goofballs

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.