It’s been a hell of a week, I won’t kid you. I spent the entire election season being pretty confident in Hillary Clinton’s victory. I guess, I fell into the trap of believing my experience of the world was shared by everyone. Clearly, I was wrong. And intellectually, it seems stupid of me now. But […]
Category: Hell yeah
My darling wife alerted me to a post on Facebook, by a Friend of a Friend (so I can’t comment there, since I’m not Friends with the Friend… ugh), a post that began with, “This just in: ADHD also diagnosed as ‘childhood’ ” and linked to a blog post at the Psychology Today website about how […]
Today we heard that President Obama called up the Speaker of the House John Boehner and told him, and I quote from Brendan Buck, Boehner’s spokesman, “The president called the speaker again today to reiterate that he won’t negotiate on a government funding bill or debt limit increase.” Source: Roll Call Hellz to the yes. […]
iTunes Radio is a revelation to me. Not that I didn’t know what it was going to be like, I mean, intellectually. I’ve used Pandora, after all. But Pandora was annoying, browser-based, finicky, and I never used it very long. When I first tried iTunes Radio yesterday, while trying to write, I picked some of […]
I don’t do this often (enough?) but this tweet from Wonderella is so pitch perfect on the topic of the Oxford Dictionary and Miley Cyrus, that I can’t help myself: The Oxford Dictionary added an entry on “Twerking”. They removed “Dignity” to make room, since we weren’t using it anyway.— Wonderella (@wonderella) August 28, 2013
Here we go: The Time Karl Rove Took on the Fox News Decision Desk The vindication of Nate Silver Obama’s victory speech or, “Where’s that guy been during the 2012 campaign?” Rasmussen is 24th out of 28 polls in accuracy list. Tied with Gallup. The deafening silence at UnskewedPolls.com Dick Morris predicts a Romney landsli… […]
So, the election is over. And I am pretty pleased with the results. I don’t have anything really grandiose to say about it, no proclamations or predictions, but throughout the night (I was up until 1 am local) and this morning I have had some random thoughts. There may be profanity below. There will definitely […]
I absolutely love it when my wife claps at the television. It expresses a kind of deep-felt passion that my… what, my personality, won’t let me deliver. I fall instead at the snarky end of the spectrum. Tonight, she was in fine form as William Jefferson Clinton delivered (what might have been) the best speech […]
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Universal Solvent for the win
Yesterday was Fathers’ Day, and it was nice. I got toast in bed and a few presents. I got a new umbrella to replace the one I bent when I slipped in the snow last Winter. I figured the period of mourning/humiliation was over, and I could stop using it. And I got a copy […]
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How I [watched] WWDC 2012
Inside baseball here for people not interested in Apple, but if you are: WWDC starts in half an hour, and here is how I am going to start out “watching” the coverage. Reminder, Apple hasn’t offered a live video stream of this event for years, and will not do so this year, either. (The liveblogging […]