10-16-95

Last Week the Rams deflated the Utah Utes in a 19-14 victory in the Utes stadium. The Utes fell to 3-2 in the WAC while the Rams climbed to 2-1.

Myers first - Ram free saftey Greg Myers had one interception in Sarurday's game and moved into a tie for first place in career interceptions with Selwyn Jones.

Running Away - the Rams have averaged 186.8 yards russing a game in their four wins this year. However in their two losses the Rams have averaged just 19.5 yards a game.

Outside the mercury climbed above ninety on the Fahrenheit side of the thermometer. The building, however, was cool. Air conditioners drone away in the distance makling a soft thumping sound as if one of them is slightly off balance. At the end of the long hallway off the examining room stands a room, directly across form the doctors office is a room which is now unoccupied by any person. A fact that remains true for all but the last few minutes of every day when just before quitting time it comes to use.

The door is a plastic covered metal facsimile of wooden doors that traditionally would have hung in its place. Dark brown, it stands out against the lighter walls. At one time they were papered, rather poorly, with a white ribbed wall paper. Now the edges wee showing the signs of years of use. Thirsty sheet rock is laid bare in more than one place in the room by the deterioration of the wallpaper. Just inside the door a counter protrudes from the wall.

The Formica covered counter was made too look like a blue marble counter. Like so much of this room it has an unnaturalness about it. Designed so one person can stand with sink on their left and have a long counter in front of them. The counter too shows signs of years of usage. It is stained with blood and has several deep scratches in its glossy finish. Off the end of the counter is a large stainless steel tub.

A flexible spray nozzle mounted in the ceiling above the tub is used for keep it clean.

We the people of the United States in order to form a safer and more perfect union are no longer burdened with the keeping of a murderer. Karla Tucker was the center of much attention as the first woman to be put to death in Texas since the Civil War. Much was made of her subsequent conversion to Christianity and the "goodness" in her heart.

Little was made of her choice to leave a pickax through the heart of her victim. Few likely remember the twelve citizens who were faced with making the decision about Karla's fate. No contrast has been made between those twelve and the twelve who, in choosing not to make a decision, spared the life of Terry Nichols.

The devil, as they say, is in the details. Tucker was a cold blooded murderer. Was she beyond reform? People will argue this for years. Should George W. Bush have spared her life? Should any single man be given this power or responsibility?

Every couple of years as November rolls around we are inundated with cries about candidates who are "soft on crime." To date no candidate has run based on their having administered the lethal drug mixture to a condemned prisoner. Plenty have been run about an opponent's being soft and releasing prisoners early.

Dead Men Walking was an excellent movie. Anyone who unequivocally says we need the death penalty should see it. The ending was too much for me. I haven't seen it and I won't.

April 19, 1995

Few events of this decade will touch us like what happened this day.

Think, but not too much. Think different, but not too different

Dave Winer, in his DaveNet site, asked last week about where the thinkers are. In part he suggests this conventional wisdom (Earth's Website):

Thinking isn't important, feeling is what's important.

Logic isn't important, intuition is what's important.

Science isn't important, perception is what's important.

This is pure bullshit!

As I often do, I found myself agreeing with his ideas. Why then, if somebody is really interested in thinking would they post a link to the story I'm about to talk about. It baffles me. Dave linked to Fred Langa's opinion piece on Apple's Heavy Hand Strikes Again as if it were news worthy. The irony of the whole thing is that both a reference to wanting people to think about technology and the link to Langa's piece were posted on the same day and appear a few lines away from one another.

In fact it is little more than uninformed mac-bashing. Why are windows advocates so scared of the little iMac? Maybe it's just too much to handle having a highly useable, highly customizable computer that most second graders can set up.

Point by point

Let's look at Langa's points (or misinformation) one at a time.

And now, Apple appears to have planted another anti-clone land mine in the new Mac OS 8.5, which mostly plays cosmetic catch-up to Windows, adding features that have been in the Microsoft OS for years.