Ouch. That Smarts.

One comment

1. […] Wow, makes me want to pray to my god more often, if I can avoid a hell like that. (Leave a comment)microserfs[belish]07:17 pm – QuotesHi everyone…Relatively new here, but I’ve been lurking for a while. I have all of Coupland’s books except for God Hates Japan because it doesn’t seem to be available in Canada.I was just wondering what some of your favourite Coupland quotes are (from his novels). Most of my favourites come from Life After God, which is my personal favourite book.”I read what I have written here and realize that I am not a happy person and maybe I never will be.” – Life After God”I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn’t happen to me so often after this.” – Life After God”…Most of us have only one or two genuinely interesting moments in our lives, the rest is filler…and at the end of our lives, most of us will be lucky if any of those moments connect together to form a story that anyone would find remotely interesting.” – Generation XI would put a couple more but my heavily bookmarked copy of Life After God isn’t with me at the moment(3 comments | Leave a comment)swissnat07:12 pm – My favorite sound in the world…We got a prenatal heart listener at Babies R Us a couple weeks ago and tonight it finally occurred to me to try it out with the volume on low to cut out on the interference noise (the microphone picks up EVERY noise in the apartment), and suddenly, there it was, the heartbeat. It took a LOT of self-control to put it down long enough to eat dinner. :-pCurrent Mood: touchedCurrent Music: See title.(Leave a comment)indietitsfeed07:40 pm – Blogger issues have been resolved. The sexiness …http://www.indietits.com/2005/11/blogger-issues-have-been-resolved.htmlBlogger issues have been resolved. The sexiness has returned.(20 comments | Leave a comment)defensetech_rss04:06 pm – Curtains for “Jitters”?http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001929.htmlThe idea was simple: take the military’s tangled mess of radios, any replace ’em all with a single, software-based model. But executing the idea has been anything but easy. And now, generals are talking about dropping the notion of a universal radio altogether, Defense News’ Greg Grant reports — right when Pentagon chiefs are trying to decide what to do with about the troubled, $6.8 billion Joint Tactical Radio System. Essentially, the JTRS program [known as “Jitters”] is aiming for something that’s almost physically impossible, or at least extremely expensive, experts say… The desire to use a single antenna for many different wavelengths bumps up against laws of physics, which make it difficult to pull in strong signals across the spectrum. An amplifier that works across the whole spectrum will use much more electrical power than one tuned for a specific frequency band. Waveforms and transmissions that are speedily handled by analog systems, such as the widely used Link-16, are much tougher to achieve with digital computation… A better solution… is using such software-defined radios only when absolutely needed. More and more communication of data and even voice can be routed via the Pentagon’s burgeoning digital network. Such relays could…(Leave a comment)philadelphia[sageivyx]06:57 pm – I.M.Everything in PAI.M.Everything Check them out @ http://www.imeverythingrocks.comListen to and download Demos @ http://www.myspace.com/imeverythingrocksNext Show :November-9-2005   21+  9:00pmGrape Steet4100 Main Street Philadelphia, PA 19127215-483-7084 w/ Hello Nurse, Never the Nines, Lightside   Upcoming Show November-25-2005  21+9:00pmThe Staircase755 S. Township BlvdPittston, PA 570-655-9878 w/ THE DRAMA CLUB(1 comment | Leave a comment)optic03:38 pm – The NO! PartyMy default policy in the election today was simple: when in doubt, vote against the initiative, vote against the incumbent, or vote against the Democrat (this city is pretty much entirely run by a good-ol-boy network of Democrats). I am not usually a big fan of the “throw the bums out!” approach to political decision-making, as it’s usually a cynical ploy by perfectly well-connected insiders to differentiate themselves. However, I’m starting to feel that, by default, increased government activity is bad, and the way things are done is bad. I know money in politics is a perennial thing, going back at least to the Romans or the Greeks, but the influence of lobbying vs the “will of the people” seems especially high lately. And since the Republicans took over all three branches and became officially a big-spending party, there’s no one in Washington interested in spending less or in keeping an eye on what other people are spending. So I was idly thinking about how far you could get running for office on a NO! platform. Whatever comes up in congress, you promise to vote NO! New taxes? no. Tax cuts? no. Spending increases? no. Spending cuts? no. Going to war? no. Coming home from war? no. Roads, bridges, prescription drug plans, tariffs, subsidies, agencies? no, no, no, no, no, and no. The beauty of this is it avoids a lot of the dangers of government, most of which seem to come about from somebody deciding (usually inspired by a lobbyist) that we’re not doing enough about something, and that the government should spend more money on it. The problem of course is that there are some good things that you’d have to vote NO! on, to keep your promise. I suppose you could make the platform a little more complicated: NO! on everything except whatever shrinks government. e.g., spending cuts yes, ending wars yes, agency consolidation yes. Obviously, there are things we really do need, like an intelligence agency and an army and, like, stuff. The NO! party would probably not make a good ruling party. But as the opposition in a time of rampant crap? I think it’s the only solution.So, who wants to help me make buttons, t-shirts, and a web site, and who wants to run for congress next year?Tags: politics(12 comments | Leave a comment)futurepundit02:38 pm – Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Disposal Site Funding Cuthttp://www.futurepundit.com/archives/003108.htmlFunding for the Yucca Mountain Nevada nuclear waste disposal site has been cut even below the spending levels for the last 2…(Leave a comment)literalbarrage07:06 pm – Ouch. That Smarts.http://literalbarrage.org/blog/archives/2005/11/08/ouch-that-smarts/Penny Arcade: taking it to bloggers on the pages of Forbes: […]

Comments are closed.