A Good Beer Blog – Page 293 – Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )

So…do I really want a house that monitors what I do? I mean…what do I do at home what I want recorded for posterity? Will the Hal 2000 home warn me that I must be getting a cold because I have blown my nose in the bathroom five times in an hour? A really smart house would do well to stay out of my way, not notice what I am up to and just do the house stuff: keep out the weather, the crooks and the animals and keep it about 20 C. Cheap, too.

It appears they had no idea how to have a child.

Bush as Wastrel.

Dryden for Parliament.

Gotcha

Just in case you ever wondered where “Gotcha” came from as in gotcha journalism or gotcha politics, here is the cover of the UK newspaper The Sun reporting on the sinking of the Argentinian navy ship the Belgrano from 1982. Here is one person’s take on the incident and here the BBC’s.

Attention portland! Aussie punk coming to town.