Derek Coward's Noise

Derek Coward’s Noise

  • Extra notes for Deliberate Noise 104

    I don’t know about you but this looks the way I would picture terrorist cell activity to look: Date Number Destination Type Rate/min. Duration Price Jul 08, 2008 13:25 +84241244451 Vietnam call 0.329 04:57 USD 1.684 Jul 08, 2008 13:24 +9746494438 Qatar call 0.376 00:00 USD 0.000 Jul 08, 2008 13:24 +9746494438 Qatar call 0.376…

  • My ‘Huh? What?’ moment of the day

    I was driving back from getting some lunch and I was forced to listen to the radio.  On top of that it was The Rush Limbaugh Radio Show.  He was talking about Gen. Wesley Clark’s support of Barack Obama and previously John Kerry.  Limbaugh said "He’s a partisan hack." Huh? What?  That’s like Mr. Pot…

  • Entertaining myself

    I had to send an email to a customer at work asking about some new types of data that I am supposed to receive.  Here is what I wrote:  "Do you know when it is supposed to start?  Right now the data looks the same as it ever was." I’m not a huge Talking Heads…

  • George Carlin dead at 71

    I woke up this morning, fired up Firefox and on my homepage is the headline "Edgy Comic George Carlin dies in LA, aged 71" and thought "Damn."  I know there are seven other words that should have come to mind, but what do you expect it was early. Here is a link to the TimesOnline…

  • Is it just me?

    Is it just me or do all of the Obama/Kennedy comparisons creep anyone else out?  There are people who don’t want Obama to just start pulling troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq, but a lot of the language used sounds similar to some of the criticisms about Kennedy’s Cuba policy. A lot of people want…

  • What I would rather be doing today

    Over the holiday weekend, I spent a lot of time listening to my old cassette tapes and mp3s that I have made from my old LPs.  A lot of that stuff was from the early 80s and got me to thinking about my early high school days.  I’m not one of those people who get…

  • The World Bank refuses to help Myanmar

    According the The Voice of America news website, the World Bank is refusing to give loans to Myanmar because the military government hasn’t paid any outstanding debts since 1998.  Once again the greedy and incompetent junta that runs that country are causing damage to their people at a time when they can no longer afford…

  • Funny how things work out

    Maybe I am seeing conspiracies where there are none, but there was a turn of events in Detroit politics that I think are mighty funny.  If you know anything about the city’s politics, then you know that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is in a bit of trouble. One of his most vocal supporters on the Detroit…

  • California Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriages.

    The Supreme Court of California says that the state cannot bar same sex marriages. Cool.

  • California Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage

    California’s Supreme Court is going to rule on the legality of the state’s ban on gay marriage.  It’s about time.  There’s too much work for the United States to do to worry about whether or not two people who love each other can get married or not.  Ridiculous.  In the grand scheme of things it…