(H/T furrydoc for that one. Great find, furrydoc. Hope it’s true the injured dog survived.)
- What information overload does to your brain.
- Speaking of which … how to deal with email overload. (Tip o’ hat to JG.)
- Another unimportant nobody who doesn’t trust the cloud. Some guy called Woz …
- Obamacare will create chaos. No sh*t, Sherlock.
- I know this is last week’s news and therefore happened in the ‘Netly equivalent of the Jurassic. It’s still marvelously weird. That angry farmer with the tractor deserves one more link’s worth of immortality.
Ah, you linked to my hometown newspaper. I laughed like hell when I saw photos of those crushed sheriff’s cruisers. Though I feel sorry for the citizens who’ll have to foot the bill for their replacements and continue paying for the department’s inevitable increased budget for eternity.
I liked how the tractor driver gently pushed a book keeper’s car out of the way to get at one of the police cars. He was focused on the task at hand. Unfortunately for him life will be much more difficult as a result. Seems kind of relevant to your previous post on short and long term planning, doesn’t it?
Politely crushing sherriff cars should be considered a victimless crime and lightly punished if at all. The farmer only crushed police cars, used his own tractor (no stealing vehicles), went out of his way to avoid non-police vehicles and didn’t cause any human injury during the process. Seems like it was more an act of civil disobedience than anything else. The county should consider if it really needs the expense of replacing and maintaining those vehicles. Could save them a lot of money over the years.
Cloud computing. All the rage. It is designed as a way to get information away from the consumers. Whoever owns the servers the data resides on (it isn’t really a cloud, just dispersed server farms) owns the data and ultimately controls the data. If you have more data than you can store on a normal PC or several large external drives (terrabite drives are still less than 100 dollars), buy your own server. They are not horribly expensive and easier to set up and maintain than most people think. All a home server could be is a repurposed used PC with several large hard drives and purpose specific software. Great application for LINUX.
Best comment seen on the tractor story:
DO NOT BRING A POLICE CAR TO A TRACTOR FIGHT!
AlanR — I LOVE it!
Looks like omeone did a think piece on what would happen if someone invoked the clause in the Declaration of Independence where it says to bring down the old government and institute a new one better suited to better protect their rights.
Got this link from TMM:
http://www.examiner.com/article/army-colonel-ignites-firestorm-with-article-on-crushing-a-tea-party-insurgency
You will smile and you will celebrate or we’ll arrest you.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/08/olympics-spectator-parkinsons-arrest-smiling
Know the old joke? Smile, it makes others wonder what the hell you’ve been up to.
Now it seems you don’t have to do anything at all.
Claire, thanks for the pooch video. If that’s true, that’s gotta go on the short list of “most awesomest” things I’ve ever seen. I had to dish, of course.
It appears that the video was posted back in ’09, and presumably the incident happened before that. The YT posting includes a claim that the rescued dog did unfortunately die of its wounds, and the rescuing dog simply left the scene on its own. (The poster seemed lucid enough, which is always a question-to-vet on YT. 🙂
Anyway, thanks Claire. I needed that this morning.
Kevin, that was some first-class ranting. I hadn’t looked up the background on that video, so thank you for doing it (so sad, but not surprising, that the injured dog died). I’ll for sure blog your link.