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Teh Shat…

When I get there, We’ll have lunch again, just like old times.

Man, this was so much fun!

But I don’t remember doing the redneck accent thing they got going in the video. Must have missed out on that…

Some fun from Slashdot:

I get the impression that the Windows 7 launch is a lot like seeing an old girlfriend suddenly show up on your doorstep wanting to get back together. She’s had some work done, apparently: stomach stapling to take off some of the weight, breast augmentation, and a radical nosejob to make her look as much like your current girlfriend as medical science will allow.

I’m not going to Windows 7. I’m down to 1 Windows system, the Vista system that is used exclusively for Lineage II. It doesn’t so much run Vista, but Lineage II as the OS and it runs well enough that I don’t feel the need to mess with it.

In the last installment of “WTF: Snow Leopard and Wireless“, I gave up on getting it to work since I generally work with my MacBook in my office where I can just plug a cable in for net access.

I had a meeting in a local coffee shop recently and when I opened my MacBook it found the shop’s wireless and connected straight away. This got me interested in getting this to work again. It is kinda nice when I can leave the office and take the MacBook with me and work from my big comfy chair…

I did some more searching and found my provider’s troubleshooting page. I almost moved on when I read stuff like “Unplug the router and count to 10″ and “make sure the AirPort is turned ON”, but pressed on and found that the examples of the setup pages in the tutorial were very different from the setup pages that my router was showing me. A little more poking around turns up a firmware update for the router (Actiontec 701-WG).

Let me say here that I am not very fond of flashing BIOS and updating firmware. I know, I know… Its generally safe and people do it all the time but to risk bricking something that works so you can get wiz-bang new UI isn’t something I support. In this case I went ahead and downloaded the update and flashed the firmware.

It worked right off, the flashing program even remembered all the settings and replaced them after the flash.

Now, you might say that I owe Apple an apology for this but I disagree. The MacBook worked just fine with the old router firmware and failed only after installing 10.6/Snow Leopard. My iPod and Vista [spit] Notebook worked fine with the old firmware as well. The only thing that failed was the Snow Leopard AirPort connection, so I still contend that Apple was the cause of the problem, even if flashing the firmware “solved” it.

Anyway…

Now my MacBook is finally fully functional under Snow Leopard and I am happy with it. It would be nice if Apple would have been able to fix the problem, but at least there is a workaround.

Ever wonder why my generation is so messed up? Wonder no more…

A rather large package was delivered to my home recently from the US Census Bureau along with a postcard stating that I will be receiving said package and that I am REQUIRED BY LAW to fill it out and return it in short order.

I can’t believe the shear volume of information “my” Government wants from me at gunpoint.

Why does the Government want to know how many toilets I have in my house? I understand the need for the Census and that it is Constitutionally mandated, but really…

Shouldn’t it be a postcard asking me how many people live at this address? (fills in 1 blank with “3″… DONE!)

What is the minimum I can fill in to avoid the $5000 fine for non-compliance?

Oh my!

One gay man, two lesbians, a three-legged cat and a poisoned curry plot.

This will be purchased in large quantities for “Crazy Town”.

Why was I not informed?????

For those of you that have tried to understand why I went from a complete Battlestar Galactica fanboi and writing/speaking of it often to someone that would catch the show if it were on in front of me but not worth the TiVo space, here is Jonah Goldberg:

The extent of the show’s political and ideological corruption is best exemplified by the fact that one of the central pillars of the series had to be yanked: the notion that the Cylons had a grand, complex, conspiratorial plan involving their human doppelgängers that was unfolding inexorably over the course of the show’s run, one that humans needed to uncover in order to secure a victory in the war for the survival of their species. Indeed, every episode of the first three seasons began with an opening sequence in which the viewer is explicitly told that the Cylons “have a plan.”

I think he has it right on the head there. The Cylons “had a plan”… we were finding out interesting bits of it… then the plan changed and the whole thing blew up.

Of course the lame ending didn’t really help much, but I had already stopped watching it well before that. The question I asked myself was: Why did I TiVo the last 2 episodes? That was a total waste of electrons.

I dislike hippies.

Whos the private dick who’s a hit with all the chicks?

Darn, its not “Sinner”…

“You know what’s good about you [Sinner]? You compartmentalize your curmudgeonly-ness very well.”

Guilty of RAPE consensual sex.

So you’re a young man, say about 20 years old. On the night of September 14th, the police arrest you and three of your friends. It seems an 18-year-old woman has accused the four of you and another man or raping her that night. She’s a student at Hofstra University.

You’re handcuffed, taken to jail, booked and tossed into a cell. You’re facing up to a 25-year stretch in the penitentiary if you’re found guilty.

The lesson to learn from this? Make sure you have someone film all your sexual encounters with a cell phone.

But luckily, one of your friends had a cell phone and he photographed the whole scene. There was no rope and no screaming, just consensual sex.

The “young lady” recants quickly (2 days!)

So young man, you ought to feel OK. You only spent two days inside and the DA has dropped the charges, so everything’s back to normal. Just forget all about your picture in all those papers, right under that word. After all, everyone else will. Won’t they?

Best of all… The names of the men in the case are published along with their mug shots, the name of the woman isn’t released even after admitting to the crime of false reporting.

Can we just say that anyone that actually uses the term “teabaggers” to describe people that go to Tea Parties are to be ridiculed as cretins?

Seriously… get over the 7th grade people.

Hey kids! Hows about you pony up $800 a year to pay for my health insurance?

Also… GET OFF MY LAWN!

I’m starting to like this whole ObamaCare thing.

Two of my favorite shows all mashed up into one ball of awesome:

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WTF! The Bears try a quicksnap on 4th down and its not quick enough. No penalty for 12 men, but even if there was a penalty, it would still have been 4th down. Someone needs to be fired for that.

I’ve been looking for that 3rd and short playaction pass since before Holmgren was Head Coach, when it finally came I was shocked! Shades of Starr to McGee… Good times.