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Monthly Archives: April 2007

Ask Dan Lives!!!

Q: Are you still doing Ask Dan? If so here’s my question: what would you do if you were President of the US?
A: Elizabeth, you first have to realize that I’d never want the responsibility and 24/7 pressure of the office of President of the United States of America. So much stress. No [...]

ADMINISTER FREQUENT, SAVAGE BEATINGS

How do you solve a problem like Maria? A hilarious post on McSweeney’s seems to have some ideas…

Hey there, Big Brother!!

Just read an interesting article on Wired’s Gadget Lab about lip-reading software for the UK’s millions of CCTV cameras.
And the British worry that they’re “sleep-walking into a surveillance society.“

Bloggin’ from the Islands

Sunday morning my wife and I will head off to St. Martin in the Caribbean for a week vacation with her mom and sister. My hope is to hit up some WiFi action and blog the crap out of my vacation. I’ll have my digital camera and tripod with me as well, and [...]

Blog import on VIRBº

VIRBº finally rolled out the blog import feature.
Thanks to Joshua Blankenship for the heads up. Now I’ll finally have some content on my profile page since I write on my own site with reasonable frequency.

The right of the People to keep their collective mouth shut, grin, and bear it, shall not be infringed.

There’s a lot of fuss over the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution. You know the one:
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
The largest argument around this issue is the concept of gun control. [...]

Stupid Headlines Designed to Bait Readers

CNN Money has a link, as of this writing, that’s on their main page to an article titled, “Report: Apple TV sales sluggish” - certainly an eye-catching article title for most gadget heads and IT folks, or anyone caught up in the Apple hype these days.
The details, however, are far less substantive. That link [...]

The Need to Win

Today Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stated that he believes we have lost the war in Iraq. This pissed off a lot of people, namely the pseudo-opposition party of Republicans.
Why? And that’s a two-part “why” by the way; First, why are the Republicans so upset with the mere notion the we’ve lost? [...]

DICK CHENEY IN AN ELABORATE LATEX DISGUISE THAT TAKES FIVE HOURS TO APPLY

McSweeney’s has a hilarious piece up about Democratic Presidential candidates.

Model Behavior

Clay Risen writes a response for The Morning News‘ “The Non-Expert” this week about modeling. Check it out and laugh your $400 jeans off.
Once again…this exemplifies why Ask Dan never had a fighting chance