Yak-Shaving

I had some down-time today waiting on my computer, so I was doing a little surfing and working on my blog. I just put an RSS feed in my blog, so I downloaded an RSS reader plug-in for Firefox called Sage. In looking around at my RSS feed, I noticed links to this place called Technorati. Poking around there let me to PointMan’s Blog. This guy appears to have things together. Some of his articles I found interesting. Here is a sampling:

Here is an article about the crazyness in our countries moral compass:

Talk about a screwed up moral compass… Idiot. These big lobsters never survive once captured so he just threw $150 down the toilet. It would have done more good given to a shelter or mission.

Here is an article about guns in our country: 

Liberals booted God from the schools: no prayer, no Bible reading, no Ten Commandments, no teaching based upon the Bible. No speaking of Christ. After all, kids might really take those teachings to heart. They may decide not to lie, steal, fornicate, rape, and kill! They might honor and obey their parents, the law, and school officials. They might become kind, gracious, fair, honest, and principled! Heavens, we can’t have that can we? After all, we demand a secular society. Well, we have it and our schools have become Ignorance Factories, sex clinics, self-esteem laboratories, and sports clubs.

Hope you guys enjoy reading his blog as much as I did!

BTW, if you want to know what yak-shaving is, follow this link. Basically, it boils down to: 

You see, yak shaving is what you are doing when you’re doing some stupid, fiddly little task that bears no obvious relationship to what you’re supposed to be working on, but yet a chain of twelve causal relations links what you’re doing to the original meta-task.

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