This article talks about the upcoming investigation of a satellite launch gone wrong. The satellite would have helped t measure the thickness of North Pole ice sheets. My money is on either Exxon, BP, or Chevron having a hand in this one. Anybody?
I'm sad that the weekend is over. I'm going to lobby congress for a 2 day work week. Seriously, why does it make sense to anyone to work more than play? Ridiculous.
I failed to give any good blog over the weekend. Saturday was spent catching up on shows that I'd missed during the week... sad, I know.
Sunday was spent getting the bedroom ready for a new floor to be put in on Tuesday and a closet on Wednesday. This mean (1) Ripping out the old closet, (2) Putting everything in the bedroom into the living room and (3) Ripping up the carpet.
I thought I could get the closet out in an hour.
It took 3.
Same goes for ripping up the carpet. Who knew there was going to be so much crap to rip out of there? After I removed a few of the screws that seemed to be attaching the closet to the wall, it still wouldn't budge. I cut a line through the caulk that was holding one side to the wall and it still wouldn't move. I started taking it apart and realized that two backing pieces on each side were glued to the wall. At first I tried running a hacksaw blade through the glue, but this wasn't going anywhere. The next step was to just rip it off with the back of a hammer. This ended up ripping off plaster and paper from the drywall. I took pictures, so maybe I'll post one when I can reach the camera again (it's currently somewhere in the living room...
After a trip to the hardware store I started patching over the holes that I'd created. I'm taking my time though and letting it dry between coats of spackle as I really don't want this to show like the not-so-maginificent job I did on the bathroom wall.
Oh well. Time for work.
Paul Krugman's OpEd today in the New York Times via the Times Select Workaround at NewsBank: A Pig in A Jacket
I'll speak more to this topic when I have some time on Saturday or Sunday, but if you do your prereading, you'll enjoy my witticisms much, much more.... who are we kidding, there are only two othe people who read this.
In the Guardian article, "Breaking America's grip on the net" it's explained that recent events will start to relinquish the US' control over the internet. Is it bad if I didn't know that we owned the internet? I can't even believe how mad we are. We're such nerds! "No! They're our servers! You'll never control the mainfram!"
I knew the Dept of Defense funded and basically created the internet, but I hadn't realized that we still controled the hub... but I really don't think there is much of a hub anymore.
Let's just hope that this knew governing body can't shut down the pirate bay or something insane like that.
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Doesn't anyone realize what's going on? Bush nominates Miers, whom he knows the democrats won't like because of her lack of experience and semi-conservative values. At the same time, he knows that the conservatives won't like her either.
She'll get voted down and the democrats will get blamed for dividing the country, even though it took a significant number of Conservatives to vote her down as well.
Then he nominates a real conservative, all the republicans vote for him/her and we're totally screwed.
OR everyone realizes that this is his plan and tries to triple-cross him by voting her in. Then we're screwed.
The fact that Roberts didnt' answer any questions during his hearings, but was still a darling of the Neo-Cons makes it all the more interesting to hear stuff like this:
Start-up getting financing for fingerprint technology... someday soon you'll be able to pay by just swiping your finger on a nasty gummed up pad at the 7-eleven. And you thought that the touchpad on the Debit Card screen was disgusting, just wait until everyone with a finger or ten has wiped theirs across a reader.
This disgusting downfall pales in comparison to getting mugged for your finger. Who knows, maybe there will be a black market for rich people's digits at some point in the near future.
Click Here for a story about an Urban Fox loose in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Pretty sure I warned about this at some point in the past, but the BBC reports today that the Spanish Flu came from birds, which means that we might want to all start getting really, really freaked out about the avian flu in Asia.
This is interesting and potentially disasterous: Britain has accused Iran of responsibility for explosions which have caused the deaths of all eight UK soldiers killed in Iraq this year.
Granted, the US supplies weapons to loads of places... maybe that's why we're blamed for so much just like the British are blaming Iran. This isn't to say that Iran isn't doing a horrible thing. I don't think anyone should be supplying weapons to insurgents, I'm just pointing out a parallel.
I know America is all about turning a quick buck, but the smoking gun points out a true asshole who is trying to trademark the name "Katrina" for an alcoholic beverage...
Listening right now to Bush Press Conference on wnyc:
UPDATES Below:
Choice quotes so far Re Harriet Miers:
And to think. R and I bought our condo in July... Thank goodness we got a relatively good deal and aren't planning on selling any time soon: Slowing Is Seen in Housing Prices in Hot Markets
Harvey Danger Downloads
and nerd it up with this: ARPANET Diagram and this Internet Architecture Wiki
Other things I need to remember:
Hooray! I STILL don't need to get cable! F' Yeah!: Adult Swim throws fans b'band lifeline
What's that? You say you've never been a judge before, but you're described as a "Pit Bull" of a lawyer by the man who nominated you? I say you deserve a spot on the Supreme Court of the United States of America, Ms. Harriet Miers. Another member of Bush's harem (see Hughes/Rice) is placed in a position of power. I wonder if these women are just replacements for Barbara in Bush's life. Does he need to have these strong female figures pushing him around? Who's nominating who here?
We'll see how this all pans out. I feel like there are going to be a lot of pissed off federal judges who thought they'd paid their dues and might get a spot at the top who will now feel snubbed. What did you expect from this guy but to surround himself and nominate personal friends? Pretty sure every president does that, though not to this degree necessarily.
More as this retardation develops...
I was wondering where Richard Pearle went after he and the other neocons helped to get us into this mess. I even have a Google Alert set up for his name just in case he actually pops up in the news. Looks like Maureen Dowd has noticed the same thing as she mentions Pearle in her OpEd column today:
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