Cartoons

So I was racking my brain the other day trying to remember some cartoons I used to watch when I was a kid. They both involved robots (of sorts). One involved actual AI robots while the other was humans piloting mechanical suits.

The first was The Bots Master. The other was Exo Squad

Exo Squad is still quite good, even almost 15 years after it originally aired.

I call it "The List"

1. Congressional term limits
2. Replace income tax with flat sales tax
3. Mandatory voting (like Australia, and include a voting holiday)
4. Crimes against children a federal offense
5. Privatize social security
6. Presidential line item veto
7. Abolish welfare
8. English as national language
9. Better border control

See also:
The Savage Manifesto
He's my hero.

I'm calling shenanigans

Obama has made a controversial appointment to his cabinet. That of William Lynn, former Congressional Lobbyist for DoD contractor and awesome weapons manufacturer (think Tony Stark), Raytheon.

You hippies seem to be upset about this idea, but can't seem to admit it or are making excuses for him. What happened to the backbone you had the past 8 years hurling insults at President Bush (yeah, President Bush, not Mr. Bush, get it right) like a monkey flinging his poo.

Then again, the left has never been great with common sense. But as Mark Finkelstein points out, not everyone in the main stream media tows the party line. These two are going in my RSS feeds now. Digg'em if you've got em.

So that last post was due to the status of Maddox's website being down briefly. It's back now, but still not updates as of this post.

I discovered Picasa yesterday. Check out my albums.

I had a 5 day vacation for Thanksgiving, two of which were spent working on my car. I managed to blow out a hole in my headers:

From Subaru

I ended up putting the original equipment back on. A few headaches along the way but it all went back together the way it should. The problem now is I seem to have a pressure leak somewhere causing my turbo to not produce any boost. I'm going to have to wait till after I get my exhaust system replaced to have it looked at though. I'm tired of dealing with my car myself right now.

My company Christmas party is this weekend in San Antonio and I'm very much looking forward to it!

It makes so much sense now

I've come to the conclusion that the people in charge at Google are intent on global domination and the last brick in the wall will be the Bank of Google. Don't get me wrong. I love Google. I <3 my gmail. Google offers a lot of good services, many of them for free. I know they believe in the whole "Don't be evil" mantra, but they could still take over the world without an army and not be evil. In fact I would almost expect it to happen if not in my lifetime, in the lifetime of my children. Google has become a sort of national treasure to the USA, and the government would have to be out of it's f***ing mind to try to break up Google like they did the telcos back in the day. Google plays nice with everybody and doesn't gloat about it plus they make a majority of their code available for people to modify, implement, and combine into more useful things.

There are just a few major steps left before google puts the nail in Microsoft's coffin and becomes the most influential company on the planet.
1. Release their own X86 compatible operating system (including free and licensed versions).
2. That Android phone thing... All the usefulness of mobile broadband/voip/cell phone plus the services of Google wherever you go? Count me in.
3. Buying their own country.
4. Starting The Bank of Google. Notice how I'm not calling it "The International Bank of Google"? Their goal is global domination, so "International" would eventually become redundant.

See kids? Free enterprise and capitalism is the best way!