College handgun bill clears first Senate vote

Apparently a bill to allow concealed handguns by college students just passed committee as can be read here at The Dallas Morning News.  Maybe it’s because I’m a liberal pussy, but I think this is fuckin’ crazy.  Maybe everyone else went to colleges that had normal people, but I went to BFE college and I just couldn’t imagine if some of the people I met there were allowed to carry guns around on campus.  This bill would cause more problems than fix them.  I’m glad it will never pass the House. Whew.

How to Take A Screen Shot

Jackie
hey, I have a computer guy question

James Asher
so naturally you think of me

Jackie
How do I take a screen shot and save it as a jpeg
Yes, I know no others

James Asher
what kind of computer are you on? windows i assume?

Jackie
windows

James Asher
XP?

Jackie
xp

James Asher
ok, set up your screen for whatever you want a screen shot of
in the sort of top right of your keyboard there is a button called ‘print screen’
press that

Jackie
yes, k

James Asher
then go into paint and go to edit>paste
then file>save as, choose jpg

Jackie
will it save just the picture or will it have the white around it?
I’ll have to crop it in another program?

James Asher
is the screen that you want a picture of not maximized?

Jackie
erm

James Asher
ok, do you want a picture of your whole screen or just a picture of the program window?

Jackie
sure, the second one (this is sort of theoretical in that I don’t want to do it now, but will in the future)

James Asher
hold alt when you press print screen
it will take a picture of whatever program window you have open

Jackie
Yay!
look it’s amazing
gah, that was simple. Thanks, James

James Asher
i am a many of many talents
when you tell this story to your friends, and I know you will, could I be shirtless? I think it’s more impressive if I’m shirtless

Jackie
it’s true
Ha, yes!
Done

James Asher
haha

Lately, I’m Politically Disappointed

Clearly, I’m little left-leaning in my political theory.  That being said, I’m a little disappointed with the Great Black Hope lately.  This graphic sums it up:

Dare to Hope

I’m just trying to think of the shit he’s done lately that has pissed me off.

He said he wants to continue Bush’s taxpayer facilitated, religious-based initiatives.  Expand them even.

Agreeing with the Conservative side, and the losing side, of the Supreme Court on their recent Death Penalty ruling.

Then there is that whole FISA thing.

Wiretaps, mmm.

I feel like I could rant for a while about this shit, but I like pictures.

iChat

On Friday, had my first video-chat via iChat.  My dad is up in Montreal visiting his brother John and his wife Dal.  After fiddling with iChat trying to get it to work, we ended up needing Dal to sign up for a free AIM account.  I only have an AIM account and she only had a .mac account.  I’ve been told that these two services can talk to each other fine, however it was not the case for us.  Regular IM worked, but not A/V chat.  I figured the problem lie in the mixing of the two services.  The solution was for either myself to purchase a .mac account or for Dal to get an AIM account.  The free solution won out.  So if anyone else out there happens to find the problem where you would click to accept a video chat invitation, but it would then say that you failed to respond, try using two AIM accounts.  Worked for us.  Anyways, everyone is doing fine up in Canada.  It was a nice relaxing weekend for myself and the wife.  A much needed restful weekend, I might add.  Anywho, time for bed.

That’s Funny

I received a phone call from my brother today. Here’s how it went:

R: I’ve got a funny story to tell you.
Me: Are you going to jail?
R: No. Dad called me today.
Me: Oh? What about.
R. He was working on his truck today in the driveway and two patrol cars rolled up.
Me: Ha. Why? Is he going to jail?
R: No. They walked up to him and said, ‘Are you David?’. ‘Yes’. ‘We’re currently in hot pursuit of someone we presume to be your son. We have reason to believe that he stole a Red, Ninja Motorcycle. We need to look under that tarp over there to see if the motorcycle is under it.’
Me: Holy fucking shit, that’s hilarious.
R: I thought so, too.

My brother now lives in the KC-metro area, less than five blocks from me. My dad lives in Manhattan – 2 hours away from my house. Also, my brother talked to one of his friends in Manhattan and his friend told him that there were a handful of cop cars around his old house.

Ah, hilarity.

A Bit Of Education For The Day

I found this post, entitled What Every American Should Know About the Middle East, rather educational today. It’s a quick explaination / comparison of such things as Arabs, Muslims, Islam, Iranians, Persians, Shia, and Sunni. I can’t say I learned anything, per se, but it’s a nice single location to find such information. As a bit of a tangent, I think the word American in the title is unnecessary. It should be replaced with Everyone. With the way the world is right now, I would think everyone should know these things – in particular governmental figures.