Comment Re:What? Did you get that gem? (Score 1) 237
That Brick Testament is one of the best (and funniest) things I've seen this year, at least. Great Link:D
Comment Pink Slip, the rotten b*st*rds. (Score 1) 37
I'll wait till I'm sure I'm not getting one, THEN bring in the wine bottles (or dish, not shure).
Comment The problem is that you are entirely right (Score 1) 11
about the Big/Little Three.
The other problem is that the US has now exported ALL of it's industries, if the car companies go, there will be nothing left. There won't even be toolmakers to make guns and weapons should the US ever be attacked. It has ripped it's industrial heart right out and is now desperately staving off collapse.
If the big three do go down, and should by any measurement, it will be the effective end of the US economy and of the US world power. Congress has now got itself into the position of being a servant to any incompetent or corrupt CEO of the auto industry, they can do whatever they like and congress MUST support them.
In other news Chrysler is only staying afloat by emptying itself. Remember the other day when they laid of 3400 workers? Apparently 7600 took the bailout package, including almost all of their white-collar staff. Their brakes division, the brakes division of an international automaker, had 1 person left in it, and another department (or perhaps that one, the rumors are unclear) had 1 contract worker left. This past Monday was the first day when no one showed up for work and apparently everything has ground to a halt. So the looters have now destroyed Chrysler, the other two are following.
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Journal Journal: Merry Xmas my fellow /.'ers
I hope your holidays were great (I got a 5 mp camera). Your journals are the best and I do read them though I seldom post.
And my gosh, that xmas eve service of classical music and liturgy was fantastic but at 2:20 long, even my family sobered up over the course of it.
Have a happy new year too.
Journal Journal: 9 Free symphonies by Ludwig van / BBC Phil 2
Is this usual /./Boingboing fodder?
45 RPM reports that the BBC Philharmonic is recording all 9 of Beethoven's symphonies and is putting them online as free mp3 downloads (here) starting from the 7th.
This is all part of the Beethoven Experience - every note written by Ludwig van is being broadcast or streamed between from June 5th to the 10th.
Journal Journal: Jewish reggae/ rap
He is good too.
Journal Journal: Review: Hide and Seek [De Niro] 2
Hide and Seek
A slap in the face and their hand in your wallet. At least, those words occurred to me as I watched it.
Journal Journal: R.I.P. Will Eisner
Journal Journal: fom who
One of my brothers and I found some cheap DVDs yesterday and we picked one up for each other.
We're going to put them under the tree and label them as being from someone totally inappropriate. Ideas include:
To: K___
From:
Journal Journal: Punk is such a White Bread Affair
Forgotten Rebels @ The Underground, Hamilton Ontario, Nov 26
I can't be bothered to redo ALL the formatting from the blog as the
Entry here.http://ithunk.blogspot.com/2004/12/punk-is-such-white-bread-affair.html
Journal Journal: A Chiropractic Alternative 1
In the past when I've thrown my neck out its taken months at the Chiropractor's office and quite literally hundreds of dollars to get back into shape. The alternative is regularly swimming which I did until I recently sublaxed my shoulders and strained my labrum while platform diving.
Journal Journal: Ong Bak - Thai Warrior
BoingBoing has ran a story on the soon to be released Thai film Ong Bak. I've seen it, and it's incredible. Check the trailer out.
Journal Journal: I live in a UN World Biosphere Reserve
Today I discovered that I live in a UN declared World Biosphere Reserve.
I've been here 7 months and had no idea, though I'd been exploring it and wandering around on the bicycle through the woodlands and escartment all summer thinking how beautiful it was and wondering why no-one had developed it. And now I know.
Journal Journal: Our evil prof Giggles
Has scheduled a second class for this Friday. He needs to make the time up as he took a three week holiday and had some ass from his office **teach** us for that time.
So guess which weekend he'd pick to run it on? The long-weekend or a regular weekend? Go ahead - try it.
