Red Wheelbarrow

Hello, Addison

Jerry — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:17:12 +0000

Do I look like I was born yesterday?

- Addison

Yep. Howdy, niece!

Daily Proverb

Jerry — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:05:31 +0000

It takes effort to be offended, thus lazy people are very tolerant.

Starbucks

Jerry — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:19:18 +0000

It’s as if I felt a great disturbance in the force (caffeine), as if millions of voices cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.

I like Starbucks. I realize some in the coffee consuming community thinks their coffee tastes too burnt, and that millionaire television pundits think anyone who drinks there is an “elite”, and not as touch with the common man as a pundit in a limo might be, but I like them nonetheless.

Happy Canada Day

Jerry — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:16:47 +0000

July 1st is Canada day, they day we all give thanks they decided to not put a beaver on our flag.

Mistakes unpublished?

Jerry — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:12:41 +0000

If you make a mistake on the Internet - or a decision you regret - you can sort-of take it back. But with Google cache and a million monkeys blogging out there, people will certainly notice if you go back and delete old posts. The usually critical of opacity site, Boing Boing, “unpublished” a blogger named Violet Blue (more or less NSFW website, depending where you work) silently. Folks noticed, and they finally responded with their reasoning. Fair enough, but I have always hated the idea of unpublishing especially on a blog. If you might take a blog for a book, it’s like removing a book from all existence that’s already been footnoted in other books. I think they should have said they are not publishing Violet’s stuff in the future, even if they declined to say why. At most, put a disclaimer on all posts related to her on their blog. By not telling us why, it makes me think there’s some pragmatic motive, like an attempt to make the whole site more purely PG-13 with an eye to commercial interests in the future, but no one outside of the people there would know.

Update: Good theory here (near the bottom, as an update to the post).

Daily Proverb

Jerry — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:17:19 +0000

Not “everyone” knows how to “use” “quotation” marks at the “right time”.

Random Forum quote of the day

Jerry — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:18:06 +0000

I’ve observed that most railroads are built on the ground.

(source)

Ok then!

Daily Proverb

Jerry — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:49:18 +0000

To truly know someone, play a game of Monopoly against them.

Daily Proverb

Jerry — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:46:01 +0000

Here’s another bunch of ignorant shit: school uniforms. Bad theory. The idea that if kids wear uniforms to school it helps keep order. Don’t these schools do enough damage makin’ all these kids think alike? Now they’re gonna make them look alike too? And it’s not a new idea. I first saw it in news reels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand ’cause the narration was in German!

- George Carlin

Random Craigslist post

Jerry — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:46:30 +0000

This ad for extras for a movie ask for one unusual skill:

Mahony: Afican American/Caucasian Must know Marshall Arts.Need to do a monolog.Very powerful role.Ages 25-35

(emphasis mine)

I myself know a little about amplifiers, but I would not designate myself a true artist of the form without some more study of the many artists that have come before.

Source