- IT’S THE HISTORY OF THE TOASTER HELMET IN FASHION!!! Damn. I really, really want a toaster helmet.
- Annals of Computer: I never knew there was a Chinese BASIC. Wow.
- Mad Scotsmen are planning to fling us to the moon.
Electro-Boy Gets Coffee
Laptop use is popular on the outdoor patio at Diedrich, especially since the free wifi went in. There’s only a couple of working plugs at one end of the place, so people who want to sit elsewhere have brought in an indoor/outdoor extension cord. It usually snakes through the bushes and over to the other side and sits near a table.
And then it rains, and the end of the extension cord sits in a puddle. And then a partial solution occurs, kinda at the wrong end for a solution. Yes, I did go unplug it after I shot this.
If you’re ready to succeed, then success is ready for you.
We’re here today to celebrate each other. Let’s all have a big hand for all of us. All of you! Yeah!
I don’t like to call these “seminars”. They’re FUNinars. Because what’s the most fun in life? Succeeding. And succeeding is what we’re going to do today. I’d like you to go ahead and look at your handouts now.
The real beauty of this system is how simple and fast it is. Ordinary people in their own homes — yes, like you — can build multiple streams of income within weeks by following these simple worksheets and videos.
If you’re not interested in building wealth, if you’re not interested in becoming a millionaire, then you can just change the channel and walk away. This program is only for people who are ready for serious financial improvement in their lives today.
You can date beautiful model-quality women every week. And it’s not hard. Think I’m crazy? Think again. Relationships are a science like everything else, and any guy can learn the inside tricks and secret rules of sex today. You knew something was missing all along, didn’t you? This is it.
There are a billion business opportunities out there, and as an entrepreneur you’re going to ask yourself: which one is best for me? Well there’s one thing that everyone can agree on: Mr. Pickly’s Deli-Quik is a franchise that’s here to stay — and here to pay!
You know, this is my favorite way to play Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Why? I’ll tell you why. Because everybody wins! Are you ready to win today? Are you ready to be a millionaire? Can I get a YEAH? Everyone, you’ve been awesome. There are tables at the entrances, and we’ll be coming around.
okay one more thing: Kati Heck
We Make Money Not Art revealed to me today the art of Kati Heck, which I am loving. It’s like a Northern European spin on Kahlo and Dali or something, but that doesn’t do her work justice. Go look.
SAUSAGES!!!
The Exploding Aardvark linked me to a YouTube of a dark, wonderful, darker, incredible, meaty Kids In The Hall sketch: SAUSAGES!!!!
This is how I imagine odradak‘s life in Portland, somehow.
Darn, there’s nothing new in my “trainwrecks” category in rss
Was awakened by pager again today to fix something insignificant. I was about to get all grumpy and then remembered that I work from home, my schedule is infinitely flexible, and I make good money. So I just fixed it.
The latest immigration “debate” is making me tired. All the local white folk keep saying things like “It’s about the laws! If you’re here illegally, that’s unlawful, and you’re breaking the law! That’s not legal!” Right. And the law is ridiculous, because it doesn’t reflect economic reality. And if the law was well-enforced everything would fall over with a large clonk. The latest guy to dispute that with me kept saying “That’s a fallacy!” every time I pointed this own. I guess “fallacy” means “obvious fact I intend to ignore”.
I have a Modest Proposal. If we are going to actually enforce this law, let’s get serious. First let’s bust every single business we can find who hires illegals, with hugely punitive fines. It’ll pay for itself; just get loads of cops out there and hit every restaurant, every gardening operation, every cleaning crew, every building contractor or handyman company. But that won’t be enough. Let’s also hit their customers. If you’re patronizing a business that uses illegals, you’re part of the problem. Walk into a restaurant, find three illegal busboys and two illegal dishwashers? Everyone eating dinner gets a $500 fine. Find a condo complex with an illegal mowing the lawn? Every condo owner there gets a $500 fine. Or 90 days in jail. Three offenses and it’s a felony with a $25,000 fine and five years in jail. Zero tolerance, baby.
Don’t like it? Neither would I. Maybe we should work on laws that reflect necessity for us and for our neighbors to the south, instead of prolonging a ridiculously unworkable racist quota system. Oh, and get those fucking Irishmen in the bars back on a boat home. And the Swedes. GOD-DAMNED SWEDES.
It’s such a beautiful day. I’m gonna go out and be delinquent instead of whatever chore I was supposed to do. Next stop, Cost Plus.
REQUEST HALF DAY OFF AND ALSO FOR MY HEAD TO BE REMOVED FROM THE TOILET BOWL (AND SWIVELING SEAT)
In case you’re curious, Saturday night is not all right for DNS misconfiguration, upset producers, lack of access to registrar-level changes, and everyone but me watching a basketball game.
Dan Goodsell finds another gem
No sugar. No actual raspberries. WHAT’S IT MADE FROM? Also; “Standard Coffee Co., New Orleans”. I imagine some moss-covered 19th-century factory with an aged voudoun priestess stirring a pot of something… red. Of course it’s from 1967, when things were different. Etc. From A Sampler of Things (Mistertoast).
have a nice fish, everyone

a darkling plain where dudes are being totally uncool to each other
I think it’s time to get my dietary stuff back in line right now. I had no breakfast, no lunch, and two dinners today. Mind you they were good dinners and a right amount of food but this isn’t going to work.
Saw Stuart play and some friends tonight. Everyone was cool but for some reason I felt totally socially awkward, like I wasn’t wearing pants. Weird. I think it was just me, though.
Then salome_st_john put up the bat signal that she was about to murder her room mate for reals so I galumphed over there and we went to Kappo Honda (dinner #2). I have to say that lotus root tempura and pumpkin croquette are two of Japanese civilization’s great contributions to the world.
I love this rain.
