FYI

by Bryan

13 comments

1 Kryten42 { 10.18.08 at 3:33 am }

Curiously… you were in our news tonight (well… not *you* personally, Florida). 😉 They were saying that Obama is in front but McCain is desperate to win because the analysts say that if he loses Florida, he has no hope of winning the Election. So he’s paying a lot of *volunteers* (?) to door knock. 😉 LOL Apparently many of the *old fools*(tm) in Florida think Obama is a Muslim and will vote for McCain no matter what. My grandfather told me many years ago “There’s no fool like an old fool!” Seems he was right. 😉 LOL

2 Kryten42 { 10.18.08 at 10:42 am }

Hmmmm. I was just reading C&L Before hitting my bed… and I have to ask…

Why are (or so it seems to us out here at least) rightwing American women complete psycho’s? I mean… the list is so long and growing! Seriously… Anyone know?

Michelle Bachmann gives voice to the right’s darkest impulses

I’d never even heard of her until that item… And I’d never heard of that loon Palin until this election. Seems they are all crawling out from their rocks.

Strangely, the normal crazies have been conspicuously absent this year. Is it a tag team deal or something? Do they have a spiked black baton they pass from one nutter to the next? Amazing.

3 Bryan { 10.18.08 at 12:54 pm }

The Republican Party has redistricted Florida to the point that they control two-thirds of the seats in both houses of the legislature and the Florida Congressional delegation. All but two of the statewide offices are also in Republican hands. If there hadn’t been a series of sex scandals by Republican officials it wouldn’t even be close.

The main problem is going to be voter turnout and McCain won’t get the Bush turnout even with an anti-gay amendment on the ballot. That’s why they are pushing the ground game, to make up for the fundamentalist push that isn’t there this time.

The economic problems have taken away McCain’s big issue, national defense, so he is weaker everywhere.

Obviously Howard was filtering the news if you have never heard of Michelle Bachmann. She is an A-List whacko and has been since she was elected to Congress. I could be totally politically incorrect and say something about this is what happens when cheerleaders find religion, but I won’t.

It looks like Labor just got its butt kicked in the by-elections and the territorial elections in ACT. The economy is bad news for incumbents, even with the mild version of “Bank Flu” that Australia is suffering from.

4 hipparchia { 10.18.08 at 1:53 pm }

thanks for the roundup.

5 Bryan { 10.18.08 at 4:54 pm }

I was wondering who all these people were.

They really do seem to dilute the effort with three socialist parties and two environmental parties, with 5 flavors of libertarians at the other end.

6 Atlee Yarrow { 10.18.08 at 9:33 pm }

Embarq Corporation is your website IP in Niceville, FL? Not too bad of a “blog” so why not open a website in Adobe format like a real magazine? There are plenty of blogs but writing real and neutral stories are much harder.

7 hipparchia { 10.18.08 at 11:51 pm }

well, there are eleventy-seven flavors of libertarians in real life, so that one’s not surprising. and gee, can’t we all just get along?

as for diluting efforts… my very moderate, centrist [left of center on a few things] parents finally gave up on trying to save the republican party from itself, and joined the democratic party several years ago.

8 Bryan { 10.19.08 at 12:18 am }

For a long time I have viewed libertarians as anarchists with a check book. They don’t went a government, per se, but want someone to protect them from like-minded people.

All it takes to overthrow a political party in the US is a cadre of activists who will apply themselves to the deadly boredom of actually running the party’s functions. It requires dedication that the rank-and-file just don’t have. This is why the Republicans are so messed up.

9 Bryan { 10.19.08 at 12:28 am }

Atlee, this is what I do when my paid job allows some time. I write code for a living, and posts to fill the time spent waiting for testing to finish.

You had no way of knowing, but Adobe and I have a very long and not very friendly history going back to Adobe’s early days as a type foundry and creator of the Postscript printer description language. I am definitely not a fan of their code.

I wrote too many information-filled, neutral “articles” in my days in intelligence and law enforcement. It’s not a lot of fun, or very fulfilling.

Embarq is the supplier of my DSL line, and has no connection to this place. They probably do have a facility in Niceville, but that is some distance from my office. The location information jumps all over the state depending on where Embarq is connecting me to the backbone on any given day.

10 Kryten42 { 10.19.08 at 2:32 am }

Adobe and I have a very long and not very friendly history going back to Adobe’s early days as a type foundry and creator of the Postscript printer description language. I am definitely not a fan of their code.

THAT is sooooo wierd! Same here! Possibly for similar reasons (added to the fact that Adobe is down at the bottom of the cesspit with Micro$tuffed as far as I am concerned in the *Corporate Citizen* and honesty/’anything at all good’ stakes. That and their products are unmitigated garbage. I was SOOOOOOO annoyed when Adobe took over Macromedia and killed off Freehand! I don’t care, I still use the last MX version. I used to like Illustrator in the late 80’s, early 90’s. It was small and worked well, I used it with Aldus PageMaker (a great page layout tool Adobe took over and has been trying to bury for over a decade) and Quark Express for typesetting. 🙂 Adobe also took over Framemaker and have been slowly destroying that also. I met the creator of PageMaker, Paul Brainard, a few times when I was Aussie distro for Aldus & Quark and Adobe back in those days! After years of being a distributor, Adobe decided to set up shop for themselves and told us “Thanks for doing all the work and getting market share, now piss off!” We sued and won, but it cost a lot in energy, resources and time.

I still have my three *official* (red, green, blue) Postscript manuals from *way back when*(tm). LOL 😉 I created a couple PS RIP’s for printer companies that are no longer around. One was swallowed and digested by HP… The other just got very stupid and lost the plot. They are a shadow of their former selves.

I would be very happy to see Adobe die a horrible and painful death. 🙂

11 cookie jill { 10.19.08 at 1:41 pm }

Y’all got some fun sounding parties. My favorite party in CA that isn’t qualified, “The Super Happy Neuroscience Party.” Part of their “party platform”…eveyone has their own personal robots to do the housework.

12 Bryan { 10.19.08 at 3:40 pm }

I will never forget the hell that Windows 3.X became when you added “Adobe Type Manager” to use Postscript fonts. Even MS had a better rendering package.

PageMaker was a very useful program for small documents like brochures, but I was fond of Ventura Publisher [until Corel bought it] for long documents, [I was an initial beta tester for version 1.0]. Quark on the Mac is still the gold standard.

Any language based on pushing and popping from stacks is a hemorrhoid. The garbage you had to go through to get anything to print with Postscript was absurd to the n^th degree.

Adobe predates even Gates for bogus copyright claims on its products. They originated the concept that by buying one of their products you gave them the right to control your hardware. Greed is usually behind the fall of all good ideas.

13 Bryan { 10.19.08 at 3:51 pm }

Jill, the list doesn’t even mention the Conch Republic in the Keys, although a robot would be nice if it could clean litter boxes.