Finished The Sound and the Fury!

Well done, bon! Take that you genius bastard of run-on sentences and idiot manchildren!

From Wonkette: Secessionist Arkansas State Rep: Confed. Flag ‘Symbol of Jesus Christ’

Hey, you know what’s happening in the year 2010? A guy recently elected to the state legislature in Arkansas is the local chairman of a secessionist organization and says the flag of the Confederacy is “a symbol of Jesus Christ,” which is interesting, because other people would say that thing is a symbol that there’s not a Jesus Christ. Oh, but Republican Loy Mauch and his fellow cracker dweebs in The League of the South aren’t just waiting around until the Confederacy inevitably returns. They also seek to “personally secede from the corrupt and corrupting influence of post-Christian culture in America” by home-schooling their kids and starting “parallel institutions to which people can attach their loyalties.” Sounds like the kind of people you want running your state government.

One application submitted. Now to work on the cover letter for the other one.

That's a great letter, JZ. I would make you an offer immediately.

I'd not only make you an offer, I'd put you in charge!!!

Scola, man, it's worse than I thought.Although all that stuff about the academy is funny to me too, as I just commuted to Arizona State...there are no ivy-covered halls in my background.But the idea that my College might have a tenuous relationship to the Agriculture college wouldn't make me show off the sheepskin on TV, either...KO needs to ease up on "be True To Your School". Seriously.

The greatest laser cat mural in the universe

Yesterday a group of San Francisco artists decorated the front of the boarded-up Harding Theater with the greatest work of LOL-based art the world has ever seen.

Aggressive Panhandler's Andrew Dalton is responsible for spotting this artwork with his laser eyes, and if you want to see more of his photographs of the mural-in-progress and in its finished state, visit his gallery of photos here.

San Francisco map geek Schuyler Erle points out that this isn't the first laser animal mural to grace San Francisco. There is also a laser walrus on Fillmore St.

Most of my onerous tasks are work-related, but I was at a mini-conference today, then I skipped put early.

I was inspired to go down in the basement and find the power box for my security system and disconnect it. It started a high pitched whistle @ 12:30 last night and it seems the battery is low. I don't use it, so it made sense to disconnect it. I went online and googled how to do it, and not it's done.

ETA: Actually security system is still on. Back to Google Engineering!

My onerous task is doing my job without crying right now. I swear to god this government. How ANYTHING gets done is a miracle.