I would buy a Kindle tomorrow if...

I would buy a Kindle tomorrow if I could get electronic copies for free of all the hardback and paperback books in my collection.

A note to all Canon PowerShot SX120 IS users out there

After removing the memory card from a Canon PowerShot SX120 IS, turn on the camera and then turn off the camera again before re-inserting the memory card; otherwise, the camera will not recognize the memory card—and since, unlike some other digital cameras, it has no internal memory it will not take pictures at all.

My choice for the 2012 Republican ticket

Based on this chart, courtesy of Le•gal In•sur•rec•tion: Palin-Bachmann.

The anti-ticket? Romney-Huntsman.

On How Media Bias Can Be So Pernicious

From Herman Cain’s book, They Think You’re Stupid: Why Democrats Lost Your Vote and What Republicans Must Do to Keep It, page 105:

Both political parties spend millions of dollars trying to sell their brand identity during elections, when a lot of the perception of their brand is created between elections by . . . (drum roll) the media.

My IMWNO List

I don’t have a bucket list—but I do have a “If Money Were No Object” list. Things I’d buy IMWNO:

Apple iPod nano 16 GB Graphite (6th Generation)
OK, I know it’s only $165, but I already have a 120 GB Apple iPod classic; $165 seems like a lot to pay for a tiny FM radio.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II 21.1MP Full Frame CMOS Digital SLR Camera
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM Standard Zoom Lens
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L II IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens
Canon EF 50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro Lens
As I young man, I spent a lot of time walking around with a 35mm film camera and some lenses, eventually acquiring a Canon A-1, a Vivitar 28-80mm zoom lens, and a Vivitar 70-210mm zoom lens with a macro ring for taking close-up shots. Somehow, a point-and-shoot digital camera just isn’t the same. $6481 is a lot of money, though. (Why not just use the old lenses on a new body, you ask? They won’t fit—different mount types. Everything’s built for auto-focus nowadays.)

2011 Jaguar XKR Convertible in Spectrum Blue Metallic.
’Nuff said. $111,250.

If such a thing were available: a Red Lobster franchise so I could eat there anytime I wanted (sadly, they’re all company-owned).

Run, Sarah, Run

And I hope she wins, too—I'd love to see liberals’ heads explode (metaphorically speaking, of course).

Man, how they hate her.

Ya gotta love it: Sarah Palin accuses the media of committing a blood libel in trying to tie her to the shootings in Tuscon and, instead of responding to her criticisms, they accuse her of being an anti-semite for using the term “blood libel.”