X-Tra Rant

Remember my comment yesterday about Weasel Shack? If you don’t, anyway, I woke up yesterday and heard a Radio Shack commercial where they say “You’ve got questions. We’ve got answers.” Well for some reason in my mind I thought “Weasel Shack. Youv’e got questions, we’ve got weasels.” I have no idea why. So I made a logo.

heh. I’m insane.

Yes, I’m jumping on the Friday Five bandwagon. Sue me.

1. What was your most memorable moment from the last week?
As much as I hate to say it, it was the start of the war. I went downtown to the Cirlce and took part in a protest there and even took a turn at the megaphone and spoke a few things that came to mind.
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I’m a weird dude. THis morning while I was brushing my teeth, I heard a commercial on the radio for “Radio Shack: You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers”. Well for some reason the following popped into my head:

“Weasel Shack: You’ve got questions, we’ve got weasels”

Don’t ask. I have no idea.

Here’s the fun stuff that might get your mind off war for a bit. Check out the previous update for the political/war links.

I want to be buried in this.

This is cool. A group founded to fight light pollution.

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OKay, I have about a ton and a half of links to share. Maybe not that many, but still, quite a few. First up I’ll do the political ones.

The first is a story from the Guardian over in the UK. It tells about how last summer the U.S. staged a massive war game involving a scenario of the U.S. against Saddam. A retired Marine Lieutenant General played the part of Saddam…. and won. Of course the U.S. just changed the rules, reset the game and then pretended they won the war game. *sigh*

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OKay, this week sucks. I’ve got my yearly End Of March Devil Cold, but I’m too busy at work to take a day off and try and recover. Work is just insane. We have these automated software tests that only work half the time, so if something breaks we don’t know if it’s the test that broke or the software. So we end up having to do it manually, which sorta defeats the purpose of the automated tests. I’ve wasted a week on this crap.

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all this war crap is depressing me. Seems the American casualties are starting to mount. And in case you think all the anti-war types are just a bunch of dirty long haired hippies I’ve been to protests that include the following demographic representations: junior high students, high school students, young professionals, veterans (especially Vietnam vets), the elderly, soccer moms & dads, black, white, asian, people down on their luck and people who seem to be well off. This isn’t your father’s anti-war movement. For more info on veterans against the war check out Veterans for Peace and four speeches by veterans against the war.

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I promise. Just had a busy weekend. Saturday I went down to Terre Haute to see Leah. She had a little birthday get together which was cool. Double cool was that I was the only guy with 4 good looking ladies around me. Hehe But yeah, we drank, talked, drank more, ate some and all that stuff. Triple cool was that I got to see Jaime, whom I haven’t seen in something like 4 years. She was part of the group that got all together back during my freshman year in college (along with Leah and others) so that was nice. Anyway, a good time was had by all.
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Hey all you crazy kids. Trying to avoid images of death and murder comitted by the United States in an illegal war? Well then distract yourself by nominating me for some Anti-Bloggies. I already voted for myself in the following categories that I think you should enter me in as well. *wink wink nudge nudge*:
*Most Often Late To Work
*Most Depressing Blog
*Dumbest Title

You can vote once an hour. So what are you waiting for? Get poor Jason an award. I’ll be ever so grateful.

Courtesy of MoveOn.org

As a US-led invasion of Iraq begins,
we, the undersigned citizens of many countries,
reaffirm our commitment to addressing international
conflicts through the rule of law and the United Nations.

By joining together across countries and continents,
we have emerged as a new force for peace.
As we grieve for the victims of this war,
we pledge to redouble our efforts to put an end to the Bush
Administration’s doctrine of pre-emptive attack and
the reckless use of military power.

Add your signature to the declaration as well here.