SharePoint

12:43 < Teran> Whee I get to set up a test environment. Hmmm
12:43 < Teran> SQL, Exchange and what else should I set up
12:43 < Teran> sharepoint?
12:43 <@Sporks> friends don't let friends set up sharepoint
12:44 < Teran> Yeah but we work with a lot of sharepoint servers
12:44 < Teran> It's the new groupwise
12:44 < Teran> Which is like saying horseshit is the new dogshit

Lawn chair pilot flies with 105 balloons - Yahoo! News

Lawn chair pilot flies with 105 balloons - Yahoo! News

I'm so jealous.

11:27 <syd|> I loved anything that uses a BB gun as an ad hoc control surface
11:27 <syd|> if only the concorde had a pilot shooting BBs at the flaps it'd have been so much better

NPR : Former Member of Radical Islam Questions Faction

NPR : Former Member of Radical Islam Questions Faction

Amazing interview on NPR. Make sure to listen to the extended interview, and to read his editorial on The Observer

08:57 < Elliot> I need shoes with rollerskates in them
08:57 < Elliot> it's a trade off though
08:57 < Elliot> how cool would it be to roll around on them vs. how big a douche would I be for having shoes made for 6 year olds

Finally some good news from Brazil...

My parents moved to Brazil a while ago, trying to find work. I don't know if it's better or worse than Chile, to be honest. They've had a terrible time there, and part of my own stress these days comes from worrying about them, and sending them large (for me, anyway) chunks of money each paycheck. For a long while I was basically sending them my entire paycheck; right now, my sister and I are taking turns (we were both sending them money every month for some time). Every time I hear from them, my stomach turns and binds up, stressed and worried about what's gone wrong now.

Until two days ago, when I finally got some news that made me smile...I was chatting with my mom on Google Talk, listening to Joan Manuel Serrat, which of course always makes me think of my dad, and asked her how he's doing.

"He's doing great," she said, "right now he's in a class with five young men singing John Lennon's 'Imagine.'"

Years earlier, I remembered, he'd tutor young people who were preparing for their English university exams. He'd always have a unit on the Beatles.

His students always thought he was the best.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush spares Libby from jail term

BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush spares Libby from jail term

Complete and utter bullshit. The Administration is simply a disgrace.

I should add something: I'm not so naive to have thought that Libby was going to serve his sentence. This had pardon written all over it. But, in keeping with the way these things usually seem to happen, I expected it to be quiet and underhanded, not this blatant middle finger to, well, everyone. Being that Bush has, in fact, been giving America the finger for nearly eight years now, though, I should've known better.