We are no longer allowed to call Swine Flu Swine Flu. We must now call Swine Flu by its flu ID #, and not Swine Flu. So don't call Swine Flu Swine Flu anymore, ok? It is an attack on the meat companies and all things American to call Swine Flu by its name of Swine Flu.

And also, yay Bob Frank for taking on Fox Business and their idiotic robots ( Read more... )

I live life in GNU screen for remote development, and much of that in emacs without a GUI, but I occasionally need to run some graphics Python or Lisp code from inside screen.

The problem is when I would forward X connections over ssh, and then login from another machine, I could no longer forward any X programs. ( Read more... )

I wanted to balance my ranting with a shout out to two of my current favorite brands ( Read more... )

Note: I am not a lawyer and do not know how effective or legal this is, but if for some reason it becomes important I want a record of this.

[contact info redacted]
January 31, 2009

To:
Verizon Legal Department
Verizon Communications
140 West Street
New York, NY 10007

( Letter to Verizon )

There is a deep mental illness that permeates political discourse in this country. It goes far beyond the trifling differences between Democrat or Republican politicians, or the insanity of the idea that everyone's beliefs can be summed up on some sort of bipolar conservative/liberal scale. It involves fundamental issues of competence, ( Read more... )

When people ask me (since, as a Mac owner, I am proselytizer, zealot, and all-powerful all-knowing guru of all things Holy Apple, of course) if Macs work better than Windows, I say "Yes." Because they do. But working better than Windows is a pretty low bar, and there are times that Mac OS X just barely limps over it. Today was one of those times ( Read more... )

Sigh. And here is another reason I can never be a politician ( Read more... )

Raj: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10133425-38.html

Mike: saw that

Raj: awful

Mike: indeed

Mike: he's the worst black president we've ever had

Raj: lol

This, among many, many other reasons (not to mention my penchant for fetish porn), is why I can never be a politician.

This won't be as funny if you weren't forced to watch the travesty of celluloid that is this movie by your (former) friend Ben, but I present it anyway for your viewing pleasure. Thanks to sxxk1ttn for finding this and cleolinda for writing it!

http://community.livejournal.com/m15m/19551.html

I haven't seen this level of customer service since I left Sprint!

... Please wait for a chat representative to respond.

... Welcome to AT&T Technical Support Chat. My name is 'Autumn Reese' and I’ll be happy to assist you today.

Autumn Reese: Hello, Mr. -----.  I will be happy to assist you with your technical issue today.

Mike: Hello.

Mike: I ( Read more... )