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July 29 2006

Ad Homonym

Now this is just plain funny.  An Apple spokeswoman, discussing the longevity of iPods, said they will last “for years”.  She was speaking with a Chicago Tribune reporter, and was evidently misheard because when the interview was printed her quote was transcribed as an iPod will last “four years”!

Posted by Mickey at 03:34 AM in Tech,  Apple | Comments (0) | Email this entry

July 26 2006

Add Comcast to the List of Things That Suck (Right Behind Fox)

Has Comcast failed again?  I think it was last year and in 2002 that their main DNS server failed, knocking out their customers’ Internet access nationally.  And it feels like this has happened again.  I was unable to get my e-mail or reach any websites this morning…until I changed my DNS server.
    Information on how To do this, and what to change it to, can be seen here...provided you can reach it. 

Posted by Mickey at 12:53 PM in Tech | Comments (0) | Email this entry

July 24 2006

Junk

Quite often I have problems with the way Apple’s Mail program separates junk mail.  But then there are other days when it gets it spot on.

Posted by Mickey at 01:28 PM in Photos,  Tech,  Apple | Comments (0) | Email this entry

July 18 2006

Unhand Me, You President!

The President is off his meds again!  Call the White House HR Department.  Unable to stop being the drunken fratboy among his elders at the G8 Summit, President Bush tried to give a love squeeze to the German Chancellor.  Ms Merkel reacted surprisingly coldly to Mr Smooth’s advances.
    Video from Bilde.T-Online.de.

Posted by Mickey at 01:28 PM in News,  WTF,  Video | Comments (0) | Email this entry

Bushit

Hey kids, it’s the video everyone’s talking about!  The one from earlier today, at the G8 in St Petersburg.  The one where George W Bush, that paragon of virtue and all that is Christian, gets caught saying a bad word.  (Like he’s some major league asshole or something.)
    What I’m really appalled by—what I find is the real scandal—is the way he eats!  Watch the video.  Our President looks like a cow chewing her cud!
    Why do they let him out in public like that?!

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July 16 2006

Whose Lane is It Anyway?

Here’s a fun little tidbit I found in the news.  Our government is not only selling us down the river, they’re selling our toll roads and bridges to foreign companies.
    This even hits close to home:

Few people know that the tolls from the U.S. side of the tunnel between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, go to a subsidiary of an Australian company — which also owns a bridge in Alabama.

    My parents complain about buying foreign cars.  Wait till they find out they’re driving on foreign roads!

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July 14 2006

Advertisement

Owing to the high cost of maintaining a webspace on this series of tubes known as the Internets (what with all the movie downloads and e-mails getting all tangled up together), it has become necessary to start selling advertising space.  Hopefully these will not become too intrusive as to encroach upon your viewing pleasure.
    Here is the first ad.

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July 7 2006

Porch’d!

Yesterday, right before I left for work, I caught a news story about an old man who’d accidentally crashed his car into someone’s porch.  It had happened in Dearborn and I waited to find out on what street it had taken place.  Two of our podcasters live in Dearborn and I was wondering if this might have occurred near them.  No one in the house was hurt, since the residents were on vacation.  The old man however is in serious condition.  The reporter never did give a street name.
    The following day, just a moment ago, I got an e-mail from Joe.

    Greg is on vacation.  Houghton Lake or wherever he goes.  He calls me at 12:30pm yesterday on my cell.  He had just found out that, within the hour, his 92-year-old neighbor across the street came out of his driveway and rammed into Greg’s porch and garage at 55 miles per hour!  He’s lucky nobody was home.  I guess the fire department had to demolish Greg’s property more to get this guy out.  He was at the hospital and there were questions he would live.  Greg asked me to check it all out, although he had been in touch with a well-informed neighbor anyway.
    I jogged over there.  The porch is screwed up - some cement is crumbled and his landscaping stones/bricks are messed up.  Some glass is still there and a bunch of oil-dry.  The garage door is gone.  Completely.  They have put this ply-wood up (the city does this I guess) with hinges so barely—and I mean BARELY—a car may be able to fit through perfectly.  I know he has a car in there.  It is all locked up and a key is either being sent to him or is with the neighbor.
    Crazy.  Fox 2 was supposedly there.  I recorded most of the early Fox 2 News for him.  This is really why Greg contacted me.  To record his house on TV.

    Never did I expect that the poor sap who’d had his house driven into would be someone I know!  And you might know him too, in a way, since Greg has been a frequent contributor to our Wasting Away on the North Coast podcast [whence this blog post originated, by the way].  He can be heard in episodes 2, 3, 6, and 7.
    Incredible!
    Here’s what our NBC affiliate, WDIV, has to say:

A car crashed into a house in a Dearborn neighborhood on Thursday morning.     The motorist crashed his car into the front of a home on North Vernon Street just after 10 a.m., according to police. It is believed the driver suffered a medical condition while backing out of his driveway across the street, Local 4 learned.     The driver was seriously injured in the crash, according to Dearborn police.     No other injuries were reported.

    And here’s ABC affiliate WXYZ’s coverage:

An elderly man was hospitalized in serious condition, Thursday, after plowing his car into a neighbor’s Dearborn home.     According to police, the 89-year-old man was backing into his own garage when he hit the wall.  He then put the car into drive and possibly panicked, hitting the gas and driving across the street and into his neighbor’s porch.     The man, who was alone in the car, was taken to Henry Ford Hospital.  There was no one home at the neighbor’s house at the time of the accident.     Neighbor Darlene Fisceri said a year and a half ago the man accidentally backed over his wife as she was taking something out of the trunk and broke both her legs.     Police said the man does have a valid driver’s license.

    What’s also amazing is that the car came from across the street.  The video footage makes it look like the car came from next door, from the angle of the crash; but the car reportedly came up the driveway and then swerved at the last second.  You can barely see skidmarks on the driveway where the old man must have avoided hitting the garage.  The neighbor quoted in the WXYZ story added that after impact the driver was found on the floor of the car, with his legs under the steering wheel and his head under the glove compartment.  It’s unfortunate he may have sustained serious injuries in the accident, and we look forward to hearing of his improved recovery.  We’re also looking forward to hearing Greg’s side of the story.

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