Blog of Josh Hall

Look at the triple qualifiers.

“Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to an extent the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility. ”
– George W. Bush

wtf? looks like the memorial will be in the shape of a red crescent. could we get any more stupider? craziness. http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003513.htm

I was thinking about how easy it would be to disappear if you lived down in new orleans. Get your family to claim your life insurance, and live off that. So many of the bodies are not going to be recovered because they were swept out to sea or alligators ate them. How hard could it be?

I’ve been trying to stay away from all the internet rants and topics on the lack of adminstrative response to the situation down in new orleans. I can’t get past one thing though, that hasn’t really been commented on much. here we are, 2 weeks away from the 4 year aniversary of 9/11. A catostraphic distaster in a huge american city. Not a year after the president was (re-)elected to office. He’s too busy enjoying vacation to do anything. You’d think after 4 years that we’d be able to deal with this a little better than having anarchy break out in a city after 4 days of lack of action from the government.

Did you know that Notorious B.I.G. and Biggie Smalls is/was the same person? I just found that out today at work. and if you knew that, then go read the top 10 reasons why Sug Knight killed 2pac. http://www.ewsonline.com/2pac/sugekill.html

My flatmate, Jordan, was just telling me how he replaced his headlight on his car today, went home, and then his mom noticed that the other light had burned out. There should be a way to tell how long your lights have left. not just in car head lights, but in household lights as well. He pointed out that it could have been dangerous if they both went out at the same time.

I am not sure of the physics of it though. lights can burn forever if they are never turned off, or so i hear. I think the longest lasting lightbulb is burning in some firehouse in the middle of the country, and has been for the past 100 years or so. but i digress. Since lights burn out from the degradation of the filament connection, you’d have to develop a tiny sensor to measure that connection’s strength, and determine how much longer it had. If such a sensor could be developed, perhaps have the light flash 3 times every few hours to let the person know it’s going out. or a dashboard light turns on in a car.