Monthly Archives: February 2009

Drunk on a weeknight!

It’s like I’m in my 30s again… except with no tolerance! Haw.

My marching orders come in 140 chars or less

Rove tweets:
Reading Obama budget: criticized 43 for adding 2.9 tril to debt in 8 yrs (CONT’D)
but BHO plans adding 3.2 tril by end FY10, 20 mths, 11 days into term, +4.7tril w/in 4 yrs. WOW
WOW is right. Get busy creating wealth, everyone – so your betters can spread it around “a little”.

A thought

Brian suggests:
Maybe you could even buy weapons, ammo and drugs from vending machines!
As I said to TJIC today, while discussing the Failed Obama Presidency™ : “People get the government they deserve. Anarchotopia will have to be earned.”

Movie synopsis that doesn’t make much sense

Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript?):
In the Napoleonic wars, an officer finds an old book that relates his grandfather’s story, Alfons van Worden, captain in the Walloon guard. A man of honor and courage, he seeks the shortest route through the Sierra Morena. At an inn, the Venta Quemada, he sups with two Islamic [...]

JammieWearingFool really IS a fool!

JammieWearingFool: Good News, Guys: Hottest Babe on the Planet Now Available

The sexiest woman on Earth is back on the market.
Sci-fi starlet Megan Fox and her longtime fiancé, Brian Austin Green, have called it quits, according to Us Weekly.
The celebrity mag yesterday described the couple’s breakup last week as “completely amicable.”
Reps for the “Transformers” starlet, [...]

Countdown

8 more days!
I know, I know – none of you care. But I blog for I!

Ouch.

Lifted yesterday.
Must. Lift. Again. Tomorrow.

Silly workplace behavior

This is what happens after the daily post-chicken nap. Just silly.

Funny, that’s not how I remember Get Smart

“Cone of Violence.”
(Phrase coined by TJIC today, while describing how a sawzall fell apart while in use and almost took his eye out.)

True place names

Brilliant idea for an Atlas!

Time-shifting the only radio I care about

Cool! The Z now has an audio archive – shows stick around for two weeks.
Can’t download them yet, only stream ‘em… hopefully they’ll turn themselves into a full-on podcast service soon. It’s unfortunate that so many things of value are ephemeral when they don’t have to be.

Colour on the Thames (1935)

BFIfilms:
This film is tricky to describe: is it a boat study, a film-poem, an experiment, a picture postcard? One thing is certain: it’s a rare colour snapshot of the Thames and London in the 1930s – and it looks quite magical.
Its artistic qualities may look a bit old-fashioned to us today; the slow pace, orchestral [...]

Inflation has turned us all into speculators

Dalrymple on debauching the currency.
Go.
You know you want to.
(via FB)

TVR’s kind of guy

Iowahawk:
Dead Hobo Reporting Glitch Claims Another White House Appointee
WASHINGTON – U.S. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu announced his resignation this morning amid new reports that Alameda County workers had unearthed more than a dozen additional dead hobo bodies at his former home in Berkeley, California. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist had been the subject of a week-long [...]