Month: July 2005

Stupid Lawsuit For The Week

NASA is now facing (at least for now until it gets tossed out in court) a $500-million dollar lawsuit over last week’s comet collision. What’s the suit for? Let me just quote the article:

A Russian astrologist who says NASA has altered her horoscope by crashing a spacecraft into a comet is suing the U.S. space agency for damages of $300 million.

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NASA deliberately crashed its probe, named Deep Impact, into the Tempel 1 comet to unleash a spray of material formed billions of years ago which scientists hope will shed new light on the composition of the solar system.

“It is obvious that elements of the comet’s orbit, and correspondingly the ephemeris, will change after the explosion, which interferes with my astrology work and distorts my horoscope,” Izvestia daily quoted astrologist Marina Bai as saying in legal documents submitted before Monday’s collision.

Thanks Cheryl for the link.

July 10, 2005

Still Slammed

But will be posting some links tonight…stay tuned…

July 10, 2005

Slammed

If you’re wondering why I haven’t posted much the last few days, I’m been slammed. I’ve been at the fitness center since last Saturday setting up the cable TV, network, all the computers, etc… etc… etc… . In other words, I’m totally bombed. Hopefully this place will be open by next week so I won’t have to worry about anything (as much, at least).

I hope to find some time to throw up some more links in the next couple days, but don’t hold your breath if they don’t appear. I’m in the process of SysPrepping and Ghosting some hard drives to other machines, and while that’s going on hooking up the large Plasma TVs downstairs. Now if I just had time to watch one…

July 6, 2005

Be Safe This 4th of July

There are typically more crash deaths today than any other day of the year. I’ll be thinking of this on my drive home from the office today (yes, I am at work). Thankfully, I saw a pile of State Police officers on the commute this morning, so I’m hoping they’ll be back again this evening.

I’m going to have a lovely, sleepless, evening, I’m sure, as our house is about a half-mile from where they shoot off the fireworks, so the neighborhood is always packed with drunken idiots trying to remove themselves from the gene pool but never succeed. Thanks to a commenter from last year, I’m thinking about putting up a sign that says “You Wake ’em, You Take ’em” (in reference to my 2 and 5 year old daughters — the 5 year old will be watching the show on the Butte, but the 2 year old is staying in bed).

Meanwhile, here are the virtual fireworks I linked to last year. Be safe tonight.

July 4, 2005

Does The White House Really Want Renewal In Iraq?

Looking at their Iraq News archive, you wouldn’t think so.

July 3, 2005

Real Life Power Ups

I need to make some of these to hang around Bend. We just need to fill them with gold coins, giant mushrooms, big ol’ flowers, and/or bouncing stars.

July 3, 2005

Putting The “Public” in PBS

A great commentary about how PBS should really put the “public” back in Public Broadcasting System (yes, I know it’s old — it’s been on my “to read” list for a while).

July 3, 2005

Cool Animation

This is pretty clever and cool animation.

Virgil Widrich’s extraordinary, award-winning animation is a technical masterpiece. Hundreds of great movie moments are distilled into 14 minutes of animated magic by the director’s clever use of technology (and a photocopier).

On the surface, Fast Film tells a simple story. A woman is kidnapped and a man sets off to save her, embarking on a dramatic rescue mission full of wild chase scenes.

What makes Fast Film unique is that all its scenes were taken from 300 different feature films. Director Virgil Widrich captured stills from the 300 movies, and made over 65,000 photocopies of these, then folded them into a variety of shapes and animated them. The result is a completely fresh look at Hollywood – a tour of movie history at breakneck speed.

July 3, 2005

Bad Typo

But apparently, not all that uncommon.

July 3, 2005

We Still Have More Stuff To Get Rid Of

We had our garage sale today and despite selling nearly $200 worth of stuff, we still have quite a bit to get rid of. So we’re extending it another day, and will be up at the crack of dawn on Saturday morning to get rid of what’s left. So what actually is left? We still have a futon, a BBQ, a chair, a ton of baby/toddler toys, a CD rack, and a bunch of other knick-knacks. Be sure to come by before all the die-hards clean us out in the morning.

July 1, 2005