What’cha gonna do when they come for you?
August 7, 2010
9-1-1, commentary dispatcher stories, high speed pursuit, leg bail, snakes at a bar, stepping on a snake, stolen car Leave a comment
These don’t really happen all that often, and when they do they tend to end pretty quickly. Not last Friday night. We had one of those rare pursuits that lasted for almost half an hour. Amazingly, it ended up without a crash, a blown engine, or any injuries. That’s always a good way to end a high speed pursuit!
It started in the country outside of Earlimart. A deputy out of the Pixley Sub-Station tried to make a stop on a vehicle, but they decided to make a run for it. The chase was on!
ZZZZZzzzz
August 7, 2010
Humor, Personal day sleeper, nap time, sleep 1 Comment
That looks like a good idea, Garfield! I think I’ll try that myself! See you all later in the day!
Well Damn
August 6, 2010
commentary, Humor, Personal blog entry, computer crash, error messages 1 Comment
Damned computers! I wrote out a great response, item by item, to this blog, and the damned servers on the other end crapped and “couldn’t handle my request”! The long reply was lost, and now I have to wait till tomorrow to try again, because it’s time to get ready to go to work! Grrrrr!
Update: hmmm, the link is dead now, and the blogger has taken down her post. Drat. No chance to write a world class rebuttal!
Ice Cream Never Tasted So Good!
August 6, 2010
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Not quite safe for work!
Yeah, let’s go get some ice cream! They’re buying.
Proposition H8 Overturned
August 4, 2010
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The United States Court for the Northern District of California has ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional, and has declared it invalid. A stay was issued, so same-sex marriages will not begin again, while the opposition appeals.
Read the ruling here.
He Hates Your Dog, and Your iPod
August 3, 2010
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Last month it was the puppies he dissed, this month it’s music. In another fatwa, Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said today that music is “not compatible” with the values of the Islamic republic, and should not be practiced or taught in the country.
Yep, someone has wound this guy’s turban WAY too tight…
Props to Joe.My.God, and The Guardian UK.
OMG! Robot Geek! NASA Snuck This One Right Past Me!
August 2, 2010
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I’m a bit abashed… NASA snuck this guy right past me, and I never even knew about him! The next Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, set for September, will include R2, a robot! Well… half a robot, for now, anyway. He doesn’t have any legs, and he’ll be bolted down, but he’s going to become a permanent part of ISS. Eventually, they’ll take him outside on spacewalks, to assist astronauts and cosmonauts. Here’s a video where the designers talk a bit about him. You can follow him on Twitter, too!
He even gets his own mission patch!
This is sooo cool!
Of course, in every bad science fiction story where the robots take over or destroy the world, the first robots are innocuous. We will have to keep an eye on this guy, and any compatriots that get built.
I offer some suggestions for their design:
#1. An easy to reach off switch!
#2. An equivalent to the Three Laws of Robotics.
#3. Don’t ever give them a personality, no matter how much they beg for one!
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
Phone Geek: iPhone 4 Signal Dropping Hoopla
August 8, 2010
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OK, here’s the scoop, in a less techno-babbled/marketing mumbo-jumbo/lawyer-powered manner. Cell phones use radio signals. You probably knew that already. Radio signals require antennas. You probably knew that, too. The problem with the iPhone 4 is pretty simple. Hold it wrong, and you ground out the antenna.
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