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Archive for November, 2009

This is haunting

18 Nov

Really quite good.

 
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Posted in Advertising Matters, Artiste's Tantra, Huh.

 

Oh! You Pretty Things

18 Nov

Don’t you know that you’re dri­ving your moth­ers and fathers insane?

Gay-Pride-Parade

Let me make it plain. Gotta make way for the Homo Superior.

We are online and broad­cast­ing. Kilo Delta Seven Bravo Juliet Papa.

 
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My folks are going Mac.

14 Nov

They’ve had it with MS. Their Dell PC, six years old, can’t be upgraded to Win7. Even if it could, they’d have to back up, for­mat and rein­stall. Which, for the record, is a shitty stu­pid thing on Microsoft’s part. My upgrade curve from OS9 to OSX did not involve a sin­gle for­mat of the HD. At all. And that was nearly ten years ago, when Apple was trail­blaz­ing. MS has no excuse for this. None.

I was argu­ing for Ubuntu, but Mac won out in the end. The superb pric­ing on the Mini is part of what did it, but I’ve been hack­ing code longer than my nieces have even been alive, and that may have been a fac­tor as well. It was Linux or Mac, ulti­mately; they’re more or less totally dis­gusted with Redmond.

I did agi­tate for Ubuntu, but in the end, Apple won out.

Because, you know, it works. It just fuck­ing works.

Thanks, Bill, for prov­ing with Windows 7 what I’ve been say­ing for years. Now focus your com­pany on XBox, Windows Mobile, and Microsoft Foundry. You’re excel­lent there. Keep it up. Cede the desk­top to your betters.

 
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Posted in Geekulon

 

I’ve Loved, and I’ve Needed Love

14 Nov

Sordid details following.

wet-cat

Kilo Delta Seven Bravo Juliet Papa, live.

 
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Posted in KD7BJP

 

On the other hand…

04 Nov

Anent my com­ments ear­lier, Saudi Arabia is a Muslim theoc­racy and the home state of vir­tu­ally all of the 11 September hijack­ers. There’s vir­tu­ally noth­ing that I’m likely to agree with, if it’s based in Saudi law.

Virtually noth­ing. Reuters tells us, via Boing Boing:

A Saudi court of cas­sa­tion upheld a rul­ing to behead and cru­cify a 22-​​year-​​old man con­victed of rap­ing five chil­dren and leav­ing one of them to die in the desert, news­pa­pers reported on Tuesday.

Okay, okay, I get it. Even the most reli­giously over­wrought can occa­sion­ally get some­thing right.

 
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Posted in Huh.

 

Worth passing along

04 Nov

For those of you unfa­mil­iar with the back­story, an Iranian man liv­ing in Arizona ran over — and killed — his 20-​​year-​​old daugh­ter because he said she was get­ting to be “too westernized”.

He was, of course, Muslim.

Now before you get twitchty about this, it’s hap­pened with all right-​​wing god­tards. The Christians are every bit as bad. They even go to church, just to shoot doc­tors.

Of course, it wasn’t a group of Christians that flew those planes into the WTC, and it’s not Christian ter­ror­ists that have cells all over the Middle East.

Anyway, some­thing from Steve Benson via Cagle. It nicely sums up why the US will never be able to get along with fun­da­men­tal­ists in gen­eral, and Islamic fun­da­men­tal­ists in particular.

 
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Posted in One Thousand Words

 

Kilo Delta Seven Bravo Juliet Papa

04 Nov

Borrowing from the ines­timable Warren Ellis, this is a sta­tion ident.

We are still online and transmitting.

 
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