Falling asleep thinking about social security, plastic instrument compatibility charts, near death situations, mouth to mouth resuscitation, pension plans, health care, super hero noir, where all the dead spiders on my cat's head came from, librarians, new wireless networking specifications, fuel economy, and German board games.
Not quite what you'd call falling asleep well.
-- Post From My iPod
7.30.2009
Spinning head action.
7.23.2009
7.21.2009
On moon hoax discussions
On reflexion, it's really not worth it to try to convince some people we really landed on the moon. For example, if they vilify weathermen for not being 100% right all the time for their specific neighborhood. Or if they believe doctors have no idea what they're doing and could do a better job themselves.
If your worldview is based on that mentality and distrust of experts or people that 'know things' then there's nothing that could possibly make you look at the evidence and decide that experts could possibly manage to get men on the moon.
Sometimes I really hate the people in my office.
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7.20.2009
Thumbs and such
Who has two thumbs and is getting jazzed about Gencon?
This guy! (my thumbs are pointing at me, FYI)
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7.12.2009
Multiscreen reader
I desperately need reader software that will show web pages and PDFs flowing across multiple monitors. When I get to the bottom of one column, I look to the next screen to continue. Does this exist?
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Project Natal
As a gamers that may pick up Project Natal for his xbox at some point, what guarantee do I have that the cats that harass me while playing already won't be picked up by the scanner and horribly ruin ganeplay?
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7.08.2009
Josh Hartnett
Josh Hartnett, who knew I would only respect you after 30 Days of Night?
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On growing old.
I hope that I grow to be horrendously old and have a ton of kids because I'm going to be the craziest old man and I'm going to need a lot of people to terrorize.
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The wisdom of movies: 30 Days Of Night
The wisdom found in 30 Days Of Night is that in rock, paper, scissors vampire wins.
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7.07.2009
News?
Turned on the tv when I got into work and was shocked, SHOCKED, that MSNBC was talking about some bullshit with Obama in Russia, working on foreign relations issues.
Thank god there's Fox news. I flip over and they have Geraldo on doing a rundown of doctors who might have been prescribing Michael Jackson painkillers. To add to that they had two inlays on the screen showing the staples center and, I think, the place the funeral was being held. Now THAT is hard hitting coverage of news that affects me.
Seriously, this needs to end tut suite.
Oh, now Leann Rimes is on speaking out for psoriasis awareness. Nothing like tv making me feel like I'm visiting from another planet and don't understand the alien ways of the natives.
It really is left to the Internet to tell me how Mousavi feels about important things. What do the head clerics in Theran think about the death of Michael Jackson?
Written at 7:45
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Breaking clout story!
In other news, apparently a second(!) clout story is brewing in our education system. Early reports indicate that a significant number of applicants are being admitted to schools ahead of more qualified students. This is an even more pervasive and shadowy issue than the current big story of political clout getting substandard students in.
These other clout beneficiaries are being admitted solely on their ability at sports! What sort of madness are we dealing with when your ability at an extracurricular activity gets you into advanced educational intlstitutions ahead of more academically qualified individuals?
Unless this is actually adressed as an issue, I refuse to give a shit about the Sun Times headlining this damn clout admissions story every other day. Talk about blown out of proportion and misprioritized.
Written at 8:05
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7.06.2009
No rhyme or reason.
I wonder if my office building is pulling some kind of scam where they just use free samples of toilet paper from suppliers. For he last few months it's been such a random swing in quality of the paper. Sometimes it's quilted double ply, sometimes it's low grade single ply. Once in a while it's even both kinds on the rolls. It ruins the concentration I can achieve in my little fortress of solitude. Sadly we are in the days of full on single ply again.
I'll soldier on as I can, but genius just can't work under these conditions.
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7.05.2009
Simon rendezvous!
Sunday on WGN they have this hyperactive French guy doing a call in show. There is just something great about his heavily accented rants that I would recommend to all. Can be streamed on wgnradio.com.
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Libaries
Dem libaries are purty neat. They's like a Netflix fer books but free.
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4th of July weekend.
Too Much Light this weekend. Maybe I'm just getting older or something, but the actors just seem so young. All the touching personal plays seem scarce and the humor is much more juvenile and non-literary. It was still fun but lacks the magic of the original founders.
Did the fireworks on the 3rd at Monroe harbor. It was nice but happened way earlier than anybody expected. Had a great walk down the middle of Lake Shore Drive. Too bad I didn't have a proper camera for pictures off the bridge.
Stopped at a bar instead of fighting for a train home. Tried a Black Tire. It's like a black and tan but with Guinness and Fat Tire. It was good, but didn't bring much more to the table than regular Guinness.
Looks like I'll need more toilet paper soon...
Technology marches on
Great. Now I can post from the crapper. What an enlightened age. No more 140 character limits for me! I can just blather on and on. Possibly realtime bowel movement commentaries.
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