Category Archives: Extras!

Religious Argument

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Religion! religion!
Oh, there’s a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Here we go now.
Alright, altar boys.

Mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa
Mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa

Where’s the church, who took the steeple
Religion is in the hands of some crazy-ass people …
[thanks to Jimmy Buffett for Fruitcakes]

“Once you go Mac, you’ll never go back,” my friend Nola ‘Fanny’ Guay told me.

Microsoft is for Repuglicans because they like the illusion that they can change their desktops.

Apple is for Demorats because they are used to having the government do everything for them.

No Slimy Sex

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If NPR wants continued support, they need to make it easier, not harder, to listen. I tried to download a couple of my favorite programs this week, Car Talk and Wait Wait. Their download links didn’t work. On to Fresh Air. Terry Gross had a couple of goodies last week. Under the Sea, Sex Is Slimy Business and How The ‘Pox’ Epidemic Changed Vaccination Rules.

The Fresh Air download link took me to the (very slow) NPR Media Player which showed what I listened to last week. Back to Fresh Air. Click again. Now Slimy Sex started playing but the download link was missing.

I don’t want to listen on my computer. I particularly don’t want to listen on my computer right now. I also don’t want every episode clogging my (limited) iPod. I want to Click Here, download the interview, and listen tomorrow or the next day or next week when I’m driving or walking or doing something that is conducive to spending my time listening to their show.

If NPR can’t get something that simple to work, maybe the Repugs are right.

Arithmetic

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Me berry bad. Me make you do math again.

The number of spam and bot posts arriving in the comments section is steadily rising. Steven Herod’s “simple math question” in the Did You Pass Math plug-in had stopped that dead-in-the-water, so I have to turn it back on.

Here’s the best way to make sure you don’t get caught by the fact that your arithmetic skills are likely far better than Mr. Herod’s: compose your comments in your favorite word processor and paste them into the comment section or simply press [Control+A] to select your prose, and [Control+C] to copy it, before hitting the Submit Copy button.

Cheers!

That Irritating Site Over ===> There

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MyTwitSpace gave me a series of error messages that my Firefox browser was too too old to conform to MyTwitSpace and that I would have to upgrade Firefox to continue using the site. Of course, the I.E.6.0 I maintain for such occasions worked just fine. I’ve had trouble with that site ever since but, up until this morning, the I.E. plug-in for my new  Firefox 3.5.5 worked fine there.

Until this morning.

I tried to post the usual teaser about Tiger Woods’ difficulties in my MyTwitSpace blog and the !@#$%^ page doesn’t work despite the Firefox upgrade. Then it crashed I.E.

Twice.

If the site remains this difficult to use, I will not much longer maintain my MyTwitSpace space. Readers can find me in FaceBook or here in the permanent home of the No Puffin Persective.