Furious Indifference.

So, 2 1/2 tons of Pot (wow, that's so, so dangerous) was found in a abandoned Afghanistan school (must have been shitty weed). I'm sorry. I know it is a serious thing, the counter-insurgency campaign in that godforsaken country, but why is it headline news that some pot, that serves as black-market currency (that's why the world should legalize all drugs, first and foremost)? I know, because American sensibility is so fucking skewed that a small mountain of pot (2 1/2 tons is a shitload, granted) ranks above the hideous theft of the treasury, the possible impending collapse of the auto industry (without which, we'd have lost WWII), and Obama tapping a homophobic bigot to give the invocation at his inauguration.

Christmas next week... love the season for my son, otherwise... would like to just have New Year's Eve, and skip straight to the flowering of the plants in the Spring.

Protect Marriage, Protect Children, Prohibit Divorce PS Homophobia is just, like, ohmygawd, like so, gay.

Funny things, PCs. My $400 laptop runs circles around my $2300 Sony Vaio (2.8 GHz P4, 1GB RAM) because it is 5 years "younger." Amazing shit. I bought a little USB HDTV ATSC receiver and enjoy beautiful over-the-air HD broadcasts on my laptop... for shits and grins, I plugged it in to my Sony, and it was as if I'd asked it to solve Pi to 3 million decimal places! LOL! It did a decent, albeit, hitchy job of displaying standard definition channels, but HD? Nope. Ah, Moore's law continues, no longer is it clock cycles, but it will be again, and then it will be architecture change again (multiple cores for now), ad infinitum ... until we accidentally build SkyNet. I'm guessing in 10 years, a run-of-the-mill PC will have the computational power of some of the "supercomputers" of today. I know, not a stretch. I'm just trying to get my head around the software that will be inevitably written to bog down that much CPU/Memory horsepower, because those damn d...

I've been on Facebook for a few months; but only recently have I used it to catch up to old friends... mostly because my best friend (who is, apparently the glue that binds our circle of friends) decided to check it out. All of a sudden I'm fielding "friend requests," from people I hadn't seen in over 20 years... so cool...