My first useful (but still modest) contribution to the Wii homebrew community. See also TekWarrior’s wiiload with built-in syslogd. Utterly brilliant. ●...
All I can think of tonight is how cold it is outside and how much colder it will be in the next few days. A while back Damon said he needed a scarf and I picked up some Alpaca yarn...
I’d like to welcome anyone and everyone who has come here from the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast. Welcome to my regular readers as well - today I’ve got the featured podcast on that site, which is part of the...
ARES - Getting in the way?
The biggest thing (for me) that was not allowing the Amateur Radio Community to “recruit” me was the small but very public group of what I call “loonies”. The online ham community calls them “Whackers”...
I caught the end of this one on TV. It was actually close, with Auburn taking the lead at 4 minutes remaining. One of these days, we’re actually gonna win a close one....
Venus on 1/14/09
This is the only shot I was able to get this evening before the clouds moved in. Venus continues to shine brightly, high in the evening sky, and is getting larger each night in the scope as...
and I just finished writing an extra credit assignment for one of my students--he's going to the Inauguration. I'm jealous. But I'm about to take a trip myself--back to Gadsden. My sister's birthday is this weekend. So we're...
The Beast’s 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2008 (alternate link). Go ahead. Your finger is already twitching. You gotta find out who’s at number one…
# 40. Free Credit Report.com guy
Charges: OK, he’s actually French-Canadian, but he invades America’s headspace...
I wish to extend my congratulations to our new Speaker of the House in Tennessee. He seems to be a reasonable and polite Republican, a rarity in the GOP for sure. Cheers to bi-partisanship and civility.
Enjoy the clip...
When newspapers are gone, what will you miss?
What’s left is local news, investigative journalism and intelligent coverage of national news. Perhaps 2% of the cost of a typical paper. I worry about the quality of a democracy when the the...
The Beast 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2008 spares no one from ridicule: from Barack Obama to Michelle Malkin to Stephanie Meyer. Number 1 is a given. And though it’s lengthy, this one is well worth every minute of...
{Please read Part One for context}A phone call with my sister left me wondering what impression I left from my previous post's stopping point; she seemed to think I was living under a weight of self condemnation and guilt.Neither couldn't...
In a stunning blow to Tennessee Republicans, Kent Williams (R - Carter County) disobeyed his caucus, and was voted in as House Speaker by a 50-49 vote with Democratic support, yesterday.
Theo Emery reports:
The work of both chambers during the organizational...
A co-worker sent me to the documentary, The Boy with the Incredible Brain, this morning. The film centers around Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant who can perform long calculations in his mind. Tammet can recite pi from memory up to...
Unsurprisingly, a lot of Americans are trying to come to terms with the last 8 years — both the good and bad. Here are a couple I’ve stumbled across today.
My Dinners with Dubya — The frequent, gay dinner guest who...
Movie premiers aren't just for LA anymore. This Thursday night CreateHere will host the local premier of Four on the Floor, a feature-length rock-comedy. The show is presented by Extra/Ordinary Films, a group of Tennessee-based filmmakers. Chattanooga natives Jon Russell...
From the AJC: By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press Writer SEATTLE -- Washington state law does not bar teachers from having consensual sex with 18-year-old students, an appeals court ruled Tuesday in dismissing a case against a former high school choir teacher. The teacher,...
Pity no one had this idea 8 years ago. But, starting now, why not feed them more ideas like the Fairness Doctrine (Update: wrong link before, corrected now), and keep them harmlessly tied up in knots chasing ghosts?...
Being a relatively new convert to the Green movement, I'm still catching on to the lingo. A few days ago I ran across the question which has become the title of this post. Apparently, there are different shades of green...
How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing recounts how Porsche manipulated hedge fund managers into short selling VW stock — including the late, Adolf Merckle — only to turn around and move towards 75% ownership of the...
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