Most of the 'Mac Vs. PC' ads drive me up the wall... Mac Cultists bug me like any fanatic does and these ads make it all worse by conflating the hardware 'PC' with the software 'Windows'... Fact is, Windows is a buggy piece of crap and always has been. There have been a few versions that did not suck as much as the others (XPsp2 ran comparatively ( Read more... )

Yes, yes they are ( Read more... )

I adore the rain, the way it smells, the chaos in the rhythms that go in a moment from whisper to roar. I need to move someplace that gets more of it than LA... and I know, I say this all the time.

Now, on to the rant.

Propaganda Is Evil
Yep, yep it as. Propaganda is a subversion of the very principal that a democracy must stand on: That the ( Read more... )

Ahh, the slick electric bass of Bootsy Collins... I seem to be listening to this sort of mutant Jazz more and more often ( Read more... )

I’ve had an interesting set of talks recently, and I thought I’d digest them and share. Firstly, and old friend of mine and I spent some time doing a post-mortem on our shattered hopes. We decided that the key element is that people are still acting like a bunch of frightened children. Something in them wants a Father figure... an infallible ( Read more... )

He envies our freedom, aparently. He wants to stomp it out, replace it with mindless uniformity. This would all be SO much easier if He just said so... you know, thunder, lighting, a flash of terror and the words OBAY OR PERISH flashed across the skies in Chinese (by sheer numeration, His favorite people... look how free /they/ are.) Well, if Joe's ( Read more... )

Wrote the line that is at the core of this particular rant... (the one stewing in my brain for the last week or so finally resurfaced.) In particular, it is this: "A foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds." A simple statement, really, and one that, perhaps, one has to understand intuitively before you can even think about what it ( Read more... )

This has a lot of references... tie it if you will into religion, death-rock, or Brittish slapstick comedies ( Read more... )

This is sparked by deromilly‘s journal, so you’ll need to go read there...
Actually, your (and my) experience lines up with a large amount of research. Apparently while money doesn’t buy happiness, poverty does put the breaks on it ( Read more... )

Mad Mad House... I think they finally found a ‘reality’ TV game that I enjoy... it’s really fun watching mundanes freak out around people that, well, are no stranger than some friends I’ve had. Especially Don... It’s hard to fully take ‘Don the Vampire’ too seriously, and he does take such pleasure in it all ( Read more... )