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In comments below name the republican candidate that you would be willing to vote for in the 2012 election instead of Barack Obama.
If you can’t name one then you are wasting your time complaining about him, he will do what he wants when and if he is ready to do it.
Update: No comments yet? Prepare the Kevin Bacon Position!
Update 2: Tengrain answers
Robert Stacy McCain Feb 15th 2009:
How to get a million hits on your blog in less than a year
Comment number 1 on that thread:
William A. Jacobson said…
I have no idea what you just said, but the “million hits” headline drew me in, almost as quickly as your pictures of pretty girls.
Sun Feb 15, 06:58:00 PM
William Jacobson less than one year later:
Sometime early yesterday morning, I received my one millionth visit. Eleven months and two weeks after my first post on October 12, 2008.
EF Hutton has nothing on Robert Stacy. I’d listen if I were you:
What you don’t know EF hutton, I guess you’re not old like me:
…so that means light blogging but it also gives me a chance to tell a funny HiWired story.
Just under 75% of the time we would telecommute. That saved a lot of time and money but also had an odd side effect. If you are sick and have an hour drive it is a lot easier to call out than if you are just going down stairs. Even if you are very sick if you are going to be home anyway it just doesn’t feel right to take the day particularly when you know someone else will have to take up the slack.
I was feeling very sick one day (I had a 11-10 shift that day) but I didn’t want to take the day so I took the laptops to my bedroom and literally worked from the bed I’m lying down on now. On chats it wasn’t a problem but on calls people could clearly hear I wasn’t right.
I was working on my last call of the day and my wife had just come upstairs. As quietly as I could I moved the laptops to my side of the bed and continued on the call and the screen share. The customer bless her seemed more interested in my sickness than in her errant printer. As I finished up the call and had her printer humming again we had this exchange:
Customer: Thank you very much for your help, now I want you to head home and get right to bed!
Me: Mamm I promise you that once this call is done I’ll get to bed so fast that you’d think I was already there.
I almost had to mute my mike as the wife nearly broke out laughing at that point.
I’m a big believer in bed rest. I’ve always found that if you actually take to bed when you start to get sick your body gets a head start on taking care of whatever ails you.
So it’s bed rest today and the Latin Mass tomorrow and as I had a couple of calls on the job front this week, hopefully an interview or two next week.
If you remember the old Zorro TV show Sgt. Garcia was a good natured bumbler who dreamed of catching Zorro to get the reward:
But he knew what to do about bears.
Maybe if Aspin had more Sgt. Garcias around they wouldn’t have to worry so much about bears or the Bears would stay away.
Via Glenn to whom this is a pet peeve.
Update: At Moe Lane’s a commenter gives a lesson in cause and effect:
Gene K says:
September 28, 2009 at 7:56 amColorado Issue 10 (1992) was a measure was to prohibit the taking of (hunting) black bears. It passed. The bear population has increased with all the expected consequences.
It looks like the city shot itself in the foot and didn’t have charcoal instead of gunpowder in their muskets.
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