On Tuesday I voted. I did not for, I voted against. I voted against an existential threat. I was not, am not, happy with what that required. I fear I gave a vote to someone who will turn out to be another LBJ (that is NOT a compliment). Unfortunately the alternative was far worse. Did I mention existential threat? Yes, really. No, not overstating ( Read more... )

We (jmaynard and I) got started fairly early. We managed to be on the road around 7:30 AM and reached Mount Vernon, IL a little after 6 PM. It was less than 12 hours on the road, but still a long day. I suspect neither of use stayed properly hydrated, though I think I did manage to drink a bit more water than on the Penguicon trip. I still drank two ( Read more... )

In the late twentieth century, a new corporate philosophy to all but blow the shareholders had ravaged newspapers and TV stations, bleeding off staffing, experience and standards until what was left of the profession was a karaoke rendition of itself. The Old Guard of journalism came to the rescue by increasing the number of awards and self- ( Read more... )

Occassionally people mix up "its" and "it's" and that's a bit of an irritation. I don't like it, but I know I screw up the same way from time to time, and if it's (it is - Got it right that time, yay!) just a one-off flub it doesn't bug me too much. It's like a typo. Everyone makes an occasional error, it's (Right again, yay!) the repeating ( Read more... )

I had hoped to have RCFM photos ready before making a post about it, but that hasn't worked out so I'm writing about RCFM now before I forget.

( RCFM: Thursday & Friday )

If I had the option of using a decent browser at work, it would be a non-issue. But I'm stuck with the wretched thing that is IE, due to an IE-specific proxy. Since I must use IE, I at least plug a few of the holes in it. One such hole is "ActiveX" which I keep firmly disabled.

Most of the time this is not a problem. But some pages do have ( Read more... )

I know melissasutton has been almost always been busy and has a lot on her mind of late, so maybe she missed or forgot about this and this.

I will not be listing any so-called "guilty pleasures" here, nor will I be inflicting a viral quiz or list thing on anyone. If anyone desires to do post a such a list, they have no need to wait for me to add them to a ( Read more... )

I thought malterre knew me better than this. Or then maybe she does and is wondering how I'll respond. Well, this is how:

List 3 things that bug you - things that others may find trivial.

1. Viral quizzes.

FULL STOP

While it is not my birthday, nor the anniversary thereof, there have been a couple folks at work yesterday and today that did have their 40th. They both wound up with black balloons and that sort of thing to indicate aging and such. It seems to be a tradition, but really, it's not so much a tradition as merely a rut. It's a default bit that isn ( Read more... )

Stop trying to out-stupid the Democrats. You are, unfortunately, succeeding and succeeding so very well that Ted Kennedy is now in the unusual position of actually making sense when he says that you are wrong and explains why. Now cut that out!