mushin no shin

When a customer’s order includes 3 boxes of soy burgers, you might consider whether a coupon for hot dogs is really the most useful thing you could print out.
Just sayin’.

…is the song tacky now, or a fitting obit?

Update: Try as I might, I can’t seem to find any rave anthems referencing Gerald Ford.

Heh. Well, I have no real strong opinions about the whole global warming debate, and Gore is still my favorite for ‘08 — but this is funny all the same.

Well it appears that the LP has invited Bob Barr to hold a position on the national committee.
The apparent smoky-back-room tactics behind the move would be bad enough, but the fact remains that Barr is a bigot (author of the indefensible “Defense of Marriage Act”), a Drug Warrior (in 2002, the LP itself labeled him [...]

…to make any sort of “She Blinded Me With Science” pun… but the point is I just got back from seeing Thomas Dolby & BT at the Mercy Lounge — and, well, holy shit. I mean god damn.
Dolby was great, but fuck, BT just blew me away. I didn’t know anything about BT, and [...]

Allright… all you fuckers who said I could do this home improvement stuff… you’d better be right…

On a related note… jeezus, no wonder the stud finder seemed confused…
On a somewhat related note, I’ve just realized that I haven’t seen one single telephone jack anywhere in the house. I mean I realize they’re mostly an anachronism [...]

“My feeling about anarchism is that it is not a movement with an ideology. It is a tendency in the history of human thought & action which seeks to identify coercive, authoritarian, & hierarchic structures of all kinds & to challenge their legitimacy — & if they cannot justify their legitimacy, which is quite commonly [...]