Captain’s Log

I think I reviewed it 4 years ago. Just replace “Origami” with “iPad”
http://lianza.org/blog/2006/03/09/i-dont-get-the-oragami/

I was wondering what the “Fancy” in “Fancy Mixed Nuts” referred to, and found the Wikipedia article on the subject. The article is fascinating (and short). The detail of nut regulations at the federal level is impressive, although as it turns out “fancy” doesn’t have a legal definition, nor is it regulated.

The quote at the end is so funny I’m skeptical that it’s true:

In a 1915 federal case against “fancy mixed nuts” that were argued by competitors to be an inferior grade, U. S. v. 25 Bags of Nuts, N. J. No. 4329 (1915), the court declined to accept a trade standard:

“It seems to me that until the Department establishes a set standard of quality… it would be altogether unsafe… to make them amenable to such a vague and indefinite standard as I understand the Government seeks to establish by the testimony of men engaged in the business of handling nuts.”

Let’s see if I can do better than two years ago, where I blew a game in every round.

• Indianapolis over San Diego. Sorry, maybe I’m a little bitter that the 8-8 Chargers are in the playoffs while the 11-5 Patriots aren’t. In any case, I think Indi is the better team.
• Baltimore beats Miami. I really don’t think this one will be close.
• Atlanta beats Arizona. This is a tough one… I’m largely basing this on the fact that Arizona is not consistent, even though I think they’re probably the better team.
• Minnesota over Philadelphia. This one is tough to call. The Eagles are another team that can be really good when they show up, but really bad also. I’d give the edge to the home team, even though Philly is favored.

So although everyone agrees Iraq is in violation of resolution 1414, the French said they’d veto any resolution that supports the use of force against Iraq. With this move, it became cool for US citizens to really bash the French.

Now that’s not cool, but it’s become cool to be the guy who observes how uncool it is to bash the French - how childish that is. It’s cool to call those who bash the French a bunch of childish neanderthals.

Well I’m starting a new trend, it’s called bashing the people who bash the people who bash the French. Aside from the phony air of “I’m to good for this” they give off, really most of them are guilty of the same childish activity except they direct it at other things. The same people who say it’s immature to make fun of French people seem to think it’s perfectly okay to use equally childish insults against President Bush. Oh, it’s just fine to make fun of President Bush, but this other country… the sophisticated land of France… lay off them! That’s just too much. The US was so immature when they said “if you’re not with us, you’re against us”, but the French remain a sophisticated culture when they threaten to veto any resolution authorizing the use of force against a country that is clearly in posession of dangerous illegal weapons.

Well it’s time to get your noses out of the air, you hypocritical closet self-loathers. It’s now cool for us to make fun of you guys.

I encourage everyone to join this new movement.

Here’s a guy who received a medal from the French back in WWII for bravery. He’s giving it back.

It’s over for O&A at WNEW. They gave away a lot of their stuff as they cleaned out their office.

There are some rumors about them being in talks with Sirrus XM radio, and Anthony claims they will be back, so we’ll see.

An e-mail with the subject line “Spain Sucks” is what I received from Schulte when he sent a link to this picture.

Just like everyone else who went to CMU, I lived in Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood in Pittsburgh (classic CMU tour joke) for a few years. I guess they’ll have to stop using that joke though… he died in his home on Thursday.