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| Saturday, February 26, 2005 |
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Dr. Gene Scott has passed | MetaFilter Hunter S. Thompson and Dr. Gene Scott both gone now. Two american originals to be sure. I'm still a big fan of both. Posted at 12:06 PM |
| Thursday, February 24, 2005 |
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Sit back and enjoy a good explosion Hey y'all...one of the TV shows I did last year just got shown a couple times on National Geographic Channel. Anyway, the show actually got a good review. Read on. Posted at 8:30 AM |
| Wednesday, February 16, 2005 |
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When it's personal, the right veers left Nancy Reagan supports stem-cell research after her Ronnie gets sick. Dick Cheney opposes the gay-marriage ban after his daughter comes out. Rush Limbaugh is suddenly an advocate of treatment - not prison - for people addicted to narcotics. Oh, I almost forgot: The epiphany comes while Rush is being investigated for drugs. The list goes on and on: prominent conservative figures, forced to question some sweeping social principle, after being rudely interrupted by the messy realities of life. Ain't personal experience just the worst? Posted at 11:46 PM |
| Monday, February 14, 2005 |
 happy valentine's day Posted at 11:40 PM |
 The Truth About Compact Parking Spaces I'm about to tell you why so-called "compact" parking spaces are a somewhat clever ruse being perpetrated on all of us. I drive a car that doesn't fit in compact spaces. Now before you come down on me for driving a big old SUV - stop - and listen. I'm talking about our 4 door Saturn that is too narrow to fit 3 adults in the back seat. It is a tight squeeze in compact spots. I won't even talk about my pickup truck. Why do these narrow parking spots exist? There are a lot of theories floating around out there, but I have yet to see the truth being told. Follow along here and find out. Let's say you are a shopping center developer. Your business is to build a mall, and divide it into shop spaces. Business owners rent those shop spaces from you, and hence you make money. The customers drive to your mall, and park in your parking lots that you have so graciously provided. The lot is not directly putting money in your pocket, but we'll get to that in a second. So before you build that mall, you go to the city offices. You tell them you are going to build a mall. They ask you how big it will be. You tell them. They then whip out their calculators and tell you how many parking spaces you must provide. So let's go back a bit. Remember that part about the shopping center developer? They can collect rent on the shop spaces. They can't collect rent on the parking lot (unless it's a pay lot, which most shopping centers do not have)therefore the parking lot is overhead. Overhead sucks. What's the answer? Well, if the city tells them they need 1,000 parking spots then they'll mark out 1000 parking spots. BUT WAIT!!! What if they don't have room for 1,000 parking spots? No room? How can that be? Think about it. You design this mall to maximize retail space. You go so far as to put kiosks selling the most tasteless crap imaginable down the center of the mall's hallways. Why would you build a properly sized parking lot, which dings you in the overhead column? Enter the compact parking place. You can now tell the city, with a straight face, that you have 1,000 parking spaces. How can you do this? Well, because the city let's you...they wrote the code to allow "compact" parking spaces to exist in the first place. Why did they do this to us? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Because the city collects taxes on the retail sales that go on in the mall...plain and simple. It's good business to be good to business. Besides that, you keep going shopping, don't you? You complain abut the spaces when you get there, don't you. But do you do anything about it? I didn't think so. So now you know the truth. You probably heard it here first. Pass it on. Posted at 2:55 PM |
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Longhaired Radical Socialist Jew Food for thought, eh? Longhaired Radical Socialist Jew (The Gospel Song) by Hugh Blumenfeld Well, Jesus was a homeless lad With an unwed mother and an absent dad And I really don't think he would have gotten that far If Newt, Pat and Jesse had followed that star So let's all sing out praises to that longhaired radical socialist Jew When Jesus taught the people he Would never charge a tuition fee He just took some fishes and some bread And served up free school lunches instead So let's all sing out praises to That longhaired radical socialist Jew He healed the blind and made them see He brought the lame to their feet Rich and poor, any time, anywhere Just pioneering that free health care So let's alI sing out praises to That longhaired radica socialist Jew Jesus hung with a low-life crowd But those working stiffs sure did him proud Some were murderers, thieves and whores But at least they didn't do it as legislators So let's all sing out praises to That longhaired radical socialist Jew Jesus lived in troubled times The religious right was on the rise Oh what could have saved him from his terrible fate? Separation of church and state. So let's all sing out praises to That longhaired radical socialist Jew Sometimes I fall into deep despair When I hear those hypocrites on the air But every Sunday gives me hope When pastor, deacon, priest, and pope Are alI singing out their praises to Some longhaired radical socialist Jew They're all singing out their praises to Some longhaired radical socialist Jew Posted at 11:07 AM |
| Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
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International domain names may pose threat - Computerworld Good info for all us non IE users. btw - for those Firefox users in a hurry...your fix is in the very last sentence: FireFox supports IDN by default, but users can disable it by typing "about:config" into the browser's address bar, locating the network.enableIDN option and double-clicking on it to set it to "false." Posted at 10:48 AM |
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