Well, here it is. My first post using a Mac.

How the heck did I get a Mac? Well, thanks to a very old friend (not his age, he’s younger than I am – just that I have known him since a long time ago although we were out of touch for 10+ years in the middle), I was able to pay in installments to purchase his used Mac Mini. He was very generous to allow me to do that, and the ‘Mini was inexpensive enough to make it worth a little temporary suffering (although at this point, I do have a twinge of regret as I know NOW what I did not know when I agreed to buy it – I need a better lens for my camera which is going to cost big $$$). Anyway, Mike, I really and truly appreciate it and thank you very much, I doubt we ever would have owned one of these if not for you.

Now, many of you have gathered the impression that I loathe Macs. I really don’t. I simply loathe Mac hype and the lies that get spread about them by the brainwashed Mac masses, or Macolytes as I have decided they should be called. They say things like Macs don’t crash, and “it just works” and sound more like a Mac commercial and marketing campaign than an actual user. Read the rest of this entry »

I think first you need to check out this story to put this in perspective.

I don’t know what is happening to the world. It seems that if a small number of people decide they are offended by something, they suddenly become able to run things. No one seems willing to stand up and say “GET OVER IT!” for fear they will get sued, or that someone will report the story to the media who will INSTANTLY broadcast it to the world (via the intarwebs).

A company starts an ad campaign. In their ad, they are selling chicken sandwiches. So the innocently put up a billboard with a sandwich on it, a barn with a rooster weathervane clipart background, and the words “CRISPY FRICKIN’ CHICKEN”.

People take issue with the word frickin’… and at LEAST one billboard is removed, and officials field calls and complaints as though it is some kind of moral crisis. And then the news outlets get a hold of it. Read the rest of this entry »

This is not written by me (haven’t been up to writing much of anything lately). But… it certainly reflects my feelings on certain sheeple-like responses to the “new” environmental movement:

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The film “An Incovenient Truth” (sic) would make a great presentation if it would tell you the truth about global warming , it’s quick flashing scenes and ill begotten music gave me a sense of forbodding and doesn’t not help to convey a sense of workable energy alternatives, this film made me feel helpless and depressed. Much of the film is with Al Gore without anyone really backing up his views , it is like a big ego trip.My conclusion is if you want a pure disaster horror film then this is the one for you, but if you want a unbiased view of global temperature change then look to the bbc horizion documentary about global climate change. the nobel prize has lost all of its meaning and prestige since Al Gore got his. If anyone believes that humans causes global warming is either ignorant or having an agenda. Al Gore does have an agenda, look at his new company which buys and sells carbon credits, instant money for nothing.The “Greener” religion just doesn’t standup to Scientific facts. Al Gore would sell his mother for a little feel good publicity. Alfred Nobel is probably rolling in his grave over what the Nobel prize become. The Nobel Peace Prize had lost it prestige long ago when it was given to Arafat, the father of modern terrorism.

In Britain, a High Court judge declared that Mr Gore’s campaigning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, contained nine crucial scientific errors and was a “political film” rather than an impartial analysis of climate change, restricting its use in schools.

The nine alleged errors in the film:
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