Classic DF – 12/6/02

December 06, 2002: [•] Happy birthday to Morning Glory. [•] If you look real close and pay attention to details you will be very amused by Broken’s latest web page change on his personal site. [•] Both BrokenReality and Mermaid have created a Stack Ups! episode. Both own my momma and are hilarious. The fan submitted stuff is really good and Immy’s little project is really taking off. Where am I in my Ultimate Stack Ups! project? Well, I’m inking still. I’m half way done inking the third page and there’s only four page so I guess I’m about 75% done on the whole thing. I expect by the middle of next week I’ll have it submitted to Immy for posting. [•] I love paranoia news articles. Like this one on the dangers of static electricity while pumping gas. I can picture it now: Tons of frantic consumers strapping on antistatic wrist straps and grounding themselves prior to pumping gas. BTW: It’s a little know fact, but cat fur is major static electricity conductor. So it’s a good idea not to pet your cat while pumping gas not that I know anyone who does, but you’ve been warned. [•] It appears that the Olmecs invented writing in the Americas. [•] So it’s December and I’ve already gotten a major snowfall dumped on my little village in New York. Nothing too bad and things are looking clear today, but I’ll tell you what sliding your car rally style through the snow is fun. Ah, the joys of winter. [•] US military troops are in place for war if need be. [•] Africa apparently has its own Stonehenge-like structure. [•] So The Sopranos are almost over and I really didn’t watch this season. No time to. I like that they whacked Ralphie and now that they cleared up a lot of junk maybe they can move onto the real mob war. Or not. [•] Animation legend William Henson died in a car crash. He was 78-years old. [•] A recent survey found that Mac lovers have loyalty to the brand because the Apple’s computer designs invoke infant-like features thus triggering people to love them like children. This only really proves one thing: Mac users are fucking crazy. It’s a computer for Christmas sakes not a baby! [•] Bread and cereal seem to increase the hormone levels that cause pimples. [•] Paul Grey (bassist of Slipknot) has started a band with two member of American Head Charge called F.O.R. Slipknot itself insists that primary song recording beings New Year’s Day (especially if by “recording” they mean “drinking a lot”) and that by March the whole band will convene to lay down tracks. Nice. [•] The VH1 Big in 2002 Awards celebrated all that is big (ummm… like sausage). [•] US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill has resigned. [•] I like the new Lincoln autos. They are pretty nice. This is a sure sign that I’m getting old. [•] Rumor has it that Nissan is going to revive the Datsun brand name. Nice! [•] Bored? Then you’ve never shot a potato out of cannon. Need I say more?

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Classic DF – 7/30/02

July 30, 2002: [•] Once again US President Bush has vowed to crack down on corporate crime as more corporations are showing signs of “fudging figures”. [•] An Amtrak train derailed in Maryland injuring six people aboard seriously. [•] A group of miners trapped in a mine in Pennsylvania have been saved by rescuers. [•] 23 young Cubans have defected to Canada during the Papal youth conference. [•] Five people were injured by a bomb in Israel. [•] A corrections officer in Texas settled an argument over whether his friend is going to Heaven or Hell by shooting him. [•] An asteroid previously calculated to collide with the Earth in 2019 will not do so according to new data attained. [•] Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have begun working on a peace treaty to end a war that has divided Africa for over four years. [•] Iraq says that allowing the US into their country would merely be providing their enemey with intelligence gathering access to overthrow Saddam Hussein. [•] France refuses to recognize freezing human bodies as a burial. [•] Afghan authorities averted an assassination attempt. [•] Britney Spears wants to be a bad girl. Get my spanking paddle! [•] A cargo ship stuck on a sandbar in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef poses a potential pollution threat. [•] Rescuers have managed to save 46 of 55 whales stranded on a beach. [•] A wildfire in Oregon is threatening to destroy the homes of thousands of people. [•] What was once thought to be an ancient Viking map showing their discovery of North America a decade before Columbus isn’t even a century old according to a new ink analysis. [•] Let’s hear it for micro-hard drives! [•] A new bill introduced to Congress would remove royalty fees from small webcasters to the RIAA. [•] Australia has successfully launched the first scramjet ever. [•] A young boy was admitted to a hospital with a blood-alcohol level of .59. His stepfather apparently gave him vodka through his feeding tube. [•] Spokane Produce brand romaine lettuce may contain E. coli. Yummy! [•] Instruments of learning. [•] The world’s first pro-life ISP. [•] People with high levels of dopamine are more likely to believe in and make meaning of paranormal experiences. [•] An investigation into whether Monticello police were running a private business on public payroll is being looked in to. [•] Where does nonprofit become lobbying? [•] A small pharmacy closes its doors after being too busy. [•] Deprivation, a local metal band from Warwick, had their equipment stolen while on tour. That stinks. [•] Ozzy Osbourne will take a leave of absence from Ozzfest to be with his ill wife Sharon. [•] Filter’s new album, The Amalgamut, is out today. Expect a nonlinear live band feel. [•] X-Men The Movie 2 promises more mutant for your movie ticket, but without Apocalypse I’m not excited. So there 😛 [•] Want a sneak peak at nVidia’s next chip set? Look no further! [•] Sudanese rebels say their government is not upholding a peace treaty and has begun killing rebel troops again. [•] Deceased Who bassist John Entwistle apparently was doped up on cocaine at the time of his death and his widow is dumping her guts about his excessive party habits. [•] A preview look at the upcoming 2003 Honda Accord. [•] RealNetworks hopes its open-source software will provide a boost in sales. [•] AMD is teaming up with United Microelectronics to produce smaller PC components. [•] A DoS attack has knocked out the RIAA’s web site. This after the group backed a bill that would allow them to DOS users. So how’s it feel? LOL [•] Adobe has settled a patent suit it filed against Macromedia out-of-court though the resolution has not been disclosed. [•] I love you wife and daughter! [•] Immy enjoyed WWE RAW last night, as did I. [•] I updated the CVS & Warwick, NY site with the latest info and ongoings.

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Classic DF – 10/19/01

October 19, 2001: [•] Justice: Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, Mohamed al-‘Owhali, Mohamed Odeh, and Wadih el Hage have all been sentenced to life in prison without parole for bombing 2 US embassies in Africa on August 7, 1998. [•] Justice: US ground troops are helping the Northern Alliance plan an offensive against the Taliban. [•] Justice: The US Senate returns to work despite anthrax concerns. [•] Justice: An anthrax infected US Postal Worker may help the FBI pinpoint where bio-terrorists are located in New Jersey. [•] Justice has many facades, but it has one result: Those who have wronged us to further their own agenda will only receive back the negative karma they distributed. In short, what comes around– goes around. 😛

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Classic DF – 7/2/01

July 2, 2001: [•] So much for a Mideast cease fire. [•] VP Cheney returns to work after receiving a pacemaker. [•] The IRA has been accused of not disarming. [•] So much for a Macedonia cease fire. [•] Hong Kong celebrates 4 years of Chinese rule. [•] A bomb exploded in a theater in Karachi, Pakistan killing 1 person. [•] Algerian rebels kill 6 people at a night club. [•] South Africa buries the last Rain Queen. [•] Argentina has put a warrant out for ex-Navy Captain Alfredo Astiz for torturing and killing pregnant women. [•] Gun fights in Kashmir leave 7 people dead. [•] Iran has arrested 11,892 drug addicts and traders, not to mention killed 9 drug traffickers in a major 4 day drug crackdown. [•] Forget Delia’s! The main attraction in Saudi malls is the beatings. [•] A teen picks up a hand grenade left over from a 1994 civil war in Yemen and gets blown up. [•] Japanese police may issue a warrant for a US soldier believed to have raped a woman. [•] A man killed 2 of his children and critically injured another before being shot dead by police in Syracuse, New York. [•] A car is hit by a train killing 5 people. [•] Tampa, Florida is using 36 cameras to scan crowds for wanted people. [•] A prostitute admits to killing 6 people in Florida. [•] Famous guitarist Chet Atkins has died. He was 77. [•] Dust from Africa is crossing the Atlantic Ocean and bringing germs to the US. [•] Sony drops the price of the Playstation 2 to $280. [•] Japan Telecom launches a Mini-disc music download service at train stations. [•] Cisco routers and switches running the IOS HTTP server are vulnerable to hackers. A patch is available to fix the issue. [•] Microsoft is dropping Smart Tags from Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6. [•] Scientists believe there is a link between testicular cancer and infertility. [•] ICQ gets hacked. [•] Smells like… crap. [•] Major thunderstorms take out power and phone service in the Mid-Hudson. [•] Jack C. Morgan is charged with the negligent homicide of his brother, two men are charged with burglary, a riot almost breaks out in Newburgh, a man runs from cops for no reason, and an auto accident leaves 2 people in bad shape. [•] Courtney Love continues to be a huge bitch and insist she is the sole owner of Nirvana’s music. Hello! Courtney you were no where to be found when Kurt Cobain hooked up with Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic. You’re a greedy self-centered liar. I can see making sure Francis (Cobain’s son) gets something, but she deserves nothing. [•] Ministry turns up in A.I. and kicks some major robot ass! [•] Hey! I patented the wheel first! [•] The 2002 35th Anniversary Camaro will be Chevy’s last run of the car. [•] Nissan revises its Z concept. [•] The NICB says that import cars cause insurance fraud (No comment). [•] A guitar lesson from Edge of U2. [•] The uphill battle against porn and search engines. [•] Intel says that 1.8GHz and 1.6GHz Pentium 4 processors should be available to you right now. [•] Azazel and I went to the Warwick Fire Department’s carnival this past weekend. It was all right. The fireworks, however, were awesome. I still hate carnies though. 🙂 [•] We even saw Immy! [•] And Mermaid! [•] And Verona! [•] And Flying Moose! [•] Hey, that’s a run on sentence! [•] Finally, the brand spanking new V.90 Help is up and running for your nerd loving pleasure.

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