The most smarmy and arrogant stuff you find on the web: In response to : https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40625 Derick, you are such a tool of the overlords. Jimbo. derick@php.net sez: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how [...]
It’s not really a church, it’s a nascent political party. We allow any number of them in this country. For nearly any reason. Church or Party. And just like our very successful MegaChurches, we have found that the money making aspect of these things is fabulous. We in America know how to SELL. And the [...]
I’m a Firesign Theatre fanatic. I still quote bits of their fabulous word salad. One quote came into my mind as I talked to the clerk: “I’ll be in the back at the Pycho-Raga-Rock Old Folks’ Dance Marathon” and then I tried to imagine what that might look like: The image hit me as the [...]
I saw the first pictures of liquid oil several years ago. The movement of the liquid was intriguing. Almost mind-boggling. It moves, follows the magnet, rises up to it like a plant-blob growing from the depths. Very much a Special Effects wonder. In the last few weeks, I have noticed a commercial where a magnet [...]
Him: Mmmm. Sweetie, it looks fabulous! Her: It’s “Venitian Egg Glazed Souffle” With a creamed organic pate sauce on the side. Him: Let me at it! Hey this tastes spinach. It is spinach. And the sauce is a bit of mustard. Let me see. Her: No, No, don’t take your glasses off! You Promised! You [...]
Hard wall of the economy Three years of no income makes quite a dent in a life. Now I’m a master of living small, but my smallness got smaller and smaller until, my economic situation became a singularity that sucked in everything I had, relied on, aspired to and promised. All were walked on very [...]
I folded the laundry put the clothes away, and sighed in relief as I would not need to put on that cleanest dirty shirt. Everything clean. I put on my clothes, but when I put my sox on my big toe popped through. Dammit, I had washed that sock and put it on again! It [...]
Yes, I love Toshiro Mifune in the classic “Yojimbo,” A film that is totally funny, but also a morality play. It is also the exact plot of the Classic Sergio Leone – Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Western “For a Fistful of Dollars” — True homage to the source, acting, and impact. But that is not the [...]
Adam, Our economy is in trouble. We have widespread unemployment, big banks and businesses are failing, the world is losing respect for us, terrorists hate us, and we don’t trust each other. You are sure right about the overwhelming power of the “invisible hand” to straighten out the bumps in the road of commerce! This [...]
