[scottwww]

Originally Posted by scottwww

Did anybody go to the drag strip today? Or planning to go tomorrow?

I have an important announcement over here:

Please, don’t ban me.

I have to get up early to make it to the test and tune tomorrow. So I will be logging out soon. Just one more post after this.

[Tracie]

Originally Posted by scottwww

Note to self:

Sunday 10-4
Tune and test at Firebird
Chris is going.

Chris is a jerk and didn't show up. Jessie had fun racing her car. She only raced twice because we were so late. her first time was really good but she peeled ou so much on the 2nd try that she didn't get a good time. 14.2 sec @ 101 mph and 15.? at 99. I don't race.

[astra]

omg this scott/jessie crap is everywhere now

[Tracie]

Originally Posted by astra

omg this scott/jessie crap is everywhere now

Didn't you enjoy it? I think April Fools jokes are great. I thought there would have been more of them. Oh, well. Maybe next time.

BTW: All the info in the 1/4 mile stock E92 thread is true.

[Last E92 M3]

Originally Posted by just4kickz

we already have one... its the girls thread.

I was gonna say...+1

[///Matt]

This thread fizzled. It's not long at all!

The "annual Nor-Cal/So-Cal Meet" thread has over 1000 replies!

[scottwww]

Originally Posted by ///Matt

This thread fizzled. It's not long at all!

The "annual Nor-Cal/So-Cal Meet" thread has over 1000 replies!

It looks like most people would rather create a new thread for one off questions and OT stuff. Oh well. I guess I could just use this for my shopping list. Let's see...

birthday present
birthday card
NHRA approved helmet 2000 or later
antacids
resveratrol
zinc

[scottwww]

When Italian artist Guido Daniele was hired by an advertising agency to create body painting of animals, he loved the idea. "I researched each animal in depth to see how I could transfer it to a hand, and then set about bringing it to life." The hardest part of his job is watching his creations disappear down the drain after they're photographed. "I'm getting used to it," Daniele shrugs. "At least I get to start each day with a fresh canvas." Guido Daniele lives and works in Milan.

[scottwww]

More...

[scottwww]

I thought I should pass this along. It's alarming!

Check your driver's license. Now you can see ANYONE's Driver's License on the Internet. I just searched for mine and there it was... It even had my picture from two years ago! I compared it and it's the same one that's in my wallet.

I had a really bad hair day in that picture.

Homeland Security! Where are our rights?

Go to the web site and check it out. Enter your name, city and state. I'm sure if you are licensed or have state issued I.D. it's on file.

Click the box marked, "Remove From Public Records." This will remove it from public viewing, although law enforcement will still be able to see it. At least you can do that much easy enough.

http://www.license.shorturl.com/

It's an invasion of privacy if you asked me.

[scottwww]

I'm gonna die! I just know I'm gonna die!

[scottwww]

Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace

This list came from an ex-employee, before she became an ex.

1. BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

3. ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

5. CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles.

6. PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

7. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

8. SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

9. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

10. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

11. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

12. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The J-Lo and Ben wedding (or not) was a prime example - Michael Jackson, another...

13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

14. ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

15. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site could not be located.

16. GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.

17. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).

18. WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.

19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.

[scottwww]

Another list from the same ex-employee. I could easily picture her using most of these. I'm pretty sure she did... and more. I don't miss ex's.

Things we wished we could say at work:

I can see your point, but I still think you're full of shit.

I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.

How about never? Is never good for you?

I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.

I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to see it my way.

I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.

I'm out of my mind, but fee l free to leave a message.

I don't work here. I'm a consultant.

It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying.

Ahhh..... I see the screw-up fairy has visited us again....

I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.

You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.

I have plenty of talent and vision; I just don't give a damn.

I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.

I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.

Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.

Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.

I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.

And your crybaby whiny-assed opinion would be.....?

Do I look like a people person?

This isn't an office. It's Hell with fluorescent lighting.

I started out with nothing & still have most of it left.

Sarcasm is just one more service we offer.

If I throw a stick, will you leave?

I'm trying to imagine you with a personality.

A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door.

Chaos, panic & disorder… my work here is done.

How do I set a laser printer to stun?

[scottwww]

Sheesh... How many of these kind of things have I gotten

25 Reasons Why Alcohol Should Be Served At Work...

1. It's an incentive to show up.
2. It reduces stress.
3. It leads to more honest communications.
4. It reduces complaints about low pay.
5. It cuts down on time off because you can work with a hangover.
6. Employees tell management what they think, not what management wants to hear.
7. It helps save on heating costs in the winter.
8. It encourages carpooling.
9. Increase job satisfaction because, if you have a bad job, you don't care.
10. It eliminates vacations because people would rather come to work.
11. It makes fellow employees look better.
12. It makes the cafeteria food taste better.
13. Bosses are more likely to hand out raises when they are wasted.
14. Salary negotiations are a lot more profitable.
15. Suddenly, burping during a meeting isn't so embarrassing.
16. Employees work later since there's no longer a need to relax at the bar.
17. It makes everyone more open with their ideas.
18. Everyone agrees work is better after they've had a couple of drinks.
19. Eliminates the need for employees to get drunk on their lunch break.
20. Increases the chance of seeing your boss naked.
21. It promotes foreign relations with the former Soviet Union.
22. The janitor's closet will finally have a use.
23. Employees no longer need coffee to sober up.
24. Sitting on the copy machine will no longer be seen as "grotesque."
25. Babbling and mumbling incoherently will be common language.

[scottwww]

Hot dog! Some more pictures.

[scottwww]

A few more...

[mds82]

ha ha, those pictures are awesome

[scottwww]

Python vs. Gator

[scottwww]

More fractals

[scottwww]

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[scottwww]

Draft Registration - That's The Issue

With the coming of the new year many students, 18 years of age, will be required to register for the military draft.

It involves giving name, address and date of birth on a registration form at any post office.

This simple process has met some opposition on national and local levels. The controversy lies in the wake of the Vietnam era. Today's protests are a peaceful opposition with organization being of major contrast to the protests of the past.

On a local level, the Pierce County Peace Action Coalition (PCPAC), an organization of religious and neighborhood groups, was the most active force in opposition to the registration. Volunteers representing a wide range of ages, which also included certain people from our school, leafletted at many area post offices. PCPAC offers information and counseling to anyone requesting it.

Late last July, registration of 19 and 20 year old men took place across the nation. Early estimates were that 98 percent of the 4 million required to register would do so. Recently, that figure was replaced with that of 93 percent registered. Some organizations dismiss this figure as optimistically high, but it still leaves an easy quarter million not registered.

Will a quarter million non-registrant faced with a maximum fine of $10,000 and five years of imprisonment, some wonder if the government has bitten off more than it can chew. To enforce the laws would take a massive effort. However, there have been some prosecutions in the past.

Just days before the registration of 19 and 20 year olds took place, a federal judge put a stay on the registration order declaring the order unconstitutional. Shortly afterward a supreme court judge put a stay on the stay and registration was on again. The issue will not be settled at least until the supreme court convenes this fall and has a chance to look it over.

The supreme court decision will affect all young men born in 1960 or later. If it is ruled unconstitutional, then the rights of some 4 million men were infringed upon, and it is questionable what kind of restitution, if any, the government will give to those people and to the entire country. If ruled constitutional, then for possible years to come all those now 18 years and under will be required to register for the military draft.

Draft registration is a controversial issue and is likely to affect peoples lives for years to come, whatever the outcome of the controversy, and therefore warrants more thought and participation of the people in the decision making process.

The people who will be affected most by draft registration and the possible reinstitution of the military draft are the readers of this newspaper, and if they are not vocal with their views, they should be prepared to accept the outcome of this issue, whatever form it takes.

Draft Registration - to be or not to be, that is the issue.

Scott Wells
10-1-80 vol.8 no. 1

[scottwww]

Draft Registration: Point

When are we going to stand up for our rights and stop being herded like enthusiastic cattle?

Draft registration and the military draft are forerunners to war. President Carter made his call for draft registration in the same speech in which he threatened the world that if he deemed it necessary, the U.S. would go to war over Persian Gulf oil.

We who would be drafted are truely the threatened. The government is stealing away the rights that it claims to be protecting. We the young, America's only hope, are being made to give up our rights just at the time we gain them by becoming 18 years of age.

Do you want to go to war for Carter? For oil?

Surely, I know that Carter and oil are more important than our lives. If they weren't, we never would have elected Carter.

Did you vote for Carter in 1976?

If Carter and his followers must have their immoral war, then they must, but not over my dead body.

Those of us that are 18, 19 and 20, and those of us that will be, are in danger of losing our rights. Many have already submitted to the loss.

Now is the time for action. The outcome of the issure is up to us.

We have been guaranteed rights that are now in need of defending: The right not to be drafted. The right to life. The right to religion. The rights of freedom! These are all inalienable rights that Carter is attempting to take away from us.

The draft is immoral and must be ended before it is established.

If there is anyone out there in favor of the draft, then he should volunteer his life to the Army and let us alone.

If Carter wants us to sell ourselves to the Army, the draft is not the way to get it done. Let him bring Veteran's benefits back and raise the pay. Let the recruiters not make phony promises. With a proper incentive, people would join and there would be no excuse for Carter to call on the draft.

The Army is a way of life and may be right for some but it isn't right for me. I will not allow my life to be dictated over. It is mine and only mine and it is not going to be stolen away from me.

Scott Wells
10-31-80 vol.8 no.2
transcribed 4/26/86