Check it off the list.
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by BrianC
There is no such thing as ‘easy’.
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by BrianC
Closet. Simple, right? A little paint, a little light, some shelves.
Simple? The way multi-variable calculus is simple.
Paint? After washing 40 years of crud from the walls, maybe.
Light? Don’t get me started on finding electricity in this joint.
Shelves? Finding studs is impossible because of the foil-backed insulation. The regular wallboard fasteners that come with Closetmaid stuff don’t work on the back wall, since it’s the wall between the house and the garage, and therefore double sheetrock.
Nothing major. There’s a workaround for everything. But it’s like being pecked to death by ducks. It hurts, and it takes MUCH too long.
Dead grass isn’t much fun.
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by BrianC
Grubs killed my lawn. I picked up a clump of deceased sod today, and there were literally dozens of the little bastards crawling around in it. I nearly hurled (grubs are pretty nasty to look at). I’ll be commiting grubicide soon. Then I think I’m going to have to turn under the whole lot of the dead grass and seed everything.
Ah, the joy of home ownership!
Who gets the credit for the end of Global Warming?
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by BrianC
With the temperature dropping so much in 2007, I’m figuring that it means we beat global warming, right?
So does Bush get the credit for that, or does he only get blamed for not enacting the socialist agenda of the Warmists?
Thought so.
Lessons learned from home remodeling
Posted on April 11th, 2008 by BrianC
Wallboard compound can grow mold. I shit you not.
Removed the shelves from the big closet, and I wanted to fill in the nail holes and gouges. Nothing fancy, it is only a closet after all. I opened the little can of joint compound, and it’s moldy. Which is pretty nasty. Tossed that. Got the little pail of spackle. Hard as a brick. Grabbed the big pail of joint compound, which has a piece of plastic over the stuff (of which there is not a lot left), and it was fine.
So I got the holes filled. But the lesson here - always cover your joint.
Compound. Joint compound. Yeah.
ROI4WAR
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by BrianC
Scott Adams (Dilbert author and self-described lousy politician) asks if a strong economy is not a sufficient deterrent against aggressive states.
As with many things he posts, it is impossible to tell if he’s merely playing Devil’s Advocate here or being serious. But I took the time to say something about it:
I think we (The U.S. and China) have nukes pointed at each other simply to say “we’ve got nukes pointed at you, so don’t start anything funny”. Other than that, there’s no conceivable situation that ends up with the US and China shooting each other. Like Y2K, there’s too much money to lose if the worst case comes to pass.
As far as an ROI on Iraq, it’s a very long term play, which is something that Americans are not very good at conceptualizing. Most Americans don’t plan past dinner tonight, so looking out 20, 50, 100 years is pretty much not a consideration.
In all seriousness, the ROI argument when applied to WWII doesn’t look good until 20-30 years after the war ended. But I think you’ll agree that things are much better in Europe and Asia as a result of our investment of blood and money to take down two vicious empires.
The long-term goal of the Iraq war is a good one. Whether it is attainable is something that only time will tell. But to write it off as an impossibility is to write off the future of a third of humanity. I’m not entirely sure that’s what we want to do.
Newt is no longer one of us.
Posted on March 31st, 2008 by BrianC
Just heard on Rush that Newt is filming an Algore propaganda ad in which he will appear with Nancy Pelosi to warn all of us about the perils of Man Made Global Warming.
I had thought Newt went off the rails when he decided to work with Hillary! on reforming the “broken” health-care system in the United States.
But this just seals the deal. Not only is he willing to entertain the idea that Government should be grown to provide medical care to all people, but he’s bought the hoax of anthropogenic global warming.
Nuance.
Posted on March 24th, 2008 by BrianC
George Bush uses evidence Iraqi WMD programs as justification for invasion. No WMD found. Therefore, George Bush Lied.
Hillary Clinton says she landed in Bosnia amid sniper fire. No evidence of sniper fire found. Hillary Clinton “mis-spoke”.
Nuance
Everybody is Jesus!
Posted on March 22nd, 2008 by BrianC
Looks like the Democrats are going to have to rethink their position on ’separation of church and state’.
First, we had the messianic treatment of Obama. Now this:
“An act of betrayal,” said James Carville, an adviser to the Clintons.
“[Bill] Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic,” Carville said.
There’s no pleasing some people.
Posted on March 20th, 2008 by BrianC
They pass laws to phase out the use of Edison-style incandescent lighting. For the Earth. They tell us to use compact fluorescent bulb. For the Earth.
And then these idiot enviroweenies find out that there’s mercury in each and every one of those bulbs.
And now they’re worried about them too.
It’s enough to make a guy think that maybe the greens really just want us to sit around in the dark.
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