Entries from August 2005

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

GWB sets a record!

Congrats you uncaring bastard From The Daily Pick On August 19th, George W Bush broke the record for all-time most vacation days while President, beating Ronald Reagan’s old record in nearly half the time! This man has spend nearly 20% of his time in office not working. Think your boss would give you 10.4 weeks [...]

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Republicans are not fiscal conservatives

at least not the neocons charts are from the budget explorer Take a look here: See the deficits decreasing over the course of Bill Clinton’s presidency and then increase dramatically over George Bush’s presidency? 9/11 isn’t the reason for this. President Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 on 6/7/01 [...]

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

The ENV motorcycle

good thing I kept up my motorcycle license http://www.envbike.com/ by way of Gizmodo

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Engadget has it partly right

Those guys are just too young to remember what it really was like in 1985. the Engadget 1985 thingy was an awesome trip down memory lane for me, but what is with the digital pictures? I don’t remember seeing one of those until the Mac + (and those were B&W)! (I know why they added [...]

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

A body blow to avant-garde music

three great artists pass away in the last 30 days… RIP Luc Ferrari, Bob Moog and Koji Tano three pioneers who were great influences on all modern music.

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Turns out that George Bush isn’t really my President…

When the going gets rough, the tough head to Crawford, or Idaho or VFW halls So George ends his vacation with a few speeches to supporters and then another vacation. He moves from red state to red state, from military base to VFW hall, from one group of unquestioning supporters to another; all the while [...]

Friday, August 19th, 2005

Geek test answers

no peeking

Friday, August 19th, 2005

Music Geek Test or West Wing Geek Test…

you decide… So in one of the episodes of the 4th season of West Wing, the CJ Craig character introduces the BareNaked Ladies has having started in the cradle of liberty, Boston. West Wing Geek Test: What was the name of this episode? Music Geek Test: What was so messed up about her statement? answers [...]

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

Tivo saves television

My second technological revelation today For one reason or another I’ve avoided getting a DVR. First it was the expense, and then it was the hassle of stringing the phone cord across my den. Then there was the politics of the Tivo company adding new advertisements while you were skipping over the others or supporting [...]

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

I Got the RSS religion

I finally figured it out Sure, I’ve been using RSS for a year or so now, using it to keep up on my favorite websites. I never understood the devotion to it that its proponents exhibited at Gnomedex, in blogs and on the Gillmor Gang. Then I wrote my own RSS aggregator as an exercise [...]