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Archive for April, 2004
26
Apr

Okay, what is this world coming to? I think we are raising the future pussies of America. How do we expect to raise men to protect our country if we treat them like flower holding pussies all of their childhood. Kids need to lose, kids need to get hurt, kids need to be made fun of. It’s what gets them ready for life. Read these two articles.

“I know I’m starting to sound like my grandfather but when I was a kid running around New York City in the 50′s and 60′s, the whole world of freeplay and street games was different. We played for the sake of having fun and stayed outside until the streetlights came on and the lightning bugs could be trapped in a Mayo jar. When we discuss the socially detrimental effects of dodgeball on our disadvantaged, Nintendo toting teens, it’s time to talk.”

Read More: “Streetplay Essays: Banning Dodgeball?

“In fact we’re over-protecting and infantilising our children, shielding them from all the wrong things, defending them from the scraps and failures and physical pain of ordinary life, extending their childhood and their no-responsibility zones well past the age that previous generations were expected to face and survive.”

Read More: “The Morality of Dodge Ball

25
Apr

Back from the weddings

Well, I’m back from the weddings. The Friday wedding in Austin, TX was beautiful. I would go to say it was “movie perfect”. Saturday’s wedding was a normal one in a clubhouse. It’s nice to get free food, and drinks two nights in a row…

Today I’m being kinda lazy, it’s 3:15pm almost and I’m fixing to take a shower, fix a computer, go drop off more film from last night’s wedding and pick up film from Friday’s wedding. Then go see my little girl for a while.

I got a few rolls of Kodak TMAX and Plus-X to develop tonight. Then I need to work on a paper for my photography class that’s due tuesday.

23
Apr

Leaving for a Wedding

I’m heading out to Austin today for my cousin Scott’s wedding. They’ve got a neat webpage for the whole thing where you can see how they met and details on the wedding..

I need to leave soon because it’s about a two and a half hour drive.. so tata

22
Apr

Joke of the day

Courtesy of Phatlowry:

A man walks into a bar and yells “Bartender, give me twenty shots of your best single malt scotch!”

The bartender pours the shots and the man drinks them down one at a time, as fast as he can.

The bartender says “Wow, I never saw anyonebody drink that fast” The man replies by saying, “Well, you’d drink fast if you had what I have” The bartender says “Oh my god, what do you have??!!”

The man says “Fifty Cents.”

21
Apr

Wooo Gmail

Got my gmail account setup today. Lets see how it goes… <michaelp at gmail dot com>

21
Apr

Heartburn

Popeye’s Spicy Chicken gives me heart burn. I should sue for ‘free chicken for life’. That would be mighty tasty.

Network Associates sent me our new ‘License Authorization Grant’, but put term 2002-2003 on the document. Even worse, we paid for this year in Janurary. That’s some lagtime.

Verizon Visa called me on my HOUSTON OFFICE LANDLINE (emphisis on the location and that it is a landline) today to ask if I purchased gasoline in California this morning. Of course I said no, how could I purchase gas in the morning in California, then be back to work by lunchtime? So I told them to cancel my account, and fix the charge, which she replies “Yes we can cancel your account, but you will have to circle the charges on your next statement to let us know which ones were fraudulent.” Bleh to that.

So I’m getting used to using wiki’s but noticed, most wiki’s use slightly different formatting syntax.

Gonna get a some coffee and then finish up on some perl coding before going to see Kylie tonight.

21
Apr

Bond.. James Bond..

Thinkgeek is selling a James Bond Stealth Camera. It costs $100 but, still it’s kinda neat. Good for those candid shots of people when they don’t know you’ve got a camera.

21
Apr

SpamAssassin Addons

Been running SpamAssassin on the mail server for quite some time.
The following .cf files have reduced the amount of spam by a noticable bit.

http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/sa-blacklist.current
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mkettler/sa/antidrug.cf
http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/bigevil.cf

Throw them in your /etc/mail/spamassassin/ directory and restart spamd. Oh yeah, make sure and : “mv sa-blacklist.current 50blacklist.cf“.
Make sure you keep them up to date, that way you will be blocking all the new stuff..

19
Apr

Sofa King

hehe.. this is funny, reminds me of a guy who used to work with me back at CompUSA. He always used to says “This is Sofa King Wee Todd It.” It eventually got on my nerves..

Sofa King Low

19
Apr

Walmart has begun an online DVD rental site, just like NetFlix.

See wal-mart’s page here. I think i’ll sign up for a netflix account.

Walmart.com – DVD Rentals

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