Just me, here
If you haven't seen crazieabby's acting debut, then go see it this weekend, fanboy. Don't make me axe you 'gain.
CNN spent all morning showing the Jewish settlers being evicted from Gaza (most of them were actually protesters who had moved in after the evacuation had begun). And I mean all morning - solid coverage until noon, plus endless recapping in the afternoon and evening. And they weren't alone: I chuckled as some of the protesters and soldiers would helpfully hold up cameras that had been jostled loose in the melee and reach them back to their owners.
I've been in protests like that, and have had friends in protests like that. There were a few differences, though: the American cops generally waded in with a bit more abandon than the Israeli soldiers did - they were armed, for one thing - and we didn't respond by throwing acid on them or trying to kick their heads in...and as opposed to the numbers in Gaza, there were a bit more than 2,000 of us, despite Faux News literally calling a crowd that stretched for several blocks "a few dozen protesters".
Oh, yeah, and we were peace protesters. Maybe that explains why we didn't get an entire morning's worth of coverage.
In other news, it looks like I won't be recalled after all. There were only two people who didn't like my report at the Montgomery Greens meeting, and neither of them mentioned the word "recall". In fact, they sounded a bit contrite, at least in regards to the other delegate's actions, or lack thereof.
I have also gone through an entire day today controlling the Fist of Death, which is desperately seeking the nose of the tech from upstairs who is working for a division of the library (Note: for an idea of how government offices and their IT staffs are organized, click here) and was last week insisting that the switch was the problem, regardless of the fact that the intermittent outages happened on machines homed to different switches, and that reports from the Un*x DHCP server showed machines on the subnet that I identified to him (which was also being distributed by those multiple switches, fancy that) were not sending acknowledgements of IP addresses given to them - indicating a possible rogue DHCP server on that subnet. Oh, no, it's the switch, you see, because you control the switches, not us, and we are never fucking wrong.
Today, three days after replacing the switch in question, he opened a ticket and told us to reboot it - because his machines were losing addresses and it was the new switch's fault, not his machines.
CNN spent all morning showing the Jewish settlers being evicted from Gaza (most of them were actually protesters who had moved in after the evacuation had begun). And I mean all morning - solid coverage until noon, plus endless recapping in the afternoon and evening. And they weren't alone: I chuckled as some of the protesters and soldiers would helpfully hold up cameras that had been jostled loose in the melee and reach them back to their owners.
I've been in protests like that, and have had friends in protests like that. There were a few differences, though: the American cops generally waded in with a bit more abandon than the Israeli soldiers did - they were armed, for one thing - and we didn't respond by throwing acid on them or trying to kick their heads in...and as opposed to the numbers in Gaza, there were a bit more than 2,000 of us, despite Faux News literally calling a crowd that stretched for several blocks "a few dozen protesters".
Oh, yeah, and we were peace protesters. Maybe that explains why we didn't get an entire morning's worth of coverage.
In other news, it looks like I won't be recalled after all. There were only two people who didn't like my report at the Montgomery Greens meeting, and neither of them mentioned the word "recall". In fact, they sounded a bit contrite, at least in regards to the other delegate's actions, or lack thereof.
I have also gone through an entire day today controlling the Fist of Death, which is desperately seeking the nose of the tech from upstairs who is working for a division of the library (Note: for an idea of how government offices and their IT staffs are organized, click here) and was last week insisting that the switch was the problem, regardless of the fact that the intermittent outages happened on machines homed to different switches, and that reports from the Un*x DHCP server showed machines on the subnet that I identified to him (which was also being distributed by those multiple switches, fancy that) were not sending acknowledgements of IP addresses given to them - indicating a possible rogue DHCP server on that subnet. Oh, no, it's the switch, you see, because you control the switches, not us, and we are never fucking wrong.
Today, three days after replacing the switch in question, he opened a ticket and told us to reboot it - because his machines were losing addresses and it was the new switch's fault, not his machines.