The First Rule of Geek Club...
...there's always a bigger geek. One turns his apartment into the set of
Star Trek: Voyager, another pays
5x market value for it. Who's living in whose basement now Shatner?
Soldiers love their robots
It used to be that canine handlers had a difficult time if their dog died.
Now it's the robot handlers of the army's bomb squad who are
getting upset when a robot "dies".
When your host leaves the house, it's time
to go home.
Bush and company keep saying that setting timelines for withdrawal from Iraq
means admitting defeat. Well guess what, the "democratic" government
of Iraq wants
the Americans to go home, and to make clear their point that they are
the Deciders, they're taking a Bush-style two month vacation. Interesting
side-note, one of the minorities most picked upon and least protected in
this new, more tolerant society is the Christians. You can read an account
from CBS News here.
A Little Less Right Stuff
Wally Schirra, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, and the only
astronaut to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, passed
away last week.
The Press or John Howard: Somebody is Stupid
This story is old, but it's been bugging me. Dick Cheney was visiting Australia
back in February. His plane, Air Force 2, left Sydney apparently bound for "America." The
story that Australian Prime Minister fed to the press was that the
plane developed problems, so it diverted to Singapore. If you need to,
go look at a map. Singapore is nowhere near any flight path between Sydney
and "America." Guam and Kwajalian (both American military islands)
are between Sydney and Hawaii, the closest point of America. Singapore is
all the way across Australia (going from southeast to northwest) and then
over Indonesia, a country that might not be friendly to America. If Air Force
2 developed a problem while over Australia, surely it would land in Australia?
A day later, the US said that Cheney's trip to Singapore was planned.
So did Air Force 2 fly over Australia without the knowledge or permission
of the country's PM?
This Hour Has 22 Chasers
Australia's equivalent of This
Hour Has 22 Minutes is The Chaser's War on Everything. You can download
clips from their shows each week at this
site or Youtube.One
of my personal
favourites: why do people discriminate against people who wear stockings
over their heads?
— SGP
PLEASE
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not. You might like them, you might not. They worked for me.
