RandomFailure

Yesterday, I got my new printer and the iPod. But still no printer cable (need a separate USB cable to hook up the printer), no additional memory for the printer (if you’ve ever printed a fairly complex page, you can appreciate the advantages of additional printer memory), or the new computer to hook it all up to (due to ship before September 30). The USB cable and the printer memory arrived today. So what can I do with all this? I can try to hook up the new printer, but that will take some equipment moving, like the old printer, and finding a place to put it. The room’s getting a bit deep with stuff; maybe I’ll have to get a Web cam once I get the new computer.

Just because I live here, doesn’t mean I want to watch this drivel. Half the office was talking about it today. “Did you see it?” was the question of the day. The funny thing I heard about was how clean MTV presented Philly – no grit, no grime, no homeless people in the train stations, no traffic on the highways. And they may have even boosted some of the colors to make the city look better. Granted, all the politicos and glad-handing region boosters will say this is a good thing, but I disagree. Why? If MTV paints such a rosy picture, what will happen when people get here and find out it’s just not true? Will they think the city went to hell overnight? (If the Eagles win the Super Bowl, that will be an option.)

Dick Cheney frightens me. Seriously. With Dubya being a literal heartbeat away from having real power in the White House, you should be scared too. But my fear has crystallized into written form; see this article in Rolling Stone. The main thrust of the article, if you choose not to read it, is that Dick Cheney has a “death touch” – he manages to screw up everything he touches. And apparently, has had this wonderful skill for over 40 years.

One plea to the Democrats: please, please, please hammer this bozo on his Vietnam draft deferments. He did everything possible to get a deferment. Not that others didn’t, but since you’re arguing about John Kerry’s service in Vietnam, at least make it from a position of authority. Like you were actually there.

I assume you’re already up to date with the news, but I wanted to provide this as more of a public service message. I’m one of those people who thinks Osama bin Laden is already in custody (or they know exactly where he is) and he’ll be conveniently trotted out to the world in late October. You know, just in time to get Bush re-elected.

Anyway, there was an article in the paper today about this very subject. The best part is the quote from Joseph Cofer Black, the U.S. State Department coordinator for counterterrorism, “… I would be surprised but not necessarily shocked if we wake up tomorrow and he’s been caught along with all his lieutenants.”

Now I’m not a total conspiracy theorist nutjob, but this is too juicy to pass up on. More to come when they decide to tell us…

As you may have read here previously, I ordered a bunch of computer stuff recently. I recall my shipping option to be ship when things are ready, since the computer won’t ship for 3-4 weeks and the iPod and dock were listed as shipping in 1-2 days. Turns out the dock shipped first, and arrived today. So I have an iPod dock, no iPod, and no computer to connect it to. Ain’t life great?

By now, I imagine you’ve heard of the movie Outfoxed. One of the local college TV stations (Drexel TV, for you Philly folks) broadcast it a few weeks ago, and I finally got around to watching it last week. If you thought Fahrenheit 9/11 was enough to get your blood boiling, you’ll be hard-pressed to restrain yourself from throwing something at the TV when they dissect Bill O’Reilly. If you have the chance to see it, do so. Heck, buy the DVD if you want. At least, check out their Web site (link above); lots of interesting stuff there.