I've pretty much had it with Christmas advertising already and it isn't yet Thanksgiving. Since just after Labor Day, stores have been hawking Christmas lights and playing Christmas music and basically bombarding me with everything Christmas for more than 2 months. There's even neighbors who, I kid you not, have put up Christmas lights… and […]
Filed under: Rants, Tender Lumplings on November 18th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
In what can best be described as the tortured logic of a madman, Prop 8 opponents have filed suit to overturn the will of the voters just one more time by claiming that the constitutional amendment is (wait for it)… unconstitutional. Their "logic" (and I do use that word loosely) is that acceptance of […]
Filed under: Politics, Rants on November 5th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Shauna and I decided that we wanted to watch a streaming movie from Netflix tonight and found a title that seemed pretty interesting. I went ahead and loaded it up only to be met with a message that our Internet connection was too slow to start watching it immediately and that we'd have to wait […]
Filed under: Geek, Rants on October 25th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
There have been precious few times where a political issue has had me absolutely infuriated with white hot rage. Among these are the deployment of troops to Iraq in 2003 and the unnecessary tax increases in Nevada during that same year. All of the recent maneuvering around this bailout of failing banks similarly has […]
Filed under: Politics, Rants, Homeownership, Frugal Living on September 30th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I'm wearing a collared shirt with a tie today because I'm doing some on-site consulting for work. This is a departure from the normal dress around here which usually consists of jeans and some kind of collared shirt. What I hate, though, is what everyone asks me when I'm dressed up like this and am […]
Filed under: Rants, Work on August 8th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
… until we started watching it again this past weekend at Shauna's insistence.
First off, there's Shannon. She's utterly useless (and no, the weak French translations of nonsense don't count) and spends her entire time whining, tanning (she wears at least three different swimsuits before the season is halfway done), and making all kinds of snarky […]
Filed under: Rants, Entertainment on August 5th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Competition is the basic building block of a healthy system of free enterprise. With it, we get better consumer choice, a wide variety of products and services and the chance for each of us to start our own enterprises. Without it, we get corrupt and moribund monopolies that do not respond to customer needs, inflate […]
Filed under: Politics, Rants on November 30th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Every couple of weeks, I get FaceBook invitations landing in my mailbox. This is in addition to a bunch of e-mail notices from MySpace and some sporadic ones from LDSLinkup, LinkedIn and Friendster. Orkut doesn't bug me too much, but I'm not counting on that to last. I've got social networking […]
Filed under: Geek, Rants on November 4th, 2007 | 6 Comments »
You Suck.
I mean, seriously. Have you guys ever seen a measuring tape, a level or a square? Is it really that hard to ensure that cabinets hung next to each other are at the same height? Is it too much to ask that a piece of drywall not bow inwards at odd angles? Is it […]
Filed under: Rants, Homeownership on September 8th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
In a move seemingly designed to compete with Bob Murray's recent insensitivity, Richard M. Stallman, a founding figure of the free software movement, decided to end a short article about the recent earthquake in Peru with a bizarre nonsequitur paragraph attacking religious belief. With no warning whatsoever, he launches into the following:
I read that […]
Filed under: Geek, Politics, Rants on August 24th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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