Just when I thought I’d seen everything, I found this – The cool thing to do now is to dine in the dark.
Depriving yourself of site is supposed to bring out the flavors in the food without distraction. I think it’s just an excuse to hire ugly waitresses and save money on wallpaper.
Barack Obama, not satisfied with a double digit lead in the polls, is going the Ross Perot route and will run a 30 minute infomercial on himself and his campaign tonight. You can watch it at
8 p.m. tonight on NBC, CBS, FOX, Univision, BET, MSNBC and TV One.
I just hope he has charts…
OK, it’s not really broken, but I have had a problem on my Slackware 12 Linux machine where the keypad suddenly stops working. The only way I have been able to fix this, until now, is to restart KDE.
This happened to me today, so I did some research.
KDE provides a handy mouse emulation mode where, by pressing SHIFT+NUMLOCK or SHIFT+CTL+NUMLOCK you can use the keypad to move the mouse cursor. I have been accidentally hitting this key combination. Of course, when I just type on the numbers with normal work activity, I don’t notice the mouse moving.
To correct my keypad activity, I just had to press SHIFT+NUMLOCK again.
During yesterday’s debate, John McCain announced he plans on using $300 billion to buy mortgages for individual homeowners. The government would pay the mortgage and then refinance the property at it’s new value to the homeowner.
This is a BAD plan on so many levels, I’ll just highlight a few
This idea is just another example of politicians playing fast and loose with taxpayer dollars – and just so you don’t just pin this on McCain, Obama has proposed a similar idea. The bottom line is this money our country just DOESN”T HAVE. This is going to become part of the national debt, impact the value of the dollar and ultimately result in increased taxes on us, our children and maybe even our grandchildren. Our government should do what they can to make sure we don’t end up in a worldwide depression, but the must be responsible and feel good election promises like this are a bad idea.
I’ve been watching Teminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and I must say, the writing has been suffering this year. Don’t get me wrong, the overall story is great, the effects are awesome and Summer Glau does such a stellar job as a Terminator that hs been sent back in time to protect John Connor. The problem I have is with the two main characters, Sarah Connor and John Connor.
After watching this, it’s no wonder the rest of the world is thinks America is full of morons. In the series John is in high schools (16). The major storyline seems to be centered around John’s inability to listen to his mother, and Sarah’s inability to control her son on any level. I’m continually amazed that John can’t seem to understand that scary future robots are trying to KILL him. He constantly runs off by himself, doesn’t follow protocol on predetermined code words and is generally a moron. I’m also flabergastted that Sarah is doing such a poor job of preparing John to be the savior of the human race. She communicates poorly with him, not telling him when he is actually in danger which prompts him to run around and do dangerous things. She also isolates him from all other human contact, not really a great method to train him for his future role as leader of the human resistance.
Fortunately the enemy Terminators also seem to be equally incompetent by encorporating elaborate plans (inspiried, I’m sure, from vintage Batman TV Villans) to stop the Connors, rather than going for a straightforward well planned approach. Appearantly the all knowing Skynet doesn’t need tactical ability in it’s drones.
If the writing doesn’t get better soon, I may drop this off my Tivo schedule…