May Contain Nuts

MARCH 12, 2010 11:37AM

there is no SATA Clause…

New copy of Disk Warrior that can’t repair failing directory because of hardware error: $100

Testing by Apple technicians, who did the same Google search I did to assume it’s a failing drive, but ascertained it was not a bad logic board: free at store

Instructions on how to pry open… Read full post »

stop by and tell your representatives how you feel

I heard about it this morning, and am just now getting around to posting it, so while you’ve got a day or two left, you might as well make the most of waiting ’til the last minute.

Because I know you were waiting almost all week to have a reason

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You know that part of The Producers (and I’m referencing the original, Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder version) when the opening sequence of “Springtime for Hitler” starts? And the audience sits there, staring, slackjawed, as the parade of grotesque stereotypes of German “culture&rd/

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Just what part of “killer” in “killer whale” do people fail to grasp?
 
Yes, other cultures call them things like “orcas,” but someone at some point thought of calling them, not “spotted whales,” not “cow whales,” “Oreo whales&rdq… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 23, 2010 10:10PM

Best. Gay Marriage. Quote. Evar.


“One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother’s day,
but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!”

Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers

Filed under: Uncategorized /

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010 1:15PM

Oh, the Terror(ism)!


What follows is a reply to another blog post here. This reply was posted in the comments.
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Should we argue semantics? Get all hung up on the “true” meanings of words? Yes. It’s why we have them.

It’s why Charles Manson was a mass-murderer. Son of Sam a s

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For those of you who haven’t seen the TV ads yet (which curiously show a nebulously interracial couple), Walmart is getting into the check cashing business.

Don’t have check cashing establishments around your home? You probably live in an area that’s doing OK. They’re… Read full post »

FEBRUARY 13, 2010 10:24AM

Father/Son Valentines are just Icky


OK, first, let’s dispense with the tired stereotype of the absent-minded, romantically clueless male, running to the card shop at the last minute to load up on armfulls of roses and chocolates and find that perfect paper sentiment that expresses his undying love in a way he never could. Or

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FEBRUARY 12, 2010 8:40PM

Father/Son Valentines are just Icky

OK, first, let's dispense with the tired stereotype of the absent-minded, romantically clueless male, running to the card shop at the last minute to load up on armfulls of roses and chocolates and find that pefect paper sentiment that expesses his undying love in a way he never could. Or diamonds,… Read full post »

FEBRUARY 9, 2010 10:37AM

a parent’s worst nightmare


From Australia, but it happens here (US) with frightening regularity
clipped from www.dadsontheair.net

Department of Child Stealing

a distraught father who has spent the past 13 years desperately trying/…

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010 3:10PM

You heard me, I called you an Asshole

You may have already heard about this poll. It's making its way through the "liberal media."

There is no doubt that  Daily Kos leans to the left. Leans, like a three-legged table with two of its legs removed.

Anyway, the poll was conducted by a third party, one that actually conducts… Read full post »

FEBRUARY 2, 2010 4:35PM

Blowhard Christian Soldiers


The only “social responsibility” of a Christian is to live, wherever and with whomever he may be, the life of faith, for his own salvation and as an example to others. If, in so doing, we help to ameliorate or abolish a social evil, that is a good thing

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 "I was looking at the tag—I wanted to see if it came in grown-up sizes."

There's this cartoon (I saved it somewhere, but I can't find it) of a woman in a plastic surgeon's office with the caption, "I want them big enough that I can get mad at… Read full post »

JANUARY 27, 2010 4:01PM

I have a shiny new penny!


My cat has fur in her ears!

Cheese is my friend!

Because I’m following the Rethink Afghanistan page on Facebook, I went and visited the White House’s page. At their suggestion, I clicked on “Just Fans.

I wept a little, on the inside.

Since then, I’ve been going

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JANUARY 14, 2010 2:14PM

Holding it together

"Just use this one."

"That won't work for this."

"It's glue."

"It's not glue, it's cement."

"Cement? It's glue - it says 'Elmer's' on it."

"Not concrete, cement - see? It says 'cement,' right underneath 'Elmer's.'"

"Same thing. Why can't you just use this?"

"Because it's not meant for this.

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JANUARY 14, 2010 11:45AM

man up, or shut up


Carville… didn’t he make cakes?
clipped from punkrockhr.com Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities

We never have honest discussions as Americans. If we did, we

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Dear Elected Member of the Democratic Party:

I probably voted for you in the past election. Not because I like you, but because the other candidate most likely to win was an option I would not be able to tolerate.

I won’t make that mistake again.

I could have

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JANUARY 6, 2010 1:55PM

Right twice a day


My wife is complaining about her new watch – which happens to be my watch. That it was once mine gives her license to speak disparagingly about it.

“This watch is crap.” As is everything that is or once was mine, including my new smartphone (on which I’m writing

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from Are You Getting Thrown Under the Bus?:

 would you cut off your arm to save your leg?

to get what we got, what do we have to give up? What if that's not acceptable?
 

clipped from open.salon.com

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In a writing project I recently did, I wrote a lot about changing gender roles in the home. More men are doing more of the housework. Attribute that to more men being unemployed and staying at home, more women occupying more of the workforce and so more traditional housework needing to… Read full post »

JANUARY 4, 2010 11:04AM

I deserve health care, you don’t


that’s a paraphrase, but given comments from a certain drug-addicted blowhard, an accurate sentiment
clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com Limbaugh Lauds (Socialist) Medical Care in Hawaii
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How do you indicate the only black man in a wheelchair in the room?

The thought occurred to me just now, as I've written quite a few posts and comments recently with, "my gay friend... my friend, who's gay... I know a gay guy..." and it seems (maybe just to me)… Read full post »

DECEMBER 30, 2009 12:09PM

do who I say, not what I do


in closing: “I’ve long thought that the solution to the cheap, cost-free moralizing that leads very upstanding people like Karl Rove to want to ban same-sex marriages (which they don’t want to enter into themselves, and thus cost them nothing) is to have those same “principle
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DECEMBER 28, 2009 2:24PM

My 10 favorite OS blog posts of 2009

These are mine - all mine. Mine mine mine mine mine.

OK, you got me, not "mine" as in "you can't have 'em," but as in "I wrote them."

And no, you still can't have 'em.

10. May Contain Nuts

wherein this blog gets its title

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