Signs

It's a good thing they put this sign up.  I'm sure it's all that has stopped me from keying every car in the lot.

Crazy

How long-winded do you have to be to write a "Idiot's Guide" to a plain-text, easy-to-understand document?  This is a 200 page book to explain a 3 page document.

Quote of the Day

Remember: If you are prepared for the dead to walk the earth in search of human brains, then a hurricane or attempted mugging is no big deal.

-Tam

Influencing Politicians

I seem to be on a TED kick. It must be the 50+ videos I have queued.



Letter formula:
Paragraph 1: Show your appreciation, even if it's just appreciation for having a hard job.
Paragraph 2: Get to the point. Don't attack the person, attack his tactics.
Paragraph 3: Provide a fix.
Paragraph 4: Offer to help.
Sign it with your title to demonstrate that you can help with his influence and personal perservation.

Finally, mail the original to the district office and a copy to the main office to get your letter into the politician's actual to-do pile.

I don't have problems.

This is a video on the emotional motivation to build prosthetics for soldiers.

I've got 50+ TED videos in my newsreader right now.

Flawed Logic: Insurance Edition

The Menaissance

 

Rifleman's Prayer

A Rifleman’s Prayer

Oh Lord, I would live my life in freedom, peace and happiness, enjoying the simple pleasures of hearth and home. I would die an old, old man in my own bed, preferably of sexual overexertion.

But if that is not to be, Lord, if monsters such as this should find their way to my little corner of the world on my watch, then help me to sweep those bastards from the ramparts, because doing that is good, and right, and just.

And if in this I should fall, let me be found atop a pile of brass, behind the wall I made of their corpses.

When faced with two choices...

...simply flip a coin.  It works not because it settles the question for you, but because, in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for.

Oh, Poop