I guess I've got to get rich now that I've found this site, The Science of Getting Rich. The site holds your hand through the entire process.
Remember how gas prices were getting lower? Not anymore...
I'm sitting on the third floor of the Eugene hilton thinking about what to eat tomorrow. For reasons I'm not legally allowed to discuss (ponder that one for a moment) I'm down here for the next few weeks, and thanks to the Special Olympics and the fact that all the non-ghetto hotels in Eugene are full, I'm staying at the Hilton. This trip also comes with food expenses paid, and I've taken it upon myself to spend this budget eating at some of the better restaurants in town. I'm plotting a trip to Misako for sushi tomorrow, and I'll be tapping A Taste of India for dinner. Thursday night I'll be paying a visit to Ambrosia. Caspian will be providing the gyros and breakfast pitas...and the bacon-encrusted french toast. For snacks and coffee I'll be paying visits to Cafe Paradiso. I'm trying to avoid the 'upscale' chain restaurants because, well, yech. Eugene has a varied dining scene, and I spent a lot of time drooling over the food when I was going to school here and didn't have the disposable income to sample them. I'm getting my revenge for the next month, and hopefully I'll escape back to Portland without gout. It's going to be hard to find to go swimming at Dexter, but I'm planning to give it a shot if the insane late July weather holds true for the rest of the week.
I'll be hitting Timberline on Sunday for some first-day-of-August snowboarding. I can feel the andrenaline-fueled euphoria already. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, hate me because I'm a lucky son of a bitch.
No links for you tonight, my rabidly loyal readers. Sorry. Keep checking. If you have any suggestions for restaurants in the Lane county area that I should be visiting, let me know in the comments section.
Next time I come to Seattle I've got to take some lucky lady with me to stay at Gypsy Arms, Seattle's very own S&M B&B.
In case you were considering replacing black in your life, check out this list of things that are the new black.
I wasn't aware of this. Apparently VIRGINITY RULES!!!...well at least the website seems to imply that it does. The site even has a bulletin board, but so far the bulletin board isn't a hotbed of pro-virginity activity. To be a bit more accurate, people are staying away from it in droves. Kids must have figured out that virgins don't put out, and perform far worse than their non-virgin peers when they do.
If you haven't seen NBC.com >If They Mated on Conan O'Brien's show...STAY AWAY! Put on a pair of properly-fitted Attends to prepare yourself for the bladder control-disrupting force of the site that will change your life. Seriously.
The Poor Man has published his exclusive account of the poker game he played with the Vice President. It's a very interesting take of Cheney's strange brand of card playing.
If del.icio.us and Webjay mated and had kittens, they would look like Slipperycat. It just needs bookmarklets.
Threadless will shock and awe you with their outstanding shirt designs. I'm just disappointed to see so many of the ones I liked out of stock. It hurts. Anyway, it's good enough for a coveted spot on my 'random stuff' linkbar.
I've often wondered what George W. Bush does when he's not composing Bushisms. I'll wonder no more. This is what Dubya isn't:
I知 not an Iraqi citizen.I知 not a divider.
I am not a unilateralist.
I知 not a tree, I知 a Bush.
The list goes on, of course. Check it out.
I have my doubts about these 20 Amazing Uses For Vodka. Sure, you can use it to cure earaches, toothaches, kill wasps, clean vomit stains (irony!), and treat jellyfish stings. What, I ask, are you going to drink when you're done doing all those things?
Conspicuously absent from the list of the 50 Worst Beers is Pabst Blue Ribbon, known in Oregon by its other name, Portland's Best Refreshment. An oversight? I think not.
Best of Google Answers :) will mock you with the smiley face, but dutifully mines Google Answers to bring you some of the most interesting.
In case you weren't aware they the rich dominate in the U.S., Google Answers breaks it down for you.
This is morbidly funny, in a depressing sort of way. Buying the insurance policies of the terminally ill can make you lots and lots of money. Being terminally ill and selling your policy can, too. I should tap into this by buying an insurance policy, getting myself diagnosed with terminal brain cancer by a less than reputable doctor, selling my policy, and getting iced out crazy with the loot.
Damn.
Missing no more, Bobby Fischer turned up in Japan after he was detained with an invalid passport. He's a wanted man for committing the heinous crime of playing a chess game in Yugoslavia. What kind of criminal mastermind would commit such an audacious act? Words fail me. Read the article if you don't believe this outrageous story.
Just when you thought you'd heard the worst about Abu Ghraib...
"Debating about it, ummm ... Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about, okay? Videos, um, there are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib ... The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out.""It's impossible to say to yourself how did we get there? Who are we? Who are these people that sent us there? When I did My Lai I was very troubled like anybody in his right mind would be about what happened. I ended up in something I wrote saying in the end I said that the people who did the killing were as much victims as the people they killed because of the scars they had, I can tell you some of the personal stories by some of the people who were in these units witnessed this. I can also tell you written complaints were made to the highest officers and so we're dealing with a enormous massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there and higher, and we have to get to it and we will. We will. You know there's enough out there, they can't (Applause). .... So it's going to be an interesting election year."
And in case you want to say Hersch is making wild claims, see this story in The Guardian:
In the Washington Post report, one detainee, Kasim Hilas, describes the rape of an Iraqi boy by a man in uniform, whose name has been blacked out of the statement, but who appears to be a translator working for the army."I saw [name blacked out] fucking a kid, his age would be about 15-18 years. The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets. Then when I heard the screaming I climbed the door because on top it wasn't covered and I saw [blacked out], who was wearing the military uniform putting his dick in the little kid's ass," Mr Hilas told military investigators. "I couldn't see the face of the kid because his face wasn't in front of the door. And the female soldier was taking pictures."
You can read the Washington Post article here.
It really struck me as ironic that the Republican party, which is supposedly a champion of States' rights, attempted to create a Constitutional Amendment to limit them in their ability to decide who can marry and who can't. I stumbled onto a roll call from the Senate vote and was disappointed to see my Senator, Gordon Smith, among those who voted against States' rights. I wrote him a stern letter (and you can, too!) telling him that I look forward to supporting someone with genuine conservative values, but regretfully it will not be him. It's a bit shocking that he would come out so forcefully against gay rights, considering he and Ted Kennedy introduced legislation to protect gays from hate crimes. I don't think he's really against gay marriage, I really suspect he's just being a tool of his political party. John McCain voted with his brain rather than his party, however. Why couldn't my Senator?
Update: Are you from Oregon? Write to Gordon Smith and tell him what you think!
What the ipod would look like if geeks designed it.
Can someone translate for me?
I'm waiting until I get home to watch this They Might Be Giants video directed by Strong Sad. I'm going to watch it on the big screen with the stereo going full blast. Unf.
You can have fun with google searches. Really.
I've got to keep track of this: success tips for job interviews. The site has lots of pointers on how to succeed in life by amusing others, for example the IRS.
Go to Bushspeech.org so you can play Karl Rove and put words in the president's mouth. It's fun for the whole family. You can also check out speeches that others have written and vote up the ones you like.
I can't imagine why anyone would need this, but I found a detailed map of Costa Rica that uses flash and is very tech. Enjoy.
Prior art will endlessly generate new inventions. You can't compete.
With the criminal indictment of Kenneth Lay, the relationship with the fallen Enron CEO and George W. Bush will be coming under intense scrutiny in the press. For example, The Smoking Gun acquired copies of the warm personal correspondance between Lay and then-Governor Bush.
Dubya isn't liking the heat, apparently stalking out of a press conference yesterday when confronted with questions about their relationship.
Foundphotos keeps an archive of pictures found on p2p apps. The photos are random, often bizarre, occasionally disturbing, and sometimes amusing. I was shocked to find this picture of myself back when I was using the "juice".
Will he choose rock?
Paper?
Scissors?
...but watch out for the tiger claw.
The Archdiocese of Portland has filed for bankruptcy in a bid to halt civil suits brought by plaintiffs who were molested by Catholic Priests. Accroding to the Oregonian, two of the lawsuits (there are more than 60 pending) ask for a combined total of $155 million dollars.
John Kerry has chosen a running mate, psychic John Edward! I think it's a bold move that will secure the psychic vote for Kerry. It's a brilliant move, when you think about it: where will the terrorists hide when our executive branch has a real psychic on the team? Even the deepest cave in Afghanistan won't protect Bin Laden from Edward.
Terrorists: watch out.
This page took me back to my studies with Zena Ariola, the Computer Science professor at University of Oregon. It's definitely easier to read about the Lambda Calculus through the site than trying to decipher her thick Italian accent...
Be sure to check out this site, and ode to The Dude. It includes audio clips and also invokes 9/11, asking, in light of this tragedy, "WWWD? (What Would Walter Do?)"
Today's blog entry comes from the Phoenix Festival. Right now I'm listening to Jello Biafra and enjoying epic views of Mount Adams and naked festival girls. Horray. The weather is great. I had a delicious meal in Hood River and watched armies of windsurfers and kiteboarders tearing up the gorge. There are six or more stages going full speed right now. The fest is on a real ranch. An authentic rancher just walked out of the ranch house. They have real Highland Cattle. To all the people who aren't here, well, missing out is its own punishment.
Next weekend I'll be blogging from the Oregon Country Fair, if they have wifi hotspots like Phoenix Fest does.
People in Hawaii Kai are so rich that when they're done with an SUV they just drive it into their swimming poow and buy a new one.
Torrents.co.uk will help you exercise your fair-use rights. Vigorously.