Archive for March, 2006
Sketches for a Buck
by casey on Mar.27, 2006, under Random Thoughts
I heard about Sketch It from Ben and thought I would give it a try. A local artist, Kelly Newcomer, did a sweet sketch of Bipin. The results are perfect…maybe better than perfect. I’m going to have it framed and hang it over Bip’s bed. Everyone should have a sketch done, and for only a dollar, how can you afford not to?
Google Pages Beta
by casey on Mar.22, 2006, under Drunken Rambling
Got my Google pages page set up. Not very many features and definitely not a viable blogging solution yet.
http://caseyhelbling.googlepages.com
In other news finance.google.com is up and running. They are mashing up news data points with the stock charts. This is something I have thought would be nice for awhile now. The other sweet feature is the deep links right into other third party data like finance.yahoo.com and Wikipedia.
Real Life Simpsons Intro
by casey on Mar.21, 2006, under Drunken Rambling
You Tube: Real Life Simpsons Intro Need I say more?
‘Impeach Bush’ chorus grows
by casey on Mar.19, 2006, under Political Maundering
John Kerry, the 2004 presidential nominee, was overheard in an Irish bar on Capitol Hill talking about how satisfying it would be to impeach Bush if Congress went Democrat. He was just having a laugh, his spokeswoman rushed to explain: “Impeachment jokes in Washington are as old as Donald Rumsfeld.”
But then she turned serious: “How are the same Republicans, who tried to impeach a president over whether he misled a nation about an affair, going to pretend it does not matter if the administration intentionally misled the country into war?”
Google Phone Book
by casey on Mar.17, 2006, under Drunken Rambling
Man… I’m falling behind. When the hell did they do this? They got all the information wrong… but still…
Hostage and Torture Consultants
by casey on Mar.11, 2006, under Political Maundering
In very sad news, American hostage, Tom Fox, was found dead today with apparent torture wounds.
In other sad news, the US continues to hold its own hostages in order to demonstrate to the world what it takes to be strong democracy.
Maybe in an attempt to be more like the US, the new Iraqi government should hire Tom Fox’s captors to teach them how to take hostages, torture people and all in all just be more like the US.
UPS Thinks I’m an ASSCLOWN
by casey on Mar.10, 2006, under People are Idiots
This morning when I got into the office I started thinking about how pissed I was yesterday. I decided to look at UPS’s delivery status website just to see what it said. I was amazed to find that
ASSCLOWN received a package yesterday. I know I had problems signing the electronic clipboard thingy… but… I hardly believe my scribble looked anything like “ASSCLOWN.” See for yourself. My tracking number is 1Z 90X 310 39 4516 857 6 I’m just trying to decide if this falls in the realms of a slander lawsuit.
The Baby!
by casey on Mar.06, 2006, under Random Thoughts
This morning Erin and I had the ultrasound for the baby. It was so amazing to see the little guy/girl?! wiggling around inside Erin. We are 19 weeks along and it is really starting to sink in that in less than 5 months I am going to be a daddy. Wow! Have fun with the photos… The first three are aggregate photos with about 4-6 individuals on one page. All the rest are broken out individuals. “baby_individual_2006.03.06_06.jpg” seen below is a cool image where you can see him/her yawning… or … insert random alien screaming joke here.
Amazing Robo Mule
by casey on Mar.05, 2006, under Drunken Rambling
An amazing video of a robot mule. These things just keep getting better and better. Watch the robot regain its footing after the operator tries to kick it over
Move to Iraq
by casey on Mar.03, 2006, under Political Maundering
If people want a theocratic state move to fucking Iraq. I’m just sayin… ’cause If you haven’t noticed we are doing a hell of a job setting one up for yah.
72% of troops want home by end of 2006
by casey on Mar.01, 2006, under Political Maundering
While most of this survey is “good news,” there are a couple very troubling statistics about why the troops believe we are fighting in Iraq.
The wide-ranging poll also shows that 58% of those serving in country say the U.S. mission in Iraq is clear in their minds, while 42% said it is either somewhat or very unclear to them, that they have no understanding of it at all, or are unsure. While 85% said the U.S. mission is mainly “to retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9-11 attacks,” 77% said they also believe the main or a major reason for the war was “to stop Saddam from protecting al Qaeda in Iraq.”
