Notes:

2010-05-14

I said it was boring at work in my video yesterday. I misspoke. It is highly stressful and very busy. It is not boring so much as a dead end hurry up and figure out the problem so you can hurry up and figure out the next problem kind of job. It is not boring. I'm trying to think of just the right word to describe it. The repetitive nature of the cycle of problems and fixes make the job feel like a rut. Even though I'm hitting new stuff and learning new things all the time.

The Brits are besides themselves. They have a coalition of a couple of parties that are normally at each other's throats, dividing up responsibilities and duties like spoils of war. The word 'extraordinary' is being tossed about like rice at a wedding. It is quite cozy how quickly a coalition has been made between the two current factions running things. How convenient for the people of Great Briton.

I tried to print something landscape out of Open Office. When trying to set landscape at print time, It just plane didn't do it. I had to go in to 'Page Preview' and select landscape from there. That worked. What causes this is the settings in Open Office overriding the printer settings. The printer set up is the system and the page preview is Open Office. That's all. This is a feature, not a bug.

Obama says, as so many have before, that we must stop depending on foreign oil. The first step apparently is to kill domestic oil production. Not in so many words. No, it takes allowing BP to be sued by every one in the world for not preventing an oil spill. At what point does it become cheaper to simply pull out of the U. S. market?

There is a part of each of us that makes us human. There are other parts that do not contribute to our humanity. There are parts of us that show themselves when we are pushed. These parts harken back far in our past as mammals. We forget our past. We forget where and what we came from. We forget that we are all capable of killing and participating in fowl tasks beyond our civil duties and obligations.