I’ve been looking for a clip of John McCain’s creepy laugh. Haven’t found one yet, but I did find this soundboard of John McCain quotes. Check out the Pandering to Fallwell flip flop.
Monthly Archives:
June 2008
From Golf.com: Fans, not players, face first smoke-free Open
“Our concern was for the players,” said USGA president Jim Vernon. “This is THE national championship and some of them smoke.”
Players, he said, have enough on their hands trying to tame golf’s toughest test without having to deal with a nicotine fit.
San Diego has banned smoking at its beaches, city parks and municipal golf courses, but has given an exemption to players and caddies that are on the course at the U.S. Open.
Saw this ad on ESPN.com. The worst thing about is that it moves across the screen from left to right, making it very difficult to click the close button. I’ve been seeing more and more of these ads and they drive me nuts.
This always brings up the question in my mind of whether or not internet banner advertising works. As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t see banner ads once I’ve identified the material on the page that I’m looking for. It seems advertisers must be feeling this too and in more cases are interrupting our browsing experience with more intrusive banner ads.
I’m running into this Blackberry Google Ad on a lot on sites that cater to Mac/iPhone users.
Seems as if RIM is making a big push to try to lure prospective iPhone buyers into getting a Blackberry because it has a keyboard. If that’s their main lure, I think RIM’s in deep trouble.
Having a keyboard is only important if your “killer app” is based on text entry, like typing email. Otherwise it’s just taking space that could be used for a larger screen. The iPhone’s touchscreen is ideal for the what the iPhone is strongest in, browsing the internet, displaying video and music.
I think that there will always be some mobile devices that have a dedicated keyboard for those who need it, but for the rest of us, the touchscreen will win out.
From ABCNews.com: French Near-Death Case Stirs Debate on Organ Donors
This is a frightening story about a man who’s heart had stopped beating for 1 1/2 hours but revived as doctors were preparing to remove his organs for transplants.
It was at that point that the astonished surgeons noticed the man was beginning to breathe unaided again, his pupils were active, he was giving signs that he could feel pain — and finally, his heart started beating again.
Several weeks later, the man can walk and talk.
This case has stirred debate in France about when a patient is actually dead in cardiac arrest situations. Any impropriety in organ transplantation could lead to those not offering their organs for transplant if they feel like it could jeopardize their lives if they are in a critical but survivable condition.
I just noticed this today that Google Street View is now active in Cincinnati. It’s a new function in Google Maps where you can now see a 360 degree photo image of many locations in Cincinnati. Here’s a shot of Music Hall.
This is a tremendously powerful tool. I can see all sorts of uses for it, especially looking up property in real estate. But, is it an invasion of privacy? It does make it easier for someone to look up and find your house, making it a stalker’s new best friend. I’m not so worried about that, but it is a little disconcerting to see details of your life on display. In this picture of the back of my house, you can see my kick bag that I use when I work out. There’s a picture of my backyard because my house is in between two streets.
Saw this car when I was stopped at light and captured it with my iPhone. Not sure exactly how the faux bullet holes fit with “Crusin for Christ”.
Cincinnati E.A.T.S. is a new group that supports independent restaurants by “taking over” a restaurant for a cocktails and a fixed price menu. Last night was the first event at Lavomatic Cafe in the Gateway Quarter of Over the Rhine.
Last night’s event was a sellout and the place was packed. It wasn’t as conducive to meeting people as I thought it might be, as people seemed to clump up in groups with people they already knew. I ran into some acquaintances that I knew, but hadn’t had an opportunity to really speak to, so that made for some ready made dinner companions. We were joined by one of the organizers and ended up meeting some people in the tables surrounding us.
The conversation was good, but the dinner itself, not as good. I know that judging the quality of a restaurant when food is mass-produced is not really fair, but I did pay for it. I felt that the food was pretty mediocre. The main entree was Amish chicken with zucchini, kalamata olives, and house-made harissa. The “harissa” is to hard to describe, sort of like a Taro cake that you would get a dim sum. That was excellent, but the chicken was bland. We felt a little bad asking for some salt and pepper which was not on the table. I was thankful that I didn’t get the other entree, the Warm farro with carrot, asparagus, and citrus (Vegan). Farro’s a wheat. Hopefully, a filling wheat since there was only a small portion of it with three or four asparagus on the side. That’s one of those entrees where the dessert needs to be a Big Mac.
I have previously been to Lavomatic once before, but the dish that I got that time was just fair also. Nothing really special. I really do want Lavomatic to succeed since it’s the first restaurant in the Gateway Quarter. If it succeeds, it’ll lead to more restaurants opening in the area. The restaurant is a beautiful place and a great environment for dinner so I will definitely try it again. Hopefully, I’ll find something there that I really like. Any suggestions?
Hats off to Cincinnati E.A.T.S. for putting on an event like this. It was a fun time and it definitely exposed a lot of people to Lavomatic. Hopefully, the people will be back and try it again in a more normal dining situation.
From NYTimes.com: For Clinton, Millions in Debt and Few Options
An interesting story about Hillary and her campaign debt.
Otherwise, the most discussed option is for Mr. Obama, now the presumed nominee, to encourage his fund-raising team to help her with a series of joint events.
Campaign finance laws prohibit Mr. Obama from simply transferring money from his war chest to Mrs. Clinton’s campaign. But Mr. Obama’s fund-raisers could ask their donors to give to Mrs. Clinton.
This going to be a tough sell to a lot of Obama supporters. If Hillary had gotten out of the race sooner, when it was pretty clear she wasn’t going to win, she would not have as much debt as she has now.
And in one of the more memorable cases of debt, former Senator John Glenn of Ohio ended his 1984 Democratic presidential bid with nearly $3 million in debt. He struggled for more than 20 years to pay it off until the Federal Election Commission issued him a reprieve.
I didn’t know this. When you see debt associated with politicians, you just assume that they figure out some way to make it go away.
Some of Mrs. Clinton’s largest outstanding bills are to some of her closest advisers, who might be willing to cut her a deal. Mrs. Clinton, for example, owes nearly $5 million to the firm of her former pollster and senior strategist, Mark Penn.
There’s your problem! 5 Million dollars for that strategy? He should certainly be offering some of that back.
From Dallasnews.com: Folks duped by ‘Borat’ creator Sacha Baron Cohen in Carrollton are really mad
Last week, at one of those big office parks on International Parkway, a whole bunch of people got really mad.
So mad, in fact, that dozens stormed out of a television taping – even though each had been paid $50 cash for agreeing to be an audience member of what promoters referred to vaguely as a new talk show.
The object of their anger? Well, that was the secret, and apparently few of them knew the identity of the character who got so deeply under their skin and wouldn’t let go. His name is Sacha Baron Cohen, who, when it comes to comedy, is a mastermind of ambush humor.
Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius at creating humor mostly with unexpected participants by exposing their racism, homophobia, and just plain ignorance. This time Cohen is creating havoc not as Borat, but as Bruno, the gay Austrian fashion model from his Ali G show. Cohen has an incredible ability to stay in character and improvise no matter how funny or awkward the situation gets.
I’m amazed that Cohen can still pull this off, even as a new character without people realizing what is going on.