That's so gay
News ·Wednesday February 28, 2007 @ 22:44 EST (link)
Silver Mazda MPV, WA 803 MDN, cuts me off driving down 163rd Avenue to 40th Street, honked my horn at him; almost got himself run right off the road, idiot.
A teenager gets harrassed, fires back with "That's so gay." Clearly, this is a matter that must be discussed in court. Rebeka, the teenager in question, is Mormon, and was asked questions such as, "Do you have 10 moms?"; she was sent to the principal and given a warning and a notation in her file (whatever that means). Her parents are suing to get it removed, which they shouldn't have to do; it never should have gone that far, and, what, it's fine to insult Mormons, but homosexuals are special (sort of like it's fine to insult Christians, but Muslims are special)? Equal punishment would have been nice; no punishment, better. Kids are kids, and they're pathological, but let's focus on educating them and save discipline for real personal harassment.
One of the Fark comments about it ended withAnyhoos... of all those groups, the mormons singled themselves out... I mean seriously, they literally pulled their religion out of a hat! I mean, between them and the Scientologists, it's like some kind of functionally retarded race to see who can come up with the most implausible wacky ideas.
Which I think sums things up nicely.
Talk about recidivism: the Mexican drug smuggler that was given immunity in return for helping jail two Border Patrol agents is back at it; then again, I suppose if I had immunity for a crime that profitable I would be too. Here's hoping the full story about the Border Patrol agents comes out (no, I don't know what it is); there are a lot of murky edges. But if it's as simple as them taking potshots at a suspicious illegal alien that was trying to evade them, I hope they're set free and each given medals.
On the house: we have the big check from the insurance, but it has to go through the mortgage company, but we have all the forms so we'll mail that tomorrow and they'll send back part of it with the rest being contingent on their inspection of the work when it nears completion. The contractor and his crew are set to start removing broken trusses and putting in new ones next Thursday and will work over the weekend.
On Word: I'm finally finished the 11 sp3 OACR fixes, which is celebration-level great; we're still planning 14 (major features to be server and collaboration, I'd like to own a major portion of the server work); I've synced and built from the 14 depot but we won't be able to check in until mid-March (because the test team has screwed up all the tests and now needs to fix them).
I sent my N-400 (U.S. citizenship application) last week; current processing times are 8-9 months, so I expect to hear back then for fingerprinting, a civics exam (What are the branches of government?; How many senators are there? Why does the U.S. flag have 13 stripes? and other questions that Americans usually can't answer), and then if all goes well, to be given an oath ceremony date. I told some guys at work, they say they'll crash the ceremony, that should be fun.
And on the Perl front: I released HTTP::Parser 0.03 and Net::SSH2 0.10, fixing all the bugs for those modules; for the legacy Net::SSH::Perl and Net::SFTP modules, most of the bugs were bogus, but there are a few I plan to fix eventually. Regarding the (Microsoft) Office OpenXML modules, I decided against using the Relax NG schemas, since there are no good parsers for them and they're not easily LR(1) (James Clark's reference parser, written in Java, uses the LL(k) lookahead features of JavaCC), so I went with XSD, which is straight XML and can easily be converted to a tree of nodes which will convert between XML and perl objects.
