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The more I blog, the more I reveal about my dark seedy underside and nerdulous past. I cannot help it, I am greatly amused by this.
Read the entire comic here.
Water Closets raided! It could happen to you!
The long arm of law has been plunging the depths of the criminal world and victory has been achieved; the CBC reports the following:
“OTTAWA – Ottawa police have arrested a man with an apparent penchant for toilet flushers.
Police allege a man stole flushing mechanisms from public and private toilets across the capital.
The targets included restaurants, shopping malls, hospitals, medical clinics and private sector facilities.
Police say the electronic and manual flushing mechanisms have an estimated value of about $100 to $1,000 each.
Robert Morissette, 51, was arrested last Tuesday and is charged with 24 counts of theft under $5,000, 24 counts of mischief to property under $5,000 and 24 counts of breach of probation.”
24 counts! That is awesome! Let it be known here in Canada we will not be acommodating toilet thievery of any kind!
When toilet thievery just is not enough, summon the awesomness of Chuck Norris!
Notice the sand - Keep them at the beach, please, folks.
I get a little snarky during the summer as people decide that ‘everyday is a beach day’ and decide to wear thong sandals or ‘flip-flops’ as regular footwear. Aesthetically, the typical flip flop is an eyesore as it is usually grimy and worn down almost to nothing. Folks, replace your three dollar footwear if it looks ratty, I’m sure you have the spare change. The typical FF also as a recent article from the World Daily points out, is bad for you.
“When people wear flip-flops, the muscles on the front of their shins work harder than they do when people are barefoot. The increased muscle activity may be a result of the toes trying to grip the shoe to keep it in place.Flip-flops shorten your stride length and can cause pain in your lower legs.” (See the study here)
So, stop it and cure me of my vexation over your poor choice of footwear.
Religion deserves only one thing… er two things. The first being relegated to the dustbin of history, secondly ridicule. A nice helping of that from a gentlemen named Marcus Brigstock.
CBC reports -BARRIE, Ont. – A skateboarder in his birthday suit upset people at a beach in Barrie, Ont.
The naked man apparently was planning a skinny dip in the bay at Centennial Beach Friday evening.
Irate parents confronted him, and police were called.
The man put on his clothes.
Police responding to the calls gave him a warning.
They then drove him home.
No harm, no foul. Just funny :)
Set individuality to 11!
I’ll say it straight out. I am not a fan of Apple products. They are easy to use, fantastic, but are they useful? In my opinion, absolutely not. I break technology. I get mad, frustrated, annoyed even to the level of wanting to TISP!(*) my computers down a very dark and deep hole. The thing is once fixed, through hard work and fair amount of luck, I know how to fix something if it breaks like that again or at least diagnose what not to do the next time. Apple takes the me borking my hardware aspect out of computing, easier for me, but also more limiting. The CBC article mirrors some of my concerns.
“On one hand are the all-too-familiar complaints about pricing for the device’s 3G wireless capabilities. On the other are criticisms that Apple is trying to maintain too tight a control over what users can and can’t do with their gadgets, or that the company is trying to remake the web to its liking.”
Do not forget the requisite shaft for Canadian Broadband consumers:
“The company announced it would offer two plans, one allowing for 250 megabytes of monthly usage for $15 and another giving five gigabytes for $35. That angered potential customers, who pointed out on the company’s Redboard forum that AT&T in the United States was offering a superior plan — unlimited usage — for less money, or $30 (U.S.).
Rogers staff responded by saying that five gigabytes was more than enough usage based on its existing customers’ usage of smartphones and laptop data sticks.”
Lovely. But unsurprising.
“Apple is maintaining similar tight control over what sort of content can go onto the iPad, and even what can be attached to it. The device lacks a CD or DVD drive, as well as a standard USB plug, which means that connecting to Apple’s iTunes through the company’s specially designed plug is the only easy way to get media onto the device.”
Steve Jobs and his for all of his proprietary bullshite can rightly be called His Most Excellent Buttplug of High Douchatude from now on. I buy your hardware and then the only way I can put things on it is through a media pipe of your choosing. Frack the hell off Apple.
“The general public doesn’t think of the iPad as a device where someone other than the owner has the keys to it,” he said. “They haven’t thought, ‘Why is this allowed?’ They just think, ‘Oh, it’s a cool device.'”
And the general public is stupid. Most of the i-crap is more about looking hip and cool. Forget about net neutrality, open source and open access software, as long as my waste of skin peer group can identify me by my glaringly white ear buds I’m “good”. The Apple phenomena is the hybridization of stupid people with stupid devices, profitable but ultimately not good for us.
Repackaged Trendy Shite for the Dullard Masses in 3...2...1...
I get a few hits from objectivists now and then, I figure I’d throw another post up detailing how silly Atlas Shrugged actually is when looked at err…objectively. :)
Shamelessly ripped from the Randzapper blog.
Greed builds a stronger society. Uh-oh...
“But let’s take a closer look. Here are a few political, economic, cultural, and other developments that Atlas failed to foresee:
A period of prosperity commencing in the late ’50s and continuing, with only minor downturns, until the present day. (Atlas foresaw a Great Depression.)
The information revolution – personal computers, the Internet, and loathsome little blogs like this one. (In Atlas, people are still banging away on typewriters and getting their news from newsreels.)
The outsourcing of basic manufacturing industries to Third World countries, and the rise of a service- and information-based economy. (Sayonara, Rearden Steel.)
The eclipse of rail travel by the airline industry, and the eclipse of cargo trains by the trucking industry. (Happy trails, Taggart Transcontinental.)
The ubiquity of television. (Galt’s speech is broadcast mainly on the radio. There is a passing reference to television, but TV does not play any role in the story. This is especially odd since TV was already well established by 1957.)
Americans’ mass immigration to the Sunbelt and the West. (In Atlas, all the financial and commercial action is in New York City and its surrounds. The West is a lot of open desert, suitable for running train tracks through. Colorado is so empty that a whole valley can be hidden there, unknown to the outside world. The South does not appear to exist at all.)
New directions in science. (Gene-splicing, quantum theory, string theory or any equivalents are absent from Atlas, which presents a scientific community still mired in Newtonian assumptions.)
The demise of hats. (Nobody wears hats anymore. In Atlas, everybody does.)
Now, suppose someone had told Ayn Rand fifty years ago, on the day of her book’s triumphant debut, that over the next five decades there would be a significant growth of government spending, taxes, regulations, and controls … and that in the same period of time, there would be unprecedented prosperity, an unrivalled explosion of scientific and technological knowledge, and a blossoming of freedom around the world.
Would she have believed it? No way. In high dudgeon she would have insisted that such an outcome was logically untenable, entailing fatal contradictions.
Yet that’s exactly what has happened.
So … Happy Birthday, Atlas. Enjoy your cake and punch. But don’t party too hearty.
Frankly, dear … you’re showing your age.”
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