June 2006

Day 295: Vote For Bucky!

June 19, 2006

Buckingham U. Badger made the ballot for the Mascot Hall of Fame!  Please take some time to VOTE FOR BUCKY.    Voting is open from June 15th through July 15th, 2006.  VOTE EVERYDAY FOR BUCKY!!  Also, please share with your friends and family so we can help Bucky get inducted into the Hall of Fame. We’re currently [...]

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Day 295: What Is Our Problem?

June 19, 2006

Far from NOPD to admit it while they themselves are gunned down, but violent crime is on the New Orleans front-burner once again.  As a friend escorted me to my car late Friday night, he recited a litany on safety and said, “You have to understand one thing about New Orleans.  The poor really hate the rich here, and you will [...]

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June 16, 2006

June 16, 2006 – Introducing “The Hell In A Handbasket Express”: Do not a) use PayPal for a few days, b) install this on your computer and c) expect the respect of privacy from law enforcement any longer. Tweet

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June 16, 2006

June 16, 2006 – Cool.  “Called EXPO, [the new tool] can be used to translate scientific experiments into a format that can be interpreted by a computer. The researchers have published the software code online [have they now?] so that anyone can use and modify it.”  Question: How does one determine the objectivity of an ontology, i.e. an [...]

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Day 292: The Good & The Bad

June 16, 2006

Thanks to good samaritans, D & B have recovered their stolen trailer along with a few items that were left behind.  “While the valuable items — china, silverware, an antique desk, a collection of antique Christmas ornaments — were gone, [the couple] was delighted to discover that the two crates of family photographs had been [...]

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June 15, 2006

June 15, 2006 – Just as Japan’s oldest man passes away, two of our main national labs compete to create the “reliable replacement warhead,” a new nuclear bomb.  ‘Cuz I sure wish WE had one of those Doomsday Machines. Tweet

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June 15, 2006

June 15, 2006 – FEMA Aid Paid For Saints Tickets, Audit Finds Even ESPN’s getting in on the FEMA debit card audit.  “Among the items purchased with the cards [were] five season tickets to New Orleans Saints professional football games.”  Season tickets that start at $16 per game?  *snooze*  Wake me up when free government money gets [...]

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Day 291: C’est Le Même

June 15, 2006

Loki of HumidCity invited me to participate in this New Orleans meme.  A lot of my answers are the same as his (hence the title of this post), but I’ll try to be different. 1) What are you drinking right now? New Orleans tap water 2) Where were you on 28 August, 2005? On the road, driving [...]

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June 14, 2006

June 14, 2006 – Thomas Friedman on Monday’s Charlie Rose: “The latest thing in technology is Open Source.”  Where has this guy been?  Friedman is like trends in New Orleans – five years behind the rest of the times. Tweet

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Day 289: Insult To Injury

June 13, 2006

God was full of wine last night, So full of wine that he let a great secret slip. He said, there is no man on this earth who needs a pardon from me, for there is really no such thing, no such thing as sin. – a loose translation of Hafiz C’s parents’ two-storey house in [...]

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