http://www.markaelrod.net Mark Elrod's Personal Weblog Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:38:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, Virginia, there are mutants. And they are really scary. Except for Jetman - he's all about the technology. And I was a little worried when I read about Das Uberboy until I remembered that the Supreme Court said that I can have all the guns I want and I don't even need ... http://www.markaelrod.net/2008/07/05/this-week%e2%80%99s-sign-of-the-impending-apocalypse-138/ I'm taking a few days off. See you sometime on Monday. Have a safe and happy Independence Day. Peace. http://www.markaelrod.net/2008/07/03/vacation/ Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rick Cook http://www.markaelrod.net/2008/07/02/rick-cook-on-programing/ DB shared some bad news with me today: Madam Marie, the fortune teller made famous by Bruce Springteen on his Album "Greetings From Asbury Park" has died. ASBURY PARK, N.J. - Fortune teller Madam Marie, a figure of rock ’n’ roll mythology thanks to Bruce Springsteen, has died. She was in ... http://www.markaelrod.net/2008/07/02/rip-madam-marie/ My buddy Chuck West snapped this photo of President Bush's motorcade passing his house in Little Rock yesterday. Yes, that's an Obama yard sign in Chuck's well-manicured front yard... http://www.markaelrod.net/2008/07/02/potus-sighting-in-little-rock/ The LA Times reports today that we're spying on our new bffs, the Iraqi army: Caught off guard by recent Iraqi military operations, the United States is using spy satellites that ordinarily are trained on adversaries to monitor the movements of the American-backed Iraqi army, current and former U.S. officials say. The ... http://www.markaelrod.net/2008/07/02/i-spy/ We're going to take a break here at AGS for a few days. This means that I'll get to see my family, ride the bike and catch up on my reading to celebrate American's birthday. Tish has been pretty busy with Uplift at Harding and Alan's been working a lot so it's ... http://www.markaelrod.net/2008/07/02/open-mic-wednesday-let-freedom-ring-edition/ A story in the New York Times today reports that the American military trainers in Guantánamo Bay based an entire interrogation class on a chart copied from another source. What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 ... http://www.markaelrod.net/2008/07/02/made-in-china/ I almost forgot: Happy Birthday, Canada. It's Dominion Day. Love your National Anthem. If you ever want to swap it for a Zamboni-load of hockey sticks, let ME know. I think it's funny how we both started off as British colonies and ended up with anniversaries so close together. Nobody could ... http://www.markaelrod.net/2008/07/01/o-canada/ All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. - Galileo Galilei http://www.markaelrod.net/2008/07/01/galileo-on-truths/