Category Quotes

Regarding iPad

This comes by way of Jeff Croft:

In comparison to other devices
The Amazon Kindle DX (the current model with a 9.7” screen) is $480. FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY BUCKS. In other words, it’s a hopeless pile of shit that looks like joke next to an iPad.
Honestly, do I really need to go any further with comparisons? Love […]

Greatest use of a shamwow ever

(269): We were playing flip cup on the nice dining room table. Losing team had to shamwow the table in between rounds
(Via TXTS FRM LST NGHT)

Gotta love that Windows security

I do enjoy reading things like this.
Brian Krebs on Safe Online Banking:
An investigative series I’ve been writing about organized cyber crime gangs stealing millions of dollars from small to mid-sized businesses has generated more than a few responses from business owners who were concerned about how best to protect themselves from this type of fraud.
The simplest, most […]

Quote of the Week (Wrath of God Edition)

It's rare that I agree with anything in the Bible (“love thy neighbor” and “do unto others…” are some other exceptions I enjoy), but I’ve got to say, this is a good one, courtesy of Chez Pazienza's Quote of the Week (Wrath of God Edition):
“For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the […]

Dummy Load

Really, I love Chez over at Deux Ex Malcontent. He posted this great quote from Keith Olbermann:
Town halls, death panels, oligarhies, a multi-racial president accused of hating half his own ancestry, neuroses about communist artwork, the idea that fascism and socialism are not mutually exclusive, grass roots protests bought and paid for by lobbyists and […]

Take Care

So I read this bit from one of my favorite bloggers, and had to pass along some of it. Here's Chez over at Deus Ex Malcontent with Take Care:
Cesca posted something yesterday afternoon that really needs to be republished and circulated far and wide.
'Thought I'd summarize why support for the public option is so tenacious. Here […]

The Truth

Bottom line is that couples that are truly right for each other wade through the same crap as everybody else. But the big difference is they don’t let it take them down.

— Scrubs (via littlemiss)
(Via When it's late, don't stop looking.)

The things you learn

So I just gleaned this magnificent tidbit from an email my dad forwarded to me. I love stuff like this.
It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannon on old war ships. But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem. The best storage method devised was […]

Reblog: Tears to Remember

From NYTimes Blog Domestic Disturbances article “Tears to Remember”:
Two images will forever stay in my mind to mark this epoch-breaking Election Day. One is that of Jesse Jackson’s face, drenched in tears, in Chicago’s Grant Park on Tuesday evening.
And the other is a photo that ran in The Times on Wednesday. In it, a black […]

Seriously, can we elect this guy and be done already?

"This happens every election cycle. Every four years. This is what we do. We've got an energy crisis. We have an education system that is not working for too many of our children and making us less competitive. We have an economy that is creating hardship for families all across America. We've got two wars […]