Wednesday, December 03, 2003
(1:21 AM) | Anonymous:
I don't need no more warning, the morning's over, and this isn't my room.
I am vying for longer titles here.
Sorry I haven't posted much. In addition to my general whore-ness, I am also in the midst of finals week and pretty busy. However, that crazy Jean Chretien made me post. Recently someone asked him what he might do upon retirement, his quote went like this:
"I will have my money for my fine and a joint in the other hand."
This is making reference to Canada's potential legalization of small amounts of marijuana, meaning, if you have less than half an ounce you get a fine instead of the big stuff.
Here's the article I read. Actually, I read it on Yahoo! News, but I can't find that article right now. Other than that, as a non-user (xSTRAIGHT EDGE IS THE DISCIPLINEx) I really don't have much to say, but I didn't want to fade into oblivion.
Here's some more worthless links in a vain attempt to justify this post:
- Go buy a roman die.
- A lot of NYFD "family liasons" (fellow firefighters who watch out for widowed fire-fighter wives), have taken up with their deceased friends widows, leaving their own families. Or so says the highly dubious, but sometimes okay, New York Post. That's weird.
- Here are some German blog awards. Figure out how to vote us in, so we can be like David Hasselhoff and those hateful DU HAST MICH kids or whatever from a while ago - popular with those really crazy germans.
- A great article on Bill Watterson, the comic world's J.D. Salinger. Perhaps the greatest part of that article is this segment from a letter sent to Watterson upon his retirement from Calvin & Hobbes:
Hi! My name is Michael. You can call me Mike for short. I am a big fan of your books. I read the ad in the paper. I was pretty sad, but I got over it. Oh, I was wondering if I could take over but I would need instructions to draw the characters. If you say yes, Calvin and Hobbes will continue but it will be a little different. If you say No than you don't even know what will happen. Bye!
PS Please give me an answer and please write back.
- Finally, Harper's Index has done it again. Some highlights:
Total U.S. military spending the Bush Administration projects it will have spent by the end of 2008 : $3,200,000,000,000 [Office of Management and Budget (Washington)] (I don't even know how to say that number...3 trillion? or is that where we get to the point of Bazillion?)
Total U.S. military spending between 1941 and 1948 : $3,100,000,000,000 [Office of Management and Budget (Washington)]
Percentage of the White House's proposed Afghanistan spending in 2004 devoted to reconstruction : 3 [U.S. Agency for International Development (Washington)]
Number of companies that control the U.S. voting-technology market : 3 [Election Data Services (Washington)]
Percentage of votes cast in U.S. elections last year that were counted by the largest voting-technology firm : 52 [Election Systems & Software (Omaha)]
Campaign contributions that one voting-technology CEO raised to become a Bush "Pioneer" this year : $100,000 [Bush-Cheney '04, Inc. (Arlington, Va.)]
(I love it when they do the build up thing.)
Really, the rest is great too as always, check it out.
Okay, see ya later,
-Robb
