I spent some time today visiting some old haunts. Obviously,
setiathome.berkeley.edu/
www.userfriendly.org/
www.cnet.com
www.sfgate.com/
www.thinkgeek.com/
I miss Leo and Kate... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screen_Savers
And the never aging: Ensign Wesley Crusher...
www.wilwheaton.net/ (http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/)
Yeah, I guess some where along the way I got busy and forgot my geeks roots...
I'm back....
The sky and smell of the air after a thunderstorm always make me happy... and that those are, today, accompanied by a sky that looks painted by Maxfield Parish just makes joy well up in my belly until I can't help but laugh!
Well, it was easy to find the 'write in journal' link. Or is that from my slashbox? I dunno. I don't care. Second, it works better for me on IE 8.0 than it does on FF 3.6.
No FF compatibility, less readability than 2.0, inability to save preferences? Lame.
No wonder the number of comments to articles is down. Substantially by my seat of the pants estimation. Eighteen comments on a Android vs. Symbian troll article after 35 minutes? Anti-Apple troll article has 67 comments after three hours?!
They either wanted to drive down page views, will roll this back, or Netcraft will soon confirm it.
I love the sound, I love the smell, of rain on a thatched roof. I love the way humidity here pervades everything. I even enjoy this kind of loneliness, once in a while.
... about thinking Obama is a douche bag, is that douche bags agree with you. It would me much easier if the "cool kids" thought he was a douche, too.
In other words, there is nothing worse than having idiots agree with you, for the wrong reasons.
Yes, I have factored in the possibility that I may be one of the douche bags. That comes with the territory.
Does anyone know where I can find some code (preferably, in Perl, Java or Javascript) that can return, for a passed latitude/longitude, whether it is daylight or nighttime?
seems that there's a bit of an outage. happening for you as well?
I see the show downs, slow downs, lost and found, turn arounds
The boys in the military shirts
I keep my eyes on the prize, on the long fallen skies
And I don't let my friends get hurt
All you back room schemers, small trip dreamers
Better find something new to say
Cause you're the same old story
It's the same old crime
And you got some heavy dues to payI'm a space cowboy
Bet you weren't ready for that
I'm a space cowboy
I'm sure you know where it's at
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Now where DID I put my bong. It's pissing me off.
"[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through," Napolitano said in an interview that aired Monday night on "Charlie Rose."
"I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime. So, what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there?"
In other words, the boogie man is going to get us, unless this bitch has her way and gets us doing the "TSA Tango" on all forms of mass transportation.
I did the math. About 10,000 people die in the USA every day. Not quite as dramatically and on purpose, for sure, but still, for fucks sake, get a grip already.
I'm about ready to forget 9/11... this "Never Forget" bullshit is growing old. I, for one, am ready to forget.
Protest organizers call on fliers to decline the full-body scan, as they are allowed to do under TSAregulations. Those who decline are then searched by hand, with a TSA officer patting them down, including between their legs and across their chests. The pat-down searches take longer than the screening machines. Though the protest website disavows an intention of slowing the screening process to a crawl, many of those supporting the protest say that is how the government will get the message that travelers do not approve of the scanning machines.
Yawn.
Somebody needs to put a big ol' honkin' kielbasa in their pants, long enough so it goes down one of their legs a fair bit, and go for the frisk. That'll give TSA boy something to grope.
It could make Drudge Report. Someone's going to do it, and that'll be their ten minutes of fame.
I wish I had the balls.
And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in to the screening area with a kielbasa in their pants, singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant... And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant "Feel my keilbasa, TSA Boy" Movement, and all you got to do to join is put a kielbasa in your pants next time you fly around Thanksgiving.
His headline:
"Spielberg picks British actor to play Lincoln"
OK, I'll click on that. Yes, I am that bored.
I was expecting some story about Hugh Laurie, or something. Turns out it is Daniel Day Lewis.
Oh my.
Seems to me he has no issue portraying Americans before. Quite masterfully, actually.
That's an exciting choice. Can't wait.
Matt, I'll continue to check your page. But god almighty, you can be a retard sometimes.
Damn, what a great choice for Lincoln.
This quote deserves a place near the top of the list of Sara Palinisms.
"I mean, 'Bozo, something?'" would be something Tina Fey would say, doing her schtick on SNL.
From Peggy Noonan's column on the WSJ. Emphasis mine.
Conservatives talked a lot about Ronald Reagan this year, but they have to take him more to heart, because his example here is a guide. All this seemed lost last week on Sarah Palin, who called him, on Fox, "an actor." She was defending her form of political celebrityÃï½Â½Ãï½ÂÃÂÂreality show, "Dancing With the Stars," etc. This is how she did it: "Wasn't Ronald Reagan an actor? Wasn't he in 'Bedtime for Bonzo,' Bozo, something? Ronald Reagan was an actor."
Excuse me, but this was ignorant even for Mrs. Palin. Reagan people quietly flipped their lids, but I'll voice their consternation to make a larger point. Ronald Reagan was an artist who willed himself into leadership as president of a major American labor union (Screen Actors Guild, seven terms, 1947-59.) He led that union successfully through major upheavals (the Hollywood communist wars, labor-management struggles); discovered and honed his ability to speak persuasively by talking to workers on the line at General Electric for eight years; was elected to and completed two full terms as governor of California; challenged and almost unseated an incumbent president of his own party; and went on to popularize modern conservative political philosophy without the help of a conservative infrastructure. Then he was elected president.
The point is not "He was a great man and you are a nincompoop," though that is true. The point is that Reagan's career is a guide, not only for the tea party but for all in politics. He brought his fully mature, fully seasoned self into politics with him. He wasn't in search of a life when he ran for office, and he wasn't in search of fame; he'd already lived a life, he was already well known, he'd accomplished things in the world.
Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service. And you need actual talent: You have to be able to bring people in and along. You can't just bully them, you can't just assert and taunt, you have to be able to persuade.
Americans don't want, as their representatives, people who seem empty or crazy. They'll vote no on that.
It's not just the message, it's the messenger.
This Palin girl seems to have learned her history on daytime TV, or something. But that's covering old ground.
Ms. Noonan's point was dead on, though. I have a hard time voting for a candidate who has not actually
DONE anything, besides, perhaps, work for the gumbent and maybe taught at school. We have plenty of politicians who have literally done nothing more than work for the government all their adult years.
Why people fall for these guys lines is disheartening to me. I fear it is too late for this country... it is our "decline and fall". I hope I am wrong, but all the signs are there, for students familiar with the concept of nations and empires having a rise, a glory, and a fall. And I am unable to see what is happening these days as anything but the decline and fall of the American Empire. I can't see it turning around... the electorate has been so conditioned to accept that men of no real accomplishment are fit for the highest position in the land.
If you post on the Denver Post's forum, and use the word, "La raza", once submitted, "La Raza" becomes changed to "holding hands".
Been happening for weeks. People have said stuff. Still no word from there IT, or management, as to why La Raza gets converted to "holding hands"
An excellent education for this kid.
The priesthood is not your friend, little dude.
Jesus would agree. Hopefully, this kid knows where to draw the line, and gets with the program, before 'they' arrest him and nail him to a cross for being a rabble-rouser.
Make headway at work. Continue to let things deteriorate at home.
