http://www.interocitor.com/ Ramblings from West LA while I'm waiting for the spaceships to pick me back up en-us kcm@interocitor.com 2007-08-07T23:37:23-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000824.html Fair and balanced. For real.... 824@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-08-07T23:37:23-08:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000823.html Some folks think that terrorists use 1000-bit key crypto schemes and secret comm satellites to send their operational instructions and "go" codes. Alas, such methods are obvious and few. One is just waving one's hands and saying "Come and get... 823@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-07-25T23:15:27-08:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000822.html “While filtering and monitoring technologies help parents to screen out offensive content and to monitor their child’s online activities, the use of these technologies is far from universal and may not be fool-proof in keeping kids away from adult material,"... 822@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-07-25T20:36:43-08:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000821.html First, I want to say I'm down with the University of Colorado firing Ward Churchill. For whatever. Plagiarism is good. Mopery would also work. So would Internet piracy of John Denver songs, peeking into the girl's gym, or spitting on... 821@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-07-25T16:23:16-08:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000820.html The White House Washington D.C. July 21, 2007 Dear Mr President: I'm sorry if you're still groggy while you read this -- I told them not to wake you -- but I and half the Cabinet think that I'd make... 820@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-07-21T00:50:34-08:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000819.html People are starting to worry about the low ratings for Congress and the Executive. Bush is around 34%, and the Congress has fallen to 14%. The military is the only official institution to have substantial support, above 60%. As Don... 819@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-07-18T22:32:13-08:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000818.html America honors the greatest living American, and no one in America notices.... 818@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-07-18T08:50:24-08:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000817.html Just thought I'd mention the utter bile I feel for the folks who posted the new Harry Potter book to the internet before it came out. Not only is it theft, but the likelihood is large that some yahoo will... 817@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-07-17T22:40:30-08:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000816.html So, I was going through my local brand-new Whole Foods today, looking for frozen foods to justify my new freezer. The store is impressive and about one square foot short of violating the Wal-Mart laws. Every inch of the store... 816@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-07-15T21:59:59-08:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000815.html A co-worker of mine, who is a Canadian citizen born in India and legally resident in the US, is attempting to convert his H1-B status to permanent resident. It isn't easy. Not even close. The US immigration authorities make the... 815@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-07-11T22:57:49-08:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000814.html The United States is at war with al-Qaeda. When you see Jimmy Carter singing three stanzas of the Battle Hymn of the Republic [4 minutes in], shoulder to shoulder with people he hates, you just have to believe that we're... 814@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-07-10T21:01:33-08:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000813.html Between 1940 and the 1960s, Robert Heinlein and a few others took a trashy pulp literature called Science Fiction and turned it into the first uniquely American literary form. Optimistic, forward-looking and adventurous, SF (never "SciFi") quickly became the only... 813@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-07-07T07:07:07-08:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000812.html For those folks wondering when all those cable channels will start broadcasting in High Def, it looks like the answer is Real Soon Now. DirecTV 10 blasted off from Baikonur this evening on top of a Russian Proton rocket. Assuming... 812@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-07-06T20:48:08-08:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000810.html I haven't been blogging since the last election. Partly because of the Republican collapse, partly because I didn't want any part of the recriminations, partly because the Republicans deserved what they got, but mostly just overwork and blogger burnout. Been... 810@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-07-04T15:38:37-08:00 http://www.interocitor.com/archives/000808.html It's about Florida. Still. Nearly seven years after the biggest meltdown in American politics, Gore's partisans haven't let up. Sure, President Bush has contributed, big-time, to his own problems, but there is a very vocal 10-20% of the population that... 808@http://www.interocitor.com/ 2007-07-04T13:39:59-08:00