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I saw an article in the September 5 issue of People about Smoosh while I was at the laundry last night. I thought that was so cool! There a talented couple of girls. Plus the drummer ws taught by Death Cab for Cutie's drummer which is also cool. I've really been getting into Death Cab for Cutie lately.
On the subject of the press, I find it very interesting that after a week of riots in Paris suburbs the American press seems to be giving it almost no attention. I saw a crawl line on NECN last night about it. Wow. They're going through a whole civil rights fiasco over the French government's obvious prejudicial treatment of their immigrants and the American media ignores it. They ignore a week of violence and now mass arsons. Once again it was BCC News that brought this to my attention.
George W. Bush goes to Argentina and we get tons of coverage of Argentinians who riot for a few hours because they hate Bush. I think we've all established that the world hates Bush. Even some of the voters who voted for him here are starting to get the point and are hating the corrupt, fascist terrorist themselves. Sorry, the Argentinians referred to Bush as a fascist and a terrorist and I kinda liked it. Many of us have been saying this for a while. It was just kinda nice to hear such charged words aimed at him on an NECN broadcast.
I'm all for investigative journalism, but the recent Fox Undercover reports on the Berne University degrees goes way too far if you ask me. Yes, I watch Fox news, despite its very obvious uber-conservative agenda. And yes I do watch NECN despite its uber-liberal agenda. Unfortunately they're the only television news on by the time I get home around midnight. Back on topic, they started poking around and checking out teachers and administrators in Massachusetts school systems that were using Berne PhDs in their credentials. That's okay. But then they went so far as to not just interview the teachers/administrators in question but to start causing trouble for them even before the reports by working aggressively to get them fired. All so they could gloat about it on live television and stretch it out over two days. My guess is these folks at Fox25 are probably just envious that someone (though with a rather dubious PhD that wasn't even required for the job) had a real job doing real good for society while they were stuck working for Fox. I would probably be envious, too. Working for Fox isn't a real job, it's a Sears job.
Kathy's glasses should be ready for pickup by this afternoon. She still has yet to make an appointment for the opthamologist because rent is due soon and we'll have to pay the $180 for the appointment out of pocket. We'll most likely get her glasses tomorrow because we're going to Nashua today. I'm going to upgrade my grandmother's computer. She got DSL finally because Verizon is offering it at comparable rates to AOL dialup. She went to install it and didn't realize she had no NIC and had inadequate RAM. Fortunately for her, I'm a computer parts pack-rat and had just the right RAM for her old Gateway PC and had a spare PCI NIC kicking around unused. It works out all around. She saves over $100 in parts, I get rid of a couple more parts from my bin and we get to visit, too! I'm going to bring down the game Fluxx to teach her. I think she'll like it.
Kathy and I finally bought Fluxx when we saw it for sale at the local bookstore. We've been wanting to pick it up for a while but never got around to it. Now we have it. If you've never played it, I recommend it highly. It's a really simple card game. You start with one set of very basic rules and then add/change rules as you go with rules cards. You can also change the goal as you go. The bookstore also sells a few other games from Looney Labs that I think I will buy at some point soon, too.
I should go. We need to leave for Nashua soon.
On the subject of the press, I find it very interesting that after a week of riots in Paris suburbs the American press seems to be giving it almost no attention. I saw a crawl line on NECN last night about it. Wow. They're going through a whole civil rights fiasco over the French government's obvious prejudicial treatment of their immigrants and the American media ignores it. They ignore a week of violence and now mass arsons. Once again it was BCC News that brought this to my attention.
George W. Bush goes to Argentina and we get tons of coverage of Argentinians who riot for a few hours because they hate Bush. I think we've all established that the world hates Bush. Even some of the voters who voted for him here are starting to get the point and are hating the corrupt, fascist terrorist themselves. Sorry, the Argentinians referred to Bush as a fascist and a terrorist and I kinda liked it. Many of us have been saying this for a while. It was just kinda nice to hear such charged words aimed at him on an NECN broadcast.
I'm all for investigative journalism, but the recent Fox Undercover reports on the Berne University degrees goes way too far if you ask me. Yes, I watch Fox news, despite its very obvious uber-conservative agenda. And yes I do watch NECN despite its uber-liberal agenda. Unfortunately they're the only television news on by the time I get home around midnight. Back on topic, they started poking around and checking out teachers and administrators in Massachusetts school systems that were using Berne PhDs in their credentials. That's okay. But then they went so far as to not just interview the teachers/administrators in question but to start causing trouble for them even before the reports by working aggressively to get them fired. All so they could gloat about it on live television and stretch it out over two days. My guess is these folks at Fox25 are probably just envious that someone (though with a rather dubious PhD that wasn't even required for the job) had a real job doing real good for society while they were stuck working for Fox. I would probably be envious, too. Working for Fox isn't a real job, it's a Sears job.
Kathy's glasses should be ready for pickup by this afternoon. She still has yet to make an appointment for the opthamologist because rent is due soon and we'll have to pay the $180 for the appointment out of pocket. We'll most likely get her glasses tomorrow because we're going to Nashua today. I'm going to upgrade my grandmother's computer. She got DSL finally because Verizon is offering it at comparable rates to AOL dialup. She went to install it and didn't realize she had no NIC and had inadequate RAM. Fortunately for her, I'm a computer parts pack-rat and had just the right RAM for her old Gateway PC and had a spare PCI NIC kicking around unused. It works out all around. She saves over $100 in parts, I get rid of a couple more parts from my bin and we get to visit, too! I'm going to bring down the game Fluxx to teach her. I think she'll like it.
Kathy and I finally bought Fluxx when we saw it for sale at the local bookstore. We've been wanting to pick it up for a while but never got around to it. Now we have it. If you've never played it, I recommend it highly. It's a really simple card game. You start with one set of very basic rules and then add/change rules as you go with rules cards. You can also change the goal as you go. The bookstore also sells a few other games from Looney Labs that I think I will buy at some point soon, too.
I should go. We need to leave for Nashua soon.
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Well?
Date: 2005-11-06 07:47 am (UTC)From:Re: Well?
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