[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] A PSA (of sorts).

BoingBoing's Xeni Jardin blurbed about it.

Dwight Silverman wrote about it.

Jay Lee was nailed by it.

What is it?

It's called Quechup, and it's a new social networking site which seems to employ a very special kind of internet asshattery in fetching new members. If you accept the invitation, it will spam everyone in your address book. Do yourself a favor and simply delete the invitations.

So far today, I've gotten a little over a dozen of these things in my inbox, and I expect there may be more on the way.

Consider it a handy little heads-up, okay?

Oh. And if you do sign up for Quechup, do your friends a favor and empty your address book before doing so (or, at least remove ME from the list). After all, you may wind up like this poor guy who found his gmail account suspended as a result of Quechup's temerity.

-DP

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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 9/04/2007 08:58:00 AM

[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] Me... Me... Me...

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 3 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Well... Now that's not a lot. And really, to be truly unique, I'd only be looking at two counts of murder. That's not so bad, is it?

After all, there can be only one!

-Dan

Thanks Emily Morkengugelfritzen.

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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 9/04/2007 08:00:00 AM

[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] Labor Day!

Happy Labor Day to all the laborers out there. I do hope you have the day off. Grab something cold to drink, put your feet up, and do try to enjoy the last precious rays of summer.

As for me, I'm off the rest of the day. There's a fire in the back yard and a pile of meat that's not going to cook itself, unfortunately.

Have a great day!

-DP

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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 9/03/2007 01:25:00 PM

[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] What the...?!?

I suppose this could be seen as proof that our president is a delusional little wreck:

[I]n an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, [Bush] daydreamed about the next phase of his life, when his time will be his own.

First, Mr. Bush said, “I’ll give some speeches, just to replenish the ol’ coffers.” With assets that have been estimated as high as nearly $21 million, Mr. Bush added, “I don’t know what my dad gets — it’s more than 50-75” thousand dollars a speech, and “Clinton’s making a lot of money.”

Then he said, “We’ll have a nice place in Dallas,” where he will be running what he called “a fantastic Freedom Institute” promoting democracy around the world. But he added, “I can just envision getting in the car, getting bored, going down to the ranch.” (full story)

Seriously? He's actually going into public speaking? That's damn funny.

That should go delightfully well, I imagine. I mean, Bush's speaking style consists of two things: a collection of terrorizing platitudes and sound bites. And, an almost endless stream of prattling, incoherent gibberish which appeals to no one other than those with the least active minds in our society.

In short, only the equally delusional who ignore the litany our nation's crises and somehow still manage to believe that America is the greatest nation in the world, are the only ones who will be listening to the endless chest-thumping nonsense George Bush has to say.

Does he honestly believe anyone will care what his opinions are once he's no longer president? He's killed a lot of people as a result of his bungling and incompetence. More than two-thirds of the country dislike the man. And, as Rudy Giuliani proves, people no longer care to hear an empty rehashing of 9-11 for the sole purpose of polishing one's image.

Seriously. I don't think anyone will care to hear what Dubya has to say once we are no longer required to listen. In fact, most people have already tuned him out and are just hoping he doesn't drag us further into war in the remaining days of his dreadful, treasonous presidency.

-DP

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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 9/03/2007 10:59:00 AM

[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] Xenu Rules!

Apparently, for some odd reason, I am getting a ton of people dropping in from Scalzi's AOL blog where I left the following comment on this entry:

Hey! I embrace my orange jumpsuit. You will too when Xenu returns.

-Dan
http://thewisdomofadistractedmind.blogspot.com/

P.S. I still want my damn flying car!
#1 Comment from dpoem - 8/31/07 1:37 PM

Now, if you're dropping in, do take a moment to say hello and introduce yourselves. We're all friends here.

On the other hand, if you're looking for Xenu, he's not here. He, Travolta and Tommy Cruise are flying their space planes and dropping people in volcanoes. Apparently, it's good for the theta, I guess.

And, on the other, other hand, if you're a Scientologist coming to complain about me picking on your religion, well... tough. You shouldn't have joined a freakin' cult in the first place.

Anywho... Say hello.

We now return to a regularly scheduled Sunday laziness.

-DP

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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 9/02/2007 04:13:00 PM

[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] Err...

When I see this:

Obviously, I think of this:
The Upper Class Twit of the Year

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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 9/02/2007 11:28:00 AM

[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] Security is a Wonderful Thing...

Here's just one of the four delightful visions of rodent carnage which greeted me earlier this morning. The poor, little, blind bastard of a mole didn't seem to stand much of a chance against the rather clumsy Ninja skills of DogCat who, though a little slow now and then, seems to have single-handedly (or pawedly) fought back a major offensive of the rodents who had lain siege to the house.

It seems as though he propped up this little item of early-morning death in the crack here as a sort of warning to any others foolish enough to attempt another invasion.

Disturbing.

Very, very disturbing.

It must've been on hell of a night for DogCat.

So far, I've only managed to spot four fallen critters, but I've not checked all that closely. There could be several more lying dead or grievously wounded in the shrubbery along the perimeter of the yard. As it stands now, the walkway along the side of the house looks like the end result of a Somme Valley mustard gas attack.

Of course, when he came in this morning, DogCat just issued his usual grunting greeting as he headed for his food dish. It was almost as if he was saying, Dude? Do you have any idea how tough it is around here once the sun goes down? I deserve treats!




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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 9/02/2007 10:15:00 AM