Hey, after today, it looks like I’ll actually have some time to breath at work.  Hopefully I’ll be able to pay more attention to the online world for a bit.  I’ve been such a damn slacker.

But I made good progress on my projects, so I’m pleased.  I had a host server die the other day.  It hosted a few virtual servers I had running as a proof of concept.  Thanks to the wonders of virtualization, I had new virtual CentOS servers up and running on another host in about a half hour, configured them and reinstalled my software.  Total time was about an hour and forty five minutes from "Oh crap it’s toast" to "Ok, everything is running and servicing requests again."  I remember when rebuilding a server took all day.

Of course, some of us get automatic failover on their virtuals, but this is just a test environment we slapped together on a whim.

I figured the term “Romance” languages were based on “Roman”, but the mis-association of the languages being “Romantic” always has driven me nuts.. 

What’s so romantic about the romance languages? Actually, not much. The term "romance" as we know it today derives from the Latin romancie and is an adverb describing anything written or spoken in the Roman vernacular or the vulgar Latin, which was the language of the common people, soldiers and slaves. During medieval times in Western Europe, tales about heroes, chivalry and love became popular. These tales were often written in the vernacular and came to be called "romances."

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Won’t get a single dime from me ever again.

Marvel Comic’s Captain America is the mightiest soldier with the super powerful secret soldier formula that makes him a super man. Sadly, this muscle bound hero that took on the whole Nazi army during WWII seems to be afraid of those American people who’ve joined the Tea Party movement. Not only is Cappy quaking in his little red booties, but he’s sure that the Tea Party folks are dangerous racists, too.

That’s just pretty damn pathetic.

Lot’s of typos…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine ex-Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans biggest embarrassment to veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday.

That’s a little better.

Let’s see if the corrupt bastard can extort money from the devil.

Now the wait is on, for surely this will be a replay of the Kennedy senate seat.  A democrat will be appointed for the rest of the term, who will then lose to a Republican when the people are allowed to vote.

Heh

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who flies around on private planes so as to tell larger numbers of people how they must live their lives in order to save the planet, wrote a column last year on the lack of winter weather in Washington, D.C.

The cold wet slap of reality:

I’m thinking maybe all those famous folks, with their giant energy sucking mansions, garages full of sports cars and SUVs, and jetting around the globe maybe isn’t quite enough to give us the global warming they keep talking about. 

But I don’t think it’s a horse either…

15 rounds 5 yards, if you look close you can see the little rabbit (11 rounds).

Theories.. was the east coast hell, and now has officially frozen over (for the horrible mistake of electing Obama?) OR.. is this mother nature giving Gore and all the Global Warming freaks a slap in the face!?

Gotta love this guy’s energy, excitement, animation, and horror as he goes about his weather forecast.. doom, doom, doom. Really expected it to end with him impaling himself on a sword or something!

Meteorologist Loses His Shit

Wow.

And no, its not The Onion.

Reboot the Moon.

And now, we have a special message from Desslok and Zod who are reporting directly from Punxsutawney, PA…

You may have seen these.. but even if you  have, there is no way these could get old.. enjoy!

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Neat little bit on chocolate’s history… 

Which European country first enjoyed the pleasures of chocolate? Spain. The first official shipment of cocoa beans arrived in Spain in 1585. But the Spanish had been secretly bringing in the precious crop for nearly 60 years before that. In fact, in 1579 English pirates looking for treasure on a Spanish galleon mistook the valuable beans for sheep droppings, and burned the entire ship. It wasn’t until the mid-1600s that France, England and Italy started their own love affairs with the sweet treat.

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Talky Tina speaks the following phrases:
"My name is Talky Tina, and I love you very much."
"My name is Talky Tina, and I don’t think I like you."
"My name is Talky Tina, and you’d better be nice to me."
"My name is Talky Tina, and you’ll be sorry."
"My name is Talky Tina, and I’m going to kill you."

Oh this is so a MUST Have! (For any readers who know me, will know why!)

I’d prefer the actual doll version.. but the bobble head would do.

- Twilight Zone – Bobble Heads at Entertainment Earth

…Obama’s [State of the Union] Address has a readability score for an average 8th grader – two grades lower than George W. Bush’s Addresses and the historical average for modern presidents.

Well, now that Congress is mostly Democrats, you really have to dumb it down for them.  Remember, he’s not a genius, it’s just that liberals want to think that they’re smart.  So they’ll fuss and whine about how the guy they voted for is an intellectual.  Not because he is, but because it makes liberals feel good about themselves and their choices.

Apparently his challenger does.  Interesting…

The government’s bailout of financial institutions deemed "too big to fail" has created a risk that the United States could face a worse fiscal meltdown in the future, an independent watchdog assigned to review the program told Congress on Sunday.

The Troubled Assets Relief Program, known as TARP, has not addressed the problems that led to the last crisis and in some case those problems have festered and are a bigger threat than before, warned Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general at the Treasury Department.

Nahh… Really?  Are you sure?  That would mean that a bunch of bumbling fools, with no experience in how the real world works, were elected on promises of hope and butterflies.  Surely that couldn’t happen!

Me and the Sig won by 3 points.

But it was close.  Bill shot better groups but had a few flyers.

Why does he STILL not get it? The spending freeze talk was nothing more then lip service. His idea of a spending freeze is known as a spending spree to the rest of us! How do we stop him, and how can we educate this idiot? What can we expect for the next three years??

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I want to see this in my break room at work: a Stouffer’s frozen dinner vending machine/freezer.  Right next to it is a stack of microwaves.

That handles the problem with the cleaning crew emptying the freezer.  Or knowing first thing in the morning what you’d want for lunch.