I spied this on the slog into work this morning; I almost wet myself. This, and many other guffaw inducing objects advocating freedom of thought are available at CafePress.

I must say that I agree with the ‘freakish’ness of all the items mentioned in this author’s post.  Frankly, I’m somewhat embarrassed when I travel abroad and the folks I am visiting ask me “WTF are you nitwits doing?!?!?  You are surprised that the rest of the worlds hates you?”.

I simply shrug and tell them, it’s not my fault, I didn’t vote for the clown.  And, as it turns out, neither did most people, but that is a different discussion.

This is when I repeat to myself “less than a year… less than a year…”.

Top 5 things I saw in America which, as a Canadian, freaked me right out « Paulitics: Paul’s Socialist Investigations

So I went back and read a few of my old posts today while updating some of the system software. The piece I did on popcorn toppings, which is one of my most popular posts, is rather good if I do say so myself.

Some days I wish I wasn’t so damn driven to innovate that I forget to do a bit of navel gazing on a daily basis.

I live on a fairly busy street and the amount of trash that we collect from drive-by dumping is astonishing.  The majority is beverage containers but there is also a good amount of plastic of various forms.  I thought we had a lot until I read this article.

All that plastic that you dump into the trash doesn’t always end up in a landfill/incinerator.  We consistently throw away one small grocery bag’s worth of ‘trash’ on a weekly basis; we recycle one, sometimes, two bins of glass/plastic/metal weekly.  By weight we recycle far more than we trash.  Sadly, we are still in the majority.

I weep for the future of our planet; it won’t matter to me because I’ll be nicely decomposed by the time this really comes to a head but for those Billions of us still around it’s going to suck big time unless we start making significant changes NOW.

The plastic killing fields – Environment – smh.com.au

I’m still very much alive.

Since last we spoke dear reader I’ve been to Spain for 3 weeks, Los Angeles for 5 days and buried under snow.  Now, the ‘holidays’ are upon us and things get even more harried.

I have a ton of pics to share from my trip and tips about what to do when you are stuck in traffic during a snow storm (hint: bring water and a cup to pee into).

More later…

I reminded of cartoons from my youth where the bully picks a fight with ‘our hero’ and does well in the first few rounds.  But later, after ‘our hero’ has had his/her spinach, the tide turns and the bully is left in a dazed, upright but teetering condition.   ‘Our Hero’ then simply blows on the beaten hulk and it falls down in ruin.

SCO now stands, dazed and teetering waiting for the final winds of legalize to send it crashing down into insignificance.

There was a time when I had plenty of bile to spew at Darl McBride (I’ll avoid the obvious comparison of ‘Darl’ to ‘Duh’, that would be childish) but as time, and the legal system, ground on it became clear that this was a pathetic individual incapable of of creating; resorting to warrentless claims against those that can.

The result is energy and millions of dollars squandered on defense rather than creation; the only winners here are the lawyers.

I can’t wait for the final blow.

Requiem for a legal disaster: a retrospective analysis of SCO v. Novell