The Pete's blog/

@MichaelBarley interesting--a sort of tiered system. Makes good sense. And the quality of Torchwood matches with it's channel, I think :)

@Matt_Silverman yeah it's something I didn't think about when I bought my HD cam back in Dec. Shoulda bought a teradrive with it. :/

@MariAdkins Kentucky is a Gemini! :)

@MichaelBarley haha--it's not noon yet, here in NYC. :P Besides was up until after 4AM, so sleeping until 11 is reasonable. ;)

@Tom_Godell yeah, it's definitely one of those deals where you laugh while knowing it could be worse (and in some ways was!)

@Tom_Godell haha, yeah, we all remember the cute girls in Chemistry class... lots of reactions going on in there. ;P

Just took my 235th mugshot! http://www.dailymugshot.com/main/show/421

I'm thinking they should just merge with the DMV RT @andymatic: I think they should rename it Federal Motors.

It's fun when your MacBook overheats and shuts down by itself in the middle of writing a blog post AND creating a disk image! Yes it is!

This is semi-old news, but with Cheney making the rounds again

recently I felt this story would be good to conjure up--it's from 2004

but important to think about when Dick Cheney goes on and on about

"protecting America."



In an October 12, 2004 article on CommonDreams.org, Jason Leopold

wrote about how Dick Cheney was

helping Iraq break international law:The report on

Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction, prepared by Charles

Duelfer, a former U.N. weapons inspector and head of the Iraqi Survey

Group, said Saddam Hussein used revenue from the oil-for-food program

and “created a web of front companies and used shadowy deals with

foreign governments, corporations, and officials to amass $11 billion

in illicit revenue in the decade before the US-led invasion last

year," reports The New York Times.



Sure, $11 billion is chump change compared to what we've actually

spent on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, but that was, to

use the old cliche, a lot of money back then. Leopold goes on,

however, later in the article, to say:But the one

company that helped Saddam exploit the oil-for-food program in the

mid-1990s that wasn’t identified in Duelfer’s report was Halliburton,

and the person at the helm of Halliburton at the time of the scheme

was Vice President Dick Cheney. Halliburton and its subsidiaries were

one of several American and foreign oil supply companies that helped

Iraq increase its crude exports from $4 billion in 1997 to nearly $18

billion in 2000 by skirting U.S. laws and selling Iraq spare parts so

it could repair its oil fields and pump more oil.



Leopold cites UN documents in the article as his source for this

story. While he doesn't link to the docs themselves in his article, in

the face of evidence like this, if true, it's hard to give any

credibility to Cheney at all and I find it very frustrating that the

media gives a man like this, who is no longer in power, a voice on TV

and on the radio. Frankly, it makes me question the entirety of

mainstream media.



As if there wasn't already enough reasons to mistrust the mainstream media.

@gypsyjr that's awesome! I have a hard time watching the behind-the-scenes stuff. Feelings of jealousy are overpowering. :(

@gypsyjr when we got the Incredibles Sierra tried to watch them with me and I got so antsy I barely got through them. But I did learn stuff.

@MichaelBarley Yeah Helen was the wife of the lead. But the lead, well, I don't want ruin it for you if you decide to watch it.

@IanAspin I never get where newspapers are coming from. They screwed up big-time during the Bush years--are they in a position to criticize?

@Maria0305 cool--just curious. I think you're a good writer so both are on my list of blogs I try to keep up with.

@Horse_Head thanks--the hard drive case is a bit more stable than that bag of frozen corn I was using last night. :)

@Horse_Head thanks--the hard drive case is a bit more stable than that bag of frozen corn I was using last night. :)

This week was fun because we tried out the HD cam for all of Jay ThePal's stuff for 12seconds.tv. It ended up being a bit too much work on the back end, but the two days we used the cam were a lot of fun. Between the obviously better picture to the gun we had with green screen, it was almost like we had a budget! Yeah! So, check it out and like Jay always says, let us know what you think. YEAH!!



Thanks to Lisa of LisaReinsRadar.com for hosting this 51MB mp4 version of the above 7m39s video for your podcasting pleasure!

@puppetvision ...when I checked it out last Dec, they were out of 2 of the 3 body-types & a bunch of the smaller parts, too.

RT @CK67: I am looking for your favorite Classic Rock songs for Episode 90 of Sound Check with CK http://www.check12check12.com get em going