mindful rage

As found on Google Maps, a Target store in College Point, Queens, NY.

Is this really the message we want to send to the terrorists? Come on, people!

I am currently sitting outside of a Best Buy waiting for them to open in about… 6 hours.  Wife and I are 6 and 7 in line.  I am insane.  I am going more insane.

A Best Buy employee gave us the WEP key for their wifi, so I borrowed someone’s laptop to keep in touch with the world at large.  I have a problem.  Clearly.  For many reasons.

Drums, drums in the deep.  There is no way out.  We cannot escape.

They come.

In the fine tradition of Jorge’s weather posts, I say…

“It looks like Armageddon outside.”

WHY, WHY DOES THE WEATHER LOOK LIKE A SNAKE STRIKING AT THE NORTHEAST?

There is what I would consider a long-running inside joke about ArsTechnica having a bit of a Mac bias. So what do I see today when I’m reading an article?

From an article on CNN.com, emphasis mine…

“What would cause a godly woman to do such a thing?” asked neighbor Sharon Everitt, echoing the question that has hung over the rural town since late March. “Christians don’t shoot Christians.“

I’m guessing that the educational system in Tennessee somehow skipped over the entire history of the world from the time that guns were invented.  This is the only acceptable excuse, as any other reason she might supply for making this statement would likely horrify me even further.

Bird flu! It’s new, it’s hot. It’s spreading like wildfire. Thankfully due to my excellent training in medieval history, I am well-assured that a world-reaving pandemic would never, ever spread from Turkey to lay waste to millions of people. Couldn’t happen. Wouldn’t happen. Naaaah.