Saturday, April 25, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Commentary on commentary
Commentary on the best commentary yet on Obama-created regime uncertainty.
The very best commentary yet on Obama-created regime uncertainty comes, I think, from Robot Chicken ....
".. you are to wear these clown shoes and refer to yourself as 'Mary'."
From Brian, a Darth Vader quote:
The very best commentary yet on Obama-created regime uncertainty comes, I think, from Robot Chicken ....
".. you are to wear these clown shoes and refer to yourself as 'Mary'."
Bucket O' Fun
She is a bucket o' fun.
I turn on Ingrid Michaelson and start dancing with my son and his friend... the friend says, "My Mom is a lot more strict then you are."
The committee of dirty tricks is alive and well
Obama legal team wants to limit defendants' rights
That was darn clever of the Republicans to distract us with McCain then sneak in their man like that.
Well played, GOP.
Via
Via
The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overrule long-standing law that stops police from initiating questions unless a defendant’s lawyer is present.
That was darn clever of the Republicans to distract us with McCain then sneak in their man like that.
Well played, GOP.
Via
Via
More Fun With Monkeys
One.
Big Monkey is explaining that his mother's cell phone can do X, Y and Z.
How do you know this?
(exasperated sigh) It's in the manual.
Two.
Little Monkey had a choice of staying home after being out and about or more errands.
I just want to stay home.
That's my boys!
Big Monkey is explaining that his mother's cell phone can do X, Y and Z.
How do you know this?
(exasperated sigh) It's in the manual.
Two.
Little Monkey had a choice of staying home after being out and about or more errands.
I just want to stay home.
That's my boys!
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Fun With a Little Monkey
What's that?
Irish Coffee.
Mmm - I love coffee. And it's got whipped cream on top.
It's got liquor in it. You don't like liquor.
But I love coffee!
You'll want to sip it. Hey - that was a gulp, not a sip. Feels warm?
Mm-hmm. All the way down to my tummy.
Want another sip?
No thank you!
Irish Coffee.
Mmm - I love coffee. And it's got whipped cream on top.
It's got liquor in it. You don't like liquor.
But I love coffee!
You'll want to sip it. Hey - that was a gulp, not a sip. Feels warm?
Mm-hmm. All the way down to my tummy.
Want another sip?
No thank you!
American Conservative Party
Protests, aye we got 'em. Leadership to get in front of that pack and lead it somewhere productive ... not so much.
Fiscally conservative and socially neutral. Beam .. me .. up.
Devil's in the details - time to do the clicky thing see what the problems are.
The Republicans don't suit me - never really did. I'm with the Democrats somewhat on social issues but the abortion thing puts me off. Libertarians have some of the right ideas, but wacked implementation.
Most of all I want something that Just Works without a lot of bullshit.
It is in that gap, that unfilled need for a fiscally conservative and socially neutral party, where the American Conservative Party is organizing. We seek to be the political arm for the tea party movement, the focused expression of voter rage. Started by blogger Bill Quick last year, the ACP is organizing chapters in 14 states already, with four more targeted for expansion this year.
Fiscally conservative and socially neutral. Beam .. me .. up.
Devil's in the details - time to do the clicky thing see what the problems are.
The Republicans don't suit me - never really did. I'm with the Democrats somewhat on social issues but the abortion thing puts me off. Libertarians have some of the right ideas, but wacked implementation.
Most of all I want something that Just Works without a lot of bullshit.
Comment of the day
Comment of the day.
I would leave out the mud slinging against the leftists, but that is a personal choice.
Creating jobs is a bug, not a feature.
The whole point of using electricity instead of rubbing two sticks together is to eliminate work and therefore, necessarily, jobs. The whole point of an economy, of trade and commerce, of bankers, lawyers, miners, fishers, farmers, bakers, candlestickmakers and yes, even UAW members, is so I don’t have to do the work.
What possible point is there in increasing the amount of work, therefore jobs, we need to do to maintain our current level of wealth and comfort? What kind of nut would advocate this?
Leftists all think the amount of our money and our free time is infinite. Their own money and time? Not so much. Ask Tim Geithner.
Is everyone this damned ignorant about what an economy is? I was for sure until I got to Tim Worstall’s blog.
I would leave out the mud slinging against the leftists, but that is a personal choice.
Report from the Lower Upper Middle Class
Cobb: Report from the Lower Upper Middle Class
One of the primary mistakes of people in the upper middle class is that they often forget that their relative comfort is not permanent. Sure we all understand that good grades in school lead to acceptance at a better college and a better job and all that, but we forget about earthquakes, floods, terrorist attacks and bank failures. The trick to rising in society is defensive as well as offensive. The point of rising in society is to have society's rules work in your favor. So I never forget that this destination, as chic and comfy as it often seems from my own 'hood sensibilities, is not really a destination. It is a temporary reprieve and a temporary reward. Life is still about struggle.
Free advice for Governor Doyle
Free advice for Governor Doyle from Brian Fraley
On the day you release yet more awful unemployment figures…
As your leaders in the Legislature continue to impose new taxes and fees and grant public employee benefits for part time workers…
You may not want to have A GOLD LIMO WAITING IN THE GOVERNOR’S PARKING SPOT.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Oracle - Sun
Everyone but everyone has an opinion about this.
Of course I have an opinion too. But unlike the pundits I'll admit upfront that a) I'm wrong and b) I have no idea what I'm talking about. But there is c) which is I've been associated with three companies that were bought out.
The details are unimportant: the end result is. Customers were upset, people were laid off, careers derailed.
It Never Worked Out.
I think Tim Oren has the most succinct and correct summary of the issues. Everybody else I've read today - pretty much a bunch of guys who are system administrators of one type or another - is whistling past the graveyard that is Sun.
Long story short, Sun hardware is legacy, Solaris [1] is a dead OS walking, Java guys should crack an O'Reilly book on Python or Ruby, and MySQL has an interesting patch ahead.
Which, yes, is too g'd bad. And it doesn't make sense for Oracle [2] to buy a company and then mess with things. But guess what: companies do stuff like that all .. the .. time.
Ain't personal. The guys driving strategy just don't have any emotional involvement, don't care that you spent the last decade learning the ins/outs of Solaris and they could give a rat's behind that Sun hardware scales into spaces that a vendor like Dell can only dream of.
That is not their problem. Their problem is revenue. Oracle's revenue, not yours.
If you want a career in IT you gotta be flexible. Time to get cozy with Windows 2008, BSD, Linux, Ruby and PostgreSQL. And OS X on your desktop.
[1] SunOS if you are old school.
[2] I'm tryin' real hard Ringo to keep this from being a rant about Oracle.
Of course I have an opinion too. But unlike the pundits I'll admit upfront that a) I'm wrong and b) I have no idea what I'm talking about. But there is c) which is I've been associated with three companies that were bought out.
The details are unimportant: the end result is. Customers were upset, people were laid off, careers derailed.
It Never Worked Out.
I think Tim Oren has the most succinct and correct summary of the issues. Everybody else I've read today - pretty much a bunch of guys who are system administrators of one type or another - is whistling past the graveyard that is Sun.
Long story short, Sun hardware is legacy, Solaris [1] is a dead OS walking, Java guys should crack an O'Reilly book on Python or Ruby, and MySQL has an interesting patch ahead.
Which, yes, is too g'd bad. And it doesn't make sense for Oracle [2] to buy a company and then mess with things. But guess what: companies do stuff like that all .. the .. time.
Ain't personal. The guys driving strategy just don't have any emotional involvement, don't care that you spent the last decade learning the ins/outs of Solaris and they could give a rat's behind that Sun hardware scales into spaces that a vendor like Dell can only dream of.
That is not their problem. Their problem is revenue. Oracle's revenue, not yours.
If you want a career in IT you gotta be flexible. Time to get cozy with Windows 2008, BSD, Linux, Ruby and PostgreSQL. And OS X on your desktop.
[1] SunOS if you are old school.
[2] I'm tryin' real hard Ringo to keep this from being a rant about Oracle.
Firehose on the sun
$100,000,000 in graphic form.
Drop in the bucket, citizens.
Via the always interesting American Digest.
Drop in the bucket, citizens.
Via the always interesting American Digest.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Joke of the Day
The first thing Oracle is going to do with Sun? Change that pesky ls to
select * from directory where name like "%";
The Symbol is the Thing
Symbolic budget cuts.
Bit by bit, line by line, $100 million by $100 million he's going to earn our trust.
How dumb does he think we are?
SB7 did up a table to put it in perspective.
$100 million represents .003 percent of the 2010 budget.
Think of it in terms of a middle-class family budget: it's cutting out a single Happy Meal during the next fiscal year.
Isn't that a drop in the bucket, the concernedreporter spouse asks?
“So one of the things -- messages that I delivered today to all members of the Cabinet was, ‘As well as you've already done, you're going to have to do more.’ I'm asking for all of them to identify at least $100 million in additional cuts to their administrative budgets,” he said.
Bit by bit, line by line, $100 million by $100 million he's going to earn our trust.
How dumb does he think we are?
SB7 did up a table to put it in perspective.
spending: $ 3,500,000,000,000
deficit: $ 1,200,000,000,000
requested cuts: $ 100,000,000
$100 million represents .003 percent of the 2010 budget.
Think of it in terms of a middle-class family budget: it's cutting out a single Happy Meal during the next fiscal year.
Isn't that a drop in the bucket, the concerned
“It is and that's what I just said," the president said. "None of these things alone are going to make the difference but cumulatively, they make an extraordinary difference because they start setting a tone. So what we're going to do is line by line, page by page,$100 milliona Happy Meal there,$100 milliona Starbucks Latte here, pretty soon, even in Washington, it adds up to real money.”
St James Infirmary x 121
121 versions of 'St James Infirmary Blues'
I went down to St. James Infirmary,
Saw my baby there,
Set down on a long white table,
So sweet, so cold, so fair.
Let her go, let her go, God bless her,
Wherever she may be,
She can look this wide world over,
She'll never find a sweet man like me.
Via DaBitch
I went down to St. James Infirmary,
Saw my baby there,
Set down on a long white table,
So sweet, so cold, so fair.
Let her go, let her go, God bless her,
Wherever she may be,
She can look this wide world over,
She'll never find a sweet man like me.
Via DaBitch
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