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Observations by and for the vaguely disenchanted by Kevin G. Barkes
Conceived above a saloon, delivered into this world by a masked man identified by his heavily sedated mother as Captain Video,
raised by a kindly West Virginian woman, a mild-mannered former reporter with modest delusions of grandeur and no tolerance
of idiots and the intellectually dishonest.
network solutions made me a child pornographer!
The sordid details...
Requiem for a fictional Scotsman
Oh my God! They killed Library!! Those bastards!!!
A Pittsburgher in the Really Big City
At least the rivers freeze in Pittsburgh
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Just an idea...
Why not just turn the clocks ahead one half hour, once, then forget about seasonal time changes? The amount of time and effort required to engage in this exercise twice a year is absurd.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Wow. I'll have my VISA card paid off in the year 3627
On this month's credit card statement, there was a large notice that read, "Important Information About Your Minimum Payment."
"Your account is currently enrolled in a program that has temporarily reduced your required monthly minimum payment," it said.
Really? I didn't recall enrolling my account in any program.
It continued, "This benefit (emphasis added) was implemented on your account to provide you with some extra breathing room in your budget."
The new minimum payment was the previous month's interest, plus $1.
The true depth of this benefit isn't really obvious. Fortunately, the credit card law Congress passed last year now requires the companies to do the math for customers:
That's no typo.
If I make only the minimum payment requested by the company, it will take me One Thousand, Six Hundred and Seventeen YEARS to pay off the bill.
Or, they helpfully note, I can send in the original minimum payment each month for just three years, and save myself $282,022.
Wow. Imagine what I can do with all that savings. Not to mention all the postage stamps.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Quote of the day
Former President Bush announced today he is writing a book on how he made decisions while in the White House. The book will be divided into the two chapters, "Heads" and "Tails."
-Jay Leno
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Wussies
(via Jonathan Larsen on Facebook)
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
They don't write 'em like this any more...
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He got me...
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PSA
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The snow is almost gone, spring is almost here...
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Wide open spaces
The painter starts work today at the South Park place, and I was concerned about being stuck here without a broadband connection in the event I had to log on to the mothership back in Chicago for any customer emergencies.
I fired up the laptop about five minutes ago and was getting reading to try to tether it to my cell phone in order to connect to the net when 14(!) available wireless networks popped up. One had five bar signal strength, with wide-open security. Must be the next door neighbor, who splurged on Comcast's high-end broadband service... 15 megs down, 3 megs up. Compared to the tin can and string service we have with Atlantic Broadband, this is nirvana. It's about five times faster on download and 15 times faster on upload.
Well, at least I don't have to worry about being out of touch if I get stuck over here during the renovations.
And if you're questioning the legality/ethics of the connection, my neighbor is actually running off the "temporary" router and wireless link I supplied when he was having equipment problems. Two years ago.
Karma's a wonderful thing.
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Monday, March 08, 2010
Things that make you wonder, #214
Comedienne Elayne Boosler asked on her Facebook page, "Is there yet born a producer bold enough, brave enough, radical enough, to produce an awards show without steps onstage? So women in model airplane stand shoes aren't shaking by the time they speak? Do they think we care how people in show business look going down steps? 'Hey! Mollie Ringwald nailed 'em! I give it a 10!'"
I think it's the awards show equivalent of NASCAR. You know most of what you're watching will be mind-numbingly boring, but you're secretly hoping there'll be a spectacular crash.
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The opposing view
"...the flawed portrayal of EOD and the other (to the civilian eye) seemingly minor mistakes, such as soldiers in the wrong uniforms, using poor tactics, and ranks that don't accurately correspond to the leadership being shown. This equates to something larger than just a series of careless errors: it is disrespectful."
-Paul Rieckhoff, executive director and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, in Newsweek commentary on the film The Hurt Locker.
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Copyright © 1987-2010 by Kevin G. Barkes
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Violators will be prosecuted.
So there.
The kgb@kgb.com e-mail address is now something other than kgb@kgb.com saga.
kgbreport.com used to be kgb.com until December, 2007 when the domain name broker Trout Zimmer made an offer I couldn't refuse.
Giving up kgb.com and adopting kgbreport.com created a significant problem, however. I had acquired the kgb.com domain name in 1993,
and had since that time used kgb@kgb.com as my sole e-mail address. How to let people know that kgb@kgb.com was no longer kgb@kgb.com but
rather kgbarkes@gmail.com which is longer than kgb@kgb.com and more letters to type than kgb@kgb.com and somehow less aesthetically
pleasing than kgb@kgb.com but actually just as functional as kgb@kgb.com? I sent e-mails from the kgb@kgb.com address to just about
everybody I knew who had used kgb@kgb.com in the past decade and a half but noticed that some people just didn't seem to get the word
about the kgb@kgb.com change. So it occurred to me that if I were generate some literate, valid text in which kgb@kgb.com was repeated
numerous times and posted it on a bunch of different pages- say, a blog indexed by Google- that someone looking for kgb@kgb.com would
notice this paragraph repeated in hundreds of locations, would read it, and figure out that kgb@kgb.com no longer is the kgb@kgb.com
they thought it was. That's the theory, anyway. kgb@kgb.com. Ok, I'm done. Move along. Nothing to see here...
(as a matter of fact, i AM the boss of you.)
It's here!
440 pages, over 11,000 quotations!
Eff the Ineffable, Scrute the Inscrutable
get kgb krap!
