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| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | | 6:02 am |
| | Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 | | 1:05 pm |
| | Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 | | 11:36 pm |
Barney Frank Spills the Beans
Finally, a Democrat tells the truth. This, however, was purely accidental. Barney Frank got flustered, and simply forgot to lie. That happens when you can't keep your story straight. ( Vid and More ) Current Music: (none) | | Saturday, October 24th, 2009 | | 1:09 am |
| | Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 | | 7:13 am |
| | Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 | | 4:12 pm |
Got A Package Today
These Folks are having what they call an "over stock sale" on vacuum tubes. They're offering package deals that are pretty damn good. So I took the opportunity to stock up. Unforch, they didn't have the 6BQ6GTBs that I've been using. They did, however have 6BQ6GAs instead. ( Piccies & More Description ) Current Mood:  cheerfulCurrent Music: Blizzard of Ozz (CD) / Ozzy | | Sunday, October 4th, 2009 | | 6:18 pm |
| | Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 | | 10:31 pm |
SiC JFET Amp
These SiC JFETs are definitely high voltage devices, and require considerably more voltage than any pure Si transistors. ( More Description and Schemos ) Current Mood: geekyCurrent Music: Big City (CD) / Hayden's Wall | | Saturday, September 26th, 2009 | | 11:19 pm |
Fundie Follies: Origin of Species -- Fundie Version
In case you didn't know, 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species. You didn't think the Fundievangelicals™ wouldn't notice? Mr. Ray "Banana Man" Comfort and his faithful sidekick, Kirk cameron, have something special planned for you: a Fundie whacko version of Darwin's publication. Here's a You Tube promo: ( Vid Under Cut ) Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: Blaming America First (CD) / Lance Morrison | | 9:44 am |
Political Music & G-20 Bullshit
Way back in 2004, or so, someone calling himself "Rx" did a bunch of these songs mocking George W. Bush. You can find a sample here: The PartyParty (It's the one on the left side (appropriately enough) Sunday Bloody Sunday). He was giving away a whole CD's worth of these at the time. ( Conservative Ditties ) Current Music: The Socialist Dance (CD) / Lance Morrison | | Monday, September 21st, 2009 | | 8:42 am |
| | Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 | | 12:49 pm |
Still Stepping in It
Today is the Big Day:
The U.S. Department of Education invites students of all ages, teachers, and administrators to participate in this mostest historicestest moment in all of fucking history (Never mind that Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush also gave speeches to school kids. And George W. Bush actually visited an elementary school classroom.) by watching the president deliver the address, which will be broadcast live on the White House Web site (http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/) and on C-SPAN at 12:00 p.m., ET.
( The Mostest Historical Speech in all of History )
Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: (none) | | Friday, August 28th, 2009 | | 10:42 pm |
New Solid State Device
The latest development in solid state devices is the SiC (silicon carbide) JFET. Silicon carbide is just what it sounds like: a crystalline compound of silicon and carbon. It's not new, dating back to the 1890s. It has a variety of appearances, depending on what impurities are present, though the purest form is clear, extremely hard, and quite diamond-like in appearance. Indeed, one experiment to make synthetic diamonds that looked successful actually made silicon carbide. It has long been used to make fake diamonds that look more real than the usual substitute: cubic zerconia. And, of course, there's the very common applications: sand paper, cutting wheels, grind stones, brake pads. ( This Looks Promising ) Current Mood: geekyCurrent Music: Blizzard of Ozz / Ozzy | | Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 | | 10:58 am |
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
While looking up something on the Intrarwebs, I came across this Slate article: Teen Spirit. Just look at this bullshit:
A slew of clueless scholars and columnists have mused, over the decades, that the Beatles caused such a sensation because they snapped us out of the gloom brought on by the Kennedy assassination, which had taken place the previous November. This is silly sociology. Look at these DVDs or at any footage of a Beatles concert or a Beatles mob. It's extremely doubtful that any of these teenage girls were cheering, screaming, palpitating, even crying with joy as some sort of catharsis to their anguish over Lee Harvey Oswald's deed in Dallas. Meanwhile, their parents, who were the ones more likely traumatized by the death of the president, remained tellingly immune to Beatlemania.
( Read more... ) Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: Blizzard of Ozz / Ozzy | | Saturday, August 15th, 2009 | | 10:14 am |
Another Retired Politician, Another Kiss 'n' Tell
This time, it's from Dick "Other Priorities" Cheney. He already has a deal with Simon and Schuster for a "memoir", due in 2011. Here, Mr. Cheney reams his former boss: George W. Bush. Like every other asshole politician, he blames others for failings that were strictly his own.
"In the second term, he felt Bush was moving away from him," Gellman quoted a participant in the recent gathering, describing Cheney's reply. "He said Bush was shackled by the public reaction and the criticism he took. Bush was more malleable to that. The implication was that Bush had gone soft on him, or rather Bush had hardened against Cheney's advice. He'd showed an independence that Cheney didn't see coming."
-- Cheney: Bush Quit Taking My Advice
"Bush was more malleable to that": was he really? 9-11, Jim Jeffords -- defected from the GOP, the Clinton surplus: gone, 9-11, the infamous "sixteen words" from the 2003 SOTUS, "Mission Accomplished" when it was anything but, Iraq: damn near lost, Osama Bin Laden: still at large, stock market: down, economy: down, unemployemnt: up, deficits: through the roof. Considering what a smashing "success" Mr. Bush's first term was, why would he ever question the brilliant advice from the MOSTEST INFLUENTIALEST VP IN ALLUV US HISTORY!!!!1111oneoneoneone™
"He'd showed an independence that Cheney didn't see coming."
A president who thinks for himself: can't have that. The great tragedy is that Mr. Bush waited until his second term before giving this thinking for himself stuff a go. He might've done better by the country, and by himself, had he realized Cheney was bullshitting him from the get-go. I hope S & S lose their ass on this one. Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: (radio music) | | Monday, August 10th, 2009 | | 11:40 am |
| | Sunday, August 9th, 2009 | | 10:23 am |
American Staatssicherheit?
Way back in 2002, the Bush administration proposed Operation TIPS. The idea was basically to recruit folks who routinely had access to peoples' homes (postal workers, utility meter readers, delivery and service personnel of various sorts) as an army of spies to root out possible terrorist and other criminal activities. Needless to say, John Ashcroft (He was personally opposed to the idea, BTW.) and George Bush took a lot of heat and criticism over this proposal. ( Where is the Outrage? ) Current Mood:  pissed offCurrent Music: (none) | | Saturday, August 1st, 2009 | | 11:43 am |
Made Up Controversy: Distract and Deflect
It's the controversy that will not die. It is also a matter which could be cleared up with very little difficulty. All Obama needs to do is authorize the officials in Hawaii to show us the damn birth certificate. So what's the big deal about that? Yet, he has gone to considerable expense (nearly a million dollars) and bother to keep this thing hidden. ( Something Doesn't Smell Right ) Current Music: Mirror Moves (CD) / Psychedelic Furs | | Friday, July 24th, 2009 | | 10:09 am |
Questionable Judgment
I've waited long enough to see where this is going. This whole thing began when a typically arrogant liberal "perfesser" at that hotbed of all things trendy-leftie and politically correct, Harvard, was arrested for "tumultuous behavior" in Cambridge, Mass. So this Henry Gates somehow couldn't get into his house after returning from a trip to China. A neighbour saw what looked a helluvalot like a break-in in progress, and did her civic duty and reported this to the police. (There had been a string of break-ins occurring on this very street.) ( Questionable Judgment ) Current Music: (none) | | Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 | | 12:36 pm |
Writer's Block: Total Eclipse of the Sun
That the moon is now in between the Sun and Earth. Or this:
Well, I hear you went up to Saratoga
And your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun
Well, you're where you should be all the time
And when you're not, you're with
Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
Wife of a close friend, and
You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?
-- You're so Vain / Carly Simon
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