This comment I wrote about a while ago now seems even more dumbass-filled in light of what happened in Connecticut.

Shit, we just had the fucking Hunger Games™, Junior Edition all up in here.

Tell me now how much you can’t accept that premise, fuckwit.

Of the two times in life where I’ve had a gun pointed at me in anger, both times if I’d had a gun too I would’ve shot the person who was threatening me.

I probably would’ve killed them. They might’ve killed me too.

Looking back, I’m glad I didn’t have a gun. It only would’ve escalated the situation. I would either be dead or in jail now.

In situations like what occurred in Connecticut, having a gun doesn’t really help you that much, either. The school at Columbine had an armed security guard. It didn’t help. Arming teachers with guns is a fantastically bad idea as well – it only takes one gun accidentally put down on a desk for some seven-year-old to find the “toy” and kill himself and a few classmates.

Guns are not a panacea. Trust me, I know – I’ve been handling guns and carrying them professionally for many years (US Army, ‘94-‘99).

These are just random thoughts. There is no point, just the horror of what the US has become, how little we value community and how collectively evil and sick our entire society is at the moment.

You know, in Newtown, you had teachers diving in front of a gunman, taking bullets to protect the children in their charge – and Republican thugs claim they are paid too much.

Think about that for a minute.

Where did all these idiots come from who claim that so few people need more than 4Gb of RAM? I was doing light (non-professional) photo editing of some photos my partner and I took last night, and I was using almost 16GB of RAM.

That was with no VMs running. Sometimes I have 3-4 running, and then I usually push 20GB of RAM. And I am not nearly the heaviest user I know.

But I guarantee any real graphic designer needs at the very least 8GB of RAM.

It seems since the tablet craze started that all kinds of idiots who only use their computers as toys are coming out of the woodwork telling us how we should really be using our machines.