I'm back to designing kitchens. I mostly write about other stuff that interests me
You will learn that every company has a fast-paced work environment. Most companies have something like this: “an extraordinarily fast-paced and dynamic environment.”
Every time I come across that line, I am reminded of this (stolen from TJIC):
In an extraordinarily fast-paced and dynamic environment I bet it’s hard to get any real work done.
Back in the Marines, we had a little poem for this sort of activity:
Green side out
Brown side out
Run in circles
Scream and shout
Of this Steve Sailer post on Libyans settling in Italy.
Somebody calling themselves Chicago:
That seems to be something that can be broadened to include the US whereby some groups that were caterpillars in their home country are expected to become butterflies in the US.
One of the many Anonymous:
The only densely populated country in North-Africa is Egypt and Egyptians are famously stationary.
Praise be to Allah.
The comment about Egyptians being stationary was up thread from this comment. I have no experience with Egypt. I do have one friend that told stories about her trip to Egypt that made it very clear to me that my daughter will never go there.
From Cail Corishev
It’s one thing to believe the lie that Americans just won’t pick vegetables in the hot sun. It’s a lot harder to believe that people who went to college and took on loans to get IT degrees just won’t do IT jobs in nice, air-conditioned offices.
I like that one. Especially in light of the Zuckerberg campaign for immigration.
From someone that claims to be a guy from Italy:
I have a theory that the big problem in the US is the first-past-the-post system, which restricts choices to just 2 parties which end up being identical. Now that is what makes it impossible for a fringe group to get heard. If the US had a more democratic electoral system, everybody – libertarians, secessionists, anti-immigration people – would be a meaningful force in Congress and the media would then be forced to take them seriously.
Hmm… He might be on to something. I don’t want to go off and endorse this idea just yet, I’m going to have to give this some more reading and thought.
From The Judean People’s Front:
The fall of Italy to multicultural barbarism entails not only the loss of a unique European culture, but the loss of a source of inspiration, solace, and renewal for the great minds of ALL European nations. Italy has animated the western spirit for centuries, and is the repository and source source of much of the west’s accumulated glory. It may sound cheesy, but in a sense Italy is the soul of the west. While I view 19th century German culture as perhaps the apogee of human development, there is something very,very special about Italy.
Sailer has a good group of readers and commentors. There are some that are idiots, but that happens everywhere.
From Steve Sailer:
Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, from Boratstan but Straight Outta Cambridge
The caption made me laugh. Well, I at least gave it the Instapundit “Heh.” The post and comments are worth your time.
I give you Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night:
I was once a huge fan of this guy. Lost interest over the years, but this remains a favorite song of his.
It sucks.
There are all kinds of jobs posted. There are even jobs posted that I might enjoy.
The problem is that the employers want very exact experience. I’ve yet to find an employer looking for someone with international education experience that can design and install a high end kitchen and also evaluate and purchase a portfolio of loans on equipment.
How long will I have to wait for someone to show up looking for my set of skills and experience?
That’s me, wearing #2:
Impressed, aren’t cha…
The Dallas Stars do this thing on game day where they have a bunch of guys play a game in the afternoon. They then feed us and booze us for a while and then we watch the Stars play. It’s a really good time. The food, however, has taken a big decline from previous seasons. No body that played that afternoon was thrilled with the meal.
I’ve seen this a couple of times today: Dem resolution warns climate change could push women to ‘transactional sex’ – The Hill’s Floor Action.
What won’t Climate Change do?
What are characteristics of the Dark Enlightenment?.
I’m certain that there are about zero readers of this blog that are familiar with the Dark Enlightenment, but it is something worth looking into a bit. Like all ideas, there are those that take the concepts to an excess, but there is also a good deal of merit in the discussion.
For example, this is listed as one of the characteristics:
A realization that liberty is incompatible with democracy, and that democracy leads to mediocrity.
I sometimes think the very same thing. I really thought it last November.
Here’s the whole series on the Dark Enlightenment by Nick Land.
Here’s a photo from the ’80′s where Zubeidat is holding the young, and now deceased, Tamerlan:
Now I was never one to hit on married women, but if I had seen a chick looking like this when I was out at the sort of places I hung out in Orange County back in those days, I would have asked her to dance. She has that punk rocker look down.
Take a look at her today:
I don’t think the typical party girl of 1980′s Southern California, even if she is now a devout Roman Catholic, looks as rough as that. Just sayin’… I wonder what the cause of this look is? Anyone?
From the comments:
The above was from someone that would like you to click through to his web site in order to purchase knock off shoes or handbags. SWMBO would probably click through.