2009 June

Well, it’s more of a silent invasion.
Due to their ever-expanding need for storage, the NSA is building a data warehouse (a physical data warehouse?) in San Antonio.
Fun Facts:

San Antonio has the cheapest electricity in Texas
the need for storage space happened right after 9-11
the NSA is already a presence at Lackland Air Force Base, where they [...]

Q. What are we doing in Afghanistan?
A. Supporting the military-industrial complex.  To suggest otherwise would be unpatriotic.

Q. Is Frank Zappa’s “Black Napkins” an instrumental?  Think carefully.
A. ??

Paul Simon, they’re coming to take your Kodachrome away.

R.I.P.  Ed McMahon.

I’m not what you’d call a big fan of Iran but today I take my hat off to the people of Iran.
They had an election.  They suspected it was fraudulent.  They arose en masse and protested.  Some gave their lives.  The government clamped down and the fight continues unabated.
Contrast this to America, Land of the [...]

Courtesy of Citizens for Legitimate Government:
The NSA is doing continuous intercepts of phone calls and personal email of all Americans, not to mention foreigners.  In a manner that hasn’t been stated, someone momentarily roused Congress from its slumbers and it became irritated because it discovered the NSA’s spying is much worse than they initially disclosed.
Are [...]

Yeah, it’s been a rough week today.
Some days in which you run constantly are actually a good thing.  They make the day interesting and move quickly.   Other days are like running through quicksand, prolonging the agony.  Today, as you might have guessed, ran toward the latter category.
Work is more of a nightmare than normal, which [...]

In the control panel, there is a setting for SPLASH screen.
The default is NONE.

That’s it.

HEALTH
First UK swine flu patient death
First death of the `epidemic’ too…
Alberta To Immunize All Residents Against Influenza A (H1N1) By Fall
Couple Conceived Baby At Green Day Show, Named Child Dookie
Won’t little Adolph Hitler be upset….
Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, says that it’s almost as if Cheney wants to see the US attacked to [...]

The other day I made a post called, “Finally - a Use for Hockey (and the Cat)“, which went into my great love of sports, an update on the diabetic cat who gets kickbacks from the vet, and other items.  Among those items was a reference to Mountain Dew Throwback, with real sugar instead of [...]

Sometimes I feel like I’ve been around forever.  I’m not really all that old but I’ve been through the electronic communication wars for what feels like forever.  I seem to know more about it than a lot of the people around me.  Yeah, ok, I’m a geek too, so I have to know.
As many who [...]

Every now and then something of monstrous stupidity comes along: unfortunately it’s more and more frequent these days.    At times like these, I feel it’s incumbent upon us to STOP what we’re doing and pay attention to what just happened.  Or at least to point it out and ask (beg) others to look at what’s [...]