It used to be sooooo cool…

I hear that Canada had its “Canada Day” holiday yesterday.

I think its cute that they have their own little holidays and think they have a “real country” up there.

Go Canada Go!

$25 to see the Michael Jackson memorial service?.

Totally worth it if the proceeds go toward making the Giant MJ desert-roaming robot. It would (of course) shoot lasers!

Genius! Well played Microsoft!

Take a bad “OS” and pound it into the “market” using strong “marketing” tactics… Then release a “new” replacement for the tired old “OS” that is so repugnant that even the most trusting fans of the company are clamoring for the previous “OS” to continue to be supported.

People start waxing nostalgic over how “stable”, “friendly”, “compatible” and how overall wonderful your POS “OS” product was and how they will do just about anything to get it back…

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!11!one!!!eleventy!!

“BSOD” is a well known term for a reason!

Windows sucks, always has… always will…

(there … I said it!)

Serioulsly.

I’m taking the day off and heading North:

This is why I’m proposing that June 30, 2009 be declared the first annual “Kick A Canadian In the Nuts Day”.

Anyone but William Shatner… nobody messes with “Teh Shat”…

Teh Shat vs. Conan, the backstage experience:

Turns out I am a dirty dirty traitor, at least according to Paul Krugman.

Man, when Gaia finds out about this, I’m in BIG TROUBLE.

How could I think that Global Warminging isn’t a threat to all humankind and not caused directly by my own actions????

Seriously, how can I be against a bill that nobody in Congress could possibly have read before the vote, that would at best reduce global temps nine hundredths of one degree Fahrenheit, or two years of avoided warming at the cost of about $1,100 per household?

Seriously, what am I thinking?

So… bring on the miniscule decline in global temps, the massive tax and the intimate control of the energy sector by the Gov’ment. Its all good…

Right?

Update: It seems Prof. Krugman might want to have a word or two with The Aussies as they are committing crimes against the planet as I type… His schedule will be busy with the Aussie Senate, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Czech Republic, France and New Zealand. Not to mention the 700 scientists who disagree with the UN.

I hope his inquisitor’s robes and hangman’s gear is in order, he going to put a strain on that equipment…

Still not done with MJ…

And of course, the classic:

Michael Jackson dies at age 50.

Supreme talent, supreme weirdness

Teh Thriller

UPDATE: The Abe Vigoda status page is down… hope its just a internets thingie and Abe is still exchanging O2 for CO2….

UPDATE II: Abe Vigoda status page is back up and I am happy to report that as of Friday June 26 2009 7:06:55 AM PT, Abe is still alive…

UPDATE III: Watching teh Thriller video again I realized that there is a Public Service Announcement in there… Zombies are usually depicted as stiff and slow moving, but when you add a funky back-beat they get very speedy and flexible almost right away. The important part is that they also form up into a pyramid shape and will follow the moves of the “tip of the pyramid” when the funky beat is applied. This is potentially a good life-saving tactic for when the zombie apocalypse finally comes. Practice your moves now! While you can…

When at a loss for something meaningful to say, my rule is always to post something about MONKEYS!

A warning to Ace of Spades, it seems that its illegal in China to kill hobos.

OR maybe its just illegal to make soup from their heads… not sure but best to be safe…

As of Tuesday June 23 2009 5:58:27 PM PT Abe Vigoda is ALIVE, which is better than Ed McMahon, who died today at age 86.

Ed’s finest work is below the fold
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Teh Shat. That’s all that needs to be said.

I haven’t done too much net surfing with my Mac since it was resurrected. So, I find that I have some free time (I will have a lot more soon) and I start looking about my “normal” sites and notice its FREALIN SLOW. I don’t mean kinda sorta slow on some sites, I mean 5 minutes to finish loading the Google front page slow.

Thinking it might be a problem with Camino (Firefox w/ Mac UI), I fire up Safari. No joy.

It was painful, but I stuck it out long enough to find a number of references to DNS entries 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2

No freakin way… OK its worth a try… HOLY CARP! it works!

I don’t know why, but adding these 2 IP addresses to the DNS list made my Mac a very happy surfer again. Weird.

Jim Treacher JokeTweets:

I make mean jokes about Michelle Obama, but at least I don’t say you shouldn’t object because I confused her with somebody else. Say, Worf.

[Rim Shot]

Yes, its mean…. but such is comedy.

A visitor from Turkey arrived via a Google search for “Sloth Porn”.

I usually agree with Bill Whittle of PJTV, but I found myself nodding in agreement and moved to action like never before while watching his latest “Afterburner” segment.

The argument against socialized medicine has many, many points and the “loss of personal freedom” angle is one of the many winning arguments. It wins because it goes directly to core American values, you know … stuff like “Freedom”, “Independence” and “Rugged Individualism”. The stuff that we are losing at a pace that I never thought possible.

Long time readers know that I have been against socialized medicine for a long time (far longer than I have been blogging). I think the speech Bill gave in his segment is one of the best of all times. Turns out there is a really good reason this specific Afterburner resonated with me. (Spoiler after the jump)
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I’ve been watching RayWilliamJohnson’s Equals 3 for a while now. Hes funny, but … well… not “easy on the eyes”, maybe if I were gay, but dammit I’m not. NTTAWWT

Anyway…

Imagine my surprise when a new episode comes out and there is a hot redhead hosting…

Ummm.. boy howdy the show is SO much better now… Sorry Ray, MeekaKitty is hawt and well… your not… Sorry

OK you freaking stupid bastards… who the heck thought to stock teh Doan’s Pills on the BOTTOM SHELF?

Sadists!

I hope you got your entertainment…

Scum

According to some nutjob, the TRILLION dollar deficit is all Bush’s fault, well most of it anyway. There is even a nifty graphic!

Nifty graphics from the New York Times never lie!

I now believe that everything bad in the world is Bush’s fault and Obama is responsible only for the jobs “created or saved”… or something.

Wait… no… I don’t believe that at all!

Fun with numbers!

Even if you grant the premise of this graphic, which is ludicrous, it still is damming to President Obama.

President Obama has been in “charge” for 5.8% of the time depicted, yet is “responsible” for 16% of the deficit.

Now, adjust the numbers for just a little fairness and give President Obama half of the categories of “The current recession”, “Bailout”, and “Continuing programs” and that number rises to 51%.

Even with skewed and dishonest numbers, President Obama managed to expand the deficit more then President Bush in 1/16th of the time in office.

That’s impressive!!1!!1!eleventy

Then there is Prof. Reynolds’ favorite chart…

As we already established… Fancy graphics don’t lie.

Does this mean that the crazy level of spending under President Bush was all fine and dandy and only the incomprehensible spending under President Obama is the root of all evil? … No, of course not. I have never approved of the level of spending of the Bush Administration.

If I have to make the choice between a $400 Billion deficit and a TRILLION dollar deficit, I choose Bush’s policies.