freedom is on the march...

Is everyone else as excited as I am about tomorrow's Iraqi election? I can't wait to see who wins. We should know pretty quickly too... since I can't imagine it will take too long to count the 300 VOTES cast by the people who manage to NOT be terrified of getting shot or blown up while voting.

Did everyone see John Stewart's recap of the Inauguration Speech that kept score of Bush's masturbatory use of the words Freedom (20-something times) and Liberty (17 times)? I don’t know whether to me amused by it or just frightened by the doublespeakyness of the whole thing... when Freedom and Liberty mean, "do what we say" and "or we'll make you."

When does the campaigning for 2008 start?
  (posted by Dave at 8:05 AM || )

  pissing off the physicist once again...

We were watching Queer Eye and Ted was helping some football fan guy buy a new grill for his tailgate parties, and they were discussing buying a particular gas grill, even though charcoal cooks better... and the guy at Grills-R-Us starts salespitching for this gas grill and says...

"This penetrates the food right away, it cooks the food a lot more quickly, but it also cooks in the infrared spectrum, just like charcoal..."

Which is important, you know... because most gas grills cook using, ummm... COSMIC GAMMA RAYS!!

What the FUCK?

Infrared = HOT. Coals are hot. Gas is hot. Hot is hot.

If there is a difference between the quality of charcoal and gas cooking, it's about SMOKE... not about... the infrared fucking spectrum.

Jesus.   (posted by Dave at 10:43 PM || )

  Macworld-Expo inspired gushing...

Have you seen it? Have you seen it?

The Mac Mini?

Must have one.

The iPod Shuffle? No... it's not a new dance... it's a whole new mp3-player paradigm. All storage, no interface. Brilliant.

Software? GarageBand 2 does real time music notation. iMovie now handles hi-def resolution. iWork? A new productivity suite with a wordprocessor that mimics the interface of Keynote. (I switched from PowerPoint to Keynote two years ago, and I get more compliments on my presentations than you can imagine.) And the awesome thing about my job is... I know I'll have my hands on ALL of it in a week or two, and it won't cost me a nickel.

Giddy as a schoolgirl!
  (posted by Dave at 9:19 PM || )

  ESPN inspired gushing...

It doesn't matter how skanky the videos on MTV are, it doesn't matter how naked they get on Desperate Housewives, there will NEVER be anything hotter on television than women's billiards.

And it's not about the bending over and it has nothing to do with how they LOOK... it's all about the skill and the focus and the ability...

Ok, sometimes it's about the bending over.

But really.... god damn... watching a woman run a rack of 9-ball, I would so totally do them RIGHT THERE on the table.

  (posted by Dave at 9:13 PM || )