Katrina

There seems to be more natural disaster lately. Either there is a surplus of reporting, of people living in harms way, or there is actually an increase.

I don’t have a problem with too many people living in stupid places. Mr. Darwin will solve this for us. The trick here is to keep federal money from going down the rebuilding hole. But this has been such a time-honored tradition in the past that I kinda doubt that anything will stop the federal funding of stupidity anytime soon.

The reporting of whiny bad news is also no real problem. This is just a way for the media to stir up advertising dollars. People love to wallow in other people’s misery. I think that it makes them feel better. The media is fully employed, the liberals reporting on the human misery and the inability of the government to make things better “NOW”. The conservatives will complain of the rampart lawlessness and shout how the unjust are being smitten for the stupidity and general unworthiness.

The real problem would be if the actual rate of natural disasters is actually on the increase. Despite the morons in the administration, there is a phenomenon occurring and it may not be good.

Been a While

It's not that I really have a life, some sometimes I appear to approach having one. The weather is fall fabulous, so staying outside is preferred. But working at a desk job does seem to preclude this. So for the last week or so I have been taking Isaac to football practice and exercising while he goes through the drills.

Overall I have been sleeping better, and I think that I feel better, though I am fuzzy when I wake up. But this might just be an aftermath of jetlag.

So tomorrow is Isaac's first game. This should be interesting.

Today I decided to help out a team up in Canada try to test monkey poop for SIV. Apparently they are trying to discover the range of infection of SIV in the wild and in bushmeat. Sounds like science and I want to try doing something more fun than doing spreadsheets.

The Return of Fall

It looks as though summer is over. The first brown leaves are out and school begins in two weeks. Lisa is takingthe boys to Oaks Park for a night out and I actually get to stay home and relax for a second. Of course I am now thinking that I have to accomplish something, but..naw, I guess that I don't.

Blue skies and sunshine are pretty easy to get used to. The temp right now is about 68 and it is gorgeous....time to go out for a walk as soon as the boys get here.

Another work day of sad understaffed goals. I don't kow how to tell the chief moron that his plan is doomed for dismal failure. You don't hire a couple of good engineers and say that you have a production line for 747's. This guy seem to believe that if he demands something that he will get it...doesn't matter if it is not possible.

I begin to wonder if he is a psychopath,

"We're worshipful of top executives who seem charismatic, visionary, and tough. So long as they're lifting profits and stock prices, we're willing to overlook that they can also be callous, conning, manipulative, deceitful, verbally and psychologically abusive, remorseless, exploitative, self-delusional, irresponsible, and megalomaniacal. So we collude in the elevation of leaders who are sadly insensitive to hurting others and society at large."
By: Alan Deutschman
Is Your Boss a Psychopath?
From: Fast Company: Issue 96 | July 2005

So right now I am going to hang on to see how the show ends. We are nearly out of money, and like everything else, he is incapable of believing that there might not be someone out there who will hand us more money to throw down the garbage chute.

But, maybe he is right...the "greater fool" has showed up for the lazy C time and time again.

Lets watch

Blue Skies and Sunshine

Late summer is really one of the better times. Right now it is a balmy 75F and the sky is about as blue as you can hope for. The boys and I are going to walk down to the saturday market and pick up the vegetables for a couple of days (not to mention donuts for the wee ones) and then maybe plan to do something else.

Maybe tomorrow we will go up and visit Cyndi..bring here some needed supplies for a broken foot. That will get us out and get the boys into the sunshine.

Today after the walkabout and other, need to get down to the normal day to day of keeping up the house. Not that it is really all that bad, but entropy sets in quickly and constant care must be taken to keep it at bay.

Went down to the market and bought vegetables. Great stuff. The funniest thing that I saw was a pasty faced white boy earnestly asking a Mexican woman who was running one of the stands "do you speak english". Maybe I am being harsh on the pathetic dweeb, but what the hell kind of liberal backside bigot assumes that because a person has browner skin than him is obviously "not properly American". Yes the woman spoke excellent english and he is still an asshole.

Nothing Important

Doing the diary allows you to keep things in order in your mind. I think that overall the process is healthy. Bloggers seem to have a different take on it. For some reason they want others to read their words and somehow take them seriously. The real issue is the fact that most people are incapable of maintaining a coherent thought stream day after day. When you blog every day, if you have a life, the blog dips down into the mundane. Most readers really aren’t interested in the mundane.

On another note, today I am trying out the new Word toolbar for Blogger and it looks as though it might offer some options for formatting and such. Not that that is a big deal for anyone other than a technical weenie such as myself, but it could be fun.

I think that I will set up a old notebook down the basement as a server so that I can move my stuff onto that and access it when I need it. This should take weeks of work and allow me the opportunity to avoid having a life for a little while longer.

The Thirty Years War

Nancy Stetson would be proud. When I was taking her classes in international politics, she would wax poetic about the bloody Thirty-years War and I would sit in my alcohol sodden, sullen pout and say to myself "yeah, yeah, lets get onto to modern warfare".

Now as I have gotten a little bit of experience under my belt, I am beginning to see this conflict for what it was, the crucible of our society. Bearly everything that is happening today is becoming more and more in focus as you look through the lens of this period of time.

The modern phrase is balkanization. The modern equivalent to the papacy is the corporate state and the faith in free trade. The west is France. China is Spain, and the rest of the world is Germany.

The whole thing should be interesting, things are falling apart. Granted it is slow motion, but rust never sleeps