So. Wow. An interesting week. Lehman Bros. goes down the shitter, Merrill Lynch gets bought under duress, causing a short sell attack on their buyer, and AIG's credit rating slips, causing our "leaders" to promise about $1 trillion of taxpayer money to sort this mess out. The financial talking heads on the news network have calculated that to be ( Read more... )

Avast, me heartys! *lifts grog*

Arrrrrr!

So. The veep picks have been made. Let's review ( Read more... )

This made me giggle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/7585098.stm

The best part is the customer's pithy response when told his password had to be only one word ...

So I got back from lovely New Hampshire just a few hours ago. I spent the weekend with a group of college friends, one which has an uncle with a house on Lake Winnipesaukee (spelling almost certainly wrong, and I'm too tired to check). The weekend was fabulous: swimming, oversized beach ball volleyball, and beer. Lots of beer ( Read more... )

Dear Xilinx,

Please die in a fire.

Your pal,
Bill

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So, in case you've been under a rock lately, Senator Ted Stevens has been indicted for not disclosing gifts he received from an oil company. To wit ( Read more... )

So tis the season when we see lots of motorcycles on the road. And lots of really stupid things done on them ( Read more... )

So, I've been averaging around 32 mpg in Red Rocket the Civic so far. That's not bad, but just last weekend I drove down to L.I. for the Fourth, and wouldn't you know it, I averaged 38 mpg both ways! w00t! And that's with running the AC most of the way.