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Sunday Late Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  January 13, 200811:33 pm| 25 Comments

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WOO- Insomnia.

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  1. 1.

    LiberalTarian

    January 13, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    Watching Firefly. Always a good time.

  2. 2.

    RoonieRoo

    January 13, 2008 at 11:47 pm

    Right there with you John! My husband, also known as GrumpyCodeMonkey is happily snoozing next to me while I surf in an insomniac-daze.

  3. 3.

    John Cole

    January 13, 2008 at 11:48 pm

    My husband, also known as GrumpyCodeMonkey is happily snoozing next to me while I surf in an insomniac-daze.

    Poke him and tell him I said hi.

  4. 4.

    RoonieRoo

    January 13, 2008 at 11:50 pm

    He says “Wah???” and he’s already back to sleep. Man, the dog is even starting to snore. I hate nights like this.

  5. 5.

    Dungheap

    January 13, 2008 at 11:50 pm

    Isn’t it a bit early in the evening to call “insomnia?”

  6. 6.

    lectric lady

    January 13, 2008 at 11:51 pm

    Why aren’t you doing football trash talk today???

    The CBoys LOST and the Giants have to go to Green Bay.

    Is there ANY news that is more important than THAT???

    Terrorists? The economy? Gas prices? Primary elections?

    I think not.

  7. 7.

    RoonieRoo

    January 14, 2008 at 12:01 am

    If you are an insomnia sufferer, you know the feeling when you know it is going to be a bad, long night. 11’ish is not too early to know what your body is setting you up for. It also matters what time you have to get up in the morning.

  8. 8.

    srv

    January 14, 2008 at 12:04 am

    Like freaking 1500 lines of blogging today – WTF? At least Sully has a “click here to read more of my anti-Hillary rants” when he’s on one of his content spews.

    Something wrong with that boy.

  9. 9.

    cmoreNC

    January 14, 2008 at 12:51 am

    One type of insomnia night is when your regret at having drunk three too many cups of coffee and two too many caffeinated sodas during the day meet up with too much mental fatigue, not just to do anything productive, but to even do anything particularly fun. And so you sit on a couch or chair, before a television or computer monitor, dully trying to find something soothing to pacify your short-circuit buzzing mind to a relaxed enough state to have some possibility of dozing off in an hour or so.

  10. 10.

    Cain

    January 14, 2008 at 12:58 am

    I’m currently reading research papers for class tomorrow. So I’m the the other way around, I keep trying to stop myself from falling asleep..

    cain

  11. 11.

    myiq2xu

    January 14, 2008 at 1:08 am

    Insomnia is when you wake up at 3 or 4am PST and all the blogs have had the same posts up since 7 or 8pm EST, no one is commenting and there aren’t even any trolls to argue with.

  12. 12.

    Cain

    January 14, 2008 at 1:41 am

    Insomnia is when you wake up at 3 or 4am PST and all the blogs have had the same posts up since 7 or 8pm EST, no one is commenting and there aren’t even any trolls to argue with.

    That’s when you troll irc looking to start a political fight.

    cain

  13. 13.

    Punchy

    January 14, 2008 at 9:21 am

    bought first computer game evah. SimCity Deluxe. Holy friggin addiction. Cant walk away for an hour without city going to shit. Which means I can’t leave home for hours on end.

    This could develop into a very bad thing.

  14. 14.

    ThymeZone

    January 14, 2008 at 9:43 am

    Warm milk. Works every time.

  15. 15.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    January 14, 2008 at 10:17 am

    My husband, also known as GrumpyCodeMonkey is happily snoozing next to me while I surf in an insomniac-daze.

    Poke him and tell him I said hi.

    Yeah, let me tell you just how much I appreciated that.

    Warm milk. Works every time.

    Booze + Benadryl works even better.

  16. 16.

    Punchy

    January 14, 2008 at 10:24 am

    Yeah, let me tell you just how much I appreciated that.

    Suggestion–password-protect the laptop. The old lady will be stuck playing freecell and hearts instead of surfing and poking.

  17. 17.

    D-Chance.

    January 14, 2008 at 10:27 am

    Don’t sleep too deeply, Mr Cole. “Presumed consent”… the next big wave in governmental healthcare. That British-style system all liberals know and love and want to impose upon us.

  18. 18.

    Roonieroo

    January 14, 2008 at 10:53 am

    Suggestion—password-protect the laptop. The old lady will be stuck playing freecell and hearts instead of surfing and poking.

    Except the old lady is almost more techie than the Grumpy Code Monkey. He had no choice but to marry the woman that would help him string cat 5 all over the house and requires him to beef up our network whenever I want to add servers. I also force him to buy power tools.

  19. 19.

    libarbarian

    January 14, 2008 at 10:56 am

    THIS IS WEIRD.

    Military.com article: “JCS Chairman Wants Gitmo Shut Down”

    The weird bit comes at the end.

    Before he finished his Guantanmo Bay visit and flew to Key West, Fla., Mullen got a look at a site on the eastern shore of Guantanamo Bay – opposite the terrorist detention center – where the U.S. military is building a new refugee camp that would be used in the event of a sudden, major influx of refugees in the area. Initially the camp will be designed to hold 10,000 refugees and is scheduled to be finished by June.

    Why the hell would we expect a “sudden, major” influx of refugees into the Guantanamo Bay area? What refugees are going to pick Guantanamo as their destination other than maybe Cubans who have NO history of actually choosing it as such (Miami has much better nightlife)?

    So, as I understand it – We’re building a “refugee camp” in a place with no history of being a destination for refugees but that just happens to be in the same place which was chosen for Gitmo precisely because its not technically on US territory and could be a “legal black hole”?

    Interesting.

  20. 20.

    Svensker

    January 14, 2008 at 11:06 am

    So, as I understand it – We’re building a “refugee camp” in a place with no history of being a destination for refugees but that just happens to be in the same place which was chosen for Gitmo precisely because its not technically on US territory and could be a “legal black hole”?

    Interesting.

    That’s an understatement.

  21. 21.

    Punchy

    January 14, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Except the old lady is almost more techie than the Grumpy Code Monkey. He had no choice but to marry the woman that would help him string cat 5 all over the house and requires him to beef up our network whenever I want to add servers. I also force him to buy power tools

    I think I need to bow to a smarter woman here and shut my hole. But first….GCM didn’t have power tools? Wha?

  22. 22.

    Face

    January 14, 2008 at 11:22 am

    Mullen got a look at a site on the eastern shore of Guantanamo Bay – opposite the terrorist detention center – where the U.S. military is building a new refugee camp that would be used in the event of a sudden, major influx of refugees in the area.

    Damn, WTF? First, what are they defining as a refugee? Can this be tied to perhaps bombing Iran, and allowing all the intelligensia and pro-Western elites to have safe haven?

    This is really odd. Someone needs to start asking better questions.

  23. 23.

    libarbarian

    January 14, 2008 at 11:53 am

    Damn, WTF? First, what are they defining as a refugee? Can this be tied to perhaps bombing Iran, and allowing all the intelligensia and pro-Western elites to have safe haven?

    My first instinct is that its meant to house illegals.

    There is a basis for calling illegals “refugees” – especially if we stop letting them live and work amongst us and start keeping them in housing camps, and all the same reasons Gitmo was chosen for terrorists also can apply to illegals – out of the public eye, escapees cant return to America, and “foreign soil” where is can be argued that “foreign nationals” are not entitled to the full sweep of rights and privileges and where their legal ability to challenge the circumstances of their detainment could be curtailed.

    This is all conjectural but still – there is no reason to thinkrefugess will choose Gitmo for a destination on their own, so if we’re expecting them to be there in the future the most natural explanation, that I can see right now, is that we will be the ones sending them there to begin with.

  24. 24.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    January 14, 2008 at 11:57 am

    GCM didn’t have power tools? Wha?

    I’m in software for a reason. I shattered my wrist putting up a curtain rod, for chrissakes.

    Damn, WTF? First, what are they defining as a refugee? Can this be tied to perhaps bombing Iran, and allowing all the intelligensia and pro-Western elites to have safe haven?

    My first instinct is that its meant to house illegals.

    It’s for when they start disappearing people right around November.

  25. 25.

    CooperPal

    January 31, 2008 at 11:58 pm

    Actually, you guys did not do your homework. Guantanamo Bay has been used since the 1980’s for refugees of all sorts. The Clinton administration used it as a holding camp for Haitian boat people. It may be a legal black hole, but, hey, FDR did the same thing with non-citizens — with suspected Nazis — during WWII.

    GITMO is Disneyland compared to the hell for refugees it was during the 1990’s (because they built new buildings and took out the US portion of the minefield, tho Cuba still has its landmines on its side of the line.) And remember, Clinton is famous for not knowing what to do with suspected terrorists. When the Sudan called him because they had Bin Laden in 1998, Clinton didn’t take Osama because he didn’t know what do to with him. Guantanamo is just a convenient outpost for us. Coincidently, during the Mariel refugee crisis of 1980, President Carter housed thousands of Cuban refugees in Clinton’s state of Arkansas. What to do with suspected criminal or terrorist non citizens is a big issue in the US. You guys have a better idea what to do with them? If so, call your representatives with the solution after you post it here. Until then, Guantanamo is a sad repository for the US when it does not know what to do in the name of the democratic Republic that we are.

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