2015 archive
“Lone Star Lunatics” 0
Jon Stewart takes on the shootings at Pam Geller’s Hate Fest and other looniness in Texas.
Below the fold in case it autoplays.
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Learn how to use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do.
It’s not hard; it’s just different.
What: Monthly TWUUG Meeting.
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room. See directions below. (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
When: 7:30 PM till whenever (usually 9:30ish) on Thursday, May 7.
Directions:
Lake Taylor Hospital
1309 Kempsville Road
Norfolk, Va. 23502 (Map)
Pre-Meeting Dinner at 6:00 PM (separate checks)
Uno Chicago Grill
Virginia Beach Blvd. & Military Highway (Janaf Shopping Center). (Map)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A model (home) of politeness.
Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill shot Gwenevere McCord, 43, in the abdomen at a model show home in a subdivision in Gwinnett County on Sunday, according to police. Local media reported that McCord is a real estate agent who is friends with Hill.
Guess he didn’t like the asking price, but, according to TPM, he ain’t talking.
And, in more news of the polite . . . .
Chris-Crossed 0
Dick Polman struggles to find the right analogy for Chris Christie:
Follow the link to see which one he selects.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family affair.
If you are too stupid to unload a gun before cleaning, you are too stupid to handle a weapon–any weapon.
Helm’s Deep 4
Jim Wright tries to figure out the terror in Texas. A snippet:
This, right here.
I’ve been putting it off, talking about Jade Helm, because it’s just so stupid, just so utterly fucking stupid even for the twitching under-medicated paranoia that passes for Republicans nowadays. But I see I can’t evade it any longer.
Read it.
Teflon Blue 0
Thoreau explains how Teflon blue is the Catch-22 of the color pallet.
And Now for Something Completely Different 0
Think twice about the Disney Princess Industrial Complex.
Persons Fret about the “Surveillance State” . . . 0
Mind the Gap 0
My ex was a nurse. Whenever she was a patient and had to wear a hospital gown, she would always grab two and wear one frontwards, the other backwards.
Beyond complaints about flimsy materials and faded colors, patients in focus groups have told the hospital they feel exposed with current gowns — in ways that promote an unnecessarily hierarchical relationship with caregivers.
For some fool reason (as my mother would have said), they need a study to confirm that persons don’t like walking around with their rear ends hanging out on public display.
Sucklers at the Public Teat 0
John Cole has the best headline I’ve seen about the propagation of House of Windsor.
American media’s fascination with the idea that rich persons who attend ceremonies for a living are capable of procreation does rather baffle one, eh, what?
News, Ripped from the Ticker 0
Warning: Worse taste than usual.