2012 archive
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Join us Thursday.
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 4.
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)
Words Fail Me 0
From time to time, I consider going into a rant about how the media tends to portray Southerners as bumpkins, idiots, and morons.
Something always happens to dissuade me–usually some Southerner acting like an idiotic moronic bumpkin:
“Good Lord, no,” Brad Staats told The Tennessean in a telephone interview on Monday. “Absolutely not. I’m not one of those that would ever threaten the president. He’s probably got enough of his own stuff to worry about without me.”
I think I can understand Mr. Staats’s puzzlement as to why cyber-brandishing a gun and calling out the President should be worthy of note. I can hear the wheels grinding slowly in his head. I hazard that they sound somewhat like this:
He’s just one of them darkies. And an uppity one at that.
What’s the big deal?
Pah!
H/T Dick Destiny for the link.
One Plus One = Empty Suit 0
There’s no there there.
Via TPM.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
More indications that Republicans are so hyped about voter fraud because it’s what they do:
The Moreno Valley College student is among scores of voters in Riverside County who say they were duped.
Formal complaints filed with the state by at least 133 residents of a state Senate district there say they were added to GOP rolls without their knowledge, calling into question the party’s boast that Republican membership has rocketed 23% in the battleground area.
Facebook Frolics, Creepy Stalker Dept. 0
The San Jose Mercury-News has a long story about Facebook’s latest attempt to get into your pants, or at least into the dressing room while you are trying them on:
If you poke, friend, like, or tag anything or anyone on the Faceborg, read it to find out just zucked you are.
The Entitlement Society 0
Steven Pearlstein explores the mysterious world of the Entitled. A nugget:
I am a private-equity fund manager.
(snip)
I am entitled to a healthy and well-educated workforce, a modern and efficient transportation system and protection for my person and property, just as I am entitled to demonize the government workers who provide them.
I am entitled to complain bitterly about taxes that are always too high, even when they are at record lows.
Read the rest. It’s quite a long list.
Welcome to the Machine 2
For some fool reason, as I listened to this episode of Radio Times about “wearable computers,” I was unable to shake this image:
Beached 5
Yesterday, we went to the beachfront to see the sand sculptures for the annual Neptune Festival. Here are some miscellaneous shots; I’ll be posting some shots of the sculptures throughout the week:
Republican Jesus 0
Shamelessly stolen from kavips:
John 3:20: Jesus looked upon the crowd and proclaimed, “Oral contraceptives are murder. If a woman is truly raped, her body will shut that down. Rape the children but remember to ask God for forgiveness, because only then will you enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Mark 12:17 Then Jesus said unto them, “Overthrow Caesar. Refuse to pay your taxes or proclaim them wrong. Run for office and take over your nation’s rulers and replace man’s law with God’s law. It is God’s will that you lie and cheat to achieve these goals.
Two Weeks before the Mast 0
In Sunday’s local rag, Carl Fincke describes his experience sailing on a container ship as a paying passenger from Philadelphia to Panama.
A luxury cruise ship it wasn’t, but he had a great time.
It’s a good read.