John McCain says, “Every time we get close to a holiday, we get close to a deal.”
Looks like we need lots more Federal holidays.
Category Archives: Dick’s Dumps
Thors Day Trials & Tribulations
Pharmacists used to count pills out by hand and dispense them in a bottle with a simple cap until that became unsafe. Then pharmacists counted pills on the counter and dispensed them in a bottle with a “child proof” cap until that became unsafe. Now pharmacists slap a label on a prepackaged carton filled with double-blister wrapped, scalloped indvidual pill nests impervious to shock, awe, nuclear explosion, and fingernails.
Not only have we quadrupled the waste stream, I have to work eight times longer to get the @#$%^ things open.
Persembe Praises
2%. That’s the amount straight off the top of the (soon-to-be-bankrupt) Social Security “trust” fund.
Everybody in Washington wants to extend a tax cut that is a little good for your wallet today, a lot bad for your Social Security tomorrow. Nobody in Washington can get it together to extend that tax cut that is a little good for your wallet today, a lot bad for your Social Security tomorrow.
Where have I heard this before?
Why am praising these mutts? Because Congress shows us over and over and over again how good they are at this stuff. Gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling about throwing ’em all out, now doesn’t it? Even the 2% of them who might know what they are doing.
Thors Day Trials & Tribulations
Peeved at !@#$%^ Comcast
!@#$%^ Comcast is apparently readying us for the changeover to a set top box. It may happen in North Puffin. It may happen in South Puffin. It may happen in one but not the other. Or vice versa. It may not happen in either. It may happen in both.
Nothing on @#$%^comcast.com tells me for sure what they are doing and to whom they are doing it. Or what they’re going to charge for the boxes. Or when it’s going to happen. !@#$%^&ers.
Here’s what Rufus had to say:
“!@#$%^&ers indeed. But the basic boxes (at least 2 or 3) will be free. HOWEVER you will not be able to — at least I can’t — record multiple sessions on different channels while you are away, since you will have to change channels on the box.
“I have three DVRs and three boxes (but the timer software/firmware on one box is dead.) Anyway, I can record on three channels (or could if I hooked up the third box) (if I’m willing to set up each separately).
“There is NO tuner you can get that will deal with their signal. It is not just digital, it has proprietary scrambling.
“You’re !@#$%ed.”
Progress innit.