goofballs

I you haven't watched this movie , you should do so ASAP. Also, G. Gordon Liddy is a douchebag.

I didn't know the Pentagon hired trans-genders. Maybe I've been wrong all along about the administration. Oh, wait.. "I hate all Iranians." Looks matches the ideology.

Vindication! What is this? INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/09/28 02:20:33 | 2:20:33> |||| [inprogress/] S! [clown]/1/gg_cars-com.product.spd5//-1/1{t:119 c:gg-cw01.dev.COMPANY p:100.30 ems:3839652 qms:28414413 I'll tell you what that is.. that's Java running our application on Free-fucking-BSD, that's what.. How you like them apples, Product Manager?

A moment of levity.

Wondering where to find resources online to help in the struggle to defend the sovereignty of Iran against criminal mad-men Bush and Cheney? Look no further: http://www.iransolidarity.endofempire.org/ If you live in New York, or you simply love the first amendment, please let this scumbag know: As the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, prepares to address Columbia University today amid a storm of student protest, state and city lawmakers say they are considering withholding public funds from the school to protest its decision to invite the leader to campus. In an interview with The New York Sun, the speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, said lawmakers, outraged over Columbia's insistence on allowing the Iranian president to speak at its World Leaders Forum, would consider reducing capital aid and other financial assistance to the school. Regarding the World Trade Center debacle, in which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad wanted to place a wreath of mourning from the Ir...

As if I needed more evidence that the Project Manager title was a secret cabal intent on interfering the the affairs of operations personnel I give you the following example: This morning the same project manager described in Datacenter Confidential #6 sent an email to my boss complaining about, well, let's put it in his own words: We’re running short on PROJECTNAME grid machines. I wonder if we have a status on PROJECTGRIDWORKER, which went down few weeks ago. Also, is it possible to run Linux on PROJECTMYSQLSERVER? It appears that in order to run our java programs on it, we have to modify/port the underlying scripts. We’re really have no time to do such a thing. It will be much easier if all grid machines are consistent and run on standard operating system. I’d strongly recommend we standardize on Linux for all of our production and development grid/non grid, as it is consistent and seems to be the industry standard. We need a couple of machines to be configured for golden gate ...

If you are a "pro-blogger" you are a columnist. Saying "pro-blogger" is like saying "professional amateur." goofballs has spoken! (Watch this come back to bite me later.)

Here is a link to an interview with Reverend Lennox Yearwood , the man illegally battered and politically imprisoned by fascists in the video above. Government should fear the people not the other way around. Revolution now.

Apparently (and it comes as no surprise, again), I can list as an intellectual ally one Anthony Bourdain : Chocolate martini : Both chocolate and liquor are good in bars, but ordering them together announces that you don't like or appreciate either. Anyone who requests this drink should also get a T-shirt that says "I am an asshole, please take my money." Chef Bourdain has been known to guest blog over at Michael Ruhlman's site , who is a fellow Clevelander. And of course the Bourdain quote is a direct ideological validation of my previously stated thoughts regarding the state of the modern cocktail in general and "status" vodkas in particular.

Here is the playlist and text of the "liner-notes" I am sending to my Aunt and Uncle in upstate New York. Briefly, on background, I used to send them tapes when I was much younger. My Aunt, who was then a school teacher for troubled children, would play my mixes and discuss them with her students. My Aunt, my Father's Sister, has always demonstrated a greater appreciation for music I deemed "cool" or "relevant" than my actual parents, probably as a result of dealing with a large number of individuals in my age group. --- JANE & TED'S EXCELLENT MIXTAPE (AHEM, CD) 2007 EDITION PROGRAMME A: 01) The District Sleeps Alone Tonight / The Postal Service / "GIVE UP" 04:44 02) Easy On Yourself / The Drive-by Truckers / "A BLESSING AND A CURSE" 03:28 03) Don't Leave the Light on Baby / Belle and Sebastian / "FOLD YOUR HANDS CHILD, YOU WALK LIKE A PEASANT" ...

A few items (possible future blog topics): watching a short promo for a KQED program entitled "immigration in-focus" i looked up to notice that they were subtitling the, in english, words spoken by an indian woman with a slight accent. i was having no trouble understanding what she was saying until my brain was suddenly saddled with reading and listening (at the same time! omg hard). are americans really that dumb? of course we are, and, in fact, i often wish there were subtitles in real life when some of them speak (and i'm not just talking about the president). allen greenspan insinuated that the war in iraq is about oil, but then insinuated that is wasn't. we report, you decide. meta. let's talk about meta-blogs. you know, blogs about blogs. worse, blogs about writing better blogs. almost without exception, a blog written about writing a better blog is not worth reading. moreover, the raison d'etre of writing a (boring) blog about how to write blogs is sl...

http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/ That's a lot of money just to blow up a few hundred thousand brown people.

Folks, let's talk about a menace creeping across the nation. It may already be in your town or province. You may know someone who has succumbed. You may have already fallen victim. I am talking, of course, of "premium vodkas." What is vodka? Well, vodka is a grain alcohol and it can be made with wheat or potatoes, or in a pinch, rice. Here's how wikipedia defines it: Vodka is one of the world's most popular distilled beverages. It is a liquid containing water, ethanol purified by distillation from a fermented substance such as grain or molasses, and an insignificant amount of other substances: impurities and possibly flavorings. Except for various types of flavorings, vodka is a colorless liquid. Vodka usually has an alcohol content of 35% to 50% by volume. The classic Russian and Polish vodka is 40% (USA 80 proof). This can be attributed to the Russian standards for vodka production introduced in 1894 by Alexander III from research undertaken by the Russian chemi...

While the average systems administrator harbors disdain for a large number of professionals, including but not limited to marketing and/or public relations, sales, middle and senior management, she or he reserves a special kind of burning hatred for those freeloaders who call themselves "project managers." The "project manager" is a dangerous beast, and it is incumbent on the systems administrator to deflect, devalue or otherwise avoid the project manager altogether. Project managers are the natural enemy of systems administrators because they are skilled hucksters, con-men and women, do-nothing hangers-on sucking gleefully on the teate of the tech industry. What differentiates them from the other freeloaders, opportunists and ne'er-do-wells who are attracted to that good start-up dollar is that they get in the way of the well-established sysadmin racket. Let me explain. For a long time I struggled to come up with a succinct definition of what my job entailed un...

Right on, Kathy. First, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences snubs the finest TV show ever made, The Wire . Then, they censor Kathy Griffin for her comments accepting an Emmy. Fuck. The. Emmy's. As usual, the same cadre of fat-headed, misogynistic, intolerant Cathlo-fascist creeps are up in arms: Bill Donahue, Pat Robertson, the idiots on Faux News. Does no one see the irony, no, the hypocrisy of the same group of people decrying censorship of Mohamed cartoons and calling for the censorship of statements made against their religion? Well, anyone besides Glenn Greenwald , that is. This all goes to show that the Right is nothing more than a bunch of thin-skinned, alarmist, scared shitless pansies who can't take a joke and feel so insecure in their faith and sexuality as to have to take it out on everyone else (normal, sane people). Fuck YOU Bill Donahue, Fuck YOU Jesus, Fuck YOU Mohamed, and Fuck YOU Emmy's.