Archive of entries posted on 5th February 2014

Obamacare Is Doomed

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How do I know?

Because last Friday, Obama held a “virtual hangout” on Google+

It was free, and all you had to do was be on your computer and click a few things. Which is basically all young people do anyway.

Know how many people showed up?

13,490

But at least people are still signing up for it even though it’s over (this is a very tiny screen-grab, just for flavor. The list goes on and on at the site):

These are the people who need to sign up for Obamacare in order for it to work.

The good news (for Obama): they’re certainly dumb enough to pay a ton of money for insurance they don’t need.

The bad news: they’re too lazy to even tap their iPads for something that’s completely free. Signing up for Obamacare takes, like, multiple clicks, man. That’s, like, work.

I don’t foresee this ending well.

Link of the Day: Polar Vortex, Polar Bear, Penguin… It Must Be Global Warming, Right?

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[High Praise! to 4of7 of Little Worlds]

2014 Fresh – January!

Despite all the cold-weather-related titles, there are a LOT of warm colors in the art this time, so drop your mittens and rub your hands together over at Little Worlds.

[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]

Wisdom of the Day: Cop Eagle Hours

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Pick the kids up about half past Jon Pertwee

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PebbleWho3I have a cheap watch. I have some expensive ones, too, but on a normal day, I wear a cheap watch. One of those throwaways you can pick up from Walmart for around the same price as a cheap watch band. I did the math one time, and realized that if something happened to a nice watch on a normal day, I’d be out a boatload of bucks, and for that same money, I could buy a shipload of cheap Walmart watches. So, when the battery runs down or the band breaks or I just get tired of it, I toss it and buy a new, cheap Walmart watch. And I save the expensive watch for occasions where I want to wear a nice watch.

What all that has to do with anything is because I have found a kinda expensive watch (any watch over $100 is kinda expensive) that’s pretty cool, but one that I don’t think I’ll be getting. Because it’s not something I’d wear when I’m going somewhere that a nice watch would be appropriate. And I wouldn’t wear it for every day.

The Pebble Watch runs around $150. And up. And, a lot of you are familiar with it, whether you have one or not. But, if you’re not, it’s a smart watch. Runs its own operating system, but can work with iOS and Android devices via Bluetooth. And, I suppose that’s cool and all, but I’m not ready for a smart watch.

But, if I was…

I’d get The 12 Doctors. It’s a customization for the Pebble Watch that offers the face of The Doctor as an indicator of the time. At 1:00, you get the face of William Hartnell. At 2:00, you see Patrick Troughton. At 3:00, Jon Pertwee. At 4:00, Tom Baker. And so on. It even takes into account John Hurt, according to Cnet.

Yeah, that’s kinda geeky cool. And I may end up getting one. Need to finish watching all the episodes of Doctor Who first, so I can understand what John Hurt has to do with anything. Maybe later this year. If I find that I have more dollars than sense.

Random Thoughts: CBO, Languages, and Science

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One more season and we can finally make “Top Ten Sherlock Episodes” lists.

Is there anyway to make Python let me put semicolons at the end of each line? I hate all these naked lines.

Know who else used singing pets to sell government control of your life…

It’s an honest question; I don’t know who else has done that.

What’s exactly the point of the CBO if they’re so often wrong and no one listens to it?

If you were waiting for the CBO to tell you that Obamacare is costly and will negatively affect jobs, you’re an idiot.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. And then treating that face with free health care.

I don’t know much about illegal drugs so I don’t want to speak out of turn, but you probably shouldn’t do heroin if at all possible.

If you’re going to learn another language, make it a useful one.

I had a language requirement in high school. No desire to speak to foreigners, so I took Latin.

Chris Matthews could get his tongue stuck to a frozen flagpole and it wouldn’t even make his personal top ten of stupid. Why pay attention to that guy?

Obamacare will cause 2.5 million fewer people to have jobs, but this is good news because I’m a giant hack.

Why didn’t Obama unveil this “Fewer jobs is better!” spin years ago?

How high should your score on Flappy Bird be before you include it on your resume?

From a spiritual perspective, I find science extremely asinine. Too many Christians fall in the trap of raising it beyond its importance.

People are starting to think if you put a white lab coat on any idiot, he becomes this infallible oracle. That’s the idiocy we should fight.

Science is is the best guesses based on current data made by extremely fallible humans. That’s all it is and ever will be.

We’d be smarter if we stopped using the loaded term “scientist” and instead said “guy in a coat with a lot of pockets.”

Science never settles. No question is ever answered once and forever. That’s a fantasy by people who’ve turned science into a magic religion.

Everyone should have a certain respect for science, but no one should revere it.

If you’re a layman super concerned about whether other layman believe in evolution or not, you don’t have a good perspective on science.

If you’re a scientist who is super-concerned whether or not layman believe in evolution, you also don’t have a good perspective on science.