Another Monday's work in the box.
Sep. 17th, 2007 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptThese late Mondays are definitely going to be an interesting thing. Getting out when it’s dark definitely means I have to start planning for temperature when I leave as much as when I arrive at work. Payday will finally happen at the end of the week, yay! And I get to throttle the Postal Service, as they apparently did not see fit to forward on an important bill of mine even though I’m pretty sure I filled out the forwarding instructions well in advance of the bills’ arrivals. As things are now, though, it looks to be good. Maybe starting next month, I’ll get all the old stuff forwarded on to me.
Cold is alternately retreating and advancing over territory in my nostrils. Another hot shower tonight and some decongestants, perhaps, and I’ll be good. I think.
And that’s enough of my life. You want the news. So here we go.
Potential replacement for the Attorney General post announced. So, what’s he like? An ass-kisser or an ass-kicker?
Actually, this is not news. The wall-to-wall O.J. coverage is a distraction. I doubt that it contributed to a Chinese gamer died after playing games for three days straight - that whole food thing, y’know, but it might have let the following gems slip by unnoticed, like the Secretary of Transportation saying that bike and walking paths aren't part of infrastructure as part of a campaign to avoid raising gasoline taxes, or perhaps increasingly sophisticated automated surveillance technology, including stuff that might peek in your windows with the related first unmanned vehicle kill recorded, so that you can be spotted and shot down without too many humans intervening, which could become important because Blackwater USA, the "private security firm" has been banned from operations in Iraq. That war, which, even according to Alan Greenspan, had a strong oil motive.
Hrm. People are speculating about Condolezza Rice's sexuality. As I said to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
przxqgl, I wonder if the Republican party has more closeted homosexuals than all the other parties have open and closeted ones. Still I don’t see the point in speculating, unless it’s to put forth a point that people who support a party that, in its current incarnation, wants to make them second-class citizens, if not force them to hide themselves on pain of humiliation or breaking the law seem pretty insane. But perhaps that’s a minor party doctrine quibble with some. And perhaps for others, they do want to be punished for it. A self-injury fetish, perhaps.
To close out this section - The Word according to W: 50 religious insights from George W. Bush.
Mathematical models from your data could be used to tell you what year you're most likely to die. I wonder, though, if that self-knowledge will become self-fulfilling or possibly reduce the expectancy some. Staying on the doctor track, but mixing in the successful con artist part from before and we get How Drug Reps Make Friends and Influence Doctors.
Taking out the doctors part and adding in politics regarding marriageable age versus statutory rape and we get a hoax that was supposedly selling young girls as brides, potentially legally, if any girls were actually involved, which they were not.
From the “Stupid, stupid rat creatures!” files,bladespark has excellently chronicled the RIAA's dumbest move yet - sending cease-and-desist orders on the MP3 tracks that Reznor himself released in promoting his new CD. After this fiasco, Reznor said something to the effect of “Fuck it. Steal my music - here, it’s right here, at yearzero.nin.com.” As you can see, pissing off the artist is a bad, bad thing.
Anyway, that’s all from me tonight (and it probably looks more like a standard post from me, too). Well-wishes are appreciated, of course. And storytime starts next week. I have people, this is good. Now we’ll see if I can perform for them.
Cold is alternately retreating and advancing over territory in my nostrils. Another hot shower tonight and some decongestants, perhaps, and I’ll be good. I think.
And that’s enough of my life. You want the news. So here we go.
Potential replacement for the Attorney General post announced. So, what’s he like? An ass-kisser or an ass-kicker?
Actually, this is not news. The wall-to-wall O.J. coverage is a distraction. I doubt that it contributed to a Chinese gamer died after playing games for three days straight - that whole food thing, y’know, but it might have let the following gems slip by unnoticed, like the Secretary of Transportation saying that bike and walking paths aren't part of infrastructure as part of a campaign to avoid raising gasoline taxes, or perhaps increasingly sophisticated automated surveillance technology, including stuff that might peek in your windows with the related first unmanned vehicle kill recorded, so that you can be spotted and shot down without too many humans intervening, which could become important because Blackwater USA, the "private security firm" has been banned from operations in Iraq. That war, which, even according to Alan Greenspan, had a strong oil motive.
Hrm. People are speculating about Condolezza Rice's sexuality. As I said to
przxqgl, I wonder if the Republican party has more closeted homosexuals than all the other parties have open and closeted ones. Still I don’t see the point in speculating, unless it’s to put forth a point that people who support a party that, in its current incarnation, wants to make them second-class citizens, if not force them to hide themselves on pain of humiliation or breaking the law seem pretty insane. But perhaps that’s a minor party doctrine quibble with some. And perhaps for others, they do want to be punished for it. A self-injury fetish, perhaps.To close out this section - The Word according to W: 50 religious insights from George W. Bush.
Mathematical models from your data could be used to tell you what year you're most likely to die. I wonder, though, if that self-knowledge will become self-fulfilling or possibly reduce the expectancy some. Staying on the doctor track, but mixing in the successful con artist part from before and we get How Drug Reps Make Friends and Influence Doctors.
Taking out the doctors part and adding in politics regarding marriageable age versus statutory rape and we get a hoax that was supposedly selling young girls as brides, potentially legally, if any girls were actually involved, which they were not.
From the “Stupid, stupid rat creatures!” files,
bladespark has excellently chronicled the RIAA's dumbest move yet - sending cease-and-desist orders on the MP3 tracks that Reznor himself released in promoting his new CD. After this fiasco, Reznor said something to the effect of “Fuck it. Steal my music - here, it’s right here, at yearzero.nin.com.” As you can see, pissing off the artist is a bad, bad thing.Anyway, that’s all from me tonight (and it probably looks more like a standard post from me, too). Well-wishes are appreciated, of course. And storytime starts next week. I have people, this is good. Now we’ll see if I can perform for them.
