Wow, this is America? Talk

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Wow, this is America? Talk about free speech violation, this lawyer was arrested for wearing a T-Shirt that read "Give Peace A Chance" in a local mall. The kicker, is that he bought the shirt at said mall. Okay, now, he is guilty of trespassing, if he refused to leave the mall when asked, as it's private property. But, why did they ask him to remove his shirt? As I read the article, he could have stayed in the mall, if he removed the shirt, which must mean that it was his shirt which was offensive, not his actions, so I don't buy the mall's line about him being "disruptive".

Anyone want to buy the

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Anyone want to buy the farm? John's selling his beloved homestead, act now, and get chickens free! I'd buy it under the following conditions:

1. I got a tech job at ISU, paying at least $45K/year, and that job did not suck. 2. I could get cable modem/DSL/high speed wireless service there (not satellite, too much latency!).

But, since I'm doubting either one of those is going to happen any time soon, he'll have to find another sucker. :)

I have a shiny new

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I have a shiny new iMac sitting on my desk now at work. Too bad I don't get to keep it. It's a tricked-out machine, with a 17" LCD, 1Ghz CPU, 512MB RAM, SuperDrive, Bluetooth, AppleCare, the works! It's a sexy little machine, I didn't know how I'd react to the wide aspect ratio display, but I like it, a lot. However, the mouse is an abomination. I tried to use it, after half an hour I yanked it out of the keyboard and dug up a Microsoft mouse. I don't know what retarded designer at Apple thinks that piece of crap mouse is something that anyone would enjoy using for an extended period of time, but they should be fired, then beaten with all unused mice that people have sitting in drawers, because they can't tolerate them.

That said, I love the machine, it's going to the end-user soon, I'm just whipping up some documentation, and doing some testing on it first. SPSS 11 loads s-l-o-w-l-y on it, but everything else is quite snappy.

Holy cow! I just noticed

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Holy cow! I just noticed that John has gone beardless. This freaks me out, I don't recognize him in that picture at all. I'm guessing he did it in an attempt to hide from the faculty he has to support at ISU, that, or his beard was infested with some type of insect. That picture has probably been up for days, the things you miss when you use an RSS aggregator!