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Our old Fiat 124g used to get 35mpg at 75mph.  But cars got a lot heavier because of - pffft! - “safety” and now it’s hard to achieve those figures without a lot of “technology” ‘n stuff.

I could see subscribing to a Twitter feed from, say, a Mars lander project.  But for us non-robot, non-interplanetary travelers, not so much.

Never met my ex-wife. broke my nose twice ( once was enough for me come to reality and realized that anyone that uses physical abuse to get their way is just an uneducated, ignorant human being?)

Nope I stayed around for even more. Its not just women who put up with this kind of bullshit. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m no pussy but I won’t hit a woman. In the end I left. Just packed up my shit and drove 2000 miles away to New York. LOL. Gave her everything that we owned ( which is what those people are all about, they have no depth of emotion or intelligence.)

There are still cavemen and cavewomen in our society. Even in this so-called enlightened age of technology and education.

That’s what it all comes down to.

I really don’t get Twitter, it seems kind of mundane and filled with minutia.

Facebook is Myspace but cleaner, a place to link up to friends, post pictures, play games with each other, etc. It’s good for finding old classmates, etc.

LinkedIn is a business connections form of Facebook/MySpace.

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“An eye for an eye leaves us all blind.” - Gandhi

So it’s ok to beat someone if it’s to assert your authority? I fancy becoming a professor, could I walk into his office and slap him about a bit until he agrees to give me his job?

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Somewhere out there, there’s a danish with my name on it

The only good use I’ve seen of Twitter is for the continuing adventures of Othar, Gentlemen Adventurer.

Everyone else seems to be trying to let everyone know that they went to store five minutes ago but couldn’t find the exact brand of milk they wanted.

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Somewhere out there, there’s a danish with my name on it

You’re not alone.

I can see the utility of a micro-blog like twitter as an alternate means of emergency communication, perhaps particularly so if you have a client on your smartphone. It’s probably been used for this by some unfortunates.

Also, I can vaguely see using their service for server monitoring purposes and submit low-security status messages to a private twitter feed. Machine to human communication, if you will. The barrier of entry is rather low, though, and there’s no reason not to roll your own—unless you absolutely want to use a twitter client that runs on your smartphone. Anybody sense a trend?

By and large, I simply don’t get twitter. It’s not that micro-blogs can’t be useful, but the “I’m taking a dump” “Here’s comes the paper” “Should I wad it or fold it?” monologues that just aren’t my thing.

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Science is answers that must always be questioned.
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.
Religion is answers that must never be questioned.
Politics is answers that lobbyists pay for.

Part of the appeal of moving to Ann Arbor is the availability of hybrid-biofuel powered mass transit there. If I find that I can lock up a bike properly in the apartment complex then I may break down and buy one for getting back and forth to work.

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All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don’t gotta share it with someone
All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
-- I Feel Fantastic, Jonathan Coulton

As nice as it is to have people driving slower I would much rather see an increase public transportation or like everyone else, lower gas prices. I’m part of a campaign to boycott Exxon Mobil, the current leader in profits during this energy crisis. Check it out here https://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/send-a-message-to-the-oil-companies/overview

Hopefully, we can all do something about it

Les, you say

It’s somewhat ironic that high gas prices are accomplishing something that draconian speed laws and occasional police crack downs haven’t been able to for years: Get people to drive slower.

Speed limits, like all laws, are only effective if the threat of being caught, and the penalty for being caught, are perceived as being high enough to make breaking the law not worthwhile- or if the reasons behind the law (in the case of speed limits, safety and environmental concerns) are perceived as being worthwhile.  Obviously, many people would rather take their chances and speed.

But economic considerations are enforced on all- you might not get caught driving 90 mph to work, but you won’t get away from paying for the gas. I suspect that the only way to get us living greener is to attempt to assess the burden on the planet of goods of the goods we consume, and factor that into the price, for instance in the form of a CO2 tax.  That would mean no more gratis externalization of the costs of environmental damage, such as the cost of the CO2 produced by gasoline, or those fruits imported from South America, or those plastic toys that are discarded in a week. Obviously not easy to do, but the alternative is going to be grim- if not for us, then for our children.

Yeah, if gas keeps going up then there’s finally a good argument for moving to one of those high crime, noisy neighbors, urban areas I try to avoid.

Or Europe, which is probably nicer anyways.

Well, at least most places in Europe have better public transportation. Everything here in the midwest is so far that it would take hours by bus, and scoots can’t go that far unless they’re the expensive maxiscoots.

I just hope that they’ve tweaked the game interface so there’s not so much clickaclickaclickaclicka… my poor wrist can’t take it. :(

It looks REALLY cool, though. I wonder what the other three classes are.

That ignorant git! This man is lucky that he will probably nether meet my mother… the only fractionaly redeeming thing about this is that he partialy acknoleges the abusive party to be in the wrong.

Hmm - the UK flag icon isn’t displaying on the comments I’m posting - glitch?

Trust me, I feel for you folks. Every time I even mention gas prices here there’s at least four comments from European SEB regulars about how lucky we are.

You’ll note that I didn’t bother complaining about gas prices in this entry. I’ve learned my lesson about doing that. I’m just amused that the higher prices seem to be getting folks to slow down for a change.

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All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don’t gotta share it with someone
All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
-- I Feel Fantastic, Jonathan Coulton

Yeah, I’ve been doing the same thing. I used to drive 70-80 on the freeways, always kept my SHO right at about 2800-3000 revs or so.

Now I’m quite satisfied to have it at about 1900-2200, which is where it revs between 50-65mph, and I’m impressed with the mileage I’m getting.

I’ve also started accelerating more slowly from a stop, and I turn off the engine when I’m caught by a train or at a stoplight that I know I’m going to be at for a while.

We all gotta do what we gotta do, right? Now I only wish I’d been doin’ it sooner. Oh well, you’re only stupid if you don’t learn from your fuckups, right? LOL!

Michigan gas prices seem to vary from $3.95 to $4.29 per US Gallon

To put it into perspective, here in the UK it costs me the equivalent of $8.91 for a US Gallon.

This is the best news I have heard since time began.

I love that commercial as does the author of XKCD!

http://xkcd.com/442/

“boom de yadda, boom de yadda...”

I can hardly wait for D3!!

I will probably have to use up some vacation days when I get this baby!!

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‘Pseudo-morals work real well
On the talk shows for the weak
But your selective judgments
And goodguy badges
Don’t mean a f**k to me’ - MM

Quite frankly I have more of a problem with the unelected ones

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Tell me if I’m out of order, kk?

My Unitarian Jihad name: The pointy stick of reasoned debate!
MUST...PROD...STUFF!

I could ever play D2 for two days in a row, tops. My tendons just weren’t up to the click fests.

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Science is answers that must always be questioned.
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.
Religion is answers that must never be questioned.
Politics is answers that lobbyists pay for.

Oh man this won’t end well…
I played D2 so much through middle school it was unhealthy, and all this talk of D3 just makes me want to go play it again.

I do that at work- then have to immediately tell the vict...person it was a lie, or else they believe me.

Gollllleeee! I thought I was the only one that did that.  I’m so good at acting angry and serious, I have to constantly explain to coworkers that I’m not pissed, offended, paranoid and/or plotting their deaths. I’ve noticed also that most people are not good at catching sarcasm unless you use that snide, David Spade as the Asshole Receptionist on SNL tone of voice either.  I mean come ON people! There is no way that I really think that replacing the oil in my new car with kitten blood will really help me get 50 mpg!

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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

-Robert G. Ingersoll

Well this has gone to the top of my wanted list! I played the first one to death on the playstation,but missed the second as I didnt own a PC then...hope the mouse and keyboard is as easy as the controller was.
Also a random dungeon generator would be icing on the cake - main reason I played the first one mutiple times i’d say.

Christianity is a prison religion. Passed on throug generations just now are people starting to notise. If you dont look at the simularity’s witch are shown right infron of ya well i just say belive in what ever you want to belive and see how deep the rabbit hole really is. Christianity is so powerfully connected throug illuminati. We all worship a cross then “Horus had a cross and jesus died on a cross where does this cross relate too” our astrological cross. They are really smart bastards. The 12 zodiacs the 12 disiples. The 3 wisemen the orion belt. Jesus and the devil are defined as the Morning star. Horus is the sun and the moon. Set is the darkness. This is the same thing as the greec mythology evry god had a planet. We are beeing controlled by misunderstood vibrations. Too be honest christianity isint really spiritual or helthy for the soul. Christians dont seem to understand the higher powers spirituality really brings until they start to understand what it is try meditation and see what it brings. It is time for the bible/idle worshippers to wake up.
The Earth is not owned by us, The Earth owns us as long we are on it becouse we are trying to live on it.
The thing is we are beeing controlled by “Religion, poletics and the media”. Let me explain the media first fashion directory. It means it can controll, how we should look like. how we should act like to be less ridiculed in school, work and public and ect. we see it on tv alot. Comersials telling us what to buy what to look at, what to do on our evry day, what car, house, bank and insurance all this crap we should buy/get. The News: Well we only hear one side of the story evry time so dont be so sure to get evry single truth out of that. What too belive in, i know christians have so meny facility’s helping poor people around the world with a bible you guys are litterally forcing them to belive in it. This is wrong. Spain invaded south america and forced them to convert them to christians. That was a real slaughter, allso in north america 60 million native americans dead too around 80 thousand native indian were left in north america. Who are the real bad guys here? Did we kill all these people for jesus… man if we really did damn he would have mutch to answer for. Why is the vatican in rome the same enemy that put jesus on the cross. Poletics we all know the make some minor fixes here and a few rules there to make our box smaller. Now what are they really up too? figure that one out and ill give you a gum. Search for “Illumunati, David Icke, Alex jones or royal blood lines. If you dont give a crap well we will be screwed over by the idiots in power. bb

The opener did make me play it, so that’s the task done. And I was never extremely keen on the predecessors....

Seems they go for a bit more of the three-dimensional gameplay areas, which is good.

LOL! Tom, I have a dad just like you! He used to be able to convince any kid to taste anything including cement. He once convinced a kid to dig for treasure in a neighbor’s yard and had him ask the neighbor to borrow a shovel so he could do it. He is now 83 and is living proof that the good die young. I survived and your daughter will too. I dare say he is at least partially responsible for the skeptic I have become.

I love this strip!

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“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”
Fred Hoyle, English astronomer, mathematician, & popularizer of science (1915 - 2001)

I’m afraid I am a merciless bullshitter. It’s my hobby. I always find that if you say something with enough gravitas then some people will just believe you.

I told my 18 year old daughter that it was possible to cut glass with scissors - but only if you did it under water. She didn’t believe me exactly, but I convinced her to find out by actually doing it. She did try!

On a trip to the south-west in the UK, we were coming out of a restaurant when we saw a huge moon in the sky. When she asked me why it was so big, she completely belived me when I told that it was because we were so much further west.

By the way, she’s now half-way through her PhD. She may be gullible, but she’s not stupid!

Doesn’t somebody make a Jesus USB hub? I think I’ll hold out for one of those.

In addition to the Pirate Bay, I’ll toss a few more suggestions on the pile.

RareTV carries a few Max Headroom videos:
http://www.raretelevision.com/index.php?searchStr=max+headroom&act=viewCat&Submit=search

The Digital Archive Project has downloads available of all but one or two episodes, all in damn good quality. Registration is free, and (despite the fact that I used a throw-away e-mail address and inaccurate information), they seem to be on the up-and-up.
http://www.dapcentral.org/

I don’t know how many times I’ve tried to convince co-workers that their god is fake by proclaiming the FSM or the “Little Green Men that Live In the Moon and Secretly Control the Porn Industry” are real so they can see just how silly their own faith is.  It never works, so maybe I should step up and start doing something like this instead.

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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

-Robert G. Ingersoll

I read on some website that Nancy Grace was convicted on a high-court misdemeanor and ordered to pay out millions of dollars for her irrational and illegal actions she perpetrated against a distraught mother of a missing child who later committed suicide as a direct result of Nancy’s law violations.  CNN and Nancy have worked hard to cover up those facts and it remains some of the reasons why Nancy is never allowed to appear on any television show of CNN without at least one of her Psychologists or Psychiatrists present to help Nancy deal with her documented psychological problems that Nancy says she has to remain on medications for, for the rest of her life. Is that why Nancy can still not be left alone with either of her two children? Is it because of the propensity and potential toxicity of Nancy’s meds, or is it because Nancy may become violatile again and harm the children?

Skippys list of things he isnt allowed to do in the military is also good.  Also out there is a list for someone not allowed to do in RPG

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I’d rather be liberal than illiberal.
I’d rather be progressive than conservative.

I’ve also been in jobs where Mental Heath Day was a valid reason to take a day off.  Usually it was more of a well deserved compensationary time off, but it was written off as a sick day. 

In those days I got essentially unlimited sick days.  After three sick days it went to short term disability, and at some point it went to long term disability. 

At my new job, I accrue n number of hours of sick time for every so many hundreds of hours I work—which totally sucks.  The only good thing is that “working from home” just means that I have to answer e-mails, and I can do that from my Crackberry.

Wow!  What detail - how lifelike - oh, now I’m a true believer - at least the arm is totally visible - what?  Oh, oh, that’s the guy standing NEXT to the slab.  Nope, sorry, I guess I don’t see it.

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You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons. - Blazing Saddles

I think my Spam detector just went off.

Why is he flipping-off the camera man?

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“I know you, Kingslayer, I have been here all the time, waiting for you to come to me. “

Would have been better to spray the string from the tip.

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Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home, and yours. Shun him, for he is the harbinger of death.

Fuck, if its not Colorado its Oklahoma.

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Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home, and yours. Shun him, for he is the harbinger of death.

Barack Obama’s economic policies would hurt the economy. As Kimberly Strassel recently put it in the Wall Street Journal: “Mr. Obama is hawking a tax policy that would take the nation back to the effective marginal tax rates of the Carter days. He wants to further tax income, payroll, capital gains, dividends and death. His philosophy is pure redistribution.”

When Barack Obama speaks of taxing only the wealthy, keep in mind this could have a devastating effect on new small businesses. As Irwin Stelzer has written: “Taxes change behavior. By raising rates on upper income payers, Obama is reducing their incentive to work and take risks. The income tax increase is not all that he has in mind for them. He plans to increase their payroll taxes, the taxes they pay on dividends received and capital gains earned, and on any transfers they might have in mind to their kith and kin when they shuffle off this mortal coil. If the aggregate of these additional taxes substantially diminishes incentives to set up a small business of the sort that has created most of the new jobs in recent decades, the $1,000 tax rebate will be more than offset by the consequences of reduced growth and new business formation.”

I’d like to see the the face of the judge if he decides to dispute the violation

On the other hand, I’d like to make it a law that says if you can’t keep yourself from laughing at someone, you aren’t allowed to arrest them. 

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“Grab a cat by the tail and you will learn things you can’t learn any other way.”
- Mark Twain

Looks like he’s been trying the Pop & Lock Technique from the Darrin’s Dance Grooves video.
Bust a move, Big J!

Wait...is that a gas pump in His hand?  Oh, shit!  Jesus is coming!  And at $4.65/gallon all the way from heaven, you know he’s gonna be pissed!

I wish I was characterless enough to fleece the devout.  But NOoooooo, I work for a living instead.

That, and I like to sleep in on Sunday mornings.

I’ve successfully used the Mental Health day excuse before, but at the time my supervisor was the HR person (who really wanted me to take more time off).

funny, yes. but better if he had been a student.

Funny, but still not as good as the things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the US Army list.

Looks like Jesus is getting ready to administer a prostate exam.

He looks like he’s pointing to someone on his right and saying; “I’m with Stupid!”