Year: 2009
Scattershot 2009-04-02
Things I’d tweet about if I cared more about Twitter: My dad has CSPAN on a lot, and I was listening to congresscritters discussing the latest drug scourge: DXM. It’s a common incredient in medications, but apparently all the kids are abusing it, so these guys were sponsoring a bill to regulate bulk sales. In… Read more
Scattershot 2009-03-30
Things I’d tweet about if Twitter allowed longer messages: When you take several law enforcement agencies and throw them together into a drug task force, it tends to enhance thuggish behavior. However when the WestNET task force of Kitsap County, Washington launched a drug raid against the home of Bruce and Pamela Olson, they did manage… Read more
Scattershot 2009-03-27
Things I might have tweeted about if I “got” Twitter: Damn Microsoft! My Windows system crashed—full Blue Screen Of Death! All I was doing was running Windows XP booted off a RAID disk array that’s not supported directly by Windows, accessing an Office document from an encrypted virtual disk mounted out of a container file on a… Read more
Scattershot 2009-03-25
Things I would have tweeted about if I used twitter…and had more than 140 characters: Crimlaw blogger Ken Lammers, now with 50% more badass. Must not hate all cops…must not hate all cops… Sex offender registration—not just for sex offenders anymore. Apparently, shaking hands is now reasonable suspision: The undercover officers, located approximately 10 to… Read more
As They Say, Blogging Will Be Light…
A few years ago, my father went into the hospital and came out bedridden. Since then, my mother has been his primary care giver. She gets some assistance from a home care service, and my wife and I get over there a couple of times a week. Looking back, she started getting tired a month or… Read more