2015 archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Halford Ryan points out that Mark Twain got it right.
Money on Tap 0
Richmond must be under the influence (emphasis added).
American businesspersons may talk about creativity, initiative, and individual effort, but what they really care about is free stuff from the government, that is, from you and me.
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, November 5.
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)
Join the forums.
Geeking Out 0
Streaming music from KCEA in the Qmmp media player with the Project M visualization plugin in a PC-BSD Virtual Machine running in VirtualBox on Slackware –Current.
“The Smart One” 0
Honest to Betsy*, you can’t make this stuff up.
All snark aside, I suspect that Jeb! has been somewhat taken aback to learn how little import being a “Bush” conveys. One suspects he has not paid attention to the origins of the term, “Bush crime family.”
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*Pete’s taking the day off.
Stray Thought 0
I’m so old that I can remember when all automobiles did not look alike.
Intermediaries 0
Have you ever noticed that persons who claim that God has spoken to them always hear exactly what they want to hear?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is the cat’s meow.
“We saw an X-ray with a picture of a bone, and it’s all shattered by something small, like a .22 or a pellet,” Fish told Fox25.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
There’s still some fight in them good ole boys.
(snip)
In comment threads on the Daily Journal website, a commenter named Marshall Leonard has posted often about his support for the Confederate flag. He blamed Mississippi media outlets and retail stores, including Wal-Mart, for the recent actions to remove the Confederate battle flag emblem from the public eye.
No one was injured. The story does not mention the size or type of the bomb explosive device.
(Updated to include more information.)
What If Someone Proposed a Bill and Nobody Noticed? 0
Everybody’s a narcissist.
“It is completely reprehensible that people were sitting there on [parliament’s] opening day and tweeting,” Kjærsgaard told BT.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite when paying.
“Open carry” is working out so very nicely, is it not?
Afterthought:
I ate at a Cracker Barrel once. It was the day that the space shuttle Challenger fell out of the sky.
I didn’t need another reason to avoid them.