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Canuck Kid Stars

Gary — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:30:49 +0000

I know that things which appear to be clusters are merely random stastical fluctuations, but if another Canadian child actor from the 80s dies this month, it’ll be freaky.

Corey Haim, 38. At least the vampires didn’t get him.

Pringles Recall

Gary — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:52:23 +0000

Pringles has issued a recall on Cheeseburger and Taco Night chips, due to salmonella concerns. Of course, if you eat either of those two flavors, your stomach is probably made of cast iron anyway. Ew.

SWAT drug bust in MO

Gary — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:41:06 +0000

Once again, the War on (some) Drugs has been made to look stupid and petty by its very nature. This time around, a SWAT team busted into a family’s house, shot their two dogs (one of them a very threatening Corgi), arrested the father and traumatized a child. And the big bad druggies they busted? Oh, they were caught with what the police describe as a “small amount” of marijuana. The parents have been charged with possession and with child endangerment. The possession charge is a misdemeanor.

Just to be perfectly clear here – the police believe that possessing a small amount of marijuana is child endangerment, but shooting two family pets in front of that same child is perfectly reasonable behavior.

Unclear on DELETE

Gary — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:12:22 +0000

Wow, that’s some incredible Facebook post…

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Pee Chee

Gary — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:43:14 +0000

Any of my contacts not from California – have you ever heard of a Pee Chee?

Don’t Fund Placebo – NHS

Gary — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:50:05 +0000

After many years of being mocked by anyone with a modicum of understanding in medicine or science or reproducible results, homeopathy has been slammed by an actual governmental study in the UK. I particularly like the line refuting the necessity to fund “traditional” medicine: “Witchcraft is traditional, so does that mean the MHRA should endorse that too?”

Wacky Pricing

Gary — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:47:54 +0000

I understand supply and demand, and what the market will bear, blah blah blah, but this is entertaining.

Yesterday, Newegg began selling a new gaming laptop, the Asus G73. When Gizmodo and other sites posted it at 8am or so with a claimed price of $1430, the price was $1449 at Newegg. Later in the morning, the sites that blogged about it mentioned the price as $1499. When I got home, I showed it to my wife, explaining that it was nigh impossible to build a gaming desktop with the same specs for less than the $1500 they were asking. But, when I pulled up the listing, it was $1599. This morning, just out of curiousity, I looked again – $1549.

There can’t be this much demand and supply change in one 24 hour period, can there? This is like watching Apple stock whenever Steve Jobs speaks.

Tea Party Starting off extra smrat

Gary — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:00:55 +0000

Apparently the opening speaker of the Tea Party Convention is openly courting racists. Tom Tancredo, who is cuckoo for illegal aliens, started off the proceedings by claiming that President Obama was only elected because people who can’t say “vote” in English elected him. Wow, we must have an awful lot of non-English speakers in the USA, to have over 50% of the vote like that. And then he appeals to people to take back America from “them” – whoever they might be.

I find it interesting that all of Tancredo’s grandparents were immigrants (legal presumably) and yet he’s still so unabashedly xenophobic in his rhetoric. Just for full disclosure, my father’s family immigrated to this continent before the USA was founded (by over a century), and I somehow was capable of pronouncing the word “vote” and casting it for Obama.

Oh, and real socialists most assuredly do not consider this president one of them. At this point, many liberals are saying he’s not even one of them.

Michael Buble

Gary — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:03:44 +0000

We watched Micheal Buble on SNL this weekend, and it’s the first time I’d ever heard him. Considering that he’s sold millions of records and continues to be in the top 20 Billboard album chart, you’d think we’d have heard him before. And now that we have, I have to say… I don’t get it. Is “lounge singer” a new hotness? This guy makes Bryan Adams look like he’s got a lot of soul. To be fair, unlike some singers who perform on SNL, at least he did stay on key. So there’s that. Zzzzzz….

The Stupid Economy

Gary — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:11:16 +0000

A year after I posted the “with and without stimulus” economist projection, it’s interesting to see how things have actually panned out.

What expert economists said they expected:

What actually happened:

You can see that the projection was that we’d peak at around 8% unemployment, with the stimulus that was proposed. A much smaller stimulus was put into place, and it peaked about 10% instead. But, the projections also said we’d see see a plateau and reduction in unemployment right around the beginning of 2010, and we did. So, it’s been a bit worse than projected, but it’s turning around right on schedule. Of course, it’s still too early to see if this plateau is done and we’re actually recovering, or if we’re just going to plateau until the end of 2010, which would be what was projected to happen without any government intervention. That would suck.