Jul 152004
Jul 142004
Today’s post is another mix of politics and entertainment.
Sean Bonner (he of the Elian/Budweiser flash movie fame) posted an open letter to John McCain that he apparently received via e-mail from a friend. It’s good stuff in that it echoes my own disappointment in his participation in a political ad that ran about the same time that Kerry announced Edwards as his running mate and also calls out many of the problems with the current administration in one long rant.
This answers the burning question: What if The Hulk had a blog? I found the July 4th post particularly amusing.
Jul 132004
Jul 122004
I wrote last week about the return of Howard Stern to the Austin airwaves. Today, I stumbled on this story in the Daily Texan. I was kind of surprised that I didn’t see it on one of the other Texas blogs, but I guess it wasn’t much of a story. Perhaps the local morning DJs are feeling the pressure with Stern’s return? Or they’re just plain stupid.
Jul 092004
My man, Paul Krugman, weighs in on Kerry’s proposed health plan. As we get closer to the respective party conventions, I’m very interested to see what Kerry/Edwards have to offer. I’m convinced that Bush has to go, but they still haven’t convinced me that they’re the right replacement. There are actually a few other alternatives.
Jul 082004
I just read this report from the New Republic. I’m posting a link here now and pointing it out so that I can refer to it later.
I realize that it creates a catch-22 for the Bush administration, but if they are applying added pressure to Pakistan now because of the election and it produces the capture or demise of Bin Laden, Zawahiri or Omar before the end of the summer, it’s the height of cynical politics. They should’ve been pressing Pakistan for the last two and a half years instead of focusing so much attention on Iraq. For some reason, this report in particular really pisses me off, but doesn’t surprise me in the least.
Jul 072004
Just doing my part in waging the War on Pornography. I’m sure you can guess which side I’m on.
Jul 062004
Our cable modem is constantly dropping out now. One minute you’ll have a connection and the next minute it’s gone, necessitating a reboot of the router which can’t seem to keep up. I put in another call to Time Warner tech support on Sunday. They’re sending out yet another tech tomorrow afternoon. This one is supposed to do a more in-depth investigation than the one that came out a little over a week ago. I’m hoping that they can resolve it as it’s interfering with work and play. SBC has been trying to woo me with cheaper DSL. If Time Warner doesn’t make me happy, I may be making the switch.
I ended up spending half of the day at Little City using their free wireless connection to VPN into work and get some things done. It’s much closer to home than trekking all the way up to my office. I felt a little out of place with my sad old Dell Latitude among all of those Powerbooks. I suppose someone writing .NET code on a Dell would fit in better at Starbucks, but they don’t have the free Internet. It being the first occasion for me to spend so much time using free wifi in a public place, I was reminded of Chip’s comments on free wifi etiquette. It helps that our babysitter was working the counter, so I don’t feel so bad about spending a lot of time there. Little City, at least, seems to encourage the practice of camping out. They’ve added a fairly long power strip on one wall to allow people to plug-in. It wasn’t very crowded yesterday afternoon either.
We spent the 4th at Andy’s and watched the fireworks from his front yard. We took a fair number of pictures. I’ll update the pic of the week tonight and send out shots to those attendees who requested them.
Jul 022004
I just noticed that the last post was my 300th. I’m not sure what it means, but I thought that I’d point it out. Meanwhile, there was some chaos going on at Sofia’s yesterday. You can check out video and pictures here.
Jul 022004
It appears that Howard Stern will return to the Austin airwaves on July 19th when Infinity puts him on in nine markets, some of which include those from which Clear Channel dropped him.
It looks like he’s going to be on 104.3 FM, which seems kind of odd given that it’s a hip-hop format, but the other local Infinity-owned stations aren’t really much more compatible. I enjoy a little Howard now and then. He was on the air here around the time that the film version of Private Parts came out. It’ll be a good counterbalance to my current morning drive diversion. I wonder how Mr. Dudley feels about Mr. Stern’s return?
On another local radio note, The Bloody Tears will be on Eklektikos tomorrow just after noon. I used to play with a lot of the guys in that band before I hung up my sticks to become Dad™.