Author: David

Over-educated Curmudgeon, Bit-Bucket Tuner and Budding Brewmeister.
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The Brightest, Most Intelligent President Evah #1

I know this has been beat to death, but it needs to be used to beat something else to political death.

Barack Obama: “I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go?”

Yeh, yeh, I’ve heard all the excuses about this “mis-speaking” but none of them wash. It doesn’t matter HOW tired or pressured this asshole was, “57” (with one left to go–and specifically excepting Alaska and Hawaii, since he was referring to the contiguous states) is simply not the kind of thing that any American who’s marginally literate would even mistakenly say, because the 48 contiguous States would have been drilled into his unconscious.

No, this “intelligent” Hahvahd-edumacated idiot has only a surface, semi-, transient connection to anything approaching a knowledge of American history and geography, and he’s ruling by fiat from the White House along with fellow Dhimmicrappic conspirators against the Constitution in Congress who are afraid Guam will capsize because of over-population and that “every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.” (Total US population is somewhere a tad north of 300 Million, even counting children, illegals, retirees and welfare slugs.)

Hmmm, seems innumeracy is rampant in the “Party of Smart People” eh?

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I Really Don’t Get It

Whoopee! Not.

So, “Apple Unveils 11.6-Inch MacBook Air, New 13.3-Inch Model”–this is big news? The 11.6″, 1.4-GHz Core 2 Duo model with a meager 64GB of storage (granted, SSD, but still… only 64 GB?) supposedly has a “full size keyboard” (how, with such a small form factor? I suspect “full size keyboard” is Applespeak for, “DEFINITELY NOT full-size keyboard” *heh*), this miniature computer starts at… $999.

*feh*

The lil toy computer I’m writing this on has a 15.6″ screen, running a dual core Intel 2.2Ghz processor with a reasonable 320GB of storage and a real keyboard, including a number keypad, for… $500. And it’s a brand with just about the lowest incidence of notebook failure among PCs, easily as low as or lower than Macbook failure rates.

So, why the buzz about this miniature, underpowered toy Apple notebook? Why, it’s an Apple, of course. And yes, at significantly less capability (and strapped into the Mac OSX straitjacket *feh*), it does have the virtue of weighing 1/2 what my lil toy Asus does. That’s for weenies who can’t handle carrying more than the 2.3 pounds the lil underpowered toy weighs. Anyone who has trouble carrying a 5-6 pound notebook (or having it on their lap for a few hours’ time, if that’s all the “desk” they have) deserves an Apple straitjacket. Weenies.

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Dumbing Down to “Catch Up”

Opera 11 browser will finally allow extensions to the browser to be installed. The vast crowd of Firefox Zombies may now pay some attention to Opera, though for the wrong reasons, of course. A commenter at the Opera Desktop Team blog summed up my first thoughts pretty well:

But hey, progress I guess. Even if it’s progress to play “catch up” with other barebones, feature-poor browsers that need extensions to make them complete.

Indeed. I use Firefox and Chrome as much as I can stand to do so, and find them to be clumsy, feature-poor browsers that very obviously need extensions just to emulate many of the basic functionalities already built in (and for quite some time) to Opera. And I have yet to find extensions for those browsers that allow me to easily emulate some of the more advanced features I use every day in Opera.

Oh, well. Maybe folks who simply haven’t looked at Opera because it “doesn’t have extensions” (that it doesn’t usually need) will look at it now that the desktop team has decided to catch back with those “feature-poor browsers that need extensions to make them complete.” (I can recall one loon “tech writer” griping a few years ago because Opera didn’t have an extension for ad blocking or for mouse gestures. Idiot. Those are built in features of Opera.)

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Can’t Wait to Do This Myself

OK, I can wait; I just don’t want to. But since I have to (wait on an order from Amazon.com, that is), I guess I can do it. *heh*

I have just enough saffron left to try this–popped amaranth seeds–in a mock paella/chicken dish, I think. If not, I suppose I can sub in tumeric for the look, though the flavor will be substantially different to saffron.

Neat thing: amaranth is higher in protein than rice (~28g/cup vs. ~13g/cup) and gluten-free, as opposed to almost all couscous or other mock-grain pastas also used for paellas (as well as being higher in protein). More? Also higher in resistant starch than the other alternatives.

Next, I’ll have to see about popping quinoa… Again, waiting. *heh*

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No Surprises at All

I doubt that readers here will be surprised by anything in the video below, but I’d encourage you to spread it… and to do as the video suggests and expand your knowledge of The Cult of Hate that is Islam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w

“Know your enemy” is a wise saying indeed… And Islam is, by its own definitive “holy books” YOUR enemy, unless you submit to it.

And further…

[audio:Islamnot4me.mp3]
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Updating the Emperor

“The opinion of ten thousand men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.” —Marcus Aurelius

Nowadays, our electorate can more properly be described by,

“The opinion of ten thousand men is of no value if they are all willfully ignorant.”

There are adequate means now for ANY person in these (dys)United States to be adequately well-informed about the important issues of the day, but, sadly, few bother to take the time or make the effort to do anything but soak up–directly or indirectly–the viewpoints of the Ruling Elite mostly via the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind.

Keep in mind: your ignorant, self-enstupiated neighbor’s vote counts just as much as yours does.

Educate the stupid.