Alien Insomniac on Life after WWIII

Monday, August 23, 2004

THE RACE CARD

We live in a culture that is saturated with race nearly to the point of overflow. It's everywhere. It comes from every group and it is directed at every group. All my life I have been reminded of the fact that I am not white. I am reminded of this fact every day in one way or another. I am reminded... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 22, 2004

BUSH STEPS DOWN, FILM AT 11

Don't many of us wish? What do you think it will take to get him to concede on election night? In past elections, when a candidate saw that he was losing, he conceded defeat. After 2000 I just don't know anymore. This will be a long Tuesday night, and that exponentiated working at the paper. Well my... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 21, 2004

IH 35 THE AUSTIN WORMHOLE

I was downstairs in the Classifieds department talking to one of the real estate reps a couple of days ago and I found out that a mistake I started typing 8 years ago still has people in that department confused. A brief description of the Austin Metropolitan area: Austin is in Travis County. It is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 19, 2004

Meeting Supervisor

This title is borrowed from the term "Meeting Engineer" which was adopted by some in the high tech community to describe engineers who are always seen either in meetings, on the phone, or going to a meeting, but seldom actually producing anything. Many times it seems like I am in always in meetings.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 17, 2004

I am convinced

That if you took every instance where the word EXTRAVAGANZA is in any kind of advertising and changed it to EXTRAVAGANCE, eventually people would begin to get upset. Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 16, 2004

Rock The Vote...Interesting

According to Wired News, Rock The Vote is on IM now. It is an interesting movement to get the 18-24ish folks to vote. It didn't work in 2000 and it failed in 1988. Getting more folks out to vote can't hurt. We also need more folks to dump the Republican ticket like I am doing. Sign in to see full entry.

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Stuff you have to believe to be a Republican today

Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Rumsfeld did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion. Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China and Vietnam... Sign in to see full entry.

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Power Blinks from Hell

I am definitely going to have to look into a good UPS system and more switches. We have had five power blinks in the last two hours here. I am planning on getting a new laptop and taking the tower out, but that is a goal for next year. I even had to pull my PDA out of its cradle in case the next... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 15, 2004

Self-Defining Bible Verse. - If only it were true

My apologies. As usual I didn't properly check my facts. It appears from Snopes.com that Bush did NOT say this. Recently President Bush, when asked what is his favorite Bible verse responded with John 16:3. Mark McClellan, or the White House interpreter of the day respun a correction to the press of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sorry. Didn't have my facts straight

I removed the post about Bush flubbing up the Bible verse. Here is from Snopes.com as to why it is a false claim. It's okay, though. He says enough stupid stuff to make up for it. Sign in to see full entry.

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