Yearly Archives: 2006

Who Could Stomach Making the Mark?

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mark foley’s name will apparently stay on the Florida ballot even though he has resigned and is no longer contending for office:

Under Florida law his name stays on the ballot, but the party can designate another candidate. You have to put your mark on his name, but the votes go to the designated Republican.

This has to be a case where there will be zero votes for the republican.

Who could possibly stomach putting their mark next to this person’s name even if it is a surrogate for some other designated candidate.

Inside or Outside

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If you think the system that brought you bill clinton, george bush, jack abramoff, mark foley or, well, you pick your least favorite politician, is broken you might try changing the system from the inside:
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Or, you might consider that it is time to replace the system.
Cartoon from The Gaping Void.

Why Was He Still in the Game?

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Headline: High school back rushes for 658 yards
A short blurb about this story showed up in many Sunday morning sports sections today. Most reports were brief clones of what appears to be a wire service story. For example, here is part of one report:

Paul McCoy ran for 658 yards in a West Virginia high school football game but might not have set a national record.
His yardage tops the National Federation of State High School Association’s listed record of 619 yards set by Ronney Jenkins of Oxnard, Calif., in 1995.
But high school records historian Doug Huff said Saturday the recognized record is 739 yards by John Giannantonio of Netcong, N.J., in 1950, against Mountain Lakes.
“The National Federation book for some reason does not include that (the 739 yards), and I think the reason is there’s a formal process for submitting those things,” Huff said Saturday. “This school doesn’t exist anymore. The papers recognized it. The school had a special ceremony. It’s been in my records for years.”
McCoy piled up his yardage on just 29 carries — an average of 22.7 yards per attempt — and scored 10 touchdowns as Matewan beat Burch 64-0 on Friday. McCoy racked up 477 of his yards scoring on touchdown runs that covered 69, 1, 52, 56, 52, 20, 31, 84, 87 and 25 yards.
He also had a 77-yard touchdown run called back because of a penalty.

One paper condensed the wire article and the person who wrote the condensation noted that they were impressed by this performance.
What is there to be impressed about? Burch is clearly a very weak team. And, after the 4th or 5th score why was this player even still in the game as a back? Or at all? Surely, Matewan has a second team? Other players who need experience?

Nah, not impressed at all.

Keeping the Line Rider Upright

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Well, there are a lot of ways to pass waste time with Line Rider.
It is easy enough to make a wall to smash him into or a jump for him to fly off of into infinity.
I thought I’d try keeping him upright, traveling at least 2/3 of the way across the screen on his first run and then stopping would be fun. I didn’t quite get him to stop at the end of the run and he’s still going after about 15 minutes now and hasn’t quite stopped. Will he fall over when he comes to a complete stop?

I’ll check before I go home to see what has happened to him.

Via The Presurfer.

Update 4 hours later: The line rider is upright and stopped on the line about half way across. Experiment terminated.

NB: This post was written earlier this week during lunch hour at work and not posted. Thus the work context.