The Happy Moron

If you want to know the true story about John Brown’s attempted raid on the Harper’s Ferry Armoury, don’t watch Santa Fe Trail.
If you want to know the details of Jeb Stuart’s career and life before he became a famous Confederate General, don’t watch Santa Fe Trail.
Instead, follow the Wikipedia links which I’ve so helpfully [...]

My neighborhood dollar store sells dvds. For how much? $1. (That’s not a very interesting question, is it?)
What kind of dvds? (More interesting)
Old western movies and comedies. (Yet more interesting)
Not the classics we know and love, but the B material that we’ve somehow managed to miss in our regular retro fare. The 1950s equivalent of [...]

They were drunk.
The end result was a two hour delay of the flight.
The BBC interrupts my regularly scheduled surfing for this??? Poor behaviour by the intoxiated (quick, stop the presses) and a two hour delay on an airplane flight? May it never be! If drunken behaviour merits front page coverage on the BBC, I know [...]

Unless being stupid involves getting caught.
One of the greatest achievements of the internet is bringing all the stupid people together. Usually we idiots spend our lives being mocked, being told to shut up and being forced to stand in the corner.
On the internet we don’t have to tolerate the smart people, the witty people, the [...]

H4×0r j0r b0×3n!!
Or, they post on their blogs about bored young men.
I said previously that bored young men without jobs to distract them are a problem. The default actions that bored young men take to distract themselves are usually destructive. That’s why we like pocket-knives.

I’ve hinted at this before, that bored young men cause trouble.
Anyone who has ever reared or been a boy can probably understand this.
And so it seems that China has a problem.
China probably has many problems, but a large number of only-child boy babies who are growing up without wives and without jobs to distract them [...]

…because of this.
It certainly sounds like a movie plot: hiring an Mexican hit-man over the internet. But there’s a dark and sinister truth at play here…
If you die at the hands an internet Mexican hit-man, you die for real…
The dark and sinister truth is that no matter how you try to ham it up, there’s [...]

There’s a reason that the tagline for this blog is, “When being stupid is smart.”
Consider the ill received KDE 4.0 destkop.
Arguably the devs did the right thing. They’ve been working hard on the Linux desktop for years and deserve a lot of praise for their labour. This release they decided to ship an early version [...]

This is a winner.
Gardening:

Gives you food to eat
Gives you hard work to do
Makes you feel good about yourself
Provides aesthetically pleasing foliage

On a side note, it’s worth  that anywhere that young men are unemployed or otherwise unoccupied, they cause trouble. Riots, gangs, violence… you name it.
Going all the way back to Genesis, we see a stark [...]

Following up, another example of good engineering that we can do, but that we don’t do (or didn’t do).
There are always too many things that can be optimized against; so the answer is just to design against those things which seem most important at the time.
Right now, that’s being green.