Delaney saw some deer tracks, and decided she needed to carve a spear.  Maybe persistence hunting will be her next sport.

I think Y2K was the last time I was as militantly uninterested in something as I am in 3D printing.  In fact, reading things like this convinces me that someone has too much time on his hands.  Call me when you can print backwards or forwards in time.

I used to love to eat at Roy Rogers in college.  Tab, not so much.

So we have known for a while that the Surface RT sucks.  I still think the Surface Pro will be a nice device.  Would anyone with two brain cells to rub together prefer it to a MacBook Air?  Nope.  These things are going to be way too expensive.  TechCrunch is wrong about them being priced right, but right about the prior release of the Surface RT being wrong.

Google Apps are getting closer and closer to becoming a viable Microsoft Office alternative.  Here’s the thing, though.  No one needs an office suite at home any more.  Everything is done via email, Evernote and social networks.  And few big companies are going to abandon Office any time soon.  So it doesn’t really matter.  Office suites are the fax machines of this decade.

WikiCancel looks like a promising compilation of how to cancel accounts.

Here’s a cool slide show of Apple’s home page through the years.

Charlie Brown is doing his part to highlight the growing problem with rock violence in America.  We need rock control and we need it now.

The last meal of Lennox, the Boxer.

Oops.

Well, at least I didn’t buy more Apple this week.  I thought long and hard about it.

Meanwhile, on the internet, it’s all about the headline…

Reuters:

Cult of Mac:

If you’re like my wife, all technology dies at your fingertips.  If you’re like my wife, before your iOS technology dies, you load it to death with all kinds of random photographs and whatnot.  Here’s how to tell when you’ve done that.

The only thing Samsung is going to take on with a new Galaxy tablet is water.  Once more, with feeling:  I will not buy another Android anything unless and until Google addresses the fractured nature of the various versions and the complete uncertainty of the upgrade process.  Actually, I won’t buy one then either, but I wouldn’t be philosophically precluded.

I can’t believe Rhapsody is still around.  Here’s why I would not use their service again.  On the other hand, I am about the dump Sirius XM in favor of all-Spotify all the time.

Two of the best things ever are John Carpenter’s The Thing (one of my top-10 movies, all time) and Battlestar Galactica.  Anything with DNA from both of those would have to be great.

I still have some Super Balls.

Not a great day, for Catholics or Notre Dame fans.

Or Lance Armstrong.  Live updates here.

But let’s not forget this.  In the words of a great American, “Why do you lie!”

When I read stuff like this, it makes me even more concerned about eating at restaurants.  It also explains why we are an overweight nation.  Here’s a better plan.

Just as soon as some idiot on the left thinks we can solve the world’s problems by magically making all the guns disappear, some idiot on the right says we can solve all the world’s problems by praying.  It’s not that simple, dudes.

The Onion nailed what I want from the internet.  “I don’t want to take a moment to provide my feedback, open a free account, become part of a growing online community, or see what related links are available at various content partners.”

On a related note, I really don’t want Facebook to be my telephone.  I just want to see funny cat pictures and whatnot.

This young man is giving some idiots hell.  Anyone who wants to teach creationism or deny climate change in a classroom should be tossed in Guantanamo Bay, water-boarded for a few months and then tried for crimes against children.  Once again, so-called religious leaders: if you want your congregation to stay above zero, stop trying to tell people things that are clearly untrue.  God and science are not mutually exclusive.

 

This almost makes me care about the NFL again.

Poster 2.0 seems to be a promising mobile blogging app.  I use the WordPress app, which gets better and better.  But let’s be honest- blogging on  a mobile device is about as much fun as bailing hay.

I am Geritol man.  I was never all that into Black Sabbath, though I do consider Paranoid to be a great record.

Great article on Southern Discomfort.  It’s amazing to me how closely I identify with the south on so many things and how little I do on others.  Here’s my take on the items mentioned in the article.

Country music: yes, as to real country music.
Lynyrd Skynyrd: yes, for sure; but I also like Neil.
BBQ: yes, though probably half my meals are meat-free.
NASCAR: nope, boring, sorry.
Political conservatism: not the way most Republicans describe it; southern Republicans have murdered rational conservatism.
God: yes, but not the one most conservative right-wingers talk about; those cats use religion to launder hate and self-interest.
Guns: yep, but I think the NRA is a colony of dunces.
Code of masculinity: I’d like to say no, but there’s some residual traces in my DNA; my head and my heart probably aren’t together on this one.
Militarization: I’m not sure, but I think people and countries should negotiate from a position of strength; on the other hand, I detest bullies of all kinds.
Hostility to Unions: sort of, but my position has softened a little over the years.
Suspicion of Government:  not suspicion really, just a desire to protect the environment, seek social justice, not let rich guys plunder wildly, take care of those who genuinely need it, and otherwise be left alone (how’s that for all over the board?); the desire to be generally left alone is a second cousin to suspicion.

Speaking of politics, Arnold Schwarzenegger did an IAMA at Reddit today.  Someone asked him about the Republican Party:

The most important thing is that we need to be a party that is inclusive and tolerant. We can be those things and be the party we always have been. We need to think about the environment – Teddy Roosevelt was a great environmentalist and people forget Reagan was the one who dealt with the ozone layer with the Montreal protocol. We also need to talk about healthcare honestly – Nixon almost passed universal healthcare. We need to have a talk about immigration and realize you can’t just deport people. We need a comprehensive answer. We also need to stay out of people’s bedrooms. The party that is for small government shouldn’t be over-reaching into people’s private lives.

Mainly, we need to be a party where people know what we are for, not just what we are against.

Amen, Guv.  On a related, note, it was one of the best IAMAs I’ve ever read, even if on the short side.  I dig the personal notes to people.

Amazon just did something awesome.  It would have been cool if this had happened before I spent large chunks of my life ripping all of my CDs twice (once at a too low bitrate when hard drives cost money).  But it is still way cool.  Here’s the first part of the email from Amazon announcing AutoRip.

I’m guessing this isn’t going to happen.  If it does, they should all immediately watch Team America: World Police.

Here’s the background on ACME Corporation.  And here’s a catalog of products.

“The answer to this systemic problem is not more gorillas,” Simmons continued, her eyes welling with tears. “The answer is fewer gorillas.”

I tend to agree with this.  I offered to trade my Surface RT to Paul for just about anything.  Then I took it to my office and offered to sell or trade it to anyone for just about anything.  No takers.  Even the one hardcore Windows lover said he was waiting for the Surface Pro.  I don’t think it’s going to work out for Windows 8, thanks largely to hardware maker disinterest.  My guess is that Windows 9 will be pushed out the door sooner, rather than later.

If I took the Barnabas Collins route back to the mid-60s, one of the first things I’d do is go hear (and see) The Pretty Kittens.

Here’s their story.