Entries written in June 2005

Written June 30, 2005 in Uncategorized

Bush creates National Security Service!
President Bush on Wednesday directed the creation of a new National Security Service within the FBI, one of 70 recommendations on improving the intelligence community he endorsed from the White House WMD commission.

“Psst, hey George, didn't you already know that there was an agency called the NSA/CSS that does basically what [...]

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Written June 29, 2005 in Uncategorized

Okay, so it looks kind of cool but come on.  The fucking Freedom Tower?!  It's as if they were sitting around with some hash and a magic 8-ball during the naming process.  Also, is it just me or does it look the building is flicking off the entire world?  I imagine that is the east-facing [...]

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Written June 29, 2005 in Uncategorized

From FAIR:
6/29/05 
After George W. Bush's June 28 speech about Iraq, MSNBC's Hardball presented viewers with a decidedly skewed “town meeting” featuring a panel dominated by Iraq war boosters.
The two-hour coverage, hosted by Chris Matthews, was anchored by a panel discussion that featured MSNBC reporter Norah O'Donnell, Islam scholar Reza Aslan, and four conservative Bush [...]

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Written June 29, 2005 in Uncategorized

I just moved this to the top of my NetFlix queue and I can't wait to see it.

In the Realms of the Unreal
It's a documentary about reclusive artist Henry Darger whose most notable work is his 15,000 page opus entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the [...]

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Written June 29, 2005 in Uncategorized

It's another one of those days.  Grim, grey, and disgustingly humid it makes you want to just stay inside and hold everything in contempt.  It's rainy, but not so much and yet hot enough to be very uncomfortable.  It's times like these that I really dislike Florida.
The world and news organizations are all reacting to [...]

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Written June 29, 2005 in Uncategorized

Found @ Tony Pierce's blog
~FryGuy

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Written June 29, 2005 in Uncategorized

The House of Cosbys will be taken offline today due to Mr. Cosby's lawyers.  Be sure to watch it before they take it off as it is fucking hilarious.
::Boing Boing
~FryGuy

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Written June 29, 2005 in Uncategorized

The Machinist a pseudo-thriller about a man's apparent descent into madness.  Trevor Reznick hasn't slept in over a year and he doesn't know why.  After a series of bizarre events and strange encounters he begins to question his own sanity.  Where it leads him is down a dark and confusing journey through his own shattered [...]

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Written June 29, 2005 in Uncategorized

I just fell in love with Google Video as I watched free episodes of The Family Guy from beginning to end.
Check it out.
~FryGuy

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Written June 28, 2005 in Uncategorized

A/M seeks random words and strange situations from WF/WM/BF/BMLFMW(?) for hot writing session.  Must be original and willing to have their words and intentions totally misconstrued by a beer-loving writer-type person.  Also, words and phrases must be real, no sniglets or onomatopoeia sound effects.  Please apply below.
The last time I did this I got enough [...]

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Written June 28, 2005 in Uncategorized

Ok Go's - A Million Ways to Be Cruel

Fucking awesome, and way to get it all in one take fellas.
~FryGuy

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Written June 28, 2005 in Uncategorized

Ha!
Credit:
WOW Report
Defamer
~FryGuy

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Written June 28, 2005 in Uncategorized

Google hit $300 a share!  And it is still going up, although if I had real money invested in it I'd probably sell right about now.  Who knows though, with the news that Google might start a PayPal like service their stock may continue to rise.
So the current portfolio looks like this:

Symbol
Quantity
Curr Price
Curr Value
Gain/Loss

AAPL
4000
37.4301
149,720.49
17,830.45

BKS
1200
38.73
46,476.00
12,846.05

PCS
4500
9.56
43,020.00
1,365.05

GOOG
2500
306.97
767,425.00
203,935.10

HPQ
2000
23.57
47,140.00
4,090.05

DELL
1250
39.471
49,338.75
396.30

NFLX
1200
16
19,200.00
-101.95

AWA
2000
5.67
11,340.00
910.05

WFMI
1000
118.89
118,890.00
-199.95

Total Equity: [...]

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Written June 28, 2005 in Uncategorized

Doctors 'find dead foetus in boy'

Doctors in Bangladesh say they have removed a long-dead foetus from the abdomen of a teenage boy who was complaining of stomach pains.  They said the foetus would have become the boy's twin had it grown normally in their mother's womb.
They said it was a case of an extremely rare [...]

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Written June 28, 2005 in Uncategorized

France Chosen as Site for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Project

PARIS, June 28 (Xinhuanet) — French President Jacques Chirac on Tuesday hailed the choice of France as host of the world's first nuclear fusion reactor and said that he would visit the site in the southern French city of Cadarache on Thursday.
    Earlier Tuesday, [...]

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