Archive for April, 2008

Kill Your TV

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Last week I watched Battlestar Galactica on my computer, full screen, 10 hours before it aired on the sci-fi channel. There were 3 or 4 Intel commercials that were really short. I think networks are starting to get the picture. TV is going away, like CDs are, and like radio is, like all traditional media [...]

pollen stress

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Anger Inc.

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Words of wisdom, no doubt:

Or are they? Here’s a rebuttal from my favorite anger movie of all time, Falling Down:

I think blowing shit up wins.

Subprimitive

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

While I want to believe in such simple truths as the government always gets it wrong, plain old statistics wouldn’t support me. Even the government could theoretically get something right…by chance.
The latest libertarian leaning criticism of government is blaming the government for the subprime crisis, particularly, the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. Sounds reasonable at [...]

Smoke Out

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Somewhere in the misty lands of corporate america, a building super is getting tough on smoking. Because that’s your job in a bureaucracy, making everyone else’s job more difficult. I’m not really kidding. Management has to justify their existence.
Smoking - Smoking is permitted in the designated area in the lower deck where the benches and [...]