Posted by casey at June 15th, 2006
Last night I was at the Twins game and got to watch two crazy fans run across the field. One decides to round the bases and slide head first into home. Just then the bat boy steps up and takes him out. Talk about embarrassing.
Posted by casey at April 17th, 2006
Seriously… WTF. Devotees nailed to cross in Philippines - Boston.com
Posted by casey at March 10th, 2006
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.
Posted by casey at February 24th, 2006
Apparently the USPTO believes that some “no name webshop”1 has met all the requirements by demonstrating that their invention is non-obvious and unique, and granted a very broad patent over “Rich Media Applications on the Internet.” Kee-frickin-rist! What is next a patent on bathroom towels?
(Source InformationWeek)
(Source Jeffrey Zeldman - zeldman.com)
(Other obscure patents)
1 This is my protest to all the undeserved advertising this company is getting.
Posted by casey at February 3rd, 2006
Posted by casey at October 1st, 2005
Today I run the Twin Cities Marathon. I was thinking that I should write on my shirt, “If found, please return to 1201 Yale Place,” just in case things don’t go as well as I hope they will. Last year I ran Grandma’s Marathon in just under four hours and am trying to better that this year. Erin is running the 10 miler this year and is very nervous, so if you see her on the trail, shout some words of encouragement.
You can track me on the results page using bib #3398.
Wish us luck!!!
Posted by casey at September 6th, 2005
According to Rick Scarborough, a prominent member of the Christian right, this disaster was brought upon ourselves by doing such things as supporting the Jewish pullout of the Gaza Strip, promoting gay marriage and unorthodox sex acts. Really?! I almost forgot God IS vengeful. He drowned all the people on earth (minus Noah and all the animals - which was only like 1.5 million known and named today) in a great flood and he waxed a bunch of people in Sodom and Gomorrah.
If these acts don’t make use fearful, I don’t know what he needs to do. One would think the fear of living for eternity in hell with all the wailing and gnashing of teeth would be enough to scare people straight. Maybe he will deem a massive San Franciscan earthquake in order to really take care of the gays. Or maybe it will come in the form of another terrorist attack. I don’t think it will be that bad though, I suspect people are slowly but surely getting his message.
Posted by casey at August 23rd, 2005
Televangelist Calls for Assassination of Chavez
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming ‘’a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.'’
(source nytimes.com)
What ever happened to turn the other cheek, and take the log out of your own eye before attempting to remove the speck from your neighbor’s?
Posted by casey at July 26th, 2005
Posted by casey at July 21st, 2005
Posted by casey at June 15th, 2005
– Mike Tyson (One of the funniest people alive)
More Tyson Quotes brought to you by: Seamus McPoop
Posted by casey at June 3rd, 2005
How can a woman run for (and currently hold) a state elected position if you don’t support suffrage? The logic escapes me. Is she saying that she supports women working in the government — if a man says she can?
Her words (on Sept. 28th, 2001), not mine, about women’s suffrage:
“We have a society that does tear families apart … I think the 19th Amendment, while it’s not an evil in and of itself, is a symptom of something I don’t approve of.”
(The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote nationwide.)
“The 19th Amendment is around because men weren’t doing their jobs, and I think that’s sad. I believe the man should be the head of the family. The woman should be the heart of the family.
If I don’t get re-elected, my only punishment is to go home to my husband and my roses and my children and my grandchildren … And if the trips to Topeka get to be too much and my husband asks me to quit, I would.”
Posted by casey at June 1st, 2005
disassemble or dissemble
THE PRESIDENT: I’m aware of the Amnesty International report, and it’s absurd. It’s an absurd allegation. The United States is a country that is — promotes freedom around the world. When there’s accusations made about certain actions by our people, they’re fully investigated in a transparent way. It’s just an absurd allegation.
In terms of the detainees, we’ve had thousands of people detained. We’ve investigated every single complaint against the detainees. It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of — and the allegations — by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble — that means not tell the truth. And so it was an absurd report. It just is. And, you know — yes, sir.
Actually Mr. President… Don’t you mean dissemble?
Posted by casey at June 1st, 2005
Just a question, but could we possibly take care of the health care system before we send people to Mars? I’m all for research and development, but come on. Let’s put some money into social security. Let’s put some money into Medicare and Medicaid. Let’s put some money into NCLB. Don’t spend money on a Mars trip until we take care of the 35.9 38 million Americans living in poverty.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/06/01/moon.nasa.ap/index.html
Posted by casey at May 25th, 2005
Why is it that it always seems like the world is going two steps forward one step back? Ok. I’ll just lay it out… ignorant people should not be allowed to “judge” things they do not have the slightest clue about.
For anyone that does not already know, PGP is used for encryption of many things, including but definitely not limited to, sensitive financial data, medical records, diaries, and email. It also can be used to encrypt things like terrorist recruiting books, child pornography, and probably the anarchist cookbook. Once again the technology is ambivalent to what it is used for (see p2p”>see p2p). Take away PGP now and soon you will need to take away all strong encryption. Do that and eventually you will need to get rid of SSL leading to the demise of e-commerce. Just because a person has PGP on their computer does not make that person a criminal. (Shit, I have PGP on my computer right now!) It would be like trying to link a person with a large fireproof safe in his closet to the theft of “The Scream.”
