Internal Monologue

The song doesn't start right away, but it's pretty hilarious.

Tom Tomorrow pretty much sums it up.

I forgot where I took this from; I apologize.

xkcd does Hofstadter . A favorite topic of Internal Monologue .

Remember when I said OpenFeint was hiring ? Well, we're hiring even more now . We were recently acquired by GREE, a large and profitable Japanese social networking company. And they want us to grow. Fast. And they have given us a lot of money to do so. Exactly how much is confidential, but it's a lot. If you ever wanted to get into the mobile gaming/social networking universe, now would be a good time. Even if you don't match a job description exactly, I'd encourage you to apply if your overall skills are good. The job I got hired for is actually very different than the one I applied for.

My evil plan is to seduce a seduce a woman and lure her back to my house. Once it is clear she is coming home with me, I'd jokingly toss out the classic "Perhaps you'd like to see my etchings?" line. When she is at my house, I'd actually show her some etchings. And all the etchings would be of Rick Astley. MOOOHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Here's some geekitude for yall: There's also...Portal Kombat!

It's not a lot of beef, but the process does use some animal products. Here's the link .

...then maybe I'd do this: http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/money_making_scheme/

This place is trying to hire like crazy . Here's a list of openings: Current Openings Business Development Senior Business Development / Developer Relations Manager Engineering Android Engineers (multiple positions) Big Data Software Engineer Build and Release Manager Javascript Engineer (multiple positions) Lead Platform Engineer MySQL Guru Product Manager - Analytics QA Manager QA Mobile Engineer QA Server Engineer Ruby on Rails Engineers (multiple positions) Senior Product Manager Software Engineering Manager - Mobile Software Engineering Manager - Server Sr. IT Systems Administrator Web Developer Back-End Marketing Graphic/Web Designer Sales and Marketing Intern Visual/UI Designer Web Developer Operations Sales Engineer Lots of good things: friendly people, free food and drink, mobile gaming social networking and e-commerce. And a big kickback to me if you tell them you heard about it through me!

Celebrating five years of shouting into the ether. Thanks to all my readers an commenters!

I don't suppose the folks at the Pentagon remember that Homer's "The Odyssey" takes place over a period of ten years as the hero struggles to get back home after participating in a decade-long war.

Things in Libya are moving so fast, the Pentagon doesn't even have time to deploy its PR hacks : There wasn’t any press briefing Friday at the Pentagon, even though a third simultaneous war is about to commence. That’s a pretty strong indication that the military doesn’t know what the goal is, either. So, what are our objectives again? Protect civilians from Qaddafi, I guess. For how long? At what cost? What happens if Libyan civilians start needing protection from the rebels? How come the leaders of Yemen get to kill their civilians? And Bahrain can import Saudi troops to crack down on their own dissidents? The lesson seems to be that as long as you curry favor with the US, you can oppress your citizens all you want. It seems as though we're attacking Qaddafi because we can, not because he is more evil than other dictators in the world. A little honesty about our actual motives would be refreshing.

According to this post , we've started firing cruise missiles at Libyan air defense sites. This is an act of war, and since Congress has not declared war, it is clearly unconstitutional and an abuse of executive power. The UN cannot declare war on behalf of the United States. I hate to say it, but there are now clear grounds for impeaching Obama. Would it have been so hard to get authorization from Congress first?

The war has started for the French : L’aviation française a ouvert le feu à 17h45 sur un véhicule militaire libyen et l’a neutralisé, indique le ministère de la défense français. Un demi-heure plus tard, ce sont trois véhicules supplémentaires qui ont neutralisés dans la région de Benghazi, indique le ministère de la défense. My translation: The French air force opened fire at 5:45 pm on a Libyan military vehicle and neutralized it, said the French Defense Minister. Half an hour later, three more vehicles had been neutralized in the Benghazi region, said the Defense Minister. The French headline uses the word "blindé" to describe the vehicles, which I think means "tank," but I'm not well-versed in French military terminology. The important thing to notice here is that attacking tanks means there's a lot more going on than just a "no-fly zone." This is direct ground support.

My friend Josh, who is well to the right of me on the US political spectrum but whose opinion on military matters I respect, offers these thoughts: If you're asking if imposing a no-fly zone is technically feasible, I think that a review of official and unofficial statements will demonstrate that the answer is yes. Technologically we have the capability, and in terms of force commitments if you look at how the forces in Afghanistan and Iraq are broken down, you will see the Air Force and Navy have a far lower fraction of their combat power committed to those theaters than the Army and Marine Corps. So if you look at the cautionary statements from people close to the department of defense, I think you will observe that they either state or at least fail to deny that enforcing a no-fly zone is feasible. The concerns that have been raised from that quarter appear to mostly focus on 1) realizing that enforcing a no-fly zone necessarily involves extensive suppression of a

No mention of asking Congress for a declaration of war, which absolutely should be done if we're getting involved. Shooting down planes, invading airspace, attacking radar installations, etc. is certainly an act of war. I'm tired of our executive branch declaring wars for us. It's blatantly unconstitutional. Obama Said no ground forces will be used, which is reassuring. But what if air power isn't enough? Are we willing to lose to Qaddafi if air power can't defeat him? How many innocent Libyans are going to be killed by our bombs? Sullivan's second round-up of Libya reactions here. MSNBC was reporting that loyalist forces were continuing to attack despite the unilateral cease-fire order. I think that cease-fire was a sham.

Thomas E. Ricks : Finally, what do we do when Qaddafi puts anti-aircraft batteries in mosques, orphanages and chemical weapons depots? Yeah. This war thing is not so simple.

(Additional Libya news resource: NPR's Libya live blog ) Josh Rogin on the Foreign Policy website: Several senators emerged from the briefing convinced that the administration was intent on beginning military action against the forces of Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi within the next few days and that such action would include both a no-fly zone as well as a "no-drive zone" to prevent Qaddafi from crushing the rebel forces, especially those now concentrated in Benghazi. "It looks like we have Arab countries ready to participate in a no-fly and no-drive endeavor," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters after the briefing. Asked what he learned from the briefing, Graham said, "I learned that it's not too late, that the opposition forces are under siege but they are holding, and that with a timely intervention, a no-fly zone and no-drive zone, we can turn this thing around." Sounds like war to me. Greenwald points out that it's totally unc

These are the days of miracle and wonder, these are the days when we live in a ridiculous science fiction world: Last year I wrote about how Craig Venter and his colleagues had inscribed a passage from James Joyce into the genome of a synthetic microbe. The line, “To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life,” was certainly apropos, but it was also ironic, since it is now being defaced as Venter’s microbes multiply and mutate. Turns out there’s an even weirder twist on this story. Reporting from SXSW, David Ewalt writes about a talk Venter just gave. Venter recounted how, after the news of the synthetic microbe hit, he got a cease-and-desist letter from the Joyce estate. Apparently, the estate claimed he should have asked permission before copying the language. Venter claimed fair use . Man, do I wish this would go to court! Imagine the legal arguments. I wonder what would happen if the court found in the Joyce estate’s favor. Would Venter have to pay