No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for January 14th, 2008

Writers? We don’t need no steenkin’ writers!

by @ 20:07. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Yesterday was supposed to be the first episode of Season 7 of “24”, with today being the first Monday with Jack Bauer before Congress and Tony Almeida fucking with the air traffic control system. However, since the writers and the studios can’t pull their collective heads out of their collective asses, the fine folks at Blogs4Bauer have stepped up to the plate.

The following takes place between 8 am and 9 am and between 9 am and 10 am….

$10 at 10 for Fred

by @ 18:41. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Some of the Fredheads over at the Fred File came up with the idea to kick in another $10 to the red truck’s tanks at 10 pm local. Sounds like a good idea.

So, if you didn’t hit your $2,300 limit yet, and you have $10 floating around that wallet, donate that $10 at 10 pm local.

Revisions/extensions (8:18 pm 1/14/2008) – The re-revised goal of $1,000,000 by midnight Eastern tonight has been busted, as the truck had $1,000,932 in it at 8:15 pm. The $10 at 10 is still on.

Voluntary voter ID – where do I sign up?

by @ 13:18. Filed under Elections, Politics - Wisconsin.

(H/T – Owen)

I do not know how anybody who is not interested in stealing votes from legitimately-registered voters can be opposed to AB547, a bill that would allow registered voters to request that they be required to produce identification to cast a ballot. Indeed, this is a bipartisan proposal, with Christine Sinicki among those introducing the bill and Julie Lassa and Jeff Plale (my state Senator) among the Senate co-sponsors.

I want my vote protected whether I show up at the polls at 7 am or 7 pm, and this is a good way to do so.

Talk like Jack Bauer today, dammit!

by @ 11:56. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Even though the writers’ strike has blown up Season 7 of “24” (dammit, Fox!) the fine folks at Blogs4Bauer are still having Talk Like Jack Bauer Day today (thank you). For those of you who don’t know how to talk like Jack, B4B has a handy guide. Go read it, or I’ll use this rusty pen knife on your eyes. I’ll start with the right eye, and move to the left.

If you don’t feel like talking like Jack after reading that, I’ve got a wet towel that I’ll shove down your throat, all the day, only I’ll hold onto the end of it. When your stomach starts digesting the towel, I’ll yank it back out, and take your stomach lining with it. Now, you will talk like Jack Bauer, won’t you?

The NFL glass is half-full

by @ 11:48. Filed under Sports.

Even though nothing is above .500, and the “money” 2/3rds of my playoff predictions slid under the .500 mark, it’s still half-full. Let’s review what went right and wrong:

Seattle 20 @ Green Bay 42 (-7.5/under-43.5-LOSS) – No pick-sixes, but when the Packers either score touchdowns or turn the ball over, and they score six times, it’s almost all-good. Mental note – snow does not stop the Packer offense.

Jacksonville 20 (+13-WIN/over-50-WIN) @ New England 31 – Number of punts – 2. I do believe I told you to take the under-4.5 on that.

San Diego 28 @ Indianapolis 24 (-9.5/under 46.5) – I guess the Bolts just have the Dolts’ number.

New York Giants 21 @ Dallas 17 (-7.5/over 46.5) – I wonder if TO has castrated Romo yet. Stat of the weak – 1-3 against the over/unders. I don’t know the last time I chunked that up that bad.

2-2 against the spread, 1-3 against the over/unders and 2-2 straight-up leaves the playoff record at 3-5 ATS, 3-5 O/U and 4-4 SU. Dammit; I have to sweep the rest of the playoffs to make any money.

Prepare to freeze in the winter and bake in the summer – Part 2

by @ 11:27. Filed under Business, Global "Warming".

Remember that little blurb from the land of fruits and nuts about the state wanting to control the thermostat? There is a modestly-good update (H/T – DrewM/AoSHQ):

Yet after a public outcry by critics worried about Big Brother dictating home temperatures, officials with the California Energy Commission said this week that they will change the proposed regulation so that customers would have the option of blocking outside control of their thermostats.

No, it’s not the end of the PCT; rather it is the (alleged) end of the ability of the government to order an irreversible change in the temperature.

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