I must see this movie.

Frozen entrée aficionados! Bad Christian rock! The William Jefferson Clinton Abstinence Center! Klown haircuts for kids! It's everything I've ever wanted in a movie.

Never Been Thawed, now in limited release.

The trailer and the props are essential viewing.

bevelled eggs

1. Holy crap. There's commuter rail in the Valley now. Yes, that Valley. With a bikeway. And "amenities". It actually happened! That kinda rules.
   
   
2. Another thing that kinda rules is the band Akron/Family. Various mp3bloggers have been raving about these guys for a while now and I got a couple mp3s that way and liked them, and started following their myspace. Now I got a whole abum from them on emusic. Hey, indie rock may not be dead after all!
   
   
3. If you want to know what the Secret Rulers of the World are up to, the first thing is to read the shocking and nearly unbelievable Protocols of the Elders of Texas. Wheels within wheels, my friends. Wheels within wheels.
   
   
4. In less awesome news, something big was on fire down in Laguna tonight. I saw engines and a ladder truck from two agencies and cop cars from three agencies all hurtling down there Code 3 tonight. Hope it wasn't a brushfire.

Is that so wrong?

$150, 9 phone calls, and 39 grey hairs later

It was the DSL modem. As soon as I replaced it with a $60 el cheapo from Microcenter (and configured said cheapo properly), I got my full bandwidth back.

I. Hate. Hardware.

But it is fixed now. A winner is me!.

managing your expectations for over 40 years

1. Kick ass! An aurora borealis webcam! Night hours only. pbd will be pleased I bet.
   
   
2. These people will replicate any vehicle in mahogany or teak, hand-carved.
   
   
3. So, are we back to only two phone companies now, or what?
   
   
4. H5 bird flu has arrived in Canada. Let's all hope it isn't H5N1.
   
   
5. At the Chipotle burrito chain today they'll give you free food if you show up wrapped in foil.
   
   
6. This is sort of sweet. Somewhat innocent wack-job "Minutemen" anti-immigration terrorists are proudly guarding Vermont's border with Canada, unaware that the whole thing is about hating Mexicans. Subtexts are hard.
   
   
7. We seriously might be better off washing our hands with plain soap and yogurt rather than antiseptics, even in hospitals.
   
   
8. In related news, 4000-year-old Mesopotamians were apparently pretty good at medicine.
   
   
9. This CMU robot geek would like to help you survive the Robot Holocaust, whether it comes in 2084 or sooner.
   
   
10. Indicted White House staffer Lewis "Scooter" Libby also writes bad dirty books. Really bad.
    
    
11. Hey, they found two more moons of Pluto! YAY!

In the radio hobbies they warn you about this kind of thing.

Area Man Jams Cop Radios, Goes To Slammer.

Best quote:

Mitra testified the Nov. 11 episodes were accidental transmissions that occurred when two wires rubbed against themselves and the transmitter. He said the sex sounds were broadcast because he was listening to them on a loop in his bedroom, and when he heard them on a police scanner and realized what happened, he threw the transmitter away.

Fechez la vache.

Area man has self flung from trebuchet, eats shit and dies

Best quote:

Some members of the stunt club were intended to complete jumps wearing fancy dress costumes, but after the first jump were told by instructors to remove any capes they were wearing which could slow down jumpers through the air.

Hey Sony! You gonna get JAILED!

Thanks for installing malicious stealth software on people's computers when they play CDs.

It would be a terrible shame if someone put one of their CDs into a machine that happened to control some part of the infrastructure here in the U.S. that is responsible for people's lives, and that machine happened to fail, because then they would be guilty of industrial terrorism. And that would be bad.

If that first link above makes your eyes glaze over, a simpler version of the story can be found at the WFMU blog, where I found the story in the first place.

Don't buy copy protected CDs. And if you happen to get one, join a class action suit. They need to get spanked hard for rootkitting people's machines like this.