Saturday, 09 February 2008
(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 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!
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Friday, 08 February 2008
“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
“Donut†suggests a bumper sticker:
UPDATE 080209 19:35: Print your own!
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008
San Francisco Tragedy (?) dept.:
Rice A Roni® has eliminated the almonds...
Guess they thought we wouldn't notice.
They were wrong.
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Monday, 04 February 2008
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.Sigh...
Isolated, decreased job prospects, diminished dating opportunities, rejected by the in-crowd, and near the bottom of the social circuit.
(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
From a comment thread at The Register. Cut-n-pasted below because no permalinks.
more...
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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
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.I believe we have another rotating-title candidate.
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.â€
The MSM scribbler worries about the “dark tides of popular cynicism.†The blogger cries, “Surf’s up!â€
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