My brother is getting married next month, so I have this form to collect all of the data on.
I went to the mall and to the only Tux shop there. There was a lone, young (very young) girl there minding the store. She had to be 19 or 20. Cute, short and a little over weight. She hung up and put down her cell phone when I walked in.
I told her I needed to be measured for a Tux and handed her the form I had. She asked if this was for a Tux at another one of this store's locations. I told her "no". I expected I was going to be billed to be measured.
She had me drop my coat, wallet and Blackberry and went to work. Neck, chest, sleeve, waist, overarm, out seam, she did it all and then went to fill out the form. I was impressed.
"What do I owe you?" I asked. "Nothing", she replied with a smile. As I donned my coat I asked if she had to go through much training for the job. She said it was minimal.
I thanked her and and praised her professionalism. What a positive experience! People should take a lesson from this three minute exchange, it is what life should be like for everyone, everywhere. We all just do our jobs well, not hard stuff.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Iran Is Peaceful?
Well, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei spells out who the "enemy" is and who is a "manifestation of the great leadership of Islamic Iran and the great nation of Iran".
Great steps forward in a peaceful manner, no??
Friday, January 30, 2009
Monaco Declaration
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7860350.stm
Wow, all these "scientists" with made up specialties and titles say the fucking ocean is dying because of CO2 levels. Um, well, the Ocean has survived firestorms after major Comet/Asteroid impacts and those certainly raised more CO2 into the air than a few trillion cars/factories.
I am all for cleaning up the cars and factories, make everything fucking green, please. Then these assholes who make up baseless "facts" that they "believe" in can get right on top of predicting the next ice age, which seems to be happening right now.
Wow, all these "scientists" with made up specialties and titles say the fucking ocean is dying because of CO2 levels. Um, well, the Ocean has survived firestorms after major Comet/Asteroid impacts and those certainly raised more CO2 into the air than a few trillion cars/factories.
I am all for cleaning up the cars and factories, make everything fucking green, please. Then these assholes who make up baseless "facts" that they "believe" in can get right on top of predicting the next ice age, which seems to be happening right now.
"Ok, You Get A Black Democratic President..."
We get a black RNC leader.
I actually like Michael Steele, for the most part (that's him lurking behind the two white guys that look nervous, one begging him to stop!). Kidding...I hope he can steer the Pubs a little to the center (where he resides most of the time) and get off the partisan crap. He strikes me as a really smart dude. If the Dems head a little towards the center too, we might actually get our shit in order here in the US.
Zimbabwe Shows Sign Of Hope
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7860161.stm
I guess I believe it when I see it. Inflation there is worse than anywhere in the world. Their new $500 Million dollar bill is worth about $50 US dollars (and the US dollar is worth about 1/3 what it was 7 years ago).
Oh, they have a little Cholera problem too. Just 60,000 sick people and a few thousand dead.
I guess I believe it when I see it. Inflation there is worse than anywhere in the world. Their new $500 Million dollar bill is worth about $50 US dollars (and the US dollar is worth about 1/3 what it was 7 years ago).
Oh, they have a little Cholera problem too. Just 60,000 sick people and a few thousand dead.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Let The Korean War Go On And On..
Yeah, Kim is pissed because the rest of the world isn't kissing his ass right now. He needs to go away with Castro and die. Lets have some new leadership across the world that isn't tied to the lunacy of the 20th Century. Wow!!! When we open our eyes, we are automatically looking forward. Just aim away from the past and we/you are on our way.
Blagojevich Is Gone...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-blagojevich-impeachment-removal,0,5791846.story
Good thing, if he is hard upfor money he can donate some of that hair to those kids with cancer.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
The 825 Billion Stimulus Passes
If you are interested in who voted for or against it, that is here;
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll046.xml
If you have a few weeks to kill you can read the 647 text of the bill here;
http://www.rules.house.gov/111/LegText/111_hr1_text.pdf
I will try to get to some of the highlights on this over the weekend. I am sure it's a fantastic piece of legislation. Considering none of the Pubs voted for it, we could have dropped some of those tax beaks to help pay for it, yes??
It's a great showing of fucking partisanship, great way to start the new Congress, as divided as ever...just because. The US is no fucking better politically than Zimbabwe. Just a bunch of old men who oppose anything the other side wants...just because.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll046.xml
If you have a few weeks to kill you can read the 647 text of the bill here;
http://www.rules.house.gov/111/LegText/111_hr1_text.pdf
I will try to get to some of the highlights on this over the weekend. I am sure it's a fantastic piece of legislation. Considering none of the Pubs voted for it, we could have dropped some of those tax beaks to help pay for it, yes??
It's a great showing of fucking partisanship, great way to start the new Congress, as divided as ever...just because. The US is no fucking better politically than Zimbabwe. Just a bunch of old men who oppose anything the other side wants...just because.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Show Me The Money
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7854915.stm
I wonder if any of the assholes that have ripped off America (and the rest of the world) in the process of triple packaging bad loans and trading them down (making billions in the process) feel at all bad about stuff like this? At all?
They won't read this, they did the same thing Bernie Madoff tried to do, send the assets away for safe keeping. I don't know about you, but my jeans have a big red spot where my ass is, and I am not on my period. Welcome to unregulated democracy!
I wonder if any of the assholes that have ripped off America (and the rest of the world) in the process of triple packaging bad loans and trading them down (making billions in the process) feel at all bad about stuff like this? At all?
They won't read this, they did the same thing Bernie Madoff tried to do, send the assets away for safe keeping. I don't know about you, but my jeans have a big red spot where my ass is, and I am not on my period. Welcome to unregulated democracy!
Hamas Really Wants Peace
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7853803.stm
Fuck them. The time has come to end this. If I was the Israel PM I would just rain down the destruction and say "I warned you so". Sorry to sound like a total dick, but I am so sick of hearing all the tit-for tat crap.
If Hamas is so scary powerful, then launch a ground war and die with honor. If not they are just little terrorist fleas that won't give up. The problem is, once the fleas over-run a location, only fire will clear up the infestation. Bring on the fire...
Send the civilians to the seashore to wait out the fight (won't take long) and finish with a little pride; stop being cowards.
Fuck them. The time has come to end this. If I was the Israel PM I would just rain down the destruction and say "I warned you so". Sorry to sound like a total dick, but I am so sick of hearing all the tit-for tat crap.
If Hamas is so scary powerful, then launch a ground war and die with honor. If not they are just little terrorist fleas that won't give up. The problem is, once the fleas over-run a location, only fire will clear up the infestation. Bring on the fire...
Send the civilians to the seashore to wait out the fight (won't take long) and finish with a little pride; stop being cowards.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
The FBI Emailed Me Today...
I like that they "order" me to respond once I have paid my $110. Too funny.
FROM FBI Director Robert S.Mueller (kelvin.williams@info.net)
Attn: Beneficiary, This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr Frank Nweke, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, kelvin Young of HSBC,Ben of Fedex,Ibrahim Sule,Larry Christopher, Puppy Scammers are impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau Of Investigation. During our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled your Financial Obligation given to you in respect of your Contract/Inheritance Payment. Therefore, we have contacted the Federal Ministry Of Finance on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by cordinating your payment in total USD$11,000.000.00 in an ATM CARD which you can use to withdraw money from any ATM MACHINE CENTER anywhere in the world with a maximum of $4000 to $5000 United States Dollars daily. You now have the lawful right to claim your fund in an ATM CARD. Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation is involved in this transaction, you have to be rest assured for this is 100% risk free it is our duty to protect the American Citizens. All I want you to do is to contact the ATM CARD CENTER via email for their requirements to proceed and procure your Approval Slip on your behalf which will cost you $110.00 only and note that your Approval Slip which contains details of the agent who will process your transaction. CONTACT INFORMATIONNAME: Kelvin WilliamsEMAIL: kelvinwilliams24@gmail.com Do contact Mr. Kelvin Williams of the ATM CARD CENTRE with your details: FULL NAME:HOME ADDRESS:TELL:CELL:CURRENT OCCUPATION:BANK NAME: So your files would be updated after which he will send the payment informations which you'll use in making payment of $110.00 via Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram Transfer for the procurement of your Approval Slip after which the delivery of your ATM CARD will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay. We order you get back to this office after you have contacted the ATM SWIFT CARD CENTER and we do await your response so we can move on with our Investigation and make sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you. Thanks and hope to read from you soon. FBI Director Robert S.Mueller III. Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possesion of your ATM CARD, you are hereby adviced only to be in contact with Mr. Kelvin Williams of the ATM CARD CENTRE who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.
FROM FBI Director Robert S.Mueller (kelvin.williams@info.net)
Attn: Beneficiary, This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr Frank Nweke, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, kelvin Young of HSBC,Ben of Fedex,Ibrahim Sule,Larry Christopher, Puppy Scammers are impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau Of Investigation. During our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled your Financial Obligation given to you in respect of your Contract/Inheritance Payment. Therefore, we have contacted the Federal Ministry Of Finance on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by cordinating your payment in total USD$11,000.000.00 in an ATM CARD which you can use to withdraw money from any ATM MACHINE CENTER anywhere in the world with a maximum of $4000 to $5000 United States Dollars daily. You now have the lawful right to claim your fund in an ATM CARD. Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation is involved in this transaction, you have to be rest assured for this is 100% risk free it is our duty to protect the American Citizens. All I want you to do is to contact the ATM CARD CENTER via email for their requirements to proceed and procure your Approval Slip on your behalf which will cost you $110.00 only and note that your Approval Slip which contains details of the agent who will process your transaction. CONTACT INFORMATIONNAME: Kelvin WilliamsEMAIL: kelvinwilliams24@gmail.com Do contact Mr. Kelvin Williams of the ATM CARD CENTRE with your details: FULL NAME:HOME ADDRESS:TELL:CELL:CURRENT OCCUPATION:BANK NAME: So your files would be updated after which he will send the payment informations which you'll use in making payment of $110.00 via Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram Transfer for the procurement of your Approval Slip after which the delivery of your ATM CARD will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay. We order you get back to this office after you have contacted the ATM SWIFT CARD CENTER and we do await your response so we can move on with our Investigation and make sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you. Thanks and hope to read from you soon. FBI Director Robert S.Mueller III. Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possesion of your ATM CARD, you are hereby adviced only to be in contact with Mr. Kelvin Williams of the ATM CARD CENTRE who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
2 Hits A Day
That's all I get on this blog. I guess what I find interesting is not so. Good bye until I have something I really have to get off my chest. :)
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Chrysler And Fiat Merge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7839542.stm
That's a big deal, no one is talking about it. I can only hope we can avoid a lot of gold chains showing up on Chrysler executives, but it might be an improvement if they do. We will have to watch and see. Kidding of course...
That's a big deal, no one is talking about it. I can only hope we can avoid a lot of gold chains showing up on Chrysler executives, but it might be an improvement if they do. We will have to watch and see. Kidding of course...
Well, That's Over...
A new era dawns in the US, the old is out and gone. Cheer up everyone and wait to see what happens. Give it 100 days. Don't wait that long to get involved and start doing your part though.
Monday, January 19, 2009
The World Looks To Obama??
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/obama_inauguration/7838475.stm
Um, if Obama wants any chance of a second term, all of you outside the US need to get a grip on reality. The US is very much like an injured animal right now and we need to go somewhere quiet and safe to lick our wounds. That might cause infection, but we will get over that in time. We are broke right now, so the money and aid has to stop.
The US will have to let the rest of the world sort out their own issues for a while. The agreement between the Ukraine and Russia today was a good sign of that being possible. Africa though is a coin toss, you all need a wake up call. Stop with the handouts and start taking care of your own. Stop killing your own!
America will be fine and it is up to all of the rest of the world to decide to take care of eachother without us, and get weened off the tit that has been the US policy for the last 60 years.
Zimbabwe Should Be Nuked
A fresh start is in order here. Just do it now and get it over with.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7836859.stm
How the hell is Mugabe even still alive? The average in Africa is way less than 84 years old. Especially after he too over.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7836859.stm
How the hell is Mugabe even still alive? The average in Africa is way less than 84 years old. Especially after he too over.
The KGB Strikes Again
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7838328.stm
Don't dare criticise the Russian government, if you live there. They have a bullet with your name on it.
Don't dare criticise the Russian government, if you live there. They have a bullet with your name on it.
The LRA And Taleban Share Tactics
The LRA burn down Churches with people still inside;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7837526.stm
The Taleban blow up schools so girls never learn how stupid the Taleban is;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7836875.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7837526.stm
The Taleban blow up schools so girls never learn how stupid the Taleban is;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7836875.stm
Inauguration
New York Times put up a neet overview of how things will go down tomorrow, cool.
http://projects.nytimes.com/44th_president/inauguration
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Gas To EU Resumes, For Now
This story has all the hallmarks of becoming a movie. It's gone on longer than anyone expected.
Yulia might be easy on the eyes, but I trust her about as much as my ex-wife, oh...that might be an over statement.
Bird Flu, Up To Bat
The next little problem we may have to deal with globally might be Bird Flu. This has dropped off the radar lately because of all the other crap going on. If you haven't read it, my Pandemic story will probably give you some tips on being prepared and coping. Link is at the top right.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/18/china.bird.flu/index.html
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Flight Of The Conchords
She's So Hot Boom! Funny guys. I don't get Showtime, so I never get to watch their show.
Most Beautiful Girl.
Israel Goes Too Far
I know they have to strike Hamas and they gave them plenty of warning, but using these cluster bombs is going over the line. Stick to the legal weapons so you don’t leave behind all of these little bomblets for children to find much later.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7834255.stm
Friday, January 16, 2009
Global Warming Is A Bitch
5PM, it is 12 degrees F, -11 Centigrade. The Wind Chill is -3 F. This sucks, I will smoke inside tonight, something I rarely do.
6pm, it is 10 degrees F, -12 Centigrade. The Wind Chill is 0 F, -18C. I am looking at property in Florida.
11PM, it is 7 degrees F, -14 Centigrade. The Wind Chill is -2 F.
6pm, it is 10 degrees F, -12 Centigrade. The Wind Chill is 0 F, -18C. I am looking at property in Florida.
11PM, it is 7 degrees F, -14 Centigrade. The Wind Chill is -2 F.
Thailand Used To Be A Friend
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7832905.stm
This is just creeping me out, what the hell are they doing this for? You can't just toss immigrants into a boat and send them sailing away with no food and water.
This is just creeping me out, what the hell are they doing this for? You can't just toss immigrants into a boat and send them sailing away with no food and water.
The LRA Are The New Christian Crusaders
Pretty fantastic that they hack off limbs and kill children, something we haven't seen like this since the 11th century.
Circuit City Is Toast
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7834250.stm
This doesn't bother me in the least. I have been to the store more than once and hated the visit every time. So, be the well.
This doesn't bother me in the least. I have been to the store more than once and hated the visit every time. So, be the well.
Megumi Fujii Is A Monster
And I am totally in love with her. I would live in fear of her every second I was near her, but you can't ignore the power...
This is her trouncing Cindy Hales.
She wins this fight in 20 seconds, fucking ruthless..
Here she owns the other gal's arm.
This is her trouncing Cindy Hales.
She wins this fight in 20 seconds, fucking ruthless..
Here she owns the other gal's arm.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Kill The Wabbit!
Apparently, these screwy rabbits are eating everything on Macquarie Island, near the Antarctic. I gues the need some pussy down there.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7824153.stm
I Love Technology
I picked up the snazzy Sansa Clip MP3 player. $72 US, not bad. Last week I loaded it up with a bunch of MP3s ( no problems at all) by just dragging and dropping them once I connected it to my Vista machine.
Today I connect it to two Vista machines and as soon as I did, the PCs rebooted. That's pretty annoying. No firmware updates to fix that are available either. The CD included with the device just wants to install Rhapsody, um, no thanks. I don't want that or iTunes on my computers to manage files that I can just copy over (duh).
All in all, I will sort out the problems. I found out if I connect the device with the computer off, then turn on the computer, it doesn't force a reboot. Maybe it's the virus software, who knows!? Not the manufacturer, their support page is pure shit.
I did a test of the FM radio and reception is not great, but it's a good feature for a runner that likes C-Span or whatever top 40 station in your area has a kick ass signal. I also tested the audio recording feature and it's not going to work for meetings in a room larger than a bathroom with only one stall, unless everyone yells. It should be ok for recording notes to yourself or an interview with two people close together. Just keep it on a flat surface that is stable and don't move it around at all.
The earphones that come with it are cheap at best, but it does seem to hold a charge pretty well. The menus are not intuitive, so take the time to read the manual. You will get the hang of it in time.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Chavez Will Not Go Away
Yeah, Hugo will just not give up. Reminds me a little of Putin, in what used to be Russia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7829920.stm
That's "democracy" for you. Wait 10 years and the UN will be knee deep in South America (ha ha), trying to not have a war that has to be had.
I hear he is quietly trying to sell oil to America now, because his own people are pissed he isn't delivering. That oil will run out, but they never think about that, do they?
Bailout Who??
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/business/economy/14bank.html?_r=1&
This says the US bank loans could be doing more harm than good! They are just using the money we gave them to pay off loans to the US Fed (where it came from) thus wiping out their loans to the US Government! This is insane, they are supposed to be lending this money to businesses to improve the economy. We seem to be very fucking doomed.
This says the US bank loans could be doing more harm than good! They are just using the money we gave them to pay off loans to the US Fed (where it came from) thus wiping out their loans to the US Government! This is insane, they are supposed to be lending this money to businesses to improve the economy. We seem to be very fucking doomed.
The Prisoner Is Dead
I loved the show, as quirky and convoluted as it was. Patrick McGoohan was also the original "Secret Agent Man", which fed right into the Prisoner show.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7829267.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7829267.stm
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Red Skelton
If you don't know who this dud is, I strongly encourage you and everyone you know to watch the Red Skelton special on PBS this March. He was a genius and in his Comedy, I always see him holding back on doing something totally over the top. The censors back then were very strict. If he had been born in 1965, he would be on top of the world today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/arts/television/13red.html?ref=arts
I Have Gas
So says Russia. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7826142.stm
I was reading in Pravda (really, it's online)that Russia is the good guy and the bad guy is Ukraine. They need a mediator to sort this out, or much of Europe will freeze. I hope the EU is looking at different options for heating their homes, and no, I am not making a house fire joke...so stop it.
When you only hear one side of the story, it's pretty impossible to know what the real truth is, probably something in the middle of both sides.
I was reading in Pravda (really, it's online)that Russia is the good guy and the bad guy is Ukraine. They need a mediator to sort this out, or much of Europe will freeze. I hope the EU is looking at different options for heating their homes, and no, I am not making a house fire joke...so stop it.
When you only hear one side of the story, it's pretty impossible to know what the real truth is, probably something in the middle of both sides.
Where's The Posts?
I wanted to let my reader know that I am sorry that the posts have been a little lean the last few days. I have been working late to cover some projects and have been challenged with getting to the Blog.
I hope to get back to this Mom, so you have something to read.
Love always...
I hope to get back to this Mom, so you have something to read.
Love always...
Monday, January 12, 2009
How's Your Combat SUV?
This son of a bitch kicks ass. How great would it be to whip out the machine gun and lay into some asshole that just cut you off?
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Violent Demonstrations Over Gaza In London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/10/gaza-london-protest-march
Apparently thing are heating up in the UK over this, it's not on the BBC front page though. Had to dig a little..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7821928.stm
Apparently thing are heating up in the UK over this, it's not on the BBC front page though. Had to dig a little..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7821928.stm
David Gilmour Girls
http://www.divshare.com/download/6250915-631
Click play only, nothing else on this page is safe.
Oh, I get jokes.
Click play only, nothing else on this page is safe.
Oh, I get jokes.
Headman
Moisture..
On And On..
I like this mix, it isn't the original, that's below;
There's other free stuff here; http://www.headman.org/
On And On..
I like this mix, it isn't the original, that's below;
There's other free stuff here; http://www.headman.org/
Fiddling With Gene's
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7819651.stm
While this sounds great, I am so scared that we are going to create something terrible, as man continues to play around with Genetics. We could wind up leaving ourselves prone to some other problem.
Black Jesus
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4206901/Sacha-Baron-Cohens-black-Jesus-to-shock-America.html
I guess I don't understand what the big deal is whether Jesus was white or black? He would stand for the same thing either way, right? Would all these white evangelical types be offended to worship a black man? Historically, I think Jesus was actually Jewish, just like Sammy Davis Jr.
In the Philippines they have the "Black Nazarene" and no one seems to be bothered at all...
http://www.philippines.hvu.nl/culture4.htm
I guess I don't understand what the big deal is whether Jesus was white or black? He would stand for the same thing either way, right? Would all these white evangelical types be offended to worship a black man? Historically, I think Jesus was actually Jewish, just like Sammy Davis Jr.
In the Philippines they have the "Black Nazarene" and no one seems to be bothered at all...
http://www.philippines.hvu.nl/culture4.htm
Friday, January 9, 2009
How's Your Unemployment??
Click to enlarge.This data is from the US Department Of Labor. It shows the Unemployment rate when Clinton took office after Reagan, up to 2000 when Bush #2 took over. See a trend in this data??
I do, Republicans leave the US unemployed when they leave office and the Democrats spend their whole term trying to fix it. Am I the only one who sees the "Distribution Of Wealth" upward under Republicans??
http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=LNS14000000
Dragonball Movie Trailers
Click the link near the bottom to watch in Hi(er) Def.
I found a site that had a pic of Goku going Blond, but my freaking cable modem died and I lost it seconds after hitting "post". Very annoying.
A lesser trailer is below;
Volume Control Missing
On my work Vista machine, the Volume Control and Network icons keep dissapearing from the Tray Notification Area. I gave up tyring to configure them to stay put, so I just created a shortcut on my Desktop to C:\Windows\System32\SndVol.exe.
I give up.
I give up.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Madoff Is Busted
He is toast, screwed, bent, busted, nailed, tagged and any other word you want to tack on to his sorry ass. I think the death penalty should be applicable, considering how he made sure his "buddies" on the front end of this scam (who should all be in jail too) made millions and everyone on the tail end was in the shitter.
This guy makes me realize everyone, Jews, Catholics, Arabs, white/black/red/green...we are all corruptible and it only takes a little greed to do that. The problem is, you can't get caught. When you are, everyone will help warm up a red-hot polker to shove up your ass. Idiot.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7818821.stm
I really hope you get what you have coming to you, along with your co-conspirators Bernie. You have heard of "CARMA"? Even the Jews have to deal with Carma, it transcends religion.
This guy makes me realize everyone, Jews, Catholics, Arabs, white/black/red/green...we are all corruptible and it only takes a little greed to do that. The problem is, you can't get caught. When you are, everyone will help warm up a red-hot polker to shove up your ass. Idiot.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7818821.stm
I really hope you get what you have coming to you, along with your co-conspirators Bernie. You have heard of "CARMA"? Even the Jews have to deal with Carma, it transcends religion.
So My World Is Strange..
Yeah, I have been trying to cut back the Rat population around my home, but today that charter was unexpectedly expanded.
I tried to look up what kind of bird this is, but all of the Internet sites are full of crap sites that want a membership or credit card, so I will guess it is a Mocking Bird or baby Woodpecker. In either case, it is a stupid bird that got snaged in a trap bated with cheese. Birds don't eat cheese, right? This is not staged.
I can only accept the fact that when real Zombies do walk the earth, the first ones will show up at my house. That type of chaos seems to follow me always. I had might as well embrace it.
I tried to look up what kind of bird this is, but all of the Internet sites are full of crap sites that want a membership or credit card, so I will guess it is a Mocking Bird or baby Woodpecker. In either case, it is a stupid bird that got snaged in a trap bated with cheese. Birds don't eat cheese, right? This is not staged.
I can only accept the fact that when real Zombies do walk the earth, the first ones will show up at my house. That type of chaos seems to follow me always. I had might as well embrace it.
The Eye Doctor
I went to The Eye Doctor yesterday. I have been to different ones on and off for almost 20 years now. The one single thing I always hated before this was the dreaded puff of air in the eye. The great news was that they didn’t do that at this place. I was in heaven!
I arrived early (as directed) to find everyone except a optician named Helene (pronounced “Helleen”) there. Everyone else was at lunch. I imagined the rest of the staff at a sports Bar throwing Darts and slapping each other on the back and ass-grabbing.
I waited 20 the minutes that I was supposed to have spent getting there early for paperwork; reading Entertainment Weekly and listening to Helene and the whale of a sales lady running down the engorged list of products she was hawking.
It went like this;
W: “Want number 102”?
H: “Yes, twelve of those”.
W: “Want number 42”?
H: “What’s the specs. on those, I need details on these and what are they made of”?
W: “That’s on the flyer in your hands”.
H: “Oh, so it is”.
W: “Want number 103”?
H: “Yes, twelve of those”…
I was looking at the edge of the pages in the magazine and wondered if they were sharp enough to slit my wrists when finally; the receptionist appeared! My heat soared as I approached the desk five minutes later when she called me.
She asked for my “referral” and um, crap…I left it in the car. Be right back. I rode the slowest elevator known to man 7 floors down to the main level and out to the parking lot to get the paper.
I toyed with the thought of having a smoke, since I had already been waiting over a half hour. I didn’t have one and just gathered the parchment and headed back to the office.
Once there, I was given the stack of papers to fill out. Shortly after I started, an Oriental gentleman appeared near me and was filling out the same paperwork. I noticed he finished each sheet with a flourished flip and I became competitive. If he finished his paperwork before me, he might get to see the Doctor first! I went into overdrive writing like I did in 5th Grade, everything abbreviated and as legible as my scribbles in kindergarten. I won. I went first.
I was called by a kid who I thought must be a real prodigy to be a Doctor so young. He turned out to be the assistant. I went through a series of “tests” and not a single one was explained to me. I finally asked the kid who he was and he explained his “station” in the office. He left me alone and I immediately started playing with the machines in the room and when I got bored, got up and started reading the six diplomas on the wall.
I like to do this to every new Doctor I visit, just to send the message to these people that fake certificates will not fly here in the US.
Dr. Kato appeared (not his real name) appeared shortly and caught me inspecting his wall coverings. We shook hands and he went straight into the examination, no small talk.
Things started off pretty normal, looking at my eyes with different gadgets and after about 10 minutes, he has my prescription filled out and completed. Wow, I thought this was fantastic. I wasn’t done, not by a mile.
Kato pulled out this yellow fluid and just told me to look up at the ceiling. I hate drops in my eyes, but after a few punches and a headlock, he got them in. They burned. THEN he pulls out this toy that looks like a shotgun on a swivel and points it into my right eye. I was blinded by the light shining and he kept moving this thing closer and closer until he actually made contact with my eye.
Ok, I don’t like things touching my eye or my eyelashes; they are very sensitive, by design. Needless to say, I was writhing around in the chair like a mental patient.
Once the torture was over I was sent to visit with Helene. She gave me a “mock-up” of the new prescription and immediately started a hard sell on some really fancy lenses. When she brought up my medical coverage, she started searching her broken ass computer to verify mine. It didn’t come up with anything, so she had to back off the hard sell for now and gave me a bunch of papers to read over before I came back to see her once I had my coverage figured out (like I will).
Then she said, “I have to dilate your eyes”.
I had a mental visual flash of this hag flashing me, which would at the very least have dilated my retinas, maybe to the point of blindness.
Instead, the witch pulled out two more eye droppers and asked me to look at the ceiling. Once again, I was doing something I hate more than needles and broken bones.
I was sent to wait, unable to read the many papers I had, because my vision was blurred by all of the eye drops. Eventually the kid came to check on me as I stared blindly into space. I was cooked.
He took me back into the torture chamber to wait for Kato, who appeared shortly and asked me to get off the floor and stop cowering behind the chair.
I sat back and was shackled into the chair while Dr. Kato positioned the next round of torture instruments in front of me. The time, it was a device similar to a bazooka with a beacon that can be seen from space on the end of it.
As Kato pointed the device directly into the center of my brain, he asked me to open my eyes as wide as possible and look at the ceiling. I was fine until he had the tip of the blinding beacon so close to my eye that it was tapping my eyelashes and triggering involuntary blinking.
Kato shortly decided to hold my eyes open manually, much like Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange. It only made things worse. As I lashed out at him, he used his Ninja moves to block my attacks; I was pinned in the chair and helpless.
I gave up and he had me looking up, down left and right like I was at the Air Show watching a stunt plane race. All the while, he was blinding me with the immense beacon on the end of the bazooka. I writhed as much as I could, to no avail.
I was close to losing consciousness when it ended and I was set free. Certainly Kato was happy with my level of torture. Now I only had to go drop off the $25 co-pay and when I asked about validating the cost of the parking. Carol, behind the desk, pointed to the little sign that read “We don’t validate Parking”.
Feeling like I had just been gang raped, I left the office, sniffled my way to my car and paid the $5 parking fee before I was finally out and headed to the Mountains of Austria!
I arrived early (as directed) to find everyone except a optician named Helene (pronounced “Helleen”) there. Everyone else was at lunch. I imagined the rest of the staff at a sports Bar throwing Darts and slapping each other on the back and ass-grabbing.
I waited 20 the minutes that I was supposed to have spent getting there early for paperwork; reading Entertainment Weekly and listening to Helene and the whale of a sales lady running down the engorged list of products she was hawking.
It went like this;
W: “Want number 102”?
H: “Yes, twelve of those”.
W: “Want number 42”?
H: “What’s the specs. on those, I need details on these and what are they made of”?
W: “That’s on the flyer in your hands”.
H: “Oh, so it is”.
W: “Want number 103”?
H: “Yes, twelve of those”…
I was looking at the edge of the pages in the magazine and wondered if they were sharp enough to slit my wrists when finally; the receptionist appeared! My heat soared as I approached the desk five minutes later when she called me.
She asked for my “referral” and um, crap…I left it in the car. Be right back. I rode the slowest elevator known to man 7 floors down to the main level and out to the parking lot to get the paper.
I toyed with the thought of having a smoke, since I had already been waiting over a half hour. I didn’t have one and just gathered the parchment and headed back to the office.
Once there, I was given the stack of papers to fill out. Shortly after I started, an Oriental gentleman appeared near me and was filling out the same paperwork. I noticed he finished each sheet with a flourished flip and I became competitive. If he finished his paperwork before me, he might get to see the Doctor first! I went into overdrive writing like I did in 5th Grade, everything abbreviated and as legible as my scribbles in kindergarten. I won. I went first.
I was called by a kid who I thought must be a real prodigy to be a Doctor so young. He turned out to be the assistant. I went through a series of “tests” and not a single one was explained to me. I finally asked the kid who he was and he explained his “station” in the office. He left me alone and I immediately started playing with the machines in the room and when I got bored, got up and started reading the six diplomas on the wall.
I like to do this to every new Doctor I visit, just to send the message to these people that fake certificates will not fly here in the US.
Dr. Kato appeared (not his real name) appeared shortly and caught me inspecting his wall coverings. We shook hands and he went straight into the examination, no small talk.
Things started off pretty normal, looking at my eyes with different gadgets and after about 10 minutes, he has my prescription filled out and completed. Wow, I thought this was fantastic. I wasn’t done, not by a mile.
Kato pulled out this yellow fluid and just told me to look up at the ceiling. I hate drops in my eyes, but after a few punches and a headlock, he got them in. They burned. THEN he pulls out this toy that looks like a shotgun on a swivel and points it into my right eye. I was blinded by the light shining and he kept moving this thing closer and closer until he actually made contact with my eye.
Ok, I don’t like things touching my eye or my eyelashes; they are very sensitive, by design. Needless to say, I was writhing around in the chair like a mental patient.
Once the torture was over I was sent to visit with Helene. She gave me a “mock-up” of the new prescription and immediately started a hard sell on some really fancy lenses. When she brought up my medical coverage, she started searching her broken ass computer to verify mine. It didn’t come up with anything, so she had to back off the hard sell for now and gave me a bunch of papers to read over before I came back to see her once I had my coverage figured out (like I will).
Then she said, “I have to dilate your eyes”.
I had a mental visual flash of this hag flashing me, which would at the very least have dilated my retinas, maybe to the point of blindness.
Instead, the witch pulled out two more eye droppers and asked me to look at the ceiling. Once again, I was doing something I hate more than needles and broken bones.
I was sent to wait, unable to read the many papers I had, because my vision was blurred by all of the eye drops. Eventually the kid came to check on me as I stared blindly into space. I was cooked.
He took me back into the torture chamber to wait for Kato, who appeared shortly and asked me to get off the floor and stop cowering behind the chair.
I sat back and was shackled into the chair while Dr. Kato positioned the next round of torture instruments in front of me. The time, it was a device similar to a bazooka with a beacon that can be seen from space on the end of it.
As Kato pointed the device directly into the center of my brain, he asked me to open my eyes as wide as possible and look at the ceiling. I was fine until he had the tip of the blinding beacon so close to my eye that it was tapping my eyelashes and triggering involuntary blinking.
Kato shortly decided to hold my eyes open manually, much like Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange. It only made things worse. As I lashed out at him, he used his Ninja moves to block my attacks; I was pinned in the chair and helpless.
I gave up and he had me looking up, down left and right like I was at the Air Show watching a stunt plane race. All the while, he was blinding me with the immense beacon on the end of the bazooka. I writhed as much as I could, to no avail.
I was close to losing consciousness when it ended and I was set free. Certainly Kato was happy with my level of torture. Now I only had to go drop off the $25 co-pay and when I asked about validating the cost of the parking. Carol, behind the desk, pointed to the little sign that read “We don’t validate Parking”.
Feeling like I had just been gang raped, I left the office, sniffled my way to my car and paid the $5 parking fee before I was finally out and headed to the Mountains of Austria!
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The US Porn Industry Wants A Bailout Too
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
This is 5 Billion I can get behind. It is of course, a total joke. The porn industry in the US is very healthy.
I May Have Made A Mistake
It seems Obama thinks he can run the US so far into debt, that we will be all "hunkie-dori". I have never heard of a company or person that did better by carrying a load of debt, have you??
I don't know what they are spoon feeding each other up on Capitol Hill, but I am really getting scared about all this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7816035.stm
In a related story, we know where the $700 Billion Dollar Baiout went;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7815827.stm
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Ok Apple, Now I Am Listening!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7813527.stm
I hated iTunes and the way "Apple" tried to force it down my throat every time I needed a security update for Quicktime, so I have been saying fuck you and just buying CDs.
With this change, the huge library at Apple will open up (without iTunes, I hope) so we haters can get at them. I like the pricing changes too, you can still get a typical CD for the same price as downloads, I think.
I hated iTunes and the way "Apple" tried to force it down my throat every time I needed a security update for Quicktime, so I have been saying fuck you and just buying CDs.
With this change, the huge library at Apple will open up (without iTunes, I hope) so we haters can get at them. I like the pricing changes too, you can still get a typical CD for the same price as downloads, I think.
"We Will Not Be Silent"
I need to get one of these shirts, does anyone know where I can pick one up? I hear they can earn you a quarter million!
Monday, January 5, 2009
Dear Barack:
Hey, just wanted to drop you a line to let you know all this "spending" the US Government is doing is getting completely out of hand. Any idea how you will pay for ANY of this? Oh right, we can't "worry" about that right now. Right?
I say Wrong. We have to worry about it and address it now. Projections have over 10% of the US tax income going to just pay the interest on the National Debt. That is 10 cents plus, of every dollar I pay in taxes is going overseas and not working to help my own Country. We can't sustain or tolerate this. I want a tax cut, which will happen automatically when we eliminate the Debt.
I make less than $100K a year, but I would be more than happy to toss a couple grand into a pot explicitly to pay off the Principal on our Debt. Just don't take income tax out of it and keep it away from Congress. Actually, keep it away from the Treasury too; give it to Joe Biden or Hillary and let them hand carry a check over to whatever Country we can pay off each year and lets start chipping away at this iceberg of debt. If we don't, the great ship America will hit that iceberg soon and sink like a stone.
That would be a very sad thing.
Give the tax cuts to anyone making less than $60K, that is where I was at; and in a world of hurt. The rest of us can deal with where we are fine. Go attack the Debt, not Iran or Iraq. Unless they screw with us, of course.
I say Wrong. We have to worry about it and address it now. Projections have over 10% of the US tax income going to just pay the interest on the National Debt. That is 10 cents plus, of every dollar I pay in taxes is going overseas and not working to help my own Country. We can't sustain or tolerate this. I want a tax cut, which will happen automatically when we eliminate the Debt.
I make less than $100K a year, but I would be more than happy to toss a couple grand into a pot explicitly to pay off the Principal on our Debt. Just don't take income tax out of it and keep it away from Congress. Actually, keep it away from the Treasury too; give it to Joe Biden or Hillary and let them hand carry a check over to whatever Country we can pay off each year and lets start chipping away at this iceberg of debt. If we don't, the great ship America will hit that iceberg soon and sink like a stone.
That would be a very sad thing.
Give the tax cuts to anyone making less than $60K, that is where I was at; and in a world of hurt. The rest of us can deal with where we are fine. Go attack the Debt, not Iran or Iraq. Unless they screw with us, of course.
More "Feel Good"..
I hear Marley And Me pulled in 106 Million dollars so far and at $10 per person, that is about 10.6 Million people.
And they are all walking around depressed and crying now, which is exactly what you want after the Holidays when the country is in a Recession. Way to go guys! Nice marketing job with a "comedy" slant, when in reality people are walking out of the theater in tears and feeling like hell.
I have heard complaints from parents who took their little kids, because the commercials looked so zany and the little ones were traumatized.
Kids Elope Too
Kids are sooo cute eh? I would tan thier asses for trying this. And I had a hangover too!
China Makes The Internet Better?
Looks like Las Vegas to me.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7811550.stm
I guess it will be up to the people to decide if it's better or not. I wonder if they will block my Blog!?
One would this this giant of a Country would try to focus on stopping all the tainted products that are killing our kids and theirs?
Sunday, January 4, 2009
When I Was Two
(Oh the humanity!)
The Civil Rights Act was passed and Racism in America began to slowly “change”.
The Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan for the first time.
Harpo Marx died.
My Parents were in love.
The “space race” was moving along, Russia backed off the “moon landing” concept because Khrushchev thought it would be too expensive. He later was pressured into backing a moon landing.
The Cold War was still on.
190,000 US soldiers are deployed in Vietnam.
Lawrence of Arabia won best picture at the Oscar’s.
Tony Bennett won record of the year with I Left My Heart in San Francisco.
A first class stamp cost 5 cents.
The US National Debt was already at 316 Billion dollars.
The US Surgeon General announces “smoking causes cancer”.
When I Was One
(I have not yet mastered cuttlery)
Racism was still accepted in America, but Martin Luther King gave his “I have a dream” speech.
John Kennedy was assassinated and LBJ took over as the US President.
My Parents were in love.
The “space race” was in high gear, John Glen made three successful orbits around the earth.
The Cold War was still on and Russia and the US decide it’s prudent to setup a “hotline” between the two countries to avoid a bonehead nuclear attack.
No one knew where Vietnam was, except the 15000 military “advisors” staying there, from the US.
Lawrence of Arabia won best picture at the Oscar’s.
Tony Bennett won record of the year with I Left My Heart in San Francisco.
A first class stamp cost 4 cents.
When I Was Born
(Yeah, that is me)
Racism was still accepted in America, they had separate bathrooms (everything) for whites and blacks.
John Kennedy was the US President.
My parents were in love.
The “space race” was on. Sputnik 1 had been launched five years earlier and Russian Yuri Gagarin was already the first man to reach earth orbit.
The Cold War was on.
No one knew where Vietnam was.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Israel Has Invaded Gaza
The last time Israel did this (try to occupy Gaza) it was a nightmare. They need to hit hard, then; leave. Starve them out would probably be the best tactic for both sides. If Israel opens up the path to Lebanon the Palestinians could go there and off to their real "home lands".
Friday, January 2, 2009
Sri Lanka Fights Back
These Tamil Tigers have been a thorn in the side of a legitimate government. Glad to see them making some progress against their terrorists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7807908.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7807908.stm
Daytrotter
A great site for anyone interested in hearing music outside the "main stream".
http://www.daytrotter.com/alphabetical
It's a lot of media to wade through, but you will be a better music fan as you get to it.
http://www.daytrotter.com/alphabetical
It's a lot of media to wade through, but you will be a better music fan as you get to it.
The Husbands
http://www.swamirecords.com/the_husbands.html
Free MP3 downloads here; http://members.cox.net/thehusbands/
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Gazprom Cut's It Off
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7806870.stm
Russia has cut the natural gas supply to their western neighbors and parts of Europe. I suppose they can hope for a mild winter?
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