You gotta read this article I guest posted at Matthew-Maynard-dot-net.

Anyone who is familiar with my “Where does Naugahyde come from?” or my “History of The Naugas” should know about this bit of comedy routine that I often practice.

John Kerry says that Nuclear Terrorism is the greatest threat to the United States.

I’m sorry, did John Kerry JUST turn on the news, or something?

Source: Drudge
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I was in the theatre the other week, and I saw a trailer for yet another Matt Damon movie, The Bourne Supremacy, and from what I saw in the trailer, it had nothing to do with the plot of the not-so-great book of the same name.

However, when I researched this movie, I was a little preterbed by something. I’ll try and put it into words here.
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There is a meme running around the net on “What books have you read” from This List.

Sadly, I’ve read all of 3 of these books, and I don’t consider those three to be of any of the books that I’ve really appreciated.

So I thought I’d create another list:

X Books that have changed my life

X = whatever number I list below
Updated 06/15/2004
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In case you missed it, there was an interesting conversation on Allison-Lives-dot-com on the importance of Character. Allison put forth the argument that we need people with more character in public office, but there was a very loud response in the negative. That Character doesn’t matter as much as the ability to do the job well.

I disagree wholeheartedly, because the two traits and inextricably linked…
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From the Joe-Bob-Report (Emphasis Mine)

Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks became the oldest player ever to pitch a perfect game, closing out 27 batters in a row against the Atlanta Braves, on the road, and striking out 13. Johnson is 40 years old–an old man in baseball terms–and was working with a rookie catcher, Robby Hammock, who had his signals shaken off only two or three times. In sports terms, that’s the equivalent of Haley’s Comet.

Stinkin’ Rick likes the Stinkin’ Braves. So this is sticking it to Stinkin’ Rick.
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What can I say that hasn’t been said?

20 years ago, on the beaches of Normandy, the Great Communicator spoke these words:

“We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.”

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I thought I’d start a new series on this site: What I’m Reading Online

I think it will be a series of articles, I find interesting, with facts I’m assimillating to my own repository of knowledge, and I simply publish because I think you will find them interesting as well:

Ready? GO!
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I was wondering what the Colonel-and-Commander-In-Chief of Libya had to say on the death of President Reagan, and then I saw this Reuters article on Best of the Web Today.

Gadhafi, Duck!
Col. Moammar Gadhafi, Libya’s dictator, still hasn’t managed to earn a general’s star, but he did weigh in on the death of President Reagan, Reuters reports:

“I express my profound regrets over Reagan’s death before he appeared before justice to be held to account for his ugly crime in 1986 against Libyan children,” Gaddafi told the official JANA news agency.

Yes, we know that “Libya, which recently emerged from international isolation over its alleged support for ‘terrorism’ “–there they go again–”has been promoting better ties with the United States.” But can’t we drop a bomb or two on this creep, just for old times’ sake?

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Time to lighten things up around Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com. The posting lately has been on the political/memorial side as of late, so this is the perfect time to unveil the Search Results for the Month of May.

For those of you who came in late: These are the Top-20 search strings used to find Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com on the World Wide Web.

Now, I’d like to speak to soemthing that I’ve been observing over the past few months.

A LOT of you are using MSN as your search engine, and frankly that makes me feel a little ill.

Havn’t you heard of GOOGLE you FREAKS?
Or even Yahoo?

Come on, MSN? That is like using Crayons to write a term paper.

Anyways, lets get to checking!
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Astronomy is one of the loves in my life which I really don’t talk about all that much. But everyonce in awhile I find myself outside at night, getting lost in the stars. So it would be a crime if I didn’t mention that today was the Venus Transit.

In short, the Venus Transit is the rare event where the planet Venus is directly between us, here on Earth, and the Sun. Its kind of like a REALLY SMALL solar eclipse. (The planet Mercury has a simmilar event, and happens a bit more frequently, but is really hard to observe)
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Some time last night, all my posts from yesterday (Searchy Fun) and (Venus Transit) were erased from my Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com account.
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One of the failing points of my Favorite Actors list is it has no place for me to put Bruce Campbell. He is too deserving of an actor to be listed in the “Honorable Mention” section, but I cannot bring myself to adjust any of the top five. So like the characters he portrays Bruce Campbell is in the unmentioned grey area between.

But last night, Tim and I watched the eagerly anticipated Bubba Ho-Tep.

+++++++++++ SPOILERS BELOW +++++++++++
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Age has been a topic on my mind lately. I know why it is on my mind, and that part isn’t important, but I was pontificating today on how old I am, and when I turned into a not-so-young man.
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And now, for entirely unimportant reasons, I would like to give my 30th annual State of the Geek address.

The occasion for this address is the fact that the Earth is in a special position in its yearly orbit of the sun.

For those of you who don’t quite understand, just keep reading. As I mentioned, it is entirely unimportant.
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Today I received, as a gift, from a wonderful friend, the Special Edition DVD Master and Commander: Far Side of the World, I’ve spoken about it before, but have not given it a formal review.

(Aside: Though I don’t often say this: This particular DVD set is chock full of goodies!)

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I’ve talked about this before, It was one of my first Political Rants on this site, and it had been re-mentioned often.

But the whole case about the removal of the Under Gode Pledge of Allegiance seems to be coming to a close, as the U.S. Supreme Court has had their say and dismissed the case.

BRAVO.

Though I’m not happy with the way the court made this decision, but the details were quite telling, I think.
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Stinkin’ Rick liked this one too:
This is is from both Monday’s and Tuesday’s Edition, spliced together.

Emphasis Mine

A discussion thread on the Internet Movie Database (all quotes are verbatim) features accusations that the new movie “Garfield,” which apparently depicts the 20th president as a cartoon cat, is racist.

Of course, the movie concludes unhappily for Garfield, who is fatally shot by a disgruntled job-seeker. Yeah, we know, we should have warned you a spoiler was coming, but we figured anyone who saw “Arthur” back in 1981 already knows how the prequel turns out.

It’s funny, cause its smart!

I don’t know if Stinkin’ Rick wanted to show off that he lost weight with his diet, or what, but he decided to go Retro and do “The Hammer”
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One of my co-workers sent me this link the other day, and when I first read it, I was slightly peeved, then I read it again, and realized, Oh wait, this is a JOKE, it HAS to be…

The Flat Earth Society

(Read this like you would read Neo-Whig.org)
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Priceless:

Testing the Limits
“In a direct challenge to federal limits on political advocacy, the National Rifle Association plans to begin broadcasting a daily radio program on Thursday to provide news and pro-gun commentary to 400,000 listeners,” the New York Times reports.

In a direct challenge to federal limits on political advocacy, the New York Times Co. plans to continue publishing a daily newspaper to provide news and antigun commentary to 1.1 million readers.

The boys and girls over at Mozilla-dot-org have recently released Mozilla 1.7, FireFox 0.9, and ThunderBird 0.7 over the past few days.
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What is the difference between the Haughty French-Looking Massachusetts-Democrat, who by-the-way-served-in-Vietnam’s Policy Stance on Anything, and his current choice for a Running Mate in the Presidential Election?

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As you well know, Matt Moved out of the house almost over a month ago.

Last night his replacement finally moved in.
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Well, I’m semi-pleased to report that my first weblog has finally been discarded. Once called Baron-Carlos-dot-com, this domain name is now free to roam on the internet, able to be picked up by the highest bidder.

No, I didn’t want it anymore.
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I saw this over on h-t-t-p-colon forward-slash forward-slash slash-dot-dot-org. You may remember my rant on this whole GMail Kerfuffle, and UberGeek Tim O’Reily’s agreemet from his blog.

Well, Hotmail seems to be biased as well, to the point they are being underhanded in their handling of GMail invites and messages.
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Today, I saw on h-t-t-p-colon forward-slash forward-slash slash-dot-dot-org that SpaceShipOne successfully launched, entered outer space, and returned safely to Earth this morning.

This is pretty exciting!
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I mentioned before how I thought John Kerry was the Quantum Candidate. Well, the folks over at Brain-Terminal-dot-com not only beat me to the idea, but have taken it one step further:

Tacit Hattip to: Day-By-Day
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Dad and Ang have been sending me these news items yesterday from my hometown of Perkasie, Pennsylvania.
It made me kind of sad.

You see, an arsonist burned down the local covered bridge.
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Impeached, Ex-President, Bill Clinton’s new book should probably be called My Lie

Aside: Should it also be in the Fiction Section with “Burning Down My Master’s House”?

In my efforts to determine the location of the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan, I stumbled on this interesting news from the Department of Defense.

I’m pretty impressed!
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Well, AlGore thinks I am. At least part time.

From Al Gores own mouth:

The Administration works closely with a network of “rapid response” digital Brown Shirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for “undermining support for our troops.” Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist, was one of the first journalists to regularly expose the President’s consistent distortions of the facts. Krugman writes, “Let’s not overlook the role of intimidation. After 9/11, if you were thinking of saying anything negative of the President…you had to expect right-wing pundits and publications to do all they could to ruin your reputation.

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With the news of Summer Pulse there are some ammendments to make on the current U.S. Navy SuperCarrier Deployments.

Sources: Global-Security-dot-org
Navy-dot-mil
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I saw this blog entry on Best of the Web Today, its priceless in its its obvious observation.

This link compares Movie Critic Reviews between The Passion of the Christ and Fahrenheit 9/11.

The contrast is almost unbelievable.
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From the San Diego Union Tribune: (Emphasis Mine)

Headlining an appearance with other Democratic women senators on behalf of Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is up for re-election this year, Hillary Clinton told several hundred supporters – some of whom had ponied up as much as $10,000 to attend – to expect to lose some of the tax cuts passed by President Bush if Democrats win the White House and control of Congress.

“Many of you are well enough off that … the tax cuts may have helped you,” Sen. Clinton said. “We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.“

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Well, today is the day that Cassini arrives, and makes her orbit, at the Second Largest (and arguably the prettiest) planet in our Solar System. (That’s Saturn, by the way).

I remember, back in the day of 1997, when Cassini was launched, and all the controversy about the evils of the “radioactive” (intentional Reuters “scare quotes”) General Purpose Heat Source Radioisotope Thermal Generator (GPHS RTG) Ion Drive. (Stupid Environmentalists).

But through it all, she made her way, over 2 billion miles.

Isn’t she pretty?