If I were president, my foreign policy would be based around the golden rule which says “Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you.”
Is it foolproof? Of course not, but it’s much better than our current set of policies which seem to be based on our military might. This strategy [...]

I wish I were born and raised a Huxtable, the fictitious family from The Cosby Show. It’s the perfect family. They’re all so intelligent and well behaved.
My family mimicked The Conners, the family from Roseanne. We had love but it was disguised with a layer of profanity, drugs, alcohol, and violence.
It could have been [...]

I tried to use my mother’s laptop but it was so damn slow. I tried making it faster but I don’t know much about Windows, especially Vista so I decided to dump it and install Linux.
Other than some custom compilation for a wireless module, the installation went smoothly. The machine was snappy and responsive.
She liked [...]

Country folks are more friendly than their urban counterparts. That’s the popular belief but I assert that it’s wrong.
I’ve been to some really rural areas of our country and in regards to the people, it’s all the same. They stare and gawk at you as if you’re from Mars. I’ve never had a conversation with [...]

I had to take the Security+ as a job requirement. I’m convinced that all CompTIA certifications are garbage at this point.
The tests are poorly written multiple choice deals with more ambiguity than the always annoying Pat. Here’s a sample question.
Q) Which of the following is group of servers set to detect, deflect, or in some [...]

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
- Bertrand Russell

The hotness level on the East Coast is definitely higher than in the Midwest and South. The girls here are hotter by a very large margin.
I feel like a prepubescent boy sitting in this cafe with all the girls walking by. I missed home.

I’m supposed to report to Fort Benning, Georgia on the 31st for my new job. Until then, I’m staying at my grandparents home in an affluent area in Northern New Jersey.
Retired people are awesome. They’re daily lives are so devoid of anything that they’ll jump at the chance to take care of you. It almost [...]

How in the world have people lived with pendulum clocks all of these years? That constant tick tick tick is driving me nuts.
It’s fucking 2008. Put a digital clock on the wall and be done with it. Damn old people and their crazy gadgets.

In the middle of the night I threw what I had left in my apartment into my rental truck and took off for New Jersey. 650 miles later I’m at the Tennessee/Arkansas border lying in a kind of gross motel room bed. At least they have free wifi :).
Will I visit Texas again? Maybe. It [...]

Most Americans can agree that the Bush administration has made a lot of mistakes over the past seven and a half years. The biggest blunder isn’t Iraq, the economy, Katrina, or getting caught in any number of embarrassing moments. No, the worst thing they’ve done is get the American people involved.
The best thing for a [...]

The servers that handle email for the House of Representatives is overloaded. So much so that they’re limiting the email that gets through.
What’s not clear is on what basis are they rejecting the email? It’s very possible to setup a rule to bounce messages based on a regular expression. Anything appearing negative gets tossed, positive [...]