I'm Reminded Of A Joke...

Two hikers walking through the woods cross paths with a huge, hungry bear. One of the hikers kneels down, takes off his hiking boots and starts putting on a pair of running shoes.

"What are you doing?" asks his hiking buddy. "Those sneakers aren't going to help you outrun that bear."

"I don't need to outrun the bear," says the first guy as he finishes lacing up, "I just need to outrun you."

This was the joke I was reminded of when I saw a piece on Newsday.com about sister publication Hoy's circulation scandal. Meanwhile, Newsday is involved in its own circ number inflation scandal. The story mentions that sad fact in the fourth paragraph, but glosses it over while it skewers Hoy.

I wonder why Newsday would even let its staff writers near this story. Smells like a conflict of interest to me...

And Where, Exactly, Did The Rest Of The Money Go?

The New York Post yesterday lobbed another distraction grenade in the direction of the Iraqi insurgents, claiming Oil For Food ill-gotten gains are being used to fund terrorists.

Funny how no one seems to want to discuss the vouchers allegedly redeemed by people connected to the French and Russian governments and others with friends in high places. Funny how a story that tends to get buried 18 pages deep in the mainstream papers (if it gets reported at all) becomes a front-page item when someone finally figures out how to spin it in such a way that it provides more fuel for the War on Terror.

Linda Ronstadt Praises F911, Gets Ejected From Casino

Link.

Linda gave a shout out to Michael Moore and got booed during her show at the Aladdin. This prompted the president of the casino to cancel the rest of her show, lock her out of her suite and escort her off the property.

I guess this proves once and for all that there are living, breathing, sentient people in this country who actually buy into the notion that dissent equals hatred of America. How sad.

Terminatrix To Be Resurrected

Our main server at Underscore, Terminatrix, took a header over the weekend, wreaking havoc on today's workflow. Seems the OS drive overheated and crapped out. We had installed a RAID controller and put all of our valuable data on the array, but the OS and all of the software and drivers were on a separate drive. Eric spent the better part of the day reinstalling a new drive, the OS, critical service packs and drivers. We're still not done. All of the application data we save on the server should be okay, it's just that we can't get to it until we can get the machine to boot with the RAID controller drivers intact.

Why call our server Terminatrix? All of our network devices are named after famous robots. By way of example, our color printer is named R2D2 and our B&W Laserjet is named C3PO.