Shouting Grounds

I just saw this on CNN. We’ve lost a true visionary. Though the man, the material has died, the ideas and humor live on.

Amen, brother

Hrmm… surprised by this one. I thought for sure he was a child molestor.

And while we’re at it, Magic will like this and this.
and all will love this.

Have a blessed day.

Who the fuck is bumping our “fisting” search status? These stats are for the month of June. Summer’s in the air.

UPDATE

Another stat listing…also discouraging

You may not be able to tell from the extremely brief story at CNN and other sites, but here’s the report from the office of the Investigator General of NASA regarding the coercive impact of “Political Appointees” on the direction and desemination of Global Climate Change (See Global Warming) research.

This details just a portion of the damage that a bunch of political hacks with no more specialized job experience than a trainee at Wendy’s can do to the country if things don’t change. The response to Katrina was a direct result of a poorly selected appointee who had just left a highly relevant position at the International Arabian Horse Association prior to being in charge of NATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE AND RECOVERY DEPARTMENT. Can’t you see the tie-in there? Michael Brown was forced to resign from baiting horse humpers, so he would of course be perfect to look after our safety after an act of God.

That aside, what possible benefit would there be to prevent a study on global climate change for fuck’s sake? Not to diminish the subject matter, but what negative consequence to the Bush administration, or more specifically to these appointees would there be if an accurate and honest study was conducted? I can think of only two affects. One, if it was shown that the majority of this global shift in climate was man-made, this would probably lead to tougher environmental restrictions on big industry. All the republican hard-liners who deny that there is a link between our carbon emissions and the global climate, purely because it hurts their bottom line, and the bottom line of their financial backers would want to deep 6 any breath of this reality. Two, loyalists of the Bush administration policies which are obviously the product of point One, would prevent this information from coming solely because it refutes the words of their great leader. Since most of the jackassed appointees wouldn’t be able to support themselves without the helping hand of the powers that be, their very careers depend on lock-step allegiance to the cause.

Point two is the most troubling because it means a majority of the most powerful seats in our bureaucracy are filled by desperate yes-men without scruples or regard for anyone else, at least, anyone but those in the party. The party and their networking has got them a sweet deal. They get a good paycheck and a great resume after their time is up, and like the clock-watching employee who was brought into the company with the help of powerful friends, he/she’s hoping that the phone doesn’t ring. The moment it does you’ll probably have another Katrina, or maybe a war with Iran.

Editor’s Note:

Just so you know, the CNN article looked like this yesterday, when I started this post.

yay! It’s been a long time since I posted, so I figured this would be a good post to get back on the wagon with.

It was pretty badass to run through the Soldier Field concourse and through the actual gate that the Bears use on gameday, onto the grass and out to the 50.The adrenaline rush was unparalleled.

And with that, I’m buttoning up my distance running for the summer. I still plan to run for fitness and such, but no more training for long distance this year. Gonna focus on other things.

again…yay!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Foreclosure isn’t that funny. Imagine, if you will, that you rent and you pay everything on time, but your landlord’s a deadbeat. Well, that just means that you lose. Fucking weak.

Here’s the kicker:

When he confronted the landlord, he says, he was given a terse response: “That’s none of your business.”

“I said, ‘I beg your pardon. It is my business. I mean, is somebody going to knock at the door and throw me out — throw my family out, or what?’ ” he said.

This is crazy shit here. I don’t know why they don’t just roll this shit out to the public, or at least soldiers coming back from Iraq/Afghanistan. Why even bother testing on monkey’s at all. I guess there’s a threat that the arm could flail about wildly and gouge out a eye or two, but I think people would be ready and willing to take that risk. Now, if that monkey could remove a bra with one cold, mechanical meat hook, then we’d be in business. That, or auto-erotically asphyxiate itself, INXS style. I’m sure that was next on the test agenda.

I’ve installed the update and had no issues booting up so far. I did notice that a few Calendar synchronization windows came up, but I believe this is because they revamped the iCal synch procedure. All the iCal appointments are correct after the sync. VMWare Fusion 2.0 Beta is running fine right now. It’s even allowing me to do odd stuff that I haven’t tested yet, like interact with the Sony Reader.

The update is a 400MB+ download that affects iCal, Time Machine, AirPort, Spaces and General OS X features. A full list of changes is available from Apple.

I’ll keep you posted. Obviously this blog post is masturbatory since I’m the only Mac user. Sue me.

I hope someone finally roasts this fat-ass, criminal, shit-burger on the grill. He’s basically had his attorney send in polite little refusals to appear, even stating that he would reply to the inquiry via written letters, but while he would like the benefit of being able to take the time to trick-fuck congress with his pen, it looks like he’s finally going to appear before the House Judiciary Committee and be forced to explain his many crimes.

Turning the Department of Justice into a political engine to move all of the administrations criminal acts underground while suppressing rational and dissenting views through firings or transfers, as well as eviscerating former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman through trumped up charges and what can only be viewed as a complete corruption of the entire judicial, legislatorial, and executive body of that state, are just a few of the actions that Rove must account for. Conyers himself is excited (and rightfully so) to prosecute this jagoff to the fullest extent of his authorityl stating recently that they needed to “kick Rove’s ass”.

Tough times in South Africa these days. As food prices go up, there’s going to be a lot more misery in the world.

The Brazen Bull may have a contender for “worst way to be killed”:

The country has also seen a disturbing throwback to the 1980s apartheid-era lynching tactic of “necklacing,” which was widely used in the townships at the time.

Used on suspected informants, the “necklace” is a car tire, filled with petrol, put around the person’s neck and set alight.

If the description doesn’t do it for ya, images.google.com “necklacing” and prepare to be horrified. It’s amazing and sad what horrors people will bring on each other.

Adding true multi-monitor support and “experimental” DX 9, it looks like version 2 of Fusion will fully close any gap that may exist between its rivals over at Parallels.

Anyone using Parallels Desktop 3 knows that their idea of “Multi-Monitor” is really “giant-ass monitor” support. They decide to combine horizontal resolutions of multiple monitors when in Convergence mode, using the root monitor’s vertical resolution as a base. This means that you aren’t able to take advantage of 100% screen realestate if you use monitors of varying resolutions. An invisible cutoff point will exist when you try to drag a Convergence window south of your initial display’s max vertical res. Weak.

Fusion 2 actually passes monitor detection to the guest OS, allowing it to treat each additional display as its own, configurable, and arrangeable output. Check the youtube vid below to see this in action. Their testing proves that it can work with as many as 8 independent displays.

Sure, the 3d performance won’t blow anyone’s socks off, but DX 9 support alone is pretty impressive.

the beta 1 release is available as a free download from VMware via the following link. You can see more videos of Beta 1 in action here.

Even though it probably won’t happen, I would like to see either company develop a utility to allow a user to convert a virtual machine into a Boot Camp partition, in case you wanted to dual boot. I realize that it’s probably infeasible, but we can hope can’t we?

Tell me this isn’t pulled right from the plot of “Real Genius”

Look at the ship itself, for Christ’s sake. Sure it’s not a B1, but you know, you take what you can get. I’m just amazed we are still using prop aircraft in this day and age.

Kinda makes me wanna play DC. Get everyone in the gunship then flip upside-down and “park” it in the hanger. Hopefully this thing doesn’t do a barrel-roll with that laser engaged, thus cutting the Earth in half.