Pumello, Gas, Janet's Boob.

This morning instead of my usual routine of a grapefruit and coffee, I tried a pumello, which is kinda like a grapefruit for size queens. It's about the size of Kouryou-chan's head. It is not an experiment I shall be repeating; most of it is skin, with no appreciable increase in the edible component. The flavor is unremarkable compared to a Texas Red, and the inner membrane is much tougher, making it much harder to dig out the flesh even with a proper grapefruit spoon.

I stopped for gas this morning and noticed that premium was $1.95 a gallon. It cost $20 to fill my tank. I really need to find more ways to take the bus, especially since work reimburses me for bus passes.

And I've finally seen Janet's Boob. Big deal. It's a boob, a lovely one at that. I don't think exposure to is going to damage the psyche of the American public. I think this was Janet's attempt to finally prove she's not Michael.

And finally, on another note, regarding another (cough) female persona, Ann Coulter, come on. She's a dude! She's gotta be. Look at that adam's apple. And those arms-- scary.

A tenacious desire for the truth.

In a recent LJ post, j5nn5r wrote:

We should treat ideas in the cruelest, saber-toothed, hunted down while they breathe for their survival, for their last breath, in the same sometimes-futile struggle for existence that attempts to explode an impala's heart as it flees in terror from a pursuing cheetah.

The man has a way with words, doesn't he? More to the point, I completely agree with him. One of those memetic personality tests that get loose among the blogs once in a while have some variation of the following question: "Would you rather be liked, or be right?"

The fact is, I'd rather be right. Damn the consequences.

This doesn't make me popular at parties. Hell, this doesn't make me popular, period. When someone says something I disagree with, I want to know why they said it, what values they have that leads them to make such a statement, and what first principles they hold dear. "First principles" matter to me, the fundamental beliefs people have without any support, the bedrock of each person's worldview.

What drives me insane is people who will hold two completely contradictory first principles, can acknowledge that they hold two contradictory first principles, and then shrug and say "So what?" Especially when the consequence of each of those principles is so grave that picking and choosing between them whimsically is metaphysical Russian roulette.

I don't do "social conversation" well. I don't get warm and fuzzy. When discussing politics, religion, or law, the objective is to get at the truth, not a comforting lie; the conversation is a steel cage deathmatch where two ideas enter and one leaves. And I'm not apologetic about a tenacious desire for the truth.

Calm, Rational Penguinistas are Called For!

Okay, this is for the Puget Sound Penguinistas. I need a Linux guru who can talk business, stat. John Moe, the host of KUOW's tech show The Works, recently did a show on "alternatives to Microsoft"; the show was entirely about Apple and why it's so great.

I asked him why didn't include Linux in the list of alternatives, since arguably it powers more servers and nearly as many desktops. (Nevermind that the core of Mac OS X is BSD... we won't discuss that.) He said he'd like to do one, but he needed someone who could talk Linux business rationally. He said his opening show was about "the two BIG companies"-- what, like the aggregate Linux market doesn't show up well compared to iTunes?

Anyway, anyone out there want to put forth a proposal for what we could discuss with John Moe?