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Next trick:  try recording the name “Hastur“ then play it in an endless loop until something happens. (Hat tip to xkcd, which I’d not checked out in awhile.  It’s still…well…xkcd.)

I’m mostly avoiding politics because it keeps enraging me.  But this statement seems a pretty good summary: A Democrat is someone who insists we subsidize education to increase it and subsidize poverty to decrease it. Of course, ”Democrat” is waaaaay too limited.  The Republican establishment espouses the … Continue reading →

Today is this day.  Use the knowledge well.

I got this Roku on Friday.  It is the $100 wedding ring which marries my Amazon Prime account with my 65″ T.V.  (I’m now watching Lost.)  So…any recommendations on combining exercise with watching T.V.?   What’s best, or anyway the least boring? Since giving up on women … Continue reading →

There’s nothing quite like wearing your religion on your sleeve, is there?  Ahhh, the sweetness of “green” sanctimony. Now, back to playing Sherlock with more difficult mysteries:

You guys have heard about new basketball sensation Jeremy Lin?  Chinese enthnicity, Harvard education, genuine statistical outlier.  Everybody’s trying waaaay too hard to come up with puns—“Lincredible”, “Linsanity”, etc.  So it was inevitable that someone would try “chink in the armor”.  … Continue reading →

In the analog days, Cracked magazine never quite had the cachet of Mad.  (“Cachet” perhaps not being the appropriate word.)   But Cracked online is one of the funniest sites on the InterWeb.  It is also surprisingly informative and inexplicably accessible through my employer’s firewall (ie., beware of … Continue reading →

Working this weekend, for a fellow tech whose wife just had serious surgery.  It’s pretty slow here right now.  Unfortunately I still can’t do much blogging, because, well…what is there to say?  The U.S. government is enslaving each of us another $4,500 this year, chaining us … Continue reading →

This essay, combined with the previous post, provides a Master’s Degree in Debating.    Seriously.  Grasp the concept firmly enough and you can even master debate yourself.  (If your mind isn’t in the gutter.) In the earlier post I claimed that debate … Continue reading →