pyesetz | Strange quote of the day (Reply)

The children’s book section at my local Border’s has been voted “Most Likely to be a Total Fucking Disaster” for three years running.

— Rands

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The website WorldMeets.US is frequently quoted in the RSS feed I get from TheModerateVoice.com, so I finally went there for a look. At the bottom they mention the various newspapers they use for sources, including The Canadian which I've never heard of, so I looked at a few of its articles.

The Canadian has a strong focus on LGBT stuff, which is a poor match for the heteronormative lifestyle I'm leading these days, but that's okay. The articles seem like they were written by people with ADD, veering from one subtopic to another. Example: this Global Warming article starts out strong, talking about the world's two plutocratic cabals who have taken opposing sides in the debate about what (if anything) we should do about Climate Change. I was actually hoping that this article would tell me something of interest. But then it veers off to a discussion about environmental science. The intro paragraph focuses on "elites" but the concluding paragraph is all about "scientists". Didn't these people ever learn how to write a five-paragraph essay?

But this article is over the top, treating the domestication of dogs and the existence of alien visitors in flying saucers as equally plausible. I don't think I'll be adding The Canadian to my RSS feed. Oh wait—they don't offer RSS! I guess you can be "socially progressive and cross-cultural" while still living in a Low-Tech world. And maybe they'd get more respect if they spent $30 to buy a website that's actually named for their paper? Just a thought...

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My laptop works much better now that I finally got another 1GB of RAM for it! "swapon -s" shows only 5 MB of swap space in use, much better than the 400 MB that I used to see. Resuming from suspend no longer hangs waiting for lots of disk I/O. Terminating Opera no longer hangs waiting for whatever it is that program does instead of immediately exiting like I told it to. Not bad for an upgrade that cost only $56 with tax and shipping. Still no fancy Compiz effects though. Those stopped working when the LCD was replaced. Maybe I could restore them by installing a new OS? I've had this one for a year. I'm still running Linux 2.6.27!