matt | December 31, 2005
So, since I'm commuting, I'm actually listening to the radio for an hour or so each day. I have a portable music player, and have been listening to Tales From The Afternow, but now that I've worked through that, I started listening to AM talk radio. Two weeks later, and I'm tired of that. So, [...]
matt | December 29, 2005
Sabin sent me the following:
matt,
What does your new religion of “don't-be-a-dick-ianity” say about this behavior?
'Honor' killings shock Pakistan
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/pakistan.honor.ap/index.html
sabin
To which I replied:
My religion doth state:
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While Western civilization is not without it's black marks in this
regard (adulteress == witch, scarlet lettering, etc.), enourmous strides
have been made in the past couple centuries towards curbing this type of
behavior.
Similarly, the [...]
matt | December 20, 2005
- Was better than Bubba Ho Tep
- Rivals Army of Darkness as the best B-horror-movie error.
matt | December 20, 2005
If you travel, for business, and need your stuff covered (Laptops, projectors, etc.) plus some other supplementary coverages, then we just added a new insurance product to our lineup – we are now carrying CSA's “Business Executive” policies.
You can read more here
The big thing about this (not mentioned in the overview linked to [...]
matt | December 19, 2005
Everyone is up in arms about the whole “presidential wiretap” thing. Here's my take on it:
What did people expect? Between the PATRIOT act, and, gee, I don't know, everything that's happened with the FBI and all the other intelligence agencies in the past 75 years?
Think about it – when you give governments the ability to [...]
matt | December 19, 2005
81 Year Old Woman Evicted for nonpayment of Sewer Bills
Basically, the gist of it is that she owed $1000 to the sewer commission and payed $500 of it, but she ended up losing her house because she didn't pay the rest. Everyone here is going nuts about how unjust and unfortunate this is.
Now, I agree [...]
matt | December 13, 2005
Some items in the news which I feel are worthy of some discussion.
Yet another study which says that video games desensitise people to images of violence.
For the time being, let's just ignore whether or not this is accurate, and assume that it is. What is so bad about that? Maybe this is a balancing factor [...]
matt | December 9, 2005
We got about 10 inches today. I worked from home (got to love hacker jobs).
My Golf in the snow.
The deer mentioned in an earlier post glowing in the snow.
matt | December 8, 2005
Links:
Maxpedition makes some cool bags. Not sure if I'll get any, because Sportsman's Guide has a pile of cheap stuff (as always), but hey, seems like a decent company to plug.
The community seems interesting.
Other stuff:
So, Liz doesn't seem to have a problem with the survivalist stuff. This is good. It means I don't have [...]
matt | December 7, 2005
I've started listening to Rant Radio at work. It is interesting and amusing. I highly recommend it, though one should utilize headphones, because they tend to curse a lot.
I've started watching Patrolling with Sean Kennedy, which is sort of a “modern survivalist” sort of show. For example, the show I'm watching now is doing a [...]
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