I was just thinkin’…

Be out of circulation Friday through Monday.  Have a great weekend!

Alaska’s largest newspaper endorses Obama (http://ping.fm/zwdDL)

Sloppy, sloppy football!

Nap time. Football @ 1.

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is going to bed now.

Marveling at revealed truth: secret to publishing on Twitter from Ping.fm is correct password.

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No clear winner IMHO, but Obama consolidated image as calm, collected, while McCain looked like doddering old man.

Bullwinkle killed in tragic hunting accident. Governor shows no remorse.
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It may sound like she spouting idiocy, but there’s a method to her madness. She’s speaking to her base.
~ Andy Borowitz

Hiring the Fox: http://ping.fm/a5cnc

New article on What…Me Sober? http://ping.fm/f3M0k

Reading “Ya-Yas In Bloom”; hoping it’s as good as DSOTYYS.

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Kathleen Parker: “If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself”
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2:17 p.m. ET Monday, September 29, 2008
House Rejects $700B Wall St. Bailout Legislation
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Well, I think we ought to go ahead and privatize Social Security right away, don’t you?

You know your hopes for continued intellectual development have gone awry when you find yourself raptly contemplating your defrag screen.

Installing linux easy once you look up 411 geeks 4got 2 include in the GUI!

Annoyed that his kids got to go to a rock concert in New Orleans on HIS birthday, and he had to work.

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If you’ve never visited the NG Photo site, you…like…need to do that.  And bookmark it.

The original Kermit the Frog was constructed by Jim Henson using an old green overcoat that his mother had thrown in the trash, and two ping-pong balls.

Today would have been Henson’s 72nd birthday (he died in 1990).

I was so proud when I managed to move up from 21%!

Can’t seem to score more than 22% on Gmail storage. Guess I need to start archiving spam.

It’s interesting how things swing back and forth: fads, trends, convictions, loyalties.  No, I’m not talking about politics — despite the changeability of its practitioners, that’s one thing that seems to remain relatively stable amongst the majority of us hoi polloi.  (I made a major change back in the early ’80’s, but that was mostly just when I really started to think for myself instead of listening to other people.)

No, what I’m talking about is gadgets.  For the last couple of decades, all the office geeks* were hung up on PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and PIMs (Personal Information Managers).  There were major debates about operating systems, models (Palm, Zaurus, Windows CE, et. al.) and much virtual blood was shed on innumerable bulletin boards, listservs, and the early blogs over the vital statistics of each geek’s fave mistress of the moment.

Then smart phones appeared, Read the rest of this entry »

…you can have a duct tape wallet!

Also available: the world’s geekiest pocket knife.

B-E-D-D-T-I-M-E…bedtime!

Remember, “Can I go home with…?”  I wonder if kids still say that?

Happy Fall, y’all!

Suffering from writer’s disinterest, in case anyone wonders.

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Just finished “The Little Book” by Selden. Weak ending, but well worth the read. Four and a half stars.

People fool themselves, thinking they are recovering addicts while using tobacco, the only legal product that’s deadly when used as directed

If I develop dementia, will they throw me out of Mensa?

Houston friends all seem to be OK. Those unheard-from evacuated early.

For Ike Watchers:
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If anyone’s interested:
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Sorry, that’s V^2 x area

Ike has highest kinetic energy level of any storm since Carla in 61. (Total wind field x avg wind vel.) Moving 50% more water than Katrina

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Internet has too
Many possibilities
Drive a geek insane

The Proppian Fairy Tale Generator at Brown University:
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Zounds! Blue sky! Seems like weeks.

I’m not xenophobic, but sometime I’d like to live in a place where everyone. just. speaks. English.

This meal has been in the nuker so often it’s starting to glow. How do they know when I get ready to eat? Some guy outside with a sign?