Honest Monkey Speaks

Monday, April 15, 2009

Honestmonkey is more often updating comments on his blog than comments here. Who'da thunk, turns out it's easier to rant there than here. In any case, check it out. Also, a little more has been added to the 2050 link.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Honestmonkey has a blog of sorts. Gasp! It's a test, and it's on Blogger. For now, it's just a copy of what is here. HM is trying to move everything over to see how it works out, if it's any easier to update, etc. An experiment. HM also has one with Wordpress, but has no content as of yet.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Honestmonkey has "Last song you heard" disease. Whatever the last song one hears gets stuck in your brain. Usually it is some lame song, too. The only cure is to replace it with another song that is hopefully better. HM has it so bad that even just a suggestion of a song can trigger it. For instance, the metal lid to the cookie jar, set down on the counter made an "mm-dink" kind of sound. Reminded HM of "Mmm-bop", of all things. That's right, by the Hansons. Stuck in HM's brain.

This calls for high-powered rock, and lots of it.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Photographers getting hassled on public property by the cops. This kind of stuff upsets Honest Monkey to no end. So let's reiterate. Before September, 2001, you could stand on public property, say a sidewalk, and take pictures of anything within view. After September, 2001, you can still stand on public property and take pictures of anything within view. Here is some text stolen from another site:

You are allowed to photograph anything with the following exceptions:

• Certain military installations or operations.
• People who have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

That's it. If you are on a sidewalk or other public property, snap away. The police should know this, and yet they overstep their bounds all the time. Link below to Thomas Hawk and his problems with the cops.

Friday, November 28, 2008 was Buy Nothing Day

Once again. No gift wrapping necessary. Consume less. Don't worry about joining the crowds or finding a parking place.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

There are several organizations that can help you stop getting phone books. One has a petition to sign, the other sends your name to the publishers. You probably don't even use phone books anymore, do you?

Saturday, November 8, 2008 My thoughts exactly

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - Tax Day no less

Our worst critics prefer to stay. A good motto, HM thinks.

Previous Years

Quotes

• "I've got all the money I'll ever need if I die by four o'clock." Henny Youngman
• "Writer's should not be held hostage by the squeamishness of other people." Tobias Wolf
• "Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion;
  Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters
• "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccessitate [Plurality should not be posited without necessity]." William of Occam
• "We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." James D. Nicoll
• "...[C]entralization doesn't work when you get to a certain level of complexity with any human endeavor." Eric Raymond
• "The law in all its majesty forbids rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges and stealing bread." Anatole France
• "If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind." John Stuart Mill
• "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy." Helmuth von Moltke
• "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." Mark Twain
• "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad
• "Against logic there is no armor like ignorance." Laurence J. Peter

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