Saturday, June 23, 2012
Advertisement_Yuck #1
The Geico Gecko meets the Roadrunner and Wiley Coyote. Geico must have had to pay some serious licencing money, but the result is very funny, at least for old Roadrunner fans.
The Hipping point
Last night I had the FM radio on. Playing "The Notch" FM 106.something-or-other. They must have call letters but they never bother to say them over the air. The announcer tells me that I am listening to "The Hippy Radio Show". Then he says "The situation has reached a Tipping Point."
Tipping Point? on the Hippy Radio Show. That oughta be a Hipping Point, if we are remaining true to our themes.
Of course it's been 50 years since we had any real hip hippies around. Which goes to show how up-to-date FM radio is way up here in the mountains.
Tipping Point? on the Hippy Radio Show. That oughta be a Hipping Point, if we are remaining true to our themes.
Of course it's been 50 years since we had any real hip hippies around. Which goes to show how up-to-date FM radio is way up here in the mountains.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Gotta keep all them drones on the payroll
The new, not yet sworn in, government of Greece has announced that they will not be doing the big layoffs of government workers that their EU lenders/bailer-outers have demanded. Good call that. With the treasury empty and running a serious deficit and nobody will loan them money, it is essential to the life of the Greek republic that we keep every single bureaucrat on the payroll. The Parthenon would crumble with out every single paper pusher drawing his pay. And benefits, and pension.
I haven't heard any response from Angela Merkel. She is smart enough to understand that getting into a shouting match with Greeks just makes Germany look mean to the rest of the Euros. There is a lot of Euro ill will toward Germany left over from the 1940's.
Wanna bet the next hand out to the Greeks gets delayed some how?
I haven't heard any response from Angela Merkel. She is smart enough to understand that getting into a shouting match with Greeks just makes Germany look mean to the rest of the Euros. There is a lot of Euro ill will toward Germany left over from the 1940's.
Wanna bet the next hand out to the Greeks gets delayed some how?
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Mountain Heat Wave
It's so warm up here that I can leave the windows open all night. Got up to 80 these last two days. I hear it got warmer down in the flatlands.
Hewlett Packard DVD+R
I bought a stack of fifty of these babies. I've burned a lot of them, and had to pitch about five 'cause DeepBurner claimed they were defective and didn't burn right. That's 10% duds. Strange, HP has a good rep for making reliable stuff, and that rep goes back 50 years. Apparently the suits at HP don't care anymore, and the next pack of DVD's I buy will be from someone else. Probably Sony.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Foot Shooting for Dummies
Operation Fast and Furious, where BATF allowed better than 1000 guns to walk into Mexico was just a medium duty administration scandal until today. Congress subpoenaed 100,000 documents from Dept of Justice and DOJ has been stalling on delivering them.
Today Obama invoked "Executive Privilege" to keep those documents secret. Executive Privilege is a way of keeping information given to the president secret on the theory that the president needs to hear unvarnished truth from his advisers. If every thing said to the president will appear in the public press, a whole bunch of stuff will never be discussed because it will look bad in the papers.
So far so good. But by invoking executive privilege, Obama is saying that he knew about Fast and Furious, something that he has been denying. Plus, the last president to invoke Executive Privilege in a big way was Richard Nixon in Watergate. We oldsters remember Watergate, and we remember that Nixon's use of executive privilege was fraudulent. As soon as Obama tries it, we think Obama is fraudulent too.
The documents in question are probably embarrassing, they probably will tell which DOJ chucklehead started Fast and Furious, and why. But even if the disputed documents incriminated Eric Holder, AND showed that Fast and Furious was an attempt to discredit the 2nd Amendment, Obama could have just thrown Holder under the bus along with Rev. Wright and pressed on.
Now Obama has told us all that he was in on it, from the beginning. Not smart.
Today Obama invoked "Executive Privilege" to keep those documents secret. Executive Privilege is a way of keeping information given to the president secret on the theory that the president needs to hear unvarnished truth from his advisers. If every thing said to the president will appear in the public press, a whole bunch of stuff will never be discussed because it will look bad in the papers.
So far so good. But by invoking executive privilege, Obama is saying that he knew about Fast and Furious, something that he has been denying. Plus, the last president to invoke Executive Privilege in a big way was Richard Nixon in Watergate. We oldsters remember Watergate, and we remember that Nixon's use of executive privilege was fraudulent. As soon as Obama tries it, we think Obama is fraudulent too.
The documents in question are probably embarrassing, they probably will tell which DOJ chucklehead started Fast and Furious, and why. But even if the disputed documents incriminated Eric Holder, AND showed that Fast and Furious was an attempt to discredit the 2nd Amendment, Obama could have just thrown Holder under the bus along with Rev. Wright and pressed on.
Now Obama has told us all that he was in on it, from the beginning. Not smart.
Windows Speed Tweaks - Zap Indexing Services
Windows XP comes with a resource hogging "Indexing Services". This sluggish CPU hog builds "indexes" of file contents to speed up searches. It never sped up anything for me. To keep the indexes up to date, indexing services constantly "sniffs" the hard drive, looking in files and updating the indexes. I have seen Indexing Services sucking up as much as 25% of CPU time. Your computer will run faster if you kill Indexing Services.
This can be done from "Add | Remove Programs", a Microsoft applet on the Control Panel. You get to Control Panel from the Start button. Do Start, then Settings then Control Panel.
Add | Remove Programs makes you wait while it builds a list of what's installed. Once it comes back to life, click on "Add|Remove Windows Components. This will display a list of optional Windows bits and pieces. Uncheck "Indexing Services" and he will be gone.
While you are in here, any other Windows bit or piece you don't need can be unchecked. This machine (Antique Laptop) has Fax Services, Management and Monitoring Tools,MSN Explorer, Other Network File and Print Services and Outlook Express unchecked and he runs just fine. Even if you don't use Internet Exploder for your browser, you want to keep him around. Microsoft update (which brings you the latest Windows patches) only works with Exploder. No Exploder, no patches.
This can be done from "Add | Remove Programs", a Microsoft applet on the Control Panel. You get to Control Panel from the Start button. Do Start, then Settings then Control Panel.
Add | Remove Programs makes you wait while it builds a list of what's installed. Once it comes back to life, click on "Add|Remove Windows Components. This will display a list of optional Windows bits and pieces. Uncheck "Indexing Services" and he will be gone.
While you are in here, any other Windows bit or piece you don't need can be unchecked. This machine (Antique Laptop) has Fax Services, Management and Monitoring Tools,MSN Explorer, Other Network File and Print Services and Outlook Express unchecked and he runs just fine. Even if you don't use Internet Exploder for your browser, you want to keep him around. Microsoft update (which brings you the latest Windows patches) only works with Exploder. No Exploder, no patches.
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