April 06, 2005
Slammed
MuNu and Rocket Jones got hammered last night by a flood of spam comments. What a pain.
Update: It's still going on.
Update 2: I finally remembered that I could block the IP. Doh! Oh well, mess cleaned up.
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Yay!
That's the official Munuvian greeting and expression of joy. Find a fiver on the ground? Yay! Your team is playing like they're unbeatable? Yay! Girlfriend comes home from a bachelorette party half-sloshed, horny as hell and arm in arm with her bisexual college roommate? Well, duh. Yay!
Like I said: expression of joy.
But it's also the official Munuvian greeting. So go visit these latest residents and if they've bothered to post something, leave 'em a Yay! in the comments.
Rhymes With Right
Possumblog
Something for the Weekend
Seven Inches of Sense
Stolen Beauty
View from the Pew
A Swift Kick and A Bandaid
Professor Chaos
Cal Tech Girl's World
Tell 'em Ted sent ya.
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Uh, Ted, I feel really compelled to ask, has that ever happened? The sloshed girlfriend with the bi-sexual college room mate? Or is that something that belongs more in a publication with a story which might start, "I was a freshman in a small northeastern liberal arts college and I never thought anything like this would have happened to me, but . . ."? Here's hoping it happened!
Posted by: RP at April 06, 2005 03:25 PM (LlPKh)
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Oh, how to respond?
A gentleman never tells. That's always a good answer, and it applies exceptionally well here.
Or maybe it's just the biggest "Yay!" event I could come up with as I whipped out that post.
Now, as to your supposed letter, let me point you towards this: http://rocketjones.mu.nu/archives/010684.html
I hope that doesn't clear things up too much.
Posted by: Ted at April 06, 2005 04:16 PM (ZjSa7)
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Excellent reply. As for your letter clearing things up, I knew that a man of taste and distinction, such as yourself, would immediately get the stereotypical beginning of far too many Forum letters. In fact, for kicks, back in college we used to all get together on the floor and read them out loud to each other for the general amusement of the floor mates.
As for biggest yay! event you could come up with, I'll go on record as acknowledging that you (one) think big and (two) fully grasp the yay! concept.
Posted by: RP at April 06, 2005 05:21 PM (LlPKh)
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Someone should be fired for thinking that one up
Around here, bus systems like to use the word "link" in their name. We've got OmniLink and MetroLink and who knows what else. Just south of here is the oldest continuously chartered town in Virginia,
Dumfries.
What einstein thought Dumflink would be a good name for their bus service?
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April 05, 2005
Not Disabled Enough
Un-freakin-believable!
Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin has been stripped of her title because pageant officials say she can stand — and point to a newspaper picture as proof.
Janeal Lee, who has muscular dystrophy and uses a scooter, was snapped by The Post-Crescent newspaper standing among her high school math students. The photo was not an expose.
Standing. Not walking or bowling or skating or running track, she was standing.
“I’ve been made to feel as if I can’t represent the disabled citizens of Wisconsin because I’m not disabled enough,” Lee said Thursday.
Well honey, your feelings are right on the mark, because that's *exactly* why they booted you. Count your blessings that you don't have to deal with those politically correct nitwits any more. Why do I say "politically correct"?
Candidates for the crown have to “mostly be seen in the public using their wheelchairs or scooters,” said Judy Hoit, Ms. Wheelchair America’s treasurer. “Otherwise you’ve got women who are in their wheelchairs all the time and they get offended if they see someone standing up. We can’t have title holders out there walking when they’re seen in the public.”
Yep, can't offend the real crips. You know, the ones who are disabled enough. And of course we all know who gets blamed for this farce:
Hackel said Lee should have been aware of the rules.
You knew it was coming. It's her own damn fault.
I wonder if Miss Black America ever got bounced because her skin wasn't dark enough?
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Well, there's not a damn photo in that linked news article. How are we supposed to answer the
real question here: Is she HOT enough? Who cares the degree of her disability, it is first and foremost a pageant, and that means an evening gown and bathing suit competition. Bring on the hotties!
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When we had to pick the poster children/poster adults when I worked at Easter Seals, you never went with the "least abled" person (for lack of more correct langugage). You picked someone who had overcome a lot of adversity who could be an inspiration -- a success story. Quite honestly, Janeal Lee was probably a perfect choice because she was just mobile enough to have a real spark of hope and determination that could appeal to the general public (you know how people like to look away) as well as to the disability community.
Unreal.
Posted by: dawn at April 06, 2005 07:38 AM (Dh1V0)
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What dawn said. This woe-is-me celebration of victimhood has gone from discouraging the healthy to sinking the hopes of the disabled. Yeesh.
Then again, this ain't Easter Seals. It's a silly pageant and they have their silly rules. Whatever.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at April 06, 2005 10:45 PM (FX1pt)
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Difficult
This has been sitting in my inbox for a few weeks now, not out of neglect or indifference, but because these posts are so damned hard to do. Even after all these years.
I wasn't "on the scene", but I was dealing with several wives who's husbands were. I had several airmen (generic term includes women too) who worked for me, there that day doing crowd and traffic control.
Gordon Tatro, who has generously shared his reconstruction and photographs of the aftermath, passes along this link to a new website posted by Roland Fuchs, a German gentleman who lost his wife and 5 year old daughter at the Ramstein Flugtag that day. Included on the site are photos of his family, the day itself, the actual crashes, and the monument and memorial that have since been erected to honor those who died. This photograph shows clearly the list of names of the Flugtag casualties, and underscores just how many young victims there were.
I still receive email and comments about Flugtag, and I'd like to thank Gordon, Roland and the many others who've shared their experiences from that day. May everyone find peace.
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I remember seeing this on the news that evening and telling my freinds about that night.Nobody believed me.No-one had ever heard of anything like that.Especially with all of those casualties,plus being caught on tape.
That image is permenatly burned in my head.
Posted by: Russ at April 05, 2005 05:53 PM (ObxzR)
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I followed your links just to be reminded. I probably haven't thought about that day since shortly after it happened.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at April 06, 2005 11:16 PM (FX1pt)
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I was the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Commander of the 377th Combat Support Wing and worked for Colonel Bill Eckert and the Vice Commander Cash Harris. I watched the crash from the VIP area on the roof of the control tower building. I had watched the practice routine the previous day, and the solo pilot had buzzed the tower and a very low altitude and probably within 100 feet of the tower laterally, so I was kind of interested in seeing what he would do this time. I also had the chance to meet the team the previous evening at a reception for the participants.
You could see during the pierced heart stunt, the solo pilot seemed to be coming in hot, and in a split second there was a fireball, and the plane tumbled into the crowd. In hindsight, some of the crowd were spared because of the mound of gravel behind the impact area which we used for rapid runway battle damage repair was loaded with people. Had the truck not been there, a whole lot more would have been killed or injured. I immediately ran to the control tower and told the German announcer to ask the people to remain calm and clear the impact area using the MAC ramp which was north (I believe) of the impact site. I then ran the 200 or so yards down to the impact site. That took all of six or seven minutes. As I ran, I recall one particular man who's head was swollen perhaps a third larger than normal, it was burning, he was stagering away from the smoke and flames.
MSgt. Tatro's photo's bring back a lot of negative memories. I expect he took them the morning after. There was a young child I found under the red truck horribly burned. Colonel Cash Harris, I and a couple of other airmen had to try and move it trying to get to the kid. The tires were burned and we tried to roll it on the wheels. I had to jump in and move the shifter to get it out of gear. The child was still barely breathing. There was no way he would survive.
A lot of things happend that day. I found part of one pilot, at least a third of him, and also his pelvis. My EOD crew combed the crash site weckage for the ejection seats, and parts thereof, that had to be safed (live charges still in the seats). We had Bob Kalcevic running around worried that people might see the bodies and ordered up a 40 foot flatbed to load them on before we had a chance to map out the scene and try and match body parts to the bodies they belonged to.
It was a long, long night, and Colonel Bill Eckert at the onsite CP was absolutely awesome. He kept everyone together in the middle of a disaster. What was a nigtmare day turned into perhaps six weeks agony for our Wing and especially its people. The smell at the temporary morgue at the base gym, the Doc's trying to identify who they have when you don't know who was there in the first place? Then there was MSgt. Sharon Lucy at the base theater, trying to contact every person stationed at Ramstein who was not accounted for, despite the fact that her new convertable was damaged at the crash site and couldn't be moved for weeks because of the investigation. Our cops, who chalked tires to see if the vehicles they belonged to had moved, and then running the plates to see if the owner was a victim. To this day, I am so proud of every one of them.
Sometime after the incident, one of my EOD guys, Danny Churillo took a shotgun out of the safe at the EOD shop, and shot himself. I believe he was a victim of Flugtag, and that really haunts me.
There is so much more that most people don't know. I sat on the fundraising committee for the Community that raised thousands of dollars for the relief of the families of the victims and I even put together the Ramstein Bon Jovi Flugtag concert. Our hearts went out to each and every victim of Flugtag. That's part of the story too.
I retired from active duty a while back, but now teach high school Air Force JROTC and wear the uniform every day. I have a uniform jacket with blood stains on my old Chief stripes from 28 August, 1988. I still look at that jacket, all the time.
Posted by: Cmd. CMSgt. Thom Lustik at May 19, 2005 07:00 PM (ywZa8)
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I was a TSgt, Telephone Maintenance, at Ramstein. The communications for Flugtag were extensive, so I had volunteered to clean up trash following the show, figuring that would be easier than doing all the telephone work I'd done for the previous Flutag. I was driving from my home in Obermohr when I first saw the smoke. Arriving on the scene, I didn't pick up any trash. All the survivors had been removed, and we began the task of picking up bodies and body parts. As I remember it, the concertina wire had done the most gruesome damage. We weren't sure what parts went with what bodies, and surely mixed some of them up. We were given rubber gloves for our own protection, but they shredded so quickly, that I stopped putting on new ones. Some bodies were too hot to handle, so we used ice and water from picnic coolers to pour over them. I counted about 30 bodies that I handled personally, and then began picking up pieces. I think I went into shock. When the remaining pieces became so small that I wasn't sure if they were body parts or not, I decided I'd done enough. In a daze, I walked to the NCO Club and got sick. Then I went to the bar, and found some friends. I remember while there, Security Police came and confiscated a bunch of booze. It was needed by the medics. It was a day I shall never forget. Tommy Johnson
Posted by: Tommy Johnson at May 20, 2005 05:17 AM (MIP1f)
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I TOO REMEMBER THAT DAY AND WILL FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. MY LAST NAME WAS MCCANCH AT THAT TIME AND ME, MY EX-HUSBAND(WHO WAS ACTIVE DUTY EOD) AND OUR 2-YEAR OLD SON(JJ) HAD A FRONT ROW SEAT FOR THIS HORRIFIC EVENT. I STILL CANNOT WATCH A VIDEO ON THIS. JUST STILL-LIFE PICTURES. ALL I REMEMBER (SINCE WE WERE DIRECTLY BEHIND THE POLICE CAR ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ACCESS ROAD) IS WATCHING THE PLANE COME AT US ON FIRE AND TOTAL AND COMPLETE SILENCE. KNOWING THAT THERE WAS NO WAY WE COULD OUTRUN A FIGHTER, I JUST REACHED DOWN AND BARELY TOUCHED MY SON AND WAS LITERALLY PICKED UP AND THROWN. I HAVE TO SAY I WASN'T SCARED. ACTUALLY I WAS AT PEACE WITH THE FACT THAT MY FAMILY AND I WERE GOING TO DIE. THE LATER THE SURVIVOR GUILT HIT ME WHEN I THOUGHT OF ALL THE YOUNG CHILDREN THAT WERE NEAR ME AND PROBABLY DIED THERE ON THE SPOT OR SHORTLY AFTER. I CAN REMEMBER TWO SMALL CHILDREN THAT WERE TO THE LEFT OF US, THEY WERE BEAUTIFUL AND THEY LOOKED LIKE TWINS, THEY WERE LITTLE CURLY, BLONDS ABOUT 4-5 AND I HAVE YET TO SEE ANY PICTURES WITH THEM IN THEM. I HAVE ASKED REPEATEDLY EVERYONE I CAN IF THEY REMEMBER SEEING THEM AND NOBODY KNOWS. I MUST COMMEND THE BASE FOR BEING AS PREPARED AS THEY COULD HAVE FOR AN EVENT THAT I AM SURE THAT THEY DID NOT ANTICIPATE. AND ALL OF THE REST OF YOU THAT WORKED THROUGH YOUR OWN SHOCK AND TRAUMA TO AID THE REST OF US THAT NEEDED YOU. THANK YOU. CMSGT THOM LUSTIK, I REMEMBER DANNY AND IT RIPPED MY HEART OUT WHEN WE HEARD THE NEWS, I CRIED FOR DAYS. THE THINGS I SAW, SMELLED, AND HEARD THAT DAY WILL NEVER LEAVE ME. BUT MOST OF ALL THE HELP AND THE STRENGTH THAT WAS SHOWN BY EVERYONE THAT CAME TOGETHER AS ONE WILL NEVER LEAVE ME. I AGREE THERE ARE THINGS THAT WILL NEVER BE KNOWN AND NEVER BE FORGOTTEN, BUT I BELEIVE THAT TALKING ABOUT MAKES IT EASIER TO DEAL WITH. IT AMAZES ME HOW I CAN REMEMBER THAT DAY LIKE IT JUST HAPPENED. BUT I GUESS THAT GOD WANTS US TO REMEMBER THIS UNTIL WE FIGURE OUT WHY WE WERE SPARED.
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Turning two - a second time
Rand Simberg of
Transterrestrial Musings provides pointers to these nifty sites:
Google Maps - in about 5 minutes I zoomed to a map of my street, and then with one click of a button got a fairly detailed satellite image.
Economics in One Lesson - the classic by Henry Hazlitt, now available online.
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Satellites don't come around here.They're afraid of the bears.
Posted by: Russ at April 05, 2005 05:55 PM (ObxzR)
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April 04, 2005
Bad Surprises
Tomorrow we dip into savings for a new washing machine. I ran a load this evening and when I went down to the basement to swap it into the dryer I found our entire bottom level a shallow puddle.
Judging from the black ooze that came out from under the washer and the fact that the agitator is frozen in place, I think the clutch or motor seized early on and the beastie just kept chugging through the wash/rinse/spin cycles, turning belts and bearings into so much sludge.
It took Mookie, Mom and I about a half hour to get the water up (thank goodness for heavy-duty carpet cleaners!) and reasonably dried out. Of course, our son managed to leave every blanket and sheet on his bed dangling onto the floor, save one. Oh frickin' well, looks like he'll be cold for a few nights. Maybe it'll teach him to pick his crap up like he's supposed to.
Probably what annoys me most is that it didn't start to smell like burning or make any odd sounds, so it had plenty of time to dump that entire cycle of water out onto the floor. Bah.
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Aw, that sucks. I'm sorry.
I feel for your son. My bedroom at home was in the basement, and we suffered a couple of floods. My father's reaction was quite similar to yours...
Posted by: nic at April 05, 2005 04:33 PM (etHvD)
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Rice Cake?
This morning on the way to work I heard that song
Short Skirt, Long Jacket by the group
Cake. It's been quite a while since I've heard it, and this time, what came to mind was that photo of Condoleeza Rice in her duster and knee boots.
Oh, this explains it.
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OK, WTF is this supposed to mean? I recognize it as an astrological chart but I've never seen any more reason to study that nonsense than who slept with whom in a soap opera. I consider astrology to be "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing".
So, just what does this chart say?
Posted by: Jim Gwyn at April 04, 2005 09:12 AM (6iy97)
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Hell if I know.
It was just something weird and stupid I found when googling images of Condi.
Posted by: Ted at April 04, 2005 09:55 AM (blNMI)
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I was confused too until I read this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natal_chart
And now I'm even more confused.
Posted by: Oorgo at April 04, 2005 01:32 PM (lM0qs)
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New Banner Contest
If you've visited
Rocket Jones more than a couple of times you've noticed that the banner at the top of the page changes every week or so. It's nothing automatic, I just switch it when I think of it.
I also add new banners every once in a while, and they all go into my queue and make their way back to the top in time. Derek said it best, "you can never have too many banners." He's an artist, so consider that expert testimony.
Here's your chance to be creative. Design a banner for Rocket Jones. Drawing, painting, photography, simple, complex, I don't care. Enter as many as you'd like. Even if all you can do is stick figures, as long as it's done with charm, it's fine with me.
Sometime in the near future I'll put 'em all up and we'll have a vote on the favorite and I'll come up with some sort of actual prize, but probably all of them will make it into the banner rotation.
Guidelines are simple:
- keep the width to about 500 pixels maximum
- keep the height to about 300 - 325 pixels maximum
- naughty is ok, vulgar is not
Other than that, well, wow me.
I've displayed several of the current Rocket Jones banners in the extended entry to give you an idea about what's already been done. I'd love to see entries unlike anything ever seen on b-b-b-broadway!*
*Reference for the hardcore Zappa fan.
more...
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Well, I'm no graphic ahtist, but I might be able to draw up something. 'Cept that I don't have a scanner, so there's no way to turn it into a jpeg.
Here's an idea that maybe Stephen can help with: A rocket is flying -- flames shooting out it's a** -- and a rider (presumably Ted) is holding the reigns. Kinda like Dr Strangelove, but this rocket is climbing up up up at a 30 degree angle. Maybe even waving a hat in the air with a determined
gonna-kill-me-some-washing-machines look on his face.
Eh. That's all I got.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at April 04, 2005 10:30 PM (E1aZR)
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Hah, just thought of something. Have to wait 'til I get home and fire up the old scanner.
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April 03, 2005
Building a simple but unusual rocket
IÂ’m going to show you how to turn an ordinary badminton birdie into a real launchable rocket. These are easy to make and bigtime fun to fly, plus they don't go so high that you'll lose it.
Best of all, they fly on Estes "mini" motors. You can find these in the toy department at WalMart, and a pack of four will cost around five bucks. You're going to need one to help you construct the rocket, so pick up a pack before you start. Look for motors labeled A10-3T or A3-4T, they'll be a little less than 3" long and about one half inch in diameter (pinky sized).
If you need more information about rocketry, check out my Rocketry archives, there's lots there, plus links to even more.
I'm going to assume that you have a launch pad and controller. The ones that come with Estes or Quest starter kits work fine. Starter sets are cheap, include everything you need and the value is very good.
And finally, just to prove I'm not a complete loon, here's the original plans for the birdie rocket as it originally appeared as an Estes rocket kit.
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Go for it,Ted.The birdy is on my future to do list also.
I have a first coming up soon,too.My first boosted glider for the upcoming contest(B glider).I was going to try it for the first time this weekend but you know how that went.I scratch built it from old CMR Mantra plans I found in Sport Rocketry.The plans call for it to either boost on it's own or to attach to the two staged Omega.
Although I built both I don't have the Omega rigged to fly the glider......yet.
I want to keep working with this glider design to see if I can improve upon it.Competing with myself....blah,blah.
Another first I have in mind is helicopter duration or at least just a heli.I've been a hardcore heli nut since I first saw Apocalypse Now in the theatre when I was a kid.Been hooked on them ever since.Helicopter?Rocket?Rocket helicopter?I'm there dude!I have my eye on an Apogee Heli-Roc soon.
Posted by: Russ at April 03, 2005 08:55 PM (ObxzR)
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You'll love the Birdie Russ. I've given several away to little ones at the launches. They're perfect for toddlers who want to fly with the big kids.
For the contests, I'll fly what I brought if it'll help the club. I don't fly serious competition. An Alpha makes a fine duration rocket because you can stuff a huge streamer or chute into it, and I almost won a glider contest once with a Mach-10 because the wind was too strong for lightweight gliders.
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Now I'm kinda glad I didn't
A couple of months ago I had this killer idea for completely redesigning
Rocket Jones for one day only - April Fools day. Apparently several others did too.
Fortunately, I got too busy to even make a start on it, so I don't look like some kind of predictable lemming.
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April 02, 2005
Plenty of scumbaggery to go around it seems
Via
Sarah, I see where the poor saintly parents of Terri Schaivo have agreed to sell the list of names of everyone who supported their cause to a direct-mailing company.
Assholes.
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I can't believe this... and trust me, I do not think they were saintly. I found the entire circus nauseating and didn't even blog for 3 days because I just couldn't get past how pissed off the entire situation made me (both sides) and I couldn't escape it. My blog is my happy place and if I'm nothing but anger, I cannot blog.
But this, it seems far fetched. I hope I am wrong, Ted. If this is true, may they rot. And I'll post on it. Mark my words. It's been a long time since I've raised my sword on my blog. But this... this would do it.
Posted by: Boudicca at April 02, 2005 10:43 PM (z7nbM)
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Holy Crap. It's true. That makes me frickin' sick.
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I'm sure sitting at someone's bedside for a decade and a half doesn't exactly produce any income, but this sure as shit ain't the way to generate some.
Posted by: dawn at April 03, 2005 11:22 PM (Dh1V0)
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I see a new PC in my near future
Mookie came downstairs the other night while I was at my computer and said that my monitor was *really* blurry.
I hadn't noticed, but she's right. I think it's getting worse too.
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Uh... shouldn't you be replacing the monitor when the monitor gets fuzzy? The other way is kinda like buying a new car when you get a flat.
Of course, if you do take that route, you should be all set for NASA.
Posted by: Phelps at April 04, 2005 07:12 PM (6Ggq6)
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My PC is the computer equivalent of an Edsel. I like it because it's set up juuuuust the way I want, but it's still old and very outdated. To modify your example a bit, imagine buying a brand new grille for that rusted out Yugo in the front yard.
Posted by: Ted at April 04, 2005 08:29 PM (ZjSa7)
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Funny Stuff, and now he's gone
Mitch Hedberg passed away. You can find more at
The Ministry of Minor Perfidy, but for now I'll just leave you with some of his jokes
that I shamelessly stole from the Ministry. They had me laughing out loud.
I got an ant farm. Them fellas didnÂ’t grow shit.
Last week I helped my friend stay put. ItÂ’s a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over to his house and made sure that he did not start to load shit into a truck.
I got my hair highlighted, because I felt some strands were more important than others.
I had a stick of Carefree gum, but it didnÂ’t work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. “Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Boy, you really like Tide.”
I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. ThatÂ’s a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.
I type a 101 words a minute. But itÂ’s in my own language.
I donÂ’t have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman whoÂ’d be mad at me for saying that.
IÂ’m against picketing, but I donÂ’t know how to show it.
I was walking down the street with my friend and he said “I hear music.” As if there’s any other way to take it in.
At my hotel room, my friend came over and asked to use the phone. I said “Certainly.” He said “Do I need to dial 9?” I say “Yeah. Especially if it’s in the number. You can try four and five back to back real quick.”
My lucky number is four billion. That doesn’t come in real handy when you’re gambling. “Come on, four billion! Fuck. Seven. I need more dice.”
I love blackjack. But IÂ’m not addicted to gambling. IÂ’m addicted to sitting in a semi circle.
I donÂ’t own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time.
I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.
The thing about tennis is: no matter how much I play, IÂ’ll never be as good as a wall. I played a wall once. TheyÂ’re fucking relentless.
I would imagine if you could understand Morse Code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
I went to the park and saw this kid flying a kite. The kid was really excited. I donÂ’t know why, thatÂ’s what theyÂ’re supposed to do. Now if he had had a chair on the other end of that string, I would have been impressed.
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I’m against picketing, but I don’t know how to show it.
There's hot tea on my monitor again, dag nab it!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at April 03, 2005 01:49 PM (QSR+D)
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Gauging Interest
Our local minor league baseball team is the
Prince William Cannons recently renamed Potomac Nationals (Carolina League - A level). My wife and I are planning on attending several evening games this season.
Would anyone be interested in attending a game as a group? They have Saturday night games with fireworks afterwards, and I believe we can get discounts and/or set up a picnic for groups of 20 or more.
If this sounds like something you'd like to do, leave a comment and/or drop me an email. If you'd just like to hook up for a game some evening, that'd be cool too.
Potomac Nationals home page
Map showing directions to the ballpark
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Yeah! Particularly for a Saturday game...in rush hour it would probably take four hours. But quite doable on a Saturday!
Posted by: nic at April 03, 2005 07:08 PM (etHvD)
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...four hours for us to drive to Dale City in rush hour, that is. But you can read my mind and knew what I meant, right?
Posted by: nic at April 03, 2005 07:10 PM (etHvD)
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I'm always up for an adventure -- and lord knows I need to get out of the house once in awhile. Count me in! Can I bring my own booze?
Posted by: dawn at April 03, 2005 11:24 PM (Dh1V0)
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The Big Hair and I could be persuaded.
My suggestion would be box seating, which is only $10.
Posted by: Rob@L&R at April 04, 2005 10:49 AM (hOncZ)
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The mrs. and I would definitely be interested. I haven't been to a minor leagu game since I used to go see the Akron Aeros when I used to live in Ohio. And junior has yet to see a real baseball game. We're already in Mt. Vernon, that wouldn't be much of a drive at all.
Posted by: Buckethead at April 05, 2005 04:53 PM (r8pWR)
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More hockey oddness
I know that I had a Hockey Whoopass Jamboree game yesterday, yet the AHL website comes up "not found". Guess I'll have to Google the results...
Ah yes, my Cleveland Barons whupped all over the Rochester Americans. This was the Barons' first win in seven tries this season against the Amercs.
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Dali inspired sports equipment
Those crazy Buffalo Sabres are at it again, trying to
save hockey by being all innovative. This time, they're proposing a rounded
net that increases the target area by 13%.
It's odd looking, and I'm not sure what I think of it. I like the idea of making it harder for a goalie to completely shut down the angle by hugging the post. But still, to my mind, why not just make the goalie pads smaller?
An observation about that picture: the goalie is an employee of the Sabres organization and to me appears to be a rather smallish man. Modern goalies are big tall guys who absolutely fill the net, so that illustration looks to be a little overstated about the effect of the change.
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I take issue with all of that. ISSUE!
first: I assume that the idea is simply an april fool's prank. It would have to be. It's so absurd.
second: "hugging the post" only works on a very shallow angle shot. You have to know when and where to come forward to cut off the angle properly on everything else.
third: Goalie pads and their respective size ain't the problem. Modern goalies are simply better conditioned than their predecessors. Goals are still scored, but the professional goalie, in general, is a better athlete than ever before.
finally: since it's all an April Fool's prank, none of what I typed really matters.
Posted by: Derek at April 02, 2005 09:30 AM (iY1/W)
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Derek, I absolutely agree with your third point, and that's why something has to change. Goalie skills have improved so much that they've got too much of an advantage now.
Similar to when baseball tinkers with the height of the pitching mound, the rules need changing to restore balance to the game.
I hadn't thought about this being an April Fools joke, but maybe it is. Then again, something radical like this might just be what it takes, so I keep an open mind.
Hockey needs fixing. Regardless of what purists and traditionalists say, if the sport is going to survive as more than a niche curiosity that people only care about during Olympic years, then changes must be made.
Posted by: Ted at April 02, 2005 09:52 AM (ZjSa7)
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feh. With as much respect as I can muster, I spit on change.
The game is awesome.
Posted by: Derek at April 02, 2005 11:27 AM (iY1/W)
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What about giving the goalie a, you know, hockey stick?
Posted by: Brian J. at April 02, 2005 01:12 PM (V04ml)
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Why don't they just put a freakin' soccer net back there?
Posted by: Victor at April 02, 2005 05:46 PM (etHvD)
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How about something like Rollerball (the original with James Caan) only on ice skates and without the roller derby aspects?
Yeah, that's what hockey needs... motorcycles on ice!
And maybe landmines... cuz everything is better when there's EXPLOSIONS!
Posted by: Rob@L&R at April 03, 2005 10:14 AM (hOncZ)
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