Michael Hanscom
New e-mail addy redux
I’ve updated the original ‘New e-mail addy‘ post to reflect this, but the e-mail addy I thought was going to work…won’t. So, my real new public e-mail address is djwudi@myrealbox.com. Sorry for the confusion….
Oh, and incidentally, if you for any reason need a new e-mail address, give the guys at MyRealBox a try. Looks to be a good deal.
Nemesis
I’ll always have a soft spot for the original, but Paramount has just released the first promotional artwork for Star Trek X: Nemesis — a redesigned Romulan insignia! Gotta say, doesn’t look bad at all.
Drivers IDs are scary
I suppose it’s inevitable, but it’s still kind of scary when you read just how much can be gleaned about you from your drivers license.
I hate your politics!
Yeah, well I hate your politics, too! Beautifully written, very funny, and very true.
Liberals: …Liberals are politically able to have all sorts of freaky mammal sex but typically don’t; good liberal foreplay is a permission slip and three layers of impermeable barriers. The only vaguely liberal person we know of who seemed to enjoy sex in the last 30 years is Clinton, and look what he got out of it….
Conservatives: …Conservatives don’t actually bother to spend time with people who are not conservative, and thus become confused and irritable when people disagree with them; fundamentally can’t see how that’s even possible, which shows an almost charming intellectual naivete….
Libertarians: …Never got over the fact they weren’t the illegitimate children of Robert Heinlein and Ayn Rand; currently punishing the rest of us for it…. Blissfully clueless that Libertarianism is just great as long as it doesn’t actually involve real live humans….
Should gay priests adopt?
Okay, now this one’s interesting. A column by conservative columnist Ann Coulter, “Should gay priests adopt?” Is there a point in here somewhere, or is she just trolling (being intentionally inflammatory with little purpose other than riling people up)?
New York, New York
Some fascinating links courtesy of this MeFi thread to sites and books looking at the New York of the past.
Copies are evil
Aw, crud. Republican Alaskan senator Ted Stevens has joined the (if you’ll excuse me) idiots backing a bill that would ban the sale of all electronic devices without embedded copy-protection chips, according to this WIRED story. This is a Bad Thing, for reasons which Cory makes clear over at Boing Boing.
Thujone
Thujone — the mystery ingredient that gives absinthe its mystique.
Go Hoosiers!
I’m not much of a sports fan, but after having two parents who went to IU, it does catch my eye when the Hoosiers beat Duke by one point, and move into the final eight.