What it said:Netherlands Adopts Open-Source Software
What I saw:Neanderthals Adopt Open-Source Software

I have a headache from congestion. It's so bad I can feel it pressing against the nerves of my teeth.

I wish I had whisky.

Technically, I suppose I do, but it's Bruichladdich, and you don't just slosh four or five ounces of that into a glass.

I wonder if coffee ice cream would help.

So the pillbug (a.k.a. the mini-monkey) was playing in the living room while I read the post by the latest oddball who lives in Cougar Ridge ( Read more... )

Have you looked into Cougar Ridge yet ( Read more... )

It's for building a shelf for the monkeys' movies. They can't share ours anymore.

We continue to acquire perfectly good VHS movies at the expense of society's foolish infatuation with a less durable medium.

Enemy Mine1
Time After Time
The Toxic Avenger
D.O.A. (1988)
Anastasia (1997)2, 3
Amelie (subtitled)1
Fade to Black (1980)
Attack of the ( Read more... )

So the pillbug and I were making her lunch ( Read more... )

One of our semi-local1 video rental stores is getting rid of their VHS stock. This is disappointing, because it means they'll only have DVDs, and the sound quality is worse on DVD2.

But they're getting rid of their VHS catalog by selling it for $1-2 per tape!

In the last ten days or so, we have acquired:Barbie as Rapunzel3
The Adventures of Elmo ( Read more... )

[Found via edders - someone I don't know.]

Your home is a Philanthropic Mansion
Your kitchen is someplace you never go, because you "have people for that." There's a pantry loaded with enough alcohol to survive another Prohibition -- which you do tend to worry about. Get help, man. Your master bedroom is the size of a small barn, with carpet ( Read more... )

On the 'phone with satanismyname tonight, he told me about a downstate state senator who is chairman of the Committee for Legislative Action. (This guy looks familiar from last election or the one before - I'll have to look into that and find out why.)
( I tend to go along with the (usually) great folks at Snopes, who explain very nicely why Iterent petitions are crap. )

( Cut 'cause it's stupid. )