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I don't have time for this. Who said I have time for this? I said that months ago. Right.

xanxanbell has been updated.

Fetching lunch for tomorrow (YOU eat airline food. I'm packing onigiri.), I found Jim watching Whale Wars and chortling a bit.

Seems somebody thought the team needed another bad-ass vessel. Like the Steve Irwin wasn't bad-ass enough (oh, it has a thin hull, not good for ice fields, so) - somebody thought they could use something that cost $5M to help out.

Someone hands you a vessel that costs $5M and just says go kick some butt with it? Oh course you name it after him.

So guess what. The Steve Irwin is going to have ... the Bob Barker helping out.

Pardon me while I chortle. COME ON DOOOOOOOWN!

And now, I finish packing my life into one big bag and a few backpacks.

The 47-year-old initially raced past an unmarked police car in heavy rain at 160 km/h (100mph) before weaving close to other cars and the road's kerb.

The serial offender clocked up further offences for speeding, driving on the hard shoulder, running a set of red lights and failing to stop for police.

When finally pulled over by St Gallen police, he failed a drugs test.

I know the stretch of road well, I've driven it myself. There's little reason to be crazy about getting through it, to be honest.

But when they're talking jail, they're not kidding. Drive drunk and get caught doing it? You won't ever drive again - ever. Kill or injure someone driving drunk and you go to jail - and over there, you just disappear in jail. Period, full stop.

The story doesn't mention whether or not he actually had a license to drive to begin with - I think I'd make that bar bet that he didn't, and win the beer.

The 47-year-old initially raced past an unmarked police car in heavy rain at 160 km/h (100mph) before weaving close to other cars and the road's kerb.

The serial offender clocked up further offences for speeding, driving on the hard shoulder, running a set of red lights and failing to stop for police.

When finally pulled over by St Gallen police, he failed a drugs test.

I know the stretch of road well, I've driven it myself. There's little reason to be crazy about getting through it, to be honest.

But when they're talking jail, they're not kidding. Drive drunk and get caught doing it? You won't ever drive again - ever. Kill or injure someone driving drunk and you go to jail - and over there, you just disappear in jail. Period, full stop.

The story doesn't mention whether or not he actually had a license to drive to begin with - I think I'd make that bar bet that he didn't, and win the beer.

Congratulations to Senator Al Franken.

Countdown to Bill O'Reilly's head exploding...3,2,1 -

I've told you. I don't Twit, don't ask me.

Amazon. You know. I know. About what. What I'd like to know is what else got delisted/ It's almost impossible to know at this point what else might have been dumped. How about some other religions? Anyone do a search on Pure Land Buddhism by chance?

Don't bother now. Really. Anyway -

I'm a data geek - how things get to where they need to be for reporting, loading into databases from both sides of the communications method. I have a very good idea about what happened, my own theories and I'm content to wait and see what we will find out from the horse's mouth, if they decide to tell us. They might. They might not. This is what I know, and I deal with this company on a B2B basis.

1. On a holiday weekend, it's unlikely there were many people at the switch. I think this is the work of one or two people, with an equal chance of it being an oops (benefit of the doubt) vs. someone with an agenda. It could have (VERY LIKELY) been going on for some time. Someone complained, someone Did Something and did it over a holiday weekend. Big Bad JuJu.

2. Company does not have a lotof direct contact with people when there are issues - so it's likely they've been notified this was an issue prior, but had it in the queue for repair when everyone discovered the issue and BLEW UP.

3. This is a company that delivers product via a JIT (Just-In-Time) inventory model that can't be beat by anything else out there. They are very good at what they do, which is predict their needs, deliver it on time, anywhere, anything, any time. And they've been doing it over over a decade. But see #2 - they do it with little human contact. All it would have taken is one person with a complaint - and #1 would have had a huge impact in addition to #2.

4. I hope we find out who did this.

5. Amazon fielded it's initial start-up tech staff from WalMart. Please look surprised.

6. I've never used sales rankings to find something, directly within Amazon. I might trawl a bit after an initial hit (NPR recommends something - I find it there, maybe over at Abebooks.com and then oh, this is related? And that? Interesting...and there you go), so I hadn't noticed. Check my wish list - and if I hadn't noticed? And did not use the sales rankings to find most of the items? Right.

I'm sure this is going to get much more interesting before it's over. But if this was intentional, belive me - some groups would be chortling and taking credit for it. Be right proud of themselves, neh?

It's a - not to point too fine a point on it - boner.

I've told you. I don't Twit, don't ask me.

Amazon. You know. I know. About what. What I'd like to know is what else got delisted/ It's almost impossible to know at this point what else might have been dumped. How about some other religions? Anyone do a search on Pure Land Buddhism by chance?

Don't bother now. Really. Anyway -

I'm a data geek - how things get to where they need to be for reporting, loading into databases from both sides of the communications method. I have a very good idea about what happened, my own theories and I'm content to wait and see what we will find out from the horse's mouth, if they decide to tell us. They might. They might not. This is what I know, and I deal with this company on a B2B basis.

1. On a holiday weekend, it's unlikely there were many people at the switch. I think this is the work of one or two people, with an equal chance of it being an oops (benefit of the doubt) vs. someone with an agenda. It could have (VERY LIKELY) been going on for some time. Someone complained, someone Did Something and did it over a holiday weekend. Big Bad JuJu.

2. Company does not have a lotof direct contact with people when there are issues - so it's likely they've been notified this was an issue prior, but had it in the queue for repair when everyone discovered the issue and BLEW UP.

3. This is a company that delivers product via a JIT (Just-In-Time) inventory model that can't be beat by anything else out there. They are very good at what they do, which is predict their needs, deliver it on time, anywhere, anything, any time. And they've been doing it over over a decade. But see #2 - they do it with little human contact. All it would have taken is one person with a complaint - and #1 would have had a huge impact in addition to #2.

4. I hope we find out who did this.

5. Amazon fielded it's initial start-up tech staff from WalMart. Please look surprised.

6. I've never used sales rankings to find something, directly within Amazon. I might trawl a bit after an initial hit (NPR recommends something - I find it there, maybe over at Abebooks.com and then oh, this is related? And that? Interesting...and there you go), so I hadn't noticed. Check my wish list - and if I hadn't noticed? And did not use the sales rankings to find most of the items? Right.

I'm sure this is going to get much more interesting before it's over. But if this was intentional, belive me - some groups would be chortling and taking credit for it. Be right proud of themselves, neh?

It's a - not to point too fine a point on it - boner.

Former prime-time actor defends self against relatively-recent prime-time actor...kicks ass, with 15 years seniority. "Reality" show star licking wounds and whining. A lot.

Here's a good example, IMHO, of what California considers self-defense as well. You're allowed. Matter of fact, you should. Just - once you've stopped them, you stop. Stopping someone does not mean killing them. Just a note.

(In case you're wondering, I'm always going to root for Bonaduce. Like him all the time, no. But root for him? Yeah. He deserves that much.)