December « 2005 « Sam's Thoughts

Zombies Attack!!

Just as predicted downtown Ann Arbor was attacked by a pack of marauding Zombies tonight. The pack included several zombie santas, an elf and the easter bunny. Here are some pics and more will be coming. Fortunately the cold weather kept most of the people and zombies off the street or the carnage might have [...]

Words of Wisdom

From Cliff Claven via our friend Jennifer:

“Well ya see, Norm, it’s like this: A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And, when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd [...]

Site design

I’ve had a couple of people comment positively on the site design of this blog. I appreciate that and just wanted to let anyone reading this know about a couple of things. First of all if you scroll down the sidebar you may notice the creative commons license and logo. Creative commons is a copyright [...]

Met some new people

Jules and I went to a christmas party at the home of Jon and Mary Davis the other night and had a really nice time. There were lots of cool people there including Gerry and Stacey, Cam, Patrick, Annette, Kitty and many others. In particular it was nice to finally meet Eric and chat with [...]

What on earth are they thinking?

I just saw over on Ypsidixit’s blog that the Ann Arbor Convention and Visitor’s Bureau is doing one of those lame public “art” projects that every big city has done in the last few years. Various cities have done cows, horses, cartoon cars and moose. They have a couple of dozen fiberglass casts of whatever [...]

George Bush should be Impeached Immediately!

This is the oath of office that is taken by someone when they become president of the United States:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United [...]

Ypsilanti Library offers eAudiobooks

As of last week the Ypsilanti District Library began offering a downloadable audiobook service. They are offering a service that is provided by a company called netlibrary.com. As I wrote in this post if you have an ipod or an Apple computer or one that runs on Linux, don’t bother signing up because the service [...]

Salon.com | Ten ways to argue about the war

The lead piece on Salon.com this morning outlines Ten ways to argue about the war. It summarizes responses to most of the common questions from adovcates of the war. For example here is the first one:

“I read your article on withdrawal of American troops,” my correspondent began, “and questioned the lack of discussion of [...]

Faux News Joins the War on Christmas!

So all the fascists on the who are all against government telling you how to run your life (after all that is the fascist’s job, not some faceless bureaucrat’s) have been whining incessantly about the “Liberal War on Christmas!” Well now they have a new target to go after. The patron saints of the right [...]

Minor catastrophe averted!

I had a brain fart this morning and accidently deleted the sql database that has all the contents of this blog. Unfortunately the last backup I did was three weeks ago. Fortunately Scott W at my hosting provider websitesource.com was able to find the last backup from last week and get the database restored for [...]