Category Archives: random silliness

avoiding labels (Montana edition)

Since Reagan, the conservatives have successfully made “liberal” a bad word. Politicians ran away from that label. They were not “liberal” they were “progressive”. So its not surprising that if a politician feels that he/she is being “labeled” in a … Continue reading

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Early death predicted!

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High-Speed Rail and the “Reason” Foundation.

Here is what the “Reason” Foundation says about High Speed Rail: If you don’t want to read the whole thing: a Highway project in Massachusetts ended up cost more money than planned for — as we all know highway projects … Continue reading

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Open Letter to iPhone Users: Please stop whining

Dear iPhone fanboi and fangrl, If you are in Canada, the US, New Zealand or pretty much anywhere in the world. Please accept the sad reality that you are a sheep to be fleeced. I understand that it is not … Continue reading

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anti-sales people at LayeredTech

Talk about a really interesting take on what being a sales person means. It is my general (perhaps misconceived) notion that when a customer contacts a sales person that their job is to try to evaluate the customer’s needs and … Continue reading

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I actually agree with Paris Hilton

All I can say is… I am shocked! I actually agree with Paris Hilton. From her statement to the press about all the hullabaloo around her 45-day jail sentence: “I must also say that I was shocked to see all … Continue reading

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“yestertime”

File this under “words that should be in the dictionary”. RAM (4yrs-old) has this great word, “yestertime”. If yesterday means the day before today, then “yestertime” should exist and mean some time before yesterday. What a great word!

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if I should bet on fools

I got to love this site that advertises on places like NewsMax which is for denial-of-reality people. Using the what goes-down-must-go-up inverted law of gravity, the website says: Let’s say you decide to err on the side of Iraqi prosperity. … Continue reading

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if ImprovEverywhere can come out here….

I was listening to This American Life and they had a program that they called “Mind Games”. It is about ImprovEverywhere. This is a group that does great street theatre. My favorite is “Look up More”. Although, the mini-skit of … Continue reading

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when hitech data loss becomes unfunny

a while ago I mentioned posted about crashing hard drives turned to music. Well suddenly, its not so funny! My Acomdata 320GB Harddive suddenly started making those same sounds. Got a techsupport email “call” in today. Promised a response within … Continue reading

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