La Rubujo de la Ĥemi-Elektra Rubulo • The Chemo-Electric Trashman’s Trashcan

La Rubulo:
Barijo ‘Bojo’ Ŝvarc
(Barry Schwartz)

Backstabber update

8 julio 2009, 15.33

I hear from the post-show chat on Break Room Live that Randi Rhodes, exhibit #1 in the museum of inferiority complexes, still is badmouthing Al Franken. This is how she congratulates the nationally known person whose lead-in resulted in Randi’s name recognition outside of South Florida.

Randi, stop for a second and read what I have to say. You are a binge-drinking ex-cokehead who occasionally has to be bleeped because you have on-air meltdowns. Al Franken OTOH is a US senator who will operate on the principle ‘What would Paul Wellstone have done?’ To do your job well you need to see the difference.

I don’t know how anybody can stand to listen anymore if you are spewing the same garbage you were spewing on Nova M.

Keith Olbermann gets my gall

7 julio 2009, 22.06

I just watched Keith Olbermann make completely baseless accusations against Michael Scheuer, of ‘disloyalty’ and ‘giving aid and comfort to the enemy’.

Look. Michael Scheuer is a complete loon, which, unlike many others of my left-leaning persuasion, I recognized immediately upon his coming out of the shadows. Frankly, Scheuer is Hitler-like in his opinions and his recent statements are completely in character and not at all a disappointment to me; he was like this all along. But I never dreamt of calling him disloyal or of befriending an ‘enemy’. Bush, sure – but never Michael Scheuer.

This may come as a shock to Keith Olbermann, but it is not illegal nor even unethical to count on a bad occurrence to shock people into action. I do it all the time; for instance I hope New York gets flooded by natural causes if that’s what it takes to get us moving seriously on climate change and hurricane preparedness, especially after New Orleans didn’t do it. Am I a freaking traitor, Keith Olbermann?

The whole point of this is that it is other people who are leaving the nation in bad shape, and one hopes their failures become apparent soon enough.

Where are the media priorities?

7 julio 2009, 17.27

How can the media be covering the memorial for Michael Jackson so intensively, yet completely ignore that Flook is getting together for one last concert?!!!

(Too bad it’s in Belfast and not Minneapolis.)

Regarding Montel Williams

7 julio 2009, 16.49

I’ve grown since the old days when I watched Montel on TV a lot, but he hasn’t kept up with me. (Not surprising, because I have moved past television itself. :) )

Ron Reagan and Jack Rice are much, much better among the more recent Air Americans.

(And, of course, the best of the best Air Americans is SENATOR Alan S. Franken. :) And the election system here worked just fine, by the way; it took so long precisely because the system functioned as designed.)

Holy cow, another Republican makes an ass of himself on healthcare

5 julio 2009, 21.52

Last time Olympia Snowe, this time Chuck Grassley: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/03/grassley-fed-health-care/

Interestingly, those are two of the Republicans that don’t sound like a dull-witted example of Homo erectus. Imagine what the erectoids must be saying ...

Yay! It's published

1 julio 2009, 03.22

I see that Igino Marini http://ikern.com/k1/the-tool/ has nicely published on his algorithm for autospacing and autokerning. This puts an end to my misgivings about his methods – that he wasn’t going to share them with the world. Excellent! And maybe it’s better he offer iKern as a service than publish binary-only code.

I, myself, like to have full control, and so will continue to use my semi-automated spacing and kerning system that is handled by diverting FontForge’s named base-to-mark anchors to another task. There isn’t any real math to it. Essentially I have to tell my programs how close to let things get to the various parts of a letter, and then they fit letters together as tightly as possible (although there is also support for special cases in case the method fails in a given instance). Spacing and kerning are handled more or less together, and most accented letters are handled automatically.

(It gets a bit complicated for italic fonts, unfortunately.)

Olympia Snowe complains that public insurance would be too inexpensive

30 junio 2009, 12.35

See http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/two-steps-forward-one-step-back-snowe-talks-triggers.php

Opponents have no idea how they are portraying themselves; they think it ‘normal’ to worry about the welfare of healthcare extortion outfits.

Older

29 junio 2009, 21.55

Okay, now I’m not only older than the president; I’m also older than the Tonight Show host.

And I’m cold and frightened.

chemoelectric

A query

28 junio 2009, 00.15

Why in the world would I want to join in riotous street protest with someone who pronounces the Americans a ‘sheeple’ rather than a people? I wouldn’t know whether to throw my rocks at the authorities or at you.

Faux News viewers are a sheeple, of course, but that is something you can show by research and mathematics. It is not an expression of contempt for the American people, who are my people.

Jackson's death

26 junio 2009, 17.26

Whoa, I guess it's starting too look like MJ got killed by Demerol.

Surprise over Michael Jackson's death

26 junio 2009, 15.27

I am a little taken aback that there is as much surprise over the death of Michael Jackson as there has been; to me, Jackson has looked for many years as if he were on the verge of death.

I suppose he might have been overworking physically, lately, and succumbed to the middle-aged-man-dies-from-snow-shoveling syndrome.

Ooh, some more examples of Faux News labeling Republicans as Democrats

26 junio 2009, 03.09

Arlen Specter and John McCain, no less: http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/shocking-fox-news-labels-disgraced-re

An amazing thing is that the sheeple who devour Faux News don’t respond with torches and pitchforks for being treated like such idiots.

(BTW the Michael Brown thing seems to me likely to have been an honest error – similar to when, at the RNC, a public school appeared on the screen behind John McCain, when it was supposed to be a military hospital but the names were similar.)

What it would take

24 junio 2009, 23.43

Nicole Sandler on Air America Radio just asked (with a hostile tone) what would it take to get Americans to go protest in the streets like the Iranians.

It’s very easy to answer that, Nicole, and I know you are smart enough to figure this out for yourself: it would take a tyrannical theocracy that hanged people with forklifts, had an army of brownshirts, and who didn’t care how we voted. Obviously we have nothing of the sort.

Remember that we had an American Revolution, followed by a Constitutional Convention, and not a French Revolution, followed by a Reign of Terror.

(Ask Ron Kuby about it, he has pointed out something similar, recently.)

That’s the other way I can be sent into a rage: unfair dumping on the American people. The first way (which Ron Reagan did earlier on AAR) is to dump on ‘kids these days’. So many people learned nothing from their own experiences as kids. It’s like squirting yourself in the face with seltzer, all seriously, even though you’d spent a lifetime observing that this is something done by clowns and jesters.