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This has got to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. Buzz Aldrin raps with Snoop Dogg about going to space.
Buzz working on his hip-hop style had me and my officemate just staring, trying to figure out how to process what we were seeing!
If you use Tellico’s code from SVN, you’ll need to update your checkout. Tellico has moved into KDE’s extragear module at http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/office/tellico/. Read techbase for info on using KDE’s subversion.
Now that Tellico has moved into its new home, I hope to be able to get a beta release of Tellico 2 out in a month or so, the first version for KDE4. We’ll see how well that goes!All I heard on sports talk radio yesterday was how the Lakers would get it done last night in Game 6 against the Rockets. Cowherd, in particular, was an idiot. All the LA hosts yesterday afternoon before the game were predicting a blowout, only they had the winning team wrong. I don’t mind a confident, cocky commentator, but it was rather ridiculous. They all look like morons now.
Not too mention how the Lakers actually played. Do they care?
I’ve been waiting for this forever. Filter email from Russia or China in GMail!
- Click “Create Filter” located at the top of your Inbox
- In the “Has the words:” field, enter: lang:Russian
- Select “Delete it” within the Action List, and (if you have existing Russian Spam) select: “Apply Filter to Conversations below”
- Click “Create Filter”
Of course, if you expect to receive legitimate email in Russian or Chinese, don’t do this. :) But I’d say 80% of my spam is in Chinese…
From the Cape Cod Times comes a story of counting votes gone awry. From the article:
The exact count of the vote — 136 to 70 —had town officials hitting their calculators yesterday. The zoning measure needed a two-thirds vote to pass. A calculation by town accountant Trudy Brazil indicated that 136 votes are two-thirds of 206 total votes, said Town Clerk Cynthia Slade.
Brazil said she used the calculation of .66 multiplied by 206 to obtain the number.
But using .6666 — a more accurate version of two-thirds — the affirmative vote needed to be 137 instead of 136, according to an anonymous caller to town hall and to the Times.
Almost makes me cry. “A more accurate version of two-thirds”? What?
Quick, pull out your calculator. Two-thirds of 206 is 137.33 (with repeating 3’s), which means you actually need 138 votes. So the town accountant and the anonymous caller were both wrong. Err, so do you think they changed the results of the vote?
Rasmussen has a poll about people’s choices between socialism and capitalism. Now, the obvious caveat is that it totally depends on how people define both those terms, but for what it’s worth, the results are interesting…
Adults under 30 are essentially evenly divided: 37% prefer capitalism, 33% socialism, and 30% are undecided.
That really surprised me. But I have to say, I’m not even sure I know the true definition of socialism as anything other than something not capitalistic.
Republicans - by an 11-to-1 margin - favor capitalism. Democrats are much more closely divided: Just 39% say capitalism is better while 30% prefer socialism. As for those not affiliated with either major political party, 48% say capitalism is best, and 21% opt for socialism.
Based on the political winds lately, that doesn’t surprise me at all. Well, actually, I’m surprised that people admit preferring socialism. Somehow, current politicians want to be able say they support free-market capitalism at the same time as they vote to semi-nationalize banks, auto manufacturers, insurance companies, etc.
NBC is likely to cancel Chuck, one of my favorite shows on TV. No, please no! Even the critics don’t think it should be cancelled. There are a lot of reasons not to.
And a fansite is trying to get people to buy sandwiches at Subway to show support.
On April 27th be sure to BUY A $5 FOOTLONG from Subway and if possible, drop a note in the comment box at the franchise letting them know you’re participating in the Finale and Footlong campaign to save NBC’s Chuck, of which Subway is a product placement sponsor.
I’ll put that on my calendar…
Andrea Tantaros points out that President Obama also believes marriage should be between a man and a woman. I think a lot of people who are criticizing Miss California are forgetting that.
I didn’t hear the outrage when Joe Biden said that he and Barack Obama are against gay marriage. No incendiary language, no insults, no four letter obscenities.
Maybe it’s because most people don’t believe President Obama? Or at least, they don’t expect him to act as though he believes that?
From UniverseToday:
Poor Spirit. She’s getting old, arthritic and forgetful. The “oldest” of the two Mars Exploration Rovers had another bout of what engineers from JPL are calling “amnesia.” About a week ago, she experienced some unexpected reboots of her computer. Then, she had three good days in a row, completing Earth-commanded activities without incident. But then on April 17 and 18, she became forgetful – she failed to record data into her flash memory (where information is preserved when Spirit is powered down) and rebooted herself again. The last reboot put Spirit into autonomous operation in which the rover keeps itself healthy, and engineers are running diagnostics to try to regain control of the rover.
The rovers are past the 5-year mark, which is still really hard for me to believe.
But they’re still rockin’ and roll’in, sending back scientific information and fun photos…keep your fingers crossed to see how much longer they can keep it up…
Perez Hilton seems to be something of an idiot. Everything I’ve read about him today seems to point towards his being one of the most intolerant pseudo-celebrities on the Internet. What a dufus. He doesn’t believe that Miss California should be allowed to disagree with him, and calls her names when she does.
Going by Miss California’s answer, she seemed to support states’ rights and then gives her own view. Isn’t that what Hilton was asking, with his leading question about Vermont?