Wow.

Posted on July 30th, 2006 in awful, funny, say by They

Does Mel Gibson have a leg to stand on when he complains about being crucified in the media?

Tom Lehrer song meets Hitchcock film, now in real life!

Posted on July 28th, 2006 in funny by They

The only problem is that this happened at a hospital, not in the park.

Rational thought wins again!

Posted on July 20th, 2006 in awful, say by They

From CNN.com - Expert: Yates thought she ruined kids - Jul 19, 2006:

Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the bathtub because she thought she had ruined them so much that one would grow up to be a serial killer and another would become a mute gay prostitute, a forensic psychiatrist testified Wednesday.

Ah-ha! The acorn doesn’t fall far from th… Nah.

Okay! Like mother, li… That’s not the right thing to say, either.

Got it! It should have happened a generation ago… Whoops.

Then again:

“If she did not intervene and take their lives while they were still innocent, they would end up in hell,” he said, testifying as a defense rebuttal witness. “Mrs. Yates knew what she was doing was right for her children.“

Ummm, yeah. Isn’t this just a variant of the Twinkie defense? Perhaps the “churchie defense”? They.com weren’t really expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

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Network statistic, or political commentary?

Posted on July 14th, 2006 in awful, culture, funny, politics, sysadmin by They

They were intrigued by this week’s nanog posting of the

BGP Update Report
Interval: 30-Jun-06 -to- 13-Jul-06 (14 days)
Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS4637

TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS
Rank ASN                Upds     %  Upds/Pfx    AS-Name
1 - AS15611           19231  1.6%     206.8 -- Iranian Research Organisation

They hope it is simple ironic coincidence. Nonetheless, they wonder how North Korean ASN’s are faring…

Another quote from the life they lead

Posted on July 12th, 2006 in funny, say by They

Other they: I am thoroughly, thoroughly, thoroughly confused.

they: Then you should be quite comfortable in that context of confusion.

And, of course, “Comfortable Context of Confusion” would be a great name for a band…

they.com re-themed, not that you should care.

Posted on July 9th, 2006 in about, sysadmin by They

They.com has been re-themed, in case you didn’t notice…

It’s been a modest amount of effort re-doing the approximate look and feel of the previous theme, but they now have full widget support, with no extra plugins required to show RSS feeds.

Enough, already, right?

Oh, yeah.  IE sucks. They are pretty certain everyone who deals with CSS comes to that same conclusion.

Are they the only ones who even see irony anymore?

Posted on July 8th, 2006 in say by They

Today’s silliness brought to you by the word copper.

Idiots are stealing copper ,while coppers try to catch them.

For that first link, you can personify the wire to get:

You’ll never get me!
— copper

Oh, and it costs $0.013 to make a copper. Sell! Sell! Sure, Enron took down your financial future, but it’s back — this time as pocket change! You can make a 30% return each time you get change back!

Update: The day after I post this, there is a local story about copper theft — this time, from children.

Further update: The problem is not limited to the USA…