An article with the background story about an exhibit called "Mexotica" consisting of incredibly rare color pinup photos taken in Mexico in the 1950's.

Link provided by the same group that located the Spider Pool (my original posts here and here).

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Michael King of Rambling's Journal is signing off.

Best of luck guy, I'm gonna miss my daily visit.

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This nifty site from the US Department of State contains translations of the US Constitution into Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and simplified Chinese.

Educate a foreigner, it makes a nice change of pace from bombing, exploiting, killing, invading, occupying or oppressing them.

Seriously though, there are also links to historical discussions and versions of the document, including images of George Washington's printed copy with notes he made in the margins, and their page of reference links is absolutely amazing.

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The 20 Most Obnoxious Quotes About Hurricane Katrina.

Thanks to QandO for the pointer.

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Comment number 5,400 was left by Tuning Spork. No great prize to hand out this time, amigo, just my thanks to you and everyone else who's helped make Rocket Jones a fun little corner of the net.

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My friend Rich (owner of Verticle Force Rocketry), starts a nice little rant about that most expensive of fluids that we all use every day. No, not gas. Not coffee and not even blood. Something seemingly much more valuable...

...one name brand ink cartridge I looked at contained 19ml of ink for $35.

1ml = ~0.033814 U.S. ounces. So for $35 you're getting ~0.642 ounces of ink. That's $1.84 per milliliter or about $54.48 per ounce. Or consider the high price of gas today versus $6,973.12 9/10 per gallon for printer ink.

Rich also gives the word on "Box-wrap patent infringement", which is a new one to me. I'm pretty much a free market capitalist, but this kind of crap really gives ammunition to the "corporations are evil" nuts.

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A few odds and ends that I wanted to mention.

I fully expect to be undefeated after the first week of our Blogger Bowl Fantasy Football League, unless Philly kicker Akers manages fourteen field goals tonight. My team doesn't look very strong, but it was enough to whup the Houston Hot Pants all over the field.

In related news, I didn't activate the Rocket Jones Hot Jets Cheerleaders this season, but I did buy some rocket motors on Sunday for the Hot Jets rocket.

I'm very late with this announcement, but the latest edition of the Carnival of the Recipes is up, hosted by Munuviana's own Jordana. Check it out, you won't be sorry.

Three changes to the blogroll: Dawn has moved back to Caterwauling, adjust your links accordingly (you probably already have, I'm just sluggy-slow and am finally getting around to it). Secondly, Blue now has a blog and you can find him at Partial to Grey. He even spells "grey" right. Thirdly, I've added Samantha Burns to the sidebar. She's Canadian and she's interesting. Drop in and tell her that Rocket Jones sent you.

Heh. Akers just missed a field goal.

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Over at the Ministry of Minor Perfidy, GeekLethal crunches some numbers and sums it all up like this:

The subjegation of the entire Muslim world by Israel would, in a demographic sense, be like Massachusetts enslaving all of China.

There's not enough tinfoil in the world.

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Why bother with a personals ad, when you could just be mentioned in the NY Daily News? That's what happened to blogger CGHill of Dustbury. From the article:

...more women are discovering the allure of brainy men who admit they're more experienced at computer games than the game of love.

I'd like to let the ladies know that in school, I was the kid that the geeks beat up for lunch money so they could go to Radio Shack. I expect that I shall now be inundated in the lovelies, oh yeah.

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1 Wow! I could not put my finger on it, but now I can. Now I know why you are HOT!!!

Posted by: Amy at September 05, 2005 08:56 PM (8Rqqf)

2 Careful, you're dripping sarcasm on the carpet.

Posted by: Ted at September 05, 2005 09:33 PM (+OVgL)

3 And how effective was this little blurb in overwhelming my love life?

You'll note I have plenty of time to read this and post a comment.

Posted by: CGHill at September 06, 2005 09:51 AM (wmpjK)

4 Ted, you should have posted a "hot" photo of yourself with your Commodore 64! That would have totally brought 'em in.

Posted by: RP at September 06, 2005 12:25 PM (LlPKh)

5 Ha! I was an Atari 800 guy. I saved programs on cassette tape.

Oh man, I can't wait for the flood.

Posted by: Ted at September 06, 2005 12:56 PM (blNMI)

6 Mine was a Tandy Color Computer II, w/ tape drive hooked up to my parents color tv, in the living room.

Do I have you beat?

Oh, and I didn't mention the tape on my glasses too.

And the mullet.

Posted by: Oorgo at September 06, 2005 07:04 PM (lM0qs)

7 I only dated brainy men, geeky or not. I have a saying, "The Geeks ultimately rule the world." I prefer to be on their team.

BTW, you have a birthday coming up. ;-)

Posted by: Bou at September 06, 2005 09:48 PM (5JHEt)

8 Hey, I had a TI 99/4A. Thank the Maker for Moore's Law.

Posted by: owlish at September 06, 2005 10:40 PM (qYLOC)

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Now that the blamegasm over Katrina seems to be over, it's time to move on, blog-wise. To be sure, there will still be finger pointing and stupid quotes (or more correctly, quotes from stupid people), but the relief effort is in high gear now. I'd like to mention a last few items and then I'm probably done with it.

Susie's family is safe! Yay!!!

Bitterman lived on the gulf coast for a while, and found an arial photo of what's left of his old neighborhood. Here's something I hadn't heard before:

Initially when the storm surge came in, he had thought all was well, but the wind packed it up so tightly, it began entering the storm sewer pipe outlets at beach level and flowing uphill to his neighborhood some 35 or so feet above the beach.

Yikes! Fortunately, everyone is safe.

Victor has a list of undeliverable postal zip codes. Check with your local post office, because the list will be shrinking as the relief continues.

Finally, everyone should be shocked at how quickly law and order broke down in New Orleans (I haven't heard about problems anywhere else... but the media has been hyper-focused on NO, so who knows), and I'm reminded that the primary and ultimate responsibility for you and your family's safety is you. Please go back and read the "For Ourselves, By Ourselves" series over at Random Nuclear Strikes. It's not a one-size-fits-all, but he discusses points that you might never think of. He also links to an excellent article titled "Disaster Guns". Personally, I've brought up the subject of household arms again, and specifically told the girls that they will be learning to use a handgun as a minimum. Even Mookie, who was the most opposed when I last brought it up, realizes now that there's some wisdom in that.

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So simple, even Banjo Boy could figure it out.

Printable blank sheet music. All kinds of options, all for free.

Kudos to Heather at Angelweave for pointing this one out.

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From Hold the Mayo (who turned two this week, yay!), who first saw the link to this at Zoe Brain's place:

So why was I thinking of starting a movement against giving aid to the stricken areas?

Because these are red states. They voted for Bush. These ninnies obviously wanted these policies, and they deserve to live with the consequences of their votes.

A large part of me still believes that many of these W-worshipping numbskulls deserve to suffer and to die. They brought it on themselves. Let them look to Jayzuss for aid: It's time they stopped leeching off the more productive blue staters.

(Californians stupidly give much more to the federal government than we receive from it; the money flows in a very different direction in the red states.)

So, at least, I started to write. But then (to paraphrase the old song) I thought I'd better think it out again.

Many of the victims, the ones who have suffered the most, are poor. The hardest hit were the blue state folk living among the red state maniacs. New Orleans, we should note, went heavily for Kerry.

And that's why we must help. Although it was very tempting to say otherwise.

I want to make this clear. Zoe Brain found this and linked to it, she didn't write it herself. If you want the link to where it was spotted, click on through up above.

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Over at Owlish Mutterings, he linked to this "Job Predictor".

According to this, Rocket Jones' ideal job is trained assassin. Cool.

And when I type in my real name (Ted Phipps), it says I should become a pirate.

You should start being nicer to me.

Let's see... full name (Robert T Phipps)... Yeehaw! My ideal job is a lottery winner - no need to work !

I like this game.

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1 Mermaid?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 02, 2005 02:57 PM (Mgx+6)

2 Rally car driver!Whoo hoo!

Posted by: Russ at September 02, 2005 03:16 PM (ObxzR)

3 Fuckin' eh! I use my real full name and I get "Alcoholic Tester". Oorgo gets "Professional Tramp".

Posted by: Oorgo at September 02, 2005 03:27 PM (lM0qs)

4 I get to be a Supermodel, using my real name. But my husband does too. So, I'll give that profession up...you know, too much competition and all.
I guess I'll have to stick with being a Brain Surgeon then.

Posted by: Blogeline at September 02, 2005 04:20 PM (YMz4J)

5 Pixy, that's a fine profession, full of dignity and tradition and tarter sauce.

Posted by: Ted at September 02, 2005 04:55 PM (+OVgL)

6 Even using my full middle name, I end up with jobs I really don't want [Minister]. Bummer.

Add in Jr, and I get office gopher or ping pong ball instpector. God must hate me.

Posted by: owlish at September 02, 2005 05:45 PM (QiOeU)

7 I'm supposesd to be a pole dancer! (wild)

hln

Posted by: hln at September 02, 2005 06:03 PM (V04ml)

8 Get this. With my blog name I get Satan. With my real name I get God. Go figure. I see blog fodder...

Posted by: Bou at September 02, 2005 08:49 PM (5JHEt)

9 What's a teasmaid?

Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 02, 2005 09:31 PM (BOJTy)

10 I got Heavyweight Boxer and Insurance Fraudster...are you sure this is a real prediction?

Posted by: Susie at September 03, 2005 12:39 AM (nekkG)

11 A teasmaid is the English equivalent of a coffeemaker, specifically for hot tea, as far as I can tell. The name may be old too; most of the references I could find were to the 50's.

Posted by: owlish at September 03, 2005 12:20 PM (QiOeU)

12 Aah. Thank you, owlish! I presumed that that was pretty much what it was, I'd just never heard the term before.

Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 03, 2005 05:02 PM (rXz/+)

13 BWAAAHAHAHAHA!! With my online surname I get "Circus Freak". With my real last name I get "Teacher to Help Pensioners to Drive".

My husband gets "Village Idiot".

I have to go clean my monitor now...

--TwoDragons

Posted by: Denita TwoDragons at September 06, 2005 11:37 PM (gSfuk)

14 OK, add in my middle name and it says I'd make a great Garden Gnome. LMAO!!

--TwoDragons

Posted by: Denita TwoDragons at September 06, 2005 11:47 PM (gSfuk)

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Our local classical music station has a nice little piece every morning that runs down the minutia of the day such as sunrise, sunset, moon phase, as well as a little bit about the day in history.

This morning the host mentioned a wax cylinder recording made in 1895 of the "Poets and Peasants Overture", done by Baldwin's Cadet Band of Boston. Follow this link to see today's show notes, and if you scroll down you can click the victrola to hear an audio of the original recording.

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It's Hurricane Relief Day around the blogosphere, and MuNu's very own Michele is pitching in. Go check out the items she's got up for auction and make a bid. All the proceeds go towards the Katrina victims.

Update: Phin is auctioning off a site redesign! Be sure to check out the portfolio, he's done some of the best looking blogs I know.

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