Author: Steve Dougherty

Oh No…

Sigh.

Edit: Link broken, I don’t know what this was now.

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Aaah!

How could they vote against HABEAS CORPUS?! Good to see all the Democrats and some Republicans voted for. The only sane thing to do, really.

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Zero Punctuation!

Yay, another one!

The British accent makes it more awesome. This one has an… imaginative ending however. You’ve been warned!

On a somewhat related not, I preordered Orange Box the day it opened up for preorder, so TF2 beta, here I come! I hope that not only is it good, but also that my graphics card can handle it. Valve’s dropping DX7 support, apparently. This makes the lower end closer to my aging gaming machine. Valve seems to assume with their site design that average people are running widescreen or crazy-high resolutions or something – their sites don’t fit horizontally on one 1024×768 screen…

Contact!

Well, it’s happened again. I’ve been spontaneously contacted by someone I had no prior knowledge of who lives in another state…

steve,

i stumbled over your blogspot while doing a search. it’s great! but, what i really wanna know is…did you attend pine forest high school, fayetteville, nc?

jerri olsen

san antonio, texas

 
 
Hi Jerri,

I’m really glad you like my blog. I have to say I’ve never attended Pine Forest High School – I’ve never lived outside of Michigan.

Just out of curiosity, what were you searching for when you found my site?

Would you mind if I wrote about this email on my blog?

Steve Dougherty
Lansing, Michigan
   
 
Thanks for getting back Steve. Hmmm…well, to be perfectly honest with you…it was someone I went to high school with…who has your name! I think I’m having a nostalgic moment. ; ) But he would have graduated in 1970. Yes, we’re old!!!!! hahaha!Thank you! That’s sweet of you to mention this email. It might even find MY Steve. : )

There you have it. First Hawaii, now Texas. I’m amazed.

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Yay!

Scientists figure out how to burn salt water!

Once this goes commercial, we can have water-burning power plants, and there should be little to no greenhouse gases from the creation of electricity! This means we can get electric cars running on green power! Woo! The water even recycles itself, what with the rain cycle and all that. Yay! ^^

Lie Detectors

Apparently are a fraud.

A good quote from the FAQ:

As unbelievable as this may sound, even federal agencies like the FBI and Secret Service assume that all of their applicants have cheated in school, lied to people in authority, driven under the influence of alcohol, etc.

Q. You maintain that polygraphs are biased against the truthful. How can this be?

A. Applicants who explain all their past indiscretions to the polygrapher during the “pre-test” interview and actually give honest answers to the “control” questions (and, as a consequence, feel less anxiety when answering them) face an increased likelihood of “failing” the “test.”

EDIT: Good! Wait… they had that power?!