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Kindle news

Apparently the Authors Guild is not happy with the Kindle 2.0 "text to speech" option. Amazon and the guild are now working on a compromise that allows 'text to speech', but the voice pattern is that of Droopy Dog.

In other news, The estate of Truman Capote is suing Amazon for the use of Droopy Dog in the 'text to speech' option, saying that by doing so, it dilutes their "brand image".

Oh, I forgot to mention that this is satire.

Posted @ February 12, 2009 04:03 PM | Current Affairs | Comments (0) | TrackBack (305)

Press Conference: A review

When I was a kid, I had a dog that loved to chase cars. Every time he had a chance, down the street he went, chasing every car in sight.

One day, he caught a car and he caught it right by the hubcap as it was going about 30 miles an hour. It was a 66 Mustang, the one with the 007 hubcaps. He rolled up just like the cartoon dogs always do, but real dogs don't ( more than once,that is).

Needless to say, He never chased another car. The moral of the story is, Chasing cars is good fun and you can look great doing it but the question you need to ask yourself as a car chasing dog is "what do you do with it once you've caught it"?

I thought of that when I watched the President tonight. The poor guy has spent his whole life chasing cars and now that he's finally caught his car and he has no idea what to do with it.

Posted @ February 09, 2009 06:04 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (22)

And The Generals Said; "Dont worry, we can control him"

As Megan Mcardle recently said "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does have a hell of a stutter". So its in that spirit that I enter down this well trodden road. I'm trying to think of another example of a radical fringe political party, led by a charismatic public speaker with no executive experience, possibly someone who could be thought of as a "community organizer" who takes control of a country through elections during an economic downturn and then immediately starts to move large sections of what was formerly private industry into government control. Has that happened before? At the moment, my mind is sort of drawing a blank on examples, but it does have a sort of familiar ring to it. Is there another example out there in the annals of history, where your political party membership would be essential to your station in life or whether you held a job or whether or not you were harassed by your political enemies? An example where the entire arts and entertainment section of the culture was run under the wing of a single political party, where dissent from the party norm and standards resulted in instant blacklisting and the end of careers?

Gosh, I'm sure if I think about it long enough I can come up with an example. It sure seems like we've seen that sort of thing before, right?

And I hope to hell I'm wrong...

Posted @ February 09, 2009 03:08 PM | Current Affairs | Comments (0) | TrackBack (10)

Overheard

"Democrats think that a good economic plan is one where they pay half the population to dig holes and then pay other half to fill them in, and then tax the hell out of imported shovels to pay for it all..."

Overhead in line at Wal Mart. A store that I found this very weekend (along with In-n-out Burger) to be filled to the brim with customers. Go figure...

Posted @ February 08, 2009 03:02 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (19)

I think I just found my Secretary of State

As we now live in the modern age of the metrosexual, the political correct docker wearing prius driving soft and cuddly live-at-home-till-hes-30 modern male, you don't often get to see one of these in the wild in his true element. This for those of you who haven't seen one before, is a man.

I don't know who this man is but let the word go forth from me personally and sincerely, that this man will never pay for his beer for the rest of his life.

I find myself asking two of the eternal questions "where do we find these men?" and the second question " how do you walk with balls the size of cocoanuts?"

Posted @ February 07, 2009 12:23 PM | Current Affairs | Comments (0) | TrackBack (45)

Let the Record Show

While your 401k was burning, your home was repossessed your job eliminated and North Korea threatened war, and yet another of the Presidents cabinets discovered why the rest of us hate taxes so much, let the record show that on this day the President and his wife took time to read to children.

Let the record also show that the only kid in that audience who isn't saying "When is recess?" is the one saying "I have to go potty".

Posted @ February 03, 2009 09:15 PM | Current Affairs | Comments (0) | TrackBack (181)