Early/late work morning, and links on [censorship, laptops, emo, morals, the Congo, and Google]

[skreidle]

Went to bed late, set the alarms for 0430. Woke up to a phone call a few minutes after 06, when I was supposed to be in Bethesda already! High-tailed it north, arriving about 0715, and learning that, fortunately, it didn't actually matter. The truck being used to move the datacenter's equipment was full, so they'd left to unload and didn't return until after I arrived! (And since it only took me a few minutes to "deinstall" the library, the timing was just fine.) Walked to the new location, installed, tested, and joined two of the guys there for a late breakfast at Booeymonger. (Bethesda is a rather upscale area, I found--cars, architecture, art, and costs.)

And then I drove home in crappy, crappy driving weather (rain and fog), stopped by the ABC store to pick up a couple things for gothiccripple's party tonight, and caught up on LJ. Haven't caught up on sleep, though. :P

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Via thehunter, two bits on censorship:

'We have to protect people.' "President Bush wants 'pro-homosexual' drama banned. Gary Taylor meets the politician in charge of making it happen."

Blackadder's deadly serious attack on 'religious hate' bill

Young Men Warned About Laptop Risk--sterility and burns, oh my!

Via subbes: Stuff It, Emo Boy!

kimatha on the decline of morals in Western civilization.

Via pictsy: "In fact, Congo is the deadliest war the world has seen since the end of the Second World War, and ... these staggering figures have gone largely ignored by the media and world leaders," Dr. Richard Brennan, director of the organization's health unit, told Associated Press Television News in New York.

Study: 3.8 million dead in Congo

This is kinda cool, though I'm not sure how useful it is: Google Suggest. (via vinz_klortho)

Comments

<lj user="kimantha"> is right

[liandriel.livejournal.com]

There's been a small drama over on Xanga this week -- a wonderful woman has been illegally evicted from her home with nine days' notice and put up a Paypal link for donations, so her kids won't be homeless for Christmas (long story short). Some random girl surfed by and made a snotty comment that this woman should get a job, rather than begging for money online. Drama ensued, and one of the things this girl said was, "Seriously though why give money to someone you dont even know?"

That attitude is precisely what is wrong with the world today.

Re: <lj user="kimantha"> is right

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

That's just sad.