tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50564072009-02-20T22:39:15.707-05:00<i>Fresh Cuts from the Heartland</i>Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13771710048399523826noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5056407.post-1155957613743813302006-08-18T23:20:00.000-04:002006-08-18T23:20:13.913-04:00

Probably one of the coolest finals on the show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?".read more | digg story

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"On or around May 8, a personal ad appeared on the Internet classified ad site Craigslist (It has since been removed). Itâ??s a head scratcher to keep you National Security Agency analysts occupied in your spare time. Each block of numbers is repeated twice; but below I have transcribed them only once for clarity."This crazy story is really me just testing the blogg from Digg feature.Outside of

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Personal Entry: Three years?!I tend to think that after three years, I really shouldn't bother posting again. I mean, really. Three years? Almost to the date.But, Once again, I need a medium for my thoughts. You see, it's been a crazy three years, and I'll forgo the usual "here's what I've been up to" crap.Well, except for This one. That's my son, Aidan. He's currently lying in his mother's

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Personal Entry: Long time, no see Wow. Has it really been since Monday since I posted last? Things got a little crazy at that three letter company I work for. Apparently I've jumped out of the frying pan and into the Fire. So, two weeks ago, I was asked to start training on some new duties. I didn't think much about it at the time, but that following Friday, I was told to move into a new

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Various Topics: Time to clean up the Assignment board Once again, time to clean up all the stuff that's been on my to-do list: Choice of a new information ChoicePoint, a data mining company, has been supplying the FBI with all kinds of information about you. The problem? It doesn't have to be all that correct. Read this interesting article...including instructions on how to get your very own

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Star Trek: Captain Picard I'm not one to join in on the recent round of French bashing that is chic in today's pop culture, but I do have one interesting observation. As I mentioned before, I've been having a little problem with my back as of late. This is keeping me out of my computer chair, and on the couch with a heating pad. Well, thanks to my netflix subscription, I can, and have, rented

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Santorum: Come on boots, start walkin' Good for these kids. I know I would have been pissed if that jack ass was my commencement speaker. About one in every eight graduates walked out of Sunday's commencement at Saint Joseph's University before the keynote address by Sen. Rick Santorum, who recently infuriated gay groups and others with derogatory remarks about homosexual behavior. Santorum's

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Personal Update: I'm an old man My body is getting back at me for 30 years of neglect, being out of shape, and stupid stunts. About two days ago, my back started to twinge again. This is nothing new for the MeatBack. I had spasms for 4 months after a day of paintball during my bachelor party. So, here we go again. I'm actually in a little better shape than I was then, so hopefully it won't

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The Meatstack: We turn 1,000 If you use AOL, are in the Central Time zone, have been to The Meatstack on Sunday at 10:50 pm your time, use Windows 98 with IE 5, you were probably my 1,000th visitor. Well, I want to thank you and the other 999 visitors who have come in to my mind since February. I had been putting off posting this weekend because I didn't want me to be the 1,000th visitor.

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Media Ownership: A Clear Channel Example What does greater media ownership mean? Here in Columbus, Ohio, Clear Channel owns five stations: WCOL-FM Country WNCI-FM Pop/Hip Hop WFJX-FM Classic Rock WTVN-AM Talk Radio WZNW-AM Sports Talk That's fine, a big company successful in a large Midwestern City, right? If you want to hear the Dixie Chicks, you have to put in a CD. If

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Job Market: Yet another week, yet another 400k The good news is that unemployment claims fell 13,000 this week. The bad news is that even after the 13,000 reduction, there were still 417,000 job cuts this week nationwide. I did this story last week as well. We totaled up all the job cuts for the past 12 weeks, and came up with 4.8 million jobs lost. True, we didn't count for people who found

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The Meatstack: www.meatstack.com I know what you are thinking: "Craig, I love the site, but I just hate typing www.meatstack.blogspot.com everytime I want to read your very intelligent and thought-provoking commentary." Well, I feel your pain. Even as I type, DNS servers throughout the country are updating their entries with the Meatstack's new address: www.meatstack.com If www.meatstack.com

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Odds and Ends: Stuff not worth a complete post of their own Not Hip Hop Star, but quasar The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has made a public apology to Penn State Professor Peter Usher. It seems that in their searches for protected music on the net, they came across this little ditty about gamma rays. The RIAA, ever so quick to act, sent a cease and desist letter to Penn

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Blog Neighbors: Dave at Phugit goes International! Dave Sutor over at Phugit doesn't just do this to get his rocks off..for him writing is his profession. So, when he decided to send an article to ancestral homeland of Slovakia two months ago, he really didn't know what would become of his story. This week, they published his story. Dave Sutor, Certified Drunken Bastard has gone international.

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Columbus Pub Scene: Byrne's Pub. The third of May, the Mrs. and I went down to a humble little establishment that we frequent weekly. Byrne's Pub is about as Irish of a bar as you get in Columbus. Sure, there's Fado's, but it's in a glorified strip mall. It's so fake even the emergency lighting has that faux "smoke stained" look. There's Brazenhead, if you are ok with paying 7 bucks for a pint.

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Meatstack History: Usenet keeps posts that long? Step 1: Do a Google search for yourself. Step 2: Be afraid of what you find. It's a usenet post from my days at Penn State. The Die-hard Rush fan (the band, not the radio talk show host) I posted this. The funny thing is that my signature still is appropriate: "If we don't become active, we become immune." -ELP from _Black Moon_

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Economy: Strategic use of Sick Time. When George Bush stops in Omaha Nebraska to push his tax plan to a plant full of plastic workers, there's going to be an added surprise in their paychecks next Friday. It seems that because of the plant having to shut down for a day, those workers will be docked a day's pay, or have to come in on Saturday to make up the time. In other words, they are forced

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Budget Woes: Tax Free day and Debt Free day. You might have heard of tax free day. It's the day that is determined that to that point, every penny you have made would have gone to the Federal Government, on average. This year, "tax-free day" fell on April 29. Congratulations! Every penny you make from that day forward goes into your pocket instead of the governments. But, now that they have

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Job Market: Another week, another 400k Things aren't going so well at work. Uninformed people are making uninformed judgments based on uninformed sources. Just another week at the three letter company I work for. The IT staff is salary, so even though they expect 40, you are deemed as disloyal for anything under sixty. They are withholding fringe benefits because they aren't sure of my "loyalty

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Bloggers: Salam Pax Before, and during the early part of the war in Iraq, there was a lot of buzz in the blogosphere about one particular journal. Where is Raed ? Salam Pax posting from no where other than Downtown Baghdad, Iraq. After the invasion began, there was a long silence from Salam. Rightfully so, he was keeping his head down. Then, a post on March 24th brought a fresh perspective on

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Politics: Election Day It's the First Tuesday in May. And you know what that means!!! What? You don't? You, a resident of the State of Ohio did not know it was primary election day? Quite frankly, neither did I. there has been less than zero media coverage leading up to today's election. No campaign ads, no debates, no endorsements. But then again, it is the Primary Election for local

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The Meatstack: New Blogger, New Problems Blogger is rolling out a new verison of their on-line publishing software, and I signed up early as a beta tester. We are using "Dano" Blogger. What does that mean to you, the readers of The Meatstack? Nothing. But you may notice a stray Mexican letter here or there. I'm going back through my work trying to clean up the problems generated by the

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The Meatstack: Color returns It's as good of a time as any to return the blue back to the stack. I've actually changed the color scheme slightly, getting rid of the tan in replace of a dark blue. Easier to read the posts that way. Let me know what you think.

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Tax Laws: Ironically asinine Here's the plan. 1) Falsify earnings reports, causing stocks to soar, and allowing executives to make a windfall. 2) When it crashes, fire millions. 3) Submit a Plea to the IRS to reclaim "overpaid" taxes on our falsified earnings statements. Brilliant.

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Polls: Bush After War The Gallup Group has released their latest poll numbers on how the Bush Administration is doing at their job. How much attention is President Bush paying to the economy? 54% say not enough, while 43% are saying just the right amount. 1% say too much. Following along those lines, 47% of the people surveyed said that the proposed tax cuts are a bad idea, and 57 percent

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