Larry’s Log

Since the topple of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq we are seeing that country move toward a western style democracy. There have been some stumbles but with the implementation of just five little things the US/UK coalition will help the Iraqi’s become a world class democracy:

The first thing that the US military to see that […]

I’ve often seen the phone numbers in tv shows and in the movies that used the 555 exchange and thought why don’t they use a more real looking number. I figured there might be a few jerks out there that would think it would be funny to call numbers they saw appear there but those […]

Via Todd at Flutterby. While things never quite got this out of hand, I can sympathize with this fellow.

The Rev. has some little known military history for us. I don’t know where he got the story but I think there needs to be some fact checking done on this one.

If a doctor tells you he can relieve all of these problems:

Alzheimer’s
Anxiety and nervousness
Arthritis, bursitis, rheumatism
Attention Deficit Disorder, dyslexia, hyperactivity and other learning disabilities
Autism
Cerebral palsy
Concussion and other head injuries
Depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder
Down’s Syndrome
Dystonia
Ear infection and deafness
Glaucoma, double vision and other vision problems
Headaches, head pressure, migraines
Insomnia
Low energy, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue
Muscle spasms, neck and shoulder pain
Organ functioning
Orthodontic stress […]

Doc Searls has some interesting things to say about education and testing. The fact of the matter is that tests don’t reveal what a student has learned and taking a test does nothing to teach the subject matter. Unfortunately, testing is the only way educators have found to measure their effectiveness as teachers and judge […]

Thom Hartman believes that we are seeing the waning of right wing talk radio and the dawn of progressive or liberal talk radio. I hope he’s right but while a pompous right wing talker is entertaining a pompous right wing talker just leaves me flat. I have yet to hear a left wing talker who […]

Earlier today when I read about Microsoft entering into a licensing agreement with SCO Unix I didn’t know what to make of it. While their claim was that they were doing so in order to be able to work on interoperation with Unix systems without the fear of violationg SCO’s IP that didn’t quite wash […]

Gerri just got back from the store with a little battery powered trimmer/razor. This thing was packaged in one of those clear plastic packages that is welded shut. Let me give you my remonstrance for this type of packaging. The only way to get into this package is with a knife or scissors so it […]

Yesterday the good legislators of Alabama voted against a bill that would have removed a ban on sexual devices, such as vibrators, from the state’s obscenity law. I am so relieved that the state of Alabama is taking such strides in protecting their citizens from the dangers of mechanical sex.

Don Box asked for it. Sam Ruby complied and then it seems like an avalanche of support suddenly appeared. Oh, well, Blosxom makes it trivial to add so Larry’s Log is now available in CDF.

Someone needs to tell these birds that that’s not legal.

Shelley is working on a little project that may have ramifications far outside of the intended target of her project. She’s looking for a way to locate metaphors in poetry that relate to a specific theme. At first glance I thought, “Hey, this is kind of neat.” Then I looked at how what she is […]

Eric Kiel’s Blogshares account has been suspended. It looks like he may be under investigation for manipulation of the stock prices in his blog Cigarettes and Coffee. Since I was one of the many bestowed by him with a gift of shares and I subsequently linked to his blog and bought more shares, I wonder […]

Most likely most of y’all would take an offer like the one in the title as a joke. It would be even more obviously a joke if an ad for a kid for sale had a disclaimer of the child not being too good at doing dishes because he was too short. A Canadian woman […]