I thought we already called him Sir
Greenspan was Knighted by Her Majesty according to this article so now the Queen is calling him Sir. But if Al doesn't get the country out of this recession, let's call it what it is, he'll be called a Shithead a hell of a lot more than Sir. There doesn't seem to be much else he can do at this point, but who else is going to ride in and save the day? Maybe the Federal Reserve shouldn't be a private corporation. Did I just say that out loud?

11 Billion US, lost in the sofa
Glad to hear that Bill Gates still has 43 Billion even after losing over 11 billion last year. Full Article
Microsoft is still confronting security troubles, this time in Word. That's what happens when you slather layer upon layer of new code on top of heaps of old code. Not very efficient, and at the OS _and even the App level, you're bound to get in to trouble doing that.

BBQ Gypsy
Totally blew it out on Friday night with a BBQ at Yale, that second year MFA Sculpture students (my wife is one of them) threw for the first year students. Got massively drunk at that, and then sobered up at the Gypsy (if that's possible) Yale's member based student pub, by drinking lots of water, and chatting up many of the cool new people that I met at the party, and the cool old ones that I got reacquainted with after the summer.

A bunch of painters attended as well, all laid back, that made the partying even more special.

Froods all, that I can hopefully link to later: Alexa, Brett, Emi, Martha, Kristen, Jen, Nick, Sean, Brian, Takashi, Nya, Adrian, Landon, Sun Tek, Justin, the Chris Triumvirate of Chris B., Chris K., and Chris E. I no makey this up... seriously... and of course, the awesome E. Anyone else I left out - you were awesome too, I was just too drunk to remember, and too hungover to forget - or something...

I'm writing this at quarter to Six a.m. on Sunday, as I slept in way too late today/yesterday (Saturday) and watched some really bad movies, again at the behest of the wife, walked the dog, got the grease at the local (said) spoon, and browsed the self named, self proclaimed, and aptly titled Best Video. Yes, Nya, they truly are better than even Kim's Video in NYC, because the selection is even more extensive, and everyone there is knowledgeable _and does it because they love it, not just because they need a job. No attitudes either. Incredible.

Anyway, the bad movie (can't go in to which one now) got me in the need for a palate cleanser (mental one) and so I logged in and then got _another idea for a net based software project that kept me up for many more hours, so here I am - starting to fade and getting ready to crash - but I missed the Sat. post window, and didn't want the whole weekend to dissolve, so, you know.

Dog Just Says No
This morning, my blue 9 year old female Great Dane, refused to take her medication - the kind that prevents her from wetting the bed and according to the vet, has the side effects of taking speed. No matter how hard I tried, no matter what I did, she clamped her teeth down and refused the pill. I tried the cheese tactic, but had no slices to wrap it in, only some shredded stuff - and she snatched it from my hand (very unlike her) and then proceeds to spit the pill out and none of the cheese. Incredible.

Later that morning I noticed that she had wet her bed the night before, and that led me to believe that either she refused my wife giving her the pill last night (and she forgot to tell me) or she is the most clever dog - ever. For now I'm believing the latter. When I discovered the bed, the look in her eyes seemed to say, "See? Why take medicine that makes me feel weird when it doesn't even work?"

I will not make this a war blog
Ok. We've been flying over southern Iraq, protecting the no-fly zone (ok, I know, but really it's not a contradiction - or is it?) and we've been bombing some things, even though we're not "at war" with them officially. Well, today was a major attack according to this article but really, we're not at war yet. Ugh.

"Open(ing) the Gates of Hell in the Middle East"
MSNBC reports that The Arab League’s secretary-general, Amr Moussa, said that's what would happen should the U.S. go to war with Iraq. It looks like Bush is going to have to be _real compelling now to the rest of the world. I hope that at the very least, we don't see a fundamentalist "I told you so..." movement starting up in this country - on the Hell bit I mean - at least not until after the smoke clears on all of this. If John Lennon were alive, we know what he'd be saying... and until I hear these "arguments" that Bush is talking about, I would have to agree.

Bush Gets Tough - Texas Style

We still have yet to hear a compelling argument for going to war with Iraq, however, here are some Bush quotes from today's press conference:

"......Saddam has side stepped, crawfished, and weedled out..."
"...and is stiffing the World..."
"...we're in a new era - first war of 21st century took place in Afghanistan..."

i.e. get ready for the next... When asked why he felt it was necessary to invade Iraq he said,

"...on the 12th I will give a speech and you can listen..."

...then he went on to say,

"...the world must understand that it's credibility is at stake...."

...if compelling arguments and hard data aren't presented, then the world is not the only one who's credibility will be at stake...

"... the American people must hear this debate..."

Amen Mr. President. So we have to wait until the 12th of September (no surprise on why that date was picked) to hear why we must go in. They said it's no longer about weapons inspections. It's about armament. Ok. On the 12th we will listen, but will we really understand?

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Sometimes Bad is Bad
My wife insisted that we watch a horrible movie last night at 8 p.m. - Glitter, starring Mariah Carey. You see, she likes Cheezy movies, and so do I, but sometimes Bad is Bad. Glitter was so incredibly awful, that I understand why it was panned, and even why her fans didn't go and see it. Not every singer is meant to cross over in to acting and vice versa, just ask Bruce Willis about that one. Mariah without all kinds of filters and what not was just too bad on the eyes. She looked like a spitting image of Jiminy Crickett. Ugh.

So anyway, it doesn't stop there. Then she sees that Bones is coming on later, and our friends David and Gillian told us that this one was _really bad. So she insisted on seeing it too. But it didn't start until 11 p.m., and in between we caught way too much of Rock n' Roll High School, which at the very least was campy and fun. Then Bones starts. Man was that movie a steaming pile as well. I think that Snoop Dogg should stick to Pornos and Rap music. (in that order)