Patrick’s Rants

We have a little place here called Crazy Bill’s. I haven’t personally been there in a while although from what I remember the food was pretty decent the last time I was there.
Lately the sign in front of the place has had such wonderous phrases as:
“Beat Yo Meatloaf
Comes With Gravy”
and today the sign reads: “Hot Meat for Valentine’s Day”

Democrats are HOT
Ever hear of a “great piece of elephant”?

From the twisted mind of Tim Burton comes The Corpse Bride. Burton who has brought us such dark films as the Batman series and Nightmare Before Christmas brings a delightfully dark film about a young man who finds himself married to a dead woman and stuck in the underworld. The movie is one man’s struggle to find true love and the lengths he will go to keep to woman of his nightmares. An artful fairy tale played out by puppets, the extra features are as good - even better than - the movie itself. If you liked The Nightmare Before Christmas you will probably like Bride as it has the same dark feel as Nightmare, the same gangley top heavy characters and lots of skeletons.

In a decent “Easy Button” commercial, it starts raining cartridges for ink printers. First slowly, then a virtual torrent as ink cartridges are falling everywhere. This is when a man runs into the break room yelling, “Franklin, the Easy Button!” Franklin who is eating calmly while sitting on the counter stands up to reveal he has been sitting on the Easy Button.

Not bad… but being pelted with small plastic ink cartridges doesn’t strike me as “easy”.

Sonic’s losers are back at it. The improbable couple him: balding and dorky, her: short haired with the slight hint of too much testosterone are arguing about the brownie bits shake. She makes the mistake of opening her mouth to speak and spews forth some nonsense about bits and bites of brownie. The writers must have read something about bits and bytes because they send him on a tirade about how there is a difference between bits and bites because there are eight bits in a byte - and a brownie byte would be as big as eight brownie bits. It wasn’t even funny to an admitted geek.

…that I happen to keep in my purse. The commercial for anti-osteoporosis pill Boniva has granny dropping her drugs on the table at lunch. Amazingly this once a month pill happens to be in the purse just as she is sitting to lunch with her lady friends. It’s also interestingly enough in the sample pack type packaging that the drug companies give to physicians’ offices. While sometimes doctors give out these sample packs, this is not something that one would expect to get and carry around.

Ok… I installed OpenOffice.org v2.0.1. I did this over the top of a 1.x install due to not having read the caution to not do that in the new install instructions. Upgrades over the top of 1.x are advised against. I fixed things and fixed things and then I was left with a single annoying glitch. Because I uninstalled 1.x after installing 2.0, the program looks for some files in the 1.x directories that have since been removed when trying to save files for the first time resulting in the error: Error loading basic of documentSearching the net I ended up with this solution: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=28252&highlight=error+loading+basic+webwizard. Well, it’s the closest thing to the right fix for me. Instead of the tab that is mentioned in that post I had to open the Macro Organizer and select the libraries tab. From there I deleted the reference to the WebDialogs macros. Whew… no more error dialog box.

I’m driving along and I see:
Poor George he can’t help it, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

…take out his illegal actions. The Elecronic Frontier Foundation has filed a class action suit against AT&T over the illegal wiretaps that our “president” has declared Constitutional (and with Alito following Roberts onto the Supreme Court, good luck reversing that ass rapage of rights). The idea that a corporation would roll over for the government is astounding. Perhaps Dubya threatened to add AT&T to the Axis of Evil. Of course doing that would mean mentioning them once in a speech and then chasing imaginary WMDs across the extremely “violent” Jamaica. (I can hear Depp now, “but why is all the rum gone?”)
When the government pushes against our rights we have to push back. There once was a King named George. We fought against his oppression. Now there is a dictatorial unelected man in the White House - also aptly named George - who chooses to oppress and spy on US Citizens. Will we not fight against his oppression as well or are we too busy being afraid of far away, bogus threats of WMDs that we cannot see that we are being trained as the citizens were trained in 1984 - remember there is a war on.