After 76 years of service, Mr. Arthur Winston will retire from his position at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority. This man has only missed one day of work in the last 60 odd years, the day his wife passed away.

Wow, that's an awesome work ethic.

LA Times Article

Dang, I'm such a flake in comparison.

If only more in this world were as principled and courageous. Mr. Al-Asadi, a journalist and newspaper editor from Yemen, faces a death sentence for printing the now notorious Danish cartoons in an editorial while trying to defend his faith ( Read more... )

So the work day drew to a close. As usual, I went to visit The LA Times to check out the current traffic conditions and to plan my drive home. A miss click brought up the day's Sudoku puzzle and I decided, what the heck, let's try it out ( Read more... )

Many of my more liberal friends really dislike The Shrub and I'm sure they would get a kick out of this routine. Heck, you could be a right wing nut and I still think this would make you laugh.

(Note, I haven't checkout the other content on this site yet. Looks SFW, but you've been warned.)

Bush Comedy Central RoastSimply well done ( Read more... )

Article 1 (Link from Instapundit)

Article 2

"Give respect before you expect it, treat people the way you would want to be treated, remember the mission, set the example and keep going."

-Lt. Vernon Baker

This is a thought provoking articleI don't usually get into politics here, but the approach presented by Kris Alexander bears some consideration. With regards to the use of military force as an implement of national policy, I'm fairly middle of the road. Force should be an item of last resort, yet I'll readily acknowledge that there are folks out ( Read more... )

Saw this on one of the blogs I follow. Would attribute if I could remember where I found it. Anyhow, follow the link and click on the video. Then read the article.

Article & Video

Well done.

In & Out 100x100.

That's so very cool. My arteries, however, doth protest.

UPDATE: gaminol found video goodness.

or more correctly, some better help.

Cripes, this has been a bad week. The lead's on vacation. Dad's out of town on business. Everyone at the shop is sick, including me. Productivity this month is in the toilet and our customers are constantly calling to chase late deliveries. And to top it all off, my classwork is pretty piss poor.

( Rant on )

So far so good. Booted up without any difficulties. All the tests are A-OK. Audio works via the 4mm jacks. Now time to install something that will test out this new Geforce 7800GT.