2011 archive
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source.
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.)
When: 7:30 PM till whenever (usually 9:30ish) on Thursday, October 6.
Note: Meetings are normally on the first Thursday of each month.
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)
How To Take a Screenshot of Your Computer Desktop 0
Demonstration here.
Beyond the Paul 0
Harsh, but not inaccurate:
A Pig in a Polka 0
There have been times when I wanted to sue someone over a polka, but not regarding ownership.
No Kids Allowed 2
The Chicago Trib has an excellent editorial on what appears to be a growing movement to ban kids from places. Here’s a nugget:
In four days, the site got more than 20,000 comments. The biggest camps by far were the people who are fed up with small people who whine, cry, run around and poop their pants in public and the people whose own children never, ever do any of that.
(snip)
The no-kids-allowed movement, aka the Brat Ban, is gaining momentum, driven by quiet-seeking adults who want to prohibit children from everything from concerts to public transportation to Facebook.
I guess all these adults forgot where they came from.
No doubt, when they were in diapers, they never annoyed anyone.
They waited until they were adults to annoy.
I determined long ago that I never want to live in one of those spooky “over-55” communities. They are full of not just Stepford wives, but also Stepford husbands, locked in their little Viagra-commercial bubble away from real life.
It would be condemning oneself to a lifetime of paper flowers, with real flowers forbidden, for real flowers grow only where there’s a little dirt in which to root.
To those adults who want no kids in public ever, all I say is, “Grow up, already.”
Furrfu.
Aside:
Banning kids from Facebook I can see.
Why subject them to the antics of the “adults” who frequent that place?
I Get Mail 2
I’m still scratching my head over this one. Nothing fishy in the headers:
Good Morning,
Am Mr. [redacted] and would like to make an Order of Pine Straw Mulch from
you and would like to know three different types and sizes you have in
stock now also let me know the price of each yard and the types of payment
that you accept.Thank you and waiting to hear from you as soon as
possible.
I don’t carry straw. As my two or three regular readers know, I carry mostly the primary by-product of male cattle.
Rule of Law 0
In a display of meaningless machismo theatre, some members of Congress want to turn more terrorism suspects over the military tribunals.
In the Detroit Free-Press, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (U.S. Army Ret.) argues against this. He cites not only the obvious Constitutional grounds,* but also practical ones. A nugget (emphasis added):
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*The rights in the Bill of Rights are accorded to “persons,” not to “persons we like this week”
QOTD 0
Henri-Frederic Amiel from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
A belief is not true because it is useful.
Ranting with the Stars 0
The Entitlement Society (Updated) 0
Banksters exercise their constitutional right to bonuses, private jets, and country club memberships. (I’m sure it’s in the Constitution somewhere because Glenn Beck told me so.)
Addendum, Later that Same Day:
Ed Quillen explains class war:
Ziegler laughed. “You’re starting to understand. I think you’re getting it now, and the Committee can trust you to spin this properly.” He excused himself as he had another call.
PC BS 1
A Heritage Foundation toady (yeah, I know, redundant) decides that the cause of the riots in Britain was “political correctness” run amok and that the cure is a return to the language of right and wrong.
Notably missing from her screed was any mention of right and wrong as it applies to Wall Street banksters, hedge fund managers, corporate bonus babies.
“Right and wrong” is irrelevant in their Galtian Paradise as they destroy economies, eliminate jobs, and steal the future from the poor and middle class.
QOTD 0
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1694 – 1773, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.