| Name: |
Ian |
Comments: Okay, I just uploaded a crapload of pictures to the Facebook APGov group. Check 'em out at the link in my previous post.
I'll be making all my posts there from now on. |
| Saturday, February 17th 2007 - 02:29:46 PM
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| Name: |
Ian |
Comments:
Here is a direct link to the new APGov group on Facebook.
Many thanks to Mary Grace for getting this up and running. It will be much better than the current page, because it will easily allow for photos, messages, and side discussions...and other people we used to know have a higher chance of stumbling across it.
I think everyone here is already a Facebook member, but if not, it only takes a moment to sign up. |
| Thursday, February 15th 2007 - 11:05:11 AM
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| Name: |
MG |
| Comments: am putting together facebook group as I speak. Email if I missed anybody on the invites list. |
| Tuesday, February 13th 2007 - 06:09:54 PM
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| Name: |
Ian |
Comments:
"Were your parents retarded? Because you're really special."
Or something to that effect. |
| Tuesday, February 13th 2007 - 04:21:44 PM
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| Name: |
Kyle |
| Comments: Emergency! What was Tony Ahr's Pickup Line which has Retarded Parents in it? |
| Tuesday, February 13th 2007 - 10:56:07 AM
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| Name: |
Kyle |
| Comments: Dude, awesome, just like Ted's Band from Scrubs! Keep on rocking! |
| Monday, February 12th 2007 - 07:48:36 PM
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| Name: |
Chase
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| Comments: Hey, I don't know how many of you truly care... but I think I mentioned that I've been busy creating an a cappella group at CSUN. We just competed at the ICCAs (International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella) at USC, this Saturday. We rocked!
Of course, when I say "we rocked," I must also point out that we came in last place out of 6 groups. But, we're 4 months old, and we were only 1 point away from the next-youngest group, a 2-year-old women's group from Colorado. All the other groups are way more advanced.
But the audience absolutely loved us. If you're interested, you can listen to some outdated soundclips on the myspace: www.myspace.com/acasola |
| Monday, February 12th 2007 - 01:59:56 AM
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| Name: |
Kyle |
| Comments: So, since you are all signing this, I guess I will update you all on my life. It's awesome. So, anyway, Matt only went on to prove my point. Yes, all those things he said about the Model T were true, but that's also part of my point! It still got better gas mileage than any ford of today, and could use ethanol or gasoline!
In a way my point is something one of my sister's polisci professors used to explain the prisoner's dilema to her.
You can drive a golfcart/minicoper/Model T (point is, incredibly small, cheap car that is more than enough for your needs) and so can your neighbor. Both of you are happy. But, if either of you get in an accident, you both loose your car. 3000 dollars lost. Tops. So, your neighbor buys a H3 Hummer (which, by the way, is SO LARGE it is not classifiable as a car, SUV or truck!) Now, if you get in an accident with your neighbor, you die, and the H3 has a scratch that costs 300 dollars to fix (though in reality should cost 3.50). So of course you go and by an H3. Which means both you and your neighbor now have a 50000 dollar debt, pay over a hundred dollars a week for gas, and if either of you get in an accident with eachother, you now loose even more money than your original cars were worth.
But, this college professor said, I drive an H3 because I don't want to risk dying when some other jackass who bought an H3 runs me over on the road.
In the end, my point is, everyone could be more than satisfied with a Model T. It would cost no more than 3000 to buy one, it goes fast enough for all city streets, and more importantly could use two kinds of fuel interchangeably. But instead they buy H3s.
Of course, Ian and his hippie clan would probably argue everyone would be just fine with a bicycle, eating vegan tofruitty pops and living off solar energy.
So my point is, buy H3s. |
| Sunday, February 11th 2007 - 08:29:12 AM
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| Name: |
Ian |
| Comments: I check once every ten days or so. But since we're all there anyway, maybe we should just migrate this thing to a Facebook group or something. Then, at least, it would be easier to share pictures, and we'd get little alert thingers when someone does something. |
| Friday, February 9th 2007 - 08:03:51 PM
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| Name: |
Chase |
| Comments: Dude! Joel logged on to facebook!
Signs of life!! Signs of life from Joel Wilson!! |
| Friday, February 9th 2007 - 03:35:25 PM
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| Name: |
James |
| Comments: Actually, I still check it daily. But go ahead and post obscene things if you want. I don't mind. |
| Friday, February 9th 2007 - 09:31:20 AM
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| Name: |
Matt |
| Comments: Nobody even checks this page anymore. I could post all kinds of obscene things and no one would even know. |
| Thursday, February 8th 2007 - 04:47:43 PM
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| Name: |
Matt
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| Comments: Hey everybody! yeah, I know no one signs anymore...
Anyway, sorry I couldn't make it to the BBQ. For one, I only saw that it was happening in January. And two, I was in New York getting engaged. So shoot me.
As far as the Model T goes, it got about 25 mpg, which is pretty good. Except you have to remember that it only weighs 1650 pounds (about half of what a standard sedan weighs now) and the engine produced 20 hp. It had a top speed of 45 mph, and was designed to go about 25 mph. It wasn't exactly a vehicle with power.
A typical car nowadays gets 25% thermal efficiency, which is higher than that of the Model T. But, still not high enough. But no, it's not a big conspiracy. |
| Monday, January 29th 2007 - 03:49:59 PM
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| Name: |
Kyle |
| Comments: Well, nobody came to the barbeque, so there is no reason to show the pictures...
But in further, this is why the world is coming to a fucking end news, here is a little bit of history trivia...
The Ford Model T, the first mass produced car, and the car 9 out of 10 car owners owned from 1910 to 1920, cost about 300 dollars. In today's dollars, about 3,000. For a brand new car. But, more importantly, and why the world is coming to an end, this car had better fuel efficiency than any Ford produced today, including their hybrids. BETTER FUEL EFFICIENCY THAN ANY FORD PRODUCED TODAY!
And, it could run on either gasoline or ethanol. Or a mix. It didn't matter. |
| Friday, January 26th 2007 - 01:38:48 PM
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| Name: |
MG |
| Comments: hey folks,
how was the BBQ? I want some pics, beeatch!
WOW!
I CAN TALK LIKE THIS NOW!
Effin' awesome, man.
P.S. -- single words in big print make you realize how silly English spelling is. |
| Wednesday, January 17th 2007 - 06:17:30 PM
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| Name: |
Kyle |
| Comments: I know nobody signs this anymore, and probably stopped looking at it, but I loved this:
George Lucas explained in an interview that he also patterned Palpatine's seizure of power after those of several historical figures, including Napoleon Bonaparte, Augustus Caesar, Richard Nixon, and Adolf Hitler.
George Lucas equals Emperor Palpatine and Hitler to Richard Nixon. How cool is that? |
| Wednesday, January 17th 2007 - 12:54:17 PM
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| Name: |
James |
| Comments: It'll be pleasant to see the home team again. What's it been, now? Half a year? |
| Monday, December 25th 2006 - 01:55:09 PM
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| Name: |
Ian |
Comments: So it's time again for our annual post-holiday barbecue. I've written out the details below--grab some food or drink, and drop by around noon. Bring a friend or two if you want.
Kyle & Ian's Annual Post-Christmas BBQ
Who: All of you!
What: Barbecue and pot-luck
Where: Verdugo Park barbecue area (next to the tennis courts)
When: Thursday, Dec. 28 @ 12:00pm
Why: SPRING BREAK!!!!!! |
| Sunday, December 24th 2006 - 11:42:02 AM
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| Name: |
Ian |
Comments:
Voting Fun
http://www.guerrillafunk.com/thoughts/doc000023.html
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the US voting machine industry.
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush family, was caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice- presidential candidates.
8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the US and counts almost 60% of all US votes.
9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.
10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people who write the voting machine computer code.
13. Diebold's Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.
14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie at http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov.)
17. 30% of all US votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail. 18. Bush's Help America Vote Act of 2002 has as its goal to replace all machines with the new electronic touch screen systems with no paper trail.
18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.
20. Major statistical voting oddities (odds on the order of 250 million to 1!) -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated by experts.
Such amazing odds, the equivalent of statistical miracles these were. Was it God? Or was it Diebold...?
Here's just a few sources:
1.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold
2.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html
3.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/htm...e_company.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html
4.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in632436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886
5.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentar...03/03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...4fitrakis.html
6.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/module...article&sid=26
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php
7.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm
http://theindependent.com/stories/05...w_hagel27.html
8.
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html
9.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041...s/pfindex.html
10.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm
11.
http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm
12.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml
13.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf
14.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf
15.
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/200...oc_elexoh.html
16.
http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190
17.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in632436.shtml
18.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/Election...sBushIsOut.htm
http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.ph...icle&sid= 950
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm
19.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/talla...al/7628725.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Oct29.html
20.
http://www.yuricareport.com/Election...sBushIsOut.htm
http://www.computerworld.com/governm...,97614,00.html
http://www.americanfreepress.net/htm...thousands.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
http://uscountvotes.org/
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| Friday, December 22nd 2006 - 10:11:36 AM
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| Name: |
Ian |
Comments:
To celebrate is departure from office, some Donald Rumsfeld quotes:
"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started."
"We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead."
"We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." –on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
"Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things." –on looting in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, adding "stuff happens"
"As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time."
"[Osama Bin Laden is] either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive."
"I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work." -asked to estimate the number of Iraqi insurgents while testifying before Congress
"I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it's what I said."
"Needless to say, the President is correct. Whatever it was he said."
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know."
"If I said yes, that would then suggest that that might be the only place where it might be done which would not be accurate, necessarily accurate. It might also not be inaccurate, but I'm disinclined to mislead anyone."
"There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist." -on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
"It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." -in Feb. 2003
"Well, um, you know, something's neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so, I suppose, as Shakespeare said."
"Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning."
"Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often."
"I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know."
"I'm not into this detail stuff. I'm more concepty."
"I don't do quagmires."
"I don't do diplomacy."
"I don't do foreign policy."
"I don't do predictions."
"I don't do numbers."
"I don't do book reviews."
"Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here."
"If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly."
"Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable." |
| Sunday, December 17th 2006 - 07:21:34 PM
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| Name: |
Chase |
| Comments: Yeah, it's called "Hava Nagila"
Of course, that's a transliteration, so the spelling might be off...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hava_Nagila
And there's wikipedia, to the rescue, with everything you never really wanted to know about the song. |
| Friday, December 15th 2006 - 03:31:52 PM
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| Name: |
Ian |
Comments:
So maybe Chase can answer this one:
There's this one song that's *always* played on TV shows (especially comedies) to show bar mitzvahs, Jewish temple services, or really anything else depicting Jewish society or activity. It's sort of used as the catch-all Jew Theme. You know the one...DA DAAA, dadada DA DAAA, dadada DA DAAA, dadada DA DA DAAA.
I'm sure it's not actually called the Jew Theme, so what is the real name of this song? |
| Friday, December 15th 2006 - 09:10:43 AM
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| Name: |
Kyle |
| Comments: So, karmicly my students play the Penis game in assemblies. Booyah!
Also, my kids introduced me to crackers, that taste just like CHICKEN!!!!! THEY ARE SOOOO GOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!! |
| Friday, December 1st 2006 - 04:00:51 PM
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| Name: |
Ian Walker |
Comments:
This one is dedicated to the recently-deceased Republican Majority, and the neoconservative movement in general.
Battle Hymn of the New Republic
"updated" by The Kingston Trio
Glory, glory Hallelujah,
Glory, glory Hallelujah,
Glory, glory Hallelujah,
Our truth is marching on.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the launching of the sword
It is trampling out the vintage where the stranger's wealth is stored
We have loosed our fearful lightning and with flame and death have scored
Our might is marching on.
Glory, glory Hallelujah,
Glory, glory Hallelujah,
Glory, glory Hallelujah,
Our might is marching on.
I have seen it in the watchfires of a hundred foreign camps
Where we've built it in the altars of the eastern dews and damps
I have read its righteous sentence by the light of human lamps
Our power is marching on.
I have seen its gospel message writ in burnished rows of steel
As men reel with our pretentions, so with them our wealth shall deal
Let the mighty sons of freedom crush the patriots with their heel
Our greed is marching on.
Glory, glory Hallelujah,
Glory, glory Hallelujah,
Glory, glory Hallelujah,
Our greed is marching on. |
| Saturday, November 11th 2006 - 01:10:15 AM
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| Name: |
Kyle |
| Comments: So, I've been INSANELY busy with full time work and full time school, so I put off looking into voting. I was like, I'll look at the voting booth. Then, today, I locked Nicole's keys in the car. Which gave me no time to think about voting. So, I was like "Mom, give me your ballot, I'm copying it." It's not that bad, we went democrat down the line, except for a guy named Paul Krekorian, we voted for the libertarian instead (we have something against Paul Krekorian, don't ask me what) and fairly liberal on the initiatives. For some reason we voted against a few bonds I wasn't sure about, and for the abortion notification thing. I don't know if that's how I would have voted. At least we voted against all that hippie save the planet initiative stuff.
The point of the story is, yes, everything I learned in high school is finally paying off. Too bad I couldn't have just taken Mom's ballot and scratched out her name and put mine in its place! |
| Tuesday, November 7th 2006 - 07:25:27 PM
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| Name: |
Ian |
Comments:
VOTE!!! |
| Tuesday, November 7th 2006 - 04:26:14 PM
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| Name: |
Chase |
| Comments: Ian - Congratulations!
Kyle - I love your stories of teaching. I think they're hilarious. Congratulations to you, too.
Everyone else: where the hell are you? |
| Monday, November 6th 2006 - 03:31:38 AM
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| Name: |
Ian |
Comments: ...And this is why primaries should all be held on the same day. The only reason Kerry was the Democratic Presidential candidate in 2004 is because the first major state to vote in the primary chose him, and people are sheep who will follow the popular lead.
I voted for John Edwards. Much better candidate, much more capable man...and I'm sure if Edwards had been running the campaign, we wouldn't still be stuck with King Fucktard the Second. |
| Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 09:03:45 AM
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