Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category

Brain Dump 01

One of my goals for this year is to write more here; so while I don’t have a sin­gle idea that feels wor­thy of a full post, here’s a dump of var­i­ous things float­ing around/through my skull today. Is today stu­pid dri­ving day or some­thing? I’ll grant I left for work a few min­utes later than […]

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Going Dark Tomorrow

Tomor­row from 8AM till 8PM (GMT-6), CoffeeBear.net will be join­ing many oth­ers in going dark in protest of SOPA/PIPA. PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Inter­net from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

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Michael More in Wisconsin

I don’t always agree with Mr. Moore, but I appre­ci­ate his will­ing­ness & abil­ity to go after alter­na­tive sides to impor­tant issues. Today he sent out an email regard­ing a speech he gave in Wis­con­sin that I thought worth shar­ing. I found his descrip­tions, of what it was really like in Wis­con­sin when he went […]

H.B. 3200

A rel­a­tive of mine recently  for­warded the fol­low­ing email to me: Here are some specifics  on the pro­posed “health care bill.”  If any­one is “okay” with any of this crap, they are insane.  It’s time to call our congressman’s.  offices and tell them we do not want them to sup­port this health bill. No mat­ter what […]

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The Plumbing Nightmare Continues

Finally heard back from the plumber’s part guy. They have to order direct from the man­u­fac­turer as none of their sup­pli­ers have the part. The bleepied-bleeping bleep man­u­fac­turer will not ship overnight. Expected tran­sit time of the part? 2–3 weeks Yes, that’s right. They said it will take weeks. I told him I’d have to get […]

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