The Madness of 12 Days

How does anyone attempting a serious rendition of that 12 days song ever manage to do so without going batty?

Even Worse Than A Mission Statement

There are a bunch of bogus awards floating about, the most notorious perhaps being the J.D. Powers Awards, where you (a company, entity, etc) basically pay for an award and pay again for the right to use the name and logo of said award. I just recently found out about the Stevies, supposedly "...the Oscars of business...", given in four categories - American Business, International Business, Women in Business, and Selling Power Sales Excellence. You pay a fee to be considered in any of 300 sub-categories and the awards are based on unverified applications filled out by the entrants themselves i.e.: there is no real judging.
As a result you get gems of gibberish in the applications, like this one from PostcardMania, which won for Best Writing (!):

"The objective was ... imparting to all our visitors that they can be causative over their income and expansion by understanding marketing and implementing the basics we hope to teach with our articles."

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Wouldn't it be nice if blogs, tech journals, et al could standardize on exactly which direction navigational links like those in the title go?

Another xmas Song I Can Never Listen to Again

This is so shockingly bad I'm speechless:
O Holy Crap
As the poster says: "...just when you think it couldn't possibly get any worse, it does. By a lot. And it does this more than once,..."

Emo Sucks, Part 2348

A tune, if you could call it that, by Dashboard Confessional was just on the stream from our local alt rock station. Oh crap. My ears are leaking brain fluid, yet again. I didn't think it possible for a band to be more insipid than Creed or Coldplay. I was so very wrong.

Cannon

A different take on Pachelbel's Cannon in D

Here's Jerry C's official site: http://jerryc.tw/

Cell Phone Companies Don't Get It

Just came across a description of the features of the new Sony Ericsson P990 cell phone over on gizmodo.com:

Other features include a business card reader?what I wouldn?t give for that?and a music player that supports MP3, AAC and AAC+ formats. Then you?ve got a 2-megapixel phone with 2.5x digital zoom and flash, a 2.8-inch QVGA screen, and FM clock radio with stereo Bluetooth support. If previous incarnations have been any indication, the price on this thing will be stratospheric.

Please. Enough already. Want to know what will sell phones and keep customers? Here's a hint: phone service. Just give me a cell phone that works - doesn't drop calls, able to place and receive calls everywhere, has a good microphone so I don't have to shout, has good sound quality so I can understand what the other person is saying, has exemplary usability so I can store and retrieve numbers and names without having to read any manuals or quick start guides - keep the cameras, videocams, mp3 players, radios, game consoles, and PDA applications where they belong....anywhere but in my phone!

Million Dollar What?

We don't get to the movies much at all; perhaps four times a year, more or less. One of the reasons we have HBO...or maybe because we have HBO? In any case this past weekend, critically acclaimed, Academy Award winning film "Million Dollar Baby" - the boxing story with Clint Eastwood, Hillary Swank, and Morgan Freeman - was on, so why not?

Academy Award? What am I missing here? This film spent over two hours to say, essentially, nothing. The pace was glacial, and that's when it was moving along swiftly. I've seen grass grow faster. The acting was mostly phoned in save for a bit of emoting here and there by Clint. The characters were uninteresting and one-dimensional. The big moral "conflict" at the end was telegraphed at least 45 minutes prior, and it ended leaving the outcome of the Eastwood character totally unresolved. SU claims otherwise, that it was clear he bought the dinner and was there, but I sure didn't see it. Of course by then I'd pretty much lost all interest.

A Million Dollar Bore.

House Xmas Decorations for Lighting Designers

Look what you can do with midi controller, a hundred or so DMX channels, lots of addressable light strings, and a ton of time......http://www.houseblinger.com/bling-rock.php

Quote of the Day

Given the rhetoric spewing forth recently from Cheney, McCarthy-apologist and cheerleader Ann Coulter, hate-monger Hannity and others, who said the following?

"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."

Bush? Rove? Mehlman? Frist? All logical choices, but no, it was Hermann Goering, Hitler's Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg Trials.

I Can't Ever Forgive Trump

Thanks to The Apprentice, of all things Trump unleashed upon an unsuspecting public, easily the most annoying is the phrase-meme: step up to the plate; stepping up; et al.
Please, if you find yourself using this phrase or variants, just stop now!

Yes, I Live in one of the dumbest states

Inexplicably, more than half of us still support our idiot president.