Month: March 2012

  • My God, It’s Full of Hair

    The square-cube law says that as volume goes up, surface area goes up more slowly. My current application of this principle is devoted to hair.

    Exhibit one, the culprit:
    Artemis

    This cat, which is one half of the current feline-american population of my residence, has grown in mass by approximately 2.2 times. Similarly, the other feline-american in the house has grown in mass by approximately 2.3 times.

    Utilizing the square-cube law, I should be getting approximately 1.7 times as much hair as a cat that has grown in mass by 2.2 times ((I’ll let you go do the math to prove I’m right)), however I seem to have about 80 times as much hair as a month ago.

    Either my cats are shedding like freaking mad or we have a new postulate to include in the sqaure-cube law. Someone call Galileo and alert him.

  • Super Tuesday! And Alcohol!

    In case you aren’t paying attention, Super Tuesday, the conglomeration of several different states’ primaries where the largest individual lump of delegates are awarded, is this coming week. I happen to live in one of those states, which leaves me a quandary:

    1. Do I vote for a republican candidate that I could actually see being in office? -or-
    2. Do I vote for the worst possible contender who would get so smeared in the general election that Abraham Lincoln would burrow out of his grave to smack around the GOP?

    If the one, then I’ll try and give Romney a leg up. If the other, than it’s Santorum.

    I’m sure I’ll figure it out by Tuesday.

    This is also the day that a number of different jurisdictions around Metro Atlanta will be voting on whether to allow Sunday Sales ((Hah! Actually, “after church Sunday Sales”)). I will be voting in favor. That way I can get my beer and wine when I do my normal weekly shopping trip, which happens to be on Sunday.

  • Fun is (NOT) What You See Here

    Pro Tip: When you set a document backup program to backup a directory to an external hard drive, it should not take the files from the external hard drive and overwrite the directory you’re trying to backup.

    This happened to Jenn yesterday.

    Picture illustrating the loss of data on Jenn's Harddrive

    I have not told you (yet) what the software package is because I’m not (yet) 100% certain that this wasn’t operator error. However, I’m 99.44% certain this was a fuck-up on a grand scale by the software so stay tuned for me to throw them under the bus like they deserve.

    A ticket has been submitted and if they cannot answer satisfactorily, we’re done with them and might even explore a lawsuit.

  • Rush Limbaugh is Done. Or Should Be

    I will be the first person to acknowledge that we here in the United States are entitled to freedom of speech. I will also be the first to acknowledge that not everyone agrees with my own personal opinions regarding social justice or foreign policy or whatever. I will also acknowledge that some people find worth in listening to someone else rant about things they agree with.

    To that end, I’ve always lumped Bill Maher, Sean Hannity, Michael Moore, and Rush Limbaugh into the same pile. They’re basically the same thing: entertainers who stretch the truth and embark on hyperbolic adventures to keep themselves employed.

    However, I’ve never understood how people can listen to Rush Limbaugh and his hateful bile. The man doesn’t have opinions, he’s merely a parody of a conservative nut job. He has admitted as much by saying that his job is to make the listener mad.

    Now he’s come out and called a woman a slut for being on birth control. He has officially moved beyond any possible reconciliation or apologetic explanation. The man is a cancer and I wish to hear no more about him. The best thing that could happen would be that I heard tomorrow his show was cancelled and he descended into obscurity, a footnote on the acerbic rancor that has so marked politics for the last 20 years.

    Good night, Rush. So long. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass. And the rest of you who listen to his show, please stop.