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Jon Stewart, Cynical Youth and Voting

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Politics

A Wash­ing­ton Post colum­nist posted an arti­cle last Fri­day cov­er­ing a bit of research claim­ing that Jon Stewart’s pop­u­lar comedy/news show on the Com­edy Chan­nel may cause peo­ple to stop vot­ing. The report’s title was not given, nor was there any link to the results. So we have no way to read the report for […]

Tags: Links, quotes, voting, youth

Read more | Comments (1) | Jun 26, 2006

Trying to lose my business?

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

Back in April, we bought a new car from Carousel Motors. And until yes­ter­day, it’s been great. I let me explain… Yes­ter­day, I went home for my lunch hour. When my time was up, I went down to the car to get back to work. The car unlocked and started up with­out any prob­lems. What […]

Tags: coffee, corporate, driving, home, park, problem, VW, youth

Read more | Comments (5) | Jun 20, 2006

Bigots and Marriage

Posted by Mark | Filed under Politics, Rants

I had been con­sid­er­ing right­ing up my feel­ing regard­ing this insane pro­posal to amend the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion to steal the rights of a sub­set of Amer­i­can cit­i­zens. How­ever I was catch­ing up on the news in the blog­sphere when I stum­bled upon Mr. Scalzi’s dis­cus­sion of the sub­ject: Why aren’t peo­ple ask­ing the mar­riage bigots […]

Tags: crap, quotes, reading, Scalzi

Read more | Comments (9) | Jun 6, 2006

Employment Woes

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

Wednes­day morn­ing, my super­vi­sor pulled me aside to tell me since man­age­ment wants to go into beta just before I take 2 days of vaca­tion. And since one of those vaca­tion days con­flicts with a week long Microsoft train­ing course I was signed up for they are pulling me out of the class. I wasn’t […]

Tags: dinner, HAL, home, humour, office, problem, sleep, sound, vacation

Read more | Comments (1) | Apr 28, 2006

Cellphones suck!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Rants

I con­fess. I’m a technophile. I like read­ing about new tech­nolo­gies and gad­gets. Even bet­ter, I like own­ing new tech­nolo­gies and gad­gets. And yet, I don’t have a cell­phone of my own. I bought one for my wife but that was only because she was doing a lot of dri­ving out into the boonies of […]

Tags: adverts, Apple, corporate, driving, iPod, money, MP3, reading, sound, suck, weight, Wife

Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 18, 2005