Pug’s Place

Yes! Badnarik is the guy on the ballot for the Libertarian party in November. This guy is great! I’m very happy that he beat out Gary Nolan and Aaron Russo. They seemed to have more money than sense.

So now there’s a computer scientist who teaches classes on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights running for the presidency! Woohoo!

I made the Favorite Music list pick a random start point from 1 to 50 so as
to make it more interesting, since I notice that my top 7 music hasn’t changed
much in the past couple days, but I *know* the rest of the list has.

Let me know if you like this better!

I’ve added a link to John Gilmore’s home-page.

He’s the guy responsible for that lawsuit against… Ashcroft, the TSA, the FAA, and a bunch of other people to re-establish the right to travel without identification. Praised be this man! Here’s a choice quote that sums things up:

Teaching law-abiding citizens how to defend themselves is another
useful measure. Though gun-control advocates have problems with permitting
honest citizens to be armed, all of us can agree that courageous passengers
and crews can prevent hijackings, even when unarmed. Even early on the
morning of 9/11, once the passengers in the fourth plane figured out that they
were aboard a flying bomb, they knew what they had to do, and they did it. I
doubt that future efforts to seize a plane and fly it into a particular place
would succeed, now that all the honest passengers know that the safest thing
they can do is to risk their lives to stop a hijacking in progress. In that
sense, the government’s previous teachings about hijacking (to maximize their
survival, passengers should comply quietly) was the biggest single factor in
making the 9/11 attack so deadly.

Before any of my more pro-Ashcroft readers get their feathers ruffled, I’d suggest reading the informative FAQ that has nice questions like:

• Q. Won’t eliminating ID checks make air travel more dangerous?
• Q. Isn’t an ID check needed to stop known terrorists from flying?
• Q. Won’t terrorists be able to get on planes if nobody has to show ID?
• Q. Do people really have the right to travel?
• Q. Isn’t anonymity bad?
• Q. Why is anonymity so important to the right to travel?
• Q. How can the airlines and government protect against hijacking without identification checks?
• Q. But don’t we have to put up with infringements of rights during wartime?

It’s a good FAQ. Please post comments.

After Chris posted his results for the Personality Disorder Test, I decided to take it. However, I don’t feel like posting the results here, lest a low-life enemy use this knowledge against me sometime in the distant future by searching for my name on an Internet archive service.

Thus, it’s in my user info on AIM. Look there if you want to know.

Sean doesn’t have UT2004, sadly…

(14:26:28) Sean Flynn: I DO have CS, though.

(14:26:30) Sean Flynn: And SC.

(14:26:36) Pug: CS.

(14:26:49) Sean Flynn: Counterstrike, of course
(14:26:56) Pug: http://www.reallifecomics.com/daily.php?strip_id=1201

(14:27:23) Sean Flynn: ROFLMAO

(14:27:36) ***Pug nods vigorously.

(14:27:39) Sean Flynn: Y’know what the REALLY sad part is?

(14:27:46) Pug: The terrorists win!

(14:27:48) Sean Flynn: LOL

(14:27:54) Sean Flynn: I spent Friday afternoon…

(14:27:56) Sean Flynn: …at a LAN party..

(14:27:59) Pug: Playing CS

(14:28:00) Sean Flynn: ..with 9 other people…

(14:28:02) Sean Flynn: playing CS.

(14:28:02) Sean Flynn: Yes.

(14:28:05) Pug: I know.

(14:28:37) Pug: WYSIWYG has the fastest Athlons on the market, 40 of them, with 24″ CRTs and massive graphics hardware.

(14:28:42) Pug: Half the people using them play CS.

(14:28:57) Pug: Makes me want to throw them out of their chairs and kick them in the face.

(14:29:11) Pug: And then play DDR on their torso.

(14:29:14) Sean Flynn: ROFL

(14:29:26) Pug: Or perhaps MMR.

(14:29:28) Sean Flynn: MMR?

(14:29:31) Pug: Mosh Mosh Revolution

(14:29:46) Sean Flynn: LOL

(14:29:48) Pug: http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=172

(14:30:42) Sean Flynn: NICE
(14:30:51) Sean Flynn: I’m a fan, personally, of BF1942 and BFV…

(14:30:54) Sean Flynn: good stuff
(14:31:03) Pug: Battlefield Vietnam?

(14:31:27) Pug: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-03-17&res=l

(14:31:57) Sean Flynn: Man, you have an answer for EVERYTHING, lol

(14:32:06) ***Pug hits Q.

(14:32:10) Sean Flynn: LOL

(14:32:18) Sean Flynn: Wow.

(14:32:30) ***Pug laughs maniacally

I got my invitation to Steph’s wedding today. The invitee is “J.C. ∓ Guest”, so I suppose I could take one of my other many and varied girlfriends since Katie has her own invitation.

The invitations are printed in a very pretty blue ink. I took a picture, but the color doesn’t look as pretty in a photo.

I had a small problem with my Favorite Music update script. It’s fixed now.

It’s Walky! today features none other than Kate Mulgrew (look for a nameplate in the 2nd panel) and showcases Howard fulfilling a dream.

….Mmmm, Kate Mulgrew….

I expect that Riker (I think that’s him next to Kate) will deliver some fanboy-devastating blows tomorrow…

Being as I love Spooner and Roxie, and that someone near and dear to my heart enjoys their escapades as well, I went ahead and this morning ordered all four Spooner comic books. Unfortunately only two are released at the moment, so I’ll be getting the last two in July and August, but that’s tolerable.

Happy Friday everybody! Remember: “By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect “Hungry.” – a Larson cartoon

Yep, there’s nothing quite like intending to say “I’m eating my cake with a fork!” but instead announcing “I’m eating my spoon with a fork!”