Today's The Joy of Tech comic is great. I agree…hook up with this nerd, ASAP! Hey…she looks kind of like Amy….go fig…

With elections coming up soon here in the USA, and seeing all the name-calling and muck-raking that go with them, these Wikipedia articles put a big smile on my face.

Once upon a time, there was a crazy git named Screaming Lord Sutch. He was an eccentric type who wrote songs about Jack the Ripper and the Wolfman, and tried to start a pirate radio station.

After returning to his native England from America (which he felt was too violent), he founded a political party called the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.

The OMRLP are distinguished by having a deliberately bizarre manifesto, which contains things that seem to be too impossible or too absurd to implement. Despite its satirical nature, some of the things that have featured in Loony manifestos have become law, such as being able to vote at 18, "passports for pets", and all-day pub openings.

Now, there was a bit of a split in the party later on, leading to the formation of the now-defunct Raving Loony Green Giant Party. And, afer Sutch's suicide, more members split off to form the Rock 'n' Roll Loony Party.

Ah, English politics…

I leave you with two quotes from Screaming Lord Sutch, ganked from the Wikipedia article on the OMRLP:

• "Vote for insanity. You know it makes sense." – Screaming Lord Sutch (a parody on Margaret Thatcher's oft-used "You know it makes sense" by-line circa 1979-1983
• "Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?" – Screaming Lord Sutch (on many occasions)

Well, the kind of ladies who would read this blog anyway…

I remember hearing that Fabio used to be an electrical engineer. It turns out he used to own an Amiga (all cool kids used to…except me).

Well, ladies, here's a video of him at a recent Geek Squad event, soldering a connector on a PCB, along with some stats about his geeky interests (his AV system has a 15 ft. x 7 ft. screen?! Party at Fabio's!).