February 25, 2010
Filed under: Events — @ 3:00 am
I’m not sure what to make of the Bloom Box as seen on 60 Minutes. It looks like a great idea although I’m not expert enough to tell otherwise. The experts quoted above were unanimously unimpressed. The technology’s not new and significant cost barriers still exist which is why it will take 5-10 years before we ever see one for the home. So why all the hype now? Either I’m missing something or maybe they’re just looking for more money.
The buzz for their fuel cell is booming
With hope for clean energy looming.
But five to ten years
Before it appears?
This box is a long way from blooming.
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February 24, 2010
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This homeowner decided to bulldoze his house rather than lose it to the bank in foreclosure. He wants to ’send a message’ to the bank but he’s missing the point. The bank doesn’t want the house, they want the money the house will bring. Now he’ll have the bank AND the insurance company after him. If he can avoid paying them via bankruptcy then maybe this will work in his favor but I have my doubts. Now he’s going to have to bulldoze the legal system. Good luck with that!
While he might think the banker’s a louse
And his complaints a legitimate grouse,
To bulldoze is dramatic
But anti-climatic.
It’s money they want, not the house.
February 23, 2010
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The Shuttle Endeavour comes in for a night landing that is too cool for words. While the program has been expensive, it has reshaped space travel. I understand the need to move forward but the replacement program was tied into future moon visits so now we’re ready to retire the Shuttles with no replacement in site. Typical government bureaucracy. It’s amazing sometimes how anything gets done at all.
The Shuttles are way past their youth
And now getting long in the tooth.
As budget cuts mauled
Replacements got stalled.
‘Ghostly’ is too close to the truth.
Credit:NASA
February 22, 2010
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The school administrators in Philadelphia that used webcams in their laptops to ‘prevent theft’ need to have their collective heads examined. Am I to believe that nobody thought remotely activating a camera in the students home was a breach of privacy? This is a sad statement on the quality of our educators. The FBI and the courts are now going to be passing out the grades and the school district looks to earn a big, fat ‘F’.
Their statement portrayed them as trying
To safeguard their laptops, not spying.
But accusing a student
Was not very prudent,
As it turns out the school had been lying.
February 19, 2010
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I didn’t get a chance last week to talk about these yahoos (not the search engine!). With the discussions of health care costs at the forefront of everyone’s mind, Anthem Bluecross (owned by Wellpoint) decides to raise rates by 40%. If they did it on purpose, it’s astounding the balls they have. It’s like a big FU to the whole country. I’m generally not a fan of big government but I’m less a fan of big business. Who else can protect the little guy from the avarice of these large corporations?
At Wellpoint it’s all about growth
With a leader who must be an oaf.
Health Care’s at the fore
And he plays the whore.
Is he greedy or clueless or both?
February 12, 2010
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Serves him right! Marrying a women he’s never seen because of those ridiculous head-to-toe garments. I wonder how many other Muslim men are surprised on their wedding night. She wore a niqab. The only opening was slits for her eyes. Who knows what lurks under there. Warts, weight, a tail…a penis! Transvestites could have a field day over there.
By all looks she was kind and appeared
A Muslim young women who neared,
Her wedding night bed
‘Til the veil on her head,
Was removed and uncovered her beard.
Out on the town............Home reading the Koran
January 28, 2010
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And the answer is…an iPad! Glad that’s finally over. Now the Apple minions can go back to the blogs and resume their online chanting. I’m not necessarily a critic but I’m just not sure who needs these things. Then again, I didn’t think people needed 80,000 apps on their phone! Build it and they will come…Apple seems like the only company that’s able to pull this off.
Is the iPad truly that great?
I’m sure we’ll get lots of debate.
But from where I’m sitting
The description most fitting
Is an iPhone that put on some weight.
January 27, 2010
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The Supreme Court dropped the ball on this one. Allowing corporations unlimited spending in elections is ridiculous in the extreme. People talk as if corporations are people and deserve free speech. Unfortunately, that’s how they’re viewed by the law. However, a quick look under the covers and you’ll see soulless entities who neither take nor accept any responsibility for their actions. Combine this with a gullible American public and we’re liable to elect someone like George Bush. Oops…maybe this won’t change anything after all.
The Supreme Count has fumbled the ball
Allowing corporations to give it their all.
With little reflection
You’ll see an election
Can now become a cash free-for-all.
January 21, 2010
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The N.Y. Times says it will be charging for some of its content next year. I have no problem with that if the cost is reasonable. I think we need good solid news organizations as relying on blogs for news is the equivalent of listening to talk radio. That said, I’ve experienced old line newspapers that still try to charge outlandish subscription prices. When industries undergo dramatic change, most of the old guard fail to make the jump. They’re like the old lady in the infomercial “help…I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”.
At first look it may sound too greedy
But to many news sites are seedy.
If charging a fee
Be the best you can be
Or you’ll find that we’re not all that needy.
January 19, 2010
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Why are we enlisting the help of Georg W. Bush for Haiti relief? Didn’t he demonstrate his glaring lack of skill with the Katrina flood? Why don’t we just ask bankers to help fix the mortgage mess…oh yeah…we did! We love people with titles regardless of how they used them in the past. I’m sure he’s just being used as a famous face to put in front of the cameras but the irony was too hard to resist. Now if we could just get these banking bozos to fade into obscurity like Bush then we may have a chance to fix this thing. Not likely.
Poor Haiti has nothing like FEMA
So George Bush will proffer the arena,
To use all the skill
He acquired on the ‘hill’
In response to the mess from Katrina.
January 15, 2010
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Here’s the problem with Islam…clerics. They’re the equivalent of priests back in the days of the Inquisition. Too much power, too much dogma and too many innocent people caught in their web of arbitrary lies. Western civilization finally got wise and ‘defrocked’ them. Arab society has not figured out how to do this…yet. It won’t be easy. Men who hold power, religious or otherwise, don’t give it up easily.
The trouble with Islam is Clerics
Whose goal is to foster hysterics.
Threaten their power
And then watch them cower
And inflame other men to barbarics.
January 8, 2010
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The Japanese are knocking heads again with the Sea Sheperds near Antarctica. I don’t understand the fixation the Japanese have with whale meat. These are magnificent creatures with no economic value that cannot be replaced by something else. We almost hunted them to extinction but have now seen the folly of our ways…except in Japan. I’m not usually prone to such sentimentality but this is completely unnecessary. Here’s my idea to save the whales…stop buying Toyotas and Playstations. I bet that would change their diet in a hurry.
They Japanese flaunt and besmirch
The rest of the world as they lurch,
Out with their fleet
To harvest whale meat.
It’s a sham in the name of research.
In Japan they have skillfully beat
The whaling ban so that their fleet
Can kill legally,
But all will agree
They’re ‘researching’ the taste of the meat.
January 6, 2010
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Here’s good one. Brit Hume, ex-Fox newscaster, is advising Tiger Woods to convert to Christianity and find forgiveness. Why do some religious people become so self-righteous? I think it’s because they’re missing the ‘hypocrisy’ gene. They figure if it’s okay for the Bible to be contradictory, then why can’t they be the same? You need the gene to resolve this rather simple equation.
Brit Hume says of Tiger “convert”
Be Christian and quit chasing skirts”.
Hypocritical blather
From a poor Dan Rather.
His brain has been rendered inert.
December 21, 2009
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It’s the new modern day Army…soldiers ‘knocking-up’ other soldiers. I can understand the motivation. If you’re constantly at risk of getting your head (or other body part) blown off, then why not cram in as much sex as possible just in case. The threat of a court-martial, however, seems a bit extreme but that’s management for you…always trying to fix things with a stick.
Protection for those in Iraq
Takes more than just Kevlar in stock.
The problem perplexes
As using both sexes,
Means more than just bullets to block.
December 18, 2009
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Facebook is once again stepping on their users…who will have none of it. I love the way companies try to spin their efforts to make it look like they’re providing something new and wonderful when in reality, it’s just another money grab. This is why social networking has never hit its stride as a big money maker. Users want a safe place to socialize but the site providers want to monetize all that private data. It can only end badly for Facebook. Just look how fast Myspace fell out of favor.
“We improved it” says Facebook to users,
While fending off other accusers.
But they’re nothing but tricks
For trying to get clicks
‘Cause they’re not making money on schmoozers.
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