Airline Security Rules enacted since 'an alleged terror plot aimed at airliners flying between Great Britain and the United States'

My favorite from Great Britain:

All cabin baggage must be processed as hold baggage and carried in the hold of passenger aircraft departing British airports.

Ah, the fun continues!

So everyone's out of town this weekend, and my car calls it quits. My mechanic says the engine block is gone, and it would cost more to fix than to get a new engine. Only thing is, this was supposed to be my POS car for 6 months while I got into the habit of driving every day, and I'm not looking to more than double the amount of money I've put into this car in order to get it working again. The numbers just don't add up.

Okay, so this is an odd post for me, but I guess I should just suck it up and ask for advice at this point.

I am in a new City (San Jose) and my only acquaintances are from work. And except for my boss, they all work for me. Not the greatest idea to start making friends with my employees or my employee's friends.

Since I've moved out to California a month ago, I've gotten into playing poker with some friends of SlashChick's and some of their friends (almost all googlers).

Well, I first came out and lost a few games, but they were all friendly three or four person games against loose cannons.

In no particular order:

• If you are making excuses for an employee's behavior or work, this is a bad sign.
• If you are making the same excuses for the same employee on multiple occassions and you have previously spoken with said employee about the issue, fire this employee now.
• Do not work for friends or have friends work for you. Even with the most professional people possible, the line between business and personal starts to blur and bad things _will_ happen.

So an old friend of mine from around here which some of you may remember as LadyGuardian has started up her own gaming podcast series, OpenAlpha. She asked me to help submit a story about her newest episode to Slashdot Gaming, which I have pasted below while it sits in the submission queue.

So in February I quit my job as VP at the foreign exhcange brokerage in the Empire State Building.

There were a lot of reasons for this, some personal and some not, but I needed out.

In one of my few bouts of actually watching television, there was a commercial for an upcoming Oprah show, apparently on spring break videos. Oprah's deadpan to one of the female guests was as follows: "Do any of the girls regret what happened after sobering up?"

I laughed for a good five minutes and almost died of tears before jumping online to post this journal in homage to the question.

This is both frightening and amusing at the same time: Fox News, Decaf Help Keep Cheney Happy.

Hey, at least he keeps it real.

Scooter Libby still has him one upped.

Ummm.... yeah... BIOPRO QLink Pendant

My poetry sucks, so here goes:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
It's johndiii's birthday
Does this line need to rhyme?

Yeah, not a poetry bone in my body :/ I tried though! Happy happy!