Today I drove to campus to pick up a book I ordered through interlibrary loan. On the library lawn a loudspeaker played upbeat music. I didn’t recognize the tunes, and the lyrics were in some language other than the two or three I recognize. But I could tell that the songs were joyous. Thirty or [...]
Archive for February, 2010
A Fine Saturday Afternoon
Posted in Vagaries of Life on February 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Doc’s New Rule (Apologies to Bill Maher)
Posted in Politics, Vagaries of Life on February 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been agonizing about a recent post here in which I may have said something sexist. I opined that Michelle Obama was so smart and so sexy that Obama would never dare or want to cheat on her. This was in the context of my contrast between liberal family values, such as those exhibited by [...]
Watchin’ The Health Care Summit
Posted in Politics on February 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As a Retired American I figured it was my duty to watch the health care summit today. So I stayed to the bitter end, all six and a half hours. The conversation was civil, for the most part, and where it wasn’t I’m sure the mainstream media will tell you about it, Trep. And that’s [...]
On Procrastination
Posted in Vagaries of Life on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This year, I promised myself in January, this year I will do my taxes in January. Well, here we are near the end of February and the records I dutifully gathered together early in January are still sitting in a neat pile on my desk, untouched since then by human hand. I used to have [...]
Update: Them Old Technology Blues
Posted in Gaming and Tech on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today I won my wrestling match with Windows 7 on my sparkly laptop. Yay! I was fooling around with it, making sure it wouldn’t crash, when lightning struck near the house with no warning whatever. Out of the blue, so to speak. The subsequent thunder rumble was loud enough to wake up White Guy. I [...]
Conservative Wet Dreams
Posted in Politics on February 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Cheney The Dick was a surprise guest at CPAC yesterday and he got a standing ovation, amid cries of “Cheney 2012”! And he only snarled a little bit when he announced that Obama is a one-term president. I guess Obama gets to finish his first term unless the conservatives manage to trump up some high [...]
Them Old Technology Blues
Posted in Gaming and Tech on February 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m down to one computer. (As I type, I hear my sainted mother’s voice: “There are children in China who don’t have even one computer. So use the one you’ve got or you’ll go to bed without posting!”) As you know, Trep, my Mach V has a noisy fan, and I’m waiting for a replacement [...]
Why I like Final Fantasy VII (part 2) – the Characters
Posted in Gaming and Tech, tagged Final Fantasy VII on February 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
As they say, ignorance is the state of not knowing how much you don’t know. It wasn’t until I started reading online about Cloud Strife and the other characters from the movie FF:Advent Children that I began to realize that these were far more than characters out of an animated action comic book, which is [...]
It Was Only A Matter of Time . . .
Posted in Politics on February 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Funny the wingnuts who are so devoted to the Constitution haven’t read the part that says presidents can only be impeached for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” I guess if you you are a Republican your bar for “high crimes” is set pretty low, though. While I generally try not to harbor prejudice, I have decided [...]
For Mr. Desert Democrat
Posted in Ideology and Belief on February 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The headline on the major editorial in today’s Arizona Repulsive: “Charter Schools Aren’t Racist Tool.” The piece discusses a study done by UCLA which apparently suggests that charter schools promote “inequality of education for students of color in schools with lower achievement and graduation rates.” I say “apparently” because the editorialist supplies no source for [...]
