The Greatest Movie Car Chase Ever?

Posted by Doug on April 30th, 2007 | 2 Comments

It's a tough one, but the Knoxville News wants to know your pick for greatest movie car chase ever. There are some doozies on the list, for certain:

Bullitt
The French Connection
The Seven-Ups
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
The Blues Brothers
The Road Warrior
To Live and Die in L.A.
Ronin
The Bourne Identity

Of those, I think The Bourne Identitty is not worthy [...]

Posted in Cars, Movies

Words To The Wise, From The Internet[s]

Posted by Doug on April 30th, 2007 | No Comments

Do not make the mistake of 1) being a hypocrite and 2) letting Lewis Black comment upon said hypocrisy:

Drifting is for real cars, not Barbie Powerwheels:

The fastest way to meet John Malkovich, apparently is to 1) be Australian 2) blog 3) get chummy with his sister.
That there's advice y'all can take to the bank.

Posted in Blogging, Humor, Videos

im in ur gas pump, stealing ur identitiez

Posted by Doug on April 30th, 2007 | 3 Comments

I had a bit of an odd experience this morning.
I pulled into an Exxon station in Philly to tide me over until I could get to cheaper gas in Jersey and got out to fill my tank. After swiping my credit card, the machine prompted me to choose between "credit" and "debit". I [...]

Posted in Customer Service, General, Observations

Egads! Eggheads!

Posted by Doug on April 28th, 2007 | No Comments

The U.K.'s Daily Mail envisions what the world's most beautiful women would look like were they to shave their heads bald.
The short answer? Most of them look like Bat Boy, Gollum or that freaky Six Flags dude. (In the Queen's case, she looks like Telly Savalas.)

Posted in Humor, Media

America's Gots Talent (At Least The Blue Men Do)

Posted by Doug on April 28th, 2007 | 5 Comments

Holy cow. This rendition of The Who's "Baba O'Reilly" by Blue Man Group simply must be seen to be believed:

Yowsers.

Posted in Music, Videos

Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones, But Op-Ed Pieces Sure Can Leave A Mark

Posted by Doug on April 28th, 2007 | No Comments

I happened across a few opinion pieces over the last day or two that give lie to the old adage about "words can never hurt me". If these opinion pieces are any indication, words certainly can sting, I tell you what.
First up is a piece by Alan Dershowitz that completely decimates Jimmy Carter ("History's [...]

Posted in Humor, Observations, Politics

Sequestered No More!

Posted by Doug on April 27th, 2007 | No Comments

Just got out of a marathon sysadminning session where my team lead and I did quite a bit of architecting, planning, troubleshooting and strategerizing.
All I have to say is that Apple rocks for their dscl and dsconfigldap command line tools and "bind_policy = soft" is your friend for Linux hosts using LDAP.

Posted in Asides, Computers, Macintosh, Work
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