Entries from July 2004 ↓

Customer Quote of the Day

This is from an email sent in to our suppor queue:

I am again ruining a day screwing with this software crap. I mean these computers SUCK. It took an infernal army of damned idiots to come up with this junk.

Damien Echols Interviewed by “The Stranger”

Damien Echols, 1/3 of the West Memphis Three, was interviewed by Seattle’s “The Stranger”.

Click here to read the full interview.

9/11 Commission Report

The 9/11 Commission Report is out - in all the glory of its 585 pages. Want to read it? I have it hosted here or you can go here to read it.

Hmmmm

Fahrenheit 9/11 Movie Poster Fahrenheit 9/11 Notes & Sources

My Trip to the Nation’s Capitol

One week ago today, we took a trip down to Washington D.C. It was funny that it only took about 25 minutes to drive through Delaware. I mean, it is Delaware but still 25 minutes isn’t long at all. I don’t quite know what I expected to see or experience during our visit to D.C. But what I saw was definitely NOT what I had anticipated.

For starters, the first thing (literally) we saw upon our arrival in the capitol of the United States was two homeless men. As we drove over a small bridge I saw two homeless men perched on the outer ledge of the bridge in two sun faded, worn out lawn chairs. They were playing what appeared to be checkers on a plastic milk crate. That struck me as out of place - the first thing one sees upon their first trip into Washington D.C. should not be two homeless men sitting on the side of a bridge.

As we found out way from the outskirts of the city to Pennsylvania Ave, we saw more transients and destitute individuals than in our visits to New York City. Everywhere I looked I saw vacant buildings with broken windows painted with graffiti. Once we parked on a side street off of Pennsylvania Ave we walked to find a restroom as my mother-in-law had to utilize one. All of the portable toilets we found had, to put it nicely, obviously not been emptied in several weeks at the soonest. In other words, one would not be able to sit on the toilet seat as they were that full. We ended up walking about four or five city blocks to the Smithsonian’s Freer Museum of Art to use their restroom. We spent some time in the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum and that was great. After that, we walked back to the memorials.

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