Damn, I remember reading about this back when it was still cool and going to happen - a person created a bike capable of printing messages on the pavement in a dot-matrixish way. However, he was arrested before he could do it.
Just an old draft post…may as well push it out then keep it in… it WAS a really awesome project though…
…to say that this is a good thing? I’m sure he’d think it was a good thing… though I’m sure we’d disagree about what’s good about it…
Jerry Falwell died.
From the CBC article:
Over the decades, Falwell campaigned against abortion, same-sex marriage, pornography, stem-cell research and bans on school prayers.
He drew ire for saying AIDS is punishment for homosexuals, the Antichrist was a Jewish man, and Tinky Winky, a purse-toting character on the children’s show Teletubbies, is a gay role model.
Three days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against the United States, he blamed them on abortionists, feminists, pagans, gays, lesbians and others who “tried to secularize America.” He later apologized.
Utah County Republicans ended their convention on Saturday by debating Satan’s influence on illegal immigrants.
The group was unable to take official action because not enough members stuck around long enough to vote, despite the pleadings of party officials. The convention was held at Canyon View Junior High School.
Don Larsen, chairman of legislative District 65 for the Utah County Republican Party, had submitted a resolution warning that Satan’s minions want to eliminate national borders and do away with sovereignty.
In a speech at the convention, Larsen told those gathered that illegal immigrants “hate American people” and “are determined to destroy this country, and there is nothing they won’t do.”
Illegal aliens are in control of the media, and working in tandem with Democrats, are trying to “destroy Christian America” and replace it with “a godless new world order – and that is not extremism, that is fact,” Larsen said.
At the end of his speech, Larsen began to cry, saying illegal immigrants were trying to bring about the destruction of the U.S. “by self invasion.”
Republican officials then allowed speakers to defend and refute the resolution. One speaker, who was identified as “Joe,” said illegal immigrants were Marxist and under the influence of the devil. Another, who declined to give her name to the Daily Herald, said illegal immigrants should not be allowed because “they are not going to become Republicans and stop flying the flag upside down. … If they want to be Americans, they should learn to speak English and fly their flag like we do.”
I wouldn’t vote…
… for all the great comments and responses to my post on the laptop, it’s great to hear from different people on a big purchase like that, and it’s nice to get a good discussion going on in the comments once in a while.
If this were my party, I think I would cry.
Selected paragraphs:
[The janitor] sexually harassed the female guests, stole the ice from the machine and tried to sell it back to the Neumanns.
But his misdeeds didn’t end there: The janitor also refused to put toilet paper in the bathrooms.
When the elevator broke trapping several paraplegic guests, the janitor did nothing. Neumann said that when one of the musicians had a heart attack, the janitor refused to call 911.
“The drunk janitor reappears,” Neumman said. “I say ‘What’s the address?’ He said, ‘I don’t know.’”
This janitor worked for the City of Montreal; and he ruined a bar mitzvah. The family asked the city for an apology. The response?
The city claimed that the family was not, in fact Jewish.
I’m not sure, but I think that for ANY party, it’s just polite to have toilet paper and call 911 when someone has a heart attack. If the “Lying Liars Who Tell Lies” convention is taking place, I think that calling 911 should still be done if need be.
Final outcome, the city ponied up 20 grand and fired the janitor. That’s less than $60/guest. I don’t think that you can get decent catering for less than $30/head; that’s not including rental costs for the hall and the time that busy people took out of their lives to drive and attend an event like this.
Also, stay tuned… were I the guy who had the heart attack, I’d be readying a lawsuit of my own…
… can charge $200 for a different colour and a few gigs more hard drive space.
Check out the specs here. Compare the second-lowest-end model to the third-lowest end model (the first one available in black).
Every statistic on it is the same as the one before it, except that the hard drive is a wee bit bigger. $200 bucks (a difference in price of 12%!) for a scant 40 GB of space… eeww….
Also, we’re seriously looking at the second-to-lowest end system for Heather. It seems to have all the right stuff where it counts (processor, ram, battery life), and looks to be the best system (most of the ones after that… all you’re getting for your money are more toys, from where I’m sitting).
A key component to any computer, though, is software… how much would it cost to nicely-equip a mac with software (off the top of my head… office suite, bootcamp, parallis… anything else my sister might need?)
I think she’s looking at getting a mac, all she really wants to do is type on the keyboard and play around with the UI. If she can adjust to those two things, I think that might be the system of choice.
How easy is it to find places to repair Macs? How good is their build quality, once and for all? How does battery life run (Apple claims six hours, is this true with normal use)? I’ve really liked having a docking station for my laptop, does something similar exist for mac?
And, of keen importance, how nicely does it play with non-mac assessories? Can you plug in standard mice, headphones, keyboards, hard drives, etc. and have it all “just work” (Yes, I know that Brendon could probably get all these things to work. Heck, if he was challanged, he could probably make the hard drive dance by using the correct sequence of seeks on the drive; but that’s not what an average person can do)
Bottom line: Could my sister (not particularly tech-headed) successfully use a Mac in the Windows-based world we live without having to take cumbersome steps, without undue costs, and without a painful learning curve?
‘cuz $1500 for a system with a top-end processor, good ram, and a nice warranty is hard to find in many other places…
The specs look good to me, but there are so many things that don’t fit on a spec sheet that worry me.