OK, so I’m a huge sucker. Broke down and snagged a new Nano, even though I’m still happy with my 40 Gig. Box left China on Wednesday, showed up in Connecticut today. With regular shipping. Go figure.
BATON ROUGE, LA. – The White House announced today that President Bush has successfully sold the state of Louisiana back to the French at more than double its original selling price of $11,250,000. “This is a bold step forward for America,” said Bush. “And America will be stronger and better as a result. I stand here today in unity with French Prime Minister Jack Chirac, who was so kind to accept my offer of Louisiana in exchange for 25 million dollars cash.”
I saw this article a few days ago discussing one person’s opinion and experiences of why the number of engineering graduates is dropping in the U.S.
http://www.techcentralstation.com/092105B.html
While I never even thought about dropping out of engineering for another major, I defintely experienced everything within the article, including a 58% Physics II grade that became a B! I also experienced a well known phenomenon at Alabama of taking certain classes during the summer semester so as to pass with a decent grade and not significantly impact your GPA – I attended 1 summer semester for a few such classes between my junior and senior year.
I am pretty sure the GOP has completly lost their sanity, especially in the House where they have voted to make relgious discrimination acceptable.
The Republican-led House approved a bill to renew the Head Start program through 2011. The bill includes a provision that would let churches and other faith-based preschool centers hire only people who share their religion yet still receive federal tax dollars.
My aunt worked for Head Start and in rural areas where education among the poor is especially difficult, it’s a great program. I would hate to see it tarnished because a parent from the Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1879, was unwilling to let their children learn at a place that only hires people from the Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915.
How did they find out?? I didn’t get bussed in or anything, but I was RECRUITED to get to Texas in time to vote against the traditional marriage. You know how good those gays are at RECRUITING people, right?
—get your mind out of the gutter—
My wife loves spelling bees and dictionaries, and coincidentally the New Yorker, so she’ll love this article about finding a fake word in the New Oxford American Dictionary.
Game geek alert: Here’s the new Nintendo Revolution ad. If they arena’t b-s’ing on the controller’s functionality, it really will be revolutionary. The best part of the ad is trying to figure out what games are being played.
You could hear the cheers in Redmond clear out here on the east coast when it was announced that a Linux Virus made it into the wild.
(slashdot )
So it looks like I’m paying for that update for NAV for the iBook after all…
Props to Sen. Pat Leahy, D-VT, for having the stones to actually do something towards improving the climate in Washington, namely pledging to vote to confirm Judge John Roberts:
“Is a no vote the easier and more popular one? Of course, for me it is, especially with my constituency,” said Leahy. “But in my judgment, in my experience, but especially in my conscience, I find it is better in this nomination to vote yes than no.”“Judge Roberts is a man of integrity,” he said. “I can only take him at his word that he does not have an ideological agenda.
“For me, a vote to confirm requires faith that the words he spoke to us have meaning. I can only take him at his word that he will steer the court to serve as an appropriate check on potential abuses of presidential power.
“I respect those who have come to different conclusions, and I readily acknowledge the unknowable at this moment, that perhaps they are right and I am wrong.”
Welcome to the 60% party, Sen. Leahy…
Oh. My. Gosh.
I do not think I have laughed so much in years.
(And that even includes yesterday’s Arrested Development, which was completely unhinged. Is TV Back?)
I always thought there was a better way to pour a beer.
… the thirst-inspired spark of frustration he felt then has resulted in Chicago-based Laminar Technologies’s TurboTap (turbotap.com), a 4.5-inch-long stainless-steel nozzle that attaches to standard beer faucets and pours a beer twice as fast as existing taps…
There’s a new wiki on the block (new wacki?) – the Uncyclopedia!
All the snide comments that the stuffed shirts over at wikipedia scrub; these folks allow. Go catch it while it’s still celebrating “Talk like a pirate” Day.
Avast.