2009 February

Texas State Senator Dan Patrick is sounding the alarm.  Apparently things are getting bad on the Texas/Mexico border:

100’s of PRO-DRUG CARTEL Mexicans were blocking the entrance to the United States, yesterday and today, banging cars, shouting and holding signs. 10 people were killed Wed. and 12 more yesterday at the border (5 of which were [...]

In an absolutely shocking turn of events, the Department of Treasury has been ordered to turn over records on how the Handout money that was given to the banks was used.
As if that weren’t enough, Treasury was ordered to hand over the information to the Fox News Network, which filed a Freedom of Information request, [...]

I just got in from a band audition.  I don’t do this often; in fact, this is my third audition in many many years.  I have been playing the guitar for something like thirty years (God I’m old) and auditioning for almost that long.
I was a very good student when I started playing.  This was [...]

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post about the local tumult and a hundred square feet of bloody paw printed carpet, the cat injured himself yesterday.   When I last wrote, he was stationed on his own personal fluffy towel on the kitchen floor (blood comes off lineoleum better than carpet, I suspect).  My wife was going [...]

I don’t think I caught on to the fact that today was an unqualified disaster til I was most of the way through it.  In spite of the miserable weather (Precipitation Wednesdays), things didn’t look all that horrible.  I should have known, though… things were going along too well.  When I say well, I mean [...]

On February 11th, the Senate passed its version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, otherwise knows as Handout Part Two.  In it is a handout of seven billion dollars for broadband stimulus.
As if the first round of handouts weren’t egregious enough a violation of the public’s trust, fiscal responsibility, and common sense, now we [...]

Tens of thousands of assault rifles and other firearms in Afghanistan are at risk of being stolen because U.S. officials have lost track of them…
Yes, we’re now arming the Taliban too!  30% cannot be accounted for.
Ten contractors hired by Houston-based KBR to make repairs at an Iraqi water plant in early 2003 say the company [...]

I know I’m going to get absolutely creamed over this but I suspect I’m a masochist behind my back.  The thing is that I’m not a Springsteen fan.  The way I understand it, this puts me in a relatively small group, along with married couples who don’t want kids and left-handed accordian players.
My lack of [...]

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Sync Files and Folders Outside Your My Dropbox Folder
One of the things that makes this service unusable for me is that you have to put everything you want to sync in the Dropbox folder.  This article explains how to get [...]

Sex at my house is not a normal event.
Don’t run; I promise not to get into any gory details.
It was just such a great line I had to use it.
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All sorts of interesting things tend to happen coincident with and around sex.
I’m in the bedroom and notice my wife picking up the remote control.  Since [...]