When Bird Dog told me he needed a rest, and was heading out to "take the waters," I pictured him going to one of those fancy hotels with lots of ceramic tile on the walls, within sight of the Danube, where all the women speak with a heavy Bavarian accent and they smear you with the local mud. Silly me. Let's get these links out of the way so I can go post Bird Dog's bail. Apparently, to him, "taking the waters" means shoplifting a couple of bottles of Poland Spring and some beef jerky in a convenience store on Staten Island.
The Slow Death Of Purposeless Walking
Why single out walking? No one has any purpose for much of any activity anymore.
Are Americans "The Weirdest People In The World"?
Sure, if you think a profound sense of fairness, coming and going, is "weird."
Yesterday's handwringing was over hackable traffic signals. Today, it's hospitals: It’s Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment
Yes, I can walk into any operating room in the country and sneeze into some poor sod's open chest cavity if I feel like it. What's your point?
The White House has issued a report calling for stronger privacy laws to guard against mass-data collection
Who says Barry doesn't have a sense of humor? That's hilarious.
The Rise and Fall of Circus Freakshows
The author's confused. Nothing much has changed. Instead of paying a carney in a booth to see the geeks and freaks, you pay a transit worker.
Al Feldstein, the Soul of Mad Magazine, Dies at 88
Now what am I going to do with my 43-Man Squamish uniform?
A Photo Collection of Hippies in San Francisco in the Mid-Sixties
Why do Americans worship the layabout? Bill Gates gets more bad press than street bums ever did.
The New Yawk Times has an online utility to help you "Divide Your Rent Fairly."
The modern young urban American seems entirely incapable of dealing with other human beings face to face. This is Exhibit A.
The Next Star Wars Movie is Getting Bad Reviews Before It's Emerged From The Concept Stage
Never mention to these people that none of the Star Wars movies were any good. It upsets them greatly
Via our friend at American Digest, a long form cri de coeur called: Programming Sucks
Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: "Bro,1 you don't work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver."
They have a point. Mordor sucks, and it's certainly more physically taxing to dig a tunnel than poke at a keyboard unless you're an ant. But, for the sake of the argument, can we agree that stress and insanity are bad things? Awesome. Welcome to programming.
It's an enormous misappropriation of the word to call software designers "engineers." You're stressed because your stuff doesn't work, you're incompetent, and people notice it from time to time.
Boehner Calls on Kerry To Testify About Email In Benghazi Subpoena
God, I hope it's a closed-door session. John Kerry's weird facelift fetish has morphed him from plain old Lurch to full-blown Frankenstein monster.
Amusing Video At The Borderline Blog for Boys: Father Time Rides A Chopper, Son. Don't Mess With Father Time
Young feller got schooled.
There you go. Read all that stuff. It won't make you any dumber, I promise. After I bail out Bird Dog, I'm going to ask him to chain me to an oar on the other side of Maggie's Farm's Trireme. My left bicep needs work.
