Thanks to Cheryl Baca, who commented on the Free New Mexican site.

Apparently, Senator Grubesic’s wife is the director of Childrens services for the Early Childhood Action and Steering Committee..

At this point, I don’t want a Grubesic steering /anything/ around children.

Mad Props to my man, Senator John Grubesic (D-Santa Fe). After flipping his car on the way to his home earlier this year, and spilling a couple pistoleros out on the street, you would think the Senator might…you know…slow down a bit. I mean, at least for the sake of “the children”.

No no no!

While lesser mortals might reconsider living a Dukes of Hazard lifestyle, not Johnny Knieval. This time he allegedly came within a few feet of clipping a couple kids on the way home from a hard day of working for a living being a state senator.

To be fair, maybe Senator Knieval thought the kids were Young Republicans. Then again, given the address that’s highly unlikely.
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I started this post on Tuesday, so yesterday is Monday.

Amy Giglio tagged me with this meme, so I figure I should do my best with it. Fortunately, it doesn’t seem so difficult. Here we go…

Ten Years Ago.

I was in Minneapolis, spending my days at my first job in IT, my lunches at a place that made cheesesteaks and hoagies, and my evenings at Kieran’s Irish Pub. The guy that ran the restuarant was from Philadelphia himself, we met out there and wound up becoming roommates (it’s always better to stagger home from the Pub with a friend.) Quote from one of the owners of Kieran’s:

You two are from Philadelphia? Mary and Joseph! You thugs probably go to Belfast on holiday to unwind.

Five Years Ago.

I was under contract to NASA in the heart of Silicon Valley. I saw the agency under O’Keefe pretty clearly. I’ll let you in on a secret: that lot will be lucky to get to Rapid City, let alone Mars. We’re doomed.

One Year Ago.

I was getting jacked around by a state agency in New Mexico about a job. You do not have someone come in for six interviews (including a half-day of “observation in the work environment”) then not hire him. That’s just not right.

Yesterday.

I was at a barbecue with the wife and kids done by the Knights of Columbus. I was the guy who brought the grill.

It’s now time for Dale Price and the Suburban Banshee.

When you’re done getting the dustbunnies from under the chairs, you ladies can make me a sammich.

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Witness

Two weeks ago, the Center for American Progress and the Genocide Intervention Fund launched a joint initiative known as “Be A Witness” built around a petition calling on television networks to increase their coverage of the genocide in Darfur.
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45.) What is the line entered into systems /etc/dfs/dfstab to enable root access to maps system?

ANSWER= share -F nfs -o root=client -d “home dirs” /etc/auto_master
explanation: root=client gives root access to /etc/auto_master
(/etc/auto_master is just an example to where some maps are)

47.) What is the term used when 1 data structure is included with another, and the 1st data structure is hidden?

ANSWER= encapsulated

Shoot. Me. Now.

63.) What do you use to get the Ethernet address from the IP address?
ANSWER= Use the protocol called ARP (address resolution protocol)
(maps a 32-bit IP address to a 48-bit ethernet address)

Iowahawk shows us how the left has been preparing for the Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

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Why are people still talking about Tom Cruise? Did I miss something, or was there a period after he became a ScienceFictiontologist that people didn’t think he was a total whack job?

“Tom Cruise believes he’s possessed by the spirits of aliens from 75 million years ago. Who hasn’t felt that way sometimes?”

Right. Nothing out of the ordinary here.

Tom is now an OT-III, or something. I think that means he gets a first class seat on the mother ship when it arrives. Ya know, if you’re all worried about getting levels and whatnot, can’t you just be a normal freak and play Dungeons & Dragons?

Personally, I think that would be totally cool. Could you imagine if Tom Cruise gave as much publicity to Dungeons and Dragons as he does to Scientology? Can’t you just picture all those wanna-be actors and actresses learning up on D&D in order to impress Tom and land a role in some film?

“How could you do this to me, you heartless SOB? Don’t you remember when my elf saved your mage from the hobgoblins?”

(Now that I think on it, doesn’t this describe the Ben Affleck/Matt Damon relationship?)

Seriously, no one figured out that dumping Nicole Kidman in favor of clinging to L. Ron Hubbard was the slightest bit in-frikking-sane? Let’s look it over.
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H/T to Irish John

LONDON (Reuters) - The word “fail� should be banned from use in British classrooms and replaced with the phrase “deferred success� to avoid demoralizing pupils, a group of teachers has proposed.

Members of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) argue that telling pupils they have failed can put them off learning for life.

A spokesman for the group said it wanted to avoid labeling children. “We recognize that children do not necessarily achieve success first time,� he said.

“But I recognize that we can’t just strike a word from the dictionary,� he said.

The PAT said it would debate the proposal at a conference next week.

I think being born British would be demoralizing enough for me, but oh well.

I tried to think of something witty to say about this, but I “deferred success”.

Some days I miss my dad.

My dad was something else. He was a guy who left high school to enlist in the Marines at age 16, then went off to fight in Korea. While in the service, he learned to speak something like six languages if not fluently at least conversationally. While French and Spanish and Italian aren’t that unusual, he also could converse in Tagalog, Arabic and Farsi.

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