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Looking For Quacks In The Pavement

Author: Karel Kerezman

  • Hearing Red

    As I slowly work my way through tagging my digital music library with ratings marks to ease the process of making random playback of excellent music possible on any given PC, I’ve noticed that only two albums in my collection start with the word “red”, and they’re both by Midnight Oil: “Red Sails In The Sunset” and “Redneck Wonderland.”

    It occurs to me, in fact, that these are among the Oils’ strongest records, leaving aside the landmark smash-hit “Diesel & Dust.” So… what do you think? Am I nuts, or am I right?

  • Autumnal WHAT?

    I wonder: Why do we devote two days of the year to talking about a half-horse, half-bovine creature?

    You know… the equine ox.

    (As George Carlin quipped, “These are the thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools.”)

  • Here’s a “WWW” I can get behind.

    Prepare to lose hours of your life, at least if you’re anything like me: Visit World Wide Words.

    Maybe not as bad as TV Tropes, but…

  • “Your Service” Sold Separately

    I’m not all that fond of the overly-clever, obnoxious malware. However, I’ve found that the malware field contains idiots along with the innovators… hence this bit of nonsense I found on a client’s machine along with Seekeen and some other ancillary infections (click the thumbnail to see the whole thing):

    Is that the best they could come up with? Or is that the “default” setting from the Malware Builder Toolkit? Either way… idiocy.

  • Look! Up In The Sky!

    So, on the heels of my somewhat-down little posting yesterday, I offer what I consider to be one of the most beautiful skies I’ve seen in a long time:

    Most folks, I suppose, prefer a pristine blue, or maybe mostly-blue with an occasional white puffy cloud. Me? I want a lot of different shapes and shades of clouds as far as the eye can see. No, I’m no more fond of the solid mass of flat gray than most people, but this? This is lovely. Truly.

    Cheered me up, this morning, it did.

  • Unending Battle

    It occurred to me, recently, that there’s no such thing as “beating” depression. Not in the “I’m done, will never have to face it again” sense, let alone the “It’s gone until something else big comes along” sense. It’s a new fight every single day. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose. And it doesn’t get a whole lot easier no matter how many days in a row I might win.

    I can’t give up, though. The alternative is that I turn into a complete hermit wallowing in self-pity for the rest of my life. Unacceptable So… I keep at it. I’m managing fairly well lately, all things being equal.

    And I haven’t turned to pharmaceuticals (prescription or otherwise) to keep me going. This gives me some pleasure and satisfaction, not that I look down on those who really do need the prescription chemicals to maintain balance. For me, it’s just that I don’t want to end up following in a particular set of footsteps…

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