Of all the reality shows I’ve watched — and that’s all of them — “The Amazing Race” might be the most difficult to sell people on, sight unseen. When you explain how teams of two travel around the world together, completing various tasks, and the first team to reach the final destination wins, it ends up sounding like some kind of vaguely educational bore. You just can’t do justice to how well this show is edited to create suspense, or to the great feel you get for the exotic locales that the players visit, thanks to some first-rate, frenetic camera…
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BARTLETT — A Bartlett couple were charged with felony forgery after their daughter was caught Sunday trying to use fake tickets for rides at a carnival, authorities said. In a generous move, they had distributed free tickets to 20 needy children. Yes, charity begins at home – with a color printer and some card stock.
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I keep checking the countdown at TARflies Times and it’s just a few more hours until TAR5’s premiere. It’s not Tuesday, it’s TARSday, so: Happy TARSday to us, Happy TARSday to us! It’s most advantageous to go for it, happy TARSday to us! …yeah, I’m stupid like that.
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Damn it, I can’t figure out why the links section busts so spectacularly in Mozilla. I’ve been Googling around on it… there was one place that indicated that a similar problem was caused by the scripting for Sitemeter. I’ve got another stats package, so I took that out. I’ve got the silly poll (which nobody seems interested in anywa) that also uses Javascript, but David thinks it’s something else. Other links I ran across earlier seemed to think it was the old problem of touching floats or divs or what-not (I can’t describe it, but I think I get the…
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Okay, Jack Ryan saying this: ‘I’m better if i’m in a church’ back in April is pretty funny in retrospect. I swear, I was looking for something else.
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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,…
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You know, the Google ads are starting to piss me off – apparently they think I want Shrub re-elected. Well, let’s see what we can do about that. For example, I think John Kerry would be a good President. I think that anyone would be a better President than the current Resident of the White House. I think that the Democrats, on the whole, are a lot less corrupt and definitely less evil than the Greyhaired Oldguys Party. Gee, the Illinois Democrats sure have a crappy web page. I feel free to criticize, because being critical does not make me…
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I got to be acting team leader again today, oh joy. I had several moments where I realized “I am SO not into being team leader.” These happened when people higher on the food chain than I were asking me for information that I did not have, or to “use my own judgement” and walk the fine line between pissing people off or rolling over and letting them tap dance on my sternum. Monday – no holiday for me. I get to go in and listen to everyone on my team complain that not only are we the only team…
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Hah! This is funny: Shrub/Cheatey 2004 Gear Shrub 2004 Hats, Shirts, Magnets, Pins, Stickers Shrub 2004 Merchandise…Shrubstickers, hats, pins, signs, neckties, fortune cookies and more. I Love Helliburton Tshirt: The original T-Shirt from ILoveHelliburton.com…O’l Jobs: 26 Major O’l Projjicks Naow Harrin’. Apply Online Right Naow. Okay, suitably de-Googeljuiced, this is what today’s ad looks like. Guess I’ll have to start de-juicing all my tirades. It will at least make them somewhat more entertaining. And yeah, I’m disturbed by the fact that there’s an irony-free site selling Helliburton gear.
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The company declined an interview but suggests in an e-mail to NBC News that critics are politically motivated: “When Halliburton succeeds, Iraq progresses. Sadly, a few people don’t want either of those results.” Man, they use the same plays out of the playbook, but adapt! So cool! Such arrogant assholes! So Cheney-like in their masterful inactivity! Let me translate a bit for you: Critic=traitor whistleblowers=terrorists progress=we’re not the fall guys for Iraq’s problems anymore I suppose next they’re going to steal General Motors’ line about what’s good for Halliburton is good for the nation. How many days until the election?