Greg has alerted me to opposition forming against the BNAF, the Butner pathogen lab I wrote about earlier this summer. I can’t find any other links to the opposition, though. Bummer.
According to Greg’s post, the DHS will hold a public meeting at 7 PM on Tuesday, September 18th at South Granville High School. Wouldn’t it be great to see biohazard suits in the audience?
It all makes me wonder … is Ebola drought-resistant?
I’m removing the old Drupal redirects today, the ones that make old, old, old links work. I’ve been using WordPress now for months so I figure its time.
If you don’t see new entries after September 17th, chances are you need to update your feed address. Get with the program, you lazy slugs!
[Update:] For the benefit of the extremely lazy, I’ll provide my new feed link here.
This is interesting. Google kicked in money to fund a $30 million award to the first private group to land a robot rover on the Moon. The rover must be equipped with high-definition cameras, must roam 500m, and must do this before the year 2012. Google is teaming up with the Ansari foundation, sponsors of the X-Prize, to manage the award, officially called the Google Lunar X Prize.
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Hmm. Must be politics day here at MT.Net. Someone I don’t know sent me this trash about Barack Obama. Guess who I just decided will get my vote?
Update 17 Feb 2016: Looks like the original link has been taken down, but the Internet Archive saved a copy. Here’s the text to the post, too, in case IA loses it:
The most radical and despicable of the Right WingNuts have a peculiar habit of trying to rub their propaganda in the faces of their Democratic acquaintances and relatives. My family is no exception to this participular form of attempted intimidation and brainwashing.
When you are ready, and particularly when supporters of Barack Obama have prepared themselves for a particularly infuriating experience, go ahead and read the “Extended Post Text.”
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Forget about Pakistan, we don’t even have democracy here. A peaceful citizen was refused entry to Tuesday’s Petreaus testimony, gang-tackled, and had his leg broken, all without apparent provocation. Watch how Rev. Lennox Yearwood is refused entry for unexplained reasons, then hauled to the floor, tackled, and arrested. See if you can spot the alleged “assault of a police officer” because I sure can’t.
I’ve asked Speaker Pelosi’s office for an explanation but I’m not holding my breath.
That’s democracy for you, folks. Outrageous.
(h/t Cristobal)
The “Tuscany Industries” group (rumored to be Great Atlantic Warranty) isn’t the only one who is dialing for dollars. For the past few nights, we’ve received calls with CallerID info of 206-415-9148. A look at the ever useful 800notes.com shows that calls claiming to be from this number are designed strictly to leave messages on answering machines. Visitors to 800notes.com note that if the call is answered by anything other than an answering machine, the caller hangs up.
The message tells the recipient (or rather the recipient’s answering machine) that they’ve won two free airline tickets and to call 800-514-1363 with a reference number.
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I just love how we’re bringing democracy to the Middle East. It’s the same old story: dictators are cool as long as they’re our dictators.
Heck of a job, Bushie.
I’ve been thinking more of the IvanAnywhere idea of a roaming office camera. Sure its Star Wars-ish, but it also makes sense. It costs a tremendous amount of money for an employee to travel somewhere for a few-day trip. Figure $150/night, minimum for a hotel, $70/day for a rental car, $40/day for food, and $400 or so for airfare. For a three-day trip, that’s almost $1200!
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Glade
The Connells
Any day, you’re gonna throw it all away
you see you got it to just throw away
Now hear you whine
how its coming in from all sides
you got it coming right in on you
this is what we should do
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One of the drawbacks of moving so often as a kid was leaving behind friends. Since my own 20-year high school reunion is approaching, I decided to look up the Class of 1987 from the other places I’ve lived.
I discovered a lot of old friends on the Class of 1987 websites of Spring Valley High School (Columbia, SC) and South Mecklenburg (Charlotte, NC). Even though I don’t have much in common with them anymore its good to know they’re still out there.
As for my own reunion, the Herndon High School Class of 1987 will be meeting again next month. Should be fun.
