Asymptomatic

There must be intelligent life down here

Another Doofus Strikes!
June 14, 2005

If it’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s people who come around looking for WordPress support who don’t bother to search. Look to the top-right. Observe the search box, beconing.

You should search for the problem or plugin or topic that you wish to ask questions about, and then add your comment to an appropriate post. Do not add your comment, for example, to a post about my friend that recently died.

Assuming that you can’t find a related post, however improbable that is, my email is at the very bottom of the page, linked where it says “Owen Winkler”. At the bottom of every page, in fact. Now it’s not an actual email address, since it’s encoded so it won’t be harvested by spammers, but if you don’t have the intelligence to decrypt it, I don’t want your email anyway.

Of course, there will always be morons. This is the tale of a moron in bloom…

Jacko Escapes Jailo
June 14, 2005

What interests me is the meta-circus surrounding this situation. If this was anyone but Micheal Jackson - for example, Bob Singer from down the block from me - he would have gone to jail because he can’t afford the high-priced attorney. Even if he was found not guilty (whether he did it or not), he would be out of a job because he hasn’t been to work in months. It’s so nice to care about nothing but looking good for the CourtTV cameras.

Also, you (elsewhere in the world) wouldn’t have heard about Bob Singer on the news at all. Just another child molester from out of state. Unless they’re crazy millionaire pop stars, these stories don’t get the ratings that entertainment shows get, so they aren’t shown. Nobody cares whether Bob Singer, the machinist, goes to prison for giving boys wine and touching them inappropriately.

On This Day, We Burn Our Flags
June 14, 2005

Today is Flag Day in the States. Traditionally, this holiday is just one of the many obsevances that doesn’t garner a day off of work, so it passes quietly.

I did some brief looking around and found a couple of sites on flag etiquette, specifically looking for information regarding the burning of flags, which it seems is entirely appropriate for flags that are to be retired. There is a whole ceremony that should be performed and everything - your local American Legion, VFW, or Boy Scout troop should be able to help you retire your old flags. Today would be a great day to do that.

A Treo Post
June 13, 2005

I’m writing this post from the small keyboard of my new Treo 650. This software is supposed to let me post pictures from the camera, too, and I wonder what WordPress will do with those. Probably choke.

So here goes nothing… I don’t have high hopes for this actually working (could you tell?) so if it does, consider me impressed.