Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Bark louder, little dog.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

The revolution will be supervised.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Infrastructure week. at last.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

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  4. 4.

    BGK

    Whoopee, another code deployment Wednesday. Because our DBA is a spazz and our developers are passive-aggressive grinds who couldn’t spell “integration testing” if you spotted them all the vowels, I expect to be online for another four hours. This, naturally, makes Jack and Angus feel neglected, so they take turns doing laps around the house and yowling.

  5. 5.

    BGK

    Except it’s Tuesday. Heh. Still, it’s code deployment night, which is normally on Wednesday, but this time…isn’t.

  6. 6.

    Yutsano

    You ever had one of those days at work where it seems like you can’t do anything right? That was today. Fortunately it was all easily fixable, mostly me being dumb, but yeah. I’m ready to go home now.

  7. 7.

    Daddy-O

    John, dude, I hardly know ye…

    But get thee to a vacation spot! Hey, Duncan Black has managed to avoid HIS blog for at least a week now, although he HAS posted occasionally.

    I should talk. I can’t keep MY hands off my computer for more than 8 hours…and all I ever do is COMMENT.

    :)

  9. 9.

    RedKitten

    Every time I say this, I go on a blogging spree, but this time I really mean it.

    Eight threads since he announced that at lunchtime today.

    Goddamn, John, you’re adorable. You’re so fucking contrary that you have to even be contrary to yourself!

  10. 10.

    Daddy-O

    Whoa, Nellie…you ARE on vacation…

    My favorite thing to do in life? Rent a car and drive around San Francisco, up and down the hills…pretending I live there.

    My favorite thing to do–just about.

  11. 11.

    tammanycall

    They’re going to run through all the episodes that aired on NBC first, so you’ll have to wait 7 weeks. Then if the show performs well, TNT will order new episodes.

    Tell your friends to watch.

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    John: Nine hours ago you announced you were taking a break.

    Since then you have front-paged nine threads.

    That’s an average of a thread an hour.

    And that’s ridiculous, even when you’re *not* taking a break.

    We love you, but this is worrisome. Go, go, go on now, shoo! Off with you! Git!

  13. 13.

    Michael D.

    John: I think they’re doing all the episodes that played already and then starting new… or something.

    I haven’t watched SL, and don’t know anything about it, except there’s a hot cop in it. I just know they’re going to run what’s aired already and then do the rest.

  15. 15.

    Keith G

    A plaintive cry for help.

    My guy is doing grad work in education and has been told he will be buying/using web design software and has been given these examples:

    MS FrontPage
    Adobe GoLive
    Adobe Dreamweaver
    iWeb
    Netscape Composer (free)
    Nvu

    One of the criteria of the work is:

    Instruction will primarily be delivered through a hypermedia learning environment which consists of text, sound, graphics, animation, video and images.

    Any suggestions?

  17. 17.

    Pigs & Spiders

    It’s actually been a bit of a news day. Earth says ‘Fuck you!’ to a small island in the Caribbean. Google says ‘Fuck you!’ to the largest country in the world. Obama says ‘Fuck you!’ to everyone and slips ’em some DADT.

    I can see the winger headline now:

    “Google Earth fucks Haiti–Obama’s Home Country!!–with Chinese Gays in the Military!”

  18. 18.

    Anne Laurie

    @Michael D.:

    I haven’t watched SL, and don’t know anything about it, except there’s a hot cop in it.

    Y’now, I wondered if some part of the show’s cancellation had to do with that one important, non-swish character being “exposed” as gay. ‘Cuz it seems like the people paying for TV shows are totally okay with Teh Ghey as long as it involves hot lezzies, or gay men who never have sex, but a blue-collar guy who drinks beer from the bottle hugging his lover the way only long-established couples interact?

  19. 19.

    Ailuridae

    @Anne Laurie:

    I have a lot of friends who didn’t realize he was gay until the episode where his partner had to build the containing wall despite having seen him score his pain-killers in a gay bar time and time again.

    And, yeah, some of them became much less enthusiastic after that.

  21. 21.

    Jason Bylinowski

    Jesus H Christ on a hockey stick, anybody see The Road yet? I’ve got an advanced copy, I’m about ten minutes in and my stomach is already hurting from anxiety. And I read the fucking book so it’s not like I shouldn’t be prepared. Actually, maybe that’s why I feel the way I do – after all, I thought Hamlet was pretty fucking funny the first time I read it through, up until the last scene. once you know you’re in for a bad end, maybe the good parts just seem bittersweet, or something.

    Anyway, will report in later for the review that I just know you all want to hear.

  22. 22.

    fraught

    Does anyone else think that Regina King is the best actress working on TV now? I’d go anywhere to watch her.

    John: Welcome back. we’ve missed you.

  23. 23.

    Comrade Mary

    @Keith G: Huh? Someone actually expects him to use Netscape Composer? Is he supposed to join a grunge band as well?

    FrontPage was never good. Skip. Skip with EXTREME prejudice. GoLive was dead once Adobe acquired Macromedia. I’m not a Mac person, so I can’t say anything about iWeb. I know nothing about Nvu.

    Dreamweaver isn’t cheap and it’s bloated, but it does what it’s supposed to do and it’s pretty much the industry standard for developing web sites.

    That said, if he wants to create images, he needs Photoshop for photo editing and composition and (possibly) Illustrator if he’s creating his own illustrations, and Flash if he wants animation, and something that John’s working on right now if he wants to work with video. Oh, and if he needs to edit and record sound, Audacity is free and damn solid.

    If all the media is being provided for him, ignore the previous paragraph.

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    @Keith G: I completely agree with Mary on FrontPage and GoLive and Composer.

    I used iWeb on my mac to create my sister’s website. It’s fine if you want to get something up quickly with a template, but you can’t learn much because you’re just modifying a template. I know nothing about Nvu.

    Adobe offers a great deal for folks at my University and others. I purchased Adobe Design Premium, which retails for $1,800, for just over $329. It includes Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, InDesign, Acrobat and a couple other programs. If you can get that kind of a deal through your educational institution, that is what I would recommend.

  29. 29.

    MikeJ

    Owie. Just pan roasted some halibut for dinner. Cook for 3-4 minutes in the all-clad, put the pan in the 350 oven for a few minutes. Mmm tasty. Unitl the time when you take it out and set the pan down. Then go do something else. Then realise you need to move the pan, and grab it, fresh out of the oven, bare handed.

    I’m reduced to typing one handed and not because of asiangrrlmn’s descriptions of her and geg’s would be talk show.

  32. 32.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Kentucky Wildcats lights out to Florida AT Florida. These kids are for real. GO CATS!!

  33. 33.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    Not another fucking word out of you until you share the secret of taking a week long break in 3 hours. If necessary, include detailed diagrams and list of parts for building a time machine or capturing a small black hole.

    @scav: No shit.

  34. 34.

    Comrade Mary

    @MikeJ: Ack! I’ve done this. TWICE. Please, soak your hand in ice water longer than you think you need to. All evening if necessary.

    Now that I cook almost everything in my cast iron pan, I’ve gotten in the habit of slipping an oven mitt over the handle as soon as it comes out of the oven. It’s a visual reminder that it’s hot and a physical barrier as well.

  35. 35.

    MikeJ

    @Comrade Mary: Good to know I’m not the only one prone to temporary insanity. I have some ice wrapped in paper towels sitting on my desk and every few minutes I just rest my hand on it. No blistering, just redness and hurts like the dickens.

  37. 37.

    Yutsano

    @MikeJ: You should be better in a couple of days. Not that it will do much for the one-handed typing. Also if you have some get some aloe, it will help with some of the burns.

  38. 38.

    The Main Gauche of Mild Reason

    Why is it that John posts the most on days he says he’s giving up the ghost? I count SEVEN posts after the initial “I can’t do this anymore” post.

    Clearly, the proper strategy is for him to AIM to make 7-8 posts in a day, and then he’ll get some rest.

  39. 39.

    YellowJournalism

    Any Big Love fans? I’m so happy that show is back and ramped up the crazy even more, especially the parts about Alby hiking his own special Appalachian trail and the bird fu at Lois’s apartment. Cuthroat Bitch from House was hilarious when she cracked open a light beer in celebration of the Prophet’s demise toward the end of the episode.

  40. 40.

    WaterGirl

    @MikeJ: What Mary said. Ice water is much better than ice or cold water. I have stupidly burned myself multiple times, so I have learned this the hard way.

    Pay special attention to Mary’s wise words: “soak your hand in ice water longer than you think you need to”. Please go get your ice water now.

    Edit: Also, do not put burn cream or anything on it (besides the ice water) until all the heat has gone out of the burn. If you put that stuff on too early, you kind of seal the heat in, which is not what you want.

    Edit 2: Wrap your other hand around the glass of wine. :-)

  41. 41.

    AnotherBruce

    @burnspbesq:

    I’m laughing at USC fans, Lane oughtta fit right in with the oncoming sanctions at USC. Now that he’s left Tennessee with sanctions of their own.

    As for Tennessee, I hear Jim Mora is available.

  43. 43.

    Brick Oven Bill

    The United States fought and earned their independence at the same time Haiti fought and earned their independence. Both were rich colonies at the time.

    Now, the United States has better building codes.

  44. 44.

    soonergrunt

    OT, but this is truely fucking hilarious!
    It seems the Red State Trike Force has a site called Operation Leper in which users could input data on right wingers who had not show sufficient fealty to Red State, Sarah Palin, or Casper the Friendly Ghost or something. Well, they let the site slide a bit and now there’s all sorts of new recent posts there.
    Take for example, the newest enemies of the movement:
    1/12/2010 14:34:33 The letter “G” –Always hangin’ out at the end of words. Only people who like latte and readin’ prounounce them.

    1/12/2010 14:37:05 Not Joe Not a Plumber –Still hasn’t snaked Sarah’s drain…if you know what I mean…

  47. 47.

    CaseyL

    Wow: no one here watches NCIS? Tonight we have Robert Wagner playing Tony Dinozzo’s really lousy father.

    Oh! and Benjamin Sisko’s girlfriend Kasidy Yates (oh, OK, Penny Johnson) appears in a very small part as a Naval officer.

  48. 48.

    BGK

    God save me from developers. From a group IM conversation about the current abortiondeployment in progress:

    by the way…there error only happens when the service is configured to use a working directory that has a “.” in it. Currently on production the service is using path: \servername.domain.com WorkFolder
    In code we are looking for the “.” thinking we are changing the extension of a file…code could not handle when the directory structure contained a “.”

    We’ve only been using fully qualified paths since…2006.

  51. 51.

    Comrade Mary

    @MikeJ: What Water Girl said :-)

    Seriously, your hand will be a little swollen and very, very sensitive to touch for a couple of days – even if you don’t see any blisters now – if you don’t ice water it consistently and early. Don’t wait for it to hurt and then go for ice. Ice water now, please.

  52. 52.

    soonergrunt

    @Pigs & Spiders:
    Thanks! I’m having some fun with this until it gets taken down. Meantime, here’s my nomination for a right winger who should be shunned:
    1/13/2010 0:01:00 Erick Erickson –Is he his own son with that name? What the fuck does that even mean? Parents can be cruel, but that’s just fucking rediculous. It explains quite a bit too. It doesn’t go all the way though, becuase Sonoferickson would still be a mouldy douchebag even if his name were John Smith.

  54. 54.

    MikeJ

    @BGK: Wow.

    That’s…wow.

    Not all developers are that dense. I’ve been on both sides of the fence (dev and PM), so I know enough to ask: are your devs stupid or passive aggressive? You can often win over people who code exactly to the spec and no more. The inexperienced you can train. The stupid you need to find something harmless for them to work on.

  55. 55.

    MikeJ

    @Comrade Mary: I’m still alternating ice water soak with holding and emptying the wine glass. Pepperwood Grove’s perfectly acceptable chard was on for 6.99. Not the greatest, but nice enough for a Tuesday.

  56. 56.

    BGK

    They’re far from stupid. When engaged, and not left entirely to their own devices, they can be outright brilliant. The development director just prefers to manage them like a kindergarten instead of a group of grown men. They are lazy about everything besides the direct work of coding: planning, testing, release documentation are only done at gunpoint. They’re all remote workers, and they develop and test on their autonomous systems. Integration testing is a joke, and regression/release testing is whatever the development director and VP of technology (my supervisor) can pull out from betwixt their buttox. In addition to being the systems engineer, I’m (heh) production support, which means I spend a good deal of time mopping the kindergarten floor.

    Also, don’t get me started on our DBA. I think deployment nights are the only nights he’s not roaring drunk by 6:00.

    Despite three years of this sh!t, no one seems motivated enough to add some rigor to our processes. I’ve nearly given myself a stroke far too many times to care.

  57. 57.

    Pope Bandar bin Turtle

    Keith G

    I recommend Adobe Dreamweaver. There are many torrent sites (i.e. free) or buy the student version, either through your school or online, as long as you have a valid student id.

  58. 58.

    Steeplejack

    I have nothing useful to contribute. I have been in an irritable mood all day. Circadian rhythms shot to hell more than usual. Slept from 3:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. this morning. Worked at home in the morning, then went to the part-time gig from 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. tonight. Have to go back 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. tomorrow, then I’m off until 3:00 p.m. Thursday. Have to fit in “home” work–software development–around that. That’s not so bad, but today I received even more evidence (which I really didn’t need) that my manager is a ‘tard–a malevolent ‘tard, which just adds extra spice. Ugh. Major resolution for ’10 is to retire from the part-time gig. Health insurance is the only thing keeping me there.

    Maybe I need to reframe it as “going Galt” from the part-time gig. That seems to work so well for Cole.

  59. 59.

    dr. luba

    @WaterGirl: Love the iWeb. It’s great for building web sites. If you want to learn serious design, no, but for building a nice-looking web site it’s WYSIWYG and fairly easy to learn.

  60. 60.

    The Other Steve

    @BGK: LOL!

    My experience lately has taught me that recent project management mentality is to hire the stupidest developers available because they work cheap. This strategy is called Offshoring…

    Then they’re shocked when projects don’t go well.

    On my latest project, and my experiences with Dilbert management. We are preparing for Release 1 in February. This is actually an extension of an existing codebase, and it’s so badly written it takes a competent developer about six months to get up to speed with it and understand what they can change without creating cascading failures.

    The Big Pointy Headed Boss Guy has decided that we need Release 2 in May. When we informed him that chances are we’ll still be dealing with integration issues into March and April with Release 1… he said not to worry. He’s going to hire a second team of developers who will come in February and work on Release 2 while we’re fixing Release 1.

    The sad thing is, we’d be further along if a year ago they’d started working on rewriting the critical components of this system. Not even that fancy of a rewrite. We don’t have to use some fancy TDD methodology, or Domain Driven Design. Hell, we don’t even need to do Object Oriented Programming. It would be a substantial improvement if we simply rewrote it to follow Structured Programming practices from the 1980s. :-)

  61. 61.

    Emo Pantload (fka Studly)

    @Jim:

    Seconded on the Burn Notice / Damages comment. Damages I figured I’d like, but BN took me by surprise. I never watch the cloak-and-dagger stuff, but I remember Donovan from a previous (short-lived) series and I think he totally makes the show.

    So far as Southland, after TNT airs the original seven eps, they’ll air six more that were in the can for the second season, then they’ll play it by ear. Show definitely deserves a chance to spread its wings.

    I must say, I’m quite happy to see the Leno-to-prime move biting NBC in the ass. There are already enough cheap, stupid reality shows crowding out potential good dramas (me no have the premium cable), and this Leno thing was the equivalent of simply phoning it in. Besides, they bumped Law & Order to 8 on Fridays, and while I love that show wildly, even I can’t remember it’s on at such a lame-ass time. Thank FSM for DVRs.

  64. 64.

    Joshers

    I know that NPR is becoming another arm of Murdoch media and they deserve to be de-funded also, too, but this was actually pretty interesting.

  65. 65.

    MikeJ

    Heh. I’m an offshore programmer but I live in the US and often work in Europe, and do everything I can to minimize going back and forth.

    Remote workforces are a challenge, but I think the biggest problem is not when they aren’t where you are, it’s when they aren’t where each other are. Of course the general problem is that sometimes things just go easier with one genius writing all the code instead of ten normal people trying to each do one part. That communication is really hard to do remotely when your only reward is money.

  66. 66.

    slag

    @WaterGirl:

    Adobe offers a great deal for folks at my University and others. I purchased Adobe Design Premium, which retails for $1,800, for just over $329. It includes Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, InDesign, Acrobat and a couple other programs. If you can get that kind of a deal through your educational institution, that is what I would recommend.

    2nded. Although I got Adobe CS3 for quite a bit cheaper. Missing Flash and InDesign, but depending on how the video is being produced, that may not be a problem.

  67. 67.

    BGK

    @The Other Steve:

    We learned the anti-outsource lesson years ago. Whatever criticisms I have of the current clowns, they’re Nobel Laureates compared to the jokers we once tried.

    I don’t have a pointy-haired boss. He just lacks the will to give everyone involved the needed working over with a length of iron pipe. Given that the typical getting-talked-to reactions range from sobbing to sullen rage, I can’t say as I blame him.

  68. 68.

    Paul

    One of my guilty pleasures is Medium, another good show that NBC dropped and CBS was smart enough to pick up.

  69. 69.

    WaterGirl

    @dr. luba: Good to know. Do you have websites you have created with iWeb? I would love to see them!

    I will be creating a couple of websites in the near future. Maybe I should have more of an open mind for iWeb as an option?

  70. 70.

    Yutsano

    @Paul: I think we could do a whole thread on the boneheadedness of NBC and their programming decisions. That might produce some commenting gold right there.

    EDIT: Watching one of my guity pleasures Bones, which is unfortunately Uncle Rupert’s domain but seems to be syndicated everywhere.

  71. 71.

    Jason Bylinowski

    Well I just finished watching The Road. It was bleak. A sad thing happened at the end and it made me cry. I mean, I’ve gotten teary-eyed at movies before but this was just an atrocious festival of woe.

    In the end, I feel better having watched it, there was a lot of great imagery (if your favorite color is grey, this is your movie) although, just like I felt when I read the book, the very end was just too much fairyland nonsense for me to buy. As much as I wanted to believe that things happened the way they did, in the end, I just can’t get there. Still worth watching though, if you have the stomach for it.

    My wife, who refused to watch just as she refused to read the book on the grounds that it would probably kill her, asked me why I like this genre (post-apocalypse) and although it’s not something I’ve thought very much about, I guess I probably like it because it reminds me of the triviality of my own problems. So for those of us in the need for some perspective in trying times, The Road may be the movie of the year.

    And also, Viggo Mortensen is my hero and if I were a woman, I would gladly have his children.

  73. 73.

    Yutsano

    @Jason Bylinowski:

    And also, Viggo Mortensen is my hero and if I were a woman, I would gladly have his children.

    There is no shame in a heterosexual mancrush. My brother gets them all the time for stud ballplayers.

  75. 75.

    Comrade Mary

    OMG! Philip Glass was just part of a bit on Colbert’s show! He wasn’t playing anything amazing, and Colbert’s performance was a closer parody of Laurie Anderson than Glass, but still — Glass! Squeee! My favourite cabbie turned composer EVAH!

  76. 76.

    eemom

    @Jason Bylinowski:

    the very end was just too much fairyland nonsense for me to buy.

    eggzactly. Especially after the sad thing you mentioned. I’m getting too old for that kind of sad.

    OTOH, if the Hollywood ending hadn’t happened, it would have been even MORE unbearable.

    and yes, Viggo was teh hot.

  77. 77.

    Paul

    @Yutsano:

    No kidding…scheduling Law & Order on Friday at happy hour? Two hours of Biggest Loser or such leading into Leno and the late night news? Sweet bejebus.

    Castle, also.

  78. 78.

    Emo Pantload (fka Studly)

    @eemom:

    Seen Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York”? Hint: hide the razor blades. I mean, I love me some Kaufman, but – wow.

  80. 80.

    Jason Bylinowski

    @eemom: Yeah, what really makes me question the strength of the film (and the book) in the end of The Road is that, although I feel the road-warrior style cannibalism (i.e. the total absence of “good guys” in the movie) is far too prevalent to be realistic, the upbeat ending was also unrealistic. I’m not sure what that says about real life, but I don’t think it’s a warm fuzzy reason to sleep well at night. True disaster in most cases isn’t running for your life from cannibals, it’s just the gradual absence of resources, endless foraging and an eventual ignominious death from starvation or some random malady that would normally be perfectly treatable. Maybe the scariest thing about Apocalypse to me is how even hopelessness can seem banal after enough time. Yeah, I heard some pretense in that last sentence, too, but it really is why the ending just doesn’t fly with me.

    Anyway, I gotta be up in five hours, better get offa this here high horse before she gets away from me.

  81. 81.

    Emo Pantload (fka Studly)

    I, for one, am happy to sit through the rebroadcast of Southland’s original eps. Watching the first one, now, and FSMdamn, this show really has it’s shit together for a pilot.

  83. 83.

    Yutsano

    The conversation between the rookie cop and the girl whose brother got shot has to be one of the BEST scenes I’ve seen on TV in a long ass time.

  84. 84.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Chuck Butcher: Agreed. By the way, I am watching tonight’s Rachel now, and the Palin segment is really infuriating me. Big time. That woman is a menace to our society.

    @MikeJ: Hopefully, if you go to your happy place, you’ll use your other hand.
    @Yutsano: I’m stalking you. Here’s the pic of the two GSD. Tan one is Daisy, and black one is Luna.

  85. 85.

    asiangrrlMN

    God. Fucking. Damn. It. Too many links!
    @Chuck Butcher: Agreed. By the way, I am watching tonight’s Rachel now, and the Palin segment is really infuriating me. Big time. That woman is a menace to our society.

    @MikeJ: Hopefully, if you go to your happy place, you’ll use your other hand.

  88. 88.

    daryljfontaine

    @BGK: We’re suffering from the opposite problem. Our company has decided to do the death of a thousand budget cuts, has reduced our core developers to a bare minimum, and basically has my department doing its own project management, coding, and testing due to a lack of allocated resources… not to mention being forced into doing our own server and database management at least half the time. Our one recourse is that since my manager is a developer as well, he has decided that since we’re stretched to the breaking point, we can and do exercise the right to say “no” a lot more than we used to.

    D

  89. 89.

    hamletta

    @Keith G: Is your guy responsible for the management of the whole site, or just individual pages?

    Because I use Drupal for a content management system, and it is the shit. I do all my CSS by hand in a text editor.

    The only way to run a Web site is with a database. Individual pages are so ’90s.

    There are hosted Drupal companies out there, like Bryte, that take care of the back end for you. They aren’t crazy expensive, either.

  90. 90.

    J. Michael Neal

    I read The Road, and I have no idea how you could make a movie out of it. I’m not even sure it was all that good as a book. Interesting for the writing style, and I’m glad I read it, but short of actually being good. Nothing happened. No real plot, and, far more important to me, no character development at all. Bleah.

  91. 91.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: I’m going to link to the blog entry I created for you here, too. Everyone is welcome to look at the beautiful puppehs.

    This is a pic of my boys’ foster mom’s two GSD. The tan one is Daisy–whom she’s had since Daisy was a pup. The black one is Luna–whom she just adopted as a rescue. Luna was going to be euthanized because during her battery of tests, she growled at a large doll. WTF? Who wouldn’t growl at a large doll? I hate dolls. They are as creepy as clowns. Anyway, without further ado:

    Daisy and Luna.

  92. 92.

    Cain

    @Keith G:
    I just use a text editor like VI or Emacs and then use a css stylesheet from one of those free sites. Use gimp instead of photoshop for image manipulations and as comrade mary noted audacity for sound. It will cost you nothing for the above other than some time.

    If you had to use one, I heard dreamweaver is the best. But honestly most people just end up editing the darn thing by hand to tweak everything.

    cain

  93. 93.

    ==-+

    @Max:

    Sofa king

    I wrote “I am sofa king we todd it” on a white board once in a studio I was rehearsing in for a one off show. We had everyone, who didn’t know the joke, read it out loud. The other guitar player didn’t get it…and kept reading it…over and over. Much to our amusement, and his chagrin. He never did get it. Dunno whatever happened to him, but I’m sure if you look up gullible in the dictionary, his picture will be there.

  94. 94.

    demkat620

    Morning all! I just woke up and turned on the morning shows. Everybody is covering Haiti.

    Except Fox. There top story is Sarah Palin. Shocking!

  96. 96.

    RedKitten

    @Yutsano:

    @RedKitten: I probably should stop hanging out on Canadian news websites in the morning, but this made me a bit too concerned for you and y’all:
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-…..cycle.html
    I hope this has no impact on you guys, I could just be my usual mother hen self about it.

    Probably won’t affect me personally, as I’m quite a ways from there, in a podunk little fishing village. And if they ARE bad news, I can’t see them lasting long around here — the Hell’s Angels didn’t. Their Halifax chapter dissolved in 2003 due to lack of membership and lack of money.

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    Stogoe

    @CaseyL: I was under the impression that Penny Johnson was the new SecNav or at least a big muckety-muck, not just some naval officer.

    And I am pissed off as all hell that someone decided that Leverage and Psych needed to air in the same time slot (Wed at 10). At least USA and TNT and SyFy have the sense to air their new episodes again later the same night so I can wiggle around their complete and utter disregard of what shows I want to watch when.

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    asiangrrlMN

    @Hob: Zero Gravity Smoochhound is a doll! I commented on your Flickr set.

    The GSD in the photo aren’t mine. They are the girls of the foster mother of my boys (cats). Got that? I just knew that Yutsano has a thing for puppies and wanted to show him the beautiful GSD. The mostly-black one was going to be euthanized because she growled at a large doll (who the fuck wouldn’t?), so my friend adopted her.

    The tan one, Daisy, my friend has had since Daisy was a mere pup. Zero’s best friend is beautiful, too.

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    Hob

    @asiangrrlMN: Thanks! I won’t tell him what you said though, or he’ll get a big head.

    And yeah I knew those weren’t your dogs, but appreciated you posting the pics.

    (And: growled at a doll? Since when is that a capital offense? Was the doll trying to deliver the mail or something?)

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    Anne Laurie

    @Hob:

    growled at a doll? Since when is that a capital offense? Was the doll trying to deliver the mail or something?

    The idea behind this particular temperament test is that a dog that reacts aggressively to a “minature human” might attack a small child. Some strains of GSD, unfortunately, do have a genetic history of “fear biting” when surprised, and small children are unpredictable — a strange kid running in the park shrieking gleefully can read as threatening to a dog, especially a dog who isn’t used to normal kid behavior. Obviously, sensibly, the people doing this dog’s evaluation didn’t feel his response was so over-the-top that they wouldn’t let an experienced dog-rescuer (who probably doesn’t have kids) take him home with her. But they didn’t want to put that dog up for adoption to the general public, because even if they could keep potential adoptive families with small kids out of the pool, they didn’t want to risk some innocent single adult taking the dog home and accidentally putting their little cousins or the next-door neighbors’ kids at risk. You could argue this was overprotective, but it’s not completely arbitrary / cruel.

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