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the internet is weird here. and it’s very hot. i hate laptops. At home it’s 99 degrees but it never reached that here. i hate the taste of hard alcohol even though the entire country likes it. there is just no sugaring out that terrible medicine taste. i’m getting kinda bored too. i was up [...]

From the Charleston (WV) Daily Mail: West Penn Allegheny Health System officials announced a major consolidation of the system’s two city-based acute-care hospitals. Up to 1,500 jobs will be lost. To be fair, not all of this is the government’s fault. Hospital admissions are well below capacity. From the WPXI story: “Dr. Olivia said the [...]

In 1990, a game was released for the Sega Genesis called “Action 52″, a series of 52 arcade games which were priced as “52 games at a discount” rather than the price of a single cartridge. The game consisted of simple arcade-style jump-and-shoot games with goofy graphics. Not a bad idea, but definitely not worth [...]

(NOTE: My comments are based on From and Subject headers. I have not these opened these scam e-mails and neither should you, ever.) In my "Spam" folder, there are always fake Notice of Underreported Income forms, originally from a fake "IRS", but now from the British HM Revenue & Customs. Yet it still uses the [...]

(Another celebrity dies in 2009) From Lew Rockwell: Soupy Sales, RIP Also from Lew Rockwell: Steal Your Parents’ Money

Politics as usual, via YouTube: Obama Speech: 7 Lies In Under 2 Minutes

For all my fellow Christmas Haters out there, Linus tells us what Christmas is REALLY about (NSFW): Linus Meaning Of Christmas

From Lew Rockwell: This online video game, consisting of hundreds of thousands of players who control every aspect of the game universe, just suffered an enormous economic calamity due to player-controlled bankers engaging in Fractional Reserve Banking. When players got wind of the fraudulent practice, it prompted a bank run. Minus central banking, Fractional Reserve [...]

All of a sudden I turn my head and left side of my ham radio transceiver’s LCD display has just gone dim! The frequency and mode are still visible, and everything else seems to work fine (though I haven’t tested transmit since my semi-homemade Morse key broke last week). But the radio being from the [...]

Apparently Flash stores cookies itself in addition to normal Web browser cookies. Unlike Web browser cookies, Flash cookies require you to go to Adobe’s Web site and manage your settings there. I went there and found cookies for almost every site I’ve ever been to since my I first set up this computer over 6 [...]