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Technical question
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Please tell me why the smoke detectors have started going off while I am taking a shower. Seriously. What’s up with that? I assume there is some electrical short somewhere triggered by the damp, but I could be completely wrong. And it isn’t like I am taking a shower and simultaneously leaving broiling food unattended [...]
Thangs, in list form
Friday, June 27th, 2008
My company has an official anti-glitter policy. Ponder that for a while. I am sitting on a draft post about the parallel issues regarding the gay marriage laws and gun laws but I have to post it because of the jackassery that will ensue. Let me sum it up thusly: You can burn up a [...]
He wanted citizens to get angry enough to remake the system.
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
“They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting [...]
Another article about the startling number of southpaws running for president.
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
“Both major party candidates are southpaws, contributing to a largely unexplained phenomenon that has vexed researchers and historians — and drawn notice from a federal judge destined for the Supreme Court.” Yawn. “Researchers who have studied handedness have found links to genetics and to brain function, but there is no prevailing theory to explain the [...]