For those who honor the happy fat man's ideas.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Posted by Shad Muegge at August 03, 2002 10:23 PM

a new survey reveals that one in three marijuana users is employed in the high-tech sector.

Here's the best part....

"Previously considered an industry driven by level-headed and logical thinkers, this revelation speaks volumes about society's lack of understanding about the use of cannabis and also its effect or lack of effect on job performance."

My guess? It's the all those long hair unix geeks. "Cool, hey man, let's like, you know let the software go free. be free, run with the wind. woah man, you got any chips?"

The window freaks are definitely doing something much harder. "Was that a cop? Are you a cop?"

The macintosh Arteests (nobody from IT has used a mac for years) are probably sipping red wine, itching their nicotine patch. "I do the newsletter for my book club every month."

I gotta go, I need a haircut.

Posted by Shad Muegge at August 03, 2002 10:02 PM

Well, today has been a sad ol' lonesome day
Yeah, today has been a sad ol' lonesome day
I'm just sittin' here thinking
With my mind a million miles away

Posted by Shad Muegge at August 03, 2002 06:06 PM

Wallflower, wallflower
Won't you dance with me?
I'm sad and lonely too.
Wallflower, wallflower
Won't you dance with me?
I'm fallin' in love with you.

Just like you I'm wondrin' what I'm doin' here.
Just like you I'm wondrin' what's goin' on.

Wallflower, wallflower
Won't you dance with me?
The night will soon be gone.

I have seen you standing in the smoky haze
And I know that you're gonna be mine one of these days,
Mine alone.

Wallflower, wallflower
Take a chance on me.
Please let me ride you home.

Posted by Shad Muegge at August 03, 2002 06:03 PM

"We're not seeing a dramatic change in the quantity of streaming," RealNetworks chief executive Rob Glaser said in an interview with News.com earlier this week. "What we are seeing, and this is the unfortunate thing, is a winnowing of the diversity of choice."

Posted by GeeTee at August 03, 2002 02:17 PM

Recently I got myself a new computer. I bought it as components because it was cheaper and I've been telling people that I assembled it myself. However, I can no longer live this lie. I must now reveal ...

Posted by GeeTee at August 03, 2002 01:29 PM

The global sculpture is the sum of all individual iconoblocs.

Posted by GeeTee at August 03, 2002 01:18 PM

...today in America, I wonder what can get a person into trouble. What if the exterminator, whose monthly visits keep my house pest free, suddenly registers my last name as unusual? I'm a transplant to Hawaii and not a member of its common ethnic groups. What if the person who fixed my window screens tells someone about the Islamic-style plaque in my kitchen, the one with the 99 names of God written in Arabic script, a beautiful reminder of a short tourist trip to Pakistan before all this started? What if the man who delivered some furniture the other day reports the phone call he heard me take from my father, the one in which I commiserated with him about the stock market and said nasty things about people in power? What will happen when the snooping begins?

Perhaps we should ask the Czechs.

Posted by GeeTee at August 03, 2002 01:15 PM

My first card was in the name of Mickey Mouse of Anaheim, and you might find that to be protection enough -- the Safeway staff would always say"thank you Mr. Mouse." When I traded it, I told the receipient to always trade with somebody who lives east of him. I presume my card has made it to the east coast by now.

Posted by GeeTee at August 03, 2002 01:11 PM

"We found the blocking of content about women's history or sites about bathing suits. So if you want to buy something to swim in, they seem to treat that as if it were pornographic in Saudi Arabia," Mr Edelman told the BBC programme Go Digital.

Posted by GeeTee at August 03, 2002 01:07 PM

Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, said Saturday that if the fix was in he will consider changing the figure skating medals. He did not explain precisely what this would mean for Canadians Jamie Salé and David Pelletier, who eventually were awarded gold medals.

Posted by GeeTee at August 03, 2002 12:45 PM

Discover each tomb in the Valley in this interactive version of our Atlas. Investigate a database of information about each tomb, view a compilation of nearly 2,000 images, interact with models of each tomb, and measure, pan, and zoom over 250 detailed maps, elevations, and sections. Experience sixty-five narrated tours by Dr. Weeks and explore a 3D recreation of tomb KV 14.

Posted by GeeTee at August 03, 2002 12:37 PM

The steel-encased camera, designed to withstand a bullet, plays a recorded warning that police hope will act as a deterrent: "Stop! This is the LAPD," the recording says. "We have just taken your photograph. We will use this photograph to prosecute you. Leave now."

Posted by GeeTee at August 03, 2002 12:34 PM

Teamsters President James Hoffa, Jr. is preparing to endorse the Bush administration's TIPS plan, according toWashington sources close to the labor union. Teamsters is the largest union in the U.S. and its members includeUnited Parcel Service (UPS) workers. The decision of theTeamsters to back TIPS is solely Hoffa's, and no union vote was taken, or is planned, the source said. Many Teamstersare more left-of-center and are unhappy with Hoffa's close relationship with Republicans and the Bush White House and view his pending endorsement of TIPS as an attempt to win favor with Bush, the source said. Of course, it is unclearwhat type of support this move would actually receive from individual Teamsters. But a publice endorsement would be ominous.

Posted by GeeTee at August 03, 2002 12:18 PM

Honesty, however, was not the only quality which frequently went missing during the Shieldfield case. The other quality notable by its absence was common sense. Reed and Lillie were each in a stable relationship. They did not socialise outside work. Shieldfield was a busy, inner-city nursery. Parents arrived regularly to pick up or drop off children, staff were on shifts and students were present. Yet children were supposed to have been raped at unknown locations and to have suffered routine abuse of a kind which would have caused acute pain, perceptible injury and bleeding. All this was meant to have happened without any child making a spontaneous complaint and without any parent or member of staff noticing. The scenario was incredible. Yet it was this scenario that Barker and his team chose to believe and publish to the world.

Posted by GeeTee at August 03, 2002 08:18 AM

The order by U.S. District Judge Barbara Kessler allows only two exceptions. On a case-by-case basis, the judge will consider allowing the government to keep a detainee's name secret if the detainee is a material witness to a terror investigation.

The judge also will allow the government to withhold the name if the detainee requests it.

Kessler ruled that the government's rationale for keeping the names secret was insufficient. The government's argument that terrorists inother nations might map the progress of U.S. investigators by determining who had been captured is illogical.

Posted by GeeTee at August 03, 2002 06:41 AM