The Gvlshornbook

Sanrio and Epson Create the Hello Kitty Laptop Computer

With kids glomming onto computers and the Internet at ever-younger ages, the line between toys and practical electronics continues to blur. Case in point: the new ‘Hello Kitty EPSON wide note’ laptop computer, due to be released on May 28. Whether you’re 5, 15, 25 or older, this feature-packed laptop has enough bells & whistles to make even the most techno-savvy kitty freak geek purr with joy!

Doesn’t this just want to make you throw a hairball? but then, it has Windows Vista on it. I have friends who do tech support, and THEY have problems with the OS… get the damn thing, wipe the drive and get the kid hooked on *nix of any flavor

No parties… but I did play tourist…. DC was devoid of Congresscritters and other politicians, so I had empty streets and fences

Dear Whoopi,
Thank you for the hot chocolate. We appreciated it. actually, we LOVED it!!!

First, a bit of context:
We arrived at 9 am at the ABC studios where The View is taped. Two pickets were formed one at the audience entrance to the studio, and one behind, so peopele entering and leaving could not avoid seeing us and our signs. AFTRA and SAG both were showing in larger numbers than before, and as a member of AFTRA, it made me feel good to see my fellow performers on the line. Two boxes filled with hot chocolate were sent out by Whoopi Goldberg for us, and later she and Elisabeth Hasselback came out to spend a bit of time with us.

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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/120407-microsoft-santa-bot.html

An artificial-intelligence Santa bot operated by Microsoft to talk to children wavered off topic saying: “It’s fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else….”

Microsoft Tuesday confirmed the bot’s potty mouth and snipped Santa’s Web connection.

“Yesterday we received reports that the automated Santa Claus agent in Windows Live Messenger used inappropriate language. As soon as we were alerted, we took steps to mitigate the issue, including the removal of language from the agent’s automated script. We were not completely satisfied with the result of these actions, and have decided to discontinue the automated Santa Claus agent,” Microsoft said in a statement sent to Network World. (See more bad Microsoft ideas.)

Once the report of the randy Santa broke, questions prodding Santa to give up even more questionable answers took off like eight tiny reindeer.

Some users got Santa to comment on his sexual orientation, others to reveal a criminal side.

One person said “…..come on you like big hairy men — don’t hide it!” To which Santa responded, “I know, I know. I just hope you won’t get mad at me.”

The references to sex acts, first reported by British news outlet The Register, came when the bot was answering questions about eating pizza. At the time, the bot was chatting with two girls age 11 and 13.

Good move Microsoft…..

The REAL Rudy: Radios

I spent this past weekend in Dallas on Bidzness for the Day Job I currently have. I told my District Mgr at the outset, that I was disabled with a Traumatic Brain Injury, and that I may have to leave if I get too tired. I thought he understood the phrase “I need accommodation”. Nope. Saturday came, and there were three remaining seminars for the day. I hit the wall of limit midway through one of these, and I was forced to remain in the seminar past the point of “I need to lay down” and was at the point of hysteria. The same thing happened to me the next day, with the result of tree panic attacks between the hotel and the plane landing in NYC beginning with my boarding info not being where it was supposed to be.
What part of this:

Reasonable accommodation is any change or adjustment to a job or work environment that permits a qualified applicant or employee with a disability to participate in the job application process, to perform the essential functions of a job, or to enjoy benefits and privileges of employment equal to those enjoyed by employees without disabilities. For example, reasonable accommodation may include:

o providing or modifying equipment or devices,
o job restructuring,
o part-time or modified work schedules,
o reassignment to a vacant position,
o adjusting or modifying examinations, training materials, or policies,
o providing readers and interpreters, and
o making the workplace readily accessible to and usable by people with disabilities.

An employer is required to provide a reasonable accommodation to a qualified applicant or employee with a disability unless the employer can show that the accommodation would be an undue hardship — that is, that it would require significant difficulty or expense.

didn’t this gink understand>

On the plus side, I enjoyed meeting my friends in Dallas - THANK YOU for liberating me!!!!

Dear VeeP Cheney,

This should assist you in changing your puppet’s stance on embryonic stem cell research: Your chance to lose the pacemaker:

FT.com / Business Life / Science & environment - Stem cell advance warms the heart
Human embryonic stem cells can repair damaged hearts, according to animal research published on Monday.

If the results are confirmed in clinical trials, heart disease may be a multibillion dollar market for stem cell therapies.

Scientists at the University of Washington and Geron, the California-based biotechnology company, implanted cardiac cells derived from human embryonic stem cells into rats four days after a heart attack. They helped rebuild the animals’ heart muscles and improved the functioning of the whole heart.

Still think it’s “bad”, now that YOU may benefit?

what’s that you say? they’re right? How can that be???? Simple. Take a good look around you. How clean is the street you are walking down? The public restroom you gingerly use? I bet that restroom is pretty nasty. smells like urine, because men aren’t trained to flush the paper they blot their dicks with. paper on teh floor, because the last person was too fucking stupid to know how to operate teh air hand dryer. or, there is no toilet paper - Hey! it’s a PUBLIC toilet. THOSE people from off the street STEAL teh toilet paper. why should we clean it?  yes, man is not evolved from Simians. We live,even revel in our own filth. RATS are cleaner.

Nor is Man an animal. refer tot eh above. Show me a creature other than human living in it’s own shit, and I will show you an creature that is ill.  I will no longer describe my fellow humans in animal terms. It insults the animal.