Monthly Archives: November 2007

It’s nice and normal where I work, unlike where these people work.

The seventies, they weren’t kind to anyone, regardless of race, creed or color.

Indiana Jones production pics.

“I want the state prosecutor to look into bringing a suit against CNN for instigating murder in Venezuela,” he said. “… undoubtedly it is part of the psychological warfare.”

Yes, CNN is in Bush’s coat pocket when it comes to foreign policy.

Hewlett Packard’s inkjet technology is being applied in the medicine patch field.

If your computer starts playing Fur Elise or It’s A Small world, your power supply is going bad.

You know, I’m looking around for something amusing or outrageous or even vaguely interesting, but the news is in that end of the year slump and the Top 10 end of the year lists aren’t out yet. Also, I used up my slice of life quota last week, so it’s thin pickings around here today.

I could complain about the slow drivers now that it’s snowed until next week when I complain about the idiots that forget that brakes don’t work on ice. I could complain about the snow, but it really isn’t unreasonable that it snows the last week of November and we haven’t had a really dreary fall and I don’t really feel up to it, so I got nothing there.

Now I can start my Christmas shopping.

The worst book title of the year is……Cooking with Pooh!

Back in my day we didn’t have mumps outbreaks.

It’s like we’re trying to slide back to the 15th century. Let’s not feed the hungry with genetically modified foods, let’s not protect people from diseases with vaccinations, don’t turn on those lights you’re hurting mother earth, let’s not try to expand the borders of our knowledge and imagination. Let’s just sit here and wear hemp.

Obama would take the massive amounts of money that the Constellation program at NASA gets for 5 years and use that to reform education. Yeah, that’ll work. I bet building a couple less museums named after various senators would net more money.

The short story is that she was living in the bushes in front of my house for a day or two. The neighbor took her in, but in a few weeks decided they couldn’t keep her. So, I agreed to keep her. She’s heels, doesn’t chew, but doesn’t come, sit or stay. And she poops in the house when she’s upset. She’s about to learn the joys of crate training. But all she wants is to be near someone. The neighbor’s kid named her Daisy, so that’s her name now.

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Yes, a very special day in the life blog post from me. Don’t be jealous of my life.

• 6:30am – walk the dog
• 7:10am – get ready for work
• 7:45am – go to work
• 8:00am – start this list
• 8:01am – read birthday email from insurance agent, go make coffee.
• 8:05am – It’s a birthday miracle! Doughnuts! leftover from yesterday
• 9:15am – Asia calls to sing happy birthday – tres cute. Because she’s little. It’s not cute when you do it.
• 11:15am – Tuesday Taco Bell lunch. I had the nacho cheese chalupa as a special treat. It was delicious.
• 2:15pm – surprise birthday gift. yay!
• 3:00pm – birthday brownies. yay!
• 5:04pm – going home
• 5:30pm – decide to have birthday brownies for dinner and watch I Dream of Jeannie. Did you know that the theme song is all wrong and has a voiceover for the first few episodes. No, it’s true.
• 6:30pm – decide some fish would be nice with the brownies.

A Thanksgiving post, that’s not really about Thanksgiving, naturally.

I don’t believe the U.S. Constitution includes a right to abortion or gay marriage or a zillion other things the Left claims to detect emanating from the penumbra, but I find it sweetly touching that in America even political radicalism has to be framed as an appeal to constitutional tradition from the powdered-wig era.

So Americans should be thankful they have one of the last functioning nation-states. Europeans, because they’ve been so inept at exercising it, no longer believe in national sovereignty, whereas it would never occur to Americans not to. This profoundly different attitude to the nation-state underpins, in turn, Euro-American attitudes to transnational institutions such as the United Nations.

I find it hard to believe that the internets will not be upgraded to keep up with demand. Threaten broadband companies with loss of revenue and they’ll hop to fix it.

But not in Britian. There they’re just with you for your economic stability.

Why we don’t want the Pakistan boat rocking.

No really.

Earthset. This is why NASA needs to get cracking on their space program. We should be able to watch this in person.

The prototype heat shielding for the Orion spacecraft is completed.

Unless they step this up a bit there aren’t going to be colonies on the moon in my lifetime. And then where will I spend my retirement years?

Peter Pan is getting married. You will want to follow the links. Oh, yes, you will.

Top 10 liberal media quotes in the last 20 years.

Nitrates are good for you!

Nitrites and nitrates are also availalbe in vegetable form for you health freaks.

Happy Birthday to the helicopter!

Victor Davis Hanson with some sound foreign policy advice. Which will, of course, be deemed not practical.

There is no poem, btw.

I haven’t seen misogyny like this in ages.

But female ineptitude in the kitchen is not just a product of the fullness of a woman’s timetable. We all have busy lives these days, so there must be something else, something far deeper and intrinsic that makes women so hopeless at cooking. I have a few theories…

However, it gets worse. As well as being incapable of experimenting, women are useless at following written instructions, which in this instance are called recipes.

Blinded by a series of numbers and symbols, they get confused, and usually add the wrong amount of sugar or salt, or, more likely, substitute one for the other.

Time Magazine is about to pick the Person of the Year. I have good American money that says it will be Al Gore.

/no we can’t discuss my freakish talking money

Sarkozy’s speech before Congress. I realize it’s only polite to say nice things to a foreign governing body if you are speaking before it, but that was impressive.

And it’s rather telling that Congress cares more about global warming than the Middle East.

It sends morse code for the first 10 minutes, but then it stops.

As a citizen. I had every intention of voting on my way home. I even wondered at all the traffic as I drove by the library. And guess what? Yes, I completely forgot.

Which means that if they spend $1 million renovating the hideous old* city hall I can’t complain. Curses.

*built in 1979, need I say more?

UPDATE: Phew.

I’m as against illegal immigration as the next person, but taking $50,000 off a guy leaving the country is a bit low. Yes, yes, here illegally, didn’t pay taxes, taking food from some poor teenage dishwasher’s mouth, I know, I know.

“I need this money. I have no money in my country, I have nothing. Let them take the taxes (I owe) but don’t take everything.

Don’t say that, the IRS will leave you with less than they’re willing to let you keep now.

T-mobile has trademarked magenta.

We’ll send you an email saying you get 10% off and free shipping, today only, only online. But, haha, the sites down. Thanks for being a loyal customer.

Assuming a pitch black night, do flowers have any color in the middle of the night? Is color an inherent part of them or is it imposed on them by the interaction of light and our eyes?

Don’t stay up too late pondering this.

to discover commodity traders have been driving the price of oil up lately.

Instead, traders who treat oil like any other commodity are widely thought to be driving prices upward, bolstered by a weak dollar and money flowing out of stock markets and other investment vehicles.

You too can play The Last Starfighter.

Hugo Chavez.

I never saw this coming.

The new steampunk laptop.

The History of LOLcats.

I admire the dedication, plus they also double as elf ears should you choose to renounce the Trek, so I can see why someone would do it.

Not that I would.

I see Amazon has changed their look. I hate it when they do that. Now I have to get used to looking in different places for stuff. And it’s yet another site that I have to make as an exception to my flashblock (greatest. addon. evar.).

Also, now they have (for an additional fee) the “read it online” option on some of their books. Tres chic.

Britian greets the a Saudi monarch with the Imperial March. You only have to watch the first 30 seconds. That is so awesome.