Classic DF – 4/5/01

Apr. 5, 2001: [•] Through the magic of satellite vision I give you the missing spy plane. BTW: If we can spot a friggin’ plane on an airport field why do we need to use spy planes any how? [•] A British truck driver has been found guilty of manslaughter after he left 58 illegal aliens locked in his trailer with no vents open to let air in. [•] Hawaii’s public school teachers are striking. [•] Two hostages are freed in Somalia. [•] Lebanese Shiites celebrate the day of a honored Saint by slashing themselves. [•] I’m not dead yet! SHEESH. [•] Ford has been found not guilty for Explorer rollover accidents. [•] Marine pilots of Ospreys say the aircraft has both a software and hardware glitch. [•] A boy saves his own life by using a tourniquet to stop bleeding. [•] Congress isn’t happy about the US Postal proposal to close their offices on Saturday. [•] Yet another example of how our legal system needs an overhaul: A man who got drunk and passed out in the snow causing him to get frost bite on a business trip is eligible workmen’s compensation. He should get a swift kick in the ass and go to AA meetings instead. [•] A cyber-sqautter owes the original owner of sex.com $65 million. [•] Gay pride is fine, but straight pride… oh that is racist. Why? I have no idea. Because our society is backward probably. [•] A 14-year old girl who shot a classmate has been sentenced to a psychiatric hospital. [•] The fifth recount in Florida has confirmed Bush still won. No one stole this election people. He won. Face it and get over it! [•] A sailor found guilty of killing a hooker is sentenced to life in prison. [•] A husband who put his ex-wife’s name and number on the Internet in sex for hire ads has been arrested. [•] Why shouldn’t Microsoft jump on the music subscription boat? Here’s MSN Music. [•] AIM went down on Tuesday. [•] You know that open server you just hacked thinking all the while that you were getting away with the crime of the century? It may have been a trap. [•] Artists push for more digital rights through open distribution, Congress gets lost, and the RIAA does nothing except bitch about everyone as usual. [•] MIT will open source their courses. [•] Heavy hits take down MLB.com. [•] Intel sets up the world’s biggest peer-to-peer network. [•] Sony touts its new portable CD-RW. [•] A new pen style mouse promises to do less damage to your hand. [•] Colorado and Illinois share honors for the smartest math and science students. [•] Global warming is killing toads. [•] Ladies and gentleman, we may have found the cure for cancer. [•] Microsoft says that the Terms of Service for some of its products and services is outdated so don’t pay attention to them. Sure, right Mr. Wizard of Oz. [•] MTV has started selling downloadable music. [•] Welcome to the age of public school paranoia. Population: you. [•] The mother and son on trial for raping a teenage girl have had some charges dropped due to redundancy. [•] Nerds rule. We have cool webpages. We are l337. We are… ummm… yeah. [•] A house catches fire in Chester, kids shoot cars with paintballs on Thruway, a hunter accidentally shoots his finger off, fighting over rent, a man strikes a police car, a gang shooting in Newburgh, Mid-Valley Oil is fined $400,000 for storage tank violations, and no junk yards here. [•] System of a Down try and figure out what they want on their next album. [•] Fatboy Slim talks tour. [•] MSN reprograms their customers’ dialers and they end up dialing long distance. [•] A teen hacks ADDR.com resulting in 46,000 customers’ data being compromised.[•] Yahoo! joins Vivendi Universal and Sony to start a music service. [•] Tool will stream its first single Schism off its web site starting May 1st. [•] Volkswagen gets a soundtrack. [•] The PIII gets cooler, smaller, and faster. [•] Do-it yourself DSL? Oh great. [•] A look at the new Sebring Convertible. [•] Is Handspring switching to another OS. [•] Azazel is tired. The joys of motherhood. [•] Bored already? It isn’t even Friday yet! [•] Mermaid vs. the Psycho Bitch. [•] It’s a nice day out in lovely downtown Warwick, NY so why not take a walk? It’ll do you good. 🙂

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Classic DF – 7/21/00

July 21, 2000: [•] Happy Birthday to my Mom! She was 50 years old yesterday. I love you Mom and congratulations 🙂 [•] The US House has passed a lift of the embargo of food, drugs, and travel to Cuba. [•] The US allowed infamous Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann to avoid capture for 4 years. [•] Stephen King will release the first shareware (pay to keep it) book. [•] Tom Welch (no relation to me) and David Johnson have been indicted in trying to bribe Olympics officials. [•] An earthquake hit Mexico City. [•] Augusto “I’m a lying scuzzball” Pinochet claims he never ordered any murders. Yeah, people are just making it up… sure (lying jerk). [•] A fire broke out in Mesa Verde National Park forcing an evacuation. [•] A gunman in Los Angelos shot himself. [•] Lots of tomatoes and no one to buy them. [•] Heroin deaths are up. [•] Namibia says it has to club 60,000 seals to death in order to preserve fish stocks, but wildlife activists say that its just because they want to sell seal balls to the orient for sex potions. [•] A new technique allows both strands of DNA to be analyzed at the same time. [•] Another study has labeled Napster as good for getting people to buy CDs. [•] Sega has stepped up its fight against software piracy and is closing down web sites hosting illegal games for sale. [•] Think you’ve seen the new G4 cube design before? You did. Back then in 1989 the design was called NeXT. [•] Computer enhanced “smart toys” may be the next big thing for Christmas. [•] Scientists have created man made diamonds so close to nature’s that even the atomic structure is nearly 100% of the real thing. [•] The West Nile Virus has come to Orange County, NY. [•] We want you for the Carnie Reserve. [•] A rape attempt was averted when a family shined its car lights on an attacker. [•] Once upon a time a student brought a pipe bomb to school and now he realizes it was stupid. This story even has a happy ending. [•] Monroe wants to add a K-9 cop to its police force. [•] Five people were caught smuggling drugs into the Orange County Jail. [•] A wanted child molester from Chester will see air time on American’s Most Wanted. [•] A missing man was found dead, a woman has been charged in stabbing her husband to death, and a street party is a brewing in The Times-Herald Record Briefs. [•] The new Palm M100 and VIIx have been announced. Both look very promising. [•] The first AutoCAD virus has been found. [•] The last British Ford Escort has rolled off the assembly line. As a proud driver of 3 generations of Escorts I can only say its a sad day in the motor industry, “sob”. [•] The cult of Mac continues. [•] A kid found a deep fried lizard in his Burger King Kid’s Meal. Yummy. [•] The NYC brick attacker has confessed. [•] Make money now! Sell stolen items back to their owners! [•] Creed has nicely told Fred “I’m a really big fat ugly loser” Durst to shut up and to stop thinking the world revolves around his fat ass. [•] Woodstock 99: Fans started the fire, but the promoters supplied the kindling. [•] Secure CRT 3.1 is out and if you shell, then you need. [•] Road & Track Online says that Nissan is upping its production in the US and GM is developing smart collision prevention systems to avoid crashes all together. [•] Learn the guitar styles of Tattoo The Earth. [•] Azazel, I love you! [•] I don’t know who is really into emulation anymore. Back in the day it was a big deal to play video games for Nintendo on your PC and such. Now it’s kind of a mute subject and played out. If you really want to get into some hard to configure stuff check out The Amiga Emulation Page. Since most of the ROMs have been removed they are hard to find, but that’s part of the fun. [•] Big news from the fish bowl– Heike has been banished! Now, this really starting to heat up. Did you see the shower cam? Pretty hot stuff 🙂 [•] Bored? I’m not going to be March 22nd. That’s when Azazel is due to give birth 🙂 And better yet– with my insurance it’s free! Talk to you either Monday or Tuesday. Keep it peachy.

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