Pontifications and Other Mindless Banter
August 1, 2004
From the "Hamsters-Gone-Wild" Department
August 2, 2004
From the "Timing-is-Everything" Department
Don’t you hate when parody becomes real life?
Here is the Parody (from The Politburo Diktat :: Pardon the Communist Satire): (Emphasis Mine)
Comrades, everything and anything that happens, favorable to Criminal Bush, at any juncture, can be dismissed darkly as “suspicious timing.”
It is basic, rudimentary Politics 101, that hardly bears stating, to be able to answer the following question: “When is the optimal time to reveal that your opponent’s national security advisor has stolen secret documents by hiding them in his pants?”
Why, three and a half months before the election, … of course.
Read the whole thing.
And more satire from IowaHawk: (Emphasis Mine)
Embattled US President George W. Bush today sought to distance himself from the simmering ‘Timingate’ scandal that has dominated the national press and broadcast news for the past three days, and threatens to topple his administration.
In what many saw as an evasive and legalistically worded defense, Bushed denied any personal culpability or involvement in L’affaire Berger, in which thousands of Washington GOP operatives remain under a cloud of suspicion for leaking sensitive information about an informal advisor to Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry.
Bush’s denials prompted immediate condemnations from the Kerry campaign and Hill Democrats, many of whom saw Bush’s denials as suspiciously timed and politically motivated.
Updated :: 18:36 PST
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August 3, 2004
From the "Play-My-Theme-Music!" Department
I recently finished reading Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, of the Hornblower saga, by C.S. Forester. It stayed only 3-days on my “In Progress” status on the Jeremy R. Gilby Reading List.
I’ve not read any of Forester’s work, so this was indeed a nice treat.
+++++++++ SPOILERS BELOW +++++++++
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August 4, 2004
Last night, I went to the theatre to enjoy The Bourne Supremacy, which I pre-covered Here. My predictions came true, however, it was still an interesting movie to watch.
+++++ LOTS OF SPOILERS BELOW +++++
—– YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED —–
=== SERIOUSLY ===
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Here they are, the latest Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Search Results for the Month of July.
For those of you who came in late, these are the top 20 search strings used to find Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com on the various Search engines on the World Wide Web.
*sigh* (And yes, you people are still using that poor excuse of a service called MSN) Shame on you!
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From the "Robot-Roll-Call" Department
Okay, I’m going over my activity logs, and I’m seeing some unusual behavior, which suggests that Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com has more readers then I know about.
So this is what I propose, I’d like to do a roll-call to see who is indeed reading Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com
1) First, to stay any paranoia
2) Second, to feed my curiousity
So, if you are a regular (or even a casual) reader of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com, please leave a short comment, or E-mail RollCall@JeremyGilbyS.com. (Leave the Last S off for Spam)
I’ll leave this up for a few days, just so everyone sees it.
That’s all.
Please, move along.
August 5, 2004
From the "The-Politics-of-Dancing Re-flex" Department
This is my political manifesto as well:
From Peggy Noonan’s Opinion Journal Article (Emphasis Mine):
Because I am a conservative I support the party that best represents conservative views, the Republican Party. Sometimes I get mad at it; often it disappoints me. It is imperfect, and not perfectible. But to a greater degree than in the past I feel an urge to help it. Since peace was wrenched off the tracks on 9/11, deep in my heart I have pulled for President Bush, Vice President Cheney, members of the current administration, and Republicans in the Senate and the House. With the decline of the Democratic Party I have become convinced there is a greater chance we will win the war if the Republican Party wins the election.
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From the "I-Served-with-John-Kerry!" Department
August 6, 2004
From the "Geek-Goodness Yes-Yes" Department
A wonderful, kind, longtime reader has blessed me with an invitation to GMail. (The Holy-Grail of all Webmail accounts)
*Fresh breath sigh of releif*
No more MSN, Yahoo, or Excite Spamvertizements cluttering my Webmail console.
*another blissful sigh*
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August 9, 2004
From the "These-are-the-days-of-our-lives" Department
Today marks the 5th Anniversary of my employment at this not-so-small-software-organization. Granted, its not the “Seven Years” celebration Stinkin’ Rick a.k.a. “EvilHomer” had a few years back, but this is the first major milestone I’ve experienced in this Cubicle Jungle.
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August 10, 2004
From the "If-Blood-ever-gets-into-my-caffeine-stream" Department
The subject that just wont die:
For those who came in late, I had a wonderful rant about Coffee about a year ago.
The roommate-formerly-known-as-Matthew-Maynard-dot-net had his own coffee experience the other day.
I appreciate his dissertation on the matter.
Go read.
Enjoy!
Frollic in the coffee.
I just finished Tom Clancy’s latest Paperback, The Teeth of the Tiger yesterday. (And it has now moved off my Reading List)
+++++ Chock full of Spoilers Below +++++
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August 11, 2004
From the "So-can-I-be-Boba-Fett?" Department
This is old news, but the boys and girls over at Mozilla-dot-org had put together a Bug Bounty Program.
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August 12, 2004
From the "This-Message-Brought-to-you-from-the-National-Education-Association" Department
I saw this on FARK, and had to share it.
Especially since Stinkin’ Rick loves James Garfield.
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From the "And-you-thought-SSM-meant-'Surface-to-Surface Missile'..." Department
Well, you knew it was going to happen.
Now that the Post-MTV generation public has all but forgotten the San Francisco same-sex marriages, the California High court has annuled them.
So all that Mayoral rebellion in S.F. was for naught.
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From the "Dumb-and-Dumber-er" Department
(Via: h-t-t-p-colon forward-slash forward-slash slash-dot-dot-org)
Just when you thought Windows was “too-user-friendly”, the geniuses at AOL have now introduced the The AOL Optimized PC.
Egads.
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August 13, 2004
From the "Paraskevidekatriaphobia" Department
Well, today is Friday the 13th
ACK!
RUN!
FLEE!
(Well the day is almost over, and aside from a Monsoon Thunderstorm, there is no dark looming presence around these parts.
So where did this silly Urban Legend come from?
The Investigators of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com want to know!
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August 16, 2004
From the "Seriously-Broken-Record" Department
From The AOL News Network.
Bush announces major troop realignment
Kerry camp questions timing of announcement
YES! Its ANOTHER TimingGate Scandal!
Updated August 17
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From the "Which-way-to-the-Stucky's?" Department
[Editor's Note: This was supposed to be posted last night, but due to Internet Difficulties beyond out control, it could not be published until today.
We are deeply sorry for the inconvenience of this non-linearity in the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Online Journal]
This weekend, the mighty-mighty Buick had a minor emergency. It wouldn’t start.
It was an odd experience. I’m used to vehicles not starting, My Cavalier used to not start on occasion, so I don’t get TOO excited.
(Except for the fact, that I’m going to be late if the car doesn’t start!)
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August 17, 2004
From the "Lady, I'm-afraid-I'm-going-to-have-to-ask-you-to-leave-the-store" Department
The name is Ash, housewares.
Stinkin’ Rick forwarded this link to me this afternoon, after our conversations about Bruce Campbell and the movie Bubba Ho-Tep:
Groovy!
August 18, 2004
From the "What-did-he-say-again?" Department
This has been in the works for awhile, but I was trying to find a cheap (Cheap as in Free) and easy way to implement a way to catalogue my Unique Vernacular.
Now I can easily define my hyper-extended common language, and sarcastic passive tense, without having to destroy the context of the article, and you, the reader, can simply click the blue-ish link.
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August 19, 2004
From the "Go-East-Young-Man" Department
For the past few days, my Cublcle Jungle has been moving desks.
Its common practice in Cubicle Culture to periodically move whole organizations to a different part of the building.
(I think its a secret plot to keep the facility clean) So its a good idea for cubicle dwellers to not get comfortable, because your just going to move again in about a year.
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August 20, 2004
From the "Good-News-Friday" Department
You might remember my lament over the arson fire of Mood’s Bridge, well there is some good news.
Dad has been keeping me up to speed on the current events in my last Searchy Fun post, and he informed me about the following:
The 6 arsonists were arrested.
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August 21, 2004
From the "Fasion: We-are-the-goon-squad-and-we're-coming-to-town" Department
I was on campus today, and I noticed an odd thing with the new students as they were arriving for the fall semester.
All the girls looked like Paris Hilton.
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August 22, 2004
From the "I-studied-Engineering-for-five-years-before-I-found-out-it-had-nothing-to-do-with-trains" Department
At the suggestion of a co-worker, I rented The Station Agent. I was pretty impressed with it.
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August 23, 2004
From the "Techno-Patriotism-in-action" Department
Well, today, as I logged into my mighty-mighty GMail account, I discovered the fact I had qualified to invited 6 people. (YAY!)
So I invited a few of my jealous cubicle node dwellers, and I saved one for a special purpose.
As seen on Wil-Wheaton-dot-net.
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August 24, 2004
From the "Life-does-not-fit-in-a-box" Department
The guys and I are working on packing up our lives and moving to a new house.
(Yes, this is my official announcement. I’m moving this weekend.)
So I’ve been spending a lot of my free time puting my life into compartmentalized boxes.
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August 25, 2004
From the "Thank-you-for-calling-Initech Please-Hold" Department
This week I’m talking to the customers of the Not-So-Small-Software-Organiztion I work for, because I volunteered to cover the phones for our BetaTesting Administrators while they are all in a week of product training. Since I’m an “expert” in this particular product we’re Beta Testing, I was an obvious choice.
However, this is the first time in several years that I’ve had to use my “phone voice” and it felt awkwad at first.
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August 26, 2004
From the "Trust-Me, I-Know-what-I'm-doing" Department
Back in 1986, there was this cute little ultra-violent show on Broadcast TV, called “Sledge Hammer!”. It was Dirty-Harry-like cop named “Sledge Hammer” and his fight against a crime ridden city.
There was only one problem. The man was a myopic psychopath, who talked to his gun, and slept with it next to his pillow. But he got the job done, of course, in the most humourous fashion possible.
Well, the series recently came out on DVD, and its been the talk of this Cublcle Jungle, so I’ve had to rent the series from NetFlix.
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August 27, 2004
From the "The-System-Is-Down" Department
In accordance with my announcement of The Big Move, I have to take down the network at home, and will thus cut-myself-off from all internet access.
I think I can cope.
Plus I’ll be really busy with the last of the packing, the actual moving, and the ultimate unpacking.
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August 31, 2004
From the "Welcome-Back Welcome-Back Welcome...Back...." Department
Its back to work for this tired body.
Saturday was marked by 15 hours of heavy lifting, and moving. It was quite a lot.
I should have eaten more, I was concentrating too much on trying not to dehydrate, I forgot to eat.
I ended up looking like a Zombee late Saturday night and crashed into my unmade bed at 10:00 pm.
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From the "A-Variation-on-a-theme" Department
200-some-odd years ago, in 1787 and 1788, three men wrote a series of essays to the State of New York regarding the importance of the Ratification of the new United States Constituion. They were Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.
The Federalist Papers consisted of 85 essays outlining how this new government would operate and why this type of government was the best choice for the United States of America. All of the essays were signed under the name “PUBLIUS”, and to this day are the ultimate source on understanding the political language of the supreme law of this country.
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