Just got back from seeing Napoleon Dynamite. Great movie, very odd and funny. Make sure you stay past the end of the film.. extra stuff.
Hounds and New Orleans
I’ve been working like a dog lately, so I haven’t posted much.
This morning I woke up to the sound of a hound trying to climb a pomegranate tree. Yeah.. My windows look out to pomegranate tree and a roof that is home to a feral cat with 4 kittens. The dog decided it wanted to play, but didn’t do so well with the tree. It got stuck and had to be rescued.
New Orleans was a great trip, 100F 100% humidity wasn’t as bad as I thought. Fantastic street music there – everything from traditional blues to 9 piece brass. Amazing food, and great people. I would like to go back during the blues fest or something like that.. Pretty sure I couldn’t handle Mardi Gras. I posted some pictures and will try to do some text with them today.
New Orleans storytime: A couple asked a guy playing a guitar on the street where they could find House of Blues… “Shit, why do you want to go to Disneyland? This is the blues, man. I’m the house of blues!” Haha.
Well, Lance won the Le Tour again. I heard on the radio the other day that his heart pumps around 6gal/minute. That’s about the same as your local gas pump. I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but there are mutants among us.
Biometrics coming soon to a passport near you. When I came back from Costa Rica in Feb I had to have my picture taken and my fingerprints scanned, apparently they scan them against criminal databases and terrorist watch lists. Can’t say I feel comforted. I wonder how many criminals have prints within 99% of mine. Won’t that be a fun adventure?
Back from New Orleans
I will try to post some pictures some time this week.
Update: My photos of New Orleans
Bingo
No one is perfect – patch for Firefox shell bug.
Well, off to New Orleans tomorrow, and it could not be sooner. I worked the whole weekend and am feeling pretty beat.
Even though they say it is opt-in, I am still not a fan: Cell-Phone 411
Looks like other people are discovering Chicano Perk.
Let’s play hipster bingo.
Spam and war
Great, I am getting Iraqi reconstruction spam. Hurray for war profiteering. ‘War profiteering’, isn’t that redundant?
Oh how nice! Pentagon: Bush Military Records Destroyed
Bush has declined invitations in each year of his presidency — becoming the first president since Herbert Hoover not to attend an NAACP convention.
The amendment appeared on its way to victory as the roll call’s normal 15-minute time limit expired, but GOP leaders kept the vote open for about 20 more minutes as they persuaded about 10 Republicans who initially supported the provision to change their votes. Patriot Act Wins House Vote
Remember how Florida won’t recount electronic voting machines? Well, it looks like the machines have some major problems.
Interesting read at Slate: The real reason to oppose the minimum wage.
The World Court said Israel’s barrier in the West Bank should be torn down and called on the United Nations Friday to stop a project it said had illegally imposed hardship on thousands of Palestinians. “tantamount to annexation” Guess who Israel is going to ask to veto all of this stuff? And people wonder why they think of the US and Isreal as the same thing.
CNBC looks at the next wave of airline bankruptcies
Why your electricity bills are soaring – You are using more, and it is deregulated. Thank god the free market fixes everything, haha. We need to look into efficient electronics before we start to think of using solar.
Should science tell the truth? You’d think that question would need no answer. But in the vortex known as Washington, DC, the obvious too often gets bent.
Wired takes a look at Alberta’s oil sands.
Harlem of the West: Historic Downtown San Diego Community