Far East Cynic

No time left for you…….

A song from the Guess Who and also a comment on my day. Talk about that 500 point drop among yourselves. Back tomorrow.

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Kicking Ivy League ass……….

There is a certain amount of satisfaction in this headline: The Citadel Rallies to 37-24 Victory Over Princeton Life is good!

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Funny

The SNL skit about Palin:

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Bedtime stories

For Republicans:

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Channeling Arthur

Barak Obama, John Gielgud has a message for you about the Presidency: You spoiled little bastard! You’re a man who has everything, haven’t you, but that’s not enough. You feel unloved, Barack, welcome to the world. Everyone is unloved. Now stop feeling sorry for yourself. This is not a tie

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Take that job and shove it………………

The benefits and perils of a Parliamentary system: Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Monday that he will resign to ease political gridlock that is making it difficult to govern the country. “If it will help even a little bit to make the parliamentary session go smoother, I decided that

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Cross cultural geography lesson……….

Have answered the phone 5 different times today. Had to explain in Japanese to worried citizens of Nihon, that: While we do live in one of the states threatend by Gustav, we are in no way close to it. I’m not surprised-many Japanese know the names of the states, but

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Comments are hosed…….

I KNEW IT! In uprgading to 2.6.1 I screwed up the comments. I will get back to this soonest. Please be patient. ___________________________________________________________________________ Update! Thank God for back up files! Should work now-but the Gucci avatar things and other slick innovations I was trying will have to wait.

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Watching the Olympics…..

At least a beach volleyball match anyway!

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Rerun

Been a busy couple of days learning how really stupid I am and why I am glad I never became an engineer. More on that when I get home. However tomorrow is the 15 th of August (its already that on the right side of the IDL). So here is

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