Applied Indifference

Trees turning funny colors. Leaves all over the damn place. Dark before supper time.

Yup. It’s fall.

And it’s not going to get much over 70 for the next week, and it’s gonna be near freezing at night. Which means it’s everyone’s favorite time of the year: HEAT PURGE DAY!

Open all the windows, crank the heat to 100, and go for a walk. Otherwise, the last six months of accumulated cruft on the heating system will choke you.

I’d hoped to delay this a bit longer, but nature is a Mother.

Tags: Randomness by Brian Corbino
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Rockstar’s Bully has shipped. It would appear that the game is precisely the opposite of what assholes like Jack Thompson want you to believe it is.

Not that they’ll ever know. That’s the beauty of being better than everyone else. You get to stand in judgement of their plebian lives without ever having to experience any of it. So, JT and his merry band of assnozzles will continue to bray about how videogames are destroying our culture without actually ever laying hands on one.

After all, they’ve made up their minds. Why bother confusing things with the truth?

Tags: Politics, Video Games by Brian Corbino
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I’ve noticed a massive spike in stock-spam lately. You know what I’m talking about. You’ll get a message from some nice young anonymous telling you that some stock or another is ready for an AMAZING RALLY and you’d better not miss it. Oh, and it’s a penny stock, over-the-counter. For a company you’ve never heard of. And that claims they have nothing to do with the spam.

The last time this happened was just before the big crash in 2000. I suspect it was some kind of pump-and-dump scheme, where the pumper buys a big position, spams a million people, hooks a few suckers (running the price up) and dumps his entire holding in one shot, making the stock drop like a rock.

It’s a very efficient way to transfer money from suckers to thieves. It’s also possibly a harbinger of things to come.

Tags: News by Brian Corbino
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So, Mark Foley was a sexual predator. That he was also chair of the Senate Committe on missing and exploited children says volumes.

For one, it explains why nobody in our government seemed to care when Sudan was named to the UN Human Rights commission, or Iran to the UN Commission on Disarmament.

After all, they wouldn’t want to be called hypocrites, would they?

Tags: Politics by Brian Corbino
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