So basically the only one left who thinks Noam Chomsky has anything useful to say is Osama bin Laden. Was left, I mean.
If Navy SEALs were taking out my limited fanbase, I guess I’d be indignant too.
Got my cashiers check ready; hope no one has bought Skype yet.
Leave it to Microsoft to pay billions for something everyone else gets for free.
Leave it to millions to pay Microsoft billions when they could get it for free, DamnCat.
I thought Facebook wanted Skype. What’s going on?
Random thought: Who is Noam Chomsky? He sounds like a nancy.
Random thought: Horror of horrors! The most most evil, fiendish, diabolical, and disgusting bird of all birdkind has set up shop in the pines and thickets near the boundary of my property! I hear his haunting mewing call far too often. It drives me mad with both rage and despair! My God, my God, why hast Thou allowed the formation of a sickening alliance between feline and mimidae?
I suspect that Microsoft will eventually add the voice version of “auto-correct” to Skype.
What you said: Hello dear, I just thouht I’d call to see how you were doing.
What she hears: Hell odd ear, adjust taught I’d call tootsie how woo word wing.
More fun facts this morning. According to an article on SlashDot:
“Three years ago, the world’s 27 million business servers processed 9.57 zettabytes, or 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information…” (That’s almost 10²² bytes!)
Someone commented that it was mostly pron. I wonder how much of it was Skype, Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.?
Microsoft: Proof that if all you have is a gun, all your problems are your own feet.
Flash Update on the Easy Bake Oven Controversy: South Carolina is considering exempting the sale and production of incandescents in the state. I see a glimmer of hope for freedom in the kitchen for this land, but if Nikki Haley vetoes it the way Jan Brewer did, I’ll be sad and say mean things about her. It’s your choice, Nikki.
@Marko: I had a catbird once, and I thought it was a joy compared the the mourning doves we have. Have you ever had to work outside on hot days and be depressed by their sad cooing all day long? They’re nice enough birds, and it’s cute the way they pair up for life, but good gosh, learn to chirp.
Doves are stupid too! I have once or twice been able to attract them by imitating their pathetically sad, near-suicidal call. I doubt I could pull the same trick with a Robin or a Cardinal. Catbirds are refreshing, true, when compared to any dove, but there are so many talented singers like Mockingbirds, Cardinals, Robins, Meadowlarks, Song Sparrows, White-Crowned Sparrows, finches, etc, in my neighborhood that their imitations pale in comparison.
Oh, and I want to thank George Bush for that 2007 light bulb law he signed. I remember when you claimed to be a conservative, George.
Microsoft is buying Skype! Excellent! “Hello?” “Can you hear me?” “No?” “My machine just said I must upgrade to the latest version of Windows!” “Hang up and I’ll call Microsoft Tech Support” Dials Phone…ring…ring…ring…ring… “for Espanol press 1, For French press 2, For Latin press 3, For Deutch press 4, for Russian press 5, for Italian press 6. To repeat this menu press 7 or simply stay on the line…Musak….after 3 hours “Hello, my name is Peggy (man’s voice), how may I help you?”
Caw, caw, caw. (That’s from an old crow here!)
I think we need a bird column, Frank. I would like to nominate Marko de Mancuso to write it.
I would spend several hundred words cursing the House Sparrow and calling for the eradication of such vermin.
I’m not sure it would be a pleasant read, Jimbo me boy.
Jimmy, it’s odd that you should do the caw, caw, caw. Crows and ravens are my favorite wild animals. There are none smarter until you get to the level of dolphins and primates: Crows Figgur Out How to Crack Nuts Plus, they’re almost as tough as Fred Thompson. Obama could only wish he were as smart as a raven.
As for a bird column, it could alternate winter and summer with a curling column. Frank J., didja see that Larry the Cable Guy is going to learn about curling on his next show?
Funny, Burma, I have crows (and dozens of other species) all over the place here (but no ravens lately, 🙁 ), in particular, a resident couple that are the supreme neighborhood sentinels and probably responsible for the biggest extended family of crows on the island. I consider them my “wild pets” (and they love me – following me around while gardening and talking to me. “Caw-peanuts! NOW!”) So, yeah, birds… they’re great… until they attack my apples in August. Last year, the damn Robins ate all my unprotected boysenberries. Grrrrrr. This year, netting.
And Marko, get hot. 🙂
Crows rule. Smart, funny, and loaded with personality. Unfortunately, West Nile virus hits them pretty hard. I’m lucky to have a breeding pair in a large pine tree in the yard. My cat is a magnificent hunter, but the crows just laugh at him (kitteh stays inside whle the fledglings are learning to fly). I’ve never heard a catbird, but we have some mockingbirds that do a great car-alarm chirp, and a truly annoying alarm clock buzz.
So burmashave is saying crows have somethong in common with Michell Obama,
How long until Obama gives that worthless piece of doodoo commie Chomsky a grant to write a OBL poem?
No more praise for crows will I stand for! It was one thing when they woke me at 4 AM during a camping trip, it’s quite another when they begin tormenting the veggies.
Mmm! Crow kabobs! http://www.crowbusters.com/recipes.htm
This chomsky fella sounds like one of them easterners. Who names their kid noam? What they can’t buy an R? Heck microsoft can buy Skype? Gotta love marxists, always the easy way out!
Marko, it’s the babies waking you up at 04:00. They cry for food like human babies (you’ve heard their wacky sounds… ). Where I live, happens every year from early to late summer. That’s OK for me, though, I get up with ’em.
Praise the crows. (Will you p u l e a s e sit down!)
We have two nesting Crows in my back yard. They are ok until they find the neighborhood Owl. Then they go apesh!t! Good luck sleeping through that! My three cats go crazy trying to figure out what’s going on outside! They are clever birds, however and I get a charge out of them! I also enjoy my bat friends who I go out at sunset and watch fly back and forth every night. They are eating our state bird, the Mosquito! They are my buddies!!!