Bad Taste - But Funny (?)

( Cut because it is a truly tasteless joke )

Devilling with the traffic

Apologies to figmo, who earns a living (or at least part of it) by doing this well, but I am just plain annoyed by routine traffic reports on both radio & tv. It wastes my time, brings in some of the most annoying commercials (I especially hate it when alleged newscasters are forced to deliver ad tag lines) and in the rare event when they are reporting a commute-threatening accident, it is almost always too late for anyone to avoid it. Either they are already stuck, or by the time they reach the scene the accident will have been cleared. This is especially true of TV traffic reports, except for those morons who watch TV in their cars.

Also, how ridiculous is it for someone to be telling me, a few miles from San Jose, every 10 minutes about how long the line is to get over the Bay Bridge from Oakland to SF? It doesn't help the commuters either - they will be in that line regardless.

Treat it as breaking news. Let me know when a big rig spills lethal chemicals, or a car has caught fire, or there has been a hit-and-run. Do it as a segment of the half-hourly local news. I don't need to hear it over and over again a dozen times an hour.

And no, I was not the one who called in the phony report of a herd of emus attacking vehicles in the fast lane on 101 near Morgan Hill. 

Thoughts on NYC Plane Crash

A couple of unrelated thoughts popped up when i saw the news story about Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle's plane crashing into a high-rise apartment building in NYC.

The first one was WTF is the FAA and Homeland Insecurity doing, allowing any aircraft to fly at that altitude anywhere near Manhattan?

The second is why is everyone crying over the guy who crashed his plane, while there has not been word one about the victims whose high-priced homes have been made into toast because some sports star wanted a joy ride? Even if nobody was killed, at least three people/families are homeless, and probably a dozen more need to move out due to water and smoke damage. Idiot media once again picks the easy story to tell, and ignores the real story.

And one wonders anyway about a player who has gone through 7 teams in 9 years.
Lidle pitched with the Philadelphia Phillies before coming to the Yankees. He began his career in 1997 with the New York Mets and also pitched for Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Oakland A's, Toronto Blue Jays and Cincinnati Reds

Your Village called - Their Idiot Is Missing

Thanks to danjite for the link. This is on the official white house web site!!!!:

This morning my administration released the budget numbers for fiscal 2006. These budget numbers are not just estimates; these are the actual results for the fiscal year that ended February the 30th.* [sic]

Changed my LJ layout back to S2

The S1 layout didn't include my user icon on each posting, and also didn't have an "edit" link. Hope you like the background graphic.

Celebrity Sighting in Mountain View

Last night on my way back to the car from dinner with localinactivist, I spied three shadowy figures in a dark alley. After we passed I realized two of them were didjiman and karisu_sama. I did not recognize the third celebrity.

DSC_2014_RadarFiredress

DSC_2014_RadarFiredress
Originally uploaded by how3ird.

iamradar in her fire dress, en route to judging the masquerade at SiliCon 2006. One of a set of photos on my Flickr page, massaged for SFSF if they want any of them.