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If McCrystal gets his 40,000 troops for Afghanistan, that will bring us up to Soviet levels. Remember how that worked for them?

Obama has killed more civilians through air strikes in his nine months than Bush did in 2008. Way to earn that peace prize Mr. President.

Email from my dad. "The most POSITIVE thing about Cash for Clunkers .. It's taken 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road.". If only that were true.

At about 17:00 a wall of rain traveled from south to north across the target parking lot and Westheimer. It was a dense nearly solid and only lasted for a moment or two. It was strange to just watch it pass from my window. I wander if any one else noticed.

A buddy of mine recently bought a color laser printer. He paid less than $200. It comes with one set of color cartridges. They are toner, not ink. He said he thinks the replacement cartridges are like $60. Difference is, you get thousands of low coverage pages out of a laser printer. The math works out that it will be cheaper to replace the printer than replace the toner. Why don't they just sell disposable printers that come with all the ink/toner you need for ump-teen thousand pages? I can still not beet Wal-Mart's price per page. Probably never will.

Dropped by Best Buy just to have a peak at video cameras. I do not have a need for a video camera, but I love looking. A buddy of mine makes a geek video podcast. They have an expensive video camera but can't use it because the Sony software blows. There is no shortage of choices.

There is a new video editing software on the market. That is, the free software market. It is called Open Movie Editor. Original, ay? It is Linux only. Looks like supports all the open versions of stuff. It is in the Ubuntu repositories. I plan on giving it a try soon. I'll let you know how it goes.

Lunch Conversation

• Kids costumes for Halloween.
• Armor, leather, plate and several jokes about cod pieces.
• If you like calamari, what would jelly fish taste like?
• Who would make the best brisket. Not who would cook the best brisket. Who could we cut up and make in to the best brisket. I think I won. Sad.
• If our company was in Pennsylvania, it would be PMS. All our systems would have to have mandatory maintenance every 28 days. (woman came up with this).