Yeah, It's Been Warm...
...but Alta's forcast for today is lunacy! (check the predicted low temp):
Forecast For Wednesday, January 29th
Sky Cover: Partly sunny
High & Low Temp: High today near 44, and low tonight near 230 degrees
Winds: Light
Expected Snowfall: 0"
Extended Forecast:
The extended forecast calls for this pattern of scattered snow flurries, partly clear skies and mild temperatures to continue though the weekend. More snow is possible on Thursday with a stronger system on Saturday
January 29, 2003
January 23, 2003
January 17, 2003
Must Flee TV
Happened to have NBC on last night for the majority of their prime time fare. I don't usually do this. Sure, I've watched an occasional Friends this season and Scrubs is kinda OK, but, WTF? At one time during television seasons of bygone days, NBC on Thursday nights could be reasonably counted upon to produce at least some chuckles if not outright LOL. Now?Friends - a dismal characterization of its former self - and it was never all that funny to begin with. These people are total morons bordering on the psychotic. There is no way they'd ever be able to live in the NYC apartments they have since they wouldn't be able to hold down a job at McDonald's. Any children they have would already be in the custody of Children's Protective Services. The writers ran out of ideas for this a long time ago.
Scrubs - sorta sometimes smile-inducing, but these clowns are just as annoying as Friends. Sad it only took 0.6 seasons to become so.
Will & Grace - this is one of the most unfunny, unsexy, steaming pile of turds being broadcast. It makes no sense that it has received as many awards as it has over the years, unless all the voting judges of all the awards were given free blow-jobs by the cast.
Something about Miami I think? - I don't even know the title of the piece of shit waste of a half-hour that comes on after W&G.
Maybe I should just start watching reruns of South Park on Thursday evenings. NBC's fare makes me want to soak my head in a bucket of lye and pull out my eyeballs.
January 13, 2003
January 07, 2003
Should I? Nah....
Should I see Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers? Finally decided against it. Having not read any of the books (just never found them compelling enough to want to wade through), I was looking forward to the first film. And then I saw it. Almost 3 hours of my life irretrievably wasted. Everyone who read LotR told me it was exciting and engulfing and grand fantasy. Instead I endured 3 hours of vague to intense boredom and pretty poor CGI effects. How could the producers and directors take something supposedly that good and reduce it to tedious dreck? At least Liv Tyler was pleasant to look at.
I'll not make the same mistake again.
Weak on the Concept
I received a spam email today. It came from Computerworld. Specifically, from a third party using CW's subscriber list, as was stated at the start of the message:
Third Party Rental Use of Computerworld E-mail List
The following is vendor information on new products and services
which you opted to receive when you submitted an application for
Computerworld. We hope it is of interest to you.
Then came the content of the spam:
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use Clearswift products to prevent spam than any other solution.
For a FREE copy of the "Effective Spam Management", simply click on
http://clearswift.em11.net/wp/s.aspx?p=2l
As unwanted and unsolicited email becomes a more serious issue that impacts
productivity and increases processing and storage costs, it's tougher than
ever for organizations to keep their email policy, security and technology
up to date. To keep up, you need clearly presented and accurate information.
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the world leader in email security, filtering and encryption are offering
you a free anti-spam White Paper http://clearswift.em11.net/wp/s.aspx?p=2l
Idiot ass-clowns. I wonder if my last manager at UDV is working for Clearswift.
December 23, 2002
More Background Noise
November had a bumper crop of Utah strangeness.
First was the three-way pissing contest between Mayor Rocky, the SLC Town Council, and the LDS Church over the Main Street Plaza easement. In a deal brokered by prior mayor Dee Dee Coridini during her term., the LDS purchased the one block of Main Street that passes through their two blocks of buildings to create a pedestrian plaza and place of serenity between Temple Square and the Conference Center. They paid the city $8M. In return they agreed to the City retaining an easement that allows unrestricted public access and thoroughfare through the plaza. The sticking point is that the LDS wants to regulate behavior on the plaza - no swearing, no smoking, no drinking, etc - with the huge issue being no protesting. Now the LDS is unhappy about that and wants the city to give up the easement. Rocky Anderson has a slight problem with that - some little concern about First Amendment rights and all - and believes that the easement is absolutely essential to maintaining public access and the same free speech rights that any citizen has on any other city street or park.
Then we have the case where a teacher of a high school junior English class in a question on a mid-term exam asked the students to compare the precepts of transcendentalism with "The Words of Wisdom" (an LDS book that offers up virtues to live by). The non-LDS kids understandably felt they were at a bit of a disadvantage. And people outside of Utah wonder why there aren't Mormon private schools like there are Catholic and Jewish schools elsewhere. It often seems our public schools are Mormon schools.
Finally there's the mayor of Virgin who claims that "there isn't and never was a $25 fee for people wanting to appear before the town council", despite it being the first rule on the list of regulations for addressing the council at their public meetings. What’s more, even after you pay your fee, the topic still has to be approved by the Mayor. To be sure that you would actually be heard, an issue of the town newsletter suggested that prospective speakers keep their comments “positive”. When the Mayor was asked about this curious fee in a theoretic democracy, his response was "Well, we never actually charged anyone, and if we did I'm sure it was a mistake." When a number of people produced receipts or cancelled checks showing they paid the fee, his response was "Well, it's a fee that didn't have to be paid." So once again the mayor of Virgin proves he and the town council are raving idiots and bald-faced liars. This is the same town that passed an ordinance 2 years ago requiring every household in Virgin to have a gun. Is it the water down there? Is it radiation? Are they all smoking crack? Is there some kind of celestial vortex that attracts lunatics to that part of Utah?
Happy Satanic Christmas
One day last week I had the Today show on while bumbling about doing morning stuff. Then they had one of their guests on.......
I have seen the gates of hell. I've peered into the very face of the demon. I heard and saw the anti-christ. The hell-spawn that will annihilate us all is Barry Manilow. His epoxied-on, perpetual smiling visage peered out from the electron fog of the picture tube as he launched into his version of White Christmas/Happy Holidays. I immediately felt the waves of nausea envelop me as the wreched dreck the ass clowns at the Today show have been sodomized into thinking was music and singing reverberated off the green-pea soup plastered walls of our living room. I ran to find a long screwdriver with which to gouge out my eardrums and plunge into my brain. More than anything I wanted the madness to stop.
I've seen the face of pure evil - the demonic grin of Barry Manilow.
November 01, 2002
Background Noise
What do I mean when I say that there's a lot of background noise to deal with when living in Utah? Here's a recent example....
Like all governors, our Mike Leavitt has signed proclamations honoring all sorts of things - Rodeo Day, Wells Fargo Day, Peach Day, Home School Day, Jello Day. However he refused to join the 20 other governors declaring last week "World Population Awareness Week", sponsored by the D.C. based Population Institute.
The reasons given by Leavitt spokesperson Natalie Gochnour were that proclamations are granted to Utah organizations and "This is a national organization". OK. Fair enough I suppose (although Jello is stretching it a bit). More disturbingly though, she said the zero population growth message is not consistent with Utah values.
Barf.
October 30, 2002
September 27, 2002
Toys for Boys
My friend went and bought himself a toy. Take a peek at Bob's Corvette
Read the page and you'll see some rambling about male menopause and mid-life crisis. I dunno, I just don't get the whole sports car thing. My concept of a suitable toy vehicle is more along the lines of something like this or maybe something in red. All to be able to get to places where going up stuff like this or down things like this is required to get there. That means you get to see way cool landscapes.
September 26, 2002
Is that your face?
The web site for Needle Sports in the UK has a curious page: rocks that look like faces. Well worth a look at Needle Sports - Rockfaces
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