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fuckyeahengineeringstudent: It all makes sense!

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:25:12 -0800

fuckyeahengineeringstudent:

It all makes sense!

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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:05:48 -0800

fiorellini: I will never forget how easy it was to find this...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:26:46 -0800

fiorellini:

I will never forget how easy it was to find this place.

Another reason to go to England/Wales

Is she inside my head...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:18:52 -0800

I have had days like this, thankful that nothing died, blew up or had a flat tire, but at the same time wanted to strangle someone who was the cause of things ALMOST going south…

naimhe:

I have nothing interesting to report tonight. No structures attempted to set themselves on fire, no critters got lost, injured or stuck in holes.

I’m irritated about the same irritating things and am finding it really irritating to be irritated again so I’m staying up past bedtime even though I’m sleepy so I can force myself to stop being irritated otherwise I’m likely to dream about stabbing people and that’s rarely a good thing.

Is she inside my head?

wilwheaton: fishingboatproceeds: mattfisher: Today, in...

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:23:37 -0700

wilwheaton:

fishingboatproceeds:

mattfisher:

Today, in response to my blog post entitled “My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court,” Progressive released a statement saying that ”Progressive did not serve as the attorney for the defendant” in my sister’s case. I am not a lawyer, but this is what I observed in the courtroom during my sister’s trial:

At the beginning of the trial on Monday, August 6th, an attorney identified himself as Jeffrey R. Moffat and stated that he worked for Progressive Advanced Insurance Company. He then sat next to the defendant. During the trial, both in and out of the courtroom, he conferred with the defendant. He gave an opening statement to the jury, in which he proposed the idea that the defendant should not be found negligent in the case. He cross-examined all of the plaintiff’s witnesses. On direct examination, he questioned all of the defense’s witnesses. He made objections on behalf of the defendant, and he was a party to the argument of all of the objections heard in the case. After all of the witnesses had been called, he stood before the jury and gave a closing argument, in which he argued that my sister was responsible for the accident that killed her, and that the jury should not decide that the defendant was negligent.

I am comfortable characterizing this as a legal defense.

I wrote about this case on my blog because I felt that, in the wake of my sister’s death, Progressive had sought out ways to meet their strict legal obligation while still disrespecting my sister’s memory and causing my family a world of hurt. Their statement disavowing their role in this case, a case in which their attorney stood before my sister’s jury and argued on behalf of her killer, is simply infuriating.

Progressive, which apparently sucks at being an insurance company, definitely sucks at the #1 rule of the Internet, as famous coined by Wil Wheaton: Don’t be a dick.

Every step Progressive takes in this mess is only progressively more dickish: There is the initial dickishness of defending your client’s killer in court.

Then there is the dickishness of smearing the dead woman’s brother for having done nothing but tell the truth.

And then there is the dickishness of deceptively claiming not to have defended your client’s killer when you know full damn well what you did and why you did it.

You can buy all the cute commercials in the world. You’ll still be a dick.

Progressive’s behaviour in this case has been repugnant, and unless and until the company does the right thing, it is unworthy of any decent person’s business.

Cancel your Progressive policy, and tell them why.

thedorseyshawexperience: 21 Indispensable Writing Tips From...

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:13:59 -0700

thedorseyshawexperience:

21 Indispensable Writing Tips From Famous Authors

Sorry...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:15:33 -0700

naimhe:

crustyfrog replied to your post: Gods save me from store bought eggs

What is a store egg?

A commercially produced egg purchased at the store or from a wholesaler as opposed to family farm eggs where the hens are fed differently and the eggs aren’t bleached to make their shells a uniform color.

davereed: jedigrrrl: aaaaaand this is why I love Simon Pegg SO...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:14:51 -0700

davereed:

jedigrrrl:

aaaaaand this is why I love Simon Pegg SO much <3

via scott-tape

laughterkey: Are you a nerd who likes falling asleep to white...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:49:48 -0700

laughterkey:

Are you a nerd who likes falling asleep to white noise?

Here’s 24 hours of the Star Trek TNG Enterprise at idle, for your sleeping pleasure.

wilwheaton: I’m not saying that I stayed up too late watching...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:48:40 -0700

wilwheaton:

I’m not saying that I stayed up too late watching Van Sessions from Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers… but I’m not not saying that.

Madonna - Material Girl - Cover by Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers - Van Session (by nbluhm)

Craig: A lot of people aren’t into Doctor Who. I know that...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:25:44 -0700

Craig: A lot of people aren’t into Doctor Who. I know that seems odd to you -
Chris: I don’t understand what you’re saying. Those words make no sense to me.

TSA Freaks Out, Gets Longtime Critic Bruce Schneier Kicked Off Of Oversight Hearing

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:19:52 -0700

TSA Freaks Out, Gets Longtime Critic Bruce Schneier Kicked Off Of Oversight Hearing:

wilwheaton:

TechDirt:

He didn’t get sick or have something better to do. Hell, he didn’t even miss a flight. Instead, according to Schneier, the TSA itself had him removed from the panel:

On Friday, at the request of the TSA, I was removed from the witness list. The excuse was that I am involved in a lawsuit against the TSA, trying to get them to suspend their full-body scanner program. But it’s pretty clear that the TSA is afraid of public testimony on the topic, and especially of being challenged in front of Congress. They want to control the story, and it’s easier for them to do that if I’m not sitting next to them pointing out all the holes in their position. Unfortunately, the committee went along with them.

As Tim Lee notes in reporting on this story, the TSA has done similar things in the past, and even been rebuked by Rep. Jason Chaffetz — and yet it had no problem doing it again. The fact that Schneier is a part of that lawsuit is meaningless and shouldn’t stop him from testifying at all. Schneier is a clear thorn in the side of the TSA, and if it’s so afraid of having him speak to Congress, that really says a lot about the (lack of) confidence it has in its own arguments. If you can’t stand to let a critic speak, it suggests that perhaps your own argument isn’t very strong.

Eber's Papyrus, the newest transliteration I am going to be working on.

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:18:20 -0700

Eber's Papyrus, the newest transliteration I am going to be working on.

aboutegypt: Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt 2011 (by andrei deev)

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:43:48 -0700

aboutegypt:

Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt 2011 (by andrei deev)

yourmaj3sty: Edfu Building Texts, Egypt. (Zep Tepi)

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:42:44 -0700

yourmaj3sty:

Edfu Building Texts, Egypt. (Zep Tepi)

An eagle in the nest on her eggs, live video.

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:57:00 -0700

An eagle in the nest on her eggs, live video.:

She is a beautiful bird. Her eggs are due to hatch anytime.

A vocal experiment of what Ancient Egyptian sounded like.

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:52:43 -0700

A vocal experiment of what Ancient Egyptian sounded like.

Audio

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:51:04 -0700

"If we get involved in a nuclear war, would the electromagnetic pulses from exploding bombs damage my..."

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:49:42 -0700

“If we get involved in a nuclear war, would the electromagnetic pulses from exploding bombs damage my videotapes?
- Anon”

- http://homepage.eircom.net/~odyssey/Quotes/Popular/SciFi/SciFi.html

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Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:37:33 -0700