Random Thoughts of Mine...

This past weekend I went to a Christmas party that some friends of mine were throwing. I couldn't remember where the place that the party was going to be, so I called one person and he knew the address. I went and picked him up and a friend of his also came along. I had a fun time at the party, and the friends that planned that party are also talking about having another party in the Spring.

My PC suffered the dreaded Blue Screen of Death too. I had installed a flight sim game on the computer and downloaded a patch for the game. I played with the game a little to make sure it was running fine, which it was. Also downloaded the latest patches for Windows too and had to reboot the PC for the installation to finish. I rebooted the computer and that's when the BSoD struck! I called Dell tech support and we ran this test and that test. We even repaired Windows, all to no avail. So I had to reinstall Windows and call back when it was finished. While on the phone with them, the mouse & keyboard stopped working. We ran more tests which were passed but still didn't solve the problem. I had to reinstall Windows again in order to fix it. When I tried to reinstall my DSL, I had forgotten the password, but I guess I exceeded the times so that locked up on me too. Had to call the phone company and reset the account in order to get the DSL working again.

I was surfing the Internet a little earlier today when I saw the follwing article online:

'Throw shoes at Bush' games appear online
Therapeutic, great fun

THROWING SHOES at US President George W. Bush has suddenly become a very popular online game. Or games, actually, because at least two have turned up on the Internet so far.

Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi punctuated a press briefing in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone by throwing his shoes at US President George W. Bush last Sunday, December 14th. Bush successfully ducked the flying footwear, but the moment was captured on video.

Facing the soles of your shoes toward anyone's face, striking them with your shoe soles, or throwing your shoes at them are considered to be grave insults in Arabic cultures. All Arabs regard streets and, by extension, shoe soles as unclean, and view being struck by shoe soles as a form of extreme disrespect. Iraqi al-Zeidi's action was thus an act of outraged protest.

He shouted at Bush, "Here is the farewell kiss you DOG! This is from Widows and Orphans and those killed in Irag! YOU are responsible for the Deaths of THOUSANDS of Iraqis!"

Read the rest of the story and play the games here. The video clips in that story only show a small portion of the press conference that the shoe throwing incident took place at. You can view the whole 9 minute video here.


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