WE CAN ALL TRUST MICROSOFT, RIGHT? I mean, it’s not like they constantly use unethical practices to further their business. You’d think they would stuff ballot boxes with their reputation. But I’m sure they’re really nice guys in person.
Here’s those afore-mentioned pictures from my brother. They’re awesome, in my opinion. All of these were long-period exposures on color 35mm.
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Hmm, another guy in the company will be coming out to share the townhouse this weekend. He’ll be working on the same project I am. Always good to have some company around the place. I’ve got to clean up some though, and try to make time to watch Band of Brothers, which I borrowed from my dad, and install Earth Empire, or whatever it was, that I borrowed from a guy at work. So I’ll probably get none of that done and instead sit around and mess with my site, like usual, heh.
At least I’ve got most of the pressing, time-sensitive, arrangements for my friends wedding taken care of at this point. Now if I could just get First USA to pull its head out of its ass, I’d be a happy camper.
Oh, hell, I’m a happy camper anyway. What do I have to complain about, really? I mean, just read some of the other entries here and think about what people around the world are going through.
According to the Washington Post, the ship seized by Israel (the one with all the guns in it, remember?) was only one of three. And the other two made their deliveries.
Israeli v. Arabs: Round….hell, who can keep track.
Israel dropped its contact with the Palestinian Authority earlier today. Mr. Zinni has definitely got his work cut out for him. Especially when you take into consideration that the Saudi state run newspaper, Al-Riyadh, ran a piece in late November (as far as I can figure out) which included this gem: “For this reason, Arab infants – before they reach the age of self-humiliation and submission – suckled hatred of the Zionist enemy with their mothers’ milk, and this hatred cannot be uprooted despite all the talk about false peace agreements.“. Yeah, convincing people who have “suckled hatred” of the Israelis since their birth to come to the bargining table might be quite a challenge…
Oh, to make things even better, Hamas & Islamic Jihad have both decided to disregard the cease-fire announced by the Palestinian Authority a few weeks back.
CONCEALED WEAPONS: A RIGHT? An Ohio judge has ruled that Ohio’s law prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons violates the state constitution. It’s not entirely clear from the news report how much this is a right-to-bear-arms case and how much it’s a due-process/right-to-self-defense case. But it’s interesting — and, I think, indicative of a change in public opinion. A decision like this would have been far less likely a few years ago.
Thanks to Glenn Reynolds of InstaPundit.com.
What a day for the world. Argentina’s economy is still making slow death spirals, the CIA says China is going to build more nukes to compensate for our missle defense system, Israel has convinced the US that Arafat was behind the ship smuggling arms from Iran, and India plans on holding “war games” near its border with Pakistan.
Oh yes, what a joyful world we live in….
You know, if you spam someone known for being an anti-spam activist, you deserve what you get.
Hah! I can publish, how do you like that?
Downloading anti-virus updates (the computer kind, not the Ebola kind). Posting to Blogger even though I can’t publish right now.
Dad made it through surgery today. He seemed in pretty high spirits, all things considered. We’ll just have to see how he feels once the nerve block wears off.
Pat sent me some majorly cool pictures he took. I’ll post them some other time, because I don’t feel like doing it now.
I’d like to update my template with some new ideas, but that’s not going to happen until I can publish it and make sure it looks ok. So I guess it’s time to go to bed.