Still Playing ASL

Southwest Michigan ASL Chris G. with the write up of the latest six man action at his house over the weekend. I retained my long losing streak, much to the ire of my team. Oh well.

This is encouraging

Gallup Survey: American Support for Space Exploration Strong and Growing | SpaceRef – Your Space Reference I wouldn’t have believed it. More than three-fourths (77%) of the American public say they support a new plan for space exploration that would include a stepping-stone approach to return the space shuttle to flight, complete assembly of the [...]

Time Stamps Fixed

In case you were wondering. If you see anything else odd, let me know. I’m still learning to configure this platform.

Are You Surprised That We Would Consider It?

CNN.com – Congressman: Mecca a possible retaliation target – Jul 18, 2005 From CNN today… A Colorado congressman told a radio show host that the U.S. could “take out” Islamic holy sites if Muslim fundamentalist terrorists attacked the country with nuclear weapons. If that shocks you, then you probably haven’t been paying much attention to [...]

The Germans Certainly Understand Capitalism

German man cans car exhaust to feed GDR nostalgia – Yahoo! News You gotta love this! A German man has canned the noxious-smelling exhaust fumes of East Germany’s cult Trabant car and is doing a brisk trade selling the scent to those nostalgic for the former Communist state. Imagine the hassles with the hydrocarbon nazis [...]

Poker Post Test

Like the other fifty percent of the country, I am now addicted to No Limit Texas Hold ‘em, seen on about every cable channel at any given moment. I’ve been interested in the game for a few years now, and after watching my brother get quite serious (and quite good), I decided to give it [...]

Martians or Marines?

LIBERTAS » War of the Worlds and ‘U.S. Interventionism’ In the wake of 9/11 and the new reality of terrorism, which isn’t that new, really…just more obvious, it isn’t surprising that the entertainment culture would reflect our new sensibilities. Star Wars, Harry Potter, and now War of the Worlds all touch upon the Good vs. [...]

Word Press

Well, after fiddling around for a few hours, I have to say I already like Word Press better. The plugins are easier to activate and configure, and I’ve not yet had to embrace some arcane php or perl module that only a Linux/Unix freak could understand. No offense to said freaks, but I want to [...]

Movable Type is Evil

OK, after being shut down by my host for trackback spam (500+ spams in a matter of minutes), I started to fiddle with various filters in MT. In trying to upgrade Movable Type, the helpful utter feces of a help file resulted in a completely eradicated blog. I’ve lost ALL entries going back to day [...]