Every Man a King

When the inevitable economic collapse occurs, will we get a pleasantly technocratic National Uncle like FDR, or a nativist religious populist, an American Franco/Peron?

What a nasty set of dice we’ll have to roll. I wish I was an optimist about politics.

The Love Van

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The Love Van, originally uploaded by conradh.

This vehicle loves you. In the Borders parking lot on 19th in Costa Mesa. Unfortunately the other stuff on the van was just conventional religious ranting.

THE WORLD OF OBJECTS IS THE DOMAIN OF THE DEMIURGE

  1. CAR: Mysteriously jumping out of gear intermittently going between 2nd and 3rd, or sometimes 3rd and 4th. Today, new behavior consisting of the ever-informative CHECK ENGINE light going on, sometimes accompanied by a nonspecific warning from the VEHICLE STABILITY ASSIST program.
  2. DSL: Intermittently out, then totally out. Diagnostics with nice man from Speakeasy resulted in removing the surge protector from the line: margins went from 13% to 18% and now I’m back to normal… …FOR NOW.
  3. LAPTOP: Power cord now likes to sidle out of its socket, causing power loss, unwanted sleep mode, hilarity.

We’re phrasing out the neologidigm coinagwise

DJ Codswallop: substitute: do a sanity check for me
DJ Codswallop: is “vision space” an existing buzzword
substitute: it’s not familiar to me…
DJ Codswallop: guh.
DJ Codswallop: well.
DJ Codswallop: i just coined it, i guess
DJ Codswallop: this is why you should never let me write proposals while tweaking
substitute: Is vision space like customer space but for internal customers who are knowledge workers?
DJ Codswallop: vision space is more like an enteprise-wide architecture that is service oriented yet goals driven
DJ Codswallop: on a go-forward basis
substitute: this meta-presentation gives an overview at the 100,000 foot level for decision-makers of our ROI-based framework which has been developed as a wireframed model of ur mom
DJ Codswallop: substitute you are my brother in christ
DJ Codswallop: but the next time i see you i will kill you