So I got a letter from CyberCoders, which as far as I know is not associated with the FSB, asking if I'd be interested in an Office Manager job, and the funny thing to me was that the recruiter's family name was Frayer. In Russian thieves' slang, frayer is the collective name for non-thieves, "suckers", or marks. Well, I thought it was funny ( Read more... )

( An old joke about Jewish guys and camels )

So I slept in when I should have gotten up at 0300 to do Live at Five, which meant the garbage didn't go out either. One more thing to take care of Sunday night. Had coffee, knocked out an In The Mailbox post, and went up to Chantilly for chikuns*; after that, headed in on 66 to the VA, making use of the Google Maps navigator. This works well ( Read more... )

Laying the smackdown on some lazy chump at the Grauniad.

In semi-related news, since I picked up $10 Amazon credit from doing surveys, I think I'm going to get David Drake's newest RCN novel, The Sea Without a Shore
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"Unemployed? Don't worry..."

(h/t Jim Geraghty's newsletter)

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Sinfest reads from the book of love.
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Apparently not.

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Although this post by Richard MacEnroe at Three Beers Later sums up the way I've come to feel about Irish history, along with P.J. O'Rourke's quip that God gave peat to the Irish because nobody else in the world got drunk enough to try and burn dirt ( Read more... )

Naomi Klein can't tell the difference between unconstitutional government action and entirely legal action by a corporation. What a complete retard. And she presumes to lecture conservatives on...well, pretty much anything?

(Via Computerworld, an excellent article about how the Egyptian protesters are managing to find ways around the government ( Read more... )