Monday, February 11, 2008

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Survival Blog

Be prepared.

Totten

Amusing Iraq video. Via Samizdata

Peanut

I spent some wonderful time with PJ yesterday and afterwards the creative muse struck him and he drew an exact likeness of me!!

It's very very cool, and he is two and one half!!!

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Gift in a Box?

I can't tell, but I think that is what everyone is excited about regarding this new hit song...(vid lyrics not safe for work...this one brought to our attention with a hat tip to Dan.)

Jawbone

I put this post up previously regarding frustration with the bluetooth device I have been trying to use in the car. I ordered a Jawbone today. I priced around and Apple carries them. So does Bestbuy and the Verizon kiosk in Circuit City.

Not surprisingly Verizon had the worst price and the most clueless employees. They were nice, but when informed that the item was priced a staggering 50 dollars more than anywhere else they asked me if I merited any discounts. "Does your employer get a discount through us? Is your account up for a new contract?"


Um...no...and no. It's rather startling to experience a business that asks if you will sign a contract for hundreds of dollars before they will consider competing in the marketplace at large. Sell your Verizon stock folks; I don't care what it's activity has been. Obviously if you are making a killing you need to decide when to jump but they are fat, ill, staggering and yards from the safety of the herd. They are perfect for revitalization (yeah, right) or demise.

"Well What's Wrong

With that? It could help!"

Before anyone has a chance to suggest the above let me remind them that any individual who has lethal aggression in mind can deface the stamp or carry away their brass. That is assuming (accenting the first syllable of course) they followed all of the procedures for procuring the device with the ensuing paper trail to begin with, no?

This is clearly understood by all, most of all those who created and support the legislation. Their point is that the eternal problem of human violence lies not in the decisions and the will of those who chose such actions, but in the inanimate tools available to the benighted society at large. Allowing the misguided and honest recourse to anything other than crying for help under threat only makes the picture uglier for such superior nanny elite.

Rock 'Em Sock 'Em

Remember this?

Rock'em Sock'em Robots

Now there is this:



via Gadgetmadness

A Joke Whose Punchline

hinges on the echoes of decorum and civility.

"What is it a man can do standing up, a woman sitting down, and a dog on three legs?"

Sadly many males are being castrated through conditioning while the U.N. does nothing.

Old People

Friday, February 8, 2008

Kelo

I cannot believe that the Kelo ruling has not yet yielded such incidents. In years past I suspect the outbreaks of retribution would have been numerous and immediate.

"Cookie" article via Drudge

Mr. Young

Seems to feel that a song can't change the world any longer.

via Drudge

Top Ten Books

of the year according to Time.

They now have 25 "Top Ten" lists.

Here is a page containing stills from LOTR. Move the mouse over them to compare DVD quality with HiDef.

Here are 10 unusual ways to utilize Google, the safe proxy function looks helpful.

Finally something important. Everyone thinks my cell phone chime sounds like a duck. Noooo...it sounds like endangered Piney Tree Frogs.

These, however, all look like a duck. Important work...I am relieved someone is on it.

All of the above are from HaHa.nu, always go to Haha, it's like Boingboing only safer for work.

"Public stupidity

is always disagreeable to witness. Public stupidity fired by misplaced self-righteousness and underwritten by obvious cowardice is a positively emetic combination."--Roger Kimbal's once again trenchant and wonderful words.

Napier's quote regarding sati is mentioned, which came up recently.

File under "the dhimmis deserve all that they are working towards."

via instapundit

Update: Jimmy links to more.

STS-122

The shuttle is up again...track it and the ISS here...watch here.