Saturday, 09 February 2008

In Passing

It only makes sense


If cats have a heaven
(and in a rightly-regulated world,
why shouldn't they),
there will be days like the early spring:
Bright sun to warm the fur,
fresh grass to tickle the toes,
and gentle breezes to carry those interesting scents
and rustle the leaves.

If mankind gets a heaven
(although I sometimes wonder...)
there will be cats there.


R.I.P., Tigger.

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In Passing

By request...


thumbnail imageIn response to popular demand, here's a suitable-for-printing version of my rendering of  “Donut’s” McCain bumper sticker idea:  [Full Size Art Here]

At 72dpi, this will print 10.75" x 6.75" (allowing a little room for printers that don’t print all the way to the page edge).  The result is 3 copies (each 11" x 2.125") on an 11" x 8.5" page.  I've left the background white for folks with laser printers.


To print using MS Paint:

  • Save the file to your drive. (Usually: right click-> Save link target as) Be sure you got the correct file. It's named im_as_loyal_3b.gif, and it's 75.35 kb.
  • Open MS Paint
    • Open file: im_as_loyal_3b.gif
    • Page Setup->
      • Landscape
      • all margins = .25"
      • centering: Horizontal and Vertical ON
      • scaling: Fit to 1 page
    • Print it!
If I get any requests, I'll do another version for 2 to a legal size (14" x 8.5") page. Meanwhile, have fun!

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Friday, 08 February 2008

In Passing

The shame is that he had to say this...


“The Prime Minister believes British law should apply in this country, based on British values.” - spokesman for UK PM Gordon Brown, quoted in The Daily Mail
...the question is whether anyone will believe him.

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Thursday, 07 February 2008

Rants

Follow the leader


“Donut” suggests a bumper sticker:
I'm as LOYAL to the G.O.P. as McCAIN is

UPDATE 080209 19:35: Print your own!

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Wednesday, 06 February 2008

In Passing

Cutting corners

Rice A Roni box
San Francisco Tragedy (?) dept.:

Rice A Roni® has eliminated the almonds...
Guess they thought we wouldn't notice.Before and After!
They were wrong.

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Monday, 04 February 2008

In Passing

No, I didn't watch it


And managed to avoid finding out who won[1] until 10:36 this morning, when I read this post[2] at Althouse.

Which, at least according to some people[3], means i’m doomed:

...a guy who can’t, or won’t, participate in that kind of sports banter among men--- is going to find himself, throughout life, on the periphery.

Isolated, decreased job prospects, diminished dating opportunities, rejected by the in-crowd, and near the bottom of the social circuit.
Sigh...

(Hint:  If you own the business, everybody chats about what you want to chat about.)

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[1] Not that I made a special effort to avoid the football, but this year I had no interest in the contenders.  So last night I cooked dinner/washed up, watched Great Performances: Chuck Jones (and a couple of other features) from my recently-acquired Looney Tunes Vol.5 collection, then went to bed without watching the local news. This morning I woke up late, so only caught the 10 a.m. radio news, by which time they were through with the Superbowl and were spending all their time talking about Super Tuesday.

[2] and [3] see below the break...
more...

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Saturday, 02 February 2008

In Passing

Programmer stories: Error messages



From a comment thread at The Register. Cut-n-pasted below because no permalinks.
more...

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In Passing

Five years ago...



National Weather Service radar detects the debris field from the disintigration of the space shuttle Columbia.

Thanks to Glenn for reminding me.

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Friday, 01 February 2008

In Passing

Oh yes, and overheated rhetoric, too


See-Dubya.comments at Ace:

You know, Ace, if you or one of the guest-morons used the phrase “like rats in a Skinnerian dystopia” seriously, and not as a dig at pretentious eggheads like this tool here, your own commenters would club you with it and flay you alive like a baby seal.

It would be thrown in your face in every flamewar. It would become the new “Spring Awakening,” but without the mitigation of Lauraw’s admission that “hey, this is something I wrote when I was drunk.”

The MSM scribbler worries about the “dark tides of popular cynicism.” The blogger cries, “Surf’s up!”
I believe we have another rotating-title candidate.

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