Shenanigans

Shenanigans! I declare shenanigans!

PS. I've always wanted to declare shenanigans. I think I'll do it more often from now on.

South Park Shenanigans:


Supertrooper shenanigans:


PPS. While the OED doesn't seem to have an entry for 'shenanigans', M-W does. But M-W doesn't seem to know where it came from. I'd put the word Shenanigans on my top ten list of coolest words in English. Sesquipedalian would be on there too. I'm still waiting for a good opportunity to use sesquipedalian.

When two people disagree, usually, one of them is wrong

This Peter Schiff guy got it exactly right, over two years ago. I'm sure he wasn't the only guy to have this idea, he was the guy who stuck his neck out on tv and said it would happen in a couple of years. Kudos to him.

a priest, a rabbi, and a bodhisattva walk into a bar

As of yesterday afternoon I am now one of those guys who owns computers running all three of the major operating systems currently used in the US - Windows XP, Mac OSX, and Ubuntu. Of course this realization also brought me to realize that I actually own at least 3 computers.

The actual number is 5. I own 5 computers.

One of those is actually over 5 years old and is currently collecting dust, unused for a lack of a monitor. I've thought about donating it, but that would involve wiping the hard-drive and I can't trust any open-source software to do that job thoroughly enough. So since I don't own an industrial strength magnet, and most donation services would not likely accept a computer sans hard-disk, this old pc is just sitting there, collecting dust.

Then, there's a really old laptop that's actually not mine, but my wife's. That one actually is a bit newer than the other desktop, but because it's a laptop, it has less speedy components. It's still working but I'm thinking about installing some really low-intensity linux distro so we can get a few more years' use out of it.

Then, there are the three which are currently in the greatest use, which make up the OS triumvirate previously discussed.

So I own 5 computers... Actually, 6, if you count my playstation. If that's not a mark of privilege, I don't know what is.

On staying positive

Overheard on the street yesterday:

Middle-aged man to younger man: "Well, it might look like it's bad for the economy, but hopefully [the weak dollar] will make those illegals think twice about coming here"


Yup... whatever we can do to keep the brown people at bay...

In the meantime, rich European women are flocking to boutiques in New York taking advantage of the situation, Australians are importing all of their electronic goods, and rap stars are flashing foreign currency in their music videos.