Getting Mighty last week (two years ago) led Sara to tell me about her first car, a little Honda Civic named, “Manamana”. Lucky or fate sent this video to me a week later…muppets rule!
Editor’s Note: Local copy of manamana – This is an old post from a long forgotten section of buzolich.com that happened to mysteriously vanish in the reorg
The Oscars are upon us again and since a person at work and one of my friends are both obsessed with these awards, I have a list of the nominations to share. The point of this is for your to post your bet on who will win each category and why… even better: say who wasn’t nominated and why they should be.
ABC Oscar Coverage
NY Times Oscar Coverage
BBC Oscar Coverage
MSNBC Oscar Coverage
Mosters and Critics Oscar Coverage
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Anyone seen Michael Crichton’s new “State of Fear”? The man who brought dinosaurs back to life now disputes the commonly held belief that global warming is a consequence of increased carbon dioxide emissions produced by the industrialized world.
I’ve never really looked at the evidence supporting the anthropocentric theory of global warming, so I took a look around and found what I hope are a few unbiased sources:
Exploratorium’s Climate Change Page
Environmental Protection Agency
And a couple of clearly biased sources:
Fact, Hypothesis, or Myth
National Defence Research Council
My take away?
1) There is a definite warming trend in global surface measurements observable
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One of the better pranks I’ve heard about let alone seen video of.
Visit HarvardSucks.org where Yale students help Harvard express their true feelings about themselves.
Score of game: Harvard 35, Yale 3. Yet everyone goes home a winner.
Think you’re extreme? Try soul flying
Thanks go to Vanessa for passing this one along!
Editor’s Note: No words for that
Less than a week until the election ends and the post election season starts. To bide the time, I found a web site that counts the electoral votes based on state to state polls.
Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004
Kerry and Bush are pretty much tied, with a few states swinging in the wind. New York isn’t up for grabs, but I’m going to vote anyway.
Find your polling place at an aptly named site MyPolling Place.com
Go vote, grab some popcorn to watch the returns and then realize how similar these two candidates really are.
This was a great childhood game because it was competive, skill based and quicker than monopoly.
It’s interesting to know that the game has been solved, meaning that computers have determined the first player to move can win every time if they play perfectly.
“There are some people who can play Connect Four perfectly. Wikipedia link for basic strategy. About Connect Four
When the first player goes in the middle column, the first player will always win if the first player is perfect, but the columns next to the middle column will result in a draw, and the other columns result in a second player win.”
Play Connect Four
I think the AI on this one is better, so when you dominate the first, try this Connect Four game.
The USS Cole was attacked by terrorists while at portin Yemen back in 2000. Far from recent news, but here’s how we brought her back for repairs. The Cole is a fairly big guided missile destroyer. The Marlin is a huge ship and it partly submerged itself, had the Cole tugged over it, and ascended with the Cole now on its deck.
The Cole returned to the Fleet in 2002.
Are you a political donor? Did you know that donor information for political contributions is made available to the public? Fundrace.org, as well as a few other websites have made personal donor information available for all to see. Intersted in how your neighborhood is leaning? Just enter your street address (major metropolitan areas) and you’ve got list of all of your neighbor’s contributions.
I checked out my neighborhood around Chez Hugo, and found a few names I knew. From the look of it my neighborhood is pretty commie-pinko.
I also looked around the Los Altos home my parents live in, and was surprised to find that the average contribution was not large. I guess you don’t get a house in the hills by throwing away bills.
Thad’s Building throws around some bling.
Big brother is watching. Oh yes he is.
