Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in Politics on Aug 31st, 2008
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef in Kansas wanted to start testing all its meat for Mad Cow disease (currently only 1% of our meat is tested for the incurable disease that lays waste to the human brain), but the Bush administration stopped them because larger meat packing firms feared that if Creekstone Farms Premium Beef succeeded [...]
Posted in Humor on Aug 30th, 2008
Yes, Thirty Dollars. That is what ZYZZYX RD. made in its box office run. To be fair it was ran in just one theater for one week just to meet SAG requirements, as the director wanted foreign distribution before it would be tackled by domestic distribution… Actually, after you take out the $10 refund to [...]
Posted in General on Aug 28th, 2008
I just saw a trailer for yet another ping pong movie, and then one for soccer, and I started thinking, I have seen movies based on lots of sports: all the aforementioned, golf, football, basketball, a few others, but never one for rugby. Oddly, the very next trailer I clicked at random on Apple’s Trailer [...]
A moment of humor for everyone:
Hmm…. It looks like all my posts lost their Categories and Tags. Hopefully this is just a temporary hiccup on the database.
Tags are back, and older posts have their Categories back, but my list for categories for new posts is gone now. Even going to Manage > Categories shows a blank list. I think my [...]
We likely will loose our Internet connection for a while until we can get caught up on all our other bills. So I probably won’t be able to make any posts for a while or approve comments (or watch for ones that got marked as Spam on accident). I should still be able to check [...]
Posted in Politics on Aug 25th, 2008
Bob Barr is the Libertarian Party candidate for President. I normally support the Libertarian Party candidate, but this time I am not so sure I can. I am fine with him changing his mind on the War on Drugs, same sex marriage, his original support of the Patriot Act and his original support for the [...]
Posted in General on Aug 25th, 2008
Most of the family already knows, as does most of our friends. For the rest of our family and friends who may not have heard the news, Sara is pregnant. We have a medical confirmation, and she’ll be going for her first pre-natal visit soon. The current expected date is in April.
Posted in New Zealand on Aug 25th, 2008
I am back on the wanting to move to New Zealand bandwagon again.
As much as I like the idea of moving to Nelson, New Zealand, I think we would likely do Wellington. Sara was hot for the idea for a short while, but has cooled off again… It is far from everyone we know, but [...]
Posted in WordPress on Aug 23rd, 2008
I use Akismet to block comment spam. For one of the very few times in the last few years of using it, I looked through the comments it caught and I found 3 comments out of 60 or so that weren’t spam.
After a bit of searching on Akismet false positives I am now convinced that [...]
Posted in Politics on Aug 23rd, 2008
I saw a report that illegal Mexican immigrants are returning to Mexico in record numbers (story). A part of it is the fear over the tougher stance of illegal immigration, but the biggest part is America’s softening economy. Of course apparently lots of Mexican’s resent them returning since they are afraid that it will drive [...]
Posted in Politics on Aug 23rd, 2008
McCain, and tons of others, talk about how America was founded on Judea-Christian traditions. however, even Thomas Jefferson (yes, THE Thomas Jefferson, renowned Founding Father, favored among Liberals, Neo-Cons, Evangelicals and more) noted: “The proof of the contrary, which you have adduced, is incontrovertible; to wit, that the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were [...]
Posted in Politics on Aug 23rd, 2008
Some polls suggest up to 73% of American’s support offshore drilling to help decrease our dependence on foreign oil.There are just so many problems it hard to know where to start… so I’ll just make a little list in no particular order.
Before I go on, I should point out that I don’t necessarily oppose offshore [...]
Posted in General on Aug 16th, 2008
McCain said in a new media briefing where he was talking about the Russian invasion of Georgia, that “in the 21st Century, Nations don’t invade other Nations.” Now… um… I don’t know what planet he lives on, but somebody on his staff needs to inform him that the US invaded Iraq, and perhaps remind [...]
Posted in General on Aug 15th, 2008
As I reported before, I am trying out a Hackintosh (running OS X on my non-Mac machine). A few initial thoughts from a long time Windows user.
First, let’s back up. My initial experience with computers was a Vic 20, followed by Apple IIs, all in school, and I longed for an Amiga when they were [...]
Posted in General on Aug 10th, 2008
I am trying to get OSX (the Macintosh operating system) running on my PC. This made more difficult by a few facts. First having a nVidia chipset rather than an Intel chipset. The bigger issue is that I have an AMD processor rather than an Intel processor. While AMD is Intel compatible, it makes for [...]
Posted in General on Aug 10th, 2008
Our phone service is back, but we’ll be back off the Internet again soon. I will try to check my main hotmail account every few days or at least once a week at work… worse comes to worse we can go to my Mom’s or Sara’s parent’s house to check on stuff.
Posted in General on Aug 6th, 2008
Bush: China must end detentions, ensure freedoms, the headline alone screams about the hypocrisy of Bush and his administration. Then you hit his quote, “America stands in firm opposition to China’s detention of political dissidents, human rights advocates and religious activists.” Let’s see… political dissidents held in prison by the US, check… raging a war [...]
Imajica: Featuring New Illustrations and an Appendix by Clive Barker