Not So Fast

When Rwanda is sending troops to help you, things aren’t going well.

Why does China hate us? Is it our oil?

via Instapundit

You’re right there at the bank, you’ve got the money, might as well take a chance.

via Fark

Trading DVDs is an interesting idea. You try it first though. Let me know how it goes.

Reading a 600 page book online? Blech.

The TV Dinner inventor died too. Who knows how many people those things have killed though.

Scotty can’t beam him up anymore.

UPDATE: Drawing politics into EVERYthing.

If there’s one thing Bush is, it’s shrewd.

Tomorrow I start my half-marathon training. Ask me how it’s going in a week or so, okay? That’s when I’ll start thinking that it was the dumbest idea evar. Thanks.

Oh, all right. I’ll start tonight.

Spud Trooper.

If you want to get started blogging, here is a bunch of good information convienently located for your convienence.

Personally, I used Blogger for about two days. Hated it. I’ve been using MT for 2 years now, but I really like Word Press, which I just installed a week or so ago, here, and am going to switch this one over as soon as I get unlazy enough to do it.

Of course, nothing I do is mission critical so I can mess around with it for as long as necessary to get the hang of what I’m doing. And I do enjoy the challenge, once I get started.

In thousands of years, someone can read this and wonder what on the earth we’re talking about.

It’s just his opinion.

Vacation Bible School in the morning all this week. So, posting will continue this afternoon.

If I can wrangle some pics I’ll post them. Cause nothing is cuter than pictures of vast herds of 5 and 6 year olds.

A Lego Turing Machine.

Luckily, apathy keeps me from having to make too many hard choices.

UN wants to take over the internet again. Let’s see: Syria, China, Ghanna. Yep, that’s who I want in control of it. Couldn’t they get North Korea?

All the latest commentary.

Huffington Post headline: ““I Heard That Too”… The ‘Architect’ Confirms Plame’s Identity To Bob Novak…” Weak sauce, guys. It’s obviously not a confirmation and the “Architect”, while a nice nod to Rove’s freaking supergeniusness, is still a theory.

Mike McCurry says it’s no big deal.

Wonkette vs. Hugh Hewitt on MSNBC.

The Story of Netscape.

I’m so glad somebody studied this. I may have pointed this out previously.

So much for the oppressed masses rising up against us theory.

A torrent client for your pocketPC.

Different views from different angles.

I don’t know which is funnier: Mrs. Hinn-do, or Pete dancing.

I’m going to have to give it some thought.

All I’m lacking is skill and initiative. I gotta start with the Adsense.

via Conservative Grapevine

Illegals get help from the stinking federal government to buy a house. In America.

Okay, so you don’t want to round them up and deport them; couldn’t you just turn a blind eye or help them gain citizenship instead of actively helping them flaunt the law?

Alton Brown has a question for Tom Cruise.

This has cause much hilarity around the office today.

via Evangelical Outpost

Diabolically clever. Here’s the key point that has always made me wonder about the Rove haters

– Karl Rove who is not a candidate and who has no actual authority or responsibility.

And since he’s generally acknowledged by both sides to be so clever, I doubt he’d do something illegal he could get caught at….in…some preposition.

via Instapundit

How the Huffington Post deals with terrorist attacks.

CBS has entered the 21st century.

National League. That DH rule is lame and therefore the American League is unworthy of my support.

Ouch.

The BBC edited out the early “terrorist” labels in their stories. Wouldn’t want to make any emotional judgments on people that go around purposely blowing up civilians. That would just be wrong.

via Inoperable Terran

On the numbers game in blogging. Oddly enough, I’m not in the top 100 on Technorati. Yes! I’m #8752 on TTLB. A slithering reptile. That’s like halfway up the scale. Yeah!

If I ever meet a comment spammer I’m going to wring their scrawny little neck.

So funny. I’d go see it again if I had another free ticket. The mix in the theatre was approximately 50/50 kids which meant endless, “what does that say, Mommy?” questions. But that was probably for the best when the HELP sign collapsed. I didn’t hear any answers to that one. Oddly enough, the adults laughed way more than the kids.

Everyone loves the penguins, who certainly had their moments, but personally I prefered the monkeys. Best line of the film: “I hear Tom Wolfe is speaking at the Lincoln Center…..Of course we’re going to go fling poo at him”. Could just be that I find poo jokes the height of comedy though. Cedric the Lemur with the dancing, way to get down with your bad self. In conclusion: Not necessarily a must-see-in-the-theatre kind of movie, but I will no doubt buy the DVD when it comes out.

If it’s so tough, how come a reporter can do it?

He is funny.

Read the directions.

When it just isn’t working, sometimes those directions have amazing insights. Like, the USB must be plugged in to power the device.

UPDATE: More helpful advice.

Quotes on the London bombing here.

I need my headphones to match my endtable.

My consciousness is raised. After all, I’m awake aren’t I? That ought to help the revolution tremendously.

Make sure to read Joe’s comment.

Early roundup of the London bombing blogging.

Lileks fisks a scene from Reptilicus.

Like I hate Real Player, there’s a Real Alternative.

With all the obesity you’d think a little meth would be welcome in America.

Mostly, I don’t want my fingernails pulled out when someone wants my information and I don’t want to give it to them.

The weirdos that are blogging. Well, I guess you would if you looked around enough, but that’s beside the point right now.

The frighteningly named Yak Shaving Razor is up.

Sunshine is back in style again. Just in time too, I got a awesome farmer tan yesterday.

NY Times on newspapers attempts to blog or engage bloggers. Spokesman gets a mention but not a link. Eh well.

And speaking of the NY Times, sixth place.

We’re taking the war to them instead of waiting for them to come to us.

UPDATE: Well, not everyone is happy about it.

National Review has their summer reading lists out, so naturally I have to let you know what I want to read this summer. In no particular order:

1. Cryptonomicon. by Neal Stephenson. The Diamond Age : Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, which I recently finished, was fantastic.

2. On the Good Life by Cicero. Trying to fill in the gaps in my education.

3. A History of Christianity by Paul Johnson. I really liked his A History of the American People.

4. Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind. Stupid book three ends right as the war is revving up. Must find out how it ends.

5. In the Ocean of the Night by Gregory Benford. Hopefully this will be good. I’ve been looking for a good science fiction series.

6. Something on Baroque Art.

I’m sure there will be others, but that’s all I got so far.

Red state, blue state.

Remind me again why we care what Mexico puts on its stamps?

People I don’t know nominating other people I don’t know for the Supreme Court.

Music from clouds and other deep analog vs. digital music thoughts.

That’s a big fish.

“Is it being done to somehow force public broadcasting into some kind of retreat?” asked Ms. Rehm, who has been host of “The Diane Rehm Show,” a news and interview program, on public radio for 25 years. “Is it done to frighten people to somehow alert them to the fact that they are being watched?”

So, it comes as a surprise to you that people are listening to your program and possibly paying attention?

Well, they all are, but it’s worse with the glowing red eyes.

A horchata cupcake. That is genius.

John Hawkins interviews Mark Steyn.

I hate burning CDs.

Great morning, thanks for asking. How’s yours?

UPDATE: 9:56 and still burning. Oh yeah!

FURTHER UPDATE: 10:31. Done at last, done at last, thank God Almighty I’m done at last. Till next week.

Old Faithful is there for you.

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And idiots are entitled to representation in Congress too.

But, the government should have been cracking down hard on passport fraud about, oh, 4 years ago.

On the other hand:

Mr. Johnson, who was the special agent in charge of the Miami field office of the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security from 2002 to 2004, said the department placed too much emphasis on rapidly processing passport applications.

I appreciate the speed with which they deal with applications. Why can’t they be fast and careful? I know, I know, that would cost money.

Kyoto ended up costing New Zealand big bucks, and it seems New Zealand isn’t alone. Since yesterday’s high was 61 degrees here at the end of June, I have to admit global warming seems to be on the wane. Thanks guys.

I AM SOMEBODY!

I’m pretty sure I should be insulted by the article, but it’s sorta unclear on whether I am “in with the mediocre” or “a handful of well-written and entertaining”, and I think they missed the point of Spokesman’s linkage to the local blogs. I could be wrong though, I’m not in on Spokesman’s master plan. But I personally could never replace a columnist. I’ve pretty much reached my word limit here.

So, to sum up, w00t, linkage; not a columnist.

How about a “The Government took my land for private developers and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” t-shirt. Please take the idea and run.

Why doesn’t Pakistan have overland internets? I bet India would share if they would promise to stop bombing them.

I usually have 10 or so tabs open in Firefox at any given time. So I click on something and go read something else while it loads. Then I get distracted by what’s on that page, rinse, repeat, and that leads me to wonder why on earth I have this page open.

Here’s one way to get a girlfriend. Points for straightforwardness and ingenuity. I can’t wait to see the copycats.

Jonah makes fun of that Al-Gore-saved-my-faith-in-America-because-he-picked-up-my-keys story. There is possibly a larger point to the article also.

Why is this an issue? Find something better to do with your time in Congress.

There’s always more nifty stuff to get. It’s not that I devote a lot of time to dealing with my Roomba, but to have it fully automated, that would be even better.

The old pandemic could kill lots of people and we aren’t prepared thing is back.

See also: last month.

Rats cut New Zealand off from civilization.

Ah, eminent domain

Looks like the Supreme Court has ticked everyone off.

A list of what conservatives don’t believe, despite what you may have read.

Call center worker caught selling thousands of customer personal details.

When you’re in the dark and you want to see,
You need uh… Electricity, Electricity
Flip that switch and what do you get?
You get uh… Electricity, Electricity
Every room can now be lit
With just uh… Electricity, Electricity

Thanks for turning it back on Avista.

Since none of you slackers mentioned it, I am forced to bring it up myself. Two whole years already, which is like one year and 11 months more than I expected. Now as we go boldly into year three I foresee more lame links and bad pop culture allusions in every post.

“In-Souls”.

Who would want soap made from a prime minister’s liposuctioned fat? Not the kitty cats.

via Inoperable Terran

The top 100 movie quotes of all time.

My favorite: “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here” (Casablanca, 1942).
The one I use the most: “It wasn’t me!” (Rocketman, 1997).

Jon Stewart.

The aftermath: My electricty is still out. Good thing the sun comes up at 4:00am and doesn’t go down until after 9:00pm. All those hurricane lamps I have finally came in handy. My driveway has pine branches all over it, which will, in a couple days, annoy my neighbors, and one of my pear trees is no longer perpendicular. I thought for sure one of those last big gusts would take the tree, the arbor, and the other tree out, but they stood firm. And by firm I mean leaned over 45 degrees, but didn’t fall. Phew.

You can adopt a blog.

Mark Steyn

The world divides into those who feel the atrocities at Gitmo “must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others” (in the widely quoted words of Senator Dick Durbin), and the rest of us, for whom the more we hear the specifics of the “atrocities” the funnier they are. They bear the same relation to the gulags (15-30 million dead), the Nazi camps (nine million dead) and the killing fields of Cambodia (two million dead) as Mel Brooks‚ “Springtime For Hitler” does to the original.

With sharks! I like how the credits are as long as the preview.

via Evangelical Outpost

The new growth market.

I have long known about Total Commander and heard how it’s the greatest thing EVAR. I didn’t understand the hype until just now when I needed to rename 90 files and it took about 10 seconds. That’s just fantastic.

House of Representatives votes to halve UN dues. Now if they would just cut the other half.

Find out what it means to Kim Jong Il.

Lady managed to burn her house down twice in three days. Or maybe that’s gifted.

I like Jon Stewart, but his Michael Jackson thing was great.

via Huffington Post

They crack me up.

DDR in the classroom to combat obesity? Make them take a lap.

Release Gitmo prisoners recaptured or killed in Iraq.

Seriously. All I got was a lousy $15 internal card.

About freaking time.

This is what makes the internet great. A page devoted to nothing but rice pudding recipes. Before the internet how could I have possibly found such a thing, I ask you.

Old keeps getting older.

According to these guys I’m going to live to be 92. Sounds like 30 years of retirement for me. All you kids better get to work paying taxes, I’m going to be needing some social services.

The Metropolitian Museum of Art website. Cool timelines and pictures and stuff.

I’m sure the granola zombies won’t touch this stuff and demand wholesome organic brains.

Those wacky Canadians think Bush and bin Laden are almost equally dangerous. Of course, they also believe that putting gravy and cheese on french fries is a good idea.

Colorado vs. Minnesota.

Can China survive communist?

Is China freer today because of the growth of their economy? Will this put Microsoft in a position later to demand a crackdown on piracy? I’m inclined to think so.

First off, whose idea was this survey?

And you are?

VDH

Or ask me. They’re making it up too.

I just don’t find this all that encouraging:

Segue to Laura Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner: “I was the librarian who spent 12 hours a day in the library and yet somehow I met George.”