Pravda on the Hudson decided to un-frack itself with its Gail Collins hit piece.
I don't really care if Slashdot's favorite dirty diaper un-soils himself on the subject as in this JE.
It would be fine if he manned up and repented of being a total crapflooder; I'd enjoy adult conversations with him, as he seems an intelligent person. But then, we're talking about a dedicated bile spewer here. The sort that yields to nothing less than full-on Divine Intervention. So let me pray for that.

I've read books accidentally, meaning to read a single chapter and winding up reading it in one setting, but I've never started writing one accidentally.

Until now.

Tired of editing Random Scribblings and Voyage to Earth and Other Stories (Formerly titled "Mars Bars"), I thought I'd look for another science fiction novel in the public domain a little less ancient than The Time Machine to add to my web site.

I didn't find one, so decided to just make a book of public domain short stories by the 20th century greats. I found a LOT, and started assembling a book. Somehow, I wound up adding commentary and thought "Hey! New book!"

Then I discovered that one of the short stories wasn't so short -- in fact, it was a full blown novel. So for the last several days I've been formatting it to put on my web site. E.E. "Doc" Smith's Triplanetary will be posted in a few days.

I'll let you know when it's there. I guess I'm working on three books again. The collection I'm working on is tentatively titled "Yesterday's Tomorrow".

HEH => http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-15/greatest-obama-error-ever

I've noticed it is - for no good reason - popular to down moderate journal entry comments. Apparently some people find that it is just too much to ask people to read all 12 comments in a JE discussion, they should be able to easily exclude opinions they don't like based on moderation score alone.

In that vein, I share that I wrote a comment in a conservative JE discussion . In it, I was so bold as to read sources, cite sources, and do other such terrible things.

Clearly, this is flamebait and deserves to be moderated thusly. It would be terrible if anyone were to read it. I've heard there are times when upwards of 8 people read a single JE before it is automatically closed for discussion.

Update on the Debian kernel bug

NYT Columnist Blames Scott Walker for Teacher Layoffs That Occurred Before He Was Governor
This may help explain the violent incontinence and all-orifice fluid ejections noted on here at the mention of the name "Scott Walker".

I wonder if I should file a bug with the Debian kernel team

The Republican Party Is Not Your Friend.
[your preaching goes here]

The archives are a very nice touch.

You know, not to be ungrateful or anything, but since you have all this money now, it would be cool if we could access our entire comment history as well.

The simple solution is to devalue the dollar (and keep doing business with the Saudis like 9/11 never happened, bastards). This is like putting less into the package instead of raising the price to make inflation stats look good. Market manipulation is so cool..

I found myself subjected to Rush Limbaugh for a few moments this afternoon (never before have I felt more urge to shout in a car just to drown out ambient noise). What little I was able to tolerate he spent pleasuring himself over the announcement of Jon Stewart announcing his upcoming departure from the Daily Show.

The wars and drones have sent recruitment through the roof.

Now for step three

Then 4)... PROFIT! Well, the profit has been there all along in each stage. This is the part where you sit back and see how well the training worked.

And you dummies keep on saying the dems are the lesser evil. Joke's on you, morons!

I had to laugh when I ran across this article.

"Cortana's UI now expresses 18 different emotions. Siri remains detached and aloof."

Yes, Microsoft is apparently the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation with its " Genuine People Personalities". So when are they going to make that "Marvin" interface?

A company called DexCon is trying to market a wearable glucose sensor, which is all nice and good, except I smell a (few) rats.

First, anyone with insulin-dependent diabetes is told to advise friends, teachers, and co-workers so that in the event of a hypoglycemic event people don't do the wrong thing, don't panic, etc. And they won't wonder why you're munching something high in sugar during a class, meeting, or other activities.

Second, 50 times a day? Get real. Drop the zero and you're more likely in the ballpark for those who test often, though if they're stable, many people do a morning check, and if all's good, just maintain their original injection schedule to the next day. Then every few weeks or when the morning test shows something out of whack, or they're sick, test at every meal and bedtime for a week to make sure everything is stable. 50 times a day would cost about $18,000, just for the test strips. It would also mean testing 3x an hour 16 hours a day. This is just hype to make the device, which costs more than using test strips, look less like a huge increase in both initial and ongoing costs.

Third, what's really funny is that if you search around on the net, you still have to do at least two old-style prick-the-finger tests a day to give the device a baseline to work from. And the sensor isn't in the watch - you have to inject it into your body and keep it there. The sensor is expensive and wears out. As do the batteries in the transmitter to the watch.

So, less accuracy, higher cost, more inconvenience, and a healthy dose of misinformation and a few lies? Not even if you gave me one with 6 months free.

And hey, it's fugly (read the comments from a user who notes you still have to do the finger stick 2x a day anyway). Have fun protecting the adhesive tape while taking a bath, shower, or swim.

I've been a bit busy to keep up with all my friend's jokes, but I thought I would share the punchline for today's joke . I wonder if he wrote the joke after reading last week's "This Modern World"?