But meat is meat. Just about any animal that lives near humans and isn't toxic has been eaten at some point, and often comes to be a regular item on the menu.

I thought about that Twilight Zone episode where the twist was that "To Serve Man" was actually a cookbook. I figured this was totally backward after watching a lot of Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods show. There seems to be almost no living thing (an isn't deadly toxic) that humans won't eat. I think it's actually the aliens out there that would have to worry about us eating them, we've already tried everything edible on this planet.

I freaking hate iTunes. But the wife absolutely must have more songs added to it, and since it only almost works in WINE I had to reboot to Vista. God I hate Vista. So, since it's been a couple of months since I had to touch Vista (probably for something that ONLY photoshop could do properly, and once again not in WINE (I thought Adobe was supposed to be helping the WINE project to get their stuff to work better (even though I prefer GIMP anyway (because I've been using it for so long that it's the photoshop interface that seems weird and awkward to me.)))). Did I close all those nested parentheticals? 1,2,3,4. Yes. Anyway, Vista had to go through it's freaking installing updates crap, so I left the room, smoked a cigarette, drank a beer, and came back. And that damn Vista startup sound? Two notes? You know what the words are to that song? It's "I suck." So, yeah. Vista has to go through yet another update routine that requires a reboot (fortunately it was kind enough to let me get my work in iTunes done first). So I say to the computer, I actually said it out loud, "What the fuck. Sure. Reboot now." (Or whatever that button is on the dialog box, I don't really care to remember it.) And I walk away while it does it's thing, knowing that GRUB will take my computer back to the comparable bliss of Ubuntu while I'm gone. Genius little program.

Congratulations to anyone who's actually read this far through this rambling post without modding me flamebait or troll, because I don't have any intention of trolling or bating flames. Shit, that sounded dirty but what the hell, I'm already off the deep end and I should have gone to sleep hours ago. I'm just relating my own personal non-1337 geek experience, not to bash any desktop paradigm, because as always, YMMV. But I do very much prefer Ubuntu to Vista. For me, it's like getting to choose between a burning sack of dog shit on my front porch or a Girl Scout giving me free cookies. NOT THOSE KINDS OF COOKIES YOU PERV! And not those other kind of cookies you web-addled nerd. (Ring, ring, "Hello Kettle, this is the Pot calling. You're black!" I says to myself (outloud).) I'm talking about chocolate chip cookie goodness. And once again, on several points this time, YMMV.

So, finally getting to the point, I guess, if I ever really had a point, is that I voted "A few times a year" because having to run a dual-boot system just for the sake of TWO little programs that don't want to play nice in my WINE yard (heh, that was almost a pun, but I'm not going to go back and edit it for you to turn it into a real pun, I'll just be lazy and let it be a half assed failure of a pun.), I have to reboot a few more times a year than I would otherwise have to beyond the approximately once every two or three months that Ubuntu wants me to reboot for a critical update.

Crap. I have mod points, and I'm not sure how I'd mod this thing if I weren't myself. I'd probably just give up after the first few rambling sentences and ignore it. Kudos to you if you have mod points and just ignored this post beyond the first few words, rather than going apeshit and calling it flamebait or troll as a knee-jerk reaction. That's just not cool at all, and this post is probably left unmodded, ignored, and neglected, because its author (myself) obviously didn't bother thinking through what he was intending to say. Modding it funny isn't right either, because it's not really haha funny, it's more like when the cannibal asks the other cannibal if the clown tastes funny to him kind of funny. Insightful, informative, and interesting are right out, and it's certainly not normal, but there's no odd or WTF mods available. (Rob should get right on that, if he's still in charge of such things. (If he was ever in charge of such things, I don't remember. (I don't pay such good attention to these things anymore.)))

So in the interest of avoiding the dreaded "read the rest of this post" because it had to be truncated in the normal view, I'll bring it to a conclusion. A second conclusion that's very similar to the first conclusion. A few times a year. Because I have a dual-boot. And I don't have to reboot very often. YMMV

As I already explained in my journal: 16. The Tungusta blast of 1908 happened when a Russian dared Chuck Norris to light one of his farts. No further research is required on this subject.

I love my NX70V. But the kids these days keep asking me, "What kind of phone is that? It's huge!" (Photo Here) I respond with something along the lines of "You take your little iPod and GET OFF MY LAWN!" Except using more polite words. Loved my treos, but they had a bad habit of dropping dead with no hope of revival (Damn you Sprint and your epoxied-on battery leads!). My good old Zire remains a good backup. But that NX70V is a real monster, way bigger than any other palm I've ever tried other than the Dana (nice full-size keyboard, but not pocket portable at all), so I've been looking at the UX40 and UX50, for something in a smaller form factor with much more memory on board. Sony got it right with these devices, except for the damnable memory sticks. Palm needs SD cards, mkay? Anyway... Well, yeah... I've got a sad, sad graveyard of old palms that have kicked the bucket. My next stop is the universal life church website to get ordained as a Priest of the Cult of Palm.

Wow, that's neat. Googling for multiple workspaces or desktops in windows only finds me softwares that I can add to windows to give it multiple workspaces, but no info telling me how to just enable it. Looks to me like you're speaking directly out of your ass unless you can point me to some info about how to enable/use these built-in multiple workspaces you're talking about. Put up or shut up.

That's funny. On my PC, the Windows key is extremely useful, and it was a snap to configure it to do exactly what I wanted. Ctrl + Windows key flips to the workspace left of the current one. Add Shift to that combo and the current window moves to the appropriate workspace with the flip. Alt + Windows key flips to the workspace right of the current one and Windows key + # switches directly to the numbered workspace. Terribly handy when manipulating a photo in a maximized window while my pallets are on the next workspace, or switching between many completely unrelated simultaneous tasks.

What? Windows still doesn't have multiple workspaces? If that was on the list of new features in Win7, I'd think about considering using Windows again. Too bad.

But I'm just a regular Joe Sixpack type user with zero leet skillz, so what the heck do I know?