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I am not tech support

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… but everyone thinks I am.

Just because in my professional life I’m a computer programmer, that doesn’t mean I know everything about computers. Heck, I’m a Mac guy and haven’t really touched a Windows box in ages. I know Vista sucks, but that’s about it. 😉  And yet, all my Windows-using family and friends call me for help with Windows, always starting out with “I know you’re a Mac guy but I was hoping you’d know…”

But yet, because “I do stuff with computers” I have various people always calling me and asking for help. I don’t have any idea, but this flowchart summed up my strategy perfectly:

Flowchart courtesy of xkcd.

Pistola potable

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When I was at Spec’s a little while ago, as we walked up and down the aisle’s, we saw a couple bottles of tequila.

We first noticed the rifle, just thinking it was some long weird bottle. Then we saw the pistol next to it, then realized the long bottle was actually a rifle. It’s hard to tell that in the picture, but that is what it is.

And I felt like such a geek. All I wanted to do was determine what sort of rifle and pistol they modeled the bottle after. 🙂

Ah, found a website for the pistol and the rifle.

John Mackey – I knew it

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A few days ago John Mackey, CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods Market, wrote an opinion piece to the Wall Street journal about health care reforms.

I wrote:

But there’s something kinda fun about reading this opinion piece penned by John Mackey, CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods. I think it’s because I know the vast majority of Whole Foods’ customers wouldn’t agree with him. Something about the sort of people Whole Foods tends to attract vs. the Obama voter/supporter demographic vs. those that want socialized medicine and the government to cure all their ills.

I was right.

I guess it never occurred to them, as they bought their overpriced yuppie food, that there’s probably someone getting rich off their consumer habits. Or just the fact that they’re consumers and feeding this very beast, and to some degree probably better off that most since they can afford to shop at Whole Foods in the first place.

I love elitist arrogance, and the ignorance it brings. 🙂

Updated: Oh, some of the comments:

“I will never shop there again,” vowed Joshua

[…]

“I’m boycotting [Whole Foods] because all Americans need health care,” said Lent, 33, who used to visit his local Whole Foods “several times a week.”

[…]

“I will no longer be shopping at Whole Foods,” [Christine] Taylor told ABCNews.com. “I think a CEO should take care that if he speaks about politics, that his beliefs reflect at least the majority of his clients.”

[…]

“These are people who have already gone out of the way to find a place that is more expensive to buy certain types of food,” he said. “So in theory, they might be more willing to take the action to go somewhere else if they don’t agree with Mackey.”

First, Christine Taylor appears to affirm my prior assessment of Whole Foods’ customer base.

And isn’t it nice to see that they appreciate choice? The ability to boycott. That they appreciate an ability to disagree with something and take their business elsewhere. Gosh… don’t you love a free market? 🙂

The irony. I savor it.

There’s cool stuff in Austin

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Waterloo Labs has more details. National Instruments is here in town. So is Stunt Ranch.

Who says Austin isn’t home to fun gun stuff? 🙂

And why not try this at home with real guns? Of course, as long as you can do it legally and safely. Add this to the long list of reasons why I want a lot of land.

Time to rock out

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I have not read Monster Hunter International. In fact, I don’t know much about it other than Larry Correia wrote it, and gun geeks are all silly happy about this printing.

But TXGunGeek opted to take it further. There’s now a songwriting contest.

I think that’s pretty funny. I need to read the book first, for proper context.

Here, let me translate that for you

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A couple of good posts on modern day translations. What they say vs. what they mean.

First, tgace gives us the language of the street.

Then Marko gives us some political translations.

All fairly accurate. Certainly no “all your base are belong to us” sorts of problems here.

Important statistics

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So Sotomayor is now a member of SCOTUS.

I wanted to see how the vote broke down. The Washington Post has a breakdown of the vote.

They break it down by party, by state, by region, by gender (why not by race?), by boomer status, by next election year, and then… by astrological sign.

Leo’s and Libra’s seem to be big Sotomayor supporters. Taurus’ are about split evenly, but it seems Virgos in general have something against her. And apparently Edward Kennedy is a Pisces.

Hey Linoge! You seem to like making graphs and performing statistical analysis. I’d like to see some analysis of this. Maybe astrological signs should be the big issue in the next election.  You know… important things like that. 😉