SubscribeHuman Design Flaw
Why don’t we have noses that let us close off our ability to smell? Wouldn’t be hard, just a few muscles that let us slam our nostrils shut if we didn’t want to smell something. If I’d been in charge, I would have added that.
This important design flaw came to my attention this last week [...]
Disappointment, cynicism and expectations…
I’ve concluded that taking the high road is over-rated. Granted, it might cause a small twist of internal spiritual growth, maybe, possibly, in some non-measurable way… but if you’re looking for something truly difficult in life, try not giving in to the first reaction that comes to mind when someone stabs you in the back.
I [...]
Illegal Coverage of Issues
L. Brent Bozell said today in his syndicated column that “…the networks were nothing less than stenographers to protest, because they don’t see it as their role to question the demonstrators, only to celebrate them. Show me one example—one example in the past thirty years—where anyone in the national news media has accorded the same [...]
Sick of being sick
Nothing like a week full of sick people in the house to make a guy think that there’s something to that X-Files episode about government experiments in biological warfare. I never even got over the cough thing I had this last month, which was *almost* gone, but then the kids brought home some bug which [...]
Bill Gates, I hate you.
Three to four hours and I still can’t get a couple of stupid windows XP computers to share a printer nicely. Got a wireless broadband router today that works perfectly, so we can use both computers online at the same time. Supposedly you can easily share a printer as well. The liars. So much for [...]
Some people don’t get it
Decided to write a letter to the editor of the Mining Journal after reading a Susan Estrich column at lunch today. So, tonight I submitted the following through their web site:
On Thursday the 16th of March, Susan Estrich said in her column that “Abortion opponents are willing to sacrifice the health of the mother for [...]
Yup, the Lord Almight is ticked
Two weeks! A new record for longest cough/cold/superbug whatever it is that’s whippin’ my ass. I’m going to have such a damn party when I’m healthy again, enough so to make me sick from different causes. (Seems appropriate somehow.)
Remember the fixed toilet? It stopped being fixed today. Had to go to Walmart (only place open [...]
Perverts and Kids
All three of my kids have gotten hooked on the game RuneScape, a free multi-player online game. (For you older geeks, it’s like Dungeons and Dragons but with better graphics, and with a million players at a time.)
What bothers me is that there is almost no safe-guard against online predators using stuff like this. While [...]
That crap’s taken care of
The sewage pipe is now fixed. (We think.) I wasn’t actually here when they patched it, so I’m assuming “it’s all good”. The way the two main guys were while here doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. A couple others that were here briefly did much better, especially the boss man… but unfortunately he wasn’t always here [...]