infundibulum

go away, kthx

After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Breyer said: “I began to see that the true division of importance in the world is not between different countries. The important division is between those who are committed to reason, to working out things, to understanding other people, to peaceful resolution of their differences … and those who don’t think that.”

To translate weird things into Esperanto.

Should Killing Be Merely a Mouse Click Away?

This is an article about how people hunt over the internet. (Aim the gun with your mouse, kill.)

My opinion: it’s noxious.

And I love how the “traditional” hunter tries to come off as some kind of nature-loving boyscout.

Gary Harpole, an Illinois hunter who figures he has killed 100 deer, most with a bow, said the practice “takes away from what hunting really is all about: getting outdoors, experiencing nature.”

“To me, 90 percent of hunting is the experience, 10 percent is the harvest,” said Harpole, who runs a hunter’s lodge at his rural home. Bagging a buck by computer, he said, “is a lazy way of hunting.”

I will never understand people who try to justify hunting as a sport.

What hunting is all really about: getting outdoors, experiencing nature, and then killing it.

Awesome.

Is it just me, or have the words heh and hehe (or sometimes heheh) acquired different nuances?

Sometimes, I will type “heh” in a chat, and then think “wait, ‘heh’ will come across as sarcastic,” and then I’ll type “hehe” instead.

Dear lazyweb, am I insane?

Coffee place:

Lady: Excuse me.

Me: Hi.

Lady: Do you know anything about Microsoft Works?

Me: No.

Lady: Oh. (Looking at my (Ubuntu) laptop.) Microsoft Works.

Me: No, absolutely nothing. I know absolutely nothing about Microsoft Works, I am using Linux, I don’t know Microsoft Works, I don’t know what Microsoft Works is. At all. [I really said that.]
Lady: ?

Me: …

Lady goes away. Finally.

Does this make me a jerk? I don’t think so. And in fact it has nothing to do with Microsoft or Linux or anything, it has to do with the fact that why should I stop what I’m doing and get into what’s basically guaranteed to be a “oh and could yo ufix my…” twelve hour session. I’m happy to do that kind of thing for people I know, but, somebody off the street?

Sorry, I got stuff to do…

Is when someone starts a post on a message board beginning with the word “Um.”

Sweet jeebus, that makes me want to barf.

It starts off the conversation by saying “you’re an idiot.”

Doesn’t anyone care about being polite any more?

Lazarus taxon

There is a place called… Faaa.

I’m an INTP.

Go forth and navel-gaze.

Come to think of it, these things are sort of creepy in a Scientology kind of way.