Aaaaaand another one...

Heeeeere, kitty, kitty, kitty...

This is so full of win

This is a comment from an already excellent Samizdata article.  I pulled the following paragraph.  RTWT.

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Now we in the west, having built a civilization that has fulfilled some of the biblical dreams of our ancestors thousands of years in the distant past, creating a land flowing with milk and honey, that has explored the earth to the bottom of the deepest oceans, and walked on another world, is being led to the edge of the same chasm by an ignorant, arrogant, and incompetent elite whose relentless march toward catastrophe is endlessly excused by the smug claim that it’s not the power they have that’s the problem, but the power that still eludes their grasp.
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 Screw the Pledge.  It's stuff like this that should be memorized and recited every morning by gradeschoolers instead.  Also everything TheSmallestMinority has at the top of his blog.

Easy on the mushrooms!

6 Things Your Pee is Trying to Tell You

Custom Ruger 10/22? $300. Internet immortality? Priceless.

This is being advertised on NC Armslist as a "custom" Ruger 10/22.  I'd say I agree.  Assisted suicide?  Saw your shootin buddy messin with the missus?  Num3ers needs more props? (I don't remember which episode.)  I hope it was rested against the gun just to get the picture because the "stupid" magazine just refused to seat properly.

It depends on what the meaning of the word 'evil' is.

Don't be evil.

42!

I have reached another nerdy birthday number.  I would like to have been back in NM with family, but in NC with job is nothing to complain about.  On the schadenfreude bright side, my cousin Greg turned 40 today.  Happy birthday, old man!

My 5th day of work really made me feel like I was back into things cuz I couldn't get anything done with all the computer problems.  Progress!

To celebrate my birthday, I went off the diet just enough to have my first Dogfish Head Raison D'Etre.  Typical of DH, it is obviously made with love and help from God cuz it is reeeeeeally good.  Now I wish that I'd bought the 4 pack and not just one.  Heeeeey, I have family near the DH brewery/pub... only 6 hours away!

Clanks

If I haven't mentioned it, "Clankon warrior" is a take on clanks from one of my favorite webcomics, Girl Genius.

Finally!

What's 9/5/2013 minus 1/20/2012?  A long time to be unemployed.  The good news is I just started a 7 month contract.  The bad news is it's in NC, not NM, where the family is.  Still, yay!  The wife and I took a 1700-mile road trip to NC in the new-to-us car, and she flew back after I found a place to stay.  Thanks, darling!  I look forward to more.

I'm so sorry to all my intrepid readers for my almost 3 month absence.  Especially you, blogsrating.pw!  You never lost hope, and I shall never forget your loyalty. <sniff>

In the meantime, I've also added the Passenger and Schoolbus endorsements to my CDL Class A!

Back soon, I "promise"!