Illuminatea

The more Steph and I listen to Brad Paisley, the more impressed we are. (Those of you who don't know who he is, he's a country singer. If you don't like country, that's fine, you can stop reading, although I suggest you go to the video section of his website and at the very least watch Whiskey Lullaby, the duet he does with the incomparable Alison ...

''My computer can beat up your computer.'' What a load of horse hockey. I've long been tired of the whole PC vs. Mac vs. Intel vs. AMD vs. RISC vs. Windows vs. UNIX vs. Linux rat race, and was finally motivated to sum my precise feelings yesterday when commenting on a friend's computer plans: Computers are tools, not religious icons or penis ...

I think Robert Heinlein said it best in ''The Happy Days Ahead'', an essy from his 1980 collection Expanded Universe: Baseline: fifty-odd years ago astrology was commonly regarded as a ridiculous formersupersition, one all but a tiny minority had outgrown. It is now the orthodoxy of many, possiblya majority. This pathological change parallels the ...

This will be a category I visit every now and then. Think of it as a running list of things of such excruciating stupidity that the people who do them need to get their asses kicked. It won't name specific names, unless I think that would be more funny than otherwise. To start off... People who put ATA/EIDE peripherals in a system and mix manual ...