Bellevue Community College: We, the Board of Trustees of Bellevue Community College are deeply offended by the conduct of a math instructor at Bellevue Community College and strongly condemn this offensive behavior. This behavior is in gross violation of BCC’s mission and core value of respect for diversity. The instructor wrote an exam question that stated in part, “Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of the roof of the 300’ Federal Building, and tosses it up with a velocity of 20’ per second.” The question went on to ask when the watermelon will hit the ground based on a formula provided.
CNN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran will “soon join the club of countries with nuclear technology.”
Next thing ya know, we’ll find out that President Ahmadinejad wears a blue turban and a new European leader named Nicolae will rise to power from Romania.
I mean, there’s a march in downtown Seattle. There’s been marches across the country. The news is reporting that these marches are for immigrant rights.
PistolWimp.com: In the fall of 1983 an Ohio man, Michael Larsen, put together an astounding run on the television game show program Press Your Luck. He did so by memorizing the sequences by which the various prize squares lit up on the game board, allowing him to time his button presses to coincide with the lights’ stopping on the most advantageous squares.
I remember watching the show as a kid, but I didn’t see this episode. Wild shit.
I’ve listened to your channel for quite some time. You generally play a good mix of alternative music, both old and new. You do sometimes repeat the same songs a few times a day, but I can understand that. As it is, I’m sitting at a computer for about nine hours everyday: I just leave the streaming client play itself out. For the most part: I do turn it off at 3:58 (PDT) every day because Madison… her singing intro is just, well, annoying. I know it’s meant to be but it doesn’t mean I have to listen to it. After the intro she’s OK, but, just, damn. It’s painful at 4pm.
Right now, though, I feel obligated to point out something wrong with regards to your programming… the Beastie Boys are not alternative rock. They are old. They are wannabe rappers. They are played no less than five times everyday. The same five songs everyday because they aren’t putting out new music. It’s like these program directors that are working for a radio station but have a “favorite” band that they try to inject into the playlist no matter how much it doesn’t fit. It would be like Left of Center playing Styx or Chicago: it just doesn’t go. You… you program director bastard, you may like the Beastie Boys – that’s fine for you but for fuck’s sake stop putting it on Alt Nation!
Looking through the news, I’m simply embarrassed by what is making US headlines these days, considering what’s knocking around in the world these days. And yes, who’s the blame? The media? Not entirely. We let them get away with it. We – as US Citizens – are just as much to blame because we thrive on shitty, US-centric, beat-on-Bush news.
MSNBC: EU: Microsoft’s Vista may break antitrust rules […] He highlighted Vista’s integrated Internet search, digital rights management used to protect copyrights and software that would create fixed-document formats comparable to Adobe’s pdf.
If I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again: where is the fucking public outcry for oppression caused by Apple’s OSX? OSX that ships with its own media player, IM client, search engine, DRM system, and spits out PDF’s? OSX that has been “guilty” – quotes because there’s no guilt here – of these issues for over three years now? Why is it OK for OSX which has been in the mix for years and not for Vista which hasn’t even been released yet?
Where? Where’s the outcry for it? Where is it? Tell me that.
I don’t often spend time in FeedDemon during the weekend… most blogs take the weekend “off” and I figure that I can play catch up for the extra 10 minutes on Monday morning. And it’s on that morning that I try not to post anything because I already know that 50% of what I read makes me cranky. Like hearing that “60% of Vista needs to be re-written”. How in the hell can people actually believe that? Especially after the last two CTP’s… Pft.
Another classic comment came from The New York Times, saying that Microsoft should do what Apple did: orphan users by “not worrying about backwards compatibility” and fling a VM at them. That one makes my ass twitch. Not because Microsoft would do it. Hell, if the tech reporters were to be believed, that’s what the original Vista plan was, before the 2004 “shake up”… and the reporters freaked when they heard that which caused the public to freak. That’s what makes me twitch: if Windows PC’s are 90% of the marketplace, what should Windows users do if we just said “Oh, you need a new version of your applications on Vista”. Riiiight. That would be smart business. Snort. The only reason why Apple could do it is because they had 2% of the marketplace at the time. Meh.
But that’s not what got me to break my silence this morning… oh, no. I was willing to let that go, until I stopped by TUAW. Continue reading My Head Hurts→
The other day I’m walking down a hall at work and someone is walking towards me. She sneezes. I instinctively say “Bless you.” I’ve said that for years whenever someone sneezes. It was even a running joke in Singles. But I’m at work. Now I start thinking “was that right? Should I have said that? What if she’s an atheist? What if she’s offended? What if HR was monitoring this hallway, waiting for just this kind of slip up? Is there a non-religious way to ‘excuse’ someone for blasting germs at you in a sneeze? What’s proper???” All this thought, just for political correctness? Fuck that.
If you sneeze near me, yer getting blessed, dammit, so shup about it.
MSNBC: Isaac Hayes has quit “South Park,” where he voices Chef, saying he can no longer stomach its take on religion. Hayes, who has played the ladies’ man/school cook in the animated Comedy Central satire since 1997, said in a statement Monday that he feels a line has been crossed. “There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins,” the 63-year-old soul singer and outspoken Scientologist said.
The Women’s College Basketball tournament begins soon – the tournament seeds were announced today. This NCAA tournament threatens to blow my mind.
First off, props to my alma marta for getting into the Big Dance. Sacred Heart‘s previous claim to athletic fame came from the mens basketball team winning the Div II title in 1986 and when the “new” football team went 5-4 in their first season in the early 90’s. SHU entered Division I in 1998 and now offers over 30 sports – a far cry from my freshman year, when they were a Div II/III school with only seven sports – and they’re already breaking into the NCAA tourney. That just kicks ass.
The other thing that has me goin’ “errr?” is that they’re having one of the regional branches of this thing in Bridgeport, CT. I mean I know UConn is in the Dance every year and I noticed Hartford got in this year… but… well… um… I guess Harbor Yard is a better venue that I was giving it credit for. Jeesh.
On the other hand, since when did CT become Indiana for womens basketball?
The other day Anna was over, puttering around in my kitchen, while I was dropping a disc in my DVD player in the living room. Just as the tray retracts into the player, the only thing I hear from the kitchen is, “What. Is. This?”
Word of advice… when you’re hurt, angry or generally pissed off, write an entry your blog. Write it all out. Don’t think about it: shoot from the hip. Just get it all out there, in the blog editor. Don’t try to second guess it – when you’re out of fuel you’ll know you’re done and then give it proofread. Polish it up, just like you would any post. Make sure it’s good and biting and cutting and that you feel better, generally, now that you’ve gotten it off your chest. Breathe deeply, and feel cleansed.
Then delete it.
There are somethings in this world that simply do not belong on the Internet.