i'm watching VH1's Rock Honors which is kinda fun, altho when it came time for Def Leppard", i had to laugh at Rick Savage. if you click the link, you'll see what i'm talking about (he's 2nd from the right in the group shot on the home page). i hadn't realized that the band had a girl in the group. i'm presuming it's inspired by the whole glam rock look which much of their current cd Yeah! is composed of, but still, that's a bit much.
all in all, i thought it was pretty enjoyable. i liked that they had interview footage of Freddie which was cool. (i think paul rogers flubbed they lyrics to Show Must Go On.) kiss didn't overly impress me, but i think part of their magic is the spectacle that is kiss. it was certainly more entertaining than reruns and stupid reality shows.
eyeball spotting:
life is not a kettle of fish
-frank burns (M*A*S*H)
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
stupid is as stupid does
got a help desk request today, and here is everything:
Contact Name:
Problem: Need to have my new DEll business laptop looked at as there are application issues/wireless connectivity issues Let me know when you have time and I will detail Thanks
fortunately, we know who sent it, but it reminded me of a favorite site of mine which i know i've blogged on in the past.
i (re-)present...
The Chronicles of George
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
20 years (and a day)
i meant to post this yesterday, but i forgot.
happy birthday Rhea.
May 29, 1986 - July 26, 1999
i still miss my puppy. Read More......
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Thursday, May 25, 2006
my landlord is cool
prolly 2-3 weeks ago, i managed to run over a nail, and in typical fashion, of course i never noticed, but last saturday when M and i were at whole foods (dangerous place...lotsa yummy there) we noticed that my right rear tire was looking awful low.
turns out it was sitting at 9 psi. my door says it should be ~32 psi. that's a problem. so i filled it up at a gas station (handily located across from whole foods) to the appropriate ~32 psi (think i did it to 34) and made a note to check it after a few days.
well, this afternoon i checked it after noticing that it was looking a little down and sure enuff, it was 22 psi (cold) so i headed home. i was planning on taking my spare down, fill it up and fill my leaky tire to last me to the weekend. as it happened, my landlord's racing tires arrived today (didn't know what they were until i saw them) and he was looking to get them mounted.
around the time he was tossing them into the back of his pickup, i went down to pull my spare out. as i'm extracting it, he asked the story, and then offered to bring it to NTB to get it fixed for me. it looks as tho it is a nail which is causing the slow leak, so it should be an easy fix. we spotted something else that was embedded, but i don't think that is the problem.
and....it's done. took a little longer than anticipated (~90 mins) so it was dark when it returned. so $20 later, i was about to find out that i can put a tire back on my car in ~10 mins. turns out i had 2 punctures, and they pulled the tire off the rim to check things out. KO said that they then mounted the tire backwards so they had to remount it again. but it's back on my car, tire pressure is where it should be and i'll check things out in the morning.
yay for silly people. yay for my landlord.
Friday, May 19, 2006
i'm not sure quite what to think of this...
this hurts
(WHAT THE FUCK WHAT HE THINKING????)
PHEW! this is MUUUUUUCH better
(they go round looking younger for a few days...then they need MORE)
but wait! there's MORE!
(you've run out of lies! fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckyoufuckmefuckallofus)
CEASE! FIRE! CEASE! FIRE!
(step by step, the mountain, YOU PRAY!)
jesus was the devil?
(let's hit the fucking road!)
i'm gonna laugh like a motherfucker!
and on a semi-(un)related note, i had never seen this:
Welcome my son...
welcome, to the machine
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
why do my eyes burn?
i'm sitting here, M*A*S*H on the tv and all of a sudden my eyes start to hurt. i couldn't figure it out, but when i looked out my window i saw the following:
what's the blue thing, or that big white round blob? why does it make my eyes burn?
Monday, May 15, 2006
a weather limerick
courtesy of our dear friends at Fark
There once was a man from Nantuckett
Who had to bail out his house with a bucket
For another week it will rain
Without hope for refrain
The weather tells New England: Suck it
(all credit to the submitter of the article)
Sunday, May 14, 2006
a·bys·mal: (adj) 1. Resembling an abyss in depth; unfathomable.
that is what today is. abysmal.
i'd say the amount of rain we had was going to be biblical, but it's not. that was 40 days and 40 nights if i recall (you know, moses, animals 2 by 2, etc). i think it was 40 days. whatever, i'm not one who really gives a damn about what the bible says unless it's my Eyeball buddies telling the tales.
we're only on day 7 of the rain, with the end looking like wednesday, but it's still hard to say if we won't get some sort of rain then as well. the bulk of the crapass weather we are currently getting is forecast to let up by tomorrow morning, but it doesn't hide the fact that this still sucks.
so a week ago i did the walk for hunger (20 miles) and it was a beautiful day. then that all went away and now it's been crappy ever since. there was a slight break with a little sun on wednesday (at least north of boston) but that gave way to the continual rain we've had since.
commutes on wednesday and thursday both blew chunks (or our word of the moment: abysmal). i made it thru most of 10,000 Days on wed., and all of Act 2 of Wormwood which means it was a pretty bad ride into work.
M & i had dinner in boston last night which was very enjoyable, altho the getting there and walking around in the rain thing sucked. at least by the time we headed to the restaurant, the rain had let up a bit and we didn't get the bottoms of our pants completely soaked.
saw blue man wednesday night w/JJ which was fun as well. i guess if you work in the insurance industry, vendors can be fun. we had 2nd row tickets (read: poncho seats) which was fun, but i was 1/2 hoping we'd have balcony seats so i could get a different view of the show (when M & i saw it a few years ago, our seats were a row or 2 back from where we sat on wednesday). the show had some changes, but they weren't as obvious as i was hoping so it was pretty much the same show i saw a few years ago. that's not to say it wasn't fun - it certainly was, but they certainly cram a lot of people into a small space and being under a poncho (needed only for 1 part in reality) made it a little too warm. the guy next to me bought a $9 Guinness - the most expensive one he ever had. sucker.
those are pretty much the highlights of my week.
so i'll end this little session with the final piece of the Wormwood performance as sung by Molly and Mr. Skull
Epilogue
(Singers)
Give that old time religion
That old time religion
That old time religion
It's good enough for me
[repeats]
So now, before we send you folks home, we want to make sure you understand our little stories are definitely not meant to be seen as Bible Bashing. While The Residents almost completely disagree with those who have held the Bible hostage in recent times, they still feel that the love, hate, power, passion and true depth of the human spirit is reflected in these pages and that's the reason we're still talking about this ancient amount of myths and mumbo jumbo today.
It was good for making millions
Selling platitudes to pilgrims
Who were bar-be-cuing children
So it's good enough for me
It was good for making blisters
On the penises of misters
Who were molesting their sisters
So it's good enough for me.
It was good for Sunday School
Where shame and guilt were taught by fools
Who were only being human
So it's good enough for me
So even if it's just a token
It was good for giving hope
To human spirits that were broken
So it's good enough for me
Thursday, May 11, 2006
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....
JJ was telling me about this last night at dinner, but this is too fucking funny not to share. i actually have a pen that looks like that...
Infidel's Revenge Pen
hooray for bacon!
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
i scored: 53.0572% - Super Geek
Monday, May 08, 2006
Sunday, May 07, 2006
20 miles is quite the hike
well, i managed to do it last year (after being conned into it), and after deciding at the last minute (last monday or tuesday), M & i did the 2006 Walk for Hunger with F. the three of us did it last year, and F was going to do it this year (#9 for her), but M & i waited until late to decide that we were willing to do it, and only if the weather was going to be nice.
to recap: last years weather was rainy, cold and miserable and we were all soaked.
this year: sunny, light breeze, clear skies, ~50 degrees to start, mid-60's when we were done.
score 1 for good weather. it made the walk a whole lot more enjoyable. the other part that made this years more enjoyable was this whole going to the gym thing - while i don't spend a ton of time on the treadmill, i'm in better condition to deal with a walk like this.
plus, it helped having done it last year so i knew where we were going and had a sense of where things were. but we had fun and enjoyed the walk. at the end, we weren't feeling like bow-legged cowboys and the walk back to the car wasn't bad at all. M & i got something to eat in chinatown and walking back to the car after that was harder than it was to get there from boston common. sitting down for a little while tightened us up a little bit, but all in all, we were feeling pretty good at the end.
walking up the stairs to get home wasn't the painful experience it was last year which was nice. the only injury i have is a pair of blisters on my pinky toes, so that's a nice improvement over last year. now i just need to make sure i don't pop them.
so, that's it. like last year, i took pictures of our adventure. so if i get around to it, i may post a few of them.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
brutal
yesterday and today, the mid-afternoon lull has been brutal. it hasn't been helped by the grey and rainy weather we currently have (and according to Cindy Fitzgibbon have desparately needed) which is playing hell with my afternoons.
staring blindly at my laptop, or reading (not overly stimulating material) has been making me feel like a mindless drone. all of this isn't helped by the office being warm so with all of these factors, it is making it hard to stay awake in the mid afternoons. usually, if the weather is warm and sunny, i'll get out for a little while, but on days like this, my butt doesn't move far from my chair and i start to fade out.
Cindy says that it should be nicer tomorrow so hopefully that will help, but for the moment, i'm dragging. hopefully my tea will help.
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