Saturday, May 31, 2003
....Can't....help....self.. . must...take. . .quiz...
Actually it's a
rather good one. It describes how I used to make a living:
You are 46% geek
You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.
Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend.
You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You'll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines!
Geek [to You]: I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!
You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.
You'll note that this is a cut/paste job, not a real coding link. See? Accurate.
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Claire on 05/31/03 at 10:54 PM
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Avoiding rftm on MT... Go see
Chasing Daisy and help her get off
blogspot!
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Claire on 05/31/03 at 12:36 PM
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I cannot relay the range of feelings that come over me upon reading
Iranian Girl's 5.31, second down post. (Hey, it's blogspot, whaddayawannn) I want to tell her everything from "go for it' to "hide under your chador until the bad mullahs go away."
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Claire on 05/31/03 at 12:28 PM
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Who ya gonna call . . .
Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton is a twit. He runs Fort Benning and, in that capacity, he was whined to by a bunch of Ranger-wannabes that their training was "too hard" and that they got yelled at, sworn at, and actually asked to perform their jobs. So Maj. Gen. Eaton assembled his Ranger Instructors and had himself a good ol' fashioned cranky attack. Now, the students are to be treated like the Queens of Whineland. No one is allowed to cuss at 'em, or keep 'em up past their bed time, or even make 'em wear Army Boots. (ferdog'ssake)
So the next time we (US) are in a tough spot and need some titanium-tough smart and resourceful Rangers to get our ass out of a jam - we'll hafta call the Scots.
Whose side is this guy on anyway? Keeripe.
ThanQ! to Acidman.
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Claire on 05/31/03 at 07:13 AM
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Link ThisThey're doing it Again!
How Many Times must
this mistake be repeated?
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing." - Hitler's Secret Conversations, trans. Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens (New York: Signet Books, 1961), 403"A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie." - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
ThanQ! to Rachel Lucas
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Claire on 05/31/03 at 05:05 AM
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Link ThisThe True Fashion Police
I knew it all along - it's our outfits that are the cause of America being the Great Satan. Not you men, you guys can wear whatever you like. Wear your auntie's feather boa and cowboy boots; it's all good.No, apparently it is when we women wear pants that the world goes to hell on a rollerskate...
"The Bible says curse be unto a woman who wears pants ...That is why the world is in such a state today,"
Here's a clue:Mswati, ruler of the impoverished feudal nation of about one million, said [the above] late on Thursday.
Mswati, quit worrying about fashion and educate your dam people so they can throw your tight ass out and govern themselves!Although it seems that "the last absolute monarch" in Africa does not upset his subjects too much:
Women on the streets of capital Mbabane were not impressed. "The king says I am the cause of the world's problems because of my outfit. Never mind terrorism, government corruption, poverty and disease, it's me and my pants. I reject that," said Thob'sile Dlamini.
I think Thob'sile Dlamini should get a blog for herself. Here's another clue:Mswati is ...currently married to nine wives, with a wedding pending for wife number 10, and has chosen an additional fiancee after reviewing videos of topless maidens performing a traditional Reed Dance ceremony.
Now I geddit. It's OK to go topless (it's traditional) but not while wearing pants. Interesting he's not even willing to meet the women before affiancing them...Third clue:
"What rights? God created people, and He gave them their roles in society. You cannot change what God has created. This is an abomination before God." [Mswati, again]
Now it's clear. It's God who's a twit, not Mswati. Hokay-fiiine.ThanQ! to Kate at Electric Venom who is apparently blogging in a sarong today. Now that's fashion.
Cultural Artifacts.
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Claire on 05/31/03 at 05:03 AM
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If it works with Texans . . .
This is a small quote from a good piece by the Feces Flinging Monkey about how the concealed carry law has worked out in Tejas. Well worth the read.
...serious crime in Texas has dropped 50 percent faster than for the nation as a whole.
"An armed society is a polite society." Robert A. Heinlein
Posted by
Claire on 05/30/03 at 11:14 PM
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Link ThisVilkommen, Bien vineu
Welcome to my new home. I will repeat a few posts from today and yesterday just to add a little furniture to the place. Soon there will be beaut-tiful templates and other nifty coding by
Joni so there is something to look foreward to, as well.
Thank you for coming over to watch the process.
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Claire on 05/30/03 at 10:51 PM
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Successful Installation
MovableType 2.63 has been successfully installed!
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Claire on 05/29/03 at 10:11 PM
Link This Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Ranom linking . . .
Fun Toys!
All the more reason to Blog!
What is this crap? And so what if there wasn't any Republican Guard resistance at the hospital at the time? How did it get to be such a big deal for professionals to have followed a procedure that has proven to keep both rescuers and rescued safe in this type of situation? Is it that the easily startled yoghurt-knitters are frightened of the big bad Marines? Well, they should be. [a little more perspective]
This is what would make it a double murder. period.
Swear to dogs! It is high time for these people to come out of the closet and wear their big floppy shoes and red rubber noses in public. We see you anyway - quit hiding. [And here are some fellow travelers. Is it those big rainbow wigs that get in the way of connecting Dot A and Dot B?
And following logically: When public school grads try to run public skoolz. Not to mention the country. . .
Brilliant!
Irony intended?
And the pendulum swings.
New Perspective on a new al-Qaida. And *someones* wantses to takes away my nicccce, warm gunssssss. HA!
Posted by
Claire on 05/28/03 at 11:45 AM
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It's just 1001 Tales - all contradictory. Psyops and Bond got nuttin' on these boys for a plot within a plan within a scheme.
Saddam Hussein was betrayed by three of his cousins, senior military officers, and a former cabinet minister, in moves that allowed the fall of Baghdad, ex regime officials have said.
According to these former officials Saddam's cousins ordered troops not to fight against the US-led coalition and issued reports saying that the Iraqi leader was dead.
The guy who spread the (dis?) information is now living in an Undisclosed European City courtesy of Uncle.
So. Knowing that he's been finked out, Saddam set up his personal guards for that al-Mansur district bomb on 4.7, and out the back he slipped!
Slick, but, (for the car, the boat, and the Turtle Wax...), who do you get to spy on your closest of closest most-est trusted personal guard? Kelley Girl? Bob from Accounting? Pinkertons?? The French?!? The Pope!?!
[head swirling...must lie down] Saddam -- ephemeral They just don't go together.
Posted by
Claire on 05/28/03 at 11:09 AM
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The InfoCanvas system displays an electronic scene—a desert, window view, aquarium, beach, or mountain camp—that uses movable elements to represent categories of information. The elements shift as information changes.
Elements like birds, sailboats and beach towels can appear or disappear, change form, move along a path, scale up or down, rotate, or populate an area according to changes in associated data. News headlines and images can appear towed by an airplane, or on a billboard.
Because the display uses abstract elements that can be customized, users can monitor sensitive information, like bank balances, without revealing the information to everyone who enters the office.
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Claire on 05/28/03 at 10:46 AM
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Middle East Online received a letter from Saddam. 5.28.03
The statement said the so-called "General Command of the Iraqi Armed, Resistance and Liberation Forces" claimed responsibility for an ambush which was confirmed to have killed two US soldiers and wounded nine others in the Iraqi city of Fallujah earlier in the day.
The statement said the attack was carried out by "special forces, al-Faruq Brigades, and members of the Baath Party."
The authenticity of the letter and statement, which Middle East Online had received by fax, could not be confirmed.
uh, yeah.
This letter is "attributed to Saddam and dubbed his "fourth handwritten letter" since he was ousted." The other three were went to London based Arabic Daily al-Quds al-Arabi.
Look closely. Maybe there is a 'situations wanted' ad in there from Uday.
***Position Wanted: Salary negotiable. Benefits must include private room with shag rugs and mirrors, plastic shredder, electricity paid. Proximity to girl's school desirable. Have own staff. Wheelchair accessibility a necessity.
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Claire on 05/28/03 at 10:14 AM
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It's Still America - at least in California...
Librarians in Palo Alto (a very pretty part of Silly Silicon Valley) are purging their records of information on who borrowed what six days after every book is returned. In my book, that puts Librarians right up there with Marines, et al, as defenders of Freedom.
Palo Alto's police chief is supporting a resolution before the Cicty [sic] Council next week that would prohibit her department from aiding the FBI in Patriot Act searches, interviews or surveillance without evidence that a crime has been committed.
"We take an oath to uphold the Constitution and that's the bottom line for us"
...A report released last week by the Justice Department showed that FBI agents have obtained records from 50 libraries throughout the country.
I wonder what they're after. These days, how many Al Qaida members are checking out books on How to Build a Pocket Nuke?
And for all of you who have just finished cleaning the bathroom, a-gain: a Practice Unit (complete with practice unit!) Watch the video - worth the wait.
From the "You've Had That Thing HOW Long and You Still Can't Aim It?!?!?" Dept.
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Claire on 05/27/03 at 03:17 PM
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