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RPG for the Idle Rich
Make that, “RPG for the Dhimmicraps, Mass MEdia Podpeople and ‘The Political Elite'”.
(Note the copyright. I excerpted one pane for my purposes of 1. sticking something sharply pointed into the “debt ceiling” talk and 2. “Fair Use” of a small portion of a strip to point to the larger opus, hoping some others might get sucked into the world of the Foglios, which includes not just the strip referenced here but also Girl Genius.)
Marketing Genius
Perfect name for a sushi bar:
The Bait Bucket
*heh*
Somewhere in “Way, Way Beyond Stupidland”
This guy must have been born in the building and never have gone outside before…
[audio:What-a-maroon.mp3]A Not So Petty Peeve
No, really, it’s not! *heh*
Authors and proof readers and editors who get paid to write and proof read and edit copy that people then buy from them really have a duty to use words properly. I’ve been struggling through another work that could have used some due diligence from each of these classes of people. The straw that broke the back of my patience was, “…jeopardize it with undo stress…”
That’s “undue stress,” folks. *sigh* Just the last straw (of many) for this book. On the “rejects” pile, now. Time is just too short and my red pencil is wearing to a nubbin. *heh*
I think I lost 3 IQ points trying to give the book a chance. That’s three of nine books that proved to be wasted time this week so far. Not a good set of numbers.
OK, perhaps I was hasty. Lack of sleep? Well, that’s no excuse; I should allow for that. The book with all the absolutely stupid errors of usage, etc., is an advance reader copy and hasn’t been through a final proof for publication yet, so I really need to cut ’em some slack. Or maybe I should offer my “proofed” copy to save ’em some time? *heh* Nah. Only if they pay as piece work for corrections (but then they might lose money on the book… ;-)).
*This Is Not the Post You Are Seeking*
*heh* IOW, this is one of those posts that probably should not see the light of publication, but the voices in my head (a firm majority) insist I do so anyway…
As an Olde Pharte, I have discovered the joys of extended times upon the throne. When I have a long session in “The Throne Room” I frequently take a book to occupy my time while other things are “processing”. Now, however, thanks to the fact that I finally succumbed to the “wants” to get a toy computer (the lil notebook I’m using for this post), I sometimes just take this lil toy into the “Throne Room” with me, instead of just a book (why not? I usually have more than one eBook in process at any one time on this and other computers).
And yes, that is where I am now, posting this most TMI post of the year for twc.
Now, That’s a Desktop Background
Following on LC Aggie Sith’s post, I *Heart* Hooters, I went searching for a hooter of my own to use as a desktop background and found this:
*heh*
Now, that’s a hooter.
And so is this one… found later and made into my “new(er)” desktop background:
“Whatchu talkin’ about? I AM smiling… ”
And the replacement for the second background above…
Bugs ‘n’ Fixes
Well, even Windows 7 has its shortcomings. I’ll not list them here (feel free to do so in comments *heh*). It is still the est thing M$ has done in quite a long while, and easily Good Enough for most uses, good enough, in fact, to supplant Ubuntu (in any flavor, including the attractive and full-featured Mint) as my daily use OS for most uses. That’s going some.
But still, some rough edges, and so M$ has made an effort to make it more secure with a better update process (though still not as good as some ‘nix distros manage… most of the time), th free Microsoft Security Essentials (which is pretty good) and…
Microsoft Fixit, a website devoted to some easily-run fixes for Windows annoyances. It’s actually pretty useful. Surprise, surprise. 🙂 Of course, when I visited the place recently using the (very) new Opera 11 beta, which is very, very, very good in almost all respects, I noticed that Microsofties aren’t the only ones who can have bugs slip in from time to time:
*heh*
And a Child Shall Lead Them…
(OK, so the “child” in question is in her late 20s; she’s still my child… )
A picture and comment from Lovely Daughter:
Her comment?
“Scripture Candy: every cavity is just another space for God to fill.”
*groan*
What Sign Were You Born Under?
Astrologically, I suppose folks who gave that sort of thing any credence would say that I was born under this sign:
My mom, though, would probably say I was born “under” this sign:
Nowadays, I look at what our self-annointed political masters have wrought and what the current lame duck congress seems intent on doing, and I wish for a time machine so I could catch their parents in the act(s) of conceiving them and point them to this sign:
Interesting… this post displays correctly in Opera and Internet Exploder (of all things!) but apparently NOT in Chrome or Firefox. Heck, I even tried “DIV” statements to no avail. Oh. Well…