From there, we get dumb with an anti-Darwin protest that involved impaling and burying a monkey. I can’t make heads or tails of this one, but it certainly sounds bananas. Sounds like it’s on about the same level as the template for journalists to use in reporting controversial science - which is to accept uncritically the proponent’s claims, let them refute skeptics, and gerneally dance around the fact that there’s not any evidence or trials to their credit.
Thing do go from bad to worse, including a man barred from a library after he indicated that he wanted to be served by a different librarian than the homosexual one that was currently helping him. This is apparently the latest in several strings of fairly hostile behavior, resulting in the banstick being leveled. So, why does anyone’s sexuality have anything to do with their competence as a library professional?
Making the turn from poor behavior to deliberately bad behavior, why commercials before movies is worse than pirating them - the few minutes spent having to suffer through them is unrewarded, and in fact, to some degree, a moviegoer pays to see ads. If you pirate it, yeah, you’re not paying the movie fee, but you’re not seeing ads, either. And the ads in the movie can’t be skipped with the remote, much as we’d like to be able to do so.
From bad and money sucking to the winner of tonight’s ignominies and a freshly-baked quiche to the face, Inventor-Link, which has a User Agreement that prevents you from looking at the code, copying any sort of text, or even linking to their site without prior permission. We’re resting on fair use for purposes of criticism here, as are those who bring it to our attention. This is the web version of an EULA that requires you to open the package to read it and then tells you “By opening the package, you agree to this EULA.” That can’t be permissible in law, telling someone that they’ve agreed to a contract by browsing, without warning them of the contract they’re agreeing to and giving them a chance to refuse the contract. It would be like congratulating someone on their merger with a multinational corporation because one of your reps talked with one of their reps about football scores. To whomever devised the browse-wrap agreement there, and to those who think it’s enforceable, you’re stupid, stupid rat creatures.
Away from the quiche awarding, but still something very deserving of being said, a public service announcement to the women of the world: Life is much better when you’re okay with the way you look. That’s not to say you can’t try for something better, but rather than chasing all sorts of things all over the world, Internet, and time, why not come to terms with what you are, what you want to be, and whether you can actually turn the former into the latter. If not, change what you can, and accept what you cannot. I can guarantee you that you’re going to be able to catch someone’s eye with the way you look. Really. I mean it.
Far and away the carrier of Win tonight is 100 clips, 100 movies, 100 numbers, thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amenquohi, who, while not creating it, brought it to my attention.
And now, bedtime again. Which means that I get to spend more time in dreamland.
Stephen Colbert throws his hat into the ring - no word yet whether this is character or actor, but probably character, and we’ll see how far he takes it.
An Earthlike planet has been discovered, 20 light-years away. It orbits a red sun, rather closely, and is about 1.5 Earthsize. This one looks like it might be a candidate for finding other carbon-based life forms.
Career Marine sees Iraq as winnable, and some military folk are declaring al-Qaeda beaten, perhaps prematurely. Training is going on to acclimate soldiers to the cultures they'll be swinging weapons in, in addition to training in the use of high-tech unmanned cameras to cover ground. A former general that speaks out against Iraq gets mixed reviews, the Justice Department's new priorities have some interesting effects, focusing in new areas, and piracy off the coast of Somalia and Nigeria is still going strong. Finally, the Democrats and liberals want to get the potential new attorney general to promise some cleanup and investigation before they let him through. And Rudy decides that accepting checks with 911 as their digits is probabyl not a smart political move.
Our parade of brainless candidates for a Quiching begins in Philadelphia, where gentlemen accused of rape of a prostitute had their sex and assault charges wiped, but the robbery indictment stuck. Um, guys, no means no, prostitutes included. Really.
From there, we get dumb with an anti-Darwin protest that involved impaling and burying a monkey. I can’t make heads or tails of this one, but it certainly sounds bananas. Sounds like it’s on about the same level as the template for journalists to use in reporting controversial science - which is to accept uncritically the proponent’s claims, let them refute skeptics, and gerneally dance around the fact that there’s not any evidence or trials to their credit.
Thing do go from bad to worse, including a man barred from a library after he indicated that he wanted to be served by a different librarian than the homosexual one that was currently helping him. This is apparently the latest in several strings of fairly hostile behavior, resulting in the banstick being leveled. So, why does anyone’s sexuality have anything to do with their competence as a library professional?
Making the turn from poor behavior to deliberately bad behavior, why commercials before movies is worse than pirating them - the few minutes spent having to suffer through them is unrewarded, and in fact, to some degree, a moviegoer pays to see ads. If you pirate it, yeah, you’re not paying the movie fee, but you’re not seeing ads, either. And the ads in the movie can’t be skipped with the remote, much as we’d like to be able to do so.
From bad and money sucking to the winner of tonight’s ignominies and a freshly-baked quiche to the face, Inventor-Link, which has a User Agreement that prevents you from looking at the code, copying any sort of text, or even linking to their site without prior permission. We’re resting on fair use for purposes of criticism here, as are those who bring it to our attention. This is the web version of an EULA that requires you to open the package to read it and then tells you “By opening the package, you agree to this EULA.” That can’t be permissible in law, telling someone that they’ve agreed to a contract by browsing, without warning them of the contract they’re agreeing to and giving them a chance to refuse the contract. It would be like congratulating someone on their merger with a multinational corporation because one of your reps talked with one of their reps about football scores. To whomever devised the browse-wrap agreement there, and to those who think it’s enforceable, you’re stupid, stupid rat creatures.
Away from the quiche awarding, but still something very deserving of being said, a public service announcement to the women of the world: Life is much better when you’re okay with the way you look. That’s not to say you can’t try for something better, but rather than chasing all sorts of things all over the world, Internet, and time, why not come to terms with what you are, what you want to be, and whether you can actually turn the former into the latter. If not, change what you can, and accept what you cannot. I can guarantee you that you’re going to be able to catch someone’s eye with the way you look. Really. I mean it.
Far and away the carrier of Win tonight is 100 clips, 100 movies, 100 numbers, thanks to
amenquohi, who, while not creating it, brought it to my attention.And now, bedtime again. Which means that I get to spend more time in dreamland.
