The symptoms my diminish, but you never know when there’ll be a flare-up.

This time, he’s written a letter to Take-Two Exec’s mother. ‘Tis classy stuff, but, then, Thompson is a a class act, what with his witty comparisons to the Hitler Youth, bible quoting (in the midst of hateful rhetoric, no less) and quotes such as:

The pornography and violence that your son trafficks in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers’ children, but, hey, your son Strauss has recently assured the world that he is “a Boy Scout, everybody knows that.” I’d love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out. Is there a Ted Bundy merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one now. It should be red and green, for obvious reasons.

Yes. Class act, indeed. It makes you wonder when a cure for Herpes will be found. None too soon in my opinion.

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What happens when you change/re-implement a feature that a large portion of your user base loves to something they don’t, then insist that the new way is the “right way to do it”? The peasants revolt. That’s what.

For those who are annoyed enough to switch to other products (personally, I’m waiting for 2.4.2 to see if it gets better), there’s a massive list on Wikipedia.

If Digsby ever incorporates MySpace chat, I’ll switch to it everywhere in a heartbeat.

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So, Michelle, Crystal, myself and the kids all went to dinner tonight as Sake’s Japanese steakhouse near the Green and it was an…interesting dinner.

Interesting in the Murph-ical sense.

We ended up with an Indian cook on our hibachi. Now, when you go to certain restaurants, you have certain expectations. For example, if you go to a Mexican restaurants, you expect Mexican servers; be that expectation right or wrong, it’s what you expect. What I do not expect at a Japanese steakhouse is Habib.

Now, all things withstanding, I’ve no problem with having an Indian hibachi cook. And things wouldn’t have been bad had his idea of cooking not been “here let me just bang my utensils REALLY hard on the cook-top and maybe people will think I’m good!” No, people will think you’re banging really hard on the cook-top and will look with envy upon the other hibachis wondering “Why couldn’t I get that guy? Hey! he just flipped his spatula in the air and caught it behind his back!!! My guy sucks!”

Now, I’ll also admit to some not-so-politically-correct text messages to Michelle. Things along the lines of:

Would you like to buy a sushi slurpee?

He’s a hibachi terrorist!

BONZAI!!!! ALALALALALALALALALA!!!

and the obligatory:

Thank you, come again!

Bad, I know. I can’t help it.

On top of that, Logan managed to grab two plates and drag them off of the table and have them smash on the floor. And the sushi was warm.

All-in-all, it was still a fun night.

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I’ve always thought breasts were explosive in their own way, but this is a little overboard.

This laugh and sudden fit of depression over the current state of affairs is brought to you by the letters T, S and A.

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Online safety begins with parents, not laws and government. Who woulda though?

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First, sorry for the lapse in posting. There are things going on right now that I can’t discuss just yet and posting will most likely be light the next few weeks as well.

In the meantime, I guess the government feels that, since the TSA is protecting us form those evil Macbook Airs, that the State Department feels it’s OK to outsource passport production to dodgy overseas contractors.

Yeah, let’s just hand what few security measures about passports we have over to people who are going to sell it off to China or other unfriendlies.

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“in order to accomplish his plan, the government must have the ability to read all the information crossing the Internet in the United States in order to protect it from abuse.”

Yeah, I think he sunk his chances with the following statment:

“Americans will have to trust the government not to abuse the authority it must have in order to protect our networks, and yet, historically the government has not proved worthy of that trust.”

So, remind me, why am I supposed to give you this power again?

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Land of the free, indeed.

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I hope this has proven the dangers of DRM and company trust.

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Wonderful. We’re fighting a war that wrecking people’s lives, dealing with our rights being taken from us a little at a time and Senator Mark Pryor is working on a bill for a turbo V-chip that even he doesn’t think will do anything but “…light a fire under the FCC to take a fresh look at new options in the marketplace.”

Yes, with all of our current problems, let’s waste time on stupid stuff like this!

Arkansas, are you aware of the idiot you’ve elected?

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