soapbox

The text on the bottle says:

Rufus Teague made some sauce. He put some in a jar and shared it with the boys. They kept on painin’ him ’til he fixed up another batch. Next thing he knew, he’s makin’ sauce all the time.

The thing the bottle fails to mention is that Rufus Teague and the boys didn’t have functioning taste receptors on their tongues due to years of smoking and as a result, the sauce has about four times more sugar in it than it needs.

Stubbs original is still my sauce of choice.

The old MacBook/new MacBook Pro 13″ seems like an amazingly sweet little computer. I liked it before it gained the “Pro” name, but a 7 hour battery makes it the perfect little portable machine.

My views on the 15″ have changed a little though. I mean, longer lasting batteries are great, but why did they get rid of the ExpressCard slot? (Well, I know the answer, it’s probably something to do with the fact that 2% of owners actually use the slot.) Replacing it with a SD card reader doesn’t help me though. (It does help the 90% of people who have digital cameras with SD cards though.) The end result though is that if you want to do anything with fast data throughput like eSATA, you have to spring for the 17″ now.

I might spring for an iPhone 3S. My current phone is two years old now so I can get a cheap upgrade. On the other hand, the only real benefit that I see to the way I do things is the fact that the new phones have a real gps in them. The improved camera, video, etc doesn’t do much since I already have much better tools to do all that.

Pole Dancers!

So, it’s about time that I start posting again, I might as well mention what I’ve been up to…

Being sick.

Whee!

It’s been a long drawn-out process involving huge amounts of coughing, two rounds of increasing nastiness antibiotics for a prolonged sinus infection, Kirsten taking two rounds of antibiotics for some sort of strep throatish infection, and now Sarah working on her second round of antibiotics for her first ear infection. Frankly, it’s just all uncool since I’m pretty sure that I spread the nastiness to my the rest of the family.

It’s raised a big question though since antibiotics are normal enough drugs these days that the insurance companies will only pay for you to get generics. ALL of the drugs that we’ve been taking lately have been made in India. All of them. It makes me wonder how much manufacturing capacity for drugs we actually have in the US anymore. What happens if some natural disaster or unnatural disaster cuts off trade for a couple of weeks? Ear infections don’t get cured for a while because everything is based on just-in-time supply chains?

It actually makes me think that the wacko survivalists might not be too far off track. I’m really thinking about talking to my doctor (well, Sarah’s doctor, I’m not so worried for myself) about getting a little supply of common stuff just in case.

I’d get a gun too, but Kirsten wouldn’t go for that.