Quote of the Day

"I can't even say what I did to piss her off..."
(Bill)

The Human Trap

I once repaired a latch on 2 outside swing doors for a trash area. It was a rudimentary mechanism, simply a steel rod held by gravity into a hole drilled in the concrete pad. I realized it possible to be locked inside if the door were to close, the latch was on the outside. I went into the truck to get a tool, and sure enough, an employee had locked herself in.

I thought, if I was an alien with a taste for humans, how easy prey we would be...

Having recently completed some network training, I realized the perception of privacy on the internet is imaginary. You may believe your ISP IP address is dynamic, but guess what? Not likely. And the modem inside your house? Your computer? Your network router? Every NIC (Network Interface Card) has a unique physical address. It wasn't me! OOooops, the long arm of the law, if it knows what it's doing, can reach right down that cable, telephone line, or wireless connection, and document physical evidence if seized during a search. Hal? I doubt it. Big Brother, maybe...

Free Money

I am pleased to learn that the United States Congress and George Bush will soon be sending me the princely sum of $600 US. Yeah Baby! Way to go! Perhaps my credit card lenders will also send me checks for 600 bucks!

This is precisely the "new accounting" used by ENRON (I'm joking of course. Enron was reporting theoretical future revenues as assets). I could pay one credit card with another, and provided they increase my limits until I win Powerball, or am killed by a lighting strike, whichever comes first (statistically the latter) I'm set for life!

It takes the towering intellect of genius Rush Limbaugh to discover the government does not generate its own wealth. It comes out of our wallets. Fortunately the federal deficit is financed at a much lower interest rate than VISA. But the $600 will come back out of our wallets in the future...with compound interest.

Yeah sure, the economy might be stimulated, keeping tax burden from escalating...or will it? Wouldn't it make more sense to cut spending? Reduce fuel demand? But noooooooooooooo...!!!Let's party! See you at the Gas Station...