Well, I now be a member of the Toledo Area Linux Users Group! I went to
their meeting last night and thought it was pretty schweet. They were covering
some more intermediate/advanced topics, but I found it very informative. You
can check out the site at http://www.talug.org.
We meet on the second Wednesday of every month. Last night was at Palmer Hall
room 3010 at the University of Toledo. However, they're not sure where the
next meeting will take place. It'll be on the site when they know, I'm sure.
At the end of the meeting I introduced myself and GNU Phantom to them and
offered to demonstrate it at the next meeting. So... if they approve it then
you may be able to see Phantom in action! I'll keep ya posted...
On another topic, Richard Stallman (of GNU/Free Software fame) is giving a speach on Jan 24. 2000 at the University of Cincinatti. I'm currently planning on attending (if I can schedule it... it be on a Monday), and just want others to know about it!!!
The news has been out for a while, but I thought that I'd mention it here... They've made a movie adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Bicentennial Man!!! It's starring Robin Williams and looks pretty schweet. I hope it's as good as the book (I liked the version with Robert Silverberg the most)...
What happens when everyone's favorite God decides to go corporate? Will He/She
file for an IPO on the stock market? Will He/She go on the New York Stock
Exchange (NYSE) or the NASDAQ??? Will It be valued at $290B
or $1T??!?! Will He/She stop worrying about His/Her subjects and start on
His/Her bottom line??? Or will He/She only be concerned with His/Her share-
holders??? If you sell your Share will you go to Hell?!?!
What happens when God's Stock crashes? Will Black Friday be the real
thing???
Sound implausible? Why not? Doctors can do it. They play God everyday...
I've had quite a few Y2K related questions today. Most of them are first stage
Y2K questions. It's kind of scary. These questions should have been asked
long ago... like in '95...
Now for those of you who think I'm an idiot biggot for my last post, please
read the following very carefully:
Sound nuts? It is (for those of who shaking their heads saying "Is
he for real?", no it's not... it's just a joke). Seriously. What the
hell is a cell phone going to do for these people besides give them cancer and
expose them to advertising? Who are they going to call??? Us?!? More importantly, who's going to pay for it?
You and me. It's not enough that we pay a $150 cell phone bill,
now we have to tack-on a 10% 'underdeveloped nations cell phone service fund tax'. Jesus Christ! Now the bills at $165. Great. Looks like I better stop
calling Hututu in Kenya, bills killing me.
I'm so confused. The internet I can understand. I mean we're going to put
this really cool thing in their hut and it's going to talk to them.
But it's only going to talk to them if it's plugged into something. However,
if you stick your finger into that thing, you get shocked. So they're going
to grow up thinking that they were never good enough to interface directly
to the world, they're going to think that they'll always need an interface, and
by the time puberty hits, they're going to be so world-weary and information
overloaded that not only will they not be able to even talk to their parents
on the same level, they will be unwilling to speak to anyone.
...Stick with me...
Now here you have a ripe group of terrorists unlike anything in
recorded history!
Ohh!!! Now I get it! The cell phones are to make sure they're coordinated from
the beginning! Instead of the Internet and THEN cell phones, we'll give 'em
BOTH at the SAME TIME. Boom, double whammy. Sock it to 'em. Ring the bong.
In closing, Bill, please them alone and deal with the current crop of ripe young
almost terrorists that we have in our own country! There's no need for our
terrorists to talk to their terrorists to initiate a world wide anarchy. Save
that for when everybody realizes that George Lucas won't release any of the
Star Wars movies on DVD....
I just have to say that again: FUCK GREECE. It's not that I don't
like them because they don't like us, it's this: Greece spots don't like Clinton, Clinton goes to Greece, Greece spots riot and blow up their own fucking buildings.
Is it just me, or do they not make any sense? Even the fucking Chinese are
smarter than they are. They at lease protest at the UN & US embassies, they
don't blow up their own buildings in protest of another country.
Now for all of the idiots who read this and think "Yeah, well what about
the riots in LA???? Stupid biggot asswipe...". OK. Tell you what,
read this article again, M'kay? The Grease are blowing up (with gas bombs)
their OWN buildings because Clintun went to see THEM in their OWN country...
When Mao Ze Dung comes over from Han, we don't blow up our own fucking
shopping malls!
Get a clue...
Sorry! It's friday and I gotta vent some steam...
You know, I've got to give props to ole Boris Yeltsin for once. He told the
west to "Back off in regards to Chechnya". Why the hell don't we ever
do that?!?! I'd like to see the following letter go from Clinton to Beijing:
"Dear China, we own Taiwan and Japan, so fuck off". That'd be neat...
of course, it'd probably start a war... hmm... maybe it wouldn't be so cool.
Well, it was fun for a while, but I've taken the GPS stuff out of my car. I
hadn't thought much about temperature requirements on the equipment! And it
gets damned cold here in northern Ohio. I hope the next year brings out some
kick-ass portable GPS/MP3 devices... I'm too busy to design one :)
I've been messing around with SQL here for the past few days. I've been using POSTGRES. It comes with the full install of Red Hat (I've seen it in 5.2, 6.0, & 6.1). It's pretty sweet. AND IT'S FREE... which is VERY important!
My web hosting service has been slow as dog shit so I apologize to those of you
waiting for my site to load :(... I haven't able to get in either to do any work!!!!
I've put up a how to add a kick-ass TV/VCR/GPS/MP3 system to your vehilcle page to the cars section of the site.
Yesterday was my 5th anniversary at work. It just kind of popped up the day
before out of the blue. Pretty cool...
I'm working on the pages for adding a kick-ass TV/VCR/GPS/MP3 system to any
vehicle. I want to get pictures of mine, so it may take a little while...
but at least I've started on it!
As a side-note, I've released Phantom.Security 1.00!!! It's out of Beta.
I've posted on-line HTML docs, as well as PostScript docs too. Both can
be viewed on-line, or downloaded in a .tar.gz file! Gotta love it... If I
can ever get to making the autolighting portion of Phantom.Home work correctly,
I will promote that from Beta too! The docs for that will be tons of fun,
though... I need to re-make to diagram :).
After spending a weekend and something to the tune of $600, the Monte has been retrofitted for real-time GPS! The Monte sports a 9' TV/VCR that also runs sound through the CD player via inputs. I've mounted an AST Ascentia 280M laptop in the trunk using a 140-watt inverter from Murrays ($39) to charge the laptop battery when needed and to power the Antec TVator Exec which turns the VGA output of the lapop into NTSC output for the TV! I got the DeLorme Earthmate GPS Receiver/Street Atlas 7.0 bundle at Best Buy ($160) and hooked that up (via 2 6' serial cables running from the GPS receiver on the dash (only place I could get a good signal!). Then I had a complete GPS solution. The laptop boots up, loads Street Atlas, and initializes the GPS receiver automatically! So I can just turn the laptop/inverter on (in the trunk) and take off. Of course, it then takes about 5 minutes to boot up and get a 3-D signal for the GPS. But then you're off. However, I was then faced with the problem of getting input to the laptop (i.e. a mouse or keyboard). I didn't have any way to shut the laptop down from inside the car (except folding down the back seat... which is a task if you're on the road!). So... I had one free port on the laptop (because the floppy plugs in the parallel port and the CD-ROM has it's own port on the back) the PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse port. I went to Best Buy and got a small Touchpad (forgot the brand) with a pen (don't need it) and mounted that in the center console. I then got a 10' extension PS/2 cable and ran that from the console to the trunk. Now I can give input to the laptop (i.e. zoom in/out on the map, play solitaire, or use notepad to write down a quick note or look up an important phone number).
Sound like fun?!?! Well, when I get time I'm going to make a few web pages
for the site and describe (in good detail) how to do this!
The next step would be to get a PCMCIA sound card (my laptop doesn't have
sound outputs...) and use it as an MP3 player!!!
I've been told that Denny's been 'silenced'... I haven't listened since
Thursday, so I can't confirm... :)
There was an interesting piece in the Blade on the last hundred years in Toledo.
It was amazed, frankly, at some of the things I read. It was a good piece to
read.
What the hell is going on here in the Glass City. It's like a political thing,
or something. (As much as I hate this crap, why do I keep posting it?!?!).
For a very long time Denny Schafer and his Morning Show on 92.5 Kiss FM have
always bad-mouthed Carty and/or John Block. But now Block has been reported
as saying that he wants "to over Toledo", and "bulldoze it". Ho-lee-shit. I
wonder just how many people have canceled their subscription to the Blade
today!!!
I haven't posting stuff here as much as I've done in the past. I'm slackin'. :)
OK. The initial public release of nsfgen is ready! It's GPL'd, so check it out on the www.familyandyouth.org website.
I don't know if this one will be GNU or not, but I'm working on a billing
utility for the State of Ohio MACSIS mental health billing system. This
package will be avaliable on my company's web site website at
www.familyandyouth.org.
It will be completely free (and open-sourced), of course.
I'm going to break my rule again and mention my Phantom software here.
Phantom.Home is now GNU Phantom.Home!!! That's right, I got an e-mail with the
heads up from rms this morning! I will try and get an updated Beta (even though
I just released one a few days ago) online pretty quick with the new GNU stuff.
You can find GNU Phantom.Home here...
UPDATE: Phantom.Home Beta0.60 released! Check it out now!
Point: Rain in Mexico
Point: Volcano in Ecuador
Well, I've replaced my in-dash CD player with a Prestige with Aux inputs! Now
I can listed to TV & movies through my stereo (albeit in mono...). It's pretty
sweet. Next on my list: GPS software & hardware, power inverter,
and PCMCIA sound card for my laptop... the exective mobile will be happening!
Before I begin my already bleak day, I shall continue my list...
Point: Another earthquake in Turkey...
Point: Nuclear spill in S. Korea...
It begs the question... Is this shit gonna end???...
In any case... I've got and done it again. I've gotten a Philips/Magnavox
9' TV/VCR and put it in my car! Maybe I'll get around to doing my executive
car after all... I'm getting a CD player with audio inputs (mine doesn't
have any...), and hooking all that up. The only bad thing is that the VCR
portion isn't in stereo :(. However, I may be able to pull a few strings
and get hooked up with a portable DVD player!!! That'd kick ass. Now if I
can only get my mini-notebook fixed I'd have the MP3 & GPS portion hooked!
Of course, I can run my laptop through the TV... hmm..
I'm just going keep adding to the list I made Tuesday here...
Point: Crazy disease in New York City.
Point: Nuclear accident in Japan.
Point: Earthquake in Mexico City.
Is it me, or are BAD things happening EVERYWHERE?
Point: Shootings in schools & churches in US.
Point: Earthquake in Turkey
Point: Russian Bombings
Point: Earthquake in Taiwan
Point: Russia Vs. Chechnya (how the hell do you spell that?)
Point: China Vs. Taiwan
Point: N. Korea & China Vs. US & Japan & S. Korea
Point: E. Timor...
In any case...
I've decided against starting another project (the car computer/network). I
just don't have the time and the resources right now. Just look at the robot
project... which is basically a simple archive now.
I got the Matrix on DVD! I've watched it like 5 times since last Tuesday...
that's what happens when you have no life and just work... Also, I should be
getting Strange Days on DVD today or tomorrow...
Well, William Gibson's new book doesn't come out until Oct. 1... All I know is
The Matrix came out on DVD today and it wasn't in my mailbox :(.
The Impala is no more! I sold it yesterday. But I did take off the blue neons
and now they're on my Monte Carlo! "Blue neons on a red car?" Yes god damn it! :)
THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY. 15 minutes and I'm out like last year...
An apology: Floyd didn't kick the shit out of Florida. It pretty much missed. Sorry!!!
What's with this about the guy in Fort Worth? Straight up just enters a church and starts killing people? Jesus Christ...
It's kinda odd that at the same time we're getting this Russia is getting blown to hell all over the place too. And we're going to offer them help??? We can't
even help ourselves!
I'd have to say if I got a new car, it'd have to be a cop car. I still got
this idea in my head to create a computerized car. And I was sitting at a stop
sign the other day watching this cop car go by. Those have to be the absolute
coolest cars you can get. Of course, I probably can't get one :). They've got
V8 engines like you wouldn't believe. And that's not to mention all the
communications equipment inside. Hmm....
I just saw an ad for William Gibsons newest book: "All of Tomorrow's Parties". I'm already on my way to Barnes & Nobles...
Well. Floyd is kicking the shit out of Florida. It might just kick the shit
out of the entire east coast! And like less then a week behind it is Gert.
I hope they get out while they can...
In other weather related news... the source I trust on weather, the Almanac, says that we're to have a mild winter and another summer like we just had, i.e. drought-like. Well, that's good news and bad news, I suppose... depends on your point of view.
My view on the current world news: do we learn from past mistakes??? Is it me or did we all of the sudden develop this REALLY SHORT ATTENTION SPAN? OK. E. Timor = Yugoslavia. Nuff said. But now China is swiftly trying to enter the WTO (World Trade Organiation). That means long talks with the USA. OK. But when they turn their backs, they are positioning themselves to pester Taiwan. Can someone say IRAQ? That's probably nothing compared to N. Korea/S. Korea/Japan, but I wont touch on that one quite yet...
What's going on with Russia? Moscow's getting hammered! They're almost as bad
as us now... And what's with Boris making a statement saying that he wasn't
involved in any money laundering scandle? It's Russia, they're corrupt. Who
gives a shit???
E. Timor. It's almost like this came out of nowhere! They try to have an
independent vote and now it's like the St. Valentine's day massacre. What the
hell's goin' on? The UN is pulling out. We don't want nothing to do with it.
We already had a Kosovo this year. But wait, what is this? Austrailia wants to
go in... with or without the US. Go ahead lil' buddy! We'll watch on
CNN...
I'm still going nuts here at work. I got a few used PCs here to relieve the
tension and get people back to work, but it's not good enough. I still have to
wade through the mud here and get some things done!
I started, then stopped due to the current madness levels, working on the specs
for a Linux based fully-integrated computerized car system, home system, and
work system... sound confusing? Well, it kind of is. Give me some time to work
on it, and I'll post it all here... I just hope I can stay on top of this,
unlike my robot project...
Feels good to say what I want on my own site...
I'm getting this REALLY strange desire to design a system to computerize a car...
First, I've discovered DJGPP, a GNU program which includes the GNU G++ compiler
for DOS/Win!!! The best thing --- IT'S FREE!!! So I was able to compile the
latest version of nsfgen with little problem. Of course, all that work I did
with autoconf & automake doesn't work in DOS... I have still yet to try to
get Phantom.Security to work. Phantom.Home won't because it's daemon based,
and I don't even want to try to get that working in DOS/Win...
I maybe getting MY OWN WEBSITE including my own domain name. I'm currently looking at two providers in my area. I'm weighing the costs and benefits... but look out for that. When (IF!) I do, I will have a link from this site for a while before I switch it all over... Actually, I'll make it so that every directory on this server has a link to the appropriate place on the new server.
Crazy stuff going on in the world. Kiss the last August of this millennium
away!
What the hell is going on??? The world is crazy. Sometime this weekend I was
reading the news and I say a quote not easily forgettable... North Korea:
"... diplomatic hostility from the US & S. Korea are making a second Korean
war 'unavoidable'...". What is that?!?!
And then I was watching a show on the Three-Gorges damn being built in China.
They mentioned possible problems with it. Then they came straight out and said
that it was being built on an earthquake fault line!!! What the hell is that?!?
That's freakin' nuts! I can see the disaster for the next hundred years....
they said that if an earthquake hits and ruptures the damn, it would send a
tidal wave that would kill millions of people. Holy crap.
In any case, I've been looking into getting my works' network expanded via
wireless networking. I had a meeting with a guy from Glass City Internet
(Wireless Division). It was very interesting!!! They've got some neat things.
I didn't know the technology has come this far!
In any case, I've releasted Beta0.50 of my Phantom.Home software. This is a
major release, so please check it out!!!
What the hell is going on?!?!? I read an article complaining that we've been
bombing Iraq many times over the past year, but nothing has been said! What
the hell is that?!??! Everytime I turn turn on freakin' CNN I see a report
(if only for a second) that says we've bombed 'em again. How can you
report the news if you don't know what the hell the news is???????
But it is the first time in a while that ol' Iraq has launched a missile at us!
This movie is definately an instant favorite.
Pics here. Want it? E-mail me here.
What gives???
Well, in preparation for a huge daunting task here at work I went out and
bought some books on C++. They are:
Jamsa's C/C++ Programmer's Bible ISBN: 1-884133-25-8 by
Kris Jamsa, Ph.D., and Lars Klander.
C++: The Complete Reference ISBN: 0-07-882476-1 by
Herbert Schildt.
I haven't even touched the second book yet. I just started skimming the bible,
and I picked up several things REAL quick. The main thing is I learned
how to do makefiles. When I sent in my stuff to the GNU, they had asked
that I conform to the makefile structure seen in so many GNU programs. I looked
at several GNU programs' makefiles, and they were VERY complicated. If someone
would have told me "Hey stupid, it's easy!", I'd of done it a long
time ago! :) In any case, look for very rapid updates on ALL packages!
Well, I think I am going to integrate Phantom.Home & Phantom.VRML. I'm
going to extend Phantom.Home.VRMLd & make it just Phantom.Homed. Then, any
number of different interfaces can use it (i.e. the standard, text-based
Phantom.Home & the VRML based Phantom.Home.VRML). In addition, anyone who
wants to create a custom interface can go right ahead!!! Watch for this.
OK. Clear your mind. Or my mind...
... whatever...
I've fixed a really dumb spelling error in my Phantom.Home software.
My brother pointed it out to me last night. Hence, phantom_home-beta0.42b is
now available here.
Also, Phantom.Home.VRML is in the works (i.e. alpha stages). I'm re-coding it
in C++. I don't think I'll get a beta today unless I get seriously
bored (which can happen). In any case, it will be an add-on for Phantom.Home
which will include a VRML Generator that will digest your Phantom.Devices and
Phantom.Groups files and churn out a custom VRML file for you! Also included
will be the needed CGI web scripts, as well as the Phantom.Home.VRMLd daemon.
A daemon is needed because CGI scripts can't access parallel ports, because
access to those is only granted for root users. Hence, the CGI script will
create a request, and the daemon (if running) will do the dirty work. Look for
it next week!
UPDATE:
I've done it! I decided to skip the inclusion of the VRML Generator until a
later release. However, a sample VRML file is included. You can download
phantom_home_vrml-beta0.10 from here!
OK. Now on to brighter things...
N. Korea is going on and on about missiles, and we're egging them on. Now
we're banding together with Japan & S. Korea. We 'warned' them there would be
'serious consequences'. When asked what 'serious consequences' meant, someone
replied 'not military'. They've tested a missile that can go over Japan. They
launched it last August, and said it released a satellite. OK. Now they've
undoubtedly got a missile that can reach us Alaska or Hawaii. Yeah, that
doesn't suck!
I've been getting e-mails from the GNU about Phantom.Security & Phantom.Home,
so that's been pretty cool! I've release Beta0.41 of Phantom.Home today. It
accepts wider variations on command structure.
I learned how to play chess last night. I can't believe I went for so long
without learning how. I'm going to write something for the site with the
basic instructions. For beginners by a beginner!!!
I was fooling around with my home system (running Phantom.Home), and I got it
to do something so crazy I figured I should mention it here. I created a
VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) world re-creating my basement. It
shows the lamps and the vent fan. When you click on a lamp, it turns on!
When you click on the vent fan, it turns on! I love it! I was using my
laptop to control it (although ANY web browser w/VRML capability could have
done it, for it's just a VRML file & several CGI bourne scripts residing on the
web server, which is also the Phantom.Home server!!!). However, over the
weekend I've managed to break YET ANOTHER LAPTOP. Well... it still functions.
However, the screen is cracked!!! I seriously need help here...
But first, a few good words :)... I finally got my laptop. Circuit City
admitted to screwing up and gave me a new one (of comparable value), as well
as a FULL 4-year warranty instead of the limp pro-rated version they were
telling me. 'Bout time!
I saw the movie South Park twice so far. It gets better all the
time. The entire underlying theme is censorship... it's a really great movie.
If you can stomach it, that is :)
I'm working on getting my Phantom.Home software out. It's been completely
re-written in C++. I've got a working Beta, but it doesn't accept that many
commands. However, it does have a great Device Alias and Group Alias system
for defining easy names for devices. In the Bourne Shell Beta version, the
entire system was hardcoded for the devices in my basement. Now you can plug
in whatever device you want and call it whatever you want. In addition to
this, you can create groups of devices (i.e. a group called lights if
you have more than one light you want to contain one-command control over).
It's awesome! Expect it to be posted soon!
OK. I come into work and start-up my trusty Netscape Communicator which in
turn loads up www.yahoo.com as the startup page. And in the neat little
In the News section I see something called: China boasts neutron
bomb. Ho Lee Shiit. So I'm reading, and I come across this quote:
"You can sort of blow up a city and kill everybody in the city, but the
buildings don't get destroyed". The last time I looked, the point of a
war was to disable the other parties ability to make war, and render them
useless. This is freakin' crazy right here. Talk about an easy route to
de-population. Couldn't we have used this in Kosovo or Belgrade?!?!?
On the China note, what the hell is going on? Why are we in talks with
China on how to re-pay them for their embassy? Screw China! Build
your own goddamned embassy.
As I've forecasted, the Korean portion of the world is still heating up. Can
we name some part of the world that isn't currently ready to kill someone?
Australia? Hmm... It seems they've made enough racket. Between
Internet censorship and revealing ECHELON, what else do they need?
Who needs Big Brother when everyone wants to kill each other?
I still don't have my laptop...:(
Poor me...:)
Well, it's happened again. I've been screwed by Circuit City... My laptop
has been there for like two months. I finally went there yesterday because
I knew they had another laptop for the same price, and I'm starting to feind
for a laptop. Soooo... I went there, and they couldn't find it. Then they
found it, maybe half an hour later, they said it didn't have my phone number
on it. Well why didn't they look it up??? Christ. Then the guy says 'Well
we had a replacement here for you!' but 'cause they didn't have my phone
number in the system, it nevery got reported. Now that replacement is GONE.
So again I walked out empty handed, and extremely angry...
Anyway... I was reading this book yesterday that was written in like 1983
about the Intel 8086 and 8088 chips, and the author went on a rampage about
how these chips (which ran at what, 4.77Mhz?) were going to change the future,
how they'd be implanted in cars to drive for us and etc... and look at us now.
We've got 550MHZ Pentium IIIs, and all we can do is play Quake3 really fast...
It was just kind of a weird look into retrospect. In mean, obviously the 8086
and 8088 were the foundations for the 286, 386, 486 & Pentium series, but if
you put fat ass bloated software on them like Windows 95, & 98, then it
becomes pointless. If you played pong on a DOS based 8088 (like my old
PCjr) vs. the same game on a Pentium 133 with Windows 98, the experience on
the 8088 was so much better because you wouldn't get the blue screen
of death or kernel errors... but I liked astroids better
anyway... :)
I watched that special on TNT called Pirates of Silicon Valley
last night. I thought it was pretty schweet. Plus I thought it portrayed
Bill Gates as a little bitch :). The stuff about the Apple Big
Brother commercial was pretty awesome too, considering in 1984 I was 5.
OK. Russia's moving right along. The Serbs are pulling out. We're finding
mad bodies raped and burnt and beaten. Nothing out of the ordinary there...
Next, China isn't accepting our kiss-and-make-up tactics. Isn't time we say
something about their humanitarian record again?!?!
Moving right along on the communist tour bus, the Koreas. We're (the US,
not NATO or the UN) sending planes and ships to aid our South
Korean brethren. What's up with this? Didn't this war already happen
a long time ago? I told you this would happen...
Kosovo. What's going on man?!?! The Russians walk in and take over the only
airport. What? We decided to let the Russians in, but we didn't
tell them what to do. We, err, the UN, said "OK, Russia, you guys can go
into Kosovo. FYI, we'll be there Sunday." So what'd they do? They
were there Saturday. Why not? We didn't tell them what to do! What the
hell were we thinking??!?! OK... enough...
Starr & the Clintons. This is really odd. I read an article on how Clinton's
daughter read the Starr report on the Internet. And Clinton got mad cause she
did, and he blamed Starr. What the hell is he getting mad at??!? Did he not
get a blow job? Sure did. Was he married when he got it? Yep. Was it from
his wife? Nope. Sorry! You loose! How in the hell do you explain to your
daughter that it's OK to get blow jobs from people other than your spouse?
Go Clinton, you freak.
I'm all about my new state-wide pager. I love it! It gives news and weather
updates... It's schweet!
First the US: We're claiming victory over a war that never was while
first lady Hillary decides that while she wants to be a congresswoman for
NY, she doesn't know if she wants to live there!
Then China: Claims that they were the reason that the war in Kosovo was
stopped. Can you believe this crap?!?! Then they publically state that a
nation's sovereignty is more important than humanitarian causes. Yeah,
you're not communists...
Now: Russia. Maybe they're trying to be the Russia of the post-WWI by
trying to get to Kosovo first to get as much land as they can... who knows
what the hell they're doing. But their trucks all say KFOR, and that's
the force by NATO to keep the peace in Kosovo. But no one said the Russian
troops could just walk in and take over... keep an eye on this one!
Finally, Yugoslavia. I don't know how Milosevich (the UK press calls
him Slobo... I like that!) does it, but he's still going. According
to most press, he made a 10 minute TV interview, and it's going out on
their 'fuzzy' TV transmitters every hour on the hour. But all reports point
to the fact that Ol' Dirty Slobo doesn't look too hot... with his parent's
committing suicide and all. Hmmm...sorry ole boy!
But enough of Friday babbel... err.. no, just enough of politics... :)
I've upgraded my personal library of 'survival' gear. For the longest time
I had my trusty, local (NW Ohio), pager. And it's worked good... but I've
been taking trips every weekend or so out of Toledo, and it's not working
out too good. So, I've upgraded my paging service to satewide... as well as
added alpha-text messaging to it! I wanted nationwide service, but I
couldn't keep my old pager number. And I don't want to change that number
because everyone I know has it!!! In any case, just as with my Sprint PCS
phone, I can receive e-mail with this. So at least now when I'm in Ohio
(which is 99% of the time) and not in a Sprint PCS area I can receive pages.
Of course, how to respond to them is another question... I wish
Qualcomm would hurry up and release the pdQ already!!!
Situation update! The Serb General keeps walking out of talks which shouldn't
be happening, he doesn't want NATO running the thing. NATO says "nope".
The US is trying to brown nose by re-establishing talks about the WTO (World
Trade Orginization) and China's entrance by giving an official report about
the embassy bombing to China. Someone smell something?
In other words... hmm.. I don't have any! :)
I saw the craziest thing yesterday morning at around 5AM. I was coming home
from out of town and I was going over an overpass. I was extremely tired.
The next thing I know, I see this deer just standing there. I thought maybe
I was too tired, but no, it was just standing there on the overpass. So I
honked at it, and it took off running. It was very slow and swerving all over.
I didn't was to go around it because I didn't want to hit it. But the next
thing I know, that freak jumps over off the bridge! Just like that, over the
side. Now that's a good 15' drop! I thought it was dead for sure. I didn't
stop, I was just too freaked out. But I was telling this to a friend later
and he said that they do that... and live! I thought that was nuts. I
thought if I looked over the side of the bridge, I'd see a fat pile of deer
bone & blood. I don't know, it was pretty crazy!
I love this weather! Bring it on! I go from my cool house to my car with AC
to my office with AC to the store with AC :). And now our pool is up,
so that's pretty schweet.
Pakistan and India. The last I heard they were starting peace talks already.
For real? That's damned amazing. But now I look at CNN.com, and
India is starting it up again... What's goin' on? I don't know!