You have GOT to be kidding me!
Four pieces of mail in the (snail) mail box today. All spam, which isn’t unusual.
All from American Express. Which is.
If you ever wondered why your interest rates are so high, this is why.
Entries Tagged as 'Randomness'
A joke for the progressive set
“How many Obama supporters does it take to change a lightbulb?”
“RACIST!”
Google? Biased? Naaahhhh.
Ok, so a comment here during a conversation about a stupid leftist art exhibit that everyone ignored got me to wondering the origin of the phrase “… that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.” So I went to my friendly neightborhood google, and typed “fascism is about to fall on america” and hit search. One link to a comment on a blog where the quote is not attributed, and all the rest of the links on the first page to either truthers, Bush-bashers, or America-haters. So I go to Ask, and type the same thing. The fucking first link (which is a link to google, so it’s a sponsored link, that ISN’T MARKED AS SUCH) IS TO A FUCKING MOONBAT TRUTHER SITE. But I DID (after adding “lands on europe”) a link to Volokh where he excerpts a Tom Wolfe book.
Turns out it was a French socialist writer named Jean-François Revel who said it.
But you’d have a hard time finding that out if you asked Google.
As an aside - I don’t know that the search results themselves reflect a bias on Google’s part, or a bias on the internet towards the interlinking of the moonbat, truther, and broader anti-American communities. But the sponsored result? Come on.
(hat time: Instapundit. Who started this whole thing by linking Althouse.)
Punk Spam
Yeah, that’ll work. Insult me, why don’t you.
Spam subject: “what a stupid face you have here brian”
And all that’s in it is a link entitled “Watch” that goes God knows where.
Well, at least it’s a blatant attempt to pwn my machine, and it isn’t masquerading as something that will make my dick 57 feet long.
Crimson, explorer.
Dog has figured out how to undo her cable. Which means I need a new one.
At any rate, I’m keeping an eye on her to make sure she doesn’t graze. Satisfied that she’s not chowing on the flora, I go wash some bottles. I go back to check on her, and she’s at the back fence. Luckily, I caught her before she went exploring the neighborhood again.
This dog is trying to drive me insane.
Upgrade!
Upgraded to 2.5.1. Why can’t everything be this painless?
We’ll see if it breaks anything. But the interface is certainly slicker.
Dead grass isn’t much fun.
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!
test post
Joe can’t seem to get this to work.
God needs a new calendar.
It’s supposed to be April showers. April.
This is March.
Just thought you might like to know.
Relocation.
Moved to a new host. If you can read this, you’re there.
If you can’t read it, drop me a line to let me know it didn’t work.
kthxbye.