Archive for December, 2005
Whoever keeps breaking into my Jeep, please stop.
As you saw the first 2 times, there was nothing valuable in there. The first time you made off with an antenna ball, and $3 in change.
The next time, it was about $1 in change, AND you decided to make a mess of the car.
Today, you got away with exactly 76 cents. (I know because it was 1 day’s worth of change from dinner) Was that really worth unzipping my windows, unlocking the door, and rumaging through the car a whole 6 feet from my bedroom window?
I’ve asked police to step up patrol in what I thought used to be a safe area of the city. I do have some advice for you though.
Look harder next time, as this morning while seeing what you stole, I found $0.61 underneath the passenger seat. I’ll leave it in the driveway for you right underneath the new CCTV security system I’m going to purchase, as you obviously need my pocket change more than I do.
December 12th, 2005
The internet is not a direct marketing medium. Now that I hve got that out of the way, it IS a great place to practice direct marketing. No, I?m not going crazy but before I can explain what I mean, we all need to get you thinking like a direct marketer (ok so maybe just a little bit crazy). For more on good marketing projects, findmore info here.
Here?s a largely accepted fact you probably already know: Most people don?t read direct mail.
Here?s another fact that you probably aren?t aware of: Most people don?t read your website either. It?s not that you don?t have anything interesting to say, you just don?t know how to say it properly.
You may be the best writer in the word; prose just flows out of your pen. Scrap it. People don?t want lengthy stuff on the net. They want to be able to skim. Just look how choppy this article is. It?s not very poetic, but you are still reading it right?
The internet consumer is a different kind of consumer. They don’t do things in order. Think of how you do a mailer; you put your offer in the letter, on the form, and on the reply envelope. Your offer is in short little burst everywhere right? Why It’s mail, you don’t know what they will pull out of your envelope first.
The internet is the same way. Just because text is there doesn’t mean anybody is going to read it. People will skip around. They want action, something to click and something to do.
Give them clear precise actions to take, and call them to those actions with small bits of powerful text. You’ll notice a difference.
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December 8th, 2005
Just a quick note to say that Kansas currently Ranks Last in educational science standards.
I’m no expert, but it might have something to do with the fact that they teach intelligent design in schools there.
Whether it’s how the world was created or not, intelligent design is not a science. There is no scientific method involved whatsoever.
In fact, the most common argument I hear for it is “you can’t prove evolution, and the bible says intelligent design so it must be true”.
I’m sorry, but “because the bible says so” is not the least bit scientific.
You don’t see people running around saying “this is what happened because L Ron Hubbard said so” … oh wait, I guess people really do believe anything.
Regardless of what you believe though, if you didn’t arrive at it through the scientific method, please leave it out of your science class.
December 8th, 2005
Remember the southern lady smoking a cigarette and worried about the effects of a jackhammer on her unborn baby?
If you thought she was stupid, check out these Rednecks and their version of a “roller coaster”.
Reading about 3 redneck pancakes on fark.com in 3….2….
December 7th, 2005
You know how they say a picture is worth 1000 words? In this case, I think 997 of them are “Ha”.
The sheer stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me eh?
December 7th, 2005
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
That’s the 4th ammendment. Not many Americans know that.
I read a poll recently that says 63% of americans support the NSA tapping their phones in an effort to combat terrorism.
I contend that 63% of Americans hate America.
Anybody who will allow the govt to go against the constitution can NOT be a patriot. A patriot defends the very principles the country was built on. A patriot is NOT one who blindly follows their govt. It’s time we get our definitions right.
Americans don’t want freedom. Americans want the “freedom” to do what the government tells us to do. We want common sense to be legislated. Morals legislated. We even want to be told how to spend our money and what to spend it on (anti gambling laws etc).
We want to to be told how to have sex, and with whom. What to do in our own houses. Who to call. What information of ours is private and public (phone calls, searches, etc)
We want to swim into the net with the rest of the fish, because it’s a big lonely ocean out there by ourselves.
Remember America, we have to swim in the pond where we shit.
December 6th, 2005
God creates dinosaurs
God destroys dinosaurs
God creates man
Man destroys God
Man creates dinosaurs
Dinosaurs eat man.
Man destroys dinosaurs.
Man creates 2 sequels.
Drexler warns of grey goo.
Man creates grey goo.
Grey goo destroys man?
December 5th, 2005
I watched it.
However, I am not outraged. I do not feel that Nick Berg’s death warrants the retaliation that others, including our leader, may think.
At the same time, I do not agree with Al Queda’s decision to publish this execution.
My only sentiments are the same as they have always been.
If the United States wants the killing to stop– we must back up our bags and get the Hell out of Dodge–er, Iraq– whatever.
The killing of Berg hits home because he was a civilian, it’s been highly publicized (by our own media as well as Al Queda) and because the manner of his death highly parallels that of Daniel Pearl.
Bergs death serves as a double-edge sword of propaganda for both our government and theirs.
I don’t think very many people now can say they haven’t seen Nick Berg being beheaded, and I genuinely feel for his family.
This suburban man whatever had been caught up in some kind of seemingly twisted plot — the FBI warnings, and his own detention — for those who don’t know, the victim was supposed to be home on March 30.
After watching the video the only thing that I can say of it is that it seemed ironically Biblical to me.
The sounds in the background. Though I can’t understand what it is that they were saying, the fact that the act was done out of revenge is clearly evident.
The way they pushed him down and sliced him like a cow proved to me that Nick Berg was an animal to them. He had been dehumanized. Psychologically, they had to mentally dehumanize their victim in order to have been able to do what they’ve done. It is all evident in the footage. It wasn’t one sweeping stroke, or done with any passionate sentiment at all, but cold carving.
While tales of the video haunt news sites and shows across the nation and the world, the most drastic thing that seems to hit home besides the beheading itself are accounts of the victim’s screaming.
I can’t say if Berg felt any pain during his execution. I’ve heard accounts where shark attack victims don’t realize that an arm or leg has been bitten off because their brain wouldn’t register the pain. I’ve also heard of instances where a person had been shot and the brain did not register pain.
On the other hand, the reason that the French invented the guillotine was to provide “humane” or “painless” executions. One sweeping stroke.
So on that subject, I don’t know. What I do know, however, is that when an animal dies, the lungs release air. When this happens, the animal makes a “screaming” or “crying” sound. It does not feel anything at this time. It is dead.
And so I think in the circumstances of Nick Berg. I think he was dead possibly seconds before the screaming began.
The execution was done very quickly. To Al Queda, Nick Berg was nothing more than a piece of meat.
They presented his head at the end–showing it up to the camera for everyone to see.. then placed it on what looked like cloth or his back to prove that the deed had been done.
The only thought that I really have on the issue are my sentiments to the family. He was a boy..man… three years older than myself. In that sense, and after reading accounts of his family, that really hits home.
However, regardless of the so-called warnings he received (I do not believe for a minute that he was warned at all, but O.K.) The responsibility of his death does not rest in the arms of Osama Bin Laden.
Ultimately, the person responsible for his death is George Bush, for his leading this country to this quagmire in Iraq and failing to keep his promise to find Bin Laden “dead or alive.”
Anyone who wants to argue my point, can. However, with the limited knowledge that I have on the proper procedure of chain of command until I can’t think otherwise.
I think it’s time the president owns up.
And he DOES owe. To all of us.
December 4th, 2005
I won’t be updating until monday. I’ll be up north at the Garland resort for my company’s Xmas party.
It should be a fun time of good food, good drinks, and cards.
Speaking of good drinks, check out the Granny who hit the 3 story beer bong. That beer bong is in Ann Arbor, and I’ve hit it before.
Seems like they took it easy on her. Years ago when I did it they didn’t just have pitchers of beer up there; they had some fifths too.
Ahh College…
What are some of the wild drinking games you’ve played in college? Leave some responses in the comments. (it’s free, you don’t need an account)
December 3rd, 2005
MSN is looking for search champs for an upcoming conference. You apply, and if you win you’ll be given an all expense paid trip to Redmond to chat about MSN search with it’s developers.
Sounds like a unique opportunity, especially for coders to network.
I’m going to ruin my chance of getting picked right now by giving away my #1 suggestion:
Search is about convienence, put MSN search on the taskbar in the new version of windows and you will dominate Google.
But, you do need to make a few algorithm changes and clean up the interface a bit first. I can still push a new web page to #1 for my desired keywords in just a week’s time; that shouldn’t be happening.
December 2nd, 2005
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