reelection reality show

I think Osama got Bush reelected. I doubt President Bush could've seriously gotten a decisive victory without 9/11 happening during his term. He was reelected because people decided that security was more important than anything else. Any incumbent during such a tragedy has a head start when it comes to reelection as long as he handles it reasonably well. President Bush actually did handle the situation reasonably well (there are other things he didn't handle so well). He had even more of an advantage because Republicans are associated with security. It all adds up to a decisive victory for President Bush and the Republicans. All because of a horrible tragedy.

I wonder what would happen if Michael Moore and Anne Coulter could see where the other was coming from. Would be cool to have them on that reality show I mentioned earlier. Too bad no one would ever agree to participate in such a show - unless they were paid a great deal of money. But then you couldn't get the wealthy on to the show. I suppose that's why it'll never get on the air - No way to get any participants short of kidnapping. Reality shows get away with a lot of crap, but not felonies. Man, I at least want to see it on the air a few months from now so I can say "Hey! They stole my idea!"

reality show post

Hmm maybe instead of kidnapping we could do the reverse and put them into the other's situation without moving them but changing their environment around them Any ideas?.

Read all over

I suppose if I continue posting here whether or not anyone's reading it, it is worth it upon its own merit. Otherwise. . .

But if I stop posting here, they win. I can't let them win. This is to keep me from losing the part of my mind I haven't lost already.

I need to eat more on a smaller budget.

Who is this for?

I am lost in a lagoon of self pity.

Think for yourself, lazy! (not stupid, like the Illuminatus Trilogy suggests)
You don't want to be told what to think. You need to be told what to think.

Wisdom has become undervalued.

What's wrong with the world today? Very simple. Complexity. The infinite complexity leads to infinite problems. The human definition of progress includes only more layers of complexity.

The burning words.

How many tormented geniuses does it take to write a symphony?

My thoughts have devolved into a random stream of conciousness again. Annoying that is.

White is black for darker shades of white. I'll try to avoid getting run over by a zebra.

You will elect whoever spends and has the most money.

Silly little blog poster. Has no idea how close he came to - French Canadian Bean Soup - figuring the whole thing out. Too bad it is time for him to sleep.

No one wants to be alone. If that's the case, why are so many people still alone?

Our shallow eyes deceive us
Making us hypocrites
These eyes cannot look inward
Mirrors are just as worse

I have condemned myself yet again to emptiness and lonliness.

I shy away from any embrace. Intimacy I will never be comfortable with.

I have only cursed myself.

Is there anybody out there?
Apparently not.

I WANT to believe in Humanity. Prove to me why I should. There's far too much evidence why I shouldn't.

These have always been dark times.

I know there's so much more to this world But, part of me has chosen to be a hermit.

Why Not Linux?

I've been meaning to install Linux on my computer. Why haven't I? The usual lame excuses:
My desk is too small to fit another monitor, keyboard, and papers. A KVM switch and a wireless network adapter cost money. I might have to recompile the kernel and download 80 drivers written by some dude in Iceland. But that still won't let me play Quake3 online because I'll need to setup the network connection. That'll probably require having to subscribe to some email list in which my question will be answered in two months after I ask it. That's usually the case with any third party software that should be built into the OS but isn't.

Why don't more people run Linux?
I think people are simply used to whatever OS they started with. So unless you're a computer nerd, your first is your favorite. Linux also needs work in usability. As far as I'm concerned, to install a program, I shouldn't even have to type make. I should be able to double-click on an icon and click next a few times without any messages about missing gcc or libxxxhahayoudonthaveme. (I did in fact install a distro that did not install gcc by default). The programmers of the applications are still writing for other programmers and not end users. They also can't afford to hire HCI specialists which are badly needed on the Linux platform. Perhaps GUI standards could be setup for Linux.

You just don't have hobby HCI specialists like you have hobby programmers.

GUI is as GUI does
-Tomas

Is open source the Great White Hope of innovation or is it just a bunch of hippies Cartman should kill?

Does anyone know any computer newbies using Linux? What problems did they have?

get your industry insured today!

My friend got the gas turned back on, but not before paying for PGW's mistake - to the tune of $600. I hope he gets that money back with a little extra for hardship.

Imagine if you could build inexpensively built homes that would be extremely affordable. Think about just how many people you'd piss off by doing this. You'd piss off construction unions and real estate investors. Now you see where all the pessimists and cynics come from. In reality, the real estate market can't stay this way forever. . .

Just stick that alongside the plot of that Keanu Reeves vehicle Chain Reaction.

These ideas also enter health care as well. That industry is a little bit more complicated as it involves insurance companies more. Is the American Disablities Act actually enforced upon insurance companies? A person with a terminal disease still needs healthcare.

My grandfather didn't believe in life insurance. Which ended up costing my family a great deal of money. The thing with life insurance is that there's not much risk involved as you will die - eventually.

National optional insurance? Perhaps the government could provide some kind of optional and minimal coverage of the "necessary" insurances like health and car. That way no one gets left behind because their employer won't enroll. Yeah I know, who's going to pay for it. I think Bill Gates should pay for it instead of buying Wintel computers for schools and then writing it off as a donation. Buying the OS that he makes for schools is too much of a win-win situation for Microsoft to have it really be humanitarian. He's just trying to get impressionable youth addicted to Microsoft Windows.

Insurance companies - necessary or evil? Evil, but the vast majority of people are under the impression that it's necessary. It is not necessary to humanity's future. Money is also evil and unnecessary, but the world isn't ready to get rid of money or for world peace.

huh? wha?

Note to self: you can only use that title once.

Popular songs butchered to give insight into my thoughts:
I'm a 21st century government coder
I don't know how to ____
but I got a lot of games

They got me on some medication
my pen would not go dry
They got me on some medication
It's supposed to keep me sane
Instead, it just makes me assent
I might have lost my sense of humor
and a great deal of emtion. . .

Name the first song for 5 points and the second one for 30. At least try the first one - it's relatively easy. The second one wasn't a hit single so I can't exactly expect anyone to guess it. The second song was brutally butchered.

For something completely different, PGW decided to turn off the gas where I live for no apparent reason or notice. They should be turning it back on tomorrow. It's been off since Thursday. Silly overzealous PGW. Just cause you can't keep up with deadbeats doesn't mean you can turn off the gas of the people who do pay their bill.

Meanwhile, I went to the grocery store to see if writing about going to the grocery store would piss anyone off. It did? Cool. I'll have to keep writing about going to the grocery store then.

change, lack thereof

I know I'm the only reason I don't have much of a social life. The problem is that I don't see that changing anytime soon.

If I cannot envision a change, then it probably won't happen. I suppose envisioning it is the next step or something. What was that book called? Who Moved My Cheese? Great theory I suppose, but I doubt I'll apply anything I read in it.

I'm starting to pick up on that idea of how the external image influences the internal image of oneself.

I suppose I've heard all the "priceless advice", but I don't let it do me any good. Why? That question opens up a boatload of issues. Even after unraveling that onion, it still doesn't get me to change anything.