It takes an amazing amount of chutzpah to do that. Wonder how long he'll keep his job.

Hopefully, not long at all, though it's probably the CEO's son.

A few years ago a friend of mine had one of her photos posted on another site, can't remember which one, with the designer claiming it as their own. But it was a fairly high traffic site.

Friend swapped out photo with pr0n.

Problem solved.

OK, in the WTF? department:

Tulane, Loyola-NO, LSU-NO, and Xavier-NO students can now call schools all over the US and continue their studies provided there's space. There are limitations with most degree programs (some law schools only accepting second and third-year students, e.g.), but generally a student can call any school and ask for admission into their graduate degree track.

Unless they're in public health. You see, the organization that is the general overseeing body of public health schools has decided to force all students to go through them. The org will decide where the students will continue their MPH and PhD programs (in their words "be farmed out"), not the student.

So, if you're an Okie who went to Tulane Law School, you can call OU Law School and continue your studies there, space available. If you're an Okie who went to Tulane's School of Public Health and Tropical Diseases, though, you have no voice in whether or not you go to the OU School of Public Health.

And 500 students go "ARRRGH!!!"

DXMachina "Natter .38 Special" Sep 2, 2005 6:28:02 pm PDT

DX, I'm dying over the fuddrucker's link. Hilarious.

The fuddrucker's thing is brilliant.

The thing I don't get is why did they think an overweight baby would be good for promotion?

Just talked to my dad. Official word is S&R teams, stay out for now. It's largely a fucking legal issue (which I understand, but ack! Also, they can't guarantee food and water for s&r, which also constrains them.) He's still on call, but since his group is largely wilderness, he doesn't expect to be called unless it is to search for bodies in the backwoods areas. ABQ urban S&R was called then told not to come after shots were reported fired.

It took the government long enough to call in the NG. Which should have happened eons ago. S&R won't go in until it is secured. Or they go in unauthorized, which is happening.

Evacuee bus overturns in La.; one killed

I saw that on the CNN ticker. It's so awful you have to start laughing, you know?

For ita, and anyone else who's ever had their bandwidth stolen through hotlinks, revenge is a dish best served deep fried: [link]

I think I love that guy.

Anyone watch the Hurricane Relief concert on NBC? Kanye West went off-script, said the slow response time was because most of the victims were poor and black, and closed with "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

Yeah, I saw that. Props to him for saying it, but I'm not sure his presentation or timing would convince people who didn't already agree.

It enlivened the show, anyhow.

Kat, that thing? get it worked out or do I need to make a call?

msbelle, I called. We aren't in their system. Though I got an email from them. The whole thing? sketch.

In news both heroic and encouraging:

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Hospital evacuation update
Friday 9:30 p.m.

The total evacuation of the 2,200 storm-stranded patients and staff at Charity and University hospitals is now complete, a top hospital official said Friday night.

About 150 staff and students at the affiliated Medical Education Building downtown are still holed up in their facility but should be moved out soon, said Don Smith Burg, chief executive officer of the Louisiana State University Hospital System, which oversees the medical institutions.

“The buildings are empty,” Burg said, marking the end of an exhausting week of privation at the public hospitals, where supplies of basic provisions ran so low that some staff inserted IV solutions in their arms to stay hydrated.

Some staff members abstained from food and water for days so that the 363 patients would have sufficient nutrition, Burg said. The patients included 28 babies.

Three of the patients died as rescuers were evacuating them, Burg said.

The Charity morgue was left underwater, with a dozen bodies in the morgue and five more on the steps, Burg said. He did not know how many of the bodies were there before the storm.

FEMA evacuated the patients to hospitals across the region, and staff were taken to shelters and other locations.

I'm so tempted to buy this car: [link]

It's a 1982 Ford Granada, which came from the factory as a propane-fueled vehicle. Much less polluting that gas, and cheaper too. Fewer places to fuel it, though.

McGill is offering to take in some displaced Tulane students. [link]

My cousin's daughter, joined the US Army (despite being a born and bred Cranadian) and is now on standby in Maryland to go to NO, instead of being at a wedding full of Newfoundlanders who all do that scream-laughing thing. (Which is terrifying to behold and deafening to experience.)