Monthly Archive for January, 2009

Zombies!

“I just read this great science fiction story. It’s about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves! . . . HEY! What time is it?? My TV show is on!” –Bill Watterson

Someone (or someones) in Texas decided to get a little cheeky and change the writing on a traffic sign to warn of zombies!

From the article:

Chris Lippincott, director of media relations for the Texas Department of
Transportation, confirmed that a portable traffic sign at Lamar Boulevard and
West 15th Street, near the University of Texas at Austin, was hacked into during
the early hours of Jan. 19.

Lippincott told FOXNews.com that the sign is, “…sort of amusing, but not at all helpful.”

It would be fucking helpful if there were actually zombies, wouldn’t it Lippincott?

Published on January 29, 2009 in Hodgepodge. 0 Comments

Gay Head

Every artist was first an amateur. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

America get its first black president. (Although we aren’t the first country to elect an ethnic minority to the highest office in the land, Argentina beat us to that.) And now, the world gets its first gay head of state. Meet Johanna:

Granted, she’s the interim Prime Minister. Of Iceland. Which may not be a country for much longer. But still, I’d do her.

From this article:

“Johanna is a very private person,” said an Icelandic government source. “A lot of people didn’t even know she was gay. When they learn about it people tend to shrug and say, ‘Oh’. That’s not to say they are not interested; they are interested in who she’s living with – but no more so than if she was a man living with a woman.”

I cannot wait until it is like that in the US.

Published on January 28, 2009 in The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. 0 Comments

That’s An Understatement

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.” -Albert Einstein

From the article:

Chicago police arrested a 14-year-old boy for allegedly impersonating one of their own Saturday.

The boy, who has been charged as a juvenile for impersonating an officer, walked into the Grand Crossing District station, 7040 S. Cottage Grove Ave., dressed in a Chicago police uniform, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said. The boy, who reported for duty about 1:30 p.m., partnered with another police officer for about five hours.

The boy identified himself as an officer from another district but was detailed for the day to Grand Crossing and also was savvy enough to sign out a police radio and a ticket book, according to a source. The source also said the boy went on traffic stops with the officer he went on the street with.

Yes. That is correct. A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD BOY convinced a police department that he was a police officer. He spent an afternoon on traffic patrol. The cop he was partnered with didn’t notice. The person who issued him a police radio and ticket book didn’t notice.

According to Deputy Supt. of Patrol Dan Dugan the boy, “has identified an egregious breach in security.” Really? Is that breech that you hired a police officer who can’t tell the difference between a 14 year old boy and an adult police officer?

Published on January 26, 2009 in Darwinism. 0 Comments

So True

College is like the foundation -and the students are there to drink.

In an effort to cheer me up and detress me, a friend of mine sent me this. Updated for 2008 (such as calling it AIM and an Ipod), this is so accurate.

Welcome to most of college and grad school. At least for those of us in the social sciences. People in real sciences have to actually study and stuff.

Published on January 1, 2009 in Hodgepodge. 0 Comments
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