On Duty, Honor and Patriotism

My fellow New Jerseyite over at Last Chance Gas comments that there is some "irony" that a "flaming liberal" like our governor, Mr. Corzine, can give a speech about "duty, honor and patriotism". For the most part, I sorta enjoy reading the Proprietor's blog. However, every now and then he pisses me off, and this is one of those times.

For the record, there is nothing in the liberal dogma which precludes also being patriotic, dutiful and honorable. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the liberals amongst us are more genuine in their honor , duty and patriotism than are the self-absorbed conservatives who use those noble ideals to cloak their pursuit of venal self aggrandizement. There, I think that covers it...

Linux update...

Well, there is good news and not-so-good news to report. I switched from Ubuntu to Kubuntu as my Linux flavor of the week. Actually, the only difference between them is that Kubuntu uses the KDE desktop manager, and, so far I think it rocks...I have to say that I like it better than Gnome, although I thought Gnome did a good job. However, KDE comes with Amarok (audio manager) as part of its tool chest. Amarok has Shoutcast streams and Radio Paradise is a shoutcast entity, so I now have music on the laptop.

The disappointing news is that I still haven't gotten my wireless working yet. I know that it is possible to get this thing working, and, that once I do have it going, it will work well. It is just frustrating not to have wireless. *sigh*

On other fronts, I have reorganized my office, bringing the movable computer desk over next to me rather than sitting in the far corner of the room. One of the nice things about this is that I can now sit in my chair and have three or four (if I ever fire up the old Micron) computers at my fingertips. I currently have the laptop working off this desk since it has a hub I can plug into so at least this machine (ok, I'm writing this on the Gateway 'cause it is a new toy and I want to play with it...also I find it easy to type on this keyboard even though it is not ergonomic. But that is not what I wanted to talk about.

What I want to talk about is that my dear wife hasn't said a word about the laptop. She stood at my shoulder as I loaded Kubuntu on to it a few minutes ago, and she didn't say a word. I'm hoping that she is considering this my Father's Day present...and my birthday present...and maybe a Christmas present, and is going to let it go at that. Works for me...