Monthly Archives: April 2006

The Fur Traders

I’m not usu­ally into sequels but this is one I could def­i­nitely get into.

April 10, 2006 – 1:38 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

In Honor of National Poetry Month

When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teem­ing brain, Before high-piled books, in char­ac­tery, Hold like rich gar­ners the full ripen’d grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy sym­bols of a high romance, …

April 5, 2006 – 12:53 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Markets in Everything

An Aus­tralian com­puter sci­en­tist has devised soft­ware based on game the­ory to divide up prop­erty of a cou­ple when they divorce in the best way for both par­ties based on their interests. This has to be bet­ter than divorce court.

April 5, 2006 – 9:28 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (3)

Homeland Security Remains a Joke

It’s hard to take the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­rity seri­ously when the deputy press sec­re­tary of DHS is arrested for solic­i­ti­ing a minor. This is just too much. It reminds me of the movie Mars Attacks where the VP (Mar­tin Short) goes around pick­ing up hook­ers and show­ing them the White House. Un-fucking-believable. Update: Non­reg­is­tra­tion …

April 4, 2006 – 10:01 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues | Comments (3)

Angst the Kitty

Keep Katy and Doc in your thoughts and prayers. They’ve lost a good friend.

April 4, 2006 – 6:48 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Friends | Comments (1)

More Expensive, Less Service and No Flexibility? Sign me up!

Heard about MovieLink? It’s this great new ser­vice where you can down­load movies if you like to pay twice as much as you would for DVDs, to not be able to play them on your TV because your DVD player won’t rec­og­nize the for­mat, to only be able to play them on a lim­ited num­ber …

April 4, 2006 – 6:32 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

Ennis Protesters Barred From Prom

I’m not sure this is the best way to encour­age kids to get involved in civic activities. While I’m not com­pletely sym­pa­thetic with what they were protest­ing, it seems a bit heavy handed to sus­pend stu­dents for exer­cis­ing their right to organize. Granted, the rules were fairly clear and they broke them. How­ever, in an …

April 1, 2006 – 10:20 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Dallas Affairs | Comments Off

Romance

Is there any thing Google doesn’t do?

April 1, 2006 – 8:02 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (2)