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Friday, October 29, 2004

Some Ironic quotes from W


In yesterday's nytimes Bush was talking about those tons of missing weapons (see below) and said "This investigation is important and it's ongoing, and a political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief." [Italics mine]
I'm not sure I understand whether or not Bush wants me to vote for him or Kerry. He's definitely jumped to several conclusions without knowing the facts (Saddam, WMDs, etc.).... But then again, he did say "political candidate", not "president".
And today's ironic remark:
Kerry, Bush said, "has taken a lot of different positions, but he rarely takes a stand." I would call testifying about war crimes in Vietnam taking a stand. I would call refusing to testify in front of some winky 9/11 Commission and then later agreeing only on the condition that you can bring Dick Cheney with you NOT taking a stand. I would call actually having an opinion about something and defending it "taking a stand." I would call skirting every issue and being a yes-man for the religious right "not taking a stand." It's actually really difficult to say that someone running for president "rarely takes a stand." The man is running for president! I can't imagine he got there by having no convictions whatsoever. More important than taking a stand at all might actually be what these candidates stand for. Bush apparently stands for simply having a stand and then defending it no matter what the "facts" say.
Conclusion? Bush is a wuss. He panders to the wealthy and the fundamentalists, is too scared to give a press conference and can't even make a decision for fear of political consequences (9/11 commission existence? dept. of homeland security? These were things that obviously needed to happen, so why the flip-flopping from Bushie?).

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Monday, October 25, 2004

That's funny, with enough unguarded weapons being stolen in Iraq, we might be able to give them the weapons of mass destruction that we never found in the first place.
For the super-duper political news junkie try the note's noted now.
For more on Ashlee Simpson's lip-synching debacle, R found the comments on her website quite informative and damned funny.

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Friday, October 22, 2004

How can people still believe this?


Read the study at p.i.p.a. and let your jaw drop. Further proof on how dumb your neighbor really is.

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Monday, October 18, 2004

If anyone hasn't seen the footage of Jon Stewart on Crossfire, do it NOW.
And, oh, what's this? More dark pictures of bands at the 930 club?
R and I went to see The Faint last night and I was pleasanlty surprised to find that TV on the Radio was opening. First we had to wait through Beep Beep, which is on the same label as The Faint, but not quite the same level of "rockin'". The Faint put on a great show and were decidedly more dancy than I had expected from their tracks that I'd heard before. TV on the Radio were a close second for quality music and will probably gain a lot of fans on their tour.
We did notice a few other things.
(1) One of the guitarists for Beep Beep looks remarkably like Billy Corgan.
(2) The lead guitarist for The Faint dances more than he plays and also helps to put the band squarely into the category of "sissy-rock" (a term that I cannot take credit for, but enjoy using as of last night).
(3) The Faint was so loud that by the end of the night much of my hair had fallen out and I still can't hear out of my left ear... which also fell off.
(4) If you look really closely you can see that the Bassist for The Faint also played with Beep Beep (or was it the other way around? The sheer mystery of it all!!!)
(5) The pants on that Billy Corgan guy (furthest to left) are waaaaaaaay too high. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Pictures below (duh):







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Sunday, October 17, 2004

This is just a bunch of nerdy, but useful, keyboard shortcuts for me to use in my nerdery, feel free to ignore the link and move on with your life.

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I just got finished sifting through the Post from Fri, Sat and Sun while sitting on yee 'old balconie and listening to people yell at eachother on the street. It was awesome. The paper definitely piles up. I'm considering switching to Sunday only and reading it online the rest of the week... I mean, shit, I barely have time on weekday mornings (let alone the nonexistent evenings) and my neighbor is just going to steal the Sat. one anyway. Somebody took that yellow sunday section with the comics and magazine yesterday. I thought that this was over, but I can only assume that I'm going to have to do another stakeout.
Later on I spent a few minutes trying to shoo a yellow-jacket out of the living room. That was also quite awesome. I'm not sure if he made it out, but he's not crawling around on the inside of the balcony door anymore, so that's good.
Now I'm going to waste time on the internet. I love Sunday!
Read this Vanity Fair article about Supreme Court Clerks breaking their vows of silence. I had no idea that they were monks and clerks.
If you don't like the format of that link, just google "The Path to Florida" and look for you favorite results.

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Thursday, October 14, 2004

I leave him alone for two seconds and Bill O'Reilly goes and sexually harasses one of his workers. What an idiot. And now he's trying to sue her for extortion. Further idiocy.

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Wednesday, October 13, 2004

See, China? You see what happens when you start being capitalists? You GET FAT! Remember how fat those pigs got in animal farm? Ridiculous.
I've been splitting my posts between this blog and my kickball team blog, so I kind of feel like I've been negelcting this one. Too bad that so many people read the kickball one, it makes it more encouraging to write there.

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mp3s for 5 cents! Can it be legal? Yes. Yes it can. If it's from Russia. Apparently, music is really cheap in former communist nations. Check out allofmp3.com and thank me later. You have to join as a vip, but that really just means using your credit card to buy $5 worth of music (i.e. 500MB). I tried it last night and I'm still alive, so I say go for it. Even if it is illegal, you can just say that you "though you were paying for it" when you get caught and they won't have anything to say to you.

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Saturday, October 09, 2004

Back! Thank God!
I really enjoyed my time in Chicago, but it's great to be back in DC. Unfortunately, this means I'll have to go to work next week.... which is pretty lame. There will be less picture on the blog for a little while, but I'm going to start on a pretty interesting story that I'll be putting up here in a bit.
Definitely check this out.
And this is nerdy, but amusing.

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Friday, October 08, 2004

Another day, another powerpoint bonanza. If I see another slide.... good God. My kickball team lost today. Managed to get some pictures while I was on my way to get a new watch battery over on S. Wabash.





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Thursday, October 07, 2004

Another day in Chicago. Don't have much time to write, as I need to wake up super early tomorrow morning. I forgot the battery for my camera this evening, but managed to borrow one from someone with an S410 to take this picture from the riverboat ride that we went on:

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Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Just as a point of interest, check out visualthesaurus.com, it's pretty interesting.
Another picture from Chicago below. This is of the inside of Union Station (and you thought there was only one in DC) that I took while I was waiting for a train out to Skokie to visit with one of my Mom's high school friends and her husband. They're staunchly liberal and let me yell at the tv as I watched the VP debate. It was awesome.

Union Station - Chicago

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Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Powerpoint, how I loathe thee.
Another day at employee training school. After eight hours+ of "training" we got to participate in a pretty cool scavenger hunt, which was actually the best way to experience a city that I've ever had.
Enough kissing up.
I'd like to say that the toilet in my hotel room has nothing on the toilet in my apt. R and I have the most kickass waste evacuator that I've ever encountered. If any of you have ever been over... it's a powerful device that's not to be trifled with.
I'm back from the bar where we finished the scavangering and am now being inundated by MTV. Damn you cable!
Chicago is a really, really cool city. From what I've seen so far, and this has been confirmed by popular opinion, it's like a clean NYC with wider streets. Unlike DC, it has really tall buildings (i.e. lack of "capital building height restriction") and the people are friendly. I'm a fan, but it's supposed to be under 30 degrees tomorrow morning, so I'm not sure that the seasons are bueno.
Found this sight while wandering around for the scavanger hunt. With a wide angle, I think I could've caught the Chicago Tribune as well, but I'll have to settle for the Ebert media source:

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Monday, October 04, 2004

I've arrived in the windy city! Here's a view of some fancy fire-escapes out of my hotel window:


The next few days will be just full of silly corporate stuff, but I'll try to keep things updated as much as I can. Luckily there's wireless internet access in my room... and the cable tv!

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Saturday, October 02, 2004

The show that the features put on last night at the black cat was awesome. I think the Features were actually better than the Kings of Leon (the headliner), but that may just be that I'd had enough beers to deafen my left ear by the time the main band went on stage. Does that happen to anyone else when they drink?
Tomorrow I'm off for some corporate training thing in the windy city and won't be back until next Friday. Hope my plane lands it time for the debates.
I still can't get over how much ass Kerry kicked. Brilliant.

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