Strangely, I was thinking about the whole “Horsemen of the Ablogolypse” a few days ago. Maybe it was a premonition (I was trying to remember who they all were, and I forgot Charles Johnson and Andrew Sullivan). Tonight, Steven Den Beste reminisces about that, thanks to an Andrew Sullivan-inspired link to the past. […]
Ah always knew that boy had too much sense ta be a damnyankee.
Guy decides to start over with just $25 and a few clothes, then see if he can bootstrap his way out of poverty. Ten months later he had a truck, a furnished apartment, and nearly $5,000 in savings. This was despite a fake background that didn’t include his college degree, which he kept […]
More proof that the energy crisis is manufactured by policy decisions spearheaded by the enviro-nuts. (Although I have to ask, what landfills will accept a used one?)
And no, it’s not a hoax.
“I’m pretty sure I can give up one of my nuclear reactors, and still be greatly feared.” Or was that “doomsday devices?”
Via.
And Laurence wonders why I don’t trust our four-footed masters? It’s because I always knew they weren’t acting in our best interests…
In an email from the IT Department the following was included:
The Spam filtering system is blocking over 8.4 million messages a month. This is about 84% of the 10 million plus messages the City receives from the Internet a month. ITD’s goal is to provide the City of Houston with reliable and functional […]
Soon, my precious, soon….
It’s only a matter of time.
So for the last couple of weeks, I’ve mentioned a little project that I’ve been working on that took time away from blogging, and that it was related to possibly supporting and expanding the Houblog “empire.” Well, several days ago, I quietly premiered it without saying anything. (Mainly because I was feeling under […]
Steven DenBeste writes a serious and lengthy (for Chizumatic) two-page post on the perils of being a science fiction author, and trying to predict the future inasmuch as you are using the technology to establish the setting. He compared the bleeding edge of the past to the present; it is a weighty epistle, […]
So the subject of who is a big dog in theHouston blogsphere came up the other day over on BlogHouston. We touched on a few things in passing, like PajamasMedia, political blogging, group blogging, etc. but it seemed that the leading candidate for “local, but well-known blogger” was Laurence of TBIFOC. I was […]
Poolside with the U.S. Army.
We should send Moussaoui pictures like that on the anniversery of his conviction, every year.
This little announcement seems to have gone unnoticed in all the other happenings yesterday. The first of the space shuttles has been officially retired.
As opposed to ‘unofficialy, forcibly, and very suddenly’ retired.
Ok, I know I said I was sick, but I ran across this, and as the implications of the price point seeped in, I went, “Holy packet loss, Batman!” and tripped out. I’ve known about “Video on Demand” (VOD) for some time, and it’s seeped into my awareness in the last few days […]
Or it will be just as soon as someone figures out how to blame him for all those nuke tests in the Pacific, back in the 1950’s!
Steven Den Beste has it here. If you’re looking for a more run-of-the-mill joke, the Chronicle published a newspaper again today. . . .
A City of Houston Public Works employee of over 15 years, through four mayoral administrations, I have a knack for annoying managers and supervisors, when I'm not busy being invaluable to them. An opinionated SOB that never learned not to share my opinion. I can be reached by emailing uburoi(one) at gmail dot com. Change the "(one)" to "1".
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