Alan Gutierrez

This had me laughing out loud. A great sense of humor bas Barack Obama. From Why Republicans Fear Obama by Byron York at the National Review Online.

“You notice that people who’ve been in Washington too long, they don’t talk like ordinary folks,” Obama began. “We had this debate in Las Vegas, and somebody asked me, ‘What are your weaknesses?” So I said, ‘Well, you know, I don’t keep track of paper that well, I’m always losing paper, my desk is a mess.’ And then they asked the next two candidates. And one candidate says, ‘Well, my biggest weakness is I’m just so passionate about helping poor people.’ And then the other one says, ‘I’m just so impatient to help the American people solve their problems.’ So then I realize well, I wish I’d gone last and then I would have known.”

I found a Susan B. in my change this morning. Did someone give it to me in lieu of a paper dollar or did they mistake it for a quarter? She was short lived. The date is 1979. The new Sacagawea dollar now competes with a series of presidential dollars. It strikes me that our misogynist society cannot stomach women on their currency, they must retaliate with the 43 big men. Lovely Lady Liberty is on the reverse of the presidential coins, of course. I adore her, but she’s awful quiet. Statuesque is our feminine ideal.

Not in Firefox, at least.

Why doesn’t my Macintosh’s dictionary recognize the widely accepted spelling of okay? It bothers me that this word is not in my computers dictionary. No one likes to be corrected, especially when they know they are right.

Via Mr. Gloomy Pants who found it via Suspect Device. The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007 from the Buffalo Beast.

Don’t Fear Starbucks is an article about how Starbucks drives the sales in independent coffee shops by introducing more customers to blended coffee beverages. I thought that I might shoot this off into an email to Robert Thompson of Fair Grinds, but I thought it would be more interesting to see how long it takes him to find this post and comment. The article does describe Starbucks’ predatory monopolistic practices. (Personally, I think that Starbucks is an embarrassingly pasty white aberration of American culture.)

Billy Welliver just wrapped up the Wedding Journal on Cox 10. I’m watching public access tonight. Interviews with Entergy executives, videos of weddings, a Cox representative touring the town asking people questions and buying their dinner. I’m listening to a fellow tell me about Cox Plugged In and the History Art Contest. Deadline has passed for submissions. Confusing, yet fun.

Picture of the Cyberduck file browser by Cyberduck.

With all the catch up reading that I was able to do over the holidays, I was able to read about my Macintosh and came across Cyberduck. Cyberduck is an FTP and SFTP (file transfer via SSH otherwise known as SCP) utility for OS X released under the GNU Public License. It now replaces Fugu as my GUI SCP tool, which I rarely used because it felt slow. It even replaces the command line SCP which I always use because I’m familiar with the shell.