Saturday, August 28, 2010

Dr. Lovesweed or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ORB.


The greatest threat to our world is with out a doubt hippies. Hippies hate violence, but love smashing windows and turning over police cars at G20 summits. Hippies love Darwinism, but refuse to eat meat, the very thing that helped human beings evolve to the point to be able to conceive of the theory of evolution. Hippies love weed, but hate cigarettes. Though they seem harmless hippies pose the greatest threat to our world due to their convoluted and contradictory views on society and the world.

Everyone knows that hippies love peace and hate violent things like football and global wars against things. It is strangely ironic then, that a few foreign leaders can not have a meeting without every Starbucks in a 20 mile radius being burned to the ground by mobs of enraged hippies. Until the hippie threat is brought down we will be forced to see pictures of a weirdo wearing nothing but a jester hat and birkenstocks after every G20 summit.

There is nothing wrong with eating only vegetables; in fact there is nothing morally wrong with eating anything. Unless your a huge Jonathan Swift fan and you have no concept of satire, then you might be a little wayward with you dinner choices. On the other hand many hippies somehow find it possible to find it morally repugnant to eat meat. This vegetarianism flies in the face of the hippies favorite scientific theory: evolution. Hippies will fight to the death to protect evolution, while at the same denying themselves the singed meat which caused the early humans’ brains to explode in size. That makes about as much sense as Darth Vader standing in the ocean pouring seawater from filter into a glass.

The last contradiction of hippies is far and away the most annoying. Many people have had this experience: You are at a party and want to tame some fire. So you step out on to the porch and a light up a smoke; only to hear some filthy hippie say “Hey man, are you, like, trying to give me cancer or something?” After you say “Yes, I am.” The hippie goes back inside with disgusted look on his face; and a few minutes later you go back inside only to find Bob Marley Jr. sparking up a huge spliff. How can a hippie love marijuana smoke and hate tobacco smoke? Its a global conspiracy that is how.

The hippie menace has been running amuck for nearly 50 years and it is time to put a stop to it. The world has a tenuous grasp on sanity as it stands and we can sorely afford to have any more potheads in jester hats tipping the balance. For these reasons I believe that hippies are the worlds greatest threat, and because I am a man of hope.

Monday, August 02, 2010

Meego Haiku

MeeGo works on a netbook.
MeeGo works in car.
MeeGo works on a smart phone.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Saturday, March 20, 2010

The League: Byzantium


What is wrong with these NFL owners? When I read the proposed overtime rules change I was sure I had seen something like this before. The game can only be won in overtime under certain conditions. Where have you heard of a system that works, but is overly complicated and useless. That's right it was the Ptolemaic system of astronomy. This is how I read the new overtime rules when I saw them on Sportscenter; "In order to win the Olympian war god will be in retrograde, while the in field fly rule compels an as yet to be determined linebacker to snot bubble the quarterback, but only if the line of scrimmage is being defended outside of the purple zone."

Here is a crazy idea. In the regular season there is no overtime, as has often been said by players if you can't beat the other team in sixty minutes you don't deserve to win. In the playoffs you keep playing fifteen minute periods until one team wins or forfeits.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Yep



http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010007-0107/GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.1km.jpg

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Moblin 2.1 Haiku

Moblin 2.1 boots with haste
Moblin 2.1 is stable as rock
Moblin 2.1 up to date

Saturday, December 05, 2009

Pizzas Pizzas

I love pizza. How can anyone not love pizza; it's one of the few foods that can contain the entire food triangle in one serving. Even the whiniest hipster who hates everything not from the mystical ancient Asian continent, did you know that like Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War like a thousand years before Jesus never lived, likes pizza. Cats love pizza; dogs love pizza, on this there is no dispute. Pizza resides in it's own aisle in most grocery stores, that aren't the ghetto HEB. This brings me to my point. What the hell does Manfred von Richthofen know about making pizzas? I know the Italians and Germans palled around a couple of times, but are we so hard up for pizza makers that we must rely on Prussian nobility to adequately supply us with pizza. What's next Genghis Kahn's authentic Texas Chili?

Monday, November 16, 2009

Fantasy Football

After some two weeks of mediocrity my long slow ascent to the summit of mount Yahoo Public 103680 renews.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Solution to BSOD 0x000000E3

In researching this particular error I came across the exact answer I was looking for at state of the tech.

method for uninstalling any Microsoft update that is applicable here. Here is the quick rundown:

1. Boot from your Windows XP CD or DVD and start the recovery console (see this Microsoft article for help with this step)
2. Type this command: CHDIR $NtUninstallKB971486$\spuninst
3. Type this command: BATCH spuninst.txt
4. Type this command: exit

The computer should restart and hopefully your problem will be fixed.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

GPointingDeviceSettings on Moblin

If your like me, you don't like touchpad scrolling; thankfully there is the program, formerly known as gsynaptics, gpointing-device-settings. Unfortunately Moblin doesn't have a package for this program yet, fortunately all the dependencies (gtk2-devel, libXi-devel, GConf-dbus-devel) are available from the Moblin repositories. The steps are as follows:

$sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools”
$sudo yum install gtk2-devel libXi-devel GConf-dbus-devel
$tar -xvf gpointing-device-settings-1.3.2.tar.gz
$cd gpointing-device-settings-1.3.2
$./configure
$make
$sudo make install


After this process you can run the program with the command gpointing-device-settings.