http://suboptimal.info sometimes things are just suboptimal Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:17:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An ircer I never met in real life, but chatted with intermittently for a few years, passed away suddenly.  I've been closer friends with her husband and have done what I could since her passing to help him grieve. This post is not about Bill or his late wife, Amy.  Bill ... http://suboptimal.info/2009/07/04/what-to-do-about-a-self-absorbed-insensitive-bitch/ "Maryland Woman Fatally Shot Attacking Husband, Police Say" read the headline. The story is here, but that's besides the point. The headline is the interesting part. While technically grammatically correct: [noun] (verb) {object} [[adjective]noun] ((adverb)verb) {{adjective}object} [[Maryland] Woman] ((Fatally) Shot) {{Attacking} Husband} Most people put into this the media hysteria driven bias that women are shot ... http://suboptimal.info/2009/06/22/ambiguous-fox-news-headline-of-the-day/ While I'm glad that SCOTUS ruled that the second amendment protects an individual right, as do most of the other amendments in the Bill of Rights, I feel the need to contribute to the 'nets comments en masse. First, it was a pleasure to read in the majority opinion the comparison ... http://suboptimal.info/2008/07/05/dc-v-heller/ New phone. I got myself a Palm Centro (on the deathstar - AT&T) after a coworker replaced his aging/ancient PalmIIIxe with a Centro (Sprint). While he didn't get a data plan, I was able to get enough of a feel of the device's interface & formfactor to know ... http://suboptimal.info/2008/05/07/new-phone/ Ok I can't resist. While the media is already giving these two bimbos filler attention because the media doesn't like covering real news, I have to contribute. Stuck up teenager Nisreen Swedberg (wtf kind of name is that? "Nisreen". Sounds like some infectious sci-fi alien species - the Nisreen Hive ... http://suboptimal.info/2008/02/28/its-not-wrong-to-call-them-a-narcissist-when/ In the CSI seventh season episode, Fannysmackin', LVPD track down a mob of local teens out recreationally assaulting tourists for kicks simply out of a lack of something else more interesting to do. Life is immitating art, again.  Cincinatti area teens Cheyenne Blanton and Joseph Nagle are in custody accused of ... http://suboptimal.info/2008/02/26/life-imitating-csi-crime-scene-investigations/ Go google for "sperm donor child support" and read an article about a Nassau County court case from December 2007. In the late 80s some doctor donates sperm to a colleague with the verbal agreement that he has no rights or responsibilities toward the child.  Ignoring the whole ambiguity of verbal ... http://suboptimal.info/2007/12/05/gold-digger-as-a-legally-established-institution/ In Brendlin v. California it was nice to see SCOTUS kick back a decision in favor of the expansion of Fourth Amendment protections, for a change. Despite recent decisions limiting bill of rights protections such as Morse v. Frederick (first amendment - limiting free speech for minors, so long as they ... http://suboptimal.info/2007/07/30/nice-to-see-a-decent-scotus-decision/ I mistakenly had thought that George Bush would hold off on springing Scooter Libby. I thought he'd let him spend a token amount of time in prison, maybe saving a pardon for the day after the 2008 election or for the last days of his presidency. But no, ... http://suboptimal.info/2007/07/03/so-ill-admit-it-bush-fooled-me-again-on-scooter-libby/ Genarlow Wilson has been in prison under a mandatory sentence of 10 years for a "crime" that, because of his case and the unreasonable sentence he received, had its law rewritten down to a misdemeanor by the Georgia state legislature.  But they botched it - they didn't make the legislative ... http://suboptimal.info/2007/06/12/whatever-happened-to-liberty/