Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel
Too obvious? I don’t care, it’s almost midnight.
Anyone who remembers the days of Spinneyhead before blogging (so, me then) will recall Cycling on the Pavement, a series of very irregular little essays. I’m starting them up again. the first one is here. I shall clean up the page and add better navigation tomorrow.
Which Presidential candidate is closest to your ideal?
My best bet is Kucinich (who?) at 100%, with Al Sharpton at 92%, Kerry at 83%, Dean 82% and Edwards (again, who?) 75%. Bush got 1%. But that was probably just for spelling his name right.
via susan’s journal
Once upon a long ago I met an American exchange student called Cindy. I think she was from one of the middle states, where the corn, and the blondes, grow tall. The statuesque figure, and the name, led me to call her Barbie. Then I had to explain how Sindy was the British Barbie and so on.
I wasn’t even very, very drunk, either. Later, her boyfriend (I didn’t call him Ken) asked me for relationship advice.
Mad fool.
Anyway, I digress. It seems Barbie and Ken- the real Barbie and Ken- are to split up.
Allegedly, Senator Kerry is getting the whole Monica thing out of the way early. The more he gets like Clinton the more Wubble U must be shitting his pants.
FTP works again.
And now the scanner won’t work! Is the plan to make my computer more secure by limiting the number of things I can do with it?
All attempts at FTP timeout and I can’t upload anything. The computer room is now Tourette’s central.
EBay is down, so the planned mass listing isn’t happening.
And I’m having a grouchy FTP moment. It’s just bad technology all round today.
So I’ve downloaded and installed the XP update, like I’m supposed to, and so far it’s managed to mess with BlackIce (if this patch is supposed to improve my security why is the firewall the first thing it screws up?) and lose the drivers for the USB modem (much swearing and a desperate scrabble around to find the installation disks ensued). Those problems seem to be solved, but I wonder what other programs it’s pissed off to the point of not working any more.
Microsoft- the world leader in unproductivity tools. When I’m brave enough I’m going over to Linux. (I’ve been saying that for years. One day…….)