So I watched the Biden-Palin debate with the sound turned down because 1) I was trying to work some and 2) I felt sick to my stomach (for completely unrelated reasons!) and didn't want to get doubly upset by the bad taste of canned folksiness. So instead I watched over this morning and also absorbed the best of the many, many liveblogs of the event ( Read more... )

It began so simply:

Long story short, D at Lawyers, Guns and Money writes a “Shorter Geraldine Ferraro Neo-neocon” in which the neo-neocon post is summarized, and a troll comes along and states:

As a participant in the thread that follows the link to neoneocon, I should like to point out that the quote you excerpted ( Read more... )

WARNING: High levels of rambleonium detected. Proceed at your own risk. Read only those you want; cancel anytime.

At 6:30, just as I'm about to go home from work, islaya85 IMs that she's looking for a concert-mate for Berlioz's Requiem. I knew Berlioz wrote good stuff, but I'd never heard his Requiem, even as a recording. (There's a reason for that!!) All ( Read more... )

I regret to inform you, honored seeker and visitor, that Catfish 'n Cod 3.0 is a mostly friends-only journal. As I am training as a professional and an academic, I cannot broadcast my personal opinions too widely lest they be used against me. Paranoid, you say? Alas, such behavior has been documented, even among those who should know better ( Read more... )

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

(For non-geeks: Kernighan invented the programming languages awk and [though he denies it] C, putting him at the level of geek demigod.)

“Think you can, or think you can't; either way, you're right.”
-- Henry Ford

"Americans always do the right thing... eventually."
-- Winston Churchill

"The difference between ignorance and stupidity is that ignorance can be easily cured by education. Stupidity, in contrast, is incurable. The most common form of stupidity is an ( Read more... )

I don't know about you, but I really don't think my Representative in Congress cares about what I think. I know this for a fact; I meet him on a plane every other January as he rushes back to get sworn in. He listens politely to me and tells me to call back to his staff, who of course never have any idea what I'm talking about ( Read more... )

A southern Baptist minister was completing a temperance sermon.With great emphasis he said, “If I had all the beer in the world, I’dtake it and pour it into the river.”

With even greater emphasis he said, “And if I had all the wine in the world, I’d take it and pour it into the river.”

And then finally, shaking his fist in the air, he ( Read more... )

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