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Memo to self: Just admit it, you miss Pigs in Space!

After much delay, I think it is time to start blogging again.

For a while there work was busy, we got flooded (again), traveled a bit for work, picked up an injury that has finally crippled me, and I just didn't feel like it. I think it is time to make it happen. So, I'll make an effort to put shit up here when something strikes me funny.

Hopefully.

Memo to self: less whining, more blogging.

Holy crap, I've been asleep at the wheel! You too. At least something that shatters my current lifestyle into a million little pieces has happened and you didn't give me the 411. I fear my center is gone... and you bastards didn't even tell me.

Well, fuck you, pal.

It seems that at some point in the last month or so, I was supposed to start a boycott of Cristal because it seems insensitive prick, and possibly French, Cristal exec Frederic Rouzaud dissed tha rap world when he wuz asked (axed?) about hip-hop's flagrant use of his product:

(It's) unwelcome attention. What can we do? We can't forbid people from buying it. I'm sure Dom Perignon or Krug would be delighted to have their business.

Fuck. That does it, and seems that enough was enough for our "General" Jay-Z too. He got his panties in a bunch, or at least was forced to bunch up some of panties thrown on stage, and called for a boycott:

A miffed Jay-Z released a statement announcing that he'll no longer use Cristal products:

"It has come to my attention that the managing director of Cristal, Frederic Rouzaud views the 'hip-hop' culture as "unwelcome attention." I view his comments as racist and will no longer support any of his products through any of my various brands including The 40/40 Club nor in my personal life."

What more direction could you need? What more direction could you want? I know I've sworn off all Cristal products. At da Club, tha after-party chill'in wit my homies, or just sitting 'round my crib kick'in back, you name it and you won't find me drink'in Cristal there. I mean, how much can you expect a man to take before he fights back with a boycott?! "Unwelcome attention" indeed.

I'm sure this will go down as one of the great boycotts of all time. That weak ass Disney boycott was nothing. This Cristal boycott is going to make a difference!

Memo to self: Put the massive Cristal reserves in the basement up on eBay, quick, before the bottom drops out of the market.

Are your Senators weasels? I think mine might be. Let's face it, NJ has some of the best politicians you can buy. There is a bill stalled in Washington (surprise) that would make spending in Washington a bit more open by creating a web site that would allow "we the people" to see who, how, and where our money is being spent. While it probably won't stop the out of control spending, it will at least open the people (and I use that term loosely) responsible (again, a loose interpretation of the word) open to ridicule.

The bill in question is S.2590.

What's the delay in making this happen? Well, it seems some jackass has placed a "secret hold" on the legislation. How cool is that? A secret hold on transparency legislation.

This is where Porkbusters comes in. They've set up a page where you can see how each Senator publically stands on S.2590.

As expected, the two NJ weenies are firmly in the "no comment" zone. Where does your Senator stand? If it is not where you'd like, drop them a note and ask them to clarify their stance.

I did.

Double bonus points becuase I know, even as she reads this, the Loving Wife™ is rolling her eyes and thinking her herself, "not again." That, right there, makes it worth it.

Memo to self: This is one more reason to want out of NJ.

Memo to self: Keep you eyes on Barack Obama. Even through my elephant-colored glasses, I can tell you short of the "live boy, dead girl" thing, he'll be President one day.

Okay, so I'm pumped about a new game. Later in 2006 Valve Software will release Half-Life: Episode 2. Sounds cool enough on the surface, but it may be better than that. As part of Episode 2, you'll get a copy of "Portal". Fabulous YouTube video of Portal below:

Now, that kicks ass.

Memo to self: "If at first you don't succeed, you fail.".

Over at Catallarchy there is an entry titled "How do you make a leftist’s head explode?" .... pause to see if reader is still with me ... and the dude makes a point or two.

The link to "D" from above goes to the nicely named "God of the Machine" where it is happily pointed out:

Possibly the most annoying truth in the world is that good qualities cluster. People who are good at something tend to be good at many things. People who are bad at something — not so much.

The psychometric version of clustering is g, or general intelligence. The existence of g is not seriously disputed in the field, and g-deniers like Howard Gardner, with his theory of “multiple intelligences,” or the late paleontologist-cum-Marxist Stephen Jay Gould, are regarded as cranks or axe-grinders. The Wechsler scale, the most complex (and expensive) of all intelligence tests, measures thirteen apparently widely disparate skills, including vocabulary, picture completion, matrix reasoning, and the ability to repeat back a string of digits. Bad news! Each skill, without exception, correlates positively with all the others. Seventy-eight possible correlations, and every one positive. The correlations range from 0.3 (weakish) to 0.8 (very strong), where 0 indicates no relationship and 1 an exact match. If you suck at math, the parsimonious explanation isn’t that your true talents lie in writing or painting. The parsimonious explanation is that you suck.¹

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¹By “you” I mean an abstract individual, a statistical creation, not you, dear reader. No statistics could possibly apply to you. You are special, and Jesus loves you.

Indeed. Most people do, after all, suck. A lot. Man, I hates me some people. Just the other day some fucker tried to talk to me. Bastard! What the hell have I done to deserve treatment like that? I mean, really. Just because we happen to walk past each other by doesn't mean you need to speak to, near, or at me. Just go away. It will be better for everyone in the long run.

Where was I? Oh yea: you suck.

That about sums it up! Oh yes, and I'm glad I'm not you.

Memo to self: Fucking people. /me shakes head