My son says cute things

This is something that all parents sort of figure out I think. And then they annoy their friends by talking about it. And then their friends have kids, and they annoy their friends back.

But this is different. My son says really cute things.

Instead of whipped cream, he says RIPPED cream.

Something that has a sharp edge on it isn't sharp, it's SHARK.

When you go to school, don't forget your PACKBACK.

Bananas are LELLOW.

When you go down stairs, you go to the SPACEMENT.

I'm going to add to this when I remember some more.

Frames are bad, m'kay?

Just a quick little open letter to the web community. When someone posts a question about having a problem with Framesets in HTML, don't read the first six words of their question (which usually is 'I have a page with frames...') and reply that using frames is bad, that only stupid people with stupid designs use frames, and that they need to convert to using DIV tags and CSS and innerHTML and JavaScript or whatever.

Sometimes
WE HAVE TO WORK WITH THE ARCHITECTURE WE ARE GIVEN.

The world isn't perfect. There are people right now in Burma building pages with FrontPage on 486's, using HTML tables for alignment. Not saying that most of us work in those conditions, but replacing the ENTIRE system with a different design isn't always an option when you have one tiny little problem that needs to be fixed yesterday.

So, instead of insulting the person who needs help to fix the steaming pile of *s* that they have to work on, just offer some helpful advice on how to solve the problem they asked.

M'kay? Thanks.

Norway shooter used "dum-dum bullets"

The latest report from Norway - the shooter may have used "dum-dum bullets". Unless I'm really confused here, that would be what us people living in the 21st century call HOLLOW POINT AMMUNITION. You know, the same exact thing that police, civilians, hunters, and just about every person who isn't shooting a paper target uses.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110724/norway-shooting-investigation-110724/

Is this going to turn into another outbreak of that stupidity when they try to blame the ammo instead of the shooter?

Note to the Canadian press: nobody has used the term "dum-dum bullet" since about 1890 or so. You might want to use some more recent terms. Or consult someone with even a tiny bit of firearms knowledge before posting this sort of nonsense. Right-e-oh? Jolly good and all that then, eh?

Worst comping ever?

I guess it's not the worst ever, but it's bad. I think the lesson here is FIND A POOL WITH A COVER ON IT IN A BACKYARD. Don't take a picture of a pool, overlay a picture of a cover, and then drop the whole mess in a picture of a yard.

http://www.bjs.com/robelle-28-round-super-deluxe-winter-pool-cover.product.128067

Bad boys, bad boys

Mommy, I'm scared.

http://www.fitsnews.com/2011/06/09/rich-rise-of-the-police-state/

The most ridiculous piece of this article:

"... the definition of what constitutes a “SWAT-worthy” offense has broadened considerably – as multiple federal agencies now reserve the right to knock down your door for virtually any reason. For example, earlier this week a SWAT team raided a home in California – roughing up a man whose estranged wife had failed to pay back her student loans. What agency issued the warrant for this raid? The U.S. Department of Education – which recently purchased more than two dozen 12-gauge shotguns to help prevent “waste, fraud, abuse and other criminal activity involving federal education funds, programs and operations."

I hope I haven't forgotten to pay the water bill. Or accidentally thrown away a florescent bulb.

Weiner... lewd photo... probe

Oh my god... too many jokes... head going to explode...

BOOM!

Serbian genocidal madman Mladic arrested

Was he really the monster they say? I never questioned anything I heard growing up about the events in Serbia during the early 1990's. I was in high school then, and had no reason to question anything that I learned. While reading about Mladic, I stumbled on to this article about Srebrenica:

http://serbianna.com/analysis/archives/158

I've never read a counter-point to the official report before. It's like one of those things you don't dispute, that everyone takes for granted, and that you would be branded a racist or cruel bastard for wondering if the stories are all they seem to be.

I don't know what happened. Who does? But it's something to see an alternate version of the events. As in most cases where a major military operation ends with the complete destruction of the enemy, the bloodlust rarely stops when the soldiers stop fighting. Would the story have been the same if the opposition forces reversed the battle?

Is it a massacre because the soldiers who lost and the side that was ravaged and raped belonged to our allies? Or would we overlook the atrocities of the people we supported with arms and money?

Just some things to think about.

Why is the DOW down today? Let's throw darts to figure it out.

Seriously, guys, get your stories straight.



If you want to invent a reason for the stock market dropping, make up your FOOCKING MINDS.

That's all, just felt like putting that out there.

Geek Lexicon Vol 1: Chapter 1: Part 1: Numbers

If find that there are things I'm just supposed to know about as a member of the smarty-pants computer loving video gaming sci-fi watching (but still cool overall) clich. So I've decided to compile a Geek Lexicon. It'll be a sort of Codex of Ultimate Wisdom for geek lore. Or just a few pages of stuff that everybody else already knows.

Either way, it'll be fun to make.


Geekodex Vol 1: Chapter 1: Part 1: Numbers

4294967295 = largest number that can be represented by 32 bits
In other numbering systems:
Hexadecimal: FFFFFFFF
Binary: 11111111111111111111111111111111

On the binary note, I discovered a long time ago that 42 is 101010. The other day my 5 year old daughter wrote 101010 on the bottom of a drawing. I asked her why and she didn't know. Douglas Adams was right - it must be coded right into our DNA.

Comments on Last.fm

Sometimes you come across rare gems in the comments section of websites. This one is almost as epic as the song he was talking about:

LOL i lfucking love it in Crying when the little electronica technoish part comes and then his epic vocals come in as if he were saying GTFO witht hat techno shit and then it turns metal as fuck.

Ah, spoken like a true poet. I love when things turn metal as f*ck. 

Whatever that means.

Quote of the day

I saw this comment on Youtube today, in reference to the Japanese pumping radioactive water into the sea.

It's impossible to be happy in a world like this. I'm looking forward to the world built on the ashes of this one. Not that I'll survive the transition, though.
Baw.

Perfection.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDeFNDsfeoI&feature=player_embedded

Top predictions for the next few years

Here we go! My top predictions for the next year or so.

Much more expensive gas and energy prices. This one requires no explanation. It's kind of a 'no duh' prediction. The reason why it matters is that this year, it's REALLY going up. We've seen nothing compared to what is about to happen.

Another 'uprising' in a critical oil producing Middle Eastern country. Libya may or may not be having a real uprising. But it's awfully convenient that they're one of the largest producers of oil in the world, and they're about to have a new government, no doubt aided by the UN.

Reduced fluoridation of city water following studies that show that it doesn't need to be quite so high. This is due to the decrease of excess fluorine production from our collapsing industrial base.

Climbing stock markets but no increase in 'real' products. It's amazing how our economy is recovering without actually hiring all these people who lost all their jobs. Increasing the money supply and micro-trading the stock market to get the numbers up is not a real recovery, and sooner or later, the props are going to break.

More in-your-face religious rhetoric. The mainstream media is going to continue to use religion to fuel controversy and create more tension where none is needed. Hate and bigotry are good for ratings! They sell toothpaste, too.

Across the board reduction in education, and we'll be convinced that it's a good thing. Somehow, they're going to spin it that the education offered is somehow unbalanced, and we need to adjust things to make it fair and equitable, but what will really happen is that everyone will get less (except for private schools).

Another massive infrastructure failure. Remember that bridge that collapsed? I can't find many that do. What about that gas main explosion? No, not last month, the one a couple months ago. Expect to see much, much more of "little" events like that. The bridge was bad, but I think something even more terrible is coming. In our normal lives, expect stuff to start breaking all over the place, and oddly, not getting fixed as fast as it used to.

That's enough for now. I have some more, but they're still fragmented.

Quote of the day

Red Queen's Hypothesis

For an evolutionary system, continuing development is needed just in order to maintain its fitness relative to the systems it is co-evolving with.

Interesting. Describes our financial system very well, doesn't it? How much of the budget is dedicated just to paying off debt? How much of the GDP is now supported by "stimulus" and "easing"? How much more growth can this system support just for the sake of growth? We've got to move faster. Or maybe... smarter?

"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."

The Red Queen, Through the Looking-Glass