Very, very true. and hilarious.

It is true. We take for granted the miracles we get from technology, and complain when the miracles aren’t perfect. This comedian’s routine on the Conan O’Brien show is funny, mocking our ingratitude. I post it here because the rant is a cartoon version of a more serious argument that [...]

You have to watch the video, very good story.

FUCKS NEWS DOES IT AGAIN.

I love how many Latinos voted for Republicans in 2000 and 2004, and now they’re being used by them as the new scapegoat. Beware the illegal hispanics!!!!!!!!!!!! Booooooo!!!!!
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BTW - You see those “Viva Bush” bumper stickers all over Miami.

Well, that’s the first and last time I go to a concert at a stadium.
We were given free tickets from a friend who couldn’t make it, which is awesome.
We had nose-bleed seats, but it didn’t matter, EVERY SEAT sucked. The band looked tiny.
There were atleast 50,000 people there, waiting to hear Dedo dah dah..
But I [...]

Should have been clear & sunny.
All we got was a strange brown haze… for daze & daze…
LOOK

Parrot…
Too bad I’m working late tonight. We could have been rockin out.
Oh well.
Nomeansno

Lou Dobbs that is…
Some of the core issues he goes after have always caught my eye. Insecure Ports. Outsourcing of American Jobs. But he does tend to go after issues that everyone can agree is a problem, and not doing any finger pointing on issues that might upset the powers that be. At least, since [...]

Here’s a handy little Greasemonkey script that will convert US dollars into barrels of oil.
Now if they only had one that would convert the barrels of oil into dead Americans and Iraqis.
Let’s marvel at this while we plummet towards eco-disaster. SMILE.
link: Oil Standard, Greasemonkey conversion of US Dollars to Barrels of Oil

So, ABC news has a serious article about ‘possibly’ finding Noah’s ark. The only problem is, after you read the article, they haven’t actually, physically marched to the top of the mountain and there are no real plans to do so and no factual verification of anything. You might sometimes wonder how so many assholes [...]

Public Service Message of the day:
This blog post comments on a different tricks for dealing with old style spam. i.e. Telemarketers and Junk Mail. One trick he mentions I’ve already been doing for a while, sending back the empty pre-paid postage envelopes to the credit card companies. But he took it one step further, sending [...]

Tom Tomorrow:
Just to reiterate
The Bush Administration wants to hand over control of vital ports to a state-run company controlled by an oligarchy whose ruling family used to go on hunting trips with their Taliban buddies, apparently including Osama himself.
And if this doesn’t seem quite right to you, according to David Brooks you are a racist [...]

I almost forgot my favorite difference between Japan and the U.S., that I have my fingers crossed it doesn’t change: Bathrooms. You can find a clean bathroom anywhere you go in Tokyo(virtually). If it’s not a shiny clean public restroom then there are bathrooms in all the stores and restaurants that don’t require you to [...]

*I collect these frog toy motherfuckers like a madman over there!
Goodbye: ubiquitous, heated toilet seats, with their loving, automated bidet functions.
Hello: to all my fellow Americans who hate me and everybody else around them(well, can seem that way sometimes).
Goodbye: expressionless masses cramming into trains.
Hello: crazy people staring at me, people blabbering on their cells, [...]

As if we didn’t have enough, we are getting ready to make new nuclear bombs and warheads. . .
For the first time in more than 20 years, U.S. nuclear-weapons scientists are designing a new H-bomb, the first of probably several new nuclear explosives on the drawing boards.
If they succeed, in perhaps 20 or [...]

“My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can’t deal with the numbers,”
I wonder if they used Linux with a 64-bit processor they could probably handle the numbers. . . .
Only windows with 32-bit runs out of processing power….
Fact or Fiction?
Bill Gates and [...]

Maybe I never noticed this kind of spam before but it sure seems to me the newest trend is to send out fake returned mail. I suppose the objective is to get you to react and email the person or postmaster or domain and say they’ve got the wrong person? I never really had a [...]

So all those thousands of pictures you’ve been backing up to CD’s and DVD’s are going to degrade and be lost in under 5 years… says an IBM guy. I keep mine on an external hard disk so even if the things motor or bearings wear out I can get a data recovery as a [...]

From The Debora Solomon interview in NYTmagazine:
Since you’re said to be worth more than $20 billion, with major holdings in Four Seasons Hotels, Saks Fifth Avenue and Murdoch’s News Corporation, why not give an unrestricted gift instead of such a narrowly focused one?
Am I missing something? Why does FOX take money from Saudi “royalty”? Are [...]