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Sunday
When asked by Martin "do you (Rumsfeld) care whether Osama bin Laden is captured, dead or alive?," the SOD replied, "I don't know if it's politically correct to say you'd prefer the former, but I guess I’d prefer the former, myself. But I don't think we have much choice in it, anyway." Rumsfeld then added that he'd just as well prefer bin Laden dead: "Oh my goodness gracious, yes, after what he’s done. You bet your life." Now, I'm not the most PC person in the world and I certainly have no love for bin Laden, but hasn't the Bush Administration's earliest mantra been "we will capture and bring to justice..."? I mean, it's perfectly okay for Mr. Rumsfeld to have a personal desire to jam Osama's head onto a stick, but does he have to actually articulate that desire to the world at large? (And before anyone accuses me of recommending censorship, might I remind all of the Administration's cautioning the media to "watch what they air and print" regarding the war 'n such.) Gee, Rumsfeld should've really let loose with, "I just wanna get medieval on Osama's ass." What the heck. Too late now. Heh. ________________________________________________
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Meanwhile, I'll entertain you with my (lost) weekend in Windoze hell. Ah, that would be last weekend. Know what happens when you install a brand-spankin' new CD burner in your PC and the drivers on the installation CD are somehow corrupt and don't entirely install the CD driver, causing it to corrupt several drivers for other hardware? Like my USB scanner (which I've had for three years, no problems). Well, kids, what happens: You not only get the dreaded fatal exception "blue screen of death," but you get another blue screen -- scarier by far then the former. "...Code: 44 error...system halted" are words you really don't want to see blinking in front of you. It all started that Saturday. Whilst installing the CD burner, my Adaptec SCSI card (which controlls my beloved 5-year old Zip drive) up and died. (Can you say, "Warranty expired"?) This happened quite late at night -- my brother had only just been able to work on it, thought it would be a "slam dunk." It's just a CD ROM, right? Next day (Sunday), trotted off to the store to buy a new USB Zip drive. (Why waste 100 bucks on a new SCSI card for an old Zip drive?) Bought new Zip drive and USB hub ('cause in addition to the USB scanner, I have a USB drawing tablet and only two USB slots on my motherboard; do the math). I get home, set up my new peripherals and...blue screens...blue...f**king...screens!!!! AAAACCCKKK!!!! 'Puter non-functional -- even in Safe Mode I cannot do a damned thing to fix the stoooopppiiidd machine. Yeah, I was really pissed. Ready to kick the case right out the...er...window. Heh. Anyway. Calmed down while my brother checked newsgroups on his 'puter and discovered there are many souls in the Net-ether with the same Code 44 error. It had something to do with corrupt drivers (duh!) and Visioneer PaperPort scanners. Which is what I have. Looonnnnggg sigh. The solution? When booting, I must leave the scanner unplugged -- plug it in when I need to use it (hey, it's a USB after all). So, after having reinstalled Win98 (Micro$oft should never have included that screen which tells you, "Ready to enter Win98 for the first time..." First time, heh), cleaning the Registry and performing major defragging, the machine was booting properly. Only, I can't use my CD burner. Why not? Well...because I can't get the stinking drivers on the stinking installation CD to fully install. And Hewlett-Packard's website tells me that this particular model is soooo new that free downloads of the installation software is just not possible at this time. So, I had to fork over $10.00 to order another f**king CD -- which will hopefully not be as f**ked up as the one included with the hardware. So, I've yet to burn my first CD. Sigh. Oh. I forgot to mention the new keyboard (the space bar on the old one...um...broke). It's a Logitech 104 -- and it was only $14.98 at Staples. At least I can use it NOW, unlike my new HP CD burner. And my new USB Zip drive is transparent -- the lights kinda startle me from time to time. But, hey, at least it's working. Unlike my new HP CD burner.
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Here's
a question for you: Do you think it's appropriate
for the Secretary of Defense to sound...um...bloodthirsty? To the rest
of the planet, that is? 'Cause our very own SOD, Donald (Kill 'em all!)
Rumsfeld presented himself thusly in an interview with David Martin
on CBS's "60 Minutes II."
San
Diego now has it's very own 
