Managed by baboons?

re: #1 MandyManners

Managed by baboons?

Worse. Managed by moonbats.

Google, the new Microsoft.

If it ain't broke! Improve it! Then you have something to do... fixing it!

The bastards.

Google, stop being evil.

re: #7 buzzsawmonkey

Everybody loves to say, "baboon."

Sire, but one baboon I request of you this day!
Speak, Sir Knight, and your baboon shall be granted.

Up, up and away, in my beautiful baboon . . .

NYT Columnist Wants To Keep Joe the Plumber From Publishing Book, Says Joe is 'A No Good Citizen'

Egan imagines himself more qualified than Joe to write a book and in his column Egan asks Joe if he wants him to fix a leaky toilet? He then haughtily replies, "I didn't think so." You see, Egan thinks he is smarter than anyone as low as a Joe the Plumber.

And I don’t want you writing books. Not when too many good novelists remain unpublished. Not when too many extraordinary histories remain unread. Not when too many riveting memoirs are kicked back at authors after 10 years of toil. Not when voices in Iran, North Korea or China struggle to get past a censor’s gate.

/Jealousy

At times my iGoogle RSS has been about 3 days out of date.

Was there a video of the "78 years ago" thing posted over the last couple hours?

re: #4 jcm

If it ain't broke! Improve it! Then you have something to do... fixing it!

Maybe it's clogged with ya-yo gakk.

And the big baboon
Laughed in tune
Flung a turd
And skipped way...

re: #4 jcm

If it ain't broke! Improve it! Then you have something to do... fixing it!

Buying companies and screwing up working products creates jobs.

CHANGE!

re: #9 Killian Bundy

NYT Columnist Wants To Keep Joe the Plumber From Publishing Book, Says Joe is 'A No Good Citizen'

/Jealousy

Of all the unmitigated gall...

snicker snicker. Are they letting their internet superiority get the better of them?!

re: #2 Alouette

Worse. Managed by moonbats.

I think I'd trust baboons more.

re: #13 SurferDoc

And the big baboon
Laughed in tune
Flung a turd
And skipped way...

I see a baboon a risin' . . .

re: #16 davinvalkri

snicker snicker. Are they letting their internet superiority get the better of them?!

They have their very own satellite now, too.

re: #18 gmsc

I see a baboon a risin' . . .

Don't go out tonight
There's a baboon on the right...

Sometimes "change in management" means NO management at all.
They call this improvement...
ugh

I suffered through the switchover too but it has worked for me. My blogs are blogger blogs though so maybe it's a conspiracy to make it fail for everybody who doesn't use google products.

re: #22 buzzsawmonkey

The version I remember goes "that was the end of the monk!" The guy who sang it did it rather happily too. Must've been speciesist against monkeys or something.

re: #23 MargaretMN

I suffered through the switchover too but it has worked for me. My blogs are blogger blogs though so maybe it's a conspiracy to make it fail for everybody who doesn't use google products.

How much blog could a blogger blog if a blogger could blog blog?

re: #23 MargaretMN

I suffered through the switchover too but it has worked for me. My blogs are blogger blogs though so maybe it's a conspiracy to make it fail for everybody who doesn't use google products.

Pissing off potential clients is not good.

Thousands of Muslims denounce Israel as pilgrims gather for final day of hajj

But while most spent the day praying and reading Islam's holy book, the Quran, thousands - mostly Iranians, Lebanese, Iraqis and Bahrainis - held a rally inside their tents to denounce the United States and Israel.
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Called the disavowal of pagans ceremony, the Iranian-sponsored, anti-U.S. protest is held annually at the hajj, bringing a whiff of politics into what is otherwise an entirely religious event.

/after all, what good is a religious pilgrimage without a good dose of h8te?

re: #25 jcm

How much blog could a blogger blog if a blogger could blog blog?

There was a young blogger named Dave...

re: #22 buzzsawmonkey

... And what became of the monk, the monk, the monk?--traditional

Didn't he get a show on cable?

re: #27 Killian Bundy

Thousands of Muslims denounce Israel as pilgrims gather for final day of hajj

/after all, what good is a religious pilgrimage without a good dose of h8te?

Gotta' work 'em into a froth so they forget how miserable they are.

re: #28 MandyManners

There was a young blogger named Dave...

Who's blog was the blog world's rave.

re: #9 Killian Bundy

NYT Columnist Wants To Keep Joe the Plumber From Publishing Book, Says Joe is 'A No Good Citizen'

/Jealousy

Yep. Apparently, only "professionals" like Mr. Egan or Ivy League Grads like President-Elect Obama should write books.

So I guess people like Albert Speer, Malcolm X, General U. S. Grant, Gulshan Esther, and many many others should not have written (best-selling, intriguing, and/or earth-shaking) autobiographies.

re: #27 Killian Bundy

Thousands of Muslims denounce Israel as pilgrims gather for final day of hajj

/after all, what good is a religious pilgrimage without a good dose of h8te?

I don't suppose they denounced the Mumbai monsters as "un-Islamic"

re: #31 Walter L. Newton

Who's blog was the blog world's rave.

He said, Wait a minute
There are no words in it,

She loves the monkey's uncle . . .

Poor Baboons-getting smeared by those who know so little! Baboon society is one of the most intelligent, and fierce, of all primates. They aren't as dumb as the LLL...:>)

470 arrested at Sweden neo-Nazi event

Police arrested hundreds of neo-Nazis and leftist counter-demonstrators facing off in Stockholm, observers say.

Some 470 activists from extreme right- and left-wing groups were taken into custody at demonstrations Saturday in Salem, part of southwestern Stockholm, the Swedish news agency TT reported. Fifteen of them were jailed while the others were dispersed, officials said.

Lovely.

re: #28 MandyManners

There was a young blogger named Dave...

re: #31 Walter L. Newton

Who's blog was the blog world's rave.

re: #34 SurferDoc

He said, Wait a minute
There are no words in it,

re: Feedburner Fail

Wouldn't really wanting them to labor on the roads and bridges either!

re: #26 MandyManners

Pissing off potential clients is not good.

google considers themselves so superior to us common rabble of users, they laugh at any suggestions that come from the million of peasants they know they control...officious pricks that they are.

re: #34 SurferDoc

He said, Wait a minute
There are no words in it,

Putting fingers to keys, Dave got brave.

e: #28 MandyManners

There was a young blogger named Dave...

re: #31 Walter L. Newton

Who's blog was the blog world's rave.

re: #34 SurferDoc

He said, Wait a minute
There are no words in it,

Someone forgot to click "Save".

Snow Monkeys - Japan

re: #6 gmsc

Google, stop being evil.

Google, stop doing 'good'!

/it doesn't seem to be in your skill-set, Google!

re: #42 Griffon

I think yours was better.

re: #28 MandyManners

There was a young blogger named Dave...

re: #31 Walter L. Newton

Who's blog was the blog world's rave.

re: #34 SurferDoc

He said, Wait a minute
There are no words in it,

re: #41 tappin52

Putting fingers to keys, Dave got brave.

re: #42 Griffon

e: #28 MandyManners

There was a young blogger named Dave...

re: #31 Walter L. Newton

Who's blog was the blog world's rave.

re: #34 SurferDoc

He said, Wait a minute
There are no words in it,

Someone forgot to click "Save".

Winner!

re: #40 Spider Mensch

google considers themselves so superior to us common rabble of users, they laugh at any suggestions that come from the million of peasants they know they control...officious pricks that they are.

of course now that I've publicly spoken against them, I'm sure my IP address will be traced by their secret google internet investigators and I'll be banished to a life of Dogpile for ever. Now I'll miss their main page tribute on December 18th to Piere Francois De La Brioski , the 18th century man who condemned the sewers of France...drat the luck.

re: #45 tappin52

I think yours was better.

Thanks. I love limericks.

re: #49 Griffon

Thanks. I love limericks.

I can't stand them. Nothing personal!

re: #50 Walter L. Newton

I can't stand them. Nothing personal!

How about lemon ricky then?

re: #6 gmsc

Google, stop being evil.

sorry, but that's their default setting...

BBIAW--life intrudes.

re: #52 buzzsawmonkey

Ape Call--Nervous Norvus

...with some nice evolution moments.

Even we lizards were mentioned!

I was wondering about that. There's nothing out there anymore that the Googloons can't buy and break.

re: #9 Killian Bundy

NYT Columnist Wants To Keep Joe the Plumber From Publishing Book, Says Joe is 'A No Good Citizen'

/Jealousy

how arrogant. egan is a pos wimp.
he's the kind of guy who needs to shut his face.
joe the plumber could write a book. he is the kind of guy who has something to say that the public can relate to. just his down to earth common sense way of thinking is so refreshing and he is a courageous person. a no frills heavy hitter.
a simple honest guy. america is hungry for real people.

egan is a frustrated poser. how dare such a dope try to tell editors what books to choose.
i bet joe the plumber gets a nice book deal.
eat it egan.

re: #51 jcm

How about lemon ricky then?

Stop it. What's a "lemon ricky?" I Googled it, and nothing makes sense.

re: #20 SurferDoc

Don't go out tonight
There's a baboon on the right...

i saw a baboon drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's;
his hair was perfect!

ahwoooh! baboons of london...

re: #58 Walter L. Newton

Stop it. What's a "lemon ricky?" I Googled it, and nothing makes sense.

Lime Ricky... since you didn't like limericks.

Just being silly.

...East of the sun... West of Baboon.

OK, OK, OK,,,

Ok, so Denver won. Now stop with the damn sports talk and put on my Sunday evening talk shows.

Ya started talking about the game at 11:00 am this morning, the game was at 2:15 pm and now it's over and it's almost 7:00 pm and you guys are still talking about it.

There is no way in hell that so much could have happen in one lousy football game that you have to spend almost 8 hours covering it.

there is nothing wrong with the feeds: it's simply an undocumented feature you morons are too stupid to figure out.

/googlebat

re: #60 redc1c4

i saw a baboon drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's;
his hair was perfect!

ahwoooh! baboons of london...

He was eating a plate of Ya-Yo Gakk ...
ahwoooh!

The trouble is that so much of the computer world is a house of cards, with code that's undocumented or wrongly documented, and logic that has holes here and there. The whole patchwork comes undone from time to time, and as the system gets bigger, it comes undone in ever weirder ways.

At some point, a major housecleaning will be needed. New operating systems, documentation done right, that sort of thing.

re: #52 buzzsawmonkey

Ape Call ... doodlee-yabbah

/zorch lyrics, Kool Kat!

re: #61 jcm

Lime Ricky... since you didn't like limericks.

Just being silly.

Lime?

re: #58 Walter L. Newton

Stop it. What's a "lemon ricky?" I Googled it, and nothing makes sense.

drinks, club soda appears to be the common thread

re: #37 Sharmuta

470 arrested at Sweden neo-Nazi event

Lovely.

It demonstrates how the European "solution" of outlawing distasteful politics does not rid society of those politics. Instead it attracts those with anti social impulses and leads to such confrontations, making them all the more alluring to the fringe.

When neo Nazis protest here they are met with shrugs and a few jeers but few take notice of it. And nothing demotivates a neo Nazi more than a yawn.

re: #67 lostlakehiker

The trouble is that so much of the computer world is a house of cards, with code that's undocumented or wrongly documented, and logic that has holes here and there. The whole patchwork comes undone from time to time, and as the system gets bigger, it comes undone in ever weirder ways.

At some point, a major housecleaning will be needed. New operating systems, documentation done right, that sort of thing.

dreamer.

re: #67 lostlakehiker

The trouble is that so much of the computer world is a house of cards, with code that's undocumented or wrongly documented, and logic that has holes here and there. The whole patchwork comes undone from time to time, and as the system gets bigger, it comes undone in ever weirder ways.

At some point, a major housecleaning will be needed. New operating systems, documentation done right, that sort of thing.

What in the world are you talking about? It has taken over 30 years to build such an industry. And you want to destroy it with bullet proof code, internal documentation, self-documenting code and replacement of legacy systems.

I make the sign of the cross at you. Begone!

Mumbai suspect lives freely in Pakistan

For a suspected terrorist watched by Washington and wanted in New Delhi, Hafiz Mohammed Saeed seems remarkably carefree.

He lives openly in Lahore, and on Friday, he led prayers at his group's mosque, lecturing about sacrifice to almost 10,000 followers as three armed men stood behind him.

The extradition of Saeed, founder of the Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, or "army of the pure," was demanded by Indian authorities after the 60-hour siege in Mumbai that killed at least 171 people. He is a suspect in several other attacks in India; the U.S. has listed both Lashkar and its parent group, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, as terrorist organizations.

But Saeed's apparently lax treatment in Pakistan highlights the challenge facing the fledgling civilian government of President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani: how to restrain militant groups once supported by the security forces but now refueling animosity with Pakistan's archfoe India and immense new pressure from the U.S.

It's not like us snatching Pakistani nationals out of Pakistan is unprecedented or anything.

/when are we going to get serious about this [expletive deleted]?

re: #61 jcm

Lime Ricky... since you didn't like limericks.

Just being silly.

no, everyone knows you put the lime in the coconut, not Rickey.

re: #67 lostlakehiker

The trouble is that so much of the computer world is a house of cards, with code that's undocumented or wrongly documented, and logic that has holes here and there. The whole patchwork comes undone from time to time, and as the system gets bigger, it comes undone in ever weirder ways.

At some point, a major housecleaning will be needed. New operating systems, documentation done right, that sort of thing.

Agree - if buildings and bridges were built like most software the first windstorm to come along would destroy civilization.

re: #74 Killian Bundy

Mumbai suspect lives freely in Pakistan

It's not like us snatching Pakistani nationals out of Pakistan is unprecedented or anything.

/when are we going to get serious about this [expletive deleted]?

I am not sure why Washington was so adamant about keeping the Indians from retaliating. That is exactly what we would have done.

re: #67 lostlakehiker

The trouble is that so much of the computer world is a house of cards, with code that's undocumented or wrongly documented, and logic that has holes here and there. The whole patchwork comes undone from time to time, and as the system gets bigger, it comes undone in ever weirder ways.

At some point, a major housecleaning will be needed. New operating systems, documentation done right, that sort of thing.

Non programmers have been saying that since COBOL and punchcards. Management always wants the next program written before they want the last one documented.

re: #15 MandyManners

Of all the unmitigated gall...

Why exactly is gall never mitigated? Is there no demand for mitigated gall? And how would one mitigate gall if such a need arose?

re: #59 buzzsawmonkey

Yes--it's a great song. Reminds you of a time when people had a sense of humor as standard equipment.

You're right. Plus a good sense of conduct and a nicer pronunciation. ;-)

Nitey night. Gotta go, it's close to 3am where I at.

Can anybody identify these 3 people?

Person 1
Person 2 (in Star Trek make-up)
Person 3 (The doctor wearing the green wig in this video)

re: #66 solomonpanting

He was eating a plate of Ya-Yo Gakk ...
ahwoooh!

he was coughing up a hairball
ahwoooyo-yo-gakk!

Evening mates! Another busy weekend at work, how many government employees work seven days a week? Low pay, but at least the job is stable and I will not be laid-off off soon! I expect to see the same for next the next weekend and then maybe we will see a slow-down heading into the Christmas holiday!

Some more tech...

Lego Factory Builds Lego Airplanes...For Geeks Only

re: #77 karmic_inquisitor

I am not sure why Washington was so adamant about keeping the Indians from retaliating. That is exactly what we would have done.

because diplomacy has w*rked so well already in dealing with this problem?

This is a subscription-required story, but the teaser is promising:

Tribune May File For Bankruptcy

Tribune Co. is preparing for a possible filing for bankruptcy-court protection as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter, in another sign of trouble for the newspaper industry.

In recent days, as Tribune continued talks with lenders to restructure its debt, the newspaper-and-television concern hired Lazard Ltd. as its financial adviser, as well as legal counsel for a possible trip through bankruptcy court, according to people familiar with the matter.

Among the company's properties are the Chicago Tribune and the LAT.

Heh.

re: #67 lostlakehiker

The trouble is that so much of the computer world is a house of cards, with code that's undocumented or wrongly documented, and logic that has holes here and there. The whole patchwork comes undone from time to time, and as the system gets bigger, it comes undone in ever weirder ways.

At some point, a major housecleaning will be needed. New operating systems, documentation done right, that sort of thing.

Macintosh.

re: #79 Opilio

Why exactly is gall never mitigated? Is there no demand for mitigated gall? And how would one mitigate gall if such a need arose?

You're confusing me.

re: #67 lostlakehiker

The trouble is that so much of the computer world is a house of cards, with code that's undocumented or wrongly documented, and logic that has holes here and there. The whole patchwork comes undone from time to time, and as the system gets bigger, it comes undone in ever weirder ways.

At some point, a major housecleaning will be needed. New operating systems, documentation done right, that sort of thing.

On the Mac, that's exactly what OS X was.

As long as I can get LGF, news, sports, stocks, weather, entertainment and Soviet Jazz-Funk its all cool.

re: #81 gmsc

Can anybody identify these 3 people?

Person 1
Person 2 (in Star Trek make-up)
Person 3 (The doctor wearing the green wig in this video)

3rd one (green wig) looks like one of the Bridges boys --- Beau Bridges?

re: #84 jcm

Some more tech...

Lego Factory Builds Lego Airplanes...For Geeks Only

and for religous geeks, here's the old testament done in lego and playmobil...[Link: www.thebricktestament.com...]

Unproven tech to be cut in the next administration.

12-5-08: The most realistic & complex test of the US Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) to date. After this success, the hit-to-kill record for US missile defense now stands at 37 out of 47 since 2001.

re: #79 Opilio

Why exactly is gall never mitigated? Is there no demand for mitigated gall? And how would one mitigate gall if such a need arose?

Mitigated gall is reserved for gruntled workers.

re: #86 Steffan

This is a subscription-required story, but the teaser is promising:

Tribune May File For Bankruptcy

Among the company's properties are the Chicago Tribune and the LAT.

Heh.

i'm sending that off to Patterico

here's hoping the go right down the drain.

re: #89 gmsc

On the Mac, that's exactly what OS X was.

Was?

Have had mine since OS X first came out (YEARS!).
Not a flicker of trouble! ! ! Ever!

And I do a good share of complex computing.

re: #92 LeePro

3rd one (green wig) looks like one of the Bridges boys --- Beau Bridges?

Actually, the first one is William Sanderson, the second is Tony Papenfuss, and the third is John Voldstad.

You probably know them better as Newhart's Larry, Darryl, and Darryl!

re: #69 MandyManners

Lime?

Put the Lime in the Coke, you nut!

re: #97 LeePro

Was?

Have had mine since OS X first came out (YEARS!).
Not a flicker of trouble! ! ! Ever!

And I do a good share of complex computing.

It was a switch over from the older versions of Mac OS 6, 7, 8, and 9. I used "was" because it has now settled in as the standard operating syste,.

re: #9 Killian Bundy

NYT Columnist Wants To Keep Joe the Plumber From Publishing Book, Says Joe is 'A No Good Citizen'

/Jealousy

Probably Egan is indeed a better writer than Joe. So what? A book needs two things. Decent writing and something important to say, or something decent to say and good writing.

Egan doesn't get the legitimacy of the first kind of book. He can't write the second kind (nor can I, few can.)

re: #86 Steffan

This is a subscription-required story, but the teaser is promising:

Tribune May File For Bankruptcy

Among the company's properties are the Chicago Tribune and the LAT.

Heh.

better version, with more details and some links:

glug, glug, glug...

re: #100 gmsc

It was a switch over from the older versions of Mac OS 6, 7, 8, and 9. I used "was" because it has now settled in as the standard operating syste,.

OK, then.
;)

/veteran of all systems since 1984 (Apple IIe)!

re: #101 lostlakehiker

Probably Egan is indeed a better writer than Joe. So what? A book needs two things. Decent writing and something important to say, or something decent to say and good writing.

Egan doesn't get the legitimacy of the first kind of book. He can't write the second kind (nor can I, few can.)

Joe will most likely use a "ghostwriter" (noun, a person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.)

re: #103 LeePro

OK, then.
;)

/veteran of all systems since 1984 (Apple IIe)!

Me? I first programmed on a Commodore PET, first computer was a Commodore 64, and I stayed with them through the Amiga 500. Then I switched over to the Mac.

re: #79 Opilio

Why exactly is gall never mitigated? Is there no demand for mitigated gall? And how would one mitigate gall if such a need arose?

You mitigate a gall with a bladder.

/you asked for it.

re: #67 lostlakehiker

At some point, a major housecleaning will be needed. New operating systems, documentation done right, that sort of thing.

Not goin to happen.

re: #105 gmsc

Me? I first programmed on a Commodore PET, first computer was a Commodore 64, and I stayed with them through the Amiga 500. Then I switched over to the Mac.

Wow!
You sound like my husband. He's been working with computers since they used to fill a wall, rather than sit on your desktop. He is still stuck using Windoze (because the software he programs and all his clients are Windoze people), but readily admits that Mac is the superior machine!

re: #91 buzzsawmonkey

Whatever happened to the Lego Lambs?

Legolams is the second cousin of lambochops, son of lambikins, and kin of hockohams. The great wizard Sauerkriim rules them all.

Glad I don't know what RSS is - even what it stands for - or what it does (Well, I vaguely do... I think). I deleted every folder in Safari that had an "RSS" in it when I first set it up. LOL!