Beer Connoisseur
New magazine especially for us beer “snobs”:
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Then Again…
In the Cristocrats post, I said that I didn’t think “Tea Party” members really reflected the base of the Republican party. Maybe I was wrong:
The 2010 Comprehensive Daily Kos/Research 2000 Poll of Self-Identified Republicans
Some of that is pretty scary.
(Sorry for another political post. It’s the last one for now, I promise.)
The Ribwich is Back
I thought I’d balance out that last post with a little lighter fare, as it were:
Like a rib, it tastes like liberty. Like a rib, with a bun of sesame. We start with authentic, letter-graded meat, and process the hell out of it, till it’s good enough for Krusty.
Check out the rest of Taquitos.net for more snack-related goodness.
Christocrats
(I don’t usually get political on this blog, so forgive me for this.)
It’s funny that I saw this article today: The Tea Partiers: Fraudulent Fiscal Conservatives, as it speaks to something I was thinking about just this morning.
With Palin and the so called “Tea Party” in the news, I was thinking about what a bunch of hypocrites these people seem to be. The thought that occurred to me was this: They claim to be for smaller government and lower taxes. But, I wonder if you asked any of them if they were in favor of drastic cuts in military spending and ending the wasteful and fiscally irresponsible “war on drugs”, what would they say? I guarantee the vast majority of these people would be against those two things, even though doing either would mean smaller government and lower taxes.
I’m just glad that these people are really the lunatic fringe of the conservatives in this country, even if the main stream media is currently portraying them as the base of the Republican party.
Interview With Bill Watterson
A very rare interview with the creator of “Calvin and Hobbes”:
I particularly like this quote, about people grieving about the ending of the strip:
It’s always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip’s popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now “grieving” for “Calvin and Hobbes” would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I’d be agreeing with them.
I couldn’t agree more. I pains me that upcoming, talented cartoonists can’t get any traction because print newspapers continue to fill their funny pages with worthless dreck like “Cathy”, “Marmaduke”, and “Beetle Bailey”, and other increasingly irrelevant cartoons that should have quit a long, long time ago.
Now, excuse me while I break out my copy of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes and get nostalgic for a little while.
Post-Move Thoughts on WordPress
So, obviously, I’ve been getting familiar with WordPress after moving from a hosted solution running ExpressionEngine. And, I have some thoughts and observations.
Moving – Part 5
Well, I finally switched the DNS for the georgekrueger.com domain over so it would point here. In fact if you’re reading this right now, you’re doing it at that address.
The only problem right now is, it appears the DNS is not fully propogated. What that means is that some people will still be sent to the old website. That’s not that big of a deal, but unfortunately since I set georgekrueger.com as the “primary” domain in the WordPress settings, some people trying to come via chitowngeorge.wordpress.com will actually be sent to the old website.
Oops. I guess I should have waited for DNS to fully propogate before setting it as the primary.
Oh, well. It should straighten itself out in a few hours. Until then, if I want to post anything I’ll have to do it from my iPhone, since the DNS server at work is still sending me to the old site.
More Thoughts on the iPad
And, when I say more thoughts, I mean other people’s thoughts. My last post about it may seem like I think its going to bomb or that I don’t see the market for it. But, that’s not true. I think I’m just more disappointed in what it’s not than appreciative of what it is.
So, what is it, then? Well, Gizmodo and Daring Fireball both describe their take on what it is, and more importantly, what it means for Apple:
Gizmodo – The iPad is the Gadget We Never Knew We Needed
Daring Fireball – The iPad Big Picture
(I still hate the name though, but I’m getting used to hearing. I guess, eventually, it’ll sound as normal as “iPod” does now.)
Moving – Part 4
Well, I got the Call it Karma and Posters pages up to date. I don’t have as much flexibility here as I did with a hosted site running ExpressionEngine, but it gets the job done.
The only thing left now is to forward the georgekrueger.com domain so it points here. I may wait until tomorrow, to give some of the people connected to the RSS feed a change to update their links.
iPad? Color me less than impressed
I found today’s unveiling of the iPad to be a little underwhelming. It’s basically just an iPod Touch with a larger screen.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure it will sell well. I’m sure developers will come up with some great new apps (especially games) to take advantage of the larger screen.
I just don’t see any need to rush out and get one any time soon.
Also, the iPad? Really!? (Where’s Seth and Amy when I need them?)
