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Friday, April 09, 2004

On a Mission to Fix all the Pot Holes in Boston

  
Just got this invitation:
JOIN At-Large City Councillor Maura Hennigan at a public hearing on potholes & problem sidewalks in the City of Boston.

Councillor Hennigan has called upon upon the Commissioner of Public Works to provide an inventory of temporary repairs that need to be permanently fixed as well as a plan and schedule to get the job done. Among Hennigan's many questions is why the over $22 million that is allocated for permanent repair of our street and sidewalks is not being used.

Friday, April 16 at 10:30am in the Iannella Chamber (City Council Chamber)
There are a bunch of potholes I need to complain about.

I sent Councillor Hennigan photographic proof of these two on Orchard Street.

Media production for the people

Unmediated.
unmediated is a group blog that tracks the tools, processes, and ideas being used to decentralize media production and distribution.
Interesting content like MyMarathonDVD.
via [ Jeff ]

Federal Censorship Commission


Neal Boortz redesigns the FCC logo.
via [ Jeff Jarvis ]

Omarosa, Oprah, and delirious and wasted women!

Omarosa hawks tell-all book, as production secrets of 'The Apprentice' slip out.
"There was a lot more drinking on the show than you saw. Sometimes they wouldn't feed us and we'd have drinks. I think they'd hold off on serving the food because [when we were] delirious and wasted, we would say anything."
More beer here.

$14 Steady-Cam

the poor man's Steadicam?
With the right tools, I just might be able to make this!

Passover Song Parodies

The Passover seder we go to is creative. We sing songs to the theme of Gilligans Island for fun.

I found some new songs for next year:
Elijah
(Sung to the tune of "Maria")


Elijah!
I just saw the prophet Elijah.
And suddenly that name
Will never sound the same to me.
Elijah!

And then there's this classic:
Hey, Frogs
(sung to the tune of “Hey Jude”)

(by Gary Teblum)

Hey frogs, please go away
You’re a bad plague that gets no better
Miztrayim is suffering from this plague
If I relent, will it get better?

Two more:
Yesterday
(Sung to the tune of “Yesterday”)

(by Gary Teblum)

Yesterday
We were slaves in Egypt yesterday
Now be thankful that we’re free today
We must remember yesterday

And finally:
Who Let the Jews Out
(Sung to the tune of "Who Let the Dogs Out")

(by Jonathan Gleich)

Who let the Jews out?
Oy, Oy, Oy, OY!
Who let the Jews out?
Oy, Oy, Oy, OY!
Who let the Jews out?
Oy, Oy, Oy, OY!
Who let the Jews out?
Next year will be sick!

George Says


George Says, "Off On A Tangent would be a daily read for me, that is if I read anything daily. Which I don't."
via [ J-Walk ]

Fan Mail From Some Flounder?

Tim McIntire, a daily reader of this blog, sends this in, "Where else can I get politics AND American Idol updates?"

Nowhere else Tim!

Thanks for reading.

Make A Button

Make a button over here.

They come out like this:

Thursday, April 08, 2004

I'll bet all my life savings, $138K, on Black. No... Red.

Man to bet all on Vegas roulette spin
A British man who has sold all his possessions, including his clothes, will stand in a rented tuxedo on Sunday and bet everything on a single spin of the roulette wheel.
via [ popcultablog ]

Fresh Paint


The Swan Boats of Boston open on Saturday April 17th.

The Swan Boats of Boston Official Website.

"You're Gonna Be On Fire," Donald Trump


Trump is popular in Iraq too.

Actress Ashley Olsen


Actress Ashley Olsen, the cute one.

Olsen Twins with goopy stuff all over them.

Where culture goes pop

popcultablog is Dave Pell's new blog, which he describes as:
Howard Stern's id meets Beyonce's midriff meets Sunday nights on HBO meets Charlie Kaufman's unconscious meets Larry David's disposition meets JLo's Ass.
I'll be reading to see if it's true.

Pin the tail on the donkeys

Evan Coyne Maloney produced a video that quizzes Bush protesters.

It's very well done.

WARNING! tax system about to collapse!

For the IRS There's No EZ Fix.
By assembling a star-studded team of vendors, the IRS thought its $8 billion modernization project would manage itself. The IRS thought wrong. Now the agency's ability to collect revenue, conduct audits and go after tax evaders has been severely compromised.
Chumworth passed this along to me with a note: apparently, jfk era code is all that's propping up the entire irs tax database.

It'd be a lot simpler if everyone just paid a flat tax.

Scrap the whole thing I say and save us some money!

Wild animals are trying to reclaim the city

I had to stop the car on Pond street right in front of the Showa Boston for this turkey who was walking in my lane, straight towards my car.

Good thing I had my little camera to take a shot.

Unfortunately, the camera is digital and it was in PLAY mode, so when I turned it on, I couldn't snap a shot right away.

Then I switched it to record and finally was able to get a shot off at the turkey, but he was already on the sidewalk.

My neighbor tells me that there's a herd or gaggle of turkey that live up by Hellenic College. I'll have to take a walk up there sometime.

In other overrun by wildlife news, the racoon cage has now been reset with 9 Lives cat food. Maybe that'll catch the terror racoons.

Also, now there a loud tapping sound on the side of my house. So loud in fact, that it woke me up.

I think it's a Starling that's knocking on the side of the house. Cute name for a loud bird.

I don't think it's a woodpecker, haven't seen any of these around.

I ran outside with my binoculars, while dressed in my sweatpants and slippers to catch a glimpse of the annoying bird.

So as I'm standing out on my side walk with binoculars trained at the roof of my house, my neighbors walks by. Ha.

I told her what I was looking for. Then we recapped the wildlife invasion and it's status.

Squirrel - Caught and removed to Revere.
Possum - Captured and removed.
Racoons - Still on the loose.
Starling - Status unknown.

My neighbor told me that she woke up to what she thought was a woman's scream. It was a racoon.

Probably upset at the removal of her friends, the squirrel and the possum.

I bet that that squirrel that we banished to Revere told his bird friends to fly over here to annoy us!

To be continued...

Dating is like football

Tonight I was impressed with Jesse Palmer, The Bachelor, when he told Chris Harrison:
"I'm gonna do it and I'm gonna do it now. Let's go!"
I could just imagine him in the huddle saying that to his teammates.

Learn about the women vying for 'The Bachelor's' heart.


Mandy C. is my early favorite.

Wednesday, April 07, 2004

The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party

TheocracyWatch.org
This site is not about religion, nor about Christianity, nor about Republicans. This site is about how a small group of Republican strategists targeted a religious constituency to expand the base of their party, and how a small group of religious extremists targeted the Republican Party to bring the United States government under religious control.
Thanks God they put this website up.

It's a bunch of Happy Robot stuff

Happy Robot.

Robot Journal.

Robot Filter.