Mark’s Blog

Fate has really been fucking with me lately.  Every single good thing that has happened in the last month has not gone according to plan, torturing me in the process.   Buying a car was no different.   I thought I’d have one to call my own, almost two weeks ago.  But everything that could go wrong […]

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My bloated, British doppelganger, Boris Johnson, won the London Mayoral race.
I don’t agree with many of his positions, but I wish just once that I had the chance to vote for a presidential candidate that was as literate, intelligent, and honestly human as him.
His excellent victory speech here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7381585.stm
(Can you imagine a speech like that […]

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In the news today:
Pittsburgh Beats Out Los Angeles as U.S. City With Worst Air Pollution
Harold D. Miller helpfully points out how wrong the ALA’s claims are in his article: Misleading Headlines on Air Quality, Yet Again
To summarize: ALA figures are from a single monitor (that is not in Pittsburgh) near a coke production […]

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title reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douche_and_Turd
(warning slightly melodramatic political rant follows…)
Pennsylvania has closed primaries.  Which means as a registered Libertarian, I get to sit on my hands come primary day.  Not that it is a great loss… none of the candidates even bother to pay lip service to the fundamental principals of our constitution, especially the rights of […]

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How much I hate April Fools on the internet.
Ha, ha… a bogus news release/product announcement/etc…
I’d wouldn’t mind just being bored by it, if I didn’t have to wade through this shit all day long.

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I was thinking about legal documents…  the one’s with little sticky arrows showing us where to initial and sign.
It says something about the people who use the arrows and the people who sign:  Our assessment
: we are too dumb to fully understand the document…  Their assessment:we’re so dumb we can’t even be trusted to know […]

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DSC_7881, originally uploaded by Mark’s Mom.

I’m getting really jealous. I want to spend hours playing with bits of paper and rolling around on the floor chasing strings… it’s just not the same without […]

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An enormous load, originally uploaded by denovich.

Checking my Flickr stats I learned…
This is the first hit in Yahoo Image Search for “enormous load”
God help you if you have “safe search” turned off.

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Myron Cope
William F. Buckley Jr.
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The English are far more formal than I had suspected. Sure a great deal of them aren’t (I’m looking at you Slough) but the ones I see most often are. I certainly don’t stand out when I’m in shirt and tie in our village. Just getting dressed for a walk along the […]

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