Applied Indifference

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

There comes a point where one stupid thing after another leads one to conclude that we’re looking at malicious intent.  Third time is enemy action and all that.

After getting slapped down by two courts, the Obama administration has threatened Gulf-based rigs with a new moratorium if they try to drill.  So they’re packing up and leaving.

Regime Uncertainty abounds.  Businesses are hoarding cash for fear of the next Big Thing.  Consumer spending is off a cliff because nobody knows if they’re going to have income.  And the only reason unemployment is down is because they don’t count people who’ve given up looking.

If we don’t purge our governments (local, state, and federal) of the disease that is progressivism, and soon, we may find out what it’s like to live in a failed state.

Can someone please find some intelligent grown-ups who have been in the real world to run for office and clean things up?  Please?

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Woke up in Wildwood for the last time this year.

No fog, so I went to visit the ocean. Tide’s coming in. Dog frolics in the surf off in the distance. Sun and moon both in the sky, waving to each other along the horizon. Big wave overtakes small wave and they become one. COLD!

Just one more bucket of Curley’s Fries, ok? Just one, and I’ll be set until next year.

Next year. That was quick.

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Ok, I’m told there’s a WordPress app, but the iPad doesn’t like the visual editor.

As a device, in the thirty seconds or so I’ve played with it, it seems pretty cool. Not necessarily something I’d buy, but I can see the appeal.

Spell check and auto-correct is nicer than on the Pre. The keyboard works fine, I don’t know what all the bitching is about.

Maybe I’ll play with it more later.

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For me, that is.  It’s still 24 over on the round.  I’m doing very well off the tee these days, but my short game is still ass.  As a rule, if I’m within 10-15 feet, it’s in the basket.  It’s getting from the fairway to that 15 feet that proves to be difficult.

Although I’m seeing some improvement.  I’m not pulling back on my fairway shots any more, and I’m getting better at controlling the discs I’ve got.  I think my biggest problem last year was thinking that buying all kinds of discs was the solution to my problems rather than learning how to use my body to control any one disc.

With luck, I’ll break 80 within the next few runs.  Maybe 76 (+18) isn’t such an impossible task after all.

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Where ‘X’ equals the political hot potato of the day.

It’s because I’m so disgusted and worn out that I just don’t have anything to say any more.  I had very low expectations for this President.  He’s completely failed to meet even those.  I expected worse than Carter, but this is fucking ridiculous.

The only saving grace on the horizon is that the Democrats have set themselves up for a political bloodbath come November.  I don’t think Pelosi understands just how much her gambit is going to fuck her.  She’s the one who engineered the Democratic takeover through blatant fraud — by having “moderate” democrats win in swing states, and then forcing them to the left.  And now all those “moderates” are going to lose their seats.  For her.

Maybe we can get some of these disasters repealed and prevent the government from defaulting.

But I’m not gonna hold my breath.

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Yeah, we were there for opening day at Wick.  I narrowly avoided losing to the noobs in our group.  Hit it again last Saturday, followed with a Sunday trip to Pyramids.  So I didn’t post updates.  I’ve got like, what, 3 readers?

So, Wickham.  Still awesome, still a bit chewy. L.L. Bean boots are a must if it’s rained in the two days prior to going.  Made a few epic drives with the Katana.  Well, epic for me anyhow. The work on smoothing out my throws and releases is starting to pay off from the tee.  I’m still underthrowing most of my fairway stuff.  Putts?  I’d rather not talk about it.

Got a shock harness from Marshall Street.  Still getting used to it, but it’s nice not having the weight of the whole bag on one shoulder (my throwing arm, natch) all the time.  Pyramids is still a great course.  Very technical.  I had a few really good shots to get myself out of trouble.  Of course, I three-putted one hole and got so pissed off that I fucked up the next three after that.  Which is actually a better recovery from “pissed” than I ever managed last year.

What’s in the bag?

Distance Drivers: Katana, Groove, Ultralight T-Bone

Fairway Drivers: Monarch, TL

Specialty Discs: Starfire, Kite

Approach: Mako, JK Pro Roc, Classic Aviar

Putter: Pro-D Banger GT

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April 3.  The first day I can get my golf on at Wick.  Can’t wait.  Got a couple new discs to try out, and I’ll probably get the bag winnowed down to 6-8 discs from its present 12.

Maybe I’ll break 80 this year.

70?  Yeah.  In what universe?

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Dang, that went by quick.

Other than Mozilla being a complete dong, and the TAPI service getting hosed randomly from the speakerphone app (the modem isn’t “officially” supported, so that’s probably the cause) it’s been smooth sailing.

Opera’s a nice browser, but I miss AdBlock.  I’ve been putting domains in the “blocked  content” section of Opera, which works well enough for now.

The power management on 7 ought to save me 10-15 bucks a month on electricity since I can now let the machine go in to standby.  The wake-on-modem feature is still goofy, it wakes the machine up almost immediately – just like it did on XP – so it’s gotta be a problem with the modem.

Which means I really ought to find a better voicemail solution.

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since I upgraded to 7.  Sorry, I know it doesn’t fit the song.

Anyhow, after fighting with a few ill-behaved installers, everything’s running.

I removed all the plugins and extensions from Firefox that I don’t have in a clean-slate install, figuring maybe one of the ones in my profile horked things.  It seems to work, but I haven’t really pushed it.

Still bad that a single app (or an extension to same) can take the OS out.

Still investigating.  Further news as events warrant.

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Right.  Got everything going again.  Quickbooks?  Check.  Callstation (Voicemail and phone) Check. Pidgin? Check.  Mozilla?

Not so check.

So I’m running Mozilla, doing the morning surf, and the window blinks and freezes.  What follows next is a system fail of epic proportion.  Yes, a 32-bit app Brought a 64-bit operating system to its knees.

So, not believing that this could possibly be the case, and figuring it must be hardware because both times it happened my RAID wanted to rebuild, I tested the drives.  They’re fine.  And Mozilla under 32 bit Fedora worked fine.

To test my hypothesis, I installed Opera and ran that all day.

The system’s still up.

You do the math.  And yes, I googled, and found reports of Mozilla crashing on Win 7 x64, but not blowing Windows completely the fuck away.

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