Rants

Note to Congress

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Um, we have an executive branch that has ignored the constitution, has spied on citizens without warrants, admits to torturing prisoners of war that it’s held for years without trial and has made a mockery of everything that the US stands for, and you’re having hearings about steroid use in baseball? What. The. Fuck? Pelosi, [...]

Sun buying MySQL

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Does Sun’s takeover of MySQL mean that I’m not going to have to deal with this anymore? mysql> select count(*) from logs; +———-+ | count(*) | +———-+ | 15945539 | +———-+ 1 row in set (15 min 38.04 sec) mysql> truncate logs; Query OK, 14383750 rows affected (3 hours 11 min 15.98 sec) 3 hours [...]

Restaurant pet peeves

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

A list of things that I’ve experienced at restaurants that have really pissed me off recently: Just because a table has two dimensions doesn’t mean it’s ok to put 4 chairs at it. This especially pisses me off in Japanese restaurants where you typically get a bunch of small dishes that fill up a standard [...]

Dear JDL, please just shut the fuck up.

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

A week or so ago, Will Smith made a comment that was taken out of context: Remarkably, Will believes everyone is basically good. “Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today’,” said Will. “I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards [...]

Enough with the wacky turkey recipes.

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

While it’s fun to smoke turkeys, deep fry them, wrap them in bacon, and cook them in lava, please remember that the best damned part of the turkey is the skin. And any method of preparation which makes the skin inedible is nothing less than heresy. Turduckens, however, are allowed, and encouraged.

“Oktoberfest” in Big Bear

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

So I’m sitting in the Marina park in San Diego yesterday, where fall has finally hit, rendering the temperature a balmy 72 degrees, reading a book when I get a call from my friend Carrie, inviting me to go up to Big Bear with them to go to their Oktoberfest celebration. What does Big Bear [...]

Rachel Ray Must Be Stopped.

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

I’d seen talk of this in the comments on food blogs, but I didn’t actually believe it until now: Rachel Ray has her own brand of olive oil. Of course this was the natural progression, I’m amazed it didn’t come out sooner. Seriously, are her 15 minutes up yet? I refused, and I hope anyone [...]

Ice Road Truckers?

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Ok I realize Ice Road Truckers isn’t exactly a new show, and I find the concept to be the most hilariously boring concept for a reality show ever, but I’ve finally watched a couple episodes for giggles. It’s on right now. Nothing is happening. Nothing ever happens. I think someone broke an axle 3 episodes [...]

People at Starbucks that I want to stab in the face.

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Fuck these people: The dude who constantly plays with changing the ringtones on his fucking cell phone. Who the fuck taught you that this was something appropriate to do in public. Dudes in sunglasses. People who wear sunglasses indoors are either blind or assholes. You don’t have a cane. These guys usually travel in packs [...]