Category: ranting

Ok, got a job. I start the 28th of this month, which leads me to I NEED A PLACE TO LIVE! I don’t think commuting from C’ville to DC is a viable option, it takes, at least, two hours both ways. Now the problem is finding a nice place takes time. I don’t have time. Everywhere I have called so far was full, or only had two or three bedroom units. Anyone know where there is a nice one bedroom for rent in DuPont or Adams Morgan?

I made some changes to the site. I have upgraded the “books” section to the “reviews” section. I entered some of the old books into the new interface which is based on Movable Type so that you can all comment on my reviews. I will add the rest of the old books as soon as possible and *hopefully* add many more books—and cd’s and movies. Enjoy!

The Nobel Foundation had awarded all of this years Nobel Prizes:
Physics: Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba and Riccardo Giacconi
Chemistry: John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka and Kurt Wüthrich
Medicine: Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston
Literature: Imre Kertész
Economics: Daniel Kahneman, Vernon L. Smith
Peace: Jimmy Carter Jr.

Head over to the Nobel e-Museum to read more about each and past winners. It’s a great site just to browse and learn something.

The wording of that award very clearly stabed at Bush’s warhawking saying;

“In a situation currently marked by threats of the use of power, Carter has stood by the principles that conflicts must as far as possible be resolved through mediation and international co-operation based on international law, and respect for human rights.”

I should also point out that one of the winners of the Economics prize is a George Mason professor. This is the second person in the GMU Economics department to win a Nobel Prize. I went to Mason for three years and never met any Economics students…. Now I know why, all the professors where doing research rather than teaching!

Why do radio stations play thier ads in big 15 minute long marathons? That’s how they lose people to other stations. I know a lot of people don’t bother changing the station when the ads come on but a lot of people (especially those in cars) do change it. You’d think the advertisers would know this and tell the radio stations not to do it. I think it makes much more sense to play a song then an ad or two and then another song or two. Mix it up, so that listeners know that if an ad comes on they only have to listen to it for a minute or two. That would make me less likely to change the channel, which I do now when the first add comes on.

Just a note: most of the time when I am in C’ville I listen to the greatest radio station on Earth 91.9 wnrn! And you can even listen over the net…

Ted Rall has posted a great article on Yahoo News entitled War Cry. A great political satire where Iranian President Mohammad Khatami makes the case for military intervention against the tyrant of America, George Bush. You have to read this.