The juxtaposition was rich!  Boy, do I have a diverse set of friends and family!!!

This story on NPR reveals research that shows: nope… teenagers actually aren’t thinking!

Full story here

Look, a man can only piss his life away for so long.

This is all.

Look, if the only conversation we have happens once or twice a year for technical support, don’t bother calling.  Instead, please refer to the following diagram which explains exactly how I solve your problems…

Yes… I am about to bestow upon you the secret formula to becoming a successful “computer person”…

Teach a man to fish…

This is me trying to carve a turkey last November while also trying to keep others from picking the skin.

Microsoft wants to open its own retails stores, just like Apple.  My question is, what product is Microsoft going to stock the shelves with that will sufficiently capture the imagination of regular people — not it’s core customer base — but regular every day people to walk in and touch and see?

I am going to be an uncle today for the 11th time.  I think I’m starting to get this right.  Father?  That can wait.

My cousin wants me to buy a video camera so I can video her wedding.  I’m not opposed to the idea of videoing her wedding, but if the video camera I want was too expensive four months ago to video my own wedding, what makes her think that I will be able to justify the expense now for someone else’s wedding?

Was thinking on the way to work about bigger vs better, prompted by a story on NPR about high-rise buildings in America which are now being ‘green’ retrofitted in order to compete in the contemporary commercial real estate market.   I noted that even though we are obsessed in this country with size (see your nearest cell phone carrier commercial), bigger isn’t always better.  In fact, better is usually always better than bigger.  I’d rather have two great kids than ten screwed up kids.  I’d rather have a clean 1,000 sq ft house than a trashed out 10,000 sq ft mansion.  I’d rather have my reliable, small Civic than any kind of trashy GM car.

I can’t get permalinks to work in WordPress on IIS.  Just one more reason to hate Microsoft.

Sotomaior’s confirmation hearing has been a snoozer.  Why can’t she say something like, “I can’t wait to get in there and start sticking it to the white man!”  I’m also not looking forward to the onslaught of Lantinos asking (as did the African American community after Obama’s election) “What has she done for us?”  News flash: she’s gonna be a supreme court justice for the entire United States of America, not the United Latinos of America.  Barack is not only the President of the United Black People of America, he’s my prez too!

I fixed the projector last night.  We celebrated by watching an old-school re-run of Mission: Impossible with Peter Graves.  My wife had never seen it before.  She made fun of it the whole time.  Sad.

I got about 10 things checked off my to-do list yesterday.  It was a good, productive day.

Here’s hoping today is just as good.

When you’re married, though, and your wife leaves on a work trip… suddenly being a bachelor sucks a whole lot more than it ever did before!

COME HOME SOON!!!

Is it to extol the many wonders and beauties of the natural world?

Is it to chronicle the lives of peculiar creatures?

Is it to provide insights into the world around us?

No.

It is so I can fall asleep to it on Sunday evenings.

Thank you, PBS!

$170,000,000,000

(yes, that’s BILLION)

from the taxpayers, because their company is going to fail and cause financial armageddon if it does… and then gives its crooked leadership

$165,000,000

(yes that’s MILLION)

in bonuses and ‘retention payments’ for causing the mess?

I don’t care if it’s how financial professionals are compensated.  When I do crappy work, I dont’ get compensated… In fact, I’d be at home collecting unemployment if I did as bad a job as they have.

In fact, sometimes (currently) even when I do GREAT work, I don’t get my bonus… because of the greater economy.

To make matters worse, we’re told that although the government now has an

80% ownership stake in AIG

there is nothing our representatives can do to get that money back.

BULL.

We should be (and I am) completely outraged.

Anyone else with me in filing a class action lawsuit on behalf of the American People against AIG, naming the federal treasury as an accomplice, over this highway robbery of our hard earned money?

I will argue neither point.  This is simply an observation.

Advocates of both point to certain signs and symptoms that denote their existence, but sadly neither can conclusively prove or disprove their actual existence.

Ironic further is that (until recently) the inverse population seems to believe in each.  Typical God-fearing Christian Republicans stereotypically disbelieve in the theory of global warming, while environmentalists and global warming fanatics (until recently) tend to be Democratic and are more often humanists and/or atheists.

It’s ni-VAA-duh. Get it right, or pay the price.

When my fiance and I took our first extended trip, she decided to make a list of all the things she needed to remember to take.  She pulled out a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 lined paper and filled it all the way up…

… with only bathroom supplies.

There’s a simple truth in this world: I’m more productive when there’s more to do.

I don’t know why it is, but if you give me a list of 25 things to do, I will get 20 of them done, but if you give me a list of 2 things to do, none of them will get done.