Archive for November, 2007

Fucking TSA

November 23rd, 2007

Yeah, the TSA took away my deadly face cream, because the tube was like a 4oz size. Not that I care about the cream so much, but it cheeses me off for three reasons: 1. I went to Russia this past September, with a stopover in Finland, and I can state categorically that the US [...]


Not a stat to be proud of

November 21st, 2007

The US leads the world in number of minors serving life sentences.


You don’t Kindle books

November 20th, 2007

This is a great post about Books According To Amazon. The new Kindle is a total lock-in device, and it looks fugly. I have a bias here: I have a Sony Reader, and like it a lot. I’m not one to run down crap that I don’t really care about, in order to justify crap [...]


The Indictment

November 16th, 2007

Barry Bonds has been indicted in the BALCO scandal. The government has its case marshalled, and things may go rather pear-shaped for Bonds. Who knows? Maybe he’ll escape conviction. His breaking the home run record was a sad day: not that it’s sad because he cheated, but because no one was really happy that he [...]


Fuck Windows. Seriously, screw it.

November 11th, 2007

I was running Boot Camp, but no more. I had Vista installed on its own 50GB partition, using it to play TF2 and LOTRO, but it’s gone now. I got a virus: well, it might not technically be a virus, it might just be superannoying malware/spamware. Which is just fucked up. Let me clue you [...]


New dollar coins

November 11th, 2007

They suck. They – seriously – are teh suq. Apparently Sacagawea is out, George and Tom are in, and they are ugly. U. G. L. Y. You ain’t got no alibi, you’re ugly. The coins look like they were pressed using a Play-Do(tm) mold. No more dignified profile view, they’re a mushy 3/4 view that [...]