Which squirrel movie do you like more: this one or this one?

This sounds like something I would do.

Dave Barry describes these as greeting cards for REAL men. My favorite is the pink one on the bottom left. “Like the kids say.” That’s hilarious. And the middle one on the bottom row. The writing on the inside of the card is a gas.

‘Til armegeddon, no salaam, no shalom

Guess what song that’s from. I’ll give you a cookie.

Here‘s a disturbing column on the still widespread slavery practice. Found it from this post on Jim Miller’s blog, which I found under this post on the French linked from Instapundit. Read all, it’s pretty insightful stuff.

Enough with bad news for the day. Go check out the website for the upcoming movie Bubba Ho-Tep. The trailer makes it look pretty good, and my coworker says that it’s going to be playing here in town. I’ll probably have to see that. Tonight’s hockey game starts at 9:30 and I don’t see any good reason not to go watch that too. Have a feeling my legs are going to be sore tomorrow, since I went ice skating for the first time in about two years today. My cardio-vascular system did not particularly enjoy being put through the paces like that. Apparently, raquetball isn’t as good of exercise as I had thought it was.

Yipes. Seriously. There’re whackos everywhere these days. It’s a scary world.

I can’t post from home right now, my network is pretty screwy, so here’s more or less what I wrote and couldn’t publish when I got home from work last night.

On my way out of the building tonight, I saw a poster on the window in between the double exit doors that nearly had me rolling on the floor in gales of laughter. Apparently, A.N.S.W.E.R. is planning an anti-war protest in DC and SF for next week, and the local Communists are planning their own protest here. The poster I saw was one of theirs urging weak-minded young fools to join them. Here’s the poster. It’s a PDF file so it might take some time to load, but I urge you to check it out. Go ahead, it’ll open in a new window, and I’ll wait while it loads up. Doo-dee-doo. Ok, got it? Admire how they invoke Dr. MLK Jr. to advocate their policy of abandoning 25 million human beings to the devices of their hostile neighbors, Syria and Iran; international terrorists like al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Islam; and the Ba’athist thugs hiding throughout the country, not to mention their own temporary self-destructive tendencies. We haven’t even captured or killed Sadaam Hussein yet, and these people want to cut and run. This is not moral, this is not brave, and these curs are not to be taken seriously. Glenn has a whole bunch of links and smarm providing background on A.N.S.W.E.R. that you should check out. It boggles the mind that there are hardcore communists all around me. I imagine there will be a pretty strong counter-protest around here. Maybe I’ll head out to Lowe’s which is right where they are and taunt and heckle. Just have to repair the PA system on my car.

Looks to me like HostingMatters has been DOS attacked again. The weather has been incredible here the past two days. I watched Monty Python’s Flying Circus compilation, And Now for Something Completely Different last night. After work today, I’m going to be sitting on the floor of Basement West in the library looking through old grammars for a paper topic for Historical Linguistics. If I don’t get a rough sketch together by the end of this week, things will be worse than they should be. The Blues play the undefeated Oilers tonight, and I’m going to watch the whole thing. The duck-billed Platypus is one of two venemous mammals.

The best line from Ralph Peters’ new column: Cooperation doesn’t work unilaterally. Sounds like something Yogi Berra might have said. It brings to mind those of the anti-war variety who advocate Ghandi-style civil disobedience as the only justifiable manner of resistance. The problem with this position is that it only works when facing a moral adversary, which, for all their faults, the imperial British essentially were. Genghis Khan, Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, UBL, Kim Il Jong, Hugo Chavez, and just about every other power hungry tyrant throughout history and in the history to be made would be unimpressed, and mass graves are full of unnamed Ghandis.

Click here to see some blondes firing some Big F’n Revolvers. Too bad they didn’t get to use some of these.

Here’s another good article warning of the rise in prestige of fascist China.

Oh yeah. I forgot yesterday was Friday and that means VDH. And this one’s a doozy. While you’re at it, check out this David Brooks short column. Harsh criticism there.

Here’s some math related stuff.
First, a cocktail party trick my mom sent me that’s good for another few months:

Out for Dinner MATHEMATICS

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1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have dinner out. (try for more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (Just to be bold)

3. Add 5. (for Sunday)

4. Multiply it by 50 – I’ll wait while you get the calculator…………….

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1753…. If you haven’t, add 1752……….

6.. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number …..

The first digit of this was your original number

(I.e., how many times you want to eat out each week.)

The next two numbers are…

YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it IS!!!!!)

And since everybody loves Math jokes, here’s a few:

What did the zero say to the 8?

Nice belt… Cute, and good for the kids!

What’s purple and rides to work on the subway?

An abelian grape… Agreed, that’s pretty horrible.

Finally, not so much a joke but, there’s 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don’t.

I promise I’ll never do this again.

This was a highly productive Saturday. I couldn’t get to sleep for the life of me last night, and ended up staying up until past 3:30 watching stupid, stupid movies: Demon Knight and Lost in Space. (Blarf? You’re name’s Blarf?) I kept waking up every half hour or so, which left me pretty frustrated at times and considering just giving up on sleep and studying. Ended up sleeping pretty well from 5:30-6:30, when my alarm went off for me to get ready to administer a test at 8:30. Ferris Bueller was on TV when I was stumbling around in my bathrobe with toothpaste all over my mouth, and that set my day off to a nice start. A hot shower and a shave, and three glasses of grapefruit juice and three smokes, and I was ready to start the day. Test went well, no problems at all with the equipment. After it was over and the paperwork was done, about 10:30, I went up to Walgreens to get a passport photo to complete my FOID application. Pretty studly lookin’ picture, I’d say. Those bureaucrats in Springfield are gonna dive under their desks. Hopefully I’ll get my card in time for November 19th. Once home, I paid all my bills and cleaned up my room and office. Now with some legitimate accomplishments under my belt, I can go play soon. The temp is 70, so I’m trying to round up the gents for some batting cage action before hitting the Logic party and a Spanish department party, and sundry other objectives that aren’t decent to mention in public.

I just retook that Enneagram test to see how much I’ve changed since last year.

Conscious self	Overall self

Take Free Enneagram Personality Test

Apparently, I’m a lot hornier.

I did it last week and haven’t had much to talk about so here goes again, with the Friday Five:

1. Name five things in your refrigerator.

Apple Cider, Desert Pepper XXX Fire Roasted Habanero Salsa, four bottles of Berliner Weisse, two pork steaks that won’t be in there for another half hour, and 18 eggs.

2. Name five things in your freezer.

A Totino’s three meat pizza, four pilsner style beer glasses, ice cubes, a pound of ground beef, and a bottle of Estonian and another of Uzbekistani vodka (a Christmas present from two years ago that I haven’t had the heart to finish off).

3. Name five things under your kitchen sink.

Trash bags, pine sol, windex, Orange Clean degreaser, and some paper towels.

4. Name five things around your computer.

A clock from my sister’s wedding, a DSL modem, a wireless router, a little model of an Aztec temple my other sister got me in Belize, and a slinky.

5. Name five things in your medicine cabinet.

Aftershave, five kinds of deoderant/antiperspirant (I have a whacked out metabolism), contact cases, vitamin E supplements (to preserve memory), and ibuprofen (to prevent hangovers).

Well that was fun, wasn’t it? Not really.

I’m with these guys. The senate version of the Iraq aid package has $10 billion in loans instead of grants. The amendment was sponsored by a group including Hillary Clinton. Probably it’ll be dropped before it goes to the prez. The language in the amendment calls for the debt to be forgiven if other countries aiding Iraq or with odious debts from Saddam’s regime do the same, which is something we’re trying to negotiate.

Update: Now THAT’S the ticket!

Here’s an outstanding defense of capitalism. Found it at Free Space via Pathetic Earthlings via Prof. Hall.

The big buzz around the blogosphere today is about this amazing post which links to two articles in LIFE magazine from 1946. Some things, apparently, never do change. Go read it all.