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:: Friday, September 10, 2004 ::

Cool as anything

Google Cartography Applet

Let me know if you'd like to use my API number.

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:: Matthew 5:22 PM [+] (0) comments    ::
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Thomas Peter Paul

Online Home of Thomas Peterpaul:

"Welcome to Thomas Peterpaul's Web Page. It has been provided to keep people updated about Thomas and to allow everyone to show their love and support for Thomas, Frank, Barbara, Robert, Julia and William. Having been diagnosed with leukemia in Feb. 2003, Thomas has fought many battles during his cancer treatments - appendicitis, blindness in one eye, chemotherapy side effects, bacterial & fungus infections to name a few. Unfortunately, his disease relapsed in Feb. 2004 and had to endure another round of intensive chemotherapy. He is currently in Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recovering from a stem cell transplant which took place on Friday, 7/23. These are just a few more obstacles Thomas must face in the race for his cure. He is truly a courageous young man and is an inspiration to all. Please add your well wishes and prayers to his guestbook and visit often for updates."

We, here at Hydrotechnology know about Thomas through Vinnie, who is related to him. And are all pulling for him.

One of the things that Thomas is hoping to do, is get over 250,000 visitors to his website. So, check it out and tell your friends.

I was wondering why someone would want people to come to their website. I do it for the fame and fortune, but can't help thinking that it's slightly lonely waiting in the Children's Hospital - and possibly disheartening. Hopefully this extension will let Thomas know that we are all thinking about him and pulling for him.

And so are the Yankees - check out "view photos" link at the top.

Clicks and thoughts and prayers appreciated. And let Thomas know that you are thinking of him in the Guestbook.

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:: Matthew 4:50 PM [+] (0) comments    ::
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Who was right?

ESPN.com - MLB - Stark: Storm surge:

"One reason the Yankees are so worked up about this issue is that last September, they were ordered to try to play a game in Baltimore during the aftermath of Hurricane Isabel, even though people in Maryland had been told it wasn't safe to leave home. When the Yankees asked MLB to postpone that game out of concern for their own safety, they were ordered to play and threatened with a forfeit if they refused."

Well, maybe MLB was right and maybe the Yankees were right - but Karen was definitely right on pointing out the effects of Hurricane Isabel on the Yankees last year, and specifically Mussina.

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:: Matthew 11:56 PM [+] (0) comments    ::
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And now for something completely different

AudioStreet: rx Song Information - sunday bloody sunday:

"Description
the war president singing U2's sunday bloody sunday

Credits
words & music : U2
vocals: george w. bush
all the rest: rx"

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:: Matthew 9:03 PM [+] (0) comments    ::
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Lorem Ipsum Boringus

malevole - Text Generator:

"Ten years ago a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem and no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-team."

Anything that quotes the A-Team, is ok by me.

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:: Matthew 8:51 PM [+] (0) comments    ::
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Nice graphic

Words used in the DNC/RNC

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:: Matthew 6:53 PM [+] (2) comments    ::
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Of course, Jim Caple is blind to the facts

ESPN.com - Baseball Index:

From the homepage:

"Kevin Brown's all busted up. Jason Giambi's still a mystery. The Hunt for October is getting treacherous for the Yankees, Bob Klapisch says. Sure, they used the F word (forfeit) but the truth is MLB left them out to dry, Jayson Stark writes."

Next line:

"Caple: Letter to commish"

Don't you think that Jim Caple would check his fellow writers, who have backed off of the Yankees as the facts came out. Not so.

"Commissioner Selig,

This letter is a formal request for Major League Baseball to award the Yankees a victory by forfeit due to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' failure to show up on time for a scheduled Labor Day doubleheader at Yankee Stadium. The Devil Rays claim they could not reach New York on time due to Hurricane Frances. We do not consider that excuse sufficient."

And it continues, "The infamous Hurricane of 1938 that struck New York and New England killed 700 people, left 63,000 homeless and registered winds as high as 120 miles at the Empire State Building. But it didn't postpone the Yankees game or stop Lou Gehrig's playing streak. Granted, the Yankees were playing in Chicago that day, but the point remains: A hurricane wasn't enough to stop Gehrig and the Yankees then, and it isn't a sufficient excuse to postpone a Yankees game now."

Yeah, well the D'Rays were playing in New York - as the Yankees were playing in Chicago.

The drivel continues, and is "signed" by Randy Levine, Yankees president.

He then details Baltimore reliever Jorge Julio's box score line where he walked in the winning run. And as a parting jab drops the line "It wasn't the worst performance at Yankee Stadium last week, though. After all, Julio somehow avoided breaking his hand afterward."

What a schmuck. His tagline should be "Jim Caple is a senior writer for ESPN.com, and an ass."

See Karen's post on Gammons begrudingly agreeing with John Kruk on how the Yankee players and coaches weren't involved.

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:: Matthew 4:26 PM [+] (2) comments    ::
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Something to do

Batman Quotes:

"The Joker: And now, folks, it's time for 'Who do you trust!' Hubba, hubba, hubba! Money, money, money! Who do you trust? Me? I'm giving away free money. And where is the Batman? HE'S AT HOME WASHING HIS TIGHTS!"

On that note, the hotornot people are launching voteornot.com to promote awareness about voting. And to do it, they're giving away free money - the whole scoop's here. I got sucked into it through By The Way. If you want it, use this link - because then if you win, I'll win too.

By the way, were I John Scalzi, I would have totally tried to refer everyone to the site. But apparently he's some crazy man of principles.

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:: Matthew 3:34 PM [+] (0) comments    ::
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Guess I'll join the bandwagon...

Better Relationship Quiz:

eXpressive: 0/10
Practical: 1/10
Physical: 2/10
Giver: 0/10


You are a RSIT--Reserved Sentimental Intellectual Taker. This makes you a Archetypal Older Child.

You are a hard nut to crack. You have a wicked sense of humor. Despite your reserved nature, you are more comfortable (and successful) in the meeting and courting mode than you are in a long term relationship. You feel misunderstood, and usually you are.

When you're in a good mood, you're funny, fascinating and a sexy firecracker, but when you're in a bad mood you are moody, broody and impatient. In courtship mode, you don't have to let anyone see your moody side. If you had your way, even in a long term relationship you would have enough time apart to deal with your bad moods yourself; unfortunately, it rarely works that way.

You stifle *a lot* of anger and frustration -- from all areas of your life -- so when it comes out it comes out nasty. More than any other type, your conflicts tend to turn on one tiny thing -- the dishes, the laundry -- that's really a scapegoat for your larger dissatisfactions with your relationship. You're baffled that your partner just can't do the dishes -- your partner is baffled that it's such a big deal. The only way around it is to let the dishes go entirely and try to get at the real root of what's bothering you.

I'm making you sound like a bear, but the fact is that you're so warm and charming most of the time that it effectively offsets the times you're unhappy.

You will make a weirdly good parent.

Don't pair up with someone who'll make sexual demands of you. That's just not going to fly at all.

Of the 59546 people who have taken this quiz, 5% are this type.

Just 5%, huh? Thank goodness for that. Seems as if I answered the questions honestly.

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:: Matthew 1:29 PM [+] (1) comments    ::
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Maddox Rules

Holy shit, a Maddox comic book?!:

"As if this announcement isn't enough to make you question your faith, I'm going to include one or more of the following in my comic book:
Old people being yelled at.
Children being thrown out of buildings.
Stuck up liberal arts majors discovering what my fist tastes like.
Lumber jacks wrestling sharks.
Giant piles of lesbians eating beef jerky and/or playing video games.
Exploding dinosaurs.
Zombies slammed into wood chippers.
Small animals being punted over a fence.
People getting kicked in the mouth."

Mmmmm..... beef jerky.

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:: Matthew 1:08 PM [+] (0) comments    ::
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Don't blame the Yankees

ESPN.com - MLB - Stark: Blame MLB, not Yankees:

"All the Yankees were really doing, in requesting that forfeit ruling Monday, was asking the commissioner's office, in that diplomatic way of theirs: Why the heck were we forced to wait around all day for a team that had no more chance of arriving in New York by 3 p.m. than it did of swimming from Tampa Bay to the Bronx?

"Why were they there? Not because they wanted to be. They were there because MLB's COO, Bob DuPuy, assured them repeatedly all weekend that the Devil Rays would show up in plenty of time to play.

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"With all these different stories flying around, of course, who knows what any of us should believe. So Levine said the Yankees didn't demand they be handed this win by forfeit. All the Yankees asked MLB to do, he said, was 'investigate.'

"'What we said to Major League Baseball was, 'Do an investigation,' " Levine said. 'If you determine that Tampa Bay was supposed to leave and it didn't have a valid reason for not leaving and not showing up, then the rules say there should be a forfeit.'"

They were ragging hard on the Yankees last night during Baseball Tonight (suprisingly, even Peter Gammons). And now the truth comes out. Don't blame the Yankees.

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:: Matthew 10:55 AM [+] (1) comments    ::
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Quotes from the Notes

Grist Magazine - Friday September 3, 2004:

"Some 9 million acres were designated wilderness upon passage; 106 million acres are protected under the act today. Jimmy Carter signed the most land into wilderness, with 66.3 million acres; Reagan accounted for 10.6 million, Clinton 9.5 million. George W. Bush has designated the least, just under 530,000 acres. While the act's continuing popularity means even its enemies stop short of calling for repeal, many conservative Western officials -- and, some critics say, President Bush -- have attempted to slow the expansion of wilderness."

"Other than a video touting the Bush administration's efforts to avert wildfires in national forests (by, um, logging), green themes were markedly absent from the [RNC]."

"A new study of grocery items like fish, meat, and dairy products revealed that virtually all of them contain detectable levels of PBDEs, human-made chemical fire retardants used in carpeting, electronics, and furniture that may or may not cause cancer."

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:: Matthew 12:57 PM [+] (0) comments    ::
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QuoteGeek

QuoteGeek:

"Egon: I collect spores, molds and fungus."

Change Egon to Matt Carroll because I'm going to be taking a course titled "How to Deal with Moldy BBuildings."

This one-day program is designed for professionals who are, or may be,
involved in the investigation and resolution of indoor mold issues.
The course will help you navigate the process of responding to a known
or suspected case of mold contamination in a building. It will provide
you with critical information needed to provide scientifically sound
results and recommendations for remedial activities.

What will you learn?

a.. What is mold and why is it controversial?
b.. Health effects of mold
c.. Investigative procedures, sampling and results interpretation
d.. Water and moisture control basics
e.. Mold remediation procedures
f.. Who is qualified to do mold remediation?
g.. Mold remediation project "clearance" activities and QA/QC
h.. Case studies from the instructors' projects, including schools
impacted by Hurricane Floyd and a large office building near Ground
Zero in New York City among others, will be explored.

Nice.

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:: Matthew 12:25 PM [+] (1) comments    ::
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Bring Back Nomah - Signatures

Bring Back Nomah - Signatures:

Over at the slowly growing Nomar petition, Karen comments that Nomar should go back to the Red Sux, "because Derek needs somebody to upstage every now and then."

Also, as noted in the petition, "Currently Manny Ramirez is leading the league in HPA (Hugs Per At-Bat), follwed closely by David Ortiz and Johnny "Jesus" Damon." Well, here we have evidence that Manny is only adding to that lead:




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:: Matthew 9:46 AM [+] (0) comments    ::
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Bono on O'Reilly Factor - Transcript

FOXNews.com - The O'Reilly Factor - Interview - Bono: Not Facing AIDS Crisis 'Foolhardy':

"BONO: Look, if you see a car crash, somebody's lying there in the middle of the road bleeding and it turns out they're a drunk driver, you're still going to call an ambulance. We can't make these judgments about entire civilizations. We try to re-educate people, we try to deal with the problem.

"And by the way, not dealing with the problem with something like AIDS, which metastasized, which grows on a geometric level, is really foolhardy. Because it will be more expensive to deal with it later."

Bono got his points across and pushed when he needed to. Got across that it is an emergency, that there is bi-partisan support and that this can serve as a new Marshall Plan (and that it will potentially difuse a hot-bed of terrorists down the line).

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:: Matthew 12:40 PM [+] (0) comments    ::
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Bring Back Nomah Petition

Bring Back Nomah Petition:

"We, The Undersigned, petition the Boston Red Sux to bring back Nomah Garciaparra. He has been a stud since joining the Cubs and that is an embarrassment. So, bring him back to the Red Sux where can continue sucking under the weight of mismanagement and too many hugs. [Note: Currently Manny Ramirez is leading the league in HPA (Hugs Per At-Bat), follwed closely by David Ortiz and Johnny 'Jesus' Damon.]

"Further, we, The Undersigned, feel that the Red Sux have peaked too early and bringing back Nomah will help to bring back that uncomfortable feeling in the clubhouse, spelling their demise. "

Sign up for it and then I'll forward it to all the Red Sux blogs I know of.

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:: Matthew 10:41 AM [+] (0) comments    ::
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Got mad, did something rash

Les Expos: Baseball Tournament/Tournoi de Baseball

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:: Matthew 8:56 AM [+] (0) comments    ::
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8 PM - Be there

FOXNews.com - The O'Reilly Factor - Guests and Topics: September 1:

"He wants political change and he wants it now! Rockstar Bono of U2 faces the music with Bill."

Plus we can see how nice Bill O'Reilly's hair looks. See Best Quotes in the right sidebar.

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:: Matthew 3:57 PM [+] (0) comments    ::
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The power of commas

Blogger: User Profile: Susan:

"being short, creativity, finger painting, fuzzy blankets, gardens, harmony, holding hands, hugging trees, humming, interpretive dance, listening, long walks, looking at the stars, love, making up words, meditation, periodic tables, picture books, pressing flowers, random hiccups"

So that was Susan's profile. For some reason, I think it's much funnier (though sometimes absurd) if you switch around the commas and use a little imagination.

Such as: being, short creativity, finger, painting fuzzy, blankets gardens, harmony holding, hands, hugging, trees humming, interpretive, dance listening, long, walks looking at the stars, love making, up words meditation, periodic, tables pictures, books pressing, flowers random, hiccups.

It sort of whacks out the word structure, both in placement and verb usage. It is also much funnier if you know that my roommates nickname is Fuzzy.

I just may be losing it.

Oh, and to explain, I was profile searching for Environment.

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:: Matthew 2:34 PM [+] (1) comments    ::
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