The Fat Guy declines to mount the CFB bandwagon, begun by Instapundit. Scott says they cost a lot more and don’t outlast an 89 center from Dollar General.
UPDATE We got a 60W CFB for free at HEB, but after a week of it in the laundry room, Mom doesn’t like it. Not just the delay in coming on, which she finds annoying, but “it’s too cold,” she says. Not a warm light like incandescent. I think we’ll wait for LEDs to get cheaper.
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Scott Chaffin considers changing "my brain," The Fat Guy blog, to the Apple OS:
"Turns out that someone, somewhere got hold of my Amex and charged up $2000 worth of plane tickets this weekend. Which set me off in a panic, thinking that I’ve got a keylogger lurking somewhere on the TFG Mainframe from this latest round of virii. What to do, what to do? Run rootkit detectors, download updates from all over, scan deeply, etc., all with No Results Found. What to do, what to do?"
My advice: Get a new Amex card.
The jury is in at The Fat Guy on country singer ("Georgia On A Fast Train") Billy Joe Shaver’s little dustup in Lorena the other day:
"It’d be hard to find a more peaceful & generous man, and I know he’s supremely appreciative of his fans, too."
But the matter is in dispute. Shaver’s Austin lawyer, Joe Turner, tells the American-Statesman: "He’s already done 20 years in Waco. What more can they do to him? I think he’s suffered enough."
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If you’re not feeling profound, the Fat Guy has the last word on the recent spate of celebrity kickoffs:
"Weird old week for the Grim Reaper — James Brown, Gerald Ford, and Saddam Hussein. If I were Death, I’d just want to go home, take a long shower, and have a big old bourbon rocks in front of some crappy action movie after that trio."
Read. It. All.
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THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 