Serbia, in an attempt to bolster its police funds rents out services and equipment to the general public. At $4.50 per hour who wouldn't want their own cop protecting their family picnic or walk through the park?

read more | digg storyOkay, it's kinda a stupid topic... I just wanted to see what submitting a story to Digg.com all entailed. But ( Read more... )

I'm looking for a dance partner to go to Lindy on the Lakefront at the Milwaukee Art Museum. It's African-American stylized swing dancing which is a ton of fun plus they are really good with helping out beginners (or so I'm told). This is the last one of the year so it's bound the be the best one of them all ( Read more... )

I think I figured out how to push myself to the max on my bike rides. Tonight at 3:00am I set out for the back woods in Wauwatosa with two extra things: a dim lamp strapped to my forehead and my iPod filled with tracks from suspense/thriller/horror movies. Holy Fuck did it work! I don't think I've pedaled so fast so consistently before. There was a ( Read more... )

Does anyone happen to have the dvd set of Star Trek: The Next Generation or know someone who does and is willing to lend it out for a couple days so I can copy it? I'd be happy to reimburse whomever $20 or so since the dvd set costs $350ish.

Damn Star Treck copyright owners not letting movie rental places rent out star trek series... LAME!

/geek

I could play with this all day.

Last week Saturday (the 18th) I headed to the BWCAW (Boudry Waters Canoe Area Wilderness) up past Deluth Minesota for a week with my father and Jake. Best week I've had in a long time... and to top it off I got to catch up with the KTX for a late night movie and some weird ass dogs the night before.  Being out in the middle of nowhere was awesome ( Read more... )

So, I just ordered two of these.

Dance party in 7 to 10 business days!

http://www.ellery.info/mathnet/

good times

The Eternal Value of Privacy

The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures -- is this line: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"

Some clever answers: "If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to ( Read more... )

While watching the national morning news on NBC a few days ago they showed a segment (which turned out to practically be the whole episode) of Dateline which was going to air later that night. It turned out to be another episode showing kids luring sexual predators to their homes for sex via the internet. Once these predators show up they are ( Read more... )