Nice of those CapitaCommie Chinese to have an endorsement gig waiting for The Zero after next year’s election…
Stuff From the Voices In My Head
Usually, several years go by before someone brings up the “family group” of nudists that lives [in an undisclosed location here in America’s Third World County]. For some reason, [a person who shall not be named] brought the group up in conversation this a.m…. about 9 years early. *heh* Not relaying the context, but the comment had to do with imagining living next door to the group for 20 or 30 years…
Madge: Henry, I just can’t enjoy my morning coffee on the front porch anymore. I mean, when [unnamed nudist] was in his 20s, it wasn’t all that disturbing when he came out to get his paper *wink-wink-nudge-nudge*, but now… OK, his beard covers the worst parts, so that’s not so bad; it’s just the ugly crack he always makes now as he turns to go back inside…
*pa-dump-bump*
(TYVM. I’ll be here all week. Be sure to try the buffet.)
Nanny-Boo-Boo
To those nasty coffee naysayers who are, one piece of research at a time, being revealed as the anti-coffee bigots they truly are.
Coffee Cuts Depression Risk In Women, New Study Shows
I’ve noted a few of the health benefits of coffee before, but this one, even though the study cited by the Puffingtom Host trendily limits itself to benefits for women, isn’t news to any longtime imbiber of The Holy Brew. Speaking of that wondrous bean brew, the fourth (cited) verse of the hymn just linked pronounces:
“And so today you bless us still
According to our dear Lord’s will.
O Caffeine Tree our gratitude
Is great, for you do lift our mood.”
Amen.
Is This Proof?
Or is this just one more data point in support of The Relativity Weight Control Plan?
Oh, wait, you want to know what he Relativity Weight Control Plan is, eh? That’s simple. General relativity holds, among other things, that the faster a particle travels the greater its mass, as observed by an unaccelerated frame of reference until its quasi-local apparent mass is infinite.
Reason would suggest, then, that the slower an object, the less its apparent mass. So…
The fact that, when I took a two-hour nap I lost three pounds would tend to offer evidence of The Relativity Weight Control Plan’s efficacy, eh? Continue reading “Is This Proof?”
(Sung to the Tune of “O Christmas Tree”)
O clueless me
O clueless me
When will I use my storage?
O clueless me
O clueless me
When will I use my storage?
Yeh, for some reason I have 20GB of Amazon Cloud Storage available that I was unaware of until just a few minutes ago. Heck, that’s eight times more storage available than I have with Dropbox. Of course, Dropbox’s syncing app is too cool for school, but still…
And, oh yeh, I’m using only a tiny fraction of the 25GB (plus “unlimited M$Office and graphics files”) storage in my Skydrive accouint…
O clueless me
O clueless me
When will I use my storage?
O clueless me
O clueless me
When will I use my storage?
Meanwhile, I have several terabytes of local storage filling up with… stuff.
It’s Just a Natural Division of Labor
Investors, capitalists, entrepreneurs–you know, actual business people–create jobs.
Politicians destroy them.
See? A it’s just natural division of labor.
Contextual
Excerpt from life:
“As my best friend, you get a star in your crown for being the BF of such a PITA.”
Ah Yes, Monday…
Different things to different people; different strokes and all that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnKKlf_FGwg
And apologies for the citation of Bangles boring tooth decay cotton candy crap:
At least it’s not Vevo’s “Hey Monday” or the even worse Death Cab for Cutie’s “Monday Morning” or the stab-myself-in-the ear-with-an-ice-pick “Blue Monday” by New Order.
Use The Appropriate Word, Please
A reader at Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Manor makes an appropriate observation. Concerning baboons,
They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive, and least intelligent of all primates.
What is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?
Believe it or not, a Congress!
So, our own tribe of baboons in D.C. are known by the appropriate collective noun after all.
Micro-Mini-Life Hack
A case of “Two Very Minor Irritants Solve Each Other”.
Or,
“The Voices In My Head Make Me Do the Strangest Things, Sometimes”.
Irritant #1
I use a nice lil lapdesk with my lil Asus notebook. Moreover, I normally use a nice Logitech M305 wireless mouse with the notebook, and the laptop desk surface makes a nice, smooth, slick surface for mousing. Great little mouse. It’s not as comfy in my hand as the mouse that comes in the Logitech MK320 bundle, but it does have a “nano-receiver” that makes it a good fit for notebook use (dongles hanging off notebook ports=BAD :-)).
But, moving the laptop desk from laptop to coffee table or to the couch beside me, with the notebook and mouse still on it, frequently led to the mouse sliding off that slick surface. Sure, take the mouse off and put it elsewhere. BTDT, don’t like having the notebook/mouse in separate places. Be really careful when taking the laptop desk off my lap and placing it elsewhere (or picking it up, etc.). Right. Not me.
So, pick mouse up off floor every now and then, whatever. *grumble-grumble-gripe-complain*
Irritant #2
Picked up a cheap notebook bag–$7 cheap–for carrying other things (techie tools, etc.). I already have a nice bag for the Asus and another–a Targus hand-me-down from someone who “diminuted” her computer use to a netbook/smart phone combo–for my primary techie tools (now two bags to carry what used to fit in a padded aluminum case. Oh, well), but this seemed a nice enough way to carry most of the rest.
Except for the really tacky “designer’s” logo patch sewn onto the large outer flap. Made of some of that silicone-rubber-plastic stuff that is kind of “grippy”.
!
Removed patch from cheapo bag.
Applied contact cement to ugly, tacky “designer” logo and
Glued face down on upper right-hand corner of laptop desk.
Now, I can place the mouse on this small, 2″ patch of silicone-plastic-rubber whatchamacallit and the weight of the mouse and the “takiness” *heh* of the patch material holds the mouse in place at up to 30-degree tilts.
Using one irritation to solve another: life-hacking.