Fuck you, Robert Mugabe. If you have to put your opposition in prison and threaten everyone in your country with violence in order to win an election, then there’s no point in having a fucking election at all. Just call yourself a dictator and be done with it. Asshat. Fuck you, Republicans who were eager …
Monthly Archive: June 2008
Jun 30 2008
Tunguska, 100 years later
On June 30th, 1908, witnesses described a fireball in the sky over Siberia, resulting in a column of fire moments later that split the sky and threw some observers to the ground. The area impacted, near the Podkammenaya Tungus river in an unpopulated, swampy part of northern Siberia, was levelled for hundreds of kilometers around, …
Jun 28 2008
George Carlin, RIP
Be aware that below the fold, there’s a ton of videos embedded directly from Youtube. I expect anyone who plans on reading this post, devote at least an hour so you can watch every one of them. You are not paying George Carlin’s memory any honour otherwise. The media has been rife these past few …
Jun 27 2008
Excellent.
We went over the numbers again, checking out different scenarios and taking into account some expenditures and incomes we hadn’t considered in our original budget for trying to scrape together the down payment on the house. As it stands, we will have all but $500 on the 3rd of August, meaning we could move the …
Jun 25 2008
Busy life!
This is just going to be a quick what’s-going-on post, as I have to be at work for 10 tomorrow and I was planning on biking in. Over the next several days, we have to find a lawyer to put together the official offer papers, as next week the seller will be meeting with her …
Jun 23 2008
“… but let’s not actually GIVE this stuff away, even if we got it for free!”
I tried to take the remains of my yard sale to the Salvation Army today. I was turned down. There’s something a bit odd about being told that they can’t take your donations because they don’t have room, considering that the idea is less about keeping it in storage until someone can pay for it, …
Jun 23 2008
I need a weekend.
Saturday and Sunday we had a huge yard sale, and got rid of tons of stuff that we’ve both been carrying around for a very long time. Saturday afternoon, my laptop’s power adapter decided to stop providing power to my laptop, and it’s making a weird ticking noise if you put it up to your …
Jun 20 2008
Late 1980s DOS games that should have been made
This makes me want to dig out my old Infocom text adventures. Or maybe Zork.










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