umm... wow...

and i thought intro to business information systems was a joke. welcome to porn 101 (no pictures involved). although i have to say that it doesn't really surprise me to see berkley on the list of colleges offering the class.

h/t say anything; rob, i'm not sure if i want to know how you found this one

quote of the day: "what the hell?" edition

"Today’s refusal on the part of al Qaeda to provide us with any information about the conditions of a potential truce simply reinforces that message: you can’t fight terror by fighting terror in a way that fights terror unfairly." -- Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin)

so... i wasn't aware that there was an "unfair" way to fight terror. i always thought that things like blowing up or beheading civilians were "unfair," as it were, seeing as how they have nothing to do with the conflict. but apparently the esteemed senator thinks that listening in on a conversation with a terrorist can be defined as "unfair." i wonder what his priorities are?

i wonder why more people haven't tried this?

"When accused of profaining the Eluesinian mysteries, she [Phyrne] was defended by the orator Hypereides, one of her lovers. When it seemed as if the verdict would be unfavorable, he rent her robe and displayed her lovely breasts, which so moved her judges that they acquitted her. According to others, she herself thus displayed her charms." (source)

or, as a.j. jacobs puts it:

"... I wonder if lawyers today could make this work. It could revolutionize the profession. 'Yes, my client poisoned her husband and chopped him into chunks the size of croutons and fed him to her Rottweiler. We admit that. But gentlemen of the jury: have you seen her rack?'"

crush of the week, post #2

less pictures this time. oh well. this week's crush is Reiko Aylesworth, who plays michelle dessler on "24."

have you ever read st. paul's letter to the hermaphrodites?

it says:

Dear Hermaphrodites: Go fuck yourself.

Yours Sincerely,

St. Paul

i couldn't agree more

"George W. Bush won the election. If you don't like it, you better win elections." --Rahm Emanuel, Democratic representative from Illinois, on halting a conservative movement on the Supreme Court

i apologize for the inconvenience

well, i finally started getting spam comments, so it's time to switch on word recognition for the comments. i realize that this will only actually be inconveniencing about 3 or 4 people (including myself), but i figured a warning would be nice.

on a side note, go seahawks! try as they would, they were unable to throw the game to the redskins, and went on to win 20-10.

mission: impossible

your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to read the following two sets of headlines and sub-headers, and decide which one of them came from the new york times.

1) Top Democrat Blasts Alito's 'inconsistencies'
Sen. Leahy starts third day of hearings with warning from his party

or

2) Judge Alito Proves a Powerful Match for Senate Questioners
For the most part, the Supreme Court nominee left his questioners shuffling through papers in search of the next question

well, that kinda sucks

i was cleaning some stuff off my computer a few days ago... mainly stuff from my old system that i decided i didn't really need. it appears that i wasn't paying too much attention though, because i also managed to delete a good portion of my pictures. most of them will be recoverable, but it'll mean putting my old compy back together--just putting the hard drive back in and hooking up a monitor, keyboard and mouse, so no big deal, but a pain in the butt. in celebration of that, here is a more recent picture, taken from the back steps of my house:

if snowmen were french...

all that's missing is some cheese in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other.

crush of the week, post #1

so here we go, the first "crush of the week" (by the way, if anybody can think of a better name, please let me know).

name: kari byron
where i've seen her: mythbusters
what she does: helps bust myths, and some art











most pics courtesy of nuclear beef, the rest from google image search

what if... (updated)

senator robert byrd (d-ranged) were to sit down and play a game of nethack?

note: i got distracted while typing this post up, so it will be finished sometime tomorrow. also, starting tomorrow i'm going to sell out (sort of) and start a series called "crush of the week." it will be somewhat similar to rob's friday babe of the week (including the infrequent updates... they must not have had any fridays in north dakota for quite awhile now), except everything should be safe for work.

ok, here's the full meal deal:

…senator robert byrd (d-ranged) sat down to play a game of nethack? this will make a lot more sense if you’ve played the game. also, a quick disclaimer: this is not meant to piss off anyone, with the exception of robert byrd and maybe some whacko liberals. if you are offended anyways, either a) it was unintentional on my part… no intended harm, so no foul; or b) you’re just too dang sensitive, get over it.

Who are you? White Dragon (“That’s got a catchy sound to it, doesn’t it Hoodie?”)

Shall I pick a character’s race, role, gender and alignment for you? [ynq] (“Hell no!”) n

Pick a role for your character (“Hmm… wizard sounds good.”) w

Pick the race of your Wizard (“Let’s see… human, elf, gnome, or orc. Why not just say ‘human or subhuman’?”) h

Pick the gender of your human Wizard (“What, only the two choices? Howard Dean would hate this game. Oh well, male it is.”) m

Pick the alignment of your male human Wizard (“Neutral, of course. I am an unbiased force for truth and justice!) n

Hello White Dragon, welcome to NetHack! You are a neutral male human Wizard.

(“A pet cat? What the hell is this?”) C. What do you want to call the kitten? (“Hmmm, something appropriate… aha!”) Kat the Klan masKot. (“Hehehe, perfect!”)

i (“Force bolt, knock, not bad spells. But when do I get the one that lets me dump a hooker in the river with no repercussions, like Teddy? Hell, I guess I’m already older than the river is… what’s a few more days of waiting? Besides, I got a scroll of enchant weapon… great way to start.”)

[Narrator: after adventuring through several rooms and killing multiple monsters—including a newt (n), a lichen (F), and a jackal (j)—White Dragon/Senator Byrd quaffs a healing potion (!) and decides to risk drinking from a nearby fountain (⌠).]

You’ve unleashed a water demon! Grateful for its freedom, it grants you a wish! (“Booyah! Score baby!”) What do you wish for? A white hood. Sorry, no such item exists. You receive a leather helm. (“Horse shit! No white hoods? What kind of crazy world is this? Next thing you know one of those darkies will try and walk on the same side of the hallway as me. Oh well, may as well put it on.”)

[Narrator: unfortunately for our non-dungeon-savvy senator, that was a cursed -3 elven leather helm he just put on. He’s actually easier to kill now than he was with less armor. However, he somehow manages to survive for several more levels, wandering down into the gnomish mines.]

You hit the gnome! The gnome misses you! You hit the gnome! The gnome hits you! You hit the gnome! You kill the gnome! (“About freaking time, too. Lets see what the spoils are this time, eh?”) You pick up a scroll called Foobie Bletch. (“What the hell? This better not be another scroll of stinking cloud.”) r You have found a scroll of genocide! What monster to you want to genocide? (“F—k yes! The day has finally arrived!”) N*****s. Sorry, no such monster exists. What monster do you want to genocide? (“Umm…”) Blacks. Sorry, no such monster exists. Wiped out all grid bugs.

[Narrator: At this point, Senator Byrd/White Dragon begins frothing at the mouth, and dies one of the most embarrassing NetHack deaths possible: kicking a wall until he ran out of hitpoints. The only potentially more embarrassing deaths are slipping while trying to mount a horse, choking to death on food, zapping yourself with a wand of death, or getting killed by a grid bug. The moral of the story? Being in the KKK doesn’t pay. And kicking walls is just plain stupid.]

bing crosby, white supremacist

"I'm... dreaming... of a white... Christmas..."

"RACIST!"

crazy times

so, i ran into another interesting guild wars glitch today, and again it ended up getting me stuck. luckily i was working with a group of real people (as opposed to the fake ones) this time, so i got to rejoin the quest at the next cutscene. here are some pics of what happened:







as usual, click the thumbnails for a larger image. for those of you that it means anything to, i managed to get myself stuck in one of the watchtowers in the riverside province mission.

a political quiz, of sorts

can be found here. it's very entertaining, i must say. as expected, i agreed with mostly the conservative answers, with a several from the libertarian side of things thrown in. and, the test beign satirical, i even agreed with a few of the commie answers, believe it or not. anyways, go check it out.

h/t tongue tied

note to self

shooting a .45 is really fun. and really loud.

a damn good idea

which means it will probably never make it through. but i can dream, can't i?

wait a minute...

i'm only going to anal-ize the first page or so of the article [ed. note: there is actually only one page two it... i saw the 1 of 4 at the bottom and got confused], but i would recommend reading the whole thing (free registration required).

recently, colin powell spoke out on the whole "domestic spying" issue. and the nyt's take on it is leaving me slightly confused.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 - Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said on Sunday that it would not have been "that hard" for President Bush to obtain warrants for eavesdropping on domestic telephone and Internet activity, but that he saw "nothing wrong" with the decision not to do so.

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"I see absolutely nothing wrong with the president authorizing these kinds of actions," he said.

Asked if such eavesdropping should continue, Mr. Powell said, "Yes, of course it should continue."

so it seems to me that, even if not whole-heartedly, mr. powell is still supporting bush on this issue. but then, further down the page, we see this:

Though Mr. Powell stopped short of criticizing Mr. Bush, his suggestion that there was "another way to handle it" was another example of his parting company on a critical issue with the president he served for four years.

wait, come again? this means that they're "parting company"? because to me, it looks more like two pitchers arguing whether its better to use a slider or a high fastball to strike a batter out. sure, they may go about it different ways, but their basic goal is the same: get the guy out.

and then, predictably, the "reporter" goes on to take some jabs at the situation in iraq, implying that the recent elections--which appear to have been very successful--were actually reinforcing the ethnic divisions in iraq and leading them one step closer to a civil war. because heaven forbid anything good should come out of iraq.

"word" of the day

jewmas.

Merry Christmas to all...

...and to all, a good night.