Not-politics – Page 1246

OK, OK, I’m not embarrassed to be Irish.

It’s just that this:

(Flogging Molly: I’ll hopefully be able to pick up their their latest album at some point)

…is truer than what’s below: Continue reading OK, OK, I’m not *embarrassed* to be Irish.

As you can see, there’s a Reciprocal bloglist in place now.

Which is probably not going to be automatic, alas: I’m trying to keep my sidebars under control.

And, in other news: George Bush sings U2.

Old, but refreshing, in its way.

Tonight’s PSA: How to remove a bumper sticker.

This site has the full details, but the very short version is: WD-40 will shift that sucker for you most of the time. Well, that’s what WD-40 does.

If you’re a more eco-caring type, this site has eco-friendly suggestions. They probably won’t wreck your bumper too badly before you give up and try the WD-40.

I intended this just to be my usual video…

…palate-cleanser, but:

Buddy Holly

Whole different world, huh?

“Al Gore, you’ve doomed us all!”

This pleases me.

xkcd, of course.

Crossposted to RedState.

Blizzard is having a writer’s contest.

Details here.

I must admit, it sounds… intriguing. The Necromancer was always my guy in Diablo 2; you could get a nice tactical formation going at the higher levels, even in solo play. But I don’t want to bore the non-gamers.

You all just shut up now.

This is my blog, and if I want to put up a clip from The Sound of Music…

TSOM – Something Good
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…I bloody well will.

‘How can you be sure there won’t be vacuum pockets left in the chamber…’

“…that someone could accidentally stick their head into?”

(h/T: Meryl Yourish) This was an actual quote, supposedly, in relation to the delayed certification of a vacuum chamber by a bureaucrat. Also requiring resolution was where the vacuum would end up going if the chamber was suddenly vented and whether there were any additional safeguards to keep people from accidentally letting the vacuum out besides the need to exert fifty tons of force in order to open the door. This was all necessary because vacuum was defined as an “asphyxiant…” yes, laugh at the silly bureaucrats. The scientists can’t, though: it took them three weeks to find somebody to overrule the certification process, and the bureaucrats were apparently touchy on the subject for some time afterward.

Please contemplate this story the next time that the topic of how to implement increased regulation comes up in conversation. Because those are the details that the devil likes to be in.

Moe Lane

PS: I’m not really being dour about this. Just mildly tired.

Crossposted to RedState.

He ate two pieces of the smutto.

That’s just wrong.

See here for details. Howard Tayler was, of course, insane to come up with the idea in the first place, and watching this video play out was subtly disturbing.

But not as disturbing as the notion that this will probably encourage Tayler to come up with something even more outlandish.

New Book of the Week: Storm From the Shadows

Short time for Lullaby to be on the list, but such are the vagaries of life.

I’m replacing it with David Weber’s Storm from the Shadows, which is the latest from the Honorverse. I was actually able to afford getting this one thanks to an early birthday present; it was a tough call between it and Escape from Hell, though. I’m about halfway through it, and it’s good.