E-Dribble

The Chinese have purchased the Hummer brand from the dying hands of GM.  For a country that considers itself superior to us, they sure have a funny way of showing it.  The article also notes that GM will be closing the Pontiac, Saturn and Saab brands as well as 1/3 of their entire dealer network.

I have more to say about this, but it will have to wait.  Mr. Obama has assigned me to the afternoon detail on the local road crew and I can’t find my God damned orange vest.

I saw it all go down.

Well, I tried linux Mint over the last few days.  Argueably the most easy to use and feature-rich distro currently available.  How could I go wrong?

Well, let me just say this.  I’m getting much quicker at reaching critical failure, which in and of itself is very useful.  I used to waste weeks in the hope that someone could help me end up with an install that I could use at work before I gave up and became productive again on my Windows box.  I’ve now been able to reach the same conclusion in the span of days.  Add to this the fact that I now know not to install it on the box that I make a living on, and you’ve got yourself what may be the first stress-free linux install ever.  I simply threw my old work box on the test bench, installed, found it to be lacking,  waited 3 days for useful assistance and retired the attempt.

I got so excited when I saw the clean fonts and snappy response of linux.  It made me realize how much I missed it.  Then I began working on dualhead and network printing, which made me remember how much I loathed it.

(continue reading…)

Sweet, delicious and wholesome pee.

At first, I thought something along the lines like “Man, they ought to require some kind of intelligence test prior to the application of a tattoo.”  Then, quickly on the heels of that “Why?”

I mean seriously. if this girl wants to run around town with pro-urine slogans as a tramp stamp, who are we to stop her?  In fact, it makes our day brighter, so it could be argued that she’s doing us all a great service.

Which is much more than we can say for me.

Thanks to the folks at Failblog for the pick-me-up.

Although I can’t seem to find a form of media that doesn’t treat it like the second coming of Jesus, it seems that the productive public(well, those who haven’t had a labotomy yet) seem to be giving Twitter the cold shoulder.  Check the stats.

• 85% follow friends
• 54% follow celebrities
• 29% follow family members
• 29% follow companies

Keep in mind that that last number is the only thing Twitter really cares about.  They need companies with deep pockets to want to use Twitter, if they’re going to stay in business. If nobody is there to follow a business, the business has no reason to be at Twitter.  Unfortunately for them, 12 year olds aren’t a great demographic to dominate, since allowances can only go so far.

This was my favorite part of the article, however:

(continue reading…)