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My place to ramble.
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Some might consider this innapropriate, but the Tard Blog is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. (I think its real.)
If you can't laugh at life you'll go crazy, right?
posted by Byron @
2:44 PM
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Saturday, April 26, 2003  |
This Honda ad is amazing. Reminds me of the Rube Goldberg project we had to do my freshman year...but a hell of alot more complicated.
posted by Byron @
10:35 AM
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Thursday, April 24, 2003 |
Here's the newest reply from the group member:
"I don't have any numbers yet? what exactly do you mean.
I pictured the finger connecting to the palm either by a pivot joint or by something similar to that drawing where the connection piece is hollow to act as a channel for the cable and other wires etc, but also still allowing that joint to bend and extend."
We now have 4 days to finish and all she has is a picture in her head of something she saw in a research paper.
Just Damn! (Royal Marshall)
posted by Byron @
9:13 AM
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He should have been better on his wording, but the dude is getting slammed for nothing. It looks like all he was saying was, if sodomy is legal, every other consentual sexual act should be too. Santorum thinks this will lead to the degredation of the "traditional family."
Big deal, he's a republican, everyone should know he thinks like that.
Sound bites are killers.
Link from The Volokh Conspiracy. I like his blog alot.
Slate has a good thing on it too.
On a personal note, I'm finishing up my thumb drawings. I asked a group member to send me some measurments and spcs for the fingers so I could get them drawn, quick like. She e-mailed me back this:
"Lengths: the distal link = 0.875in, the middle link = 1.25in, the link closest to the palm = 2in.
the thickness = 0.0011in
the outer diameter = 0.3125in
the pin size = 0.0102 in"
Ok, thats all and fine...if our fingers were going to look like cylinders. Also, how the hell am I supposed to understand the joint layout and linkage design from that? So, I emailed her back and asked her for the joint specifics. This is what she sent back:
"I think in the top of the finger at the joints, would give the best bending look"
Ummm...this is due monday...I guess I've been a bad leader, not "pushing" them enough, but I thought there would be some self motivation.
The "best bending look?" Riiiiight...I need a little more than that. She hasn't replied to my last email yet. Oh yeah, she works at the CDC part time and is trying to get a full time job there after graduation.
The world will be overrun with SARS.
posted by Byron @
8:46 PM
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Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
So "under California law, the killing of a pregnant woman that kills her unborn child can be considered a double homicide, making the case eligible for the death penalty."
But, CA hasn't banned abortions. It seems to get a little murky after this. It appears that CA has a law banning most abortions after the fetus is viable, with viable generally defined as approx. 28 weeks. Full term is 38 weeks and Peterson was at about 32 (if I'm doing this right, but they don't have a ban on partial-birth abortions. So lets just say that there were cirumstances that made Scottt Peterson really needs his wife to have an abortion. So he really needs her to have an abortion, and in CA, they don't have a spousal consent law....they do however have a law that bans abortions by peole ather than licensed physicians.
All in all, here's the scenario. Scott Peterson really doesn't want this kid, he "performs an abortion." His prefered method is dropping his wife into the ocean, therby inducing the termination of the pregnancy. However, he isn't a licensed physician....soooo...he should be charged with one count of murder and one of performing an abortion w/o the proper medical credentials.
Remember, this is California and O.J. got off. Anything can happen.
Seriously though, I still wonder how you can charge someone for the murder of their own unborn child if abortions are legal. It just seems like a double standard. Although since the fetus was probably viable, there is a good more solid footing to stand on.
CA law information from here, a state abortion law survey.
There's Jason again, but who is this:
cache-da03.proxy.aol.com....if this is you drop me an email...do I know you? Is this Carrie?...you have aol....
**edit...I just saw this...it appears as if someone from Illinois has stopped by recently...this is cool**
posted by Byron @
10:14 AM
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Wow, I just looked at my counter and I've had seven visits today...I'm movin' on up.
...5 minutes later...Actually, all but one of them look like Jason, I wonder what that AOL proxy is?
How can I boost my stats? Maybe if I put interesting information on here....hmmmm....
posted by Byron @
4:08 PM
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Monday, April 21, 2003 |
This is by no means an original thought, but why is Scott Peterson being charged with a double homocide? Seems like a double standard. I'd love to see the legal arguments for that. I'll look around, I'm sure there are plenty of bloggers discussing it.
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4:00 PM
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