Wife barking at 9 year old to find missing dog that I let out and forgot.
14 year old sleeping; refusing to get up.
3 year old crying that she is hurt.
Me, unable to move, listening to hold music on an ear piece wired to the phone base.
Stress rising.
This from Boing Boing:
We’ve heard rumors that the Broadcast Flag that Cory, the EFF, and a coalition of pressure groups have fought so hard against (and beat in the courts) will be sneaked back via an amendment to the giant Senate Appropriations Bill in a sub-committee at 2PM EST on Tuesday 21st. This week is Hollywood’s last chance to ram the flag past Congress, and they’re working hard to get it under the radar.
There’s no time to write letters or start a media campaign: but folk in the states below have just enough time to warn their senators, who are all on the sub-committee. People of Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin – it’s up to you!
There’s a sample script after the phone list. Remember: be cool, collected and polite. Most of these senators won’t know a thing about the flag, until one of them makes it a throwaway amendment tomorrow. Make sure their ears twitch when they hear “broadcast flag” today.
ALABAMA Senator Richard Shelby (202) 224-5744
ALASKA Senator Ted Stevens (202) 224-3004
HAWAII Senator Daniel Inouye (202) 224-3934
IOWA Senator Tom Harkin (202) 224-3254
KANSAS Senator Sam Brownback (202) 224-6521
KENTUCKY Senator Mitch McConnell (202) 224-2541
MARYLAND Senator Barbara Mikulski (202) 224-4654
MISSOURI Senator Christopher Bond (202) 224-5721
NEW HAMPSHIRE Senator Judd Gregg (202) 224-3324
NEW MEXICO Senator Pete Domenici (202) 224-6621
NORTH DAKOTA Senator Byron Dorgan (202) 224-2551
TEXAS Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (202) 224-5922
VERMONT Senator Patrick Leahy (202) 224-4242
WASHINGTON Senator Patty Murray (202) 224-2621
WISCONSIN Senator Herb Kohl (202) 224-5653“Hello, Senator _________’s office”
“Hi, I’m a constituent. [Remember: Only say ‘I’m a constituent’ if you really are — if you’re calling the Senator from _your own state_] I’m registering my opposition to the broadcast flag amendment being introduced in the Senate Commerce Justice and Science Appropriations subcommittee mark-up on Tuesday, and in full committee on Thursday.”
(*** You can give your own reasons for opposing the flag here. Here’s a sample: ***)
“The Broadcast Flag cripples any device capable of receiving over-the-air digital broadcasts.”
“It give Hollywood movie studios a permanent veto over how members of the American public use our televisions.”
“It forces American innovators to beg the FCC for permission before adding new features to TV.”
“It will prevent fair use of copyrighted works: critical review, and use of material in distance learning”
“This is an important issue which will affect all Americans, and should not be inserted in a large bill, at the last moment, with no debate.”
“Please oppose the broadcast flag amendment. My name and address are ___________________.”
“Thank you for your time.”
Good luck!
Then the update:
You can now fax and email appropriation committee members for free at the EFF’s action center. Do it tonight, or live with the consequences of a Hollywood veto over your PC forever.
I really enjoy programming! I wish I could do it in these wee hours without feeling so tired.
My anxiety is so high that the dizzy spells are trying to come back. I can feel it when I lie down and stand up.
I came upstairs this morning to find Amy asleep in a laundry basket. I wonder how long she slept there.
To all the dads out there: “Happy Father’s Day!”
To all the children: “Take care of your dad today be it through a phone call, visit, hug or in memory.”
To all the dads yet to be: “It’s worth it!”
To the moms: “Thanks for letting us be dads!”
So I have 3 law mowers and none of them run. That is, until yesterday. I finally took some time to clean up one. I removed the gas tank and carburetor cleaning them thoroughly. Got a new airfilter and did the oddest thing..I soaked it in motor oil (as instructed). I’m still baffled.
Mower started up and with the exception of a few putters it is running fine. I think I’ll work on the other two and have some fun in the yard this week.
Today is the end of the week and I want everything off my plate. Everything completes! Today!
I just went outside and scare the dickens out of a raccoon (good picture at wikipedia). It shot up the tree and I raced in for my flashlight. Cute baby coon. I placed a apple in what remains of my hand-made bird’s nest.
Animals I have seen in this yard:
If one thing would help my career and productivity more than anything else it would be a new, rockin’ laptop!
Wahoo! In all my networking genius I’ve finally fixed my permissions problem that was preventing me from getting work done from my wife’s computer.
You know. I’m happy for the Internet. Without the Internet I would be living in denial. How could I have ever fooled myself into thinking my penis was adequate?! Thank you Internet for simultaneously helping me recognize my deficiencies and providing a solution in an easy to swallow capsule. You can quit sending me emails now.
Knoxville is honored with a reference in this Slashdot article (which originates from this CNN article)
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee (AP) — The government is offering a rare glimpse of the massive machines used to enrich uranium for the “Little Boy” bomb — the first atomic weapon used in war, dropped 60 years ago in August on Hiroshima, Japan.
Ummm.. Weren’t they tearing all that down?
“Don’t you know the people in Knoxville wondered what in the world was going on out here,” Department of Energy guide Ray Smith said Monday. “All this material was coming in, truckload after truckload, and nothing ever left.”
If you squint and read that, I think they might be poking fun on our intelligence.
Boing Boing tells us of the secret service bullying a person to remove a photo collection from Flickr.