slow-dog.backintheusa

Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Some woman wrote 2500 words about the Olsen Twins. Yes, those Olsen twins.

10:10 AM PST
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Sunday, January 27, 2002

Rage Against the Machine is a band. It is made up of angry people. They may be angry for many reasons, but I think it has something to do with The Man keeping them down. They are so kept down by The Man that they record their albums for Epic which is owned by Sony. The group is so kept down that they have been nominated for a Grammy after already winning one.

Slow-dog is also angry. He too, senses that he is being kept down by The Man. He would also like to make millions by recording albums for Sony. Slow-dog wants a Grammy. Failing that, and noting that his birthday is coming up soon, he would like to be nominated for Freedom Fighter of the Month. Since Rage Against the Machine knows much about freedom fighters, they select from all the worthy freedom fighters each month and award them with the coveted title. So, help Slow-dog out, and email them to tell them what a good freedom fighter slow-dog is.

10:34 PM PST
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I want in:

Robin Brown: I suggest we sue "Big Earth," for all of the debilitating effects of gravity. First, there are the thousands of injuries each year caused by gravity. Second, there are the long-term effects of gravity, such as wrinkles, sagging stomachs and inactivity forced upon people by the force of gravity.

For decades, "keeping the people down" has been synonymous with oppression, but people have never understood the truth they spoke. The earth and its irrational insistence on gravity (which it could at least attempt to mitigate by divesting itself of large amounts of nonessential mass, I mean what does the earth need so much rock in the core for, anyway?) have caused untold suffering to people around the world and hampered progress and equality. Think what we could achieve without gravity to hold us back! We could all fly and would be free to perform athletically as we should! If gravity is to be continued, at the very least the earth should pay reparations to the rest of us.

from opinion journal.

10:10 PM PST
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I'd just like to announce that the money found at O'Hare is mine. The guy stole it from me. I earned it all recycling soda cans. I don't need the cash back, you can just cut a check.

03:02 PM PST
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Friday, January 25, 2002

I was going to write something about squirrels in this area, but this was going to be the first line: "As I walked outside to get a soda....." I couldn't go on. That's right, for all our fancy indoor appliances and such, while I'm staying at my parents' place, I go outside to get a soda. We're just a Camaro up on blocks away from being the shame of the neighborhood.

12:55 PM PST
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From now on, the main body of all unimportant rants will be placed in extended entries only, so that they don't spoil the sleek lines of slow-dog.com.

Alternet is my favorite whipping boy.

11:59 AM PST
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Wednesday, January 23, 2002

From an apologetic Eagles fan who organized the group who booed the selection of Donovan McNabb in the 1999 draft:

"We're not accustomed to seeing our athletes perform in crunch time - they tend to take the tank," said Cataldi. "This guy doesn't."

from thePhiladelphia Daily News

03:12 PM PST
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From today's Sacramento Bee regarding last night's California Republican gubenatorial debate:

Simon, the former federal prosecutor and political newcomer who has never held office, emphasized is conservative positions on abortion and taxes, spotlighting recent endorsements from California's fabled tax-cutting community.

Yes, like the Sasquatch, California's stable of fabled beasts includes tax-cutters.

10:30 AM PST
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Monday, January 21, 2002

Your thought for the day:

Ever since the first elementary school teacher loaded "Oregon Trail" from a floppy disk, computers have reduced the pressure to deliver a useful education.

stolen from ink syndicate.

05:10 PM PST
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Saturday, January 19, 2002

Also, referring to a previous post, my friend Charlie pointed out:

...poor B.A. Baracus, forced to drink the white man's
milk at the end of every episode.  No wonder he fainted.

09:46 PM PST
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Tonight, had a fantastic meal at Biba's to celebrate my mom's *mumble mumble* birthday. Then, on the way out, someone told us that the Olympic torch was coming by in five minutes. What timing! I can support these Olympics, because the events will be shown live during hours I will actually be watching TV, unlike 1998 in Nagano or 2000 in Sydney (silly rest of the world).

In other news, I must thank my friend Christy for introducing me to Trading Spaces, my new favorite TV show. I never thought I'd like interior design and decoration until I found out it could make someone cry.

09:10 PM PST
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Wednesday, January 16, 2002

In the Fry's Electronics store in Palo Alto, the American flag hangs proudly over the porn section of the magazine rack. God bless America!

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Monday, January 14, 2002

Race baiters hate the Northeast Dairy Compact. The article included the following:

Lactose intolerance is the most common "food allergy," but to call it an allergy is to take a white-centric view that trivializes the fact that most of the world's people are not biologically designed to digest milk.

Right. But we did find some common ground on the dairy industry:

It benefits directly from the exaggerated support prices the government shells out for this "health food."

Fight racism: support small government!

02:50 PM PST
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Friday, January 11, 2002

Bonehead move of the day: Applying for job online and realizing afterwards that I had failed to finish the new objective statement before hitting submit. It reads "I'm relocating to San Francisco and seek to leverage my experience and skills in technology management honed in the Air Force to make". I'm sure it won't hurt me. Yeah, right.

Second bonehead move of the day: The drive-thru attendant who couldn't give me proper change-three times!

02:35 PM PST
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Tuesday, January 8, 2002

I really don't intend this to become one of those clever sites where they send you to links that you can find on everybody elses' clever sites, but this was too good to pass up (blatantly stolen from instapundit).

Some of you will know my intense love of Noam Chomsky. In fact, as a form of self-flaggelation, I'm in the process of reading a book by Chomsky, as well as something by my other fave, Michael Moore. To remove the bad taste in my mouth, I've been balancing it out by reading Barry Goldwater's autobiography.

04:03 PM PST
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I applied for a job today. Okay, it wasn't that big of a deal. I was searching through jobs at monster.com and saw one that seemed at least somewhat interesting, and it had one of those handy-dandy "Apply Online" links, and the next thing you know, I had applied.

In slightly more worthwhile news, I did find a couple of companies that I could actually get really excited about working for. One of them is In-Q-Tel.

03:53 PM PST
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Saturday, January 5, 2002

Checked through site statistics. First interesting note, apparently I had over 15,000 hits on December 30th, all from what appears to be a web spider gone awry. Also, someone got to my site by searching for "bilihumin sportance stepchild absume unguentous." Well, I know stepchild is a real word......

11:14 PM PST
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This was on the front page before I changed it over to greymatter:

From pine, the email program, when I went to save a message regarding my job
search into a specific folder:

...."job" doesn't exist. Create?

If only it were that easy. My other little job observation is this:

When you are looking for work, you will get advice from every side, and
what it usually adds up to is: you don't stand a chance. Give up...now!

What Color is My Parachute

Sigh......

Just a quick update. I'm back, and in the process of scanning in pictures
from my trip

10:44 PM PST
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Liked doing my trip log with Greymatter so much that I'm bringing it to the main page.

I'll admit, it doesn't quite have the charm of firing up emacs and hand editing the pages, but I had been trying to automate pieces of that with scripts anyway, so it just made sense to migrate to a complete toolkit, especially one so good.

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