Good riddance to that, and here's hoping that I don't have to say that a third time in a row. This is the point where I consider 2008 officially gone and buried - and good riddance to it. I finish years on January 7th instead of December 31st because that's my birthday and that gives me a little breathing room to consider things from. That's also ( Read more... )

This is what the debacle of the Bush junta's years in power have come to: we measure one disaster by another. From Bloomberg News' article:
Iraq's bonds are delivering the biggest returns in emerging markets as oil export revenue bolsters government finances and violence declines ( Read more... )

Senate Bill 1959 (text, analysis) is the reason why I need to be the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, the person whose job is is to slap Senators when they're fucking up.  My definition of "fucking up" is not quite the same as the official rules of the Senate, but I'm sure that they'd grow used to my regimen.

It is also a reason I may need to ( Read more... )

I have been taking pictures because they remind me of people.

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1. Peter Frampton: is not only still alive, he's still riding Frampton Comes Alive for a living. I would only want to see Frampton Comes Alive if it were performed by Zombie Frampton or the corpse of Peter Frampton.


2. Bloodrayne: Sir Ben Kingsley did it for the lulz. I approve.


3. The World: Hey, Krinn, you've forgotten that you work in IT! Have an ( Read more... )

What breaks the game?

There are certain things you can say in a conversation that bring matters to a dead halt, force a re-evaluation of everything that's already been said, and generally make people want to walk out on the discussion. It's easy to think of things that shake up discourse like that - but why them?

I said one of those things ( Read more... )

I'm a writer and a pedant, and it makes my gears sandy and shuddering when being one requires knocking the other for a loop.  I've been reading advice about writing, speaking, and communicating lately.  It helps to at least have passed guidelines on the subject through my head, even if my retention rate is bollocks.  One universal theme in the ( Read more... )

Right, I'm sick of this. I dig the postmodernism. To clarify - not wankers who think it's all pointless moral relativism and thus an excuse to be shiftless, but rather genuinely revolutionary thinkers like Marshall McLuhan. Under such wankers do I group people who basically attempt to con the art world. Not that the art world doesn't deserve it ( Read more... )

Fifteen years ago, when I was getting my first physical at the age of nine, the pediatrician told me that I had a very healthy diet. For some reason that's stuck with me as part of my self-image. As far as messages from MDs go, it's pretty good and certainly beats the time that the orthodontist threw in "... and while we're at it we can fix your ( Read more... )

One of the most-used bits of small business accounting software going is QuickBooks, with a market share in the mid-eighties.  It's pushing Microsoft numbers, in fact, and parent company Intuit's products have trounced Microsoft's attempts at competition several times: quite a feat, considering how dirty Redmond tends to play.  To be fair to them, ( Read more... )