John Snyder's Errant Thoughts

Sexy News

Hot sexy news! Some fila brasileiro mastiffs apparently killed someone at Ving Rhames' house. I know because according to Google Trends, today everyone is searching for "fila brasileiro mastiffs." Down boy! Down!

I also am aware that a faulty cruise control switch caused a "Ford recall," which everyone is searching on Google. What a shame. Things were going so well for Ford.

Kimberly Pressler is big on Google Trends today. Not sure why. Maybe she was arrested or found in a terrorist training camp. I don't really care, except that it would be sad to see her in a burqa.

What I do care about is seeing if referencing these suddenly popular items will make the hits on this site go up. I would be very curious. Not that I'm going to make a habit of this, because it doesn't matter to me. Purely an experiment to see if a single post referencing popular things will lead to an appreciable increase in traffic. So what the hell.

Paris Hilton Nude!!!

What is this, junior high?

Remember when GWB took over and everyone said, "now the grown-ups are running things."  The GOP was going on about how Clinton used to be late for meetings and the staff would order in pizza (gasp!).  Pizza boxes, late meetings, blowjobs, oh my!  But with the 2000 election, everything was supposed to change.  No more treating the White House like a frat house.  Now there would be discipline!  Meetings would now start at 7am sharp!  This was the CEO administration!  No removing suit jackets in the Oval Office!  (For some reason, the Republicans have a hang-up about suit jackets.  They love to talk about how Reagan so respected the sanctity of the Oval Office that he would not take off his jacket.  As if that somehow proves something.  What a bunch of weepy, sentimental tools.)

Anyway, here's what has become of the putative "CEO Administration":

First we get reports that White House staffers are avoiding having their communications intercepted by mom and dad -- er, subpoenaed -- by text messaging each other on their sidekicks!

Now, the best story ever.  A top Bushie in the Department of Fish and Wildlife has been caught sending confidential internal government memos to some kid she met in an online virtual gaming world, for his review.

I will give you from now to the end of time to think of something more ridiculous.  This is ten times worse than when Dick Morris let his hooker listen when he was having phone calls with Clinton.  At least Morris wasn't soliciting the hooker's advice for actual government policy!

Annoying Confirmation Notices

Julie just brought to my attention that whenever people post comments, they get back an annoying email confirming their post.  I have now fixed that, so I will no longer be unwittingly spamming you whenever you post!

A very exciting program

My newest toy is very cool.

I am not even typing this post.  I am dictating it with a new program called Dragon NaturallySpeaking.  All you do is talk into a microphone and the words show up on the screen.  It takes a lot of the effort out of writing posts on my blog.  I'm writing this post and it's only taking me a couple minutes.  It's a beautiful thing.

I'm still trying to work out some of the bugs.  For instance I was working on some of my legal writing.  I said rule 10b-5.  It didn't know what I was talking about but now it does because I was able to program it.

What I'll bet it won't be able to do is understand me singing.  Now for my rendition of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow."

Sun lawyer over the rainbow way he up they Geyer's land then I heard of lines in a lone love by where happy little blue birds fly away above the chimney that sway of you will finally be sung where him aloof further rain below sky is bomber blew...

Well, it's pretty good for decoding speech.  It sucks at transcribing singing!