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3.31.2004
pod post
don't ask my why the phonecam picture from the park was reposted at 5:57 a.m. i couldn't tell you, and i sure as hell wasn't up at that hour.
3.30.2004
super
dad sends this in email:
http://www.jerry.digisle.tv/room.html which i would have found absolutely hilarious even if i weren't in the midst of a full-on renewal of my fascination with superman... (and patrick! the tick! warburton!!) definitely click on the sing-along -- it's completely worth it. capone's vault redux?
ruling on senate hopeful's papers delayed
by linda deutsch, ap special correspondent los angeles - a california family court judge put off a decision monday on whether to unseal records in the divorce of jack ryan, the republican candidate for u.s. senate in illinois. ...ryan won the gop nomination in the march 16 illinois primary. some of his republican rivals raised the issue of the sealed papers, hinting that he was withholding documents because they contained embarrassing information. [more] blogged mostly because of my professional interest in leaving divorce records sealed once they've been so designated. given that the records are three years old, what would be in the financial disclosure affidavits from a divorce that wouldn't appear in financial disclosures made for the campaign? nothing relevant, that's what. i'm on a general tear against both sides of the aisle today, it seems. this kind of behavior doesn't serve the best interests of either party, nor is it necessary to properly vet a republican candidate's qualifications for a senate seat, and i call bullshit on the trib for unnecessarily digging in the mud. 3.29.2004
multimediacatchupgo
the ladykillers is one hell of a lot funnier than i expected it to be. you never really know what you're gonna get with the coen brothers -- sometimes you expect it to be funny as hell, and you maybe laugh, but it turns out not to be a comedy. sometimes you think it's gonna be serious, and then you find yourself laughing your head off unexpectedly. the ladykillers is more of the latter than the former. i expected to be amused; i didn't expect to be chortling over j.k. simmons' michael jeterish pornstar mustache. also, mountain girl. anyway -- knowing that this was a remake but never having seen it, my brain kept inserting a young alec guiness in tom hanks' place, which made for an interesting mental conglomeration.
bottom line: it's funny as hell. worth your dough, in my opinion. but then, i've been wrong before... when it rains
astoundingly massive photo gallery update:
also, the phonecam weirdness appears to have passed, as you can probably see below.
3.26.2004
3.25.2004
band tryouts tonite!!!!!!
van halen on tour is:
eddie van halen - lead guitar alex van halen - drums michael anthony - bass right now, baby. right now. 3.22.2004
budget melee? feng shui it away!
california assemblyman proposes building standards that promote feng shui
when california state assemblyman leland y. yee recently proposed a resolution urging the california building standards commission (cbsc) to adopt building standards that promote feng shui - a chinese practice in which a structure or site is chosen or configured so as to harmonize with the spiritual forces that inhabit it - in the california building standards code, his office didn't even think interest in the resolution warranted a simple press release. the fact that the resolution has spawned a controversy, garnering press coverage as far away as south africa and australia, proves just how provocative this 4,000-year-old design method is. 3.19.2004
xtopography
3.17.2004
"did i say that?"
 okay, so, the question of what current u.s. administration officials did or didn't say in the run-up to the 2003 iraq war has now taken center stage. (secretary of defense rumsfeld, on the march 14, 2004 face the nation, in response to a question about his use of the phrase "imminent threat" in relation to iraq: "well, you're the -- you and a few other critics are the only people i've heard use the phrase 'immediate threat'. i didn't. the president didn't. and it's become kind of folklore that that's -- that's what's happened.") (pdf transcript of 3/14 ftn here.)
the public's thanks, then, are due to representative henry a. waxman (d-ca), for commissioning a report entitled "iraq on the record: the bush administration's public statements on iraq". further thanks are due the congressman for making it a searchable database containing statements made by president bush, vice president cheney, secretary of state powell, national security adviser rice, and rumsfeld himself. next! credit aaron veenstra with the find... chicklet
too good to pass up. from the nypress:
"traditionally, jack chick publications produce baseball-card-sized religious comic books. who would have guessed they would make the feel-good movie of the year? "their dvd debut, the light of the world, is a series of paintings strung together under voiceover narration, similar to a ken burns documentary. it�s a hodgepodge of biblical and chick comic book storylines, presented in lurid color and jarring voiceover. the movie is creepy and obviously aimed at elementary school children; imagine mr. rogers reading slayer lyrics. "the first chapter is a goofy retelling of genesis. adam is nondescript; eve is an idealized 50s housewife, all round, rosy-cheeked and pleasantly vacant. satan is a rainbow-colored snakeman who could work nights as a comic book villain. eve gets vampirella�s eyebrows after she eats the plum-tomato-like fruit of evil." and it just gets better from there. found by peter over at artblog vegas, baby, vegas
las vegas - charles a. mccoy jr., suspected in two dozen sniper shootings that have terrorized motorists along ohio highways, was arrested at a las vegas motel early wednesday, authorities said.
"we got him in custody without incident," said las vegas police lt. christopher van cleef. van cleef said mccoy, 28, was arrested at a motel near the stardust casino wednesday, two days after he was named as a suspect in the two dozen columbus-area shootings. (more) 3.16.2004
boogeyman
 columbus, ohio - police were hunting for a 28-year-old man who they believe may be the elusive gunman linked to two dozen highway shootings that have terrorized area motorists for months.
the franklin county sheriff's office said the suspect, charles a. mccoy jr., lived within miles of where the gunman's bullets killed a passenger, shattered windshields, dented school buses and drilled into homes and a school. "the key issue for us right now is to locate this guy," chief deputy steve martin said. "we believe he bought another gun." ..."i don't know if he's still local," martin said. "we don't have any reason to believe he's not." ### ...except, perhaps, his picture being plastered over every major news outlet in franklin county... 3.08.2004
heads up
bill gates is on crack
has anyone seen the deets for microsoft's latest anti-spam strategy? apparently, they're using the argument that we have so much spam because e-mail is free, and that if we make folks pay for it, spammers won't send as much. mr. gates & company suggest that users can "buy" postage by playing a 10-second math puzzle. (see the story from cnn here.) no doubt this "game" would be microsoft-branded. of course, that's only one proposal--others are calling for users to pay a penny per e- mail. for sure, spamming is annoying, but is it annoying enough that we need to start charging people to send an e-mail? i hope this is one idea that never goes anywhere.
3.03.2004
jerks
cosi tax levy
yes 70,392 (38%) no 116,920 (62%) precincts reporting - 789 out of 789 - 100% full results here. and it clearly wasn't a money issue, since the children's services levy (a 1.5 mill versus cosi's .5 mill) passed. "because cosi is too top heavy with salaries." god forbid cosi's administrators should earn salaries commensurate with running a world-class museum. but you know what, i'll even give you that. drop those salaries and it still doesn't affect what the museum was asking for. assuming that the top admin makes $200,000, we'll say that five people make $100,000, and ten people make between $50,000 and $100,000. total that up, and you're somewhere in between $1.2 and $1.7m a year. the proposed levy would have brought in approximately $12.5m a year. "excessive salaries" doesn't cut it. "because a free cosi will become a dumping ground for unruly children and roving gangs." god forbid kids of all ages should have free and unfettered access to a musuem dedicated to science and technology. gee, that'd be awful if they ended up spending time there as opposed to the mall. moreover, cosi already requires that kids be accompanied by adults. it's not as if they let children wander around completely unsupervised. someone has to be there to be responsible for them. i'm just angry because i was looking forward to taking my son to cosi one day. cosi's donors say they can't continue giving to the museum at the current levels. cosi doesn't take enough revenue in through admissions to maintain itself. cutting salaries might help but won't cure the problem. an additional $12.5 million a year in tax revenues might have. sure hope it's still there in five years.
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