General

In response to Nyx‘s fine post:

I disagree.In the history of humanity, knowledge has always been the most expensive. Education should never be ‘free’. To consider it such devalues the knowledge gained.

I am highly suspicious of anything ‘free’ [[TAANSTAFL][3]]. I am especially cautious of ‘free’ education. It is, more often than not, less education and more indoctrination.

Consider the American education system: how to cheaply and effectively rule a population of millions? It is far less costly to rule a people with words, rather than with force. However, they must first be taught to read.

Just in case you’re interested in travelling to Hell by way of the UK, this nice website provides a handy catalog of entrances to the underworld.

Sam has started his Jedi training, and snapped a few photos of himself posing with his new lightsaber: 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Robert: It just seems like there’s a lot of interesting things happening lately. Like, I read this article about a vaccine that will completely cure a certain form of cancer.

Robert: Doesn’t do me much good, of course, because you have to be a girl to have a cervix.

Me: Well, uh.. actually, I should tell you that I have a cervix.

Me: It’s in the fridge, behind the mayo. Don’t knock it over.

Neat OS X utility: iPulse.

iPulse is a great little graphical system statistics indicator. It shows CPU load, network load, memory usage, disk usage, and has a clock — and all in one easy-to-use interface.

While helping Daniel move, we uncovered a box of lightsabers.

Me: I wanna merkin. I can use it as an eyepatch.

Laura: Hopefully not a used one.

Me: Sure, it’d look like i had a furry labia on my eye.

Me: But I think it’d be a fashion statement.

Laura: “Gee, there’s something fishy about this eye patch…”

Me: *winces*

Last night, as I was leaving the Marietta Diner, I saw the coolest car ever: a 1980 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II. It was gloss black and shiny chrome, packed full of geeks (it’s hard to miss the Mozilla ‘Hack’ t-shirt), and had a “LINUX” license plate on the front.

Even better? Laura said she’d buy me one for Christmas. YEE!!

More holiday gift ideas: Possum-fur Nipple Warmers.

Because Laura is the best girlfriend ever [and also because she had free press passes], she took me to see a sneak preview of a highly-anticipated yet-to-be-released movie!

Quick review: I’d say it’s better than the first movie, because it’s much darker, and the monster scenes should cause some irreparable psychological trauma to unsuspecting children everywhere.