http://jimda5is.com Just some guy rambling about random stuff in his life Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:51:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's a school district in PA that has set new levels of OMFG for the Nazi like assholes that seem to be drawn to public school administration. It seems that they offered all of the 2300 students at the districts 2 high schools laptop computers. The details are discussed in ... http://jimda5is.com/2010/02/20/maybe-this-is-why-johnny-cant-read/ Earlier this week, the Supreme Court overturned a century of electoral law by a 5-4 majority allowing unlimited spending by corporations, labor unions and other organizations. Until then corporations had been barred from spending funds on broadcast ads, campaign workers or billboards that urge the election or defeat of ... http://jimda5is.com/2010/01/24/supreme-court-hands-us-elections-to-corporate-america/ Charlie Hoehn over at Hoehn's Musings wrote a post that boiled down to "just do stuff". Of course, "just do stuff", while succinct, doesn't really do justice to the underlying sentiment. When people stop doing stuff, in my opinion, they have stopped living and are just taking up space. The ... http://jimda5is.com/2009/12/12/just-do-stuff/ A few days ago Rupert Murdoch suggested that he plans to make News Corp's content invisible to search engines. It's saddens me that obviously intelligent men can be so completely out of touch with the way things are. Old media is dead because of people like Murdoch. Sadly, he will ... http://jimda5is.com/2009/11/18/so-long-wsj-and-thanks-for-the-memories/ It's probably just me but there are things that I find really irritating and will cause me to not spend my money in certain places. Here's an example-This morning I had breakfast at the McDonald's at 1805 N. Harrison in Cary, NC. I had a Big Breakfast with Hotcakes (which ... http://jimda5is.com/2009/11/16/why-0-27-can-put-you-out-of-business/ I read an article today by Mandy Locke in the News and Observer about Johnny Gaskins, a Raleigh defense attorney, who was convicted October 9th of the crime of depositing and paying taxes on legally earned income but doing it in quantities that were too small. Bullshit, you say?  In ... http://jimda5is.com/2009/10/18/heres-whats-wrong-with-the-war-on-drugs/ I just got back from a weekend of camping and rock climbing at Pilot Mountain, NC with some of the most fantastic people I've ever known. Here are the things I learned: Everybody's definition of what is art is different. And their definition doesn't affect me any more than whether or ... http://jimda5is.com/2009/10/12/what-i-learned-on-my-summer-vacation/ As we approach Election Day here in the States, Id just like to remind you that voting for them only encourages their current behavior. Obama will not bring real change; the Democrats will not bring real change; the Republicans will not bring real change - because they are all the ... http://jimda5is.com/2009/10/03/the-upcoming-elections/ I understand that Tom Cruise used to be quite the heart-throb. Then he'd turned into some android Scientology freak. I also understand that doesn't have anything to do with it because I'd  hammer Megan Fox like a 10 penny nail but I cringe every time I hear her give an ... http://jimda5is.com/2009/09/24/wyhi-tom-cruise/ Larry Thursby, who is apparently Nationwide's vice president of Personal Auto,  is an asshole. During one of their radio commercials, he's talking about accident forgiveness and specifically teenagers when he says it's not a question of if but when they get in an accident ... http://jimda5is.com/2009/09/24/nationwide-insurance/