JABbering Stooge

A funny e-mail making the rounds:

A man was being tailgated by a stressed- out woman on a busy boulevard. Suddenly, the light turned yellow just in front of him. He did the right thing, stopping at the crosswalk, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection.

The tailgating woman was furious and honked her horn, screaming in frustration, as she missed her chance to get through the intersection, dropping her cell phone and makeup.

As she was still in mid-rant, she heard a tap on her window and looked up into the face of a very serious police officer. The officer ordered her to exit her car with her hands up.

He took her to the police station where she was searched, fingerprinted, photographed, and placed in a holding cell. After a couple of hours, a policeman approached the cell and opened the door. She was escorted back to the booking desk where the arresting officer was waiting with her personal effects.

He said, “I’m very sorry for this mistake. You see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn, flipping off the guy in front of you, and cussing a blue streak at him. I noticed the ‘What Would Jesus Do’ bumper sticker, the ‘Choose Life’ license plate holder, the ‘Follow Me to Sunday-School’ bumper sticker, and the chrome-plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk. Naturally, I assumed you had stolen the car.”

Priceless.

Fair enough! HA!

Let the good times roll…

We’ve got a big push ahead of us at work to get this next phase of our project knocked out before Christmas, so blogging will be very light for the next month or so. I’ll still try to comment where I can at my usual haunts (JJ’s place, CC’s place, the boys at T3h Sadly, etc.).

See you on the flipside!

I am not interested in your offers of Enzyte, Cialis, OxyContin, “guaranteed” schemes to make money fast by picking my pocket, virus-laden pr0n sites, or self-help webinars. Please go away.

FAR away.

In fact, just DIAF, already.

Love,

J. A. Baker in Austin, TX

Remember this picture of my brother’s cat?

Well, look up in your address bar. (The part of the browser that starts with “http://”.) Yes, I made it into a favicon.

Via JJ, I ran my blog through something called “The Typealyzer,” and, well…this was the result:

ISTJ — The Duty Fulfillers

The responsible and hardworking type. They are especially attuned to the details of life and are careful about getting the facts right. Conservative by nature they are often reluctant to take any risks whatsoever.

The Duty Fulfillers are happy to be let alone and to be able to work in their own pace. They know what they have to do and how to do it.

I blame this post…

I’m posting this from my laptop because the hard drive on my desktop bought the farm just a few minutes ago. Unfortunately, as is typical for me, I hadn’t backed up my data in a loooooong-ass time, and the initial diagnosis suggests that any data on afflicted hard drive will be very difficult to recover, if it’s at all possible.

While much of the data on there is of personal import, I don’t think it’s anything I can’t live without. Besides, a fair bit of it was there from the last time I backed up my computer.

Ain’t modern technology grand?

I’m going to be taking a bit of a break from blogging for a while. Economic circumstances and the need to preserve my sanity after the health insurance reform fight dictate it. I’ll probably still blog major happenings, but that’s it. Though with my luck, a major Texas liberal will choose that moment to kick the bucket.

Play me off, Keyboard Cat.

In response to this:

Canada is developing an all-Party enquiry into antisemitism. Watch here for further updates http://www.cpcca.ca/home.htm

I wrote this:

@BMFCJC Will this be like those HRCs you far right loons always whine about, or just good old-fashioned McCarthyism?

Note that it goes to his main Twitter status page, not the tweet in question.

It gets better. Realizing my error, I then tweeted this:

First Tweet: Epic FAIL… I was responding to this:http://twitter.com/BMFCJC/status/2690089508

It would appear that I have much to learn about the ways of tweeting…

Well, my resistance finally broke down. I’m on Twitter.

So, yeah…