Computers are just machines, no soul, no consciousness ... so how the bloody heck does the Mac I use at work know when "All Things Considered" starts a story I'm really interested in, so it can stop the signal and leave me hanging?
Three days in a row!
We can put robots on Mars but we can't keep me connected to KUNR-FM 88.7 Reno?
Golly gosh dang it all to pieces.
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17 January 2008
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
I just love the photos and video of Prez W. and the Saudi King holding hands.
Maybe the tradition started because if you’re holding a guy’s hand he can’t shove a shiv in your back?
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Maybe the tradition started because if you’re holding a guy’s hand he can’t shove a shiv in your back?
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14 January 2008
The critic in me
I was looking forward to "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," but the opening minutes of Sunday's premiere were so bad that I channel-surfed away. Had a VCR running — picked up tonight's second episode, too — so I can go back and try again. Maybe.
The problem? Big action sequence that turned out to be a dream.
Hack writing 101.
Very disappointing.
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The problem? Big action sequence that turned out to be a dream.
Hack writing 101.
Very disappointing.
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Barack, life-size
The rock star candidate, Barack Obama, dropped by my newspaper-of-employment this afternoon to visit with the Editorial Board. On the way out of the RGJ, he posed for pictures, naturally, including with a boy with an arm in a sling, and way too many RGJ employees. Nobody from the Newsroom, though.
He’s tall and that smile is a mile wide.
Second-biggest crowd I’ve ever seen for a celebrity at the RGJ, topped only by Fess Parker.
Also naturally, there was an old guy complaining after Big O left that he’d been forced to park all the way across the parking lot and got caught in the Secret Service traffic jam. He didn’t give a fig for the fact that he’d seen an eventually-historic person. Only his own inconvenience mattered.
Govern that, Sen. O.
ooo ooo ooo
Sunday, I got a computerized phone call claiming to be an election survey; despite the quickly spoken disclaimer at the end, I could not figure out who commissioned the poll.
Several complimentary questions about Huckabee, though. And one “pro life” question.
Also:
“Do you have a high opinion of Sen. Harry Reid?”
Yes, I said.
It next asked if I supported Reid’s support of an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, “turning the country over to Islamic terrorists?”
Yes, I said.
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He’s tall and that smile is a mile wide.
Second-biggest crowd I’ve ever seen for a celebrity at the RGJ, topped only by Fess Parker.
Also naturally, there was an old guy complaining after Big O left that he’d been forced to park all the way across the parking lot and got caught in the Secret Service traffic jam. He didn’t give a fig for the fact that he’d seen an eventually-historic person. Only his own inconvenience mattered.
Govern that, Sen. O.
ooo ooo ooo
Sunday, I got a computerized phone call claiming to be an election survey; despite the quickly spoken disclaimer at the end, I could not figure out who commissioned the poll.
Several complimentary questions about Huckabee, though. And one “pro life” question.
Also:
“Do you have a high opinion of Sen. Harry Reid?”
Yes, I said.
It next asked if I supported Reid’s support of an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, “turning the country over to Islamic terrorists?”
Yes, I said.
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09 January 2008
American Taliban ... really
It's easy to throw the insult "American Taliban" at boneheads who won't live and let live.
But is it an insult to call the people of St. Charles, Mo., American Taliban? The town, near St. Louis, is considering a law that will ban swearing in bars, along with table-dancing, drinking contests and profane music.
Die Gedanken sind frei!
The table-dance will cost you fifty bucks.
ooo
And now for something completely different:
If Hillary Clinton's been an agent for change for 35 years, why is this country so frellin' screwed up?
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But is it an insult to call the people of St. Charles, Mo., American Taliban? The town, near St. Louis, is considering a law that will ban swearing in bars, along with table-dancing, drinking contests and profane music.
Die Gedanken sind frei!
The table-dance will cost you fifty bucks.
ooo
And now for something completely different:
If Hillary Clinton's been an agent for change for 35 years, why is this country so frellin' screwed up?
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03 January 2008
A wild prediction
For New Year's, the gang at "Talk of the Nation" on NPR had people making comical predictions for 2008.
I predict that the hosts of TOTN will one day spend so much time telling us what's ahead, what stories they're following, what questions might be asked on the day's topic, taking breaks for local stations, theme music and such that there will be no time left for the actual show.
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I predict that the hosts of TOTN will one day spend so much time telling us what's ahead, what stories they're following, what questions might be asked on the day's topic, taking breaks for local stations, theme music and such that there will be no time left for the actual show.
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02 January 2008
The holiday stupids
What is it about holidays that makes people I work with go apeshit?
A dozen or more people create the materials I need for my job; after much, much pain, finally the computers work, the software works, the automated delivery works, day in, day out.
Except on holidays. Do they think, "I've done this chore the same way 43 times straight ... It's New Year's Day! I'm gonna do it a different way! Screw everybody downstream of my work ... ?"
Come on, computer wizards ... write software that doesn't allow options in the workflow. Do it one way, and one way only.
When I'm King of the World ... look out!
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A dozen or more people create the materials I need for my job; after much, much pain, finally the computers work, the software works, the automated delivery works, day in, day out.
Except on holidays. Do they think, "I've done this chore the same way 43 times straight ... It's New Year's Day! I'm gonna do it a different way! Screw everybody downstream of my work ... ?"
Come on, computer wizards ... write software that doesn't allow options in the workflow. Do it one way, and one way only.
When I'm King of the World ... look out!
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01 January 2008
A bad good thing
1 January 2008
According to the Reno Gazette-Journal's Lenita Powers, Dove Zugarramurdi, 61, a December graduate of UNR, has always wanted to be a doctor. She has applied to National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Ore., which teaches clinical science and holistic health and healing, creating doctors of naturopathic medicine.
So, Dove's going to learn to be a quack. Couldn't she study real medicine?
As the saying goes, there are two kinds of medicine ... medicine that works, and everything else.
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According to the Reno Gazette-Journal's Lenita Powers, Dove Zugarramurdi, 61, a December graduate of UNR, has always wanted to be a doctor. She has applied to National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Ore., which teaches clinical science and holistic health and healing, creating doctors of naturopathic medicine.
So, Dove's going to learn to be a quack. Couldn't she study real medicine?
As the saying goes, there are two kinds of medicine ... medicine that works, and everything else.
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