Pointman’s Page

The website http://ratherbiased.com/ documents, well… Dan Rather’s bias reporting. Of particular note to those who still believe ol’ Dan was “duped” is the compare and contrast section. For those of us who have followed Dan’s partisan “news” reporting for years there is news and comprehensive reviews of Dan’s “coverage” of various issues over the […]

It is very interesting to flip through the list of potential weapons the FBI has everyone watching out for. There some that are quite unique and some that make you wonder why anyone would consider it a weapon at all. Still, interesting to see what the FBI believe Americans fear.

Joe’s Tribute Page

I’ve searched high and low for a good range/club in Indiana. There are some but most are way too far to be worht the trip considering I can shoot on my own property. But getting 100 clean yards in the middle of the woods requires more maintenance time than I get back in shooting time […]

It’s only taken a week of shopping but we finally found a replacement car for my wife.
After the good luck we’d had with her Intrepid we started out looking specifically for another. But after doing some digging on the newer model Intrepids it seems there are some major issues with their smaller 2.7 liter V6 […]

Don’t want to give Heinz money? Check out W Ketchup for a patriotic alternative.

I’m typically rather indifferrent to Congress critters but a recent letter from my own Congressman, John Hostettler (R-IN) was a very welcome eye opener. It seems there are Congressmen who “get it” and not only know what their oath of office meant, but intend to fully uphold that oath. Read the letter: Page 1, […]

When I saw the NYC Protestors with flag drapped coffins representing the thousand US troopers who have died in Iraq it made me mad for a couple of reasons.
First, these are the same people protesting war in general. What do they care about our troops? They don’t care and their actions both here and abroad […]

Reuters AlertNet - Dark chocolate helps blood flow, scientists find

Afterf the top network anchors whined about only showing an hour a night of the Demorcat convention it’s interesting that these networks are not covering the Republican convention at all. This is such blatent bias on the part of the networks that even the FCC is asking questions.

Jeff has announced that his wife, Hong, gave birth to daughter Maggie last evening. Both mommy and baby are doing fine. Maggie came into the world at 7 lbs, 11 oz, 20 1/2 inches long. Contrats to Jeff & Hong!

This gives me the heebie-geebies after my recent experiences. I’m still gunshy about loud buzzing insects for some odd reason ;(

I’ve cobbled together a short PHP script to rotate the 7 banner graphics available from the Bush-Cheney 2004 website and bundled them in a zip archive. Brief instructions are included.
After finding no banner graphics available from Mitch Daniels campaign I’ve sent them an email. If anything comes of it I’ll do the same with Mitch’s […]

It seems Michael Moore’s bud Fidel may have harmed his chances for an Oscar. The thing I find most ironic is that Fidel showing a bootleg copy is more damaging than the lack of truth and objectivity, normal quantifiers for a “documentary”

I appreciate these activist bands helping me decide where to spend my money.
artists participating in the shows include hip-hoppers Jurassic 5, John Mellencamp, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Babyface, Bright Eyes and the Dave Matthews Band.
When I saw the name Bright Eyes I immediatly thought of Charlton Heston’s roll in Planet of the Apes rather […]

…System Administrator Appreciation Day!

As much as the Gubenator was criticized for use of the term “girlie-men” it is interesting that the far left doesn’t feel Kerry and Edwards are girlie-men enough. This feminizing of America’s men is largely why we’ve become a nation of whimps, or girlie-men; too afraid of loosing our luxuries or enduring discomfort to […]

It pays to look into the top of trees before you start shaking them.

To their credit I asked for it. I walk under them every time I go check my targets down range and they’d not bothered. . Good thing I “found” them before I mowed that area again.
I counted about a […]

I’ll be going offline for a couple of days as I must tear down my desk in preparation for paint and carpet. It will likely be Saturday before I’m set back up.

I am a huge fan of Greg Garrison’s morning talk show on WIBC and make sure that the first hour of the show is part of my morning drive time.
But something new Greg is doing sort of bugs me. Mostly I feel he got some bad advice on requiring purchased subscriptions to access […]

More and more newspapers’ online offerings require registrations. The New York Times was one of the earliest I remember. Being the nut that I am I refuse to frequent newspapers or other online news and current events media that require intrusive registration processes.
The newspapers argue a fair case for riding out the complaints against […]

When I was young it was impressed upon me that every decision effected future decisions. That while a good decision could open up additional options in the future, bad choices would limit my future choices. And just as a string of good choices will continue to offer more clearly defined choices going forward […]

For many years I’ve tried different approaches to get key players in the company to communicate via collaborative tools. And after upgrading my site here with WordPress it struck me that it’d be a great way to publish updates not only for internal IT updates but to log the actions of the many key […]

There are many upsides to living in the boonies but there are occassional downsides as well. This past weekend saw one of these downsides visited upon my household in the form of a Millipede Invasion. If you’re squeemish I’d recommend avoiding this gallery…. if you’re not sqeemish be sure to view the images at full […]

My NexTel Experience, and note that this is all on a corporate account. And so it begins…
Friday 4/23 - My boss activates his Blackberry and in the process takes his Motorola i95 off the phone number. He gives me the phone for me to activate for myself.
Monday 4/26 - I call to activate the i95 […]