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Today’s word of the day:
perseverate |p?r?sev??r?t|
verb [ intrans. ] Psychology
repeat or prolong an action, thought, or utterance after the stimulus that prompted it has ceased.

So glad to be wrong about the rally.

It looks like things went really well.

In case you haven’t heard, there is a rally tomorrow on the mall sponsored by Jon Stewart.

Now we area ll going to die, we have determined that, but I don’t want to significantly raise the chances of shortening my life.

I was thinking about going to the rally tomorrow, but then I thought a bit harder about this insane country.

I’m not scared of Al Qaeda particularly, but the tea-party, those guys really give me the creeps.  I would be worried about one of them going crazy in the crowd tomorrow.

Nothing against Jon Stewart, he seems like a very earnest dude, but I’m not going to risk some Palin-Beck-ite losing their shit.

This is a stupid post, but I thought I would write it anyway.
I think I’ve found my calling as a perineal masseuse.

Get read for this to be the google phrase of the year.

“Delete Facebook Account”

I’ve already done it, have you?

It isn’t an easy process.

1. Go to this link: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
2. Follow the copious instructions
3. For the next 14 days resist the urge to log back in to your account.  I know it will be hard, they have a team of pshychologists and spin-doctors working to make you think it is impossible.  For example, “Your social life will fall apart.”,  ”You will have no friends,” etc, etc.  This is only true if you consider that creepy dude in geology 101 to be a “friend”.
4. Create another account and look for your old account, just to make sure they aren’t trying to flimflam you.

Here is my new account.

You can be my “friend” at your own peril.  Zuckerberg is probably about to pound on my door.

By the way, here is a great article by Malcom Gladwell entitled: “Small Change - Why the revolution will not be tweeted.”

Oh, and then the Guardian responds.  This sad and formerly august publication has a “Comment is Free” section, although they are missing the subsequent tagline, “and worth every penny.”  In this section, the invite the unwashed masses to post their thoughts.  The Guardian aslo has this misfortune of actually quoting Twitter as a reliable news source.

Sorry, Malcolm Gladwell, the revolution may well be tweeted

Yawn.

Working now, it is evident that the system is broken and is unfixable.

The hordes in their cheap suits, sitting in front of computers, it is a house of cards.

Last night was a pain.

I was trying to install Verizon DSL and they make you install some crapplication in order to configure the dsl modem.

After an hour of struggling, I knew that the application was hanging on the mac.  I called and spent anther hour on hold and answering retarded questions in order to get to Raul.  A real person.  He was very understanding and helpful.

Here is the secret if you are trying to install Verizon DSL on an Apple OS X machine and the installation software keeeps haging at 50 % — (I looked all over the place and couldn’t find this, so I am posting it for anyone who needs it)

Open your browser of choice (Firefox)
Go to http://192.168.1.1/verizon/redirect.htm
Click “Bypass” or whatever is the button at the bottom of the page
Username: admin
Password: password

That’s it.

Then go create your verizon user id.

Simple.

That’s right, the finale of Lost, I was one of the millions of sheeple that watched it.

It sucked.

In the end, Jack’s dad, Christian Shepard (duh!) tells him, “Everyone dies some time, kiddo.”

Well, if that isn’t about the same thing as saying “We are all going to die (dot com)” I don’t know what is.

So this show is bascially a testament to poor planning.  They were riffing the whole time, the writing started off great, very inspried in season one, and then went steadily downhill.  I can see them saying, “you know what would be cool… blah blah blah” and everyone in the room waggling their heads and panting in agreement – probably thinking, “this is going to look great on my C.V.”

There was zero, I shudder to write, management of the writing process.  Was there no outline for this show?  No rough drafts?  Who were these terrible writers?

Oh, and guess what, they were dead the whole time.

Double duh.

I hearby change the name of the show from “Lost” to “Lost Time”.

Even though Proust will roll, slowly, in his grave.

Shame on you Hollywood!  Shame!

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There is something incredibly annoying about lilly-white Americans who move to Hawaii and start saying “aloha” all the time.

It’s a [expletive deleted] nuisance.

It’s as pretentious as if I were to move to Morocco and start signing my emails in tamazight.

You see, I’m not Berber or Tuareg.

Or, if I moved to New Zealand and started every email I ever wrote with “Kia Ora”.

It’s not like using native terms is encouraging solidarity with the indigenous people of the land I’ve colonized.  No, it is the Disneyfication of the experience.  Like thinking you’ve had French food because you’ve eaten at Paris in Epcot.

But people in Hawaii think it is ok, to say Aloha.

Why?

One simple reason, they are in Hawaii.

If they were in Siberia they wouldn’t make it a habit to sign all their emails in a remote language that doesn’t make people slightly envious.

We GET IT.  You are in Hawaii, now stop gloating. You pompous shit.  You are sitting in front of a computer writing an email, not out enjoying the awesome life in Hawaii.  You are probably eating a donut, and you area going to die.

Now stop acting like you are the only devil-may-care American who has “gone savage”.   You aren’t Gauguin.  Or maybe you are 1/32 Cherokee and need to tell people about that, as well.

I would love to live in Hawaii and I plan on it someday.  But I swear to the entire Internet I will never write Aloha in an email.  It is a slap in the face to anyone with Hawaiian blood.

Haoles saying aloha is wrong.