Phish has announced that they are getting back together and playing Hampton Colisseum March 6, 7, and 8. Though it’s certainly been a while since I listened to them, I may go just for sentimentality. Some of the best memories of my earlier years was of going to Phish concerts with good friends. Maybe this will be a good chance to get in touch with the inner hippie in all of us.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/16/9641/62473/762/599278
Quick list of facts to commonly asked questions republicans will ask democrats. I’ll try and find one for mccain too so that we provide for both sides of the aisle here.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving is bad for america. this organization has pushed their fascist agenda for years into the mainstream and are ruining more families than they claim to save. Do not trust them. Do not give them money. Do not support them. Call your senator. Get them to denounce MADD as a fascist organization attempting to undermine democracy in this country. They don’t care about saving lives. They just care about pushing their beliefs onto the public. Do not let this group of ignorant and uneducated sheep tell you how to live your lives. We can find another group to support in efforts to combat drunk driving. MADD is anti-alcohol. That’s all there is to it. Either you live your life the way you want, or you live life the way MADD wants you to. I really want to start an anti-MADD petition to send to my congressman or senator to ban the organization from doing any more harm to this country.
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lots of goodness coming up folks. stay tuned.
so today is the start of otakon 2008 and i will probably be making my way up to baltimore either tonight or tomorrow. i was supposed to go last year, but ended up having neither the time nor money. i plan on taking massive amounts of pics and hopefully meeting some fellow otaku check back later for photo updates!
dc metro cards have been hacked according to this link and it tells us all how to do it too! i’m not advocating illegal activity or anything. i’m just passing along news and leaving the moral responsibilities up to the reader. enjoy!
I’m sure everyone has given some thought to the current state of fuel consumption especially now that it’s hit everyone at home in their wallets every time you get gas at the pump. You can’t go one day of watching the news without seeing something about the cost of oil barrels rising and setting new records. The big question is: What can you do?
During the 70s, there was another energy crisis that prompted the Nixon administration to mandate a 55 mph national speed limit. The idea was to curb fuel spending on a national level and although it makes sense, was hugely unpopular. How would you feel about something like this now? Considering my lengthy history involving speeding tickets, I already know my lead foot would be recalcitrant in this matter. But it is something small that everyone can do that would actually make a difference in national consumption. Isn’t it worth trying?
So over the weekend, I finally got a lot of housework done. Cleaning the toilet and mopping the floors? Not quite. More like consolidating my home servers and finally getting down to installing linux on my main machine for use as my primary OS. I first narrowed the list down to Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora Core 9 because both offer large support communities and the maintenance releases are fairly frequent.
I tried installing Ubuntu first, but ended up having some difficulties while installing the proprietary Nvidia driver. Then i installed FC9 without a hitch. Everything ran very smooth and I was even starting to like the yum update manager. Then I realized that I had left the power cable to the video card unplugged while installing Ubuntu, so just to satiate my curiousity, I reinstalled Ubuntu and PRESTO! It worked flawlessly.
I’m going to write up an article some time this week that goes into finer granularity concerning my Ubuntu 8.04 install and customization. Until then, I’m still searching around for linux replacements to accomplish all my common tasks and needs…
Just a quick recap of some of today’s more interesting news.
Apple announced the new 3g iphone at WWDC today and kinda surprised a lot of us by confirming a brit rumor that it would sell for $200. If they can sell an upgraded version now for $200, the profit margin off the first gen iphone (around $600) must have been friggin ridiculous. While this is great news for everyone who wanted an iphone but didn’t get one because of the exorbitant cost, I’m still wondering where my google phone is!?
Today, Mike Huckabee, former republican presidential candidate got every candidate’s dream in terms of press coverage. On Saturday, Huckabee saved the life of a fellow republican politician by giving Robert PIttenger (Lt. Gov. of NC) the heimlich in the middle of a GOP convention breakfast. This is just PR gold. Hell, next time I’m eating at a convention, seat me next to Huckabee!
If you were in Tokyo, Japan this morning in the Akihabara district (famous for being a mecca to anime and video game fans everywhere), you might have seen a truck driving into a crowd and then someone jumping out of the truck to stab 18 people. Hmm… Maybe he was just as angry as I was when Bleach decided to just randomly, and without explanation, go into a filler story arc right when the main story arc was getting really awesome…
