Oddball Update

The Internet is enabling the proliferation of a culture entirely bereft of tact.
Think of it. Online, you can be completely anonymous and almost entirely unaccountable for your actions. (…)

When Apple and I spent October with my family in Michigan, I was introduced to my dad’s new high-def A/V setup, the centerpiece of which is a Sony Bravia II 46″ LCD television. (…)

I was writing up a big post here bitching about all the stuff that’s gone wrong today — read: basically everything — but nobody likes to listen to me bitch, so I deleted it and I’ll just keep it to myself. (…)

From the word go, this day has seemed determined to test my patience. (…)

Patti Davis, special commentator to Newsweek magazine, has a darkly humorous rant available on MSNBC today about the TSA’s latest invention to combat terrorists in airports: “Behavior Detection Officers.” These specially-trained security guards’ sole duty will be to scrutinize the facial expressions of airport patrons, looking for tiny outward signs that passengers may be attempting to deceive them. (…)

Crap. My 360 died.
As I posted not long ago, a playable demo for BioShock was released just yesterday, but was downloading with maddening slowness. (…)

By the end of the week, I will once again be running Windows XP. (…)

Okay, so I manufactured the so-called “study” sent up by the title of this post. (…)

Highlights:

Vomit-green Scion xB, lowered to the point of immobility.
Water added to the driveway so the wheels would spin. (…)

This has been one incredibly, laboriously, unbelievably long month. (…)