*pfft* Don’t let the door hit ya where the Lord split ya. After all, what freakin’ kind of “ally” has Pakistan been, really? Oh, yeh. The kind of ally that gets real close so it can stab you in the back. That kind of ally. Kind of like France with a turban bomb instead of pommes frites and ripe Camembert.
Dogs and Bones
I recommend this post highly. Its subject matter is extremely important in almost every area that impacts our lives today, but since it seems to lie outside the issues that are most loudly trumpeted as urgent, critical issues, the fact that the “half-educated” it refers to (or less, actually) are mostly creating the problems that face us mostly disappears in the noise.
The author of the linked post applies the problem of people who think they know more than they do to the influence such people have exerted to bring about the current economic woes we face, but that only touches the very tip-top 1/4 inch of the iceberg, leaving the rest (including that which is submerged*) to bedevil us.
Always remember the importance of a well-informed (as opposed to ignorant or misinformed or DISinformed) electorate in a representative republic, especially one with far too many democratic elements.
“In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history are in the majority and dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance.”
Things That Make My Lil Mind Go “Huh?”
…mind, such as it is.
All my pants (including some bought w/in the last month) are falling off. Yes, all of them. I like to wear lots of pants at once. *heh* In some ways that’s good news. Having to wear a belt when I go out in public or get arrested for streaking is another. Long story.
So, I googled “Waist sizes for men”. Hey! It’s a googleworld, and the voices in my head were clamoring for attention. Had to shut ’em up somehow…
From a site that said it got its figures from the WHO (like I believed that), “ideal” waist sizes.
(Don’t get all excited gals; that’s the men’s chart. And don’t throw things at me when you look the women’s chart up. I didn’t make it.)
Anywho… by this chart, I was in anorexic territory 30 years ago when I weighed about 155 soaking wet. With clothes on. Now, 30 years and 30 pounds later–not obese but definitely in the “overweight” category by WHO standards (yeh, I looked it up, but who believes WHO anymore anyway?) I’m about 2 inches over “ideal” waist size for my height. Continue reading “Things That Make My Lil Mind Go “Huh?””
Weight Loss Tip: How to Eat Less
DON’T EAT AS MUCH.
You’re welcome.
If You’ve Not Been Living Under a Rock…
…and not spent most of the years of your life stirring your frontal lobe with a fork, then you are quite aware that the Mass MEdia Podpeople HJivemind regularly, routinely, blatantly lies about Islam and Muslims. If you’ve been paying attention at all and have done your due diligence in informing yourself of critical issues, then nothing in the video posted below will come as a surprise to you. Don’t take my word for it that what the video presents concerning Islam is absolutely true, as far as it goes. Do your own homework. Read the Koran (or the best translation you can get of it). A MOR, scholarly version such as “The Koran Interpreted” (1955) by Arthur Arberry might be a good place to begin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w
Underpants Gnomes Are Smarter Than This
“Me! Me! Me! Me! It’s All About Me! Me! Me! Me!”
Egocentric personality disorder much?
Zero respect for others from The Zero. Naturally.
In a group photo of egocentrics (they’re all politicians from various countries), The Zero stands out as more self-absorbed than all the rest combined. The guy needs some serious medication. Or ECT. Lotsa ECT*. Continue reading ““Me! Me! Me! Me! It’s All About Me! Me! Me! Me!””
Another (few) Data Point(s) in Favor of the Opera Browser
*heh*
Frankly, my primary reasons for preferring Opera as my primary web browser all revolve around its elegance. Every other browser is klunky and incomplete by comparison. Example? Mouse gestures. I can’t live without them when browsing. Sure, they can be added to other browsers via extensions, but that’s just so very kludgey, and often the add-on is broken with browser updates.
Etc.
But it’d be silly to not prefer Opera for its technical excellence as well. Take for example its standards-compliance, an area where Opera claims to be further along than other browsers. Is this claim true? Could be. For example, its compliance in implementing javascripting (something that’s almost omnipresent on the web) is just one of the many areas where it shines. On the emerging ECMAScripttest262, Chrome, a pretty darned good browser, returned these test results:
Not bad. Almost a 95% pass rate.
What about the Opera install I’m using right now to write this?
Oh, wait. That’s a 99.95% pass rate*
Of course, that’s just one of many test suites for web standards compliance, but my own experience running the standard test suites on the Opera installs I use regularly and installs of other browsers on the same computers (installs that are ALL kept up-to-date) just reinforces my appreciation for the lil browser that could. *heh* Sure, on some HTML5 test suites, Opera lags Chrome by as much as 23 points out of 450 (70% vs 75% compliance), but since that’s a still-emerging standard, I’m willing to play wait and see there. Acid3? On the limited subset of tests Acid3 is designed to look at, 100% pass for both, so that’s a push, although the Webstandards.org site does say,
“In other regards Opera is a clear leader. It is the only browser that supports more than 90 % of the SVG test suite. It is the only browser that implements Web Forms 2.0, currently being merged into HTML 5. They supported media queries and SMIL long before Acid3 came out.”
And for an overview of the extensive SVG Test Suite results for various browsers, including an older version of Opera than the one I now use, see here. Look at all that green (PASS) under the Opera column… 😉
Just sayin’. 🙂
Continue reading “Another (few) Data Point(s) in Favor of the Opera Browser”
Oh, Please…
*sigh* So people had sooooo much difficulty using the “old” ketchup packets that Heinz spent tons of money and three years developing a new disposable single-serving ketchup packet.
My take? People had sooooo much difficulty using the “old” ketchup packets because people are sooooo stupid. I never experienced the difficulties with the “old” ketchup packets that are referred to in the video, but then I’m not as stupid (though still stupid in my own idiosyncratic ways *heh*) as many (most?) people.
Oh, dear, does that sound arrogant? Who cares? I don’t.
On a “Compgeeky” Roll Here
Numerically, my last few posts have been dominated by some computer-related stuff. Well, here’s another one. I had just read an interesting post on the economy and the higher education bubble (They told me if I voted for John McCain young women would be forced to sell their bodies to pay the rent… “ ;-)) and was about to click off, when I saw an add in a sidebar. Now, I ordinarily ignore ads (and indeed, have most ads blocked), but this one intrigued me, so…
I CLICKed on over to see what Jerkstopper was all about.
I have to say that the idea makes sense: a strain relief for notebook power cables. Heck, I do an informal strain relief system on my own and my Wonder Woman’s notebooks now and recommend ANYONE with a notebook do so. What we do is simply make a loop in the notebook’s power cable within about 6″-8″ of the plug into the notebook and place that loop under the notebook. It seems to work well.
But an actual device to formally install a strain relief designed to avert damaging the power connection seems like a good idea, if it’s actually engineered well, as I have seen more than a few notebooks that exhibit the problems outlined on the site as associated with damaged power connectors: