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An entertaining gallery of photos of various MS Windows Blue Screens of Death (BSOD) or other errors, most from public spaces, billboards, kiosks, etc.
They even have (above) the preview of one of the upcoming Windows version’s innovations; the red screen of death.
I found this a few moments ago. The questions in the “quiz” are completely ridiculous, and you’ll probably (hopefully, IMHO) find some in which you don’t agree with any of the answers. Pick the closest one you can and see what it tells you.
89% Republican. |
“You listen to a lot of AM talk radio, don’t you?” |
As a matter of fact I do listen to a lot of AM Talk Radio. Though lately, I’ve been listening to the Bible on CD. Holy crap. I must be a fundamentalist, or something….
There is a really interesting interview on HughHewitt.com with a Gauntanamo veteran, testifying to the stellar conditions and humane treatment of prisoners at this location. It’s a must read.
If you haven’t been paying attention, or worse, you’ve been reading the Star Tribune’s absurd propaganda, here’s what all the fuss is about. Hugh Hewitt summarized it this way:
Durbin said the practices at Gitmo were like the practices at Abu Ghraib which are like the practices at detention centers around the world which are like the practices of Nazis/Stalinist/Pol Pot. (Link)
The problem is that Dick Durbin is wrong on every count. Gitmo is not like Abu Ghraib, which was an anomaly and is in turn not typical of US detention policies, and the US detention centers do not resemble the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin’s Gulag’s, or the Khmer Rouge. The whole contention that there is a relation between Guantanamo and the horrors of the afore mentioned dictatorships is ludicrous… but try telling that to a wild-eyed Bush-hating zealot.
Powerline blog posts a great letter to the Star Trib from one Lt. Col. Joe Repya, who is currently serving in Iraq.
Michelle Malkin offered an update of all things Durbin on Monday. As well, if you’re interested in how the touted modern-day successors of the Gulag/Holocaust/Khmer Rouge victims are fed, she posted about the Gitmo Cookbook, actual recipes fed to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay: “Baked Tandouri Chicken Breast, Mustard-Dill Baked Fish, Lyonnaise Rice, and Fish Amandine are just a few of the recipes you’ll find in the Gitmo Cookbook.“.
Michelle Malkin points us to the junkyardblog’s display of “apologies” for Gitmo, a parody of the unintentionally hilarious “Sorry, Everybody” photos of the lunatic left.
My lunch hour is just ending, so I figured I’d post a link to this. Thanks, Michelle!
Jon Udell at InfoWorld had some cool remarks about the IT trade this month.
Basically, he’s just saying that IT people don’t memorize everything about computers, they just know how to find information when they need it. That’s how I operate all the time; in fact, I think that’s what I told my present supervisor in my job interview close to three years ago.
All the same, it’s worth saying, because many folks still have the idea that if you’re a computer geek you “know” everything about computers, right off the top of your head. Not the case; I’m guessing there’s not one tech in a hundred with that sort of off-the-cuff knowledge.
Actually, I think it would be a waste of energy to even strive to remember that much; I’d rather just look it up when I need it. Why? Because things change so quickly. How would I feel know if I had spent hours memorizing every little tweak and fix for Windows 95? Like I had wasted valuable time, that’s how I would feel.
In the same way, even though I haven’t programmed extensively with Perl or Python, I’m not uncomfortable saying that I “know” those languages, or at least that I’m familiar with them. Would I want a language reference handy if I started to work on something with those languages? You bet I would.
But I sure don’t plan to memorize it.
This is a post from my old blog, “Ultramega”. I’m squeezed on time, but I wanted to post something. From time to time I may repost some of the stuff I wrote there last year. This, for example, is from last year when I was neck deep in Calculus…
[So] I was working on was finding the values of c guaranteed by the Mean Value Theorem(MVT) for Integrals for the function f(x) = x - 2√(x) over the interval [0, 2].
Since I know everyone was insatiably curious about this, here it is.
One of my favorite poets is Edward Lear. Some of the literati among you may balk at the idea of Lear being called a poet; much (all, I think) of what he wrote was pure nonsense. Long nonsense verse, limericks, and things along those lines. All the same, it’s brilliant. So, for lack of time to say anything else today, I’ll share one of my favorite Lear pieces: the Jumblies.
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They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all there friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, ‘You’ll all be drowned’
They called aloud, ‘Our Sieve ain’t big,
But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig!
In a Sieve we’ll go to sea!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
Via Slashdot, the use of “All your base are belong to us,” and related phrases, as a meme, is five years old.
I haven’t said anything about politics in a while. That’s certainly not because politics has ceased to be interesting, or there has ceased to be anything to say about. No, more so it was because I felt I wasn’t doing anything more than echo the same things already being said elsewhere; that, and I found I didn’t have nearly the time or energy to sustain rants about the Democrats day after day.
There are plenty of people already preaching to the choir, mostly doing a better job than I would, so I stopped posting quite so much of a political nature.
The latest thing that’s being talked about has been the frequent and increasingly ludicrous comparisons of Guantanamo Bay to Gulags or Nazi Germany. It isn’t just fringe leftist nuts who are saying these things, either, but Democratic Senators like Dick Durbin. For some great comments about Durbin visit the alway relevant Hugh or Military Blogger BlackFive.
You know, America, sad to say, does have its horror reminiscient of Gulags and Concentration Camps. I’m talking about the approximately 50 million abortions performed in America since 1973 (based on figures of approximately 39 million by 1999, and about 1.8 million per year since then). 50 million people. Given an average birth rate of about 4 million per year, that means that in the last five years or so, in America, approximately 1 of every three conceptions have been aborted. (Think of that the next time you see three kids running around.)
But that is the sort of mass murder that the Democrat party not only condones, but celebrates and endorses. I believe they were actually upset a few years back when partial birth abortion was overturned — a type of abortion that is only kept from being infanticide by the fact that the child’s head is not allowed to be removed from the womb before he or she is killed.
But that’s laudable, to the New Left. The criminals, say the Democrats, are those who are trying to defend our nation from further terrorist attacks.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are trying to make Republicans feel bad because we aren’t concerned enough about poverty. The Bible does have a lot to say about helping the poor–although I will say that it speaks of individuals, or the church, doing the helping, NOT state-sponsored welfare. But in a nation where you can make a living panhandling, I’m sorry; I think 50 million dead babies is a bit more of a moral issue.
And that’s where it all starts to break down. I have a lot of people in America who agree with what I just said; and a lot who’d disagree. I’ll be totally honest and say that there isn’t a lot that I can think of to say to someone who disagrees that 50 million murdered babies is a significant moral failure; where do you begin? How can you even communicate?
I’m not sure if you can. I do know, however, that it’s the world’s biggest cop-out for a professing Christian to avoid the abortion/gay marriage issues because they don’t want to “offend” unbelievers, and “you just can’t legislate morality.” No, you don’t “legislate morality”–but you ought to vote based on what you believe is moral. That’s why you are allowed to have a vote–so you can let your opinion be heard. So if you personally believe that abortion is not right… then yes, you can, and should vote against it. That’s why they call it democracy. The triumph of the left has been in convincing a spineless majority that a vocal minority should have it’s way, because otherwise we’re being intolerant.
Hm. So much for my stint without a political rant. Have a nice day.
Forbes has allowed themselves to be sucked into the embarrassing underbelly of the Open Source world. The story “Is Linux for Losers?” is funny mainly because it is reported with such a straight face. It basically based solely off some comments by Theo De Raadt about how Linux is “terrible… garbage” in comparison to BSD. That’s fine, but it’s basically the equivalent of basing and entire article off a comment by a GMC engineer stating that Fords are “terrible garbage” in comparison to Chevys. Of course Theo thinks BSD is better; if he didn’t, he’d be developing Linux!
To be fair, Dan Lyons (author of the article) does mention and compare the Linux-BSD rivalry to the Ford-Chevy rivalry. The trouble is, that to anyone more familiar with the politics of the Open Source world, this isn’t news.
It’s on the level of seeing an article which states, with a straight face, “Vi users state ‘Emacs is for losers’” or “Opera users state that Firefox is still trying to catch up.” We hear these things all the time; there’s room for some intelligent debate, but more often these quickly degenerate into flame-wars, and would usually be called trolls.
I can see the next Forbes article now….
Do all our base belong to ‘Anonymous Coward’?
A commentator on Slashdot today, known as ‘Anonymous Coward,’ stated in a completely unrelated topic thread today that all of our base are belong to him, and to his associates. Many of the owners of all our base have refused to comment, saying only that Anonymous Coward can be “difficult”….
I’ll leave the rest to your imagination.
