OK, I don't really understand jerky, and I never understood vegans, but vegan jerky is just a ridiculous contradiction.

But I just picked up some Tasty Eats Teriyaki Soy Jerky and it's pretty damn good. Who knew?

One of the downsides of doing enterprise software is that you never actually finish anything. Shipping 2.3.7 just means that you're doing maintenance and support for 2.3.5, 2.3.6 and 2.3.7 while QAing 2.3.8, coding 2.4.0 and doing the architecture for 3.0.

So last week, during the tedious sessions of the otherwise quite good conference (the fewer ( Read more... )

Democrats fail to find a message

Hello Kitty Airline. Be warned, an excess of cuteness awaits behind the link.

Boggle

"President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq …" And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, "Go get the Palestinians their state and get the ( Read more... )

When discussing the security around the vote for a new Pope the first thing that came into my mind and out of my mouth was The first rule of Pope Club is - you do not talk about Pope Club...

(Seventh rule, votes will go on as long as they have too...)

Vaguely interesting - except that I have a lot of time for Hinduism as the organized religions go, probably more than any of the other religions (buddhisma isn't a religion, nor are agnosticism or atheism outside of the occasional extremist). And Satanism is a minor sect of Christianity, and completely unrelated to the various "pagan" sects, ( Read more... )

Another meme going around, but this one amused me....

1. Go To Mapquest.com, Mapblast.com or a similar site.
2. Click on Directions
3. Enter your birthplace and childhood home
4. Enter your Current Address and the Address of your Childhood Home (or at least the town if you don't remember the exact address).
5. Put the time and distance in a post like this.
6. Don't ( Read more... )

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Dumb Politics Test

Not a great test. Needed a "I don't give a crap" option.

Apparently I am a Social Liberal (73% permissive) and an Economic Conservative (61% permissive), which seems reasonable.

But I am best described as a: Libertarian to which I can only say... WTF?

I exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in ( Read more... )