Wow. I have tagged almost every post in my blog — manually. That took two days of detailed HTML editing because Blogger doesn’t really support tags. I’m not big into tags myself, but a careful experiment showed a tagged entry got 10% more hits than an untagged entry. Now if the visitors would all clink […]
This is an old, old, old joke from my Boy Scout days. Two friends-for-life, Bob and Jack, lost touch with each other during boy scouts when one moved away. By chance, they ended up in the same college. They decide to go camping for old-time’s sake and to renew their friendship. On the appointed morning […]
Legendary original Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett has died. The troubled Pink Floyd co-founder spent his last years in reclusive anonymity. A spokeswoman for the band said Barrett died several days ago, but did not disclose the cause of death. The surviving members of Pink Floyd – David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard […]
The AP is reporting (excerpted) FIFA will open a disciplinary investigation into Zinedine Zidane’s conduct in the World Cup final, when he was sent off for head-butting Italy’s Marco Materazzi. Zidane and Materazzi exchanged words after Italy broke up a French attack in extra-time of Sunday’s final in Berlin. Seconds later, Zidane lowered his head […]
Well, the World Cup is over, and Italy has won. I am pleased and glad as I didn’t want the French to win. And quite frankly, after Zindane’s brutal head-butt on Materazzi, the French deserved to lose. What a piss-poor example of sportsmanship in front the whole world. True the officials have been handing out […]
Every now and then I steal from my own website for a post. This is from the “CMOT TMPV” section and entitled profundity. 9-11-01. The unbearable sadness of life in the modern world. I still can’t watch those pictures. (I’m sure you know which ones I’m talking about.) The Challenger accident. It affected me deeply, […]
Wow. I realize it’s time I get some updated into this blog, so here’s a large collection of Random thoughts to bring us up to speed. I went to work this weekend but the DSL was down so I didn’t accomplish as much as I would have liked. My DirecTV has been out for over […]
In a previous blog entry (Airbus Crashes — Boeing Soars) I made fun of Airbus. That’s always good sport. I now have a follow up to the above post. It’s gotten worse for Airbus. Much, much, much worse. I direct my reader(s) to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5103642.stm to read the latest. BAE is bailing on Airbus, the French […]
http://tinyurl.com/medrl <– Okay, there’s the link. Read it first. As I said to everyone who would listen, the A-380 may be an engineering masterpiece, but it’s not what people want. And, Airbus, as always, made promises it just couldn’t deliver on in order to try and show up Boeing. Boeing on the other hand, came […]
This is a medical product and guys will squirm horribly. However, there is nothing here that isn’t work safe so share the love. It’s just fucking evil if you want my opinion. I thought it was a joke at first when Razzie sent me this, but that’s a real product. Some things you should not […]