: Hey, Donnie, I have a question. About human males.
: OK…
: What percentage of guys would have sex with Nancy Pelosi just to say they boned someone famous?
: Um. Probably more than would actually admit it.
: What about you?
: No.
: Your goatee looks kinda dumb, to be honest.
: Yeah, thanks.
OK, so. In the United States we’re fighting about how to deal with the economy, including spending, health care, and all that kind of thing.
If you look at me, I’m considered pretty well educated, reasonably knowledgeable on current events and, unbelievably, a relatively smart guy (if I’m above average, how awful must average be?) But it’s obvious (to me) I don’t have the education or knowledge to have an opinion that’s worth anything. I doubt half of Congress has done sufficient research either, along with 80% of the people that are so sure they know which direction the country should go.
And among the people that know enough to have a decent opinion, they have different points of view because there are reasonable arguments to be made supporting their conflicting opinions.
Economics is not like engineering or (certain) mathematics. We can’t develop precise models and there will always be uncertainty.
I’ve just had it up to here with “liberals are fascist pinko commies” and “conservatives hate the poor and the black”.
The rest of the games from the last two tournaments. The last two games are painful and embarrassing.
Game 1: Playing Black against an Expert, I play him evenly until a major positional blunder. This was a result of not appreciating the positive aspects of my position, thus throwing my strength away.
Game 2: My young opponent plays too passively and defensively as White, and traded two minor pieces for a Rook and pawn (usually not a good idea). He eventually gives me the chance throw open the center with by “sacrificing” a Knight for two Pawns, although the resulting position is so obviously good, it’s hard to call it a real sacrifice.
Game 3: I sacrifice a Bishop for a Kingside attack. Unsound, but perhaps worth trying against a weaker opponent. We both missed major tactics. This one went down to the wire on the clock.
Game 4 is a powerful lesson not to lose focus when you’re destroying your opponent. It was a crushing loss, and even though I said all the right things mentally, I obviously was in no shape to play the following game. Unusual opening mistakes lead to a very quick loss in game 5.
It’s clear I need to work on mental toughness to get to the 1700 mark (and considering how poorly even class A players can perform, I’d love to set a goal of reaching 1800 by the end of 2011). Still, when the new ratings are released at month’s end, I’ll be close to 1650, which is better than when the month started.
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It’s bad enough that you were too lazy to change the default control names. Using “RequiredFieldValidator1″ and “TextBox1″ does not make your code easier to read.
None of the calendars are renamed from the default name, except for one that is enigmatically called “sixth”. “Sixth” is actually the 5th calendar in that section, and the 8th one overall.
But what’s really irritating is that RequiredFieldValidator4 doesn’t validate TextBox4, it validates TextBox1. None of the other validator names correspond with any other control names either. Why?
Yes, I hate you.
In a poll last month, 75% of you said Liquid Egg Product should have a theme song. You will live to regret that decision.
(Click on the image to hear the song.)
: For those of you who voted that we should have a theme song? I hate you.
: Don’t mind Donnie. He’s just mad I got to star in the video, not him. That’s because I have the genetics for good looks, singing, and dancing.
: Check out my massive muscles, fool!
: May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Granted, we worked very hard on this production, but I’m not sure my participating in this video helps the cause.
Irony is people who complain about how useless science is while typing their opinion on the Internet.
Then when someone points out the Internet required science to be created, they will counter “that’s not science, that’s technology”.
Um. Three fighting scenes with progressively more eyeball loss (0, 1, and 2 respectively). The last two are bloody and not for the faint-hearted.
Even though you’ve seen pictures of me, Mr. E, and Egg Fu Yung, admit it. Most of you don’t really think eggs are sentient. But most people seem to believe that chickens are sentient (I don’t understand the difference, but whatever.)
So maybe this SHOCKING report from the AP will SHOCK you into avoiding eating eggs: the egg industry kills 200 million male chicks a year. (“Male chicks” as in male baby chickens, not hot babes that are really guys.)
They use a process called “instantaneous euthanasia”: male chicks are dropped alive into grinding machines. I suppose this does kill them right quick. But when you go out on a Friday night, do you say to your friends “Hey, let’s find a conveyor belt that will throw us into a grinding machine?” At least, when you’re not drunk. No, right? It doesn’t sound like fun.
Why do they do this? Because the males are not “profitable”–they can’t manufacture eggs, and they aren’t good enough for meat. It’s kinda a reverse sexism.
So the lesson? DON’T EAT EGGS, unless you are a sadist or sexist or sexist sadist.
For the uninitiated: this is the song that plays at Dolphins games after they score a touchdown (even they’re getting destroyed 34-7. The irony of hearing “Miami Dolphins #1″ at these points was surely not lost on anyone but the very young or terminally clueless.)
They even hired T-Pain to hip-hopize it:
But the true evil…well, you know the rumor that by playing heavy metal music backwards, you’d hear Satanic lyrics? It was spread by Don Shula to deflect attention from the Dolphins’ fight song, which played backwards is a chilling combination of English and Demonic tongues:
If you keep bugging me about using a strong password, let me use one with symbols.
Or is it that you’re too cheap to hire programmers that know how to defend against an SQL injection attack?
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