Chronicling the depravities of the State.
Shocking news everybody! You’re never going to believe this. But Russian Prime Minister Putin is thinking about another run for the Russian presidency.
In other news it’s still hotter than Hell in, well Hell. Satan has apparently decided not to make any orders for winter jackets at this time. Also water is still wet.
Every time somebody tries to tell me how great Japan and it’s culture are compared to ours I point to stories like this.
That’s a series of photographs of Japanese breaking florescent lights over each others’ bodies for some kind of sport. Every society has it’s quirks.
I found a story on Dvorak Uncensored last night that is rather funny.
A grandmother did a Google search on “Queensland + pre-meditated + murder + penalties” and “pre-meditated murder.” Shortly afterwards her husband died.
It must be a coincidence.
Well I’m back, sort of. I took some time off to do some deer hunting which I really failed to accomplish. For the two day hunting span I only saw two deer. These deer of course were somewhere between 100 and 200 yards out (I lack depth perception and hence distance judgements are difficult) at a full run and I had a window of about two seconds in which to see and shoot them. I took the gratuitous pot shot and missed.
That’s all I saw. Within the group I was hunting with the owner of the property did get several shots off at three deer grouped together. He had a single hit leaving a blood trail which my party and I followed for about a mile before giving up due to oncoming darkness.
The property owners did say that this was the worst season they have seen in the 30 years they’ve been hunting. Great year to try deer hunting out again. I did learn something though if you’re going to be sitting in a deer stand for five to six hours bring a book.
There is something about submarines that fascinate me. Therefore when I hear interesting news about them I read away with impunity. Well researchers have found the purposely sunk I-201 submarine.
The I-201 was a Japanese submersible aircraft carrier. Since cruise missiles didn’t exist during World War II the only really effective way to bomb something by delivering those explosives via airplane. Of course anybody can see a massive aircraft carrier approaching a coast line, but few can see underwater. The idea of these submarines was to deliver bombers stealthily to enemy targets and within minutes surface and launch a surprising bombing.
Of course the war ended before the Japanese could use the I-201 so it ended up in the hands of the United States Navy. The Navy studied it and her sister ship then sunk the shit out of them when the Soviet demanded access to them.
Anyways just some cool shit.
No sooner did I plan on posting the previous post (it should have went out some time ago) the power at work blew up. Hah! I love supreme irony.
I don’t know about the legitimacy of this but it’s funny anyways. Schwarzenegger gives legislators a big fuck you. It seem fitting since he gave a big fuck you to the citizens of California with the signing of AB 962.
OK I know I nitpick on things, especially things I’m semi-knowledgable in. But I saw this link on the BBC today and instantly rolled my eyes:
The link leads to this article about an aquatic reptile fossil being discovered. So what’s wrong with this? Well none of the aquatic reptiles were dinosaurs nor even close. Yes I have an interest in paleontology so this really is nothing more than me expressing a pet peeve of mine, inaccuracy.
Nothing dreadfully much to report here but Apple finally released a new mouse. I know not a big deal it’s a fucking mouse. But this one finally eliminates that damned trackball that always ended up not functioning after a short while due to dust and other crud getting under the ball. Instead this one is a multi-touch mouse which means no buttons are on it at all and the mouse works off of the same touch gestures as the trackpad on newer Apple laptops. I’ve been waiting for a company to do something like this for about ten years now, honestly was it really that hard?
You know I just love the random and weird stories I find on Dvorak Uncensored. But sometimes they depress me. Because there is an apparent lack of actual issues to deal with Representative Anna Eshoo from, wait for it, California has introduced the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (the acronym is CALM, very clever Mrs. Eschoo).
What does it do? Well it would require the FCC to enforce a rule that television commercials can’t be “unreasonably” loud. Yup while our country is in an economic depression, our money is becoming worthless, we’re at war with several nations, we have government striving for more control over the health care industry, and the PATROIT Act is still in force somebody decided to waste time with the volume of television commercials. You’r tax money at work.