Future Cops
Oct. 23rd, 2004 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clayhornikIn Norfolk, Downtown policemen based out of MacArthur Center patrol using Segways. There's something.... futurey about it. Like, YES! We're living in the 21st century.
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In Boston, however...
How I didn't hear about this yesterday, I don't know. I've got a co-worker who loaths the Sox, so it's the kind of thing she'd pick up on. Apparently the Boston PD is responsible for the death of a Sox fan.
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that's all about the future cops this morning. too lazy to post and open a new thing for everything else
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Best cd not available at record stores... Wired Magazine. In a look at the creative commons license, Wired includes a 16 track cd, featuring the Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Chuck D, and Gilberto Gil. (Ok... I've already got a favourite track:#4 My Morning Jacket, One Big Holiday. Haven't gotten the suburban unease vibe off a song like this since David & David's Welcome to the Boomtown. It makes me want to rock back and forth hugging myself while visualizing headlights on the road and strip malls. Like the way that sounds? I can send you a copy of the mp3 OR burn a copy of the disk... it's legal. that's what creative commons is all about: Getting the art out.
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He faced not one brigade but three: between 25 and 30 tanks, plus 70 to 80 armored personnel carriers, artillery, and between 5,000 and 10,000 Iraqi soldiers coming from three directions. This mass of firepower and soldiers attacked a U.S. force of 1,000 soldiers supported by just 30 tanks and 14 Bradley fighting vehicles. From an article in MIT's Technology Review. I picked it up last night. This morning on NPR, there's an article on The Charge of the Light Brigade. Slightly different context, yes, but it seems "military intellegence" hasn't changed too much in 150 years.
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The local NPR station is having it's local beg-a-thon. I gave up on them after hearing a traffic commentator say "brought to you by Sex in the City on TBS." So much for "commercial free". Yet another reason to listen to CBC. Actually, there are dozens of NPR channels I've listened to that somehow avoid such "ad/not ad" tactics. WBAI in NYC comes to mind at the top of the list. I don't quite understand the economics of these things.
The fact that the guys doing the begathon started making stupid jokes in the wake of the Light Brigade story doesn't help either. "Your's is not to question why, your's is but to pledge or die." Yes. Really.
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I had a dream in which I was back in high school. I distinctly remember seeing a classmate in my dream- someone who wasn't exactly an ass to me, but he was still a jock. He was on the news recently and it was a weird blend of then and now in my dream. There were these tree craeatures, like the tree men from Lord of the Rings, but T-Rex's not people. My coworker T., who's a highschool teacher, was there too, when we discovered the T-Rex eggs.
I can trace everthing but the Tree Men back to stuff that's happened recently. Odd.
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I'm throwing out a bag of trash every day til I go on vacation. Yes, that's a lot of trash, mostly old papers and magazines and stuff. Inorganic clutter. That way, my apartment will be a little less cluttered when I return from SF.
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In Boston, however...
How I didn't hear about this yesterday, I don't know. I've got a co-worker who loaths the Sox, so it's the kind of thing she'd pick up on. Apparently the Boston PD is responsible for the death of a Sox fan.
--
that's all about the future cops this morning. too lazy to post and open a new thing for everything else
--
Best cd not available at record stores... Wired Magazine. In a look at the creative commons license, Wired includes a 16 track cd, featuring the Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Chuck D, and Gilberto Gil. (Ok... I've already got a favourite track:#4 My Morning Jacket, One Big Holiday. Haven't gotten the suburban unease vibe off a song like this since David & David's Welcome to the Boomtown. It makes me want to rock back and forth hugging myself while visualizing headlights on the road and strip malls. Like the way that sounds? I can send you a copy of the mp3 OR burn a copy of the disk... it's legal. that's what creative commons is all about: Getting the art out.
--
He faced not one brigade but three: between 25 and 30 tanks, plus 70 to 80 armored personnel carriers, artillery, and between 5,000 and 10,000 Iraqi soldiers coming from three directions. This mass of firepower and soldiers attacked a U.S. force of 1,000 soldiers supported by just 30 tanks and 14 Bradley fighting vehicles. From an article in MIT's Technology Review. I picked it up last night. This morning on NPR, there's an article on The Charge of the Light Brigade. Slightly different context, yes, but it seems "military intellegence" hasn't changed too much in 150 years.
--
The local NPR station is having it's local beg-a-thon. I gave up on them after hearing a traffic commentator say "brought to you by Sex in the City on TBS." So much for "commercial free". Yet another reason to listen to CBC. Actually, there are dozens of NPR channels I've listened to that somehow avoid such "ad/not ad" tactics. WBAI in NYC comes to mind at the top of the list. I don't quite understand the economics of these things.
The fact that the guys doing the begathon started making stupid jokes in the wake of the Light Brigade story doesn't help either. "Your's is not to question why, your's is but to pledge or die." Yes. Really.
--
I had a dream in which I was back in high school. I distinctly remember seeing a classmate in my dream- someone who wasn't exactly an ass to me, but he was still a jock. He was on the news recently and it was a weird blend of then and now in my dream. There were these tree craeatures, like the tree men from Lord of the Rings, but T-Rex's not people. My coworker T., who's a highschool teacher, was there too, when we discovered the T-Rex eggs.
I can trace everthing but the Tree Men back to stuff that's happened recently. Odd.
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I'm throwing out a bag of trash every day til I go on vacation. Yes, that's a lot of trash, mostly old papers and magazines and stuff. Inorganic clutter. That way, my apartment will be a little less cluttered when I return from SF.
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Date: 2004-10-23 10:43 am (UTC)Ecosphere t-rex eggs me arse. Those be gentrified Sea Monkeys!
Ride that trashbag momentum for all its worth. I like doing major clean outs before a big trip. That way, when you get back, you don't miss the stuff because you can't remember what it was or that it was ever there.