* The Music: The Outlaws first album, 1975. Yes, I seem to be in that neighborhood chronologically, for a couple of weeks now. This one is an old favorite. Probably the most powerful guitar album I am aware of… and I’m not talking about simply to loud and brash; I’m talking about talented playing. Not only can these guys sing.. and their harmonic structure as some of the best of the time, their playing is just flat out awesome. I said years ago, these guys should have a fire extinguisher nearby anytime they play. I still hold that statement true. Too bad, that their first album was so good, because it ended up being hard to top… Ala Boston, from the same time period.
* I appear to have taken two honorable mentions in the Caption Contest this week at OTB.
* You know, for all the hype about this Barrack Obama 1984 ad, I, for one, don’t think I’d be very pleased about having it done in my name. After all; let’s remember the original purpose of the ad… it was Apple computer who was trying to unseat the PC, with that ad. Apple spent an awful lot of time and money, trying to convince people that Apple was the simpler choice. They wanted to convince everyone that they were too stupid to run a PC. You may notice they didn’t succeed.
I can certainly accept the argument that anybody that votes for Hillary Clinton is dumber than a box of rocks… but I think most people are smart enough to recognize that Obama isn’t the answer to the question that situation poses.
* Speaking of Obama, I see McClatchy running a story that’s sure to get something going among the blogs:
WASHINGTON _ The most liberal member of Congress running for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination isn’t Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio.
It’s Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.
And the Republican candidate who’s grown less conservative over his years in Congress? Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
Those are among the interesting findings in a recent analysis of votes by all the members of Congress who are running for president.
They seem to have nailed down the second one. On that basis, I’m more inclined to accept the first one it face value.
* The Chi Trib ran an article this morning that the Justice Department rated U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald quite low… indeed, as low as a couple U.S. attorneys that were fired. Seems to me they got that one right. If there was a more inept, politically motivated prosecution of a case in recent history, I’m unaware of it. The DOJ called this one correctly…And, here again, on that basis I am inclined to accept the other firings at face value. The law of averages would seem to come into play on both these cases.
* I’m curious to know why the left is now making a great deal of noise about the White House supposedly seeking people who could replace Alberto Gonzalez. At my job, we would call that kind of thing contingency planning… we would also call anyone who didn’t engage in it “stupid”.
* Speaking of Gonzalez, did you notice the Senate’s power grab? For all of their talk, these last few years, about checks and balances, they don’t seem to be overly concerned about it now that they have a majority in Congress. Maybe somebody ought to wonder why, right out loud.
* Oh, and speaking of all of that, I’m glad to see that Mr. Bush has finally grown a pair… as regards handling the Democrats… But I wonder if it happened soon enough. Bush senior figured out in 1992, that bending over forward for the Democrats doesn’t make them like you any more. Indeed, like Klingons, they’ll see it as capitulation… as a sign of weakness… and act accordingly. The way to deal with these people is to kick butt and take names. As I say, I hope that the lesson he’s learned is soon enough to make a difference.
* I mentioned bumper stickers the other night. I’m still kicking the idea around, a bit. Here’s a woman a dozen extensive write- up on the topic… There’s a few interesting comments from readers, too.
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* I was happy to see that the rescue workers found Boy Scout Michael Auberry. I can’t wait for the court cases that are gonna come from the little episode.
* I often will take a snippet from Brit Hume to post on this site, and comment on it. Tonight, Brit is on fire, and it’s hard to choose. I’ll let you do that.
Tags: BitsBlog, Nightly Ramble
March 20th, 2007 at 20:10
In 1984 was in the process of buying my first computer. Didn’t know much about them, so I groping way around and doing lots of shopping. I walked an Apple showroom. They were offering, I believe an Apple 2C, with an attractive base price. Don’t recall. The 2C came with standard forty character display. If wnated eighty, thet was extra. If you wanted floppy drive, that was extra. Bottom line is once you added all the necessary extras to get the computer up to workable level, it was no longer cheap.
In the end I bought a Kaypro 4, with two 360K floppies. I rejected the Kaypro 10, which came with one floppy and a ten mega hard drive. I could not see need for ten megas. As it was two floppies worked fine. I put the application on A drive and the data on B. I ran WordStar, with a neat bunch utilities and 50K dictionary off one floppy.
Those were the days.
March 20th, 2007 at 21:20
And me, my Commie 64.
Actually, I started with the VIC20.