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. Articles
An observation about Americans
2007-01-04 04:13:02 American foreign policy is legendary in all of human history for its self-aggrandizement and holier-than-thou proselytizing, but at the same time the most vocal opponents to that American policy are -er- Americans themselves! It's like there is a psychological rift in the American psyche. More About: America , American , About
The Possessed Poinsettia
2007-01-03 16:12:01 I am not a man of violence, but I saved Christmas through violence, and I made the world a slightly better place by removing a Dark Evil Presence. More About: Esse
Oblivion: The computer game. The state it leaves me in.
2006-12-22 16:02:01 It is beyond obsession: I lost track of time and, as a result, only got 4 hours sleep last night. I spend my lunch hours at work on message boards discussing techniques to fight zombies or other bad guys. And I download mods and patches frequently ... hogging "the good computer" to do it all. Sheez ... ! More About: Computer , Comp , Leave , Game , State
Who wants to be reminded of our fragile mortality? I do! I d
2006-12-21 16:01:05 And don't even get me started on who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes! More About: Agile , Mind , Ragi , Want , Ants
Billions and billions of Brian Porters
2006-12-15 03:57:02 I have more than a few namesakes in this world. And they all seem to have friends who can't type email addresses accurately. More About: Port , Lion , Lions , Porter , Brian
The Paranoid Gerbil and other stories
2006-12-12 03:55:01 How one crazy little varmint can make the walls come tumbling down. More About: Stories , Other , Tories , Stor , Para
Wrestling with the Optics Demon
2006-12-09 03:53:04 It took me three days to write this, because it was so difficult trying to capture the explanation of why I suffered the insanity of a Certain Person for as long as I did. Too bad that it took me five-and-a-half years to live through it first! More About: Wrestling , With , Demo , Rest , Demon
Fridge magnet Christmas poetry
2006-12-06 03:51:02 I enter another poetry contest. My average now skyrockets to one contest per decade. If I keep this up I might actually have enough poems to self-publish a largely-ignored volume. More About: Christmas , Poetry , Christ , Chris , Ridge
A fragment of humanism
2006-12-02 15:48:09 It's an unfinished thought, but here's what living under that stupid male anxiety myth is like in metaphorical terms. More About: Men , Human , Humanism , Mani , Uman
A quick conversation about a friend's company
2006-12-02 15:48:09 My friend gets a $500 bonus after 10 years of servitude. As the joke says, slaves can only be traded ... More About: Company , Comp , Friend , About , Quick
Putting the "fun" back into "dysfunctional"
2006-12-02 15:48:09 You know, it's nice here in the cave. I think I'll kick my feet up and watch out the entrance as Ted chases a yak. More About: Fun , Back , Putting , Function
The photocopier is no dummy; it what I did
2006-12-02 15:48:09 It's okay, though: I'm perfectly happy to let the photocopier think anything it likes about me. It may know where I live, but I can still run faster than it can and I can lift a big hammer over my shoulders. Let's see it try THAT! More About: Photo , What , Hat , Pier , Toco
All safe and no scare makes Jack a loose cannon
2006-12-02 15:48:09 What your kids may become later in life could be more scary than anything you're trying to protect them from now. More About: Care , Jack , Cann , Make , Cannon
Some casual chat apropos to last rant
2006-12-02 15:48:09 It's really just some idle banter, but it fits with what I've been thinking about the last few days. More About: Chat , Hat , Rant , Last , Casual
There is some value in sentimentality, after all
2006-12-01 12:59:08 Sentimentality might not be very emotionally or socially nutritive, but in small doses it can make life a little nicer to live. More About: Mental , Time , Men , Sentimental , Here
Playing with your Lagos
2006-12-01 12:59:08 A short lesson in noun types, and just how alienating is language, anyway? More About: Play , With , Your , With You
On a "need to know" basis
2006-12-01 12:59:08 "Insuffucient free system file handles to execute SendQueryNamedProc() in dbmap.dll" ... ooh, I love it when you talk techie to me! More About: Know , Need
Roger Hodgson, formerly of Supertramp
2006-12-01 12:59:08 I review a truly uplifting concert. Uncharacteristically, I say nothing negative about anything. Such is the power of music! :) More About: Super , Form , Supertramp , Pert
By their fruits are they remembered
2006-10-19 07:45:02 I would be a bane on history are in those cases where there was a person capable of achieving greatness, but was a tiresome moron about all else ... I would not have time for that person, and if it were my decision, that person would be marginalised into obscurity. More About: Fruits , Fruit , They
Love in the time of prairie drought, Part II
2006-10-14 01:06:12 This is the pay-off, the Part II, of my ranting about the value of the past, which is right now ... if you get my drift ... More About: Love , Time , Drought , The Time
Love in the time of prairie drought
2006-10-12 06:48:05 This is the set-up, the Part I, of my ranting about the value of the past, which is in the future ... if you get my drift ... More About: Love , Time , Drought , The Time
Of users and geeks
2006-10-07 00:12:07 Computer researchers introduced a word-virus into the polis when they made us all into "users". More About: Geeks , Geek , User , Users
Pardon my French
2006-10-04 05:54:04 Fear and humiliation were my motivation for French class this week. And by gum it worked! More About: Pardon
A tool of abuse and a point of contention
2006-09-21 04:21:02 James Poniewozik wrote an essay that captured the essence of something I have felt deep inside of me for nearly all my life. And, unsurprisingly, it is about a type of abuse that we are all familiar with ... More About: Abuse , Tool , Content , Point , Tent
We all work for Napoleon
2006-09-18 22:12:04 The corporate heads that I have had the displeasure of listening to babble and rant at all-hands meetings, and the Napoleon wanna-bes that have wasted my hours and brain cells with explanations of policy that had nothing to do with reality should abandon their Napoleon complexes. Instead, they should all aspire to emulate Stalin or Hitler. At least it would be more honest. More About: Work , Pole , Leon
True joy from the unplanned and the unexpected
2006-08-31 08:15:04 What we need is someone to figuratively blindfold us and lead us out of the Polis and into the Hinterland of the mind. We need to be misled ... or at least led astray from our own systems and notions. We need to be abandoned just inside the gates of The U nknown ... even if it is just unknown ideas. More About: Expect , True , Plan , Anne
Monday thoughts of turning the corner
2006-08-23 19:54:05 Loosely-worded, large-scale thoughts to match my hazy dreamy mood today. More About: Corn , Thoughts , Thought , Corner , Monday
Memories of music
2006-08-23 19:54:05 Something of a trip down musical memory lane for me ... a time when the Commodore 64 was my most "popular" of instruments. More About: Music , Mori , Memories , Memo
Road-rage experienced first-hand
2006-08-23 19:54:05 Me and my motorcycle forced to a stop by a road-raging pickup truck driver, it comes to fight or flight for me. More About: Experience , Rage , First , Road , Hand
The fury of the exceptional in the sights of the plodding
More articles from this author:2006-08-23 19:54:05 Man, am I ever pissed off today. More About: Sights , Exception , Sigh , Sight , Exceptional 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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