Robster Craws!

Systems critical, cute core meltdown 5…4…3.
Cute overload
Pandafix

This story on NPR has me on a quest.
We have tongue twisters and word games to help us with our grammar and speech. Of course, this means other languages have their own unique mnemonic constructs.
Russian has “Shla Sasha po shosse i sosala sushku” which means “Sasha was walking down the highway sucking a donut”. It just helps you with your sounds and such. I’m in search of more from other languages. Here are some more.

I consider myself a very tech-savvy person, but I’m not really enthused about everything going “digital”.
For example, I just bought a hockey almanac. I’m sure hockeydb or wikipedia could provide all the information within, but you just can’t beat the cross-referencing you can do with physical media.
Want to know how many points your latest free-agent signing had in 2001 in the Swedish league?
Look it up in the player section.
The idea might sound trite, but I think a newspaper that was digital instead of printed on dead tree would be super. I know it’s been tried and they’re working on the bendable LCD technology now.
I would envision an RSS style newspaper, where you decide what news you give two craps about, and then only get that. This would solve two problems, staying current, and still being 3-d and physical.
I sound like Timothy Leary right now.

This is the best outcome I could have thought of for the prarie dog debacle. The two camps are/were “they’re hibernating” and “they’re dead”.
I’d rather have disturbed their sleep than left them for dead.
Nothing like an uplifting $holiday story.

This article on NPR’s website gives immunity a whole new meaning.
What’s the point of a free market if there is no liability? Yeah, the consumer votes with their wallet, but not if they’re dead. This really annoys me. You don’t have any rights or the ear of anyone in power unless your last name is Inc.

Check out this article on k5.
I’ll post my own nominees later.

I think that I, along with the rest of the world, am hooked on Sudoku.
It’s a numbers game that doesn’t require math to play.

We had a president, not a king.
The gist I get from this is “if you don’t give up your rights, you hate freedom.”
What a crock of shit.
I can’t believe 60 million people lap this up.
Why bother having the legislative and judicial branches of government?
How much longer until they declare martial law?
Right before the next “election”?
LINK.

I normally don’t watch television, but I caught The Colbert Report on Comedy Central tonight.
I dare say it’s funnier than the Daily Show.
LE GASP!

Is there anything better than homemade peanut butter cookies with the fork marks?

As cool as it is to bash google lately, I have my own gripe.
Not with them per se.
Here goes.
Who among us has not asked a question on the internet, and been told to “just f’ing google it”?
How long until there is no new information, because we assume it’s already been answered or researched?
Just one of my odd conspiracy theories.

There seems to be a practice, mostly by US entertainment companies, to block non-US IP addresses from accessing their websites.
Could someone please explain to me the rationale behind this?
The rest of the world eats up our entertainment like hotcakes.
Blocking them is just asinine.
It’s not quite as reprehensible as US companies helping China censor the internet from their own people.

I’m pretty sure that Diary of a Madman is the best literary depiction of schizophrenia ever.

Roses are reddish,
violets are bluish,
if it weren’t for the pope,
we’d all be Jewish.

So my iPod battery has been flaky lately. What, you ask, did I do to solve this issue?
Sue?
No effing way.
I went to iPodjuice.com and got a new one.
$34 later my new bigger beefier battery is charging.
The included full colour instructions are a snap, the hardest part is reconnecting the hard drive.
I’ll report my findings on battery life when it is fully charged.

Papers please.

If you disagree with the administration, you will be smeared.
Even if you were tortured, a la John McCain.
Lost three limbs in war, a la Max Cleland.
Or if you were a Marine and think this war is stupid, a la John Murtha.
It seems to be that the only veterans that matter are the frothing rabid warmongers.
Why should torture be a question?
Not only does it go against everything we believe in, we’re using the exact same defence that the Vietnamese used.
That we were pirates conducting an illegal war, so they could treat us however they felt.
Our national hubris is getting out of control
Kyoto, Geneva Conventions, UN Convention Against Torture.
What’s next? Gravity?

Isn’t it pretty?
That’s a Newton’s Cradle, by the way.