1. Cruelly Taunted

    Cruelly Taunted

  2. I always look forward to the annual “Special Success Issue” Although Frank is already a successful “”Philanthro-Capitalist,”” there’s apparently still broad speculation regarding whether he and his luxuriously profitable David Lee Roth hair have or have not “Found Secret.” (I’ll wait until all the evidence is in before forming my own opinion, but just for right now, my gut is leaning heavily toward, “No. No, Frank has not ‘Found Secret.’”)

    I always look forward to the annual “Special Success Issue”

    Although Frank is already a successful “”Philanthro-Capitalist,”” there’s apparently still broad speculation regarding whether he and his luxuriously profitable David Lee Roth hair have or have not “Found Secret.”

    (I’ll wait until all the evidence is in before forming my own opinion, but just for right now, my gut is leaning heavily toward, “No. No, Frank has not ‘Found Secret.’”)

  3. Talk about leaving money on the table This is what happens when you click Apple.com’s link to buy someone a gift anything on the iTunes store. Which is, to borrow a term that I believe was coined by Milton Friedman, just incredibly fucking stupid.

    Talk about leaving money on the table

    This is what happens when you click Apple.com’s link to buy someone a gift anything on the iTunes store.

    Which is, to borrow a term that I believe was coined by Milton Friedman, just incredibly fucking stupid.

  4. Oh, Open Source Weighing in at an imposing 1.3 gigabytes, MacTeX will (once installed) give me numerous options regarding the ability to (are you holding on to your hat?) generate formatted text files.1 I know, right? Amazing what you can do with a gig of disk space today. What a great time to be alive. It’s like the fucking Pax Romana, I tells ‘ya.                   .footnotes{font-size:9px;color:#666;} Relax Van Hœt. I’m just kidding. a. yes, this was a small glitch, and the packages installed in a very reasonable 5 minutes, and, b. yes, I understand that this is very powerful functionality and that creating a complex program that runs on AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows is a marvel of community effort that I should not be sarcastic about, and c. yes, I realize that the real bloatware is happening amongst all the “commercial” “software” “companies” whose greed, lax security, and FUD have energized an international network of like-minded individuals to collaborate on better and more open software solutions that drive innovation and keep technology under the control of the user, rather than consolidated in the blood-stained hands of a faceless and irresponsible corporation, and d. yes, the lady who played “Seven of Nine” on that TV show seems like a very handsome woman whom I’m sure was being really sincere that time last year when you met her at “MASTURBACON 09” out at the airport Hyatt, when you paid her US$15 to autograph an 8x10 glossy with the inscription, “To Karl— With Love, The Lady who Played the Sexy Robot on that TV Show. XXOO MWAH!” Yes. I apologize on all counts for ever implying otherwise. Also, making text files is hard. ↩

    Oh, Open Source

    Weighing in at an imposing 1.3 gigabytes, MacTeX will (once installed) give me numerous options regarding the ability to (are you holding on to your hat?) generate formatted text files.1

    I know, right? Amazing what you can do with a gig of disk space today.

    What a great time to be alive. It’s like the fucking Pax Romana, I tells ‘ya.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1. Relax Van Hœt. I’m just kidding.
      a. yes, this was a small glitch, and the packages installed in a very reasonable 5 minutes, and,
      b. yes, I understand that this is very powerful functionality and that creating a complex program that runs on AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows is a marvel of community effort that I should not be sarcastic about, and
      c. yes, I realize that the real bloatware is happening amongst all the “commercial” “software” “companies” whose greed, lax security, and FUD have energized an international network of like-minded individuals to collaborate on better and more open software solutions that drive innovation and keep technology under the control of the user, rather than consolidated in the blood-stained hands of a faceless and irresponsible corporation, and
      d. yes, the lady who played “Seven of Nine” on that TV show seems like a very handsome woman whom I’m sure was being really sincere that time last year when you met her at “MASTURBACON 09” out at the airport Hyatt, when you paid her US$15 to autograph an 8x10 glossy with the inscription, “To Karl— With Love, The Lady who Played the Sexy Robot on that TV Show. XXOO MWAH!”
      Yes. I apologize on all counts for ever implying otherwise.
      Also, making text files is hard. ↩

  5. Radiohead - “Ceremony” (New Order Cover, 2007)

    I’ll never get sick of watching this (or “The Headmaster Ritual” for that matter).

  6. Split Enz - “I Got You” (1980)

    Fact: In many of the acclaimed New Zealand band’s early promo videos, the part of a camera-shy Neil Finn was played by a creepy and hirsute transvestite marionette.

  7. Poetry on our kitchen floor (by Jason Permenter)

    Poetry on our kitchen floor (by Jason Permenter)

  8. Van Halen - “Eruption” (ca. 1982?)

    This is pretty boss—even by EVH/Eruption standards. Tosses in some “Little Guitars” for good measure too.

    In other news:

    11m EVH Solo : Ladies :: Merchant-Ivory Marathon : Dudes