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With day 3 of my fundraising drive coming to a close, I’m at a bit over 50% of my goal. Maybe Tuesdays are just slow days. Or maybe I set my goal too high.
In any event, I’ll be keeping this going through the weekend, my hope being that I can raise enough money that, for the year, pw can claw its way out of abject poverty to within spitting distance of “excuse me, mister, but can I have one of your socks?”-poor.
Progressivism and GOP Republicanism being the flavors of the day, however, I don’t hold out much hope for the resale value of classical liberalism.
But I have my health. So, glass half full!
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/28 @ 12:08 am #
I promise to try. For a price.
Comment by Allison on 10/28 @ 12:19 am #
Well if that is all it takes to save classical liberalism i am in!
Comment by thor on 10/28 @ 3:11 am #
Maybe what PW needs is some classic community organizing, you know, where people march arm in arm to retake power from the status quo. We could create a ground swell of support, take to the streets and demand that power come from the bottom up instead of trickling down.
O!
Seriously, I want to see a sock puppet death match. Ayers vs. Hannity!
Comment by Rich Cox on 10/28 @ 4:17 am #
I want a tote bag.
Comment by Joan of Argghh! on 10/28 @ 4:45 am #
You need a grant writer. Seriously. I see this as the next big HOT Career advice besides that of being a lawyer. Sure we’ll get more teachers and moralizing government cops and probably even more street-thug cops, but those jobs won’t have the sway and the sweet percentages of a grant writer.
I PW can find a good one, can I be put on staff as an admin? I won’t actually have to do anything but convince you I’m an oppressed Worker.
Comment by pdbuttons on 10/28 @ 7:10 am #
is there a way to send u money by pony express/
i’m kind of computer stoopid and would like to give u some money because i really enjoy ur site/
thanks
Comment by TmjUtah on 10/28 @ 7:21 am #
Somehow I can’t see our knew Hope and Change masters subsidizing the infrastructure of their political opposition.
I mean the story of ACORN could be told in one sentence: “WTF were they thinking?” (re: the Republican majorities in the House and Senate).
Funding ACORN with tax money is like setting aside scout dues for pedophiles.
Comment by McGehee on 10/28 @ 7:35 am #
I can.
Remember: What you subsidize, you control.
Comment by McGehee on 10/28 @ 7:36 am #
…if you’re not, like Teh Stoopid Party™.
Comment by Lisa on 10/28 @ 7:44 am #
Perf: You are supposed to send out “thank you gifts” such as free CDs of Yanni’s Greatest Hits or box sets of DVDs about the Dying Blue Planet or something.
Comment by SGT Ted on 10/28 @ 7:54 am #
OK I hit it. Best to do so before I retire at the end of the year. Good luck.
Comment by SevenEleventy on 10/28 @ 8:16 am #
Zamphir, An Insomniac’s Salvation, or a coffee table book on New England Bird Feeders.
Comment by geoffb (JARAIP) on 10/28 @ 9:00 am #
Oh, God. Please don’t have PW become NPR. Keep the tote bags and coffee table anchors. They’re so last century.
Just keep writing and I’ll send what I can when I can.
BTW: How is the monthly auto contribution coming. That would be “change I’ve been waiting for”.
Comment by geoffb (JARAIP) on 10/28 @ 9:09 am #
Not knocking the semi annual fundraiser just the tote bag thing.
Comment by SarahW on 10/28 @ 9:22 am #
Future of PW = Gulag, or swag and luncheons? So much depends on a little gray armadillo.
Comment by SarahW on 10/28 @ 9:23 am #
Paypal worked today.
Comment by steveaz on 10/28 @ 9:27 am #
Hi Jeff,
I’ve been visiting your site for at least three years now and I’ve never donated a cent. This pitiful fact stands in stark contrast to the amount of enjoyment I’ve received from your posts and your commentators.
I write this to say that, at this time, I am beginning to feel guilty about not having contributed materially to your Herculean efforts. So, as my cheeks rouge with chagrin, I hereby commit to sending you some dough early in 2009.
I can’t spare any right now, what with the Fannie-Mac recession eating into my bottom line (most folks are tightening their purse-strings right now). But, before June ‘09, I’ll free up some dough expressly to support my favorite web blogs.
Those’re yours and Richard Fernandez’. Maybe Tom Maguire’s will get some love, too.
Comment by Timstigator on 10/28 @ 9:29 am #
Is Thor contributing? Is he contributing his fair share? Doesn’t he know it’s patriotic to do so?
Comment by happyfeet on 10/28 @ 9:39 am #
thor contributed. He is large like that. Sometimes he can be vituperative and he has a very pronounced comfort level with dirty socialisms but that doesn’t mean he’s a bad person.
Comment by Lisa on 10/28 @ 9:45 am #
Oh come on geoffb. Totebags are awesome. Especially if they have a picture of some endangered fuzzy cute thing on them.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/28 @ 9:47 am #
Semanticleo gave the gift of my wiping out every word he’s written here in the last month.
I almost wish I could send him a fruit basket, it felt so good.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/28 @ 9:48 am #
Now I know where you live, Lisa…
I last lived in Lutherville while in MD. Before that, Towson, Ocean City, Randallstown, and Baltimore.
I miss the ocean.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 10/28 @ 9:52 am #
Looks like Paypal worked for me, but their claim of ease is a bit overstated!
Comment by Sdferr on 10/28 @ 9:57 am #
Hey Jeff, you missed a couple. Sorry, blame my OCD, but clean is clean.
Comment by Obsteperous Infidel on 10/28 @ 10:16 am #
Good on ya, Jeff. Deleting semantic’s comments must be like cleaning up vomit. It wasn’t good to begin with and the place looks a whole lot better after the cleansing. Unfortunately, like a derelict drunk with zero self esteem, he’ll be back puking up more incomprehensible vomit in no time.
Comment by thor on 10/28 @ 10:20 am #
I’m considering flying from the Rastafari shore to Havana next week. If at all possible I shall send Jeff a gift basket of gringo dollars from the Socialist Isle of The Brothers Castro. Viva la Revolucion! Besides, they don’t take U.S. Dollars or credit cards there, then hell good will gringo dinero do me in Cuba, well, outside of bartering for fresh snapper.
Cucuracha!
Comment by lee on 10/28 @ 10:22 am #
I made a modest contribution Jeff. It’s not as fat a sack as times past, my employer has had a hard time keeping me busy of late. The last job he bid on had twice the bidders as usual(well, what used to be usual), he bid it at slightly below cost just to keep the wheels turning, and was 8th out of 16.
The future isn’t looking as bright as it did with a capitalist in the executive. I’m going to miss those days.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/28 @ 10:35 am #
oh. No for real they take dollars in Cuba I know cause a friend of mine just got back from going there on some deranged pretext of helping the Cuban jews and they disguised one to bring her up to their hotel and she cried and cried cause she had never seen anything so nice or been anywhere that nice. Socialism is so pitiful and dispiriting I’m glad I’m resilient cause Baracky has a shitstorm of dirty socialisms in store for this once great nation.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/28 @ 10:36 am #
Anyway though yeah they likey the dollars. Pitiful dirty socialist monkey tards.
Comment by geoffb (JARAIP) on 10/28 @ 10:37 am #
Ok Lisa, an armadillo tote bag. But it has to be bought not an offering for contributions.
Now mugs, those are useful things.
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/28 @ 10:44 am #
yesssss. but we have a few too many and there was an accident this morning and I broke my Hello Kitty New York mug. : ( that mug rawked.
Comment by thor on 10/28 @ 10:57 am #
The temporary sensation of the sway from the lower, heavier hang, but lo it’s for freed words that unites a shared struggle. Wasn’t it just yesterday when Osip Mandelstam was last seen crawling in his own vomit and refuse, when they tried to sell Marcus Garvey for ice?
“There is no need for words:
nothing must be heard.
How sad, and fine,
an animal’s dark mind.” Mandelstam
Free Leo!
Comment by JHoward on 10/28 @ 11:04 am #
Speaking in verses confuses meaning. But it’s deep.
Comment by SarahW on 10/28 @ 11:04 am #
Broken crockery isn’t as bad as a broken tooth but it feels like death and steady decay just the same. I hate it especially when something heavy high up in a cabinet plonks over like raging Kali on to cups and dishes below.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/28 @ 11:04 am #
Fuck ‘leo. He can earn his way back on by visiting me and saying the things he said yesterday directly to my face.
Once I break his arm, I’ll help him up, get him a sling, and let him apologize by setting me up with a couple rounds of cream stout.
Comment by Obsteperous Infidel on 10/28 @ 11:18 am #
“But it’s deep.”
Yes, like bullshit. Plus, I think that shit works on underaged male prostitutes, so he runs with it. I think he was coming on to me. Creeeeeeeeeeppppyyyyy….
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/28 @ 11:28 am #
I keep seeing random comments on really old posts. it’s gonna be at least another week of sweet, delicious crazy, isn’t it?
not the best time of year for that. THE SUN IS DYING!!!
Comment by Aldo on 10/28 @ 11:57 am #
I’ll kick in a contribution this weekend.
Comment by SarahW on 10/28 @ 12:12 pm #
Sometimes I don’t know if paypal actually pays my pals. I hope it did.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/28 @ 12:15 pm #
It did, Sarah, thanks. I will be writing thank you emails. I’m just swamped at the moment. Off to take my kid to school right now, then I want to interview somebody. Maybe a pumpkin.
Comment by SarahW on 10/28 @ 12:24 pm #
I got me one of them pumpkin-dremels. I am going to interview a pumpkin like it is Dustin Hoffman to my L. Olivier.
Comment by Sdferr on 10/28 @ 12:27 pm #
I’m thinking to maybe use green papayas instead of pumpkins this year. Goddamn papaya fruit-flies get ‘em all anyhow so I figure what the heck.
Comment by Squid on 10/28 @ 12:35 pm #
It’s the Great Papaya, Charlie Brown!
Comment by TmjUtah on 10/28 @ 12:44 pm #
Oh Sarah.
Brought my feet right off the floor, knees crunched tight against the bottom of the table.
And yes, I know the scene you allude to. It’s the reason I never watch that movie, which is otherwise fantastic.
One bad dentist can change your life.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/28 @ 12:49 pm #
Is it safe?
No, of course not. Obama could be President. Haven’t you been paying attention, Mr Weiss Angel?
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/28 @ 12:52 pm #
Oh. And it looks like the fundraising has dried up at not quite 50%. Which sucks, because I wanted to Wal-Mart and buy a shotgun while the kid was in school and my wife was at work.
Quick: a bunch of you get together and buy me a boomstick. I am soon to be under seige!
Comment by happyfeet on 10/28 @ 12:56 pm #
It’s just a lull. All this dirty socialism what’s in the air is complicating the whole donational impulse I think. And has anyone else noticed it’s almost goddamn Christmas? How does this happen?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/28 @ 1:06 pm #
Viva la Revolucion!
Socialismo Y Muerte!
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/28 @ 1:11 pm #
Let’s put it this way: I make (I’m guessing) about 96% less than the top earners at the company currently employing me — and that’s before the extras for radio and tv shows, syndicated columns, placement privileges, etc.
Of sites that are around my niche, I’m guessing I make 20% of what they make through that same company. They are earning a meager living doing this. I am earning on avg less than the cost of a nice dinner per week. If I can’t, through fundraising, raise my revenue up to, say, 1/3 of what other sites in my niche are making (which would be about a third of the year’s wages as a full-time entry level fry boy), I don’t think I can live with the shame and rejection.
Don’t worry, though. Readers can always migrate to one of the few remaining rightwing mega sites. The market will have spoken. And who am I to deny those forces?
Just another little mom and pop outfit put out of bidness by the conservative Wal-Mart mega information clearing houses.
Which is cool — but do recognize that you’re buying stuff made in China.
Comment by cranky-d on 10/28 @ 1:28 pm #
I just sent you something via amazon, hope it helps.
Comment by Obsteperous Infidel on 10/28 @ 1:35 pm #
I gave what I could (Amazon Tip Jar thingamajigger)…for now. This time of year, birthdays and Christmas do us in. Get paid on Friday, you’ll see more. Why? Not because of comments like #49, which was pretty good and also unfortunately true. But because Protein Wisdom is the ONLY site that I must read. You’re a drug. I’m partial to vicodin. So, you’re “vicodin Jeff” from now on.
Comment by Lisa on 10/28 @ 1:59 pm #
Where is my Yanni CD? Look, I will settle for John Tesh at Red Rocks. Shit, I will even take a VHS tape of the Riverdance.
Comment by Lisa on 10/28 @ 2:02 pm #
When I am working at the Ministry of Weblogs, I will make sure that you are adequately subsidized, Perfsky. You and yours will get extra gruel and a very skinny goat.
Oh don’t thank me. It was nothing.
— Comrade S.T.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 10/28 @ 2:05 pm #
Randallstown? I was there in 5th and 6th grades, Jeff. Don’t suppose you were born at the time, but that kinda sorta makes us ex-neighbors.
Comment by Clint on 10/28 @ 2:06 pm #
Hey Jeff, no need to send me an email, your continued writing is thanks enough.
You think you’re under siege? Trying being a someone who doesn’t want the filthy socialisms while living IN Chicago…
Comment by BJTexs on 10/28 @ 2:10 pm #
Lisa: I’m planning to hold the second annual “Exploit the Earth” day as a fundraiser for Jeff. Bring the kiddies and have fun burning toxic trash with a special spotlight on PCB’s and asbestos. Help us build the rain forest clear cut bonfire! We’ll be releasing the ginormous methane balloons right after the red squirrel, spotted owl and polar bear barbecue.
Fun for all and for a worthy cause! CARBON FORCING FOR GOLDSTEIN!
Comment by nnivea on 10/28 @ 2:21 pm #
My donation to “Jeff” caused a bit of consternation with the missus until I explained that it will eventually keep me from strangling the cat. Bless you sir. I’ve learned more from your blog than three graduate degrees – and I haven’t had this much fun since the hogs ate my brother!.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/28 @ 2:21 pm #
Cabrito sure is tasty. You’d think you’d run across that more here in the purported city of the angels but no not so much really.
Comment by SDN on 10/28 @ 2:31 pm #
Hey, we just had a Chinese place open up here in Plano that makes lamb versions (Kung Pao Lamb, Mongolian Lamb, etc.) of the usual Chinese beef and pork dishes. Maybe goat is next….
Comment by Sdferr on 10/28 @ 2:39 pm #
I used to like to check out the F.L.Wright Usonian Euchtman House near Pikesville on Cross Country blvd just around the corner where Cross Country turns into Falstaff Rd. It’s a kind of twin to the Pope-Leighey House that got moved from Falls Church (approx where RT. 66 crosses N. Sycamore St at the Falls Church Metro Station) to Woodlawn Plantation to make way for RT. 66. Girlfriend’s mom lived on Labyrinth maybe three blocks southwest of there.
Comment by kelly on 10/28 @ 2:54 pm #
I can’t quit you, Jeff. Hope five sawbucks isn’t too penurious. I’ve been away from PW for over a week. I thought the place smelled better. No ‘cleo stank.
Comment by David R. Block on 10/28 @ 3:00 pm #
SDN–Plano? Like next to Carrollton and Frisco??
Howdy neighbor.
Comment by Lisa on 10/28 @ 3:06 pm #
Shakes fist angrily at BJT.
Wait, as long as you serve roast beast and bacon-wrapped hors d’oeuvers, I will look the other way.
Comment by SarahW on 10/28 @ 3:11 pm #
I wish I had some mongolian lamb. And a cookie.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/28 @ 3:12 pm #
Lisa: Fricasseed polar bear paws with fresh bacon bits and whole, deep fried red squirrel? It’s to die for!
Comment by Pan American Co-Prosperity Sphere on 10/28 @ 3:13 pm #
From my ability to your needs. Don’t spend it all in one place.
Comment by Lisa on 10/28 @ 3:16 pm #
Wrap the squirrel in some prosciutto and drizzle some aoli over it and I just might eat the poor bastard.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/28 @ 3:29 pm #
Ah, yes, served with a pate of penguin wings. BON APPETIT!
Comment by Lisa on 10/28 @ 3:37 pm #
Make sure you serve a lovely burgundy pino noir. Goes great with poultry…..
Oh hell, just gimme a beer to wash down that bacon grease.
Comment by Lisa on 10/28 @ 3:37 pm #
(pinot noir, even)
Comment by Sdferr on 10/28 @ 3:43 pm #
heh
Comment by urthshu on 10/28 @ 3:55 pm #
Lisa-
How about a little flip book with a stick figure that puts his arms up and down?
Comment by TmjUtah on 10/28 @ 3:55 pm #
Ixnay on the otgunshay unless mom’s on board. Just saying.
It’s something fundamental.
I brought home a classic Winchester shotgun once, after forgetting to
beg permissiontouch base with Mrs. Utah.The only time I’ve been in more trouble, myself, was when I hired Inga from Sweden to tidy the garage on Thursday afternoons. Like to never have heard the end of that. She didn’t want to hear any of that “Well, when have we EVER had a damned swimming pool, then?”
Don’t go to bed angry. And hold hands.
Comment by MC on 10/28 @ 4:23 pm #
I’m in.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/28 @ 5:24 pm #
Swimming pools. I thought it was obnoxious how the new 90210 promo materials were built around swimming pools. They did swimming pools in the shape of the numbers if you didn’t see it. One of them had a black guy in it which looked totally awkward and tokeny but that’s not the point. I thought well maybe in like 1972 there was something distinctive about Beverly Hills having many many swimming pools but all over America there are neighborhoods like that now. You had to wonder is that all they got? I never watched the show and NG started but fell off. She likes the Gossip Girl more better. Ok so those are my thoughts about swimming pools.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/28 @ 5:26 pm #
Wow you live in Beverly Hills for real? Betcha have a pool dontcha?
Comment by TmjUtah on 10/28 @ 5:43 pm #
BJTexas -
Your caterer got lost, but I gave him directions and sent him on his way.
He’s bringing the extra funnel cake batter and corn dogs.
Bon appetit, indeed.
Comment by SarahW on 10/28 @ 6:03 pm #
TmjUtah – O I could tell you tales of the swarthy and hairy-thumbed brute that was Dr. SHOCKETT!
My pumpkin will be getting some of that paid forward.
Comment by Rusty on 10/28 @ 6:23 pm #
#67
Any way you cook it, it’s still a bushy rat.
Comment by TmjUtah on 10/28 @ 6:43 pm #
I interview at 0630 tomorrow, on site. Hopefully I’ll be able to participate in a scheduled subscription scheme in the near future.
Not holding out excessive hope or anything. Wearing boots with clean grubbies and taking vest, hard hat, work belt, and HP-48 just in case. They will have to spot me an engineer hand tape for the day.
Sure wish I lived closer, Mr. Goldstein. I’m always happy to take folks shooting. And I have brought my share plus a squad or two to the dark side, and that’s a fact.
Women. LOVE. To. Shoot.
Some just don’t know it until they try is all.
Comment by guinsPen on 10/28 @ 6:43 pm #
Naked and starving as they are we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery.
~ General Washington at Valley Forge, February 16, 1778 ~
Comment by G. W. on 10/28 @ 6:54 pm #
I’ll take Missing Commas for $100, Alex.
Comment by Pablo on 10/28 @ 9:38 pm #
BJ, put the beast on toast points and you can get Cameron Diaz and Susan Sarandon to partake. As long as you’ve got the nice Pinot Noir, that is.
Comment by EW on 10/28 @ 9:41 pm #
Seriously, there is enough money being tossed around in these election you should hunt down McCain or better Yet hunt down all the liberal illuminati who are padding Obama pockets… i’m sure they would have a few mill to share with you. or go right to the source and ask Obama him self, he’s all about spreading the wealth. Lord knows he’s got it these days!
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/28 @ 9:48 pm #
I’m applying for a CAC grant. I wrote in my name as Jeff Goldstein X.
I have a shot, I think.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/28 @ 9:58 pm #
There should be grants for real. I guess it might take a socialist catastrophe to get the ball rolling on that. That’s just wrong. I think maybe though that model is sort of whack when a good old fashioned patron is what’s called for. Problem is a lot of thems what are in a position to be patrons aren’t terribly clever I don’t think.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/28 @ 10:00 pm #
I wonder if Charles Koch would be interested in some angel work?
Comment by happyfeet on 10/28 @ 10:01 pm #
That sounds like just the guy really.
Comment by ThomasD on 10/28 @ 10:14 pm #
Women. LOVE. To. Shoot.
When I worked for the Indian Health Service every summer we’d get fresh batches of students from the various disciplines doing their clinical rotations. Every new month we’d always managed to talk a few joining us for some shooting. Everyone of them was a good sport and some took a genuine interest – yes, the girls in particular. What was truly funny was how many would cringe at the talk of shooting ground squirrels, only to change their mind having seen one literally explode upon the bullet’s impact. “Ooh, I need to try that’ was a very typical response.
Comment by SDN on 10/29 @ 7:15 am #
#62: That would be me.
Oh, and if thor wants to stop by, I’ve already gotten an opinion that having a McCain sign in my yard does NOT commit the crime of hunting O!bots over a baited field….
Comment by SDN on 10/29 @ 7:21 am #
Women love to shoot if the guy hasn’t been an idjit and started her out on his .44 Magnum or the 12 gauge. I can’t count the times I’ve been at the range and watched some guy do that. She fires one round, nowhere near the target, and gets scared half to death by the recoil and the noise. Sometimes, I can undo the damage by offering my Ruger .22 so that she can see that starting small and working up is a better deal…
Comment by mojo on 10/29 @ 9:13 am #
Random Armadillo sightings?:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/science_news/4289323.html
Comment by TmjUtah on 10/29 @ 9:59 am #
Jeff, update your Amazon wish list or tell me that cash is king. You are in line behind baby’s new shoes, the sheathing on my garage addition (winter is here and I can’t wait to fix it any longer), and youngest goddess’ school dance team tour to Disneyland.
But the line may be moving. Good interview, expecting an offer by phone and email this afternoon. And if their representation of the requirements/scope of work is accurate I won’t be needing money for twelve hours of the day anyway, at least until we get things unhorked and organized. And then the workload will be increased to reflect the new “norm” and we’ll do it all again.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/29 @ 10:44 am #
Cash is definitely king at this point, TmjUtah. I’m trying to dig out of the whole this “job” has put us into (well, not really this job — but buying a furnishing our first house, and now my son’s pre-K tuition).
I’m about 66% to my goal. Any couple hundred over the goal means I can buy a gun, my wife has agreed.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS, BABY!
Can’t kill everyone with only my bare hands, you know…
Comment by happyfeet on 10/29 @ 10:51 am #
If I had a gun I would shoot Vista I think.
Comment by TmjUtah on 10/29 @ 11:02 am #
And off I go to pick up my drug screening and fill out the paperwork. Start Monday.
Mrs. Tmj is happy, and that’s all that matters. But now it’s go baby Go BABY GO GO GO!
Comment by SarahW on 10/29 @ 3:02 pm #
If I ever get one of those “donate-y” blogs, I will ask for packed red cells. Apparently my mean corpuscle volume is wearing a bunny suit and handing out marshmallows to all the poor orphans.
Comment by Andy on 10/29 @ 3:09 pm #
Sent ya some money, Jeff. Even meant to do it twice if you wonder about the dual notification. I like your website and have taken far more enjoyment from it than I’ve given, so it’s the least I can do.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 10/29 @ 3:38 pm #
If I had a gun I would shoot Vista I think.
Silly happyfeet. Alan Colmes told me you can’t wage war on a concept.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/29 @ 3:44 pm #
It’s waging war on me though, SW. Damn I swear Microsoft did this on purpose so there wouldn’t be any great leaps forward until they got rid of that Bush guy they all hate so much. Petty little company I think.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 10/29 @ 3:55 pm #
Can’t you carry on with XP? Even our IT dept won’t touch Vista with rubber gloves on.
Comment by Makewi on 10/29 @ 3:57 pm #
hf
Unless you are burdened by having to deal with Vista at work, my suggestion is to replace it with XP. You can still get OEM copies of it for $100 or so.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/29 @ 4:06 pm #
I need to adapt or cling to XP forever. Mostly I’m just bummed cause I have to redo macros and this time I have to redo them from both an XP and a Vista perspective so work I do on different machines can be handled by the same macros. It’s my own fault for timing it for when I don’t really feel like messing with that sort of thing.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/29 @ 4:10 pm #
UPDATE: I’m at about 72% or thereabouts. My math ain’t so good.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 10/29 @ 4:11 pm #
Maybe Colmes is wrong – blow the little bastard’s brains out, and see if that works.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/29 @ 4:12 pm #
Oh. And not a penny received from those bloggers making in the 6 figures — or anyone involved with a certain collective.
I’m starting to think I can’t take a hint.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/29 @ 4:18 pm #
This is just like in Flashdance where she learned she could make it on her own I think. What a feeling, I say.
Comment by B Moe on 10/29 @ 4:20 pm #
If I had a gun I would shoot Vista I think.
Would that help? Cause I have a gun and hate Vista with a passion. If I ever meet Bill Gates imma punch him right in the fucking teeth.
Comment by Cowboy on 10/29 @ 4:20 pm #
Jeff:
I’ll be contributing as soon as I’m reimbursed for my trip to San Antonio.
And congratulations, TmjUtah! [By the way, I've amended my Christmas list to include a Mossberg 500 instead of an Ipod Nano. If Obama wins, I've decided that munition trumps music.]
Comment by B Moe on 10/29 @ 4:21 pm #
And I get paid Friday, JG, will be sending some bucks your way this weekend.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/29 @ 4:22 pm #
oh. Yay TMJ!!! I misread that the first time and I thought you were talking about getting a gun or something. But it’s that job you wanted from last week I think it was. This is just like in Flashdance where she learned she could make it on her own I think. What a feeling, I say.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/29 @ 4:26 pm #
Congrats, TMJ!
Comment by TmjUtah on 10/29 @ 4:37 pm #
happy, Jeff, thanky. Established private outfit, all they ask is you know your stuff, and work smart and hard. The job is kind of high profile, and I look forward to helping to bring it in.
Big learning curve. Seems like a bunch of straight up folks though, and I trust my boundless optimism will keep my attitude where it needs to be.
That last part is a joke, yes. Weak, but there it is.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/29 @ 4:50 pm #
If I had a gun I would shoot Vista I think.
M$ already put a bullet in Vista’s head.
It remains to be seen whether “Windows 7″ is any improvement, though.
Personally, I think Windows users are the high-tech equivalent of battered wives. Bill and Ballmer keep fucking you up the ass, and you keep coming back for more. :-)
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/29 @ 4:51 pm #
Great news, TMJ!
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 10/29 @ 5:12 pm #
Congrats TMJ!
Comment by Hvy Mtl Hntr on 10/29 @ 5:58 pm #
Jeff- I’ll kick in another $25 toward a 1911- the American classic.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/29 @ 6:20 pm #
Boomstick!
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/29 @ 6:51 pm #
which one of your many incarnations here am I supposed to be answering to, “Bob”? Or are you holding a conversation with one of them? In which case, I’m happy to leave you “two” alone…
Comment by Timstigator on 10/29 @ 6:53 pm #
Donated. I feel lighter.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/29 @ 6:58 pm #
Maybe Bob was just giving us his “street name”?
Comment by Mossberg500 on 10/29 @ 7:07 pm #
Maybe Bob was just giving us his “street name�
I’m guessing it’s his last name! Bob Dipsticsky the communist!!!
Comment by dre on 10/29 @ 7:12 pm #
Follow the MESSIAH: Spread the wealth. Give to Jeff G. That is all.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 10/29 @ 7:15 pm #
A day for celebrating – congrats TMJ on the job, and Jeff on the boomstick!
Comment by SarahW on 10/29 @ 7:25 pm #
Thor, It’s O’s neglect of his brother we sneer at.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/29 @ 7:26 pm #
Oh, Jeff didn’t get the boomstick yet. He was just excited about the possibility of the boomstick.
Which led him to exclaim.
Like so:
BOOMSTICK!
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 10/29 @ 9:04 pm #
Our long national nightmare is over, the Phillies win.
I’m watching Channel 6 on the interweb. I’m only homesick because I can’t smell it.
Comment by Limoncello on 10/29 @ 9:40 pm #
Can I earmark for a boomstick? I’d like that.