Socialist Sushi

Jenny over at The Shifted Librarian has a link to Happy Halloween, Nosferatu (No Thanks to Copyright). Interesting little writeup about an interesting movie.

Amber has to get two new tires on her car, so this morning I drove her to work so I could drop her car off at the shop. Jeff offered to pick me up and drive me in to work.

So anyway, as Amber and I are driving to Memorial we pass two intersections with local politicians and supporters holding signs and waving at people. A few thoughts on this:

1. It frightens me to think that some people are probably swayed by seeing a guy standing on a corner waving a sign
2. The fact that you have nothing better to do at 6:45 am than stand on a corner makes me think you’re a bum, not a good leader
3. Actually, a politician standing on a street corner trying to sell himself is probably a much better commentary than I could ever make.

Folks seems to like my Night Photos… so you might like today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day:
A Dark and Stormy Night

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mike_work bfordham: sfw?
bfordham yes
bfordham I’m at work
mike_work yeah, but look at who you work for

Monday Amber and I went out to the park in Richmond Hill and took some pictures.

J.F. Gregory Park

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You said it, brother.

Do unions have the right to picket? Sure. But businesses have the right to hire people to work when others refuse. And those replacement workes have the right to go to work without being threatened, run off the road, or beaten. Or, as the article also relates, having their vehicle hit with a picket sign.

(Disclaimer because everyone likes to overreact and over-generalize when reading blogs: Not to say that employers are better than unions, or that unions are 100% bad or any other naughty naughty thing like that)

2 pickets face charges in attack

One of the men then struck the replacement worker in the face and chest with a baseball bat. The other man punched the replacement worker, Gregg said. The two men also knocked out the back windows of the replacement worker’s car.

He’ll have to have reconstructive surgery. Isn’t that nice?

Something to keep in mind when outsourcing work.

A tough lesson on medical privacy / Pakistani transcriber threatens UCSF over back pay

A woman in Pakistan doing cut-rate clerical work for UCSF Medical Center threatened to post patients’ confidential files on the Internet unless she was paid more money.To show she was serious, the woman sent UCSF an e-mail earlier this month with actual patients’ records attached.

Stiff discipline for boys’ Viagra prank:

Six schoolboys have been rushed to hospital after taking the erection-enhancing drug Viagra at lunchtime for a dare, the school says.

I can’t think of much to add, really. But that’s ok.

My favorite quote: “By the time the afternoon lessons began, there was no hiding what they had done.”