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Freezing yet!

Posted on: Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 in: What's Up

The earthquakes under Yellowstone continue. I don’t mean to be an alarmist here, being is that there is a really, really small chance that the whole thing will blow its top and snuff out civilization, at least in the short run. But then again, let’s use this opportunity to compare hysteria.
Even though the climate has […]

is so emense

Posted on: Monday, December 29th, 2008 in: What's Up

In case you have not heard, the big ass volcano under Yellowstone NP is getting ready to blow its top and wipe out North America. And not even the Al Gore and his roving band of global warmies will keep us all from freezing to death after this one goes up.
But that’s OK. Because searching […]

Garbage

Posted on: Monday, December 29th, 2008 in: What's Up

I got the Race Driver GRID game for the PC for Christmas. And it is an awesome racing game.
When it works.
But most of the time it won’t start due to that Securerom DRM shit. When it does work, it screws up my system when I shut the game off. And now, after installing this crap […]

Why property values are declining

Posted on: Saturday, December 27th, 2008 in: What's Up

Good luck trying to sell this place. Then again, it makes getting those little address labels in the mail much more fun.
Do you think that the city council was drunk when they named the street?

World of Warcraft - HR edition

Posted on: Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 in: What's Up

Do online games make you a useless employee? Of course they do, but WOW players are only slightly more useless than “whoremongers” and “potheads”, but less useless than “churchmonkeys” and parents with children. Or at least so says some unnamed executive in this story from dailytech. Here is the best quote:
“Actually the choir guy was […]

Book review

Posted on: Sunday, December 21st, 2008 in: What's Up

Of course I’m not going to use up all the time it takes to read an entire book. But I did manage to read the chapter Why Science Cannot Contradict Religion from the book Why Darwin Matters. Here is a bit from the end of that chapter:
“The problem with all of these attempts at blending […]

Buy now. Sell in 18 months.

Posted on: Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 in: Serious Stuff...

David Frum in today’s National Post:
0% rates?
A huge burst of money creation + a $700 billion bailout for financial institutions + a probable auto bailout + another looming $600 billion - $1 trillion in deficit spending by the new Democratic administration and Congress + a $100 a barrel drop in the price of oil = […]

Dumbasses

Posted on: Monday, December 15th, 2008 in: Serious Stuff...

This story was already linked up on the drudgereport, but for those of you that consider Traumady.com frontline news, take a look at this global warming story from AP.
Mother Nature, of course, is oblivious to the federal government’s machinations. Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature […]

For PC’s only

Posted on: Friday, December 12th, 2008 in: Just Goofy

Blognigger has nice review over at Streetcarnage about the newest browser to take on Firefox and IE.
Check it out here.

Now this is art!

Posted on: Thursday, December 11th, 2008 in: What's Up

The RIAA wouldn’t have to go around suing diabled girls if all the musicians were as talented as these guys.
The bastards won’t let anyone embed their video though. Facists…