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Another in what has apparently become an ongoing series of videos of guys doing things that make me wonder what I think about guys who work stuff like this out.  This one is about how to tie your shoes fast. No, really.  I mean really, really, as in almost instantaneously, fast.

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Let me hear you say it

Back during the last administration,  “W” proposed stimulating the economy by allowing business to accelerate write-offs.  Our friends on the left were livid, what with anything benefiting businesses being evil and all and Bush being an obvious moron. Our Dear Leader’s newest plan to fix everything includes stimulating the economy by allowing business to accelerate [...]

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We have how many now?

If you weren’t already convinced that the Federal Government’s primary, overriding purposes are to propagate and perpetuate itself, reward the faithful with jobs created in an ever-increasing web of bureaucratic entanglement, and call attention to its attempts to address relatively mundane issues with great fanfare, while ignoring issues of more fundamental importance, maybe this will [...]

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Thinking outside the box. Or the shrink-wrap. Or whatever it is this stuff is packaged in.

I don’t know quite what to say about this guy.  He either has too much time on his hands, too much disposable income in his pocket, or he really, really, really doesn’t like Ikea.

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Back to business

I finally got Windows 7 purchased and installed this afternoon.  Now I’m in the process of re-installing every piece of software that I use regularly.  The firewall and anti-virus weren’t too bad, but I had a hell of a time with Quicken.  I don’t really have time for it, but I’m so tired of the [...]

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Wait a minute. This seems sort of familiar.

Our Dear Leader is going to fix the economy by rolling out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways Is it just me, or didn’t we already try the ” 1) Let’s spend some money we don’t have, 2) pretend it will create jobs because we [...]

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It’s official

Yes, boys and girls, I really did it this time.  My operating system is officially toast.  Looks like I’ll be out buying a copy of Windows 7 in the morning.  For tonight, I’m just going to re-install Linux on the hard drive I wanted it on in the first place and then I’ll work on [...]

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Well, this is interesting

Interesting, as in “may you live in interesting times and be noticed by important people.” I’m trying to teach myself to write small programs in JAVA  (it’s a long story).  I was having some problems with the JAVA development stuff causing some conflicts with some of my other programs so I decided to install the [...]

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I wonder why?

From a joke thread at reddit: René Descartes walks into a bar and orders a beer. When he finishes the glass the bartender asks him if he’d like another. Descartes says, “I think not,” and pop he disappears. As a philosophy degree-holder, I hate hearing this joke while I’m flipping burgers.

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Saturday storytime

I have a rule about Ratlands.  I don’t give out the name of the site to my co-workers.  It isn’t that there’s anything here that embarrasses me; I’m well aware that nothing on the internet is private and nothing on the internet ever goes away and I operate accordingly.  Although I have an ego as [...]

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