Brian's Rant-o-Rama Brian's Rant-o-Rama Eclectic rants and ramblings from the mind of a disgruntled whole-brained cranky but honest man. Discussions range from interpersonal cowardice and weasel behaviour to music to writing to the software industry, and everything in between. 
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Unasked-for advice and learning things the hard way
2009-03-05 22:34:00 Advice givers will look at you with their wide innocent eyes, and explain in a hurt tone of voice that they were only trying to help. More About: Advice , Hard , Learning , Things
The bullets fly
2009-03-04 22:57:00 Not a very smart observation today ... I'm just bent out of shape at what seems to be a lack of focus from our local and regional police forces here in the Lower Mainland. More About: Bullets
Cold and white (kind of like a church group)
2009-02-26 20:14:00 Maybe I should trade my motorcycle in for a snowmobile. More About: Church , Cold , White , Group
Microsoft Word and the Sex Pistols
2009-02-20 22:31:00 Now there's a comparison I never thought I'd be making! More About: Microsoft , Sex Pistols , Word , Microsoft Word , The Sex Pistols
Socialist cronies and minutiae-minded morons
2009-02-16 23:31:00 OK, I would like to remind my stunningly large and loyal readership that though I sometimes sound a bit liberal, I am not. I sit in the middle of the spectrum overall, picking bits from both sides of The Great Centrist Divide. I'm kind of libertarian, but I think the Libertarians still have a ways to go before they can be taken seriously; their platform is still shifting too much for my liking. More About: Morons
Communication paradox
2009-02-07 00:46:00 Actually, there's a second paradox here. Telling someone what constitutes good communication is not exactly demonstrating good communication. More About: Communication , Paradox
And more GM people
2009-02-06 00:09:00 Talking about genetically modified humans is barely science fiction any more. It's practically a scientific reality. More About: People
What are YOU putting in your tank?
2009-01-30 23:55:00 A true old-fashioned rant about a truly trivial subject. More About: Tank , Putting
Again, Think Again
2009-01-21 22:15:00 Hard to believe that song and those sentiments are six years old already. A musical trip down memory lane?
Meta-thoughts
2009-01-15 23:08:00 Literally. Thoughts about thoughts. A metaphor drawn between how we think and how we metabolize. More About: Meta
Poke poke to the ribs
2009-01-13 00:01:00 You kids are never happy. Learn to get along or go to your rooms, and don't come out until you can say you're sorry! More About: Poke
Nope, no regrets ...
2009-01-08 19:50:00 I believe they call them rites of passage. I think of it more like troublemaking as a form of pre-balancing. More About: Regrets
Memories of discussions of aggression
2009-01-07 19:30:00 Past observations on the nature of human aggression. More About: Memories
Those faulty conclusions
2009-01-06 00:37:00 The Post Hoc Fallacy is just superstition masquerading as logic.
Virus hunting
2009-01-02 22:11:00 Wow, the Virtumonde (Mundo, Virtumondo, MS_Juan) virus is nasty. What it does, and how I got rid of it. More About: Virus , Hunting
Grumpy self-interest
2008-12-29 21:47:00 'The worst thing a man can do to himself is to start quietly believing his detractors.' It's hard to stop smiling and start barking--and one definitely needs to remember to choose his battles wisely--but until he learns to protect himself, his path along the high road is forever closed. More About: Interest
Tenets of love and hate
2008-12-17 19:18:00 Some simply-stated ideas about the building blocks of human interaction. More About: Love , Hate
Ten thousand hours ought to be enough for anybody
2008-12-16 22:40:00 But ya gotta love what you're doing first. More About: Thousand , Hours
Tweaked into destruction
2008-12-05 19:17:00 It's the problem with letting our egos interfere with what should be our primary instinct to leave things alone. Minimal intervention should be the norm. More About: Destruction
Creative solutions
2008-12-01 22:32:00 Creativity is like any other survival skill, use it or lose it. More About: Creative , Solutions
More beautiful words
2008-11-27 19:26:00 How can one single line from a 600-year old poem have such a profound effect on me? Geoffrey Chaucer and I have a moment of connection, albeit through our differences. More About: Words , Beautiful
Against television
2008-11-26 20:10:00 I wonder if they'd let me turn this into a television documentary? More About: Television
Back off, varmint!
2008-11-25 00:31:00 Yes, it's not the nicest blog post I've ever made. But I need to protect my daughter from the emotionally irresponsible yobbos until she's old enough to defend herself. I mean, I don't leave her out in the cold and rain, either, do I? So I plan on protecting her as much emotionally as I do physically. More About: Back
Words beautiful words
2008-11-18 22:43:00 The beauty and catharsis that fluid expression in words can bring. More About: Words , Beautiful
Change nodes
2008-11-12 19:30:00 Notice how large sweeping life changes all seem to congregate together in short bursts? More About: Change , Nodes
Tech Docs metrics
2008-10-27 21:37:00 There are kinds of metrics for project and resource planning, but I come up with my own to allocate Tech Doc resources. It's not perfect, but it's based on my own experiences in the software development world. More About: Metrics
A few words about clever idiots
2008-10-23 22:20:00 Those folks who have evolved the intellectual equivalent of squid-like ink squirting will be the ruin of us all. More About: Idiots , Words , Clever
Pantheism ... the other white religion
More articles from this author:2008-10-17 21:10:00 This actually started as a response to a message about the Nature of God (yes, there is a pun somewhere in there) on my Mensa forum, but graduated to a justification for killing and eating animals. If so, then gout must be God's revenge on my heathen Pantheistic ideas! More About: Religion , White 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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