this is just plain fucked up
so i leave you with the immortal words, spoken by one Willy Shatner while on SNL:
GET A LIFE!
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Thursday, November 24, 2005
turkey
quiet day today. it snowed. that sucked.
had turkey. that good.
it's cold. that sucks
couldn't say what i may be thankful for. maybe that i'm not stupid enuff to drag my ass out of bed at some ungodly hour to stand in line freezing my balls off only to get mugged by some rabid father who wants the box i have in my hands more than he thinks i want it.
so, i'll be thankful for the warm bed i'll be sleeping in.
Monday, November 21, 2005
huh...
who knew i authorized someone to add an address to an account of mine...
and it's not that far from the famed 405. i've been getting phishing emails from time to time for one of my accounts, but this time there was a real address. (i verified that it hadn't been added) (if you click on the hybrid button and zoom in, you get to see the house that addy apparently belongs to. this south central LA?)
i wonder if i should start mailing magazine subscriptions to Heywood Jablome there...
or Olive U. Fuqov.
eh, fuck 'em.
Sunday, November 20, 2005
nice
Pink Floyd was inducted to the UK Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the other day, and part of the introduction had people saying kind things about Pink Floyd. my favorite quote was Rick Wakeman's (of Yes):
"When the first list was being drawn up in the rock 'n' roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd."
now there's a bible i'd like to read.
you can read about the induction over at Brain Damage.
hahahahaha...
my crazy neighbor lady apparently had some problems with the plumbing in her apartment (prolly flushed something like a wash cloth down she shouldn't have, similar to what happened in my last apartment). so KO (landlord) tried to see what he could do, and after not fixing it, called the plumber who was going to stop by in the morning.
but, after a little while, KO showed back up and tried a few things and that apparently seems to have resolved the issue. (prolly bought industrial drano) so as he was leaving, the following dialog occurs:
KO: you're not allergic to this, are you?
CNL: what's that?
KO: it's just a little air freshener.
and he starts spraying.
and spraying.
and as he walks down the stairs, he continues spraying.
all i can say, and as i've said in the past, my crazy neighbor lady has got the funk. some serious funk. she's got the funk, a lot of funk....
i didn't appreciate that
this afternoon i decided to head out and look for a few things, and after picking up the paper, i headed out towards danvers to check a few things. silly me missed the ramp to get onto rte93, but i didn't care too much as it just meant i went a more direct (albeit a little slower) route to get over to 128.
i'm driving along, a mother with child pulls out in front of me (plenty of room, i wasn't going that fast, no arguement from me here) and after going a block, she goes to take a left. i'm fine with that (actually, the turn i usually take to go home). only this time, i'm watching oncoming traffic and out of the corner of my eye, i see in my mirror a large grille coming at me (trust me, it's a LOT bigger in person than it is in that picture). fast. the first thing that goes thru my mind is "don't you fucking think about it. i just paid off my loan, i don't want another one." then i think about the kid in the backseat of the car in front of me because while i'm not close, and both of us are at a stop, the odds are pretty good at the rate she was going, i would have hit the back end of the car in frotn of me.
fortunately, the bitch driving the fucking behemoth of a car hits the brakes and swerves to the left.
as she's doing that, i'm thinking again "oh fuck, she's going to hit me in the back left of my just paid off car and i haven't received my title yet."
FINALLY, she comes to a stop, and the car that was ONcoming has to slow down and swerve to miss getting nailed by her too. i'm watching all of this in my mirrors, and i can see the outline of heads in the back seat of HER car.
so i could have hit a car with a kid in it.
she had kids in her car.
this could have been one hell of a clusterfuck. and i would have been livid, not just because she would have creamed my newly paid off car, but that she endangered several kids (hers included) in the whole mess.
thankfully, nothing happened. the final thought i had in those few seconds was that i was about to become a statistic of being involved in some sort of car accident within a 5 mile radius of home.
i deliberately kept my pace slow once we started going and when she tried to swing wide around me at a rotary, i drifted a little more left to keep her from swinging around me (again, another safety issue) and on 128, i moved to keep myself away from her. at one point she did pass me (on the right, again, a no-no) and we both looked at each other and i had a hard time keeping from gesturing at her. but i figured i'd be the bigger man.
fucking bitch.
then, as i'm just past the 95 split, on the southbound side i see a pair of 18-wheelers, one of which has a crane or something holding the trailer up, and a lot of the contents are stacked up on the side of the road.
and THEN, right before the exit for peabody, there was a 3 car accident (pick up rear ended, sedan crushed, 3rd car off to the side, front crunched). as we were waiting for the merge to single file, a guy in a jeep cherokee went blowing by, apparently the husband of the woman whose car was crushed. it looked as tho there were no injuries, but i couldn't help but think that things are pretty fucked up today if i'm nearly involved in an accident, an 18-wheeler needing assistance (i was guessing the crane was there to right the truck after rolling) and then the 3 car accident.
i'd just like to say this - SLOW DOWN and be mindful of the drivers around you.
if you need to yell at your kids while driving, pull over. don't do it while driving too fast and are about to crash into me. think when you drive. use your head. remember, when you don't, you not only endanger yourself, but EVERYONE around you, including anyone in your car.
Saturday, November 19, 2005
while i'm at it, Uncle Sammy Black Lager is pretty tasty. i hadn't had it before so i figured i'd try it. i like it.
Read More......nitwits...
normally, i don't give a rats ass about college football. i find it distasteful. i think it stems more from how there seem to be all of these different divisions, and you have colleges that play in this or that division. and then to confuse matters, colleges are part of a different division that goes 1, 2, 3. and depending on which division your school is in, determines how much (or little) recruiting the school can do for their teams. i went to a D3 school, but just north of us was a D1 school. yet neither school would ever play itself because of this whole different division thing.
anyways, fuck them all. that's not what i'm complaining about. the news showed 2 highlights (harvard/yale, BC/Maryland) and in BOTH games, someone caught an interception in the end zone, and what did they do? they RAN. and were promptly tackled just outside the end zone. had they just dropped to a knee in the end zone, their offence would have started at the 20 yard line.
instead, they start with crappy field position.
even in pro football, they do it. that whole 'glory' thing. why cripple your offense if you can get them better field position by going down? don't they drill this whole "there is no 'I' in team" thing?
nitwits...
this seems rather silly
one of the top stories on the news tonight was how Shaws tattled on Whole Foods and how they were planning on opening on turkey day.
apparently, according to the massychooshits blue(balls) laws, the only stores allowed to open on turkey day are gas stations and convienience stores.
so, i decided to see if i could find out what they said. i don't see anything that states explicitly that they can't, but as veteran's day was last week, i started wondering if all of those stores (like Macy's, Sears, malls) that opened early for veteran's day sales could actually be fined for opening before 1pm.
hmmmm....
still no spud trooper. altho looking at that picture, with the stupid grin under the helmet is kinda disturbing...
a funny
had a funny moment at CVS this afternoon. while waiting to pay, one of the cashiers apparently knew the customer she was waiting on, and she reached over for the current issue of men's fitness magazine, and with her hand, covered the head of the guy on the cover. (fit, typical 6-pack abs)
she asked the customer if she thought this guy was attractive, and after a non-committal answer, she moved her hand to reveal a guy who wasn't overly attractive (i thought he looked like adrian brody) and then asked if she ever listened to howard stern, and then proceded to explain the concept of 'butterface'
knowing the term, i had to stop myself from laughing. thank you fark for educating me.
Friday, November 18, 2005
i can't help it
i think this is funny. it's ultimately tragic, as the death of someone isn't particularly funny, but all i can say is this:
pat robertson is a FUCKING IDIOT.
i know most people who think like i do (eg: using a brain) prolly agree, but i don't see him ever realizing that the moment he opens his mouth, he speaks nothing but rancid garbage.
sure, installing a metal detector will do WONDERS...
quite productive today
today was my first day off in i don't know how long, but i suppose labor day would technically count.
kinda weird not having to worry about going into work, but it was nice to wake up at 8am and think about how i wasn't going to be stuck in traffic.
made it to the gym and had a pretty good workout. i like having a bit more time to do things, as well as go thru my little routine at a more leisurely pace. came back, showered and started planning for the afternoon.
mailed my brother's bday present (a little late), got my oil changed, picked up a bottle of wine i wanted to try (and will), adjusted my auto-payment for my credit card, called and had them fix my interest rate which i hadn't been paying attention to (bad me, but apparently if you put a large purchase on your credit card, they screw you in the ass with a pressure treated 4x4 decking post for shits and giggles. i so want to buy something of significant value with my credit card now, don't you?). and now i sit here semi-relishing in the idea that i did nothing work related (except for 1 email to provide an update to a loaner in question) all day.
i almost replied to mosquito asking why she couldn't send a clinician an email, but to try and explain that the per-visit clinicians don't get email would take more time than it was worth. i'll let CL deal with it on monday.
so all in all, i've had a really good week. work was busy, but it usually is. paid off my car. got a haircut. went to dinner and theater with friends. saw Saw II. did what i did today, i must say, i've had a halfway decent week for a change. the only thing that really sucks is that i should be in SC at a wedding (with a side-jaunt to Chas?) but i'll keep my mouth shut for the moment.
now i need to head out and see about getting something for my rens. so today could be even more productive...
Thursday, November 17, 2005
stunning
i listened to this story narrated by Howard Dully and how he underwent a transorbital lobotomy at 12 years old as i drove home yesterday.
please take 23 minutes to listen to this story.
you will be amazed. you will be horrified.
there are very frank descriptions of the procedure.
and thru it all, Mr. Dully narrates the story with an almost unnerving calm.
all i can say is this:
Thank you Mr. Dully for sharing your incredible and terrifying story.
there is a second story here, which looks like the source for the NPR story (don't have real player codec installed, so i can't listen to it right now). it also looks to have some more links that NPR didn't seem to have.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
lesse....
had an ok weekend last weekend. actually, strike that, i had a pretty good weekend.
i paid off my car loan, so i now own my car (as i have already posted) so that was a great way to start the day. got my hair cut, which didn't take long which was good cuz we got there late. (my fault - i forgot our tickets for the evening entertainment so M had to drive us back for me to grab them) drove to F's to pick her up and headed into boston for dinner and entertainment with TK and K. note to anyone driving into boston going 93N (from the braintree split) - if you are going to chinatown/theater district, the exit you want to take is the South Station exit. which is ~2 miles BEFORE the city. thank you big dig.
had dinner at P.F. Chang's which wasn't bad. K made the comment that it seemed to be a little silly to eat at a chain chinese restaurant when we could walk 2 blocks east and eat in chinatown. (the decision was in part because we wanted something a little on the neutral side, not knowing what everyone's tastes were, but next time we go to the theater (Spamalot?), we'll eat in chinatown. lotsa yummy stuff there.)
afterwards, we headed to the wilbur for the One-Man Star Wars Trilogy. it was pretty good, altho TK and i both thought that for what the tickets cost, an hour long show was a little short....but he did manage to hit most of the important points. some of the aside comments were funny, and some sirens (ambulance type) outside the theater added a little to it as he started, stopped, restarted, stopped, looked towards the direction of the sirens and then commented on it.
he glossed over some things, so for full enjoyment, you need to know the movies pretty well. M&F both enjoyed it, but would get lost as he would bounce from plot point to plot point. (i found the same problem periodically). TK enjoyed it, as did K. so good time had by all. there was some humor with the kids sitting behind us to kept asking their father what 'schwing' meant. (he kept telling them to shush)
afterwards, ice cream at Cold Stone. parted ways and headed home.
saw saw II on sunday. i liked the first one (loved the twist at the end), but i went in aware of the whole sequelitis (you know, that phenomenon where the sequel sucks?). so i wasn't expecting a whole lot. i was pleasantly suprised. it's not as good as the first one, but i enjoyed a great deal. some neat tricks, and this one had a nice twist to it too. definately see the first one first tho. and i guess they are looking to make a 3rd one, and given that this has done pretty much as well as the first one, a 3rd should make money too. (doesn't hurt that the movies didn't cost a whole lot to make, so that ROI thing is making the bean counters happy)
this morning at the gym, one of the guy's in the locker room said that the current marshall's commercial music reminded him of 70's porn music ("where's linda lovelace?"). those of us there laughed. (this is the same guy who said that barbie bush should have had an abortion. i like him. he says funny things.)
talked with M, and she gave me a review of Stealth.
it SUCKED.
in short, don't waste your money. it's not worth watching. on network tv.
oh, TK - here's something for Junior.
hahahaha...
Sunday, November 13, 2005
random bits
Saturday, November 12, 2005
i have done it
it took 58 monthly payments, but i have done it.
i OWN my car.
every piece of it.
every seat. every panel. every screw. every rust covered bolt.
free and clear, I OWN MY OWN CAR!
it is MINE MINE MINE MINE!!!!!
it's not the first car i have owned, that honor goes to my 1988 Jeep Cherokee, but this is the first car i have bought myself, and had to pay for myself. (dad turned the title to the Jeep over to me when i moved out here, so no money changed hands.)
i feel giddy.
Friday, November 11, 2005
i've pondered for some time what i want to do, but when i saw this all i could think of was this:
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN...
and for the record, i have no intention of ever doing something like that.
but DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN......
that's pretty cool.
reminds me of the comment Clive Barker has with his Books of Blood -
Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.
uhhhhhh....NO!
you really do know hollywood is out of ideas if they want to remake a classic like this.
a good example of thinking you are richer than god (but aren't)
a good example of thinking you speak for god (but don't)
what is the lesson we learn today?
Thursday, November 10, 2005
grrrr....
fortunately, it doesn't seem to affect me (yet), but i'm now mildly nervous about buying Sony/BMG cds. recently (last week), it came to light that one of the copy protection schemes they use behaves more like a rootkit (this is bad). i wish i could say 'to their credit' they addressed it pretty quickly once the fit hit the shan, but instead, they posted a fix that apparently when run, blue screens your PC/laptop/whatever.
now, this is WINDOWS ONLY, so you folks using Linux or Mac OS9/X are (a lot smarter than the rest of the windows users?) all set as it is targeting the biggest operating system.
so here are some (rather technical) links to look over:
- the original post by Mark Russinovich
- EFF nutshell of the issue, with links to the original post that brought this to light
- BBC coverage of the initial outcry
- a partial list of affected CDs
- start to repair the damage
- how to disable auto-run
as i mentioned above, it doesn't appear to affect me at the moment, but it certainly doesn't hurt that i tend to shy away from mainstream music, but it still worries me. what's next? by inserting a CD into your PC, they gain exclusive control of all data (personal, private, intimate, finances) and you forfeit any and all legal rights to that information? and your first and second born child too... Read More......
wow
someone actually posted part of my post about how i was glad the Red Sox didn't win (after being swept by the Chicago White Sox). i decided to google myself and ran across a link that pointed to this one.
it an interesting post, but i still stand by my statement. it will be interesting to see what happens now that Theo has left the Red Sox. (personal reason, professional dispute, whatever. i think it's a little of everything, but only Theo really knows. good luck Theo and thanks for what you were able to accomplish for Red Sox Nation.)
didn't think i'd be writing something about the Red Sox until next spring. go figure.
at least it's not stuffed....i had better not say it
someone found my page thru a google search, and it wasn't for something disturbing or freaky.
so i figured i'd look to see where i fell in the list, and i'll be damned - right now, i show up as the 3rd entry in the list. go figure.
at least it wasn't something like these two links (sequentially)
link #1
link #2
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
hmmm...they must have less strict age of consent laws overseas
maybe he should look here first.
note to self:
if ever i should happen to write a program (hahahahahaha!) that does something, i need to make sure that i don't use the word 'windows'.
(via slashdot)
good: the creation of Melanie's law
bad: drinking and driving
funny: i still say it's MEESE
really fucking stupid: drinking and driving, being pulled over with the following conversation -
Officer: You've heard of Melanie's Law?
Drunk: Yeah, I'm her uncle
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
i'm going to be selfish here...
it's my blog and i'll do whatever the hell i like. i picked up the Live8 dvds on the way home today. not so much for what it stands for (which is important) but for simply one reason.
Pink Floyd.
i admit it - i'm greedy for Pink Floyd. and it certainly didn't hurt that the performance (first for all 4 members since June 1981) was phenominal. and fortunately, Pink Floyd is one of the few bands (at least on the US rendition of the DVDs) that has a complete performance. so from the opening heartbeats (they were the only band that had (needed) no introduction) to the smiling band walking off stage, it's all captured. the only change from the original broadcast was when Roger thanks the crowd at the start of Money, is lowered so you barely hear it.
i've been flipping thru the rest of the discs (including the Floyd rehersal footage) and it's interesting. the biggest cut i noticed was with U2's set - between Verigo and One, there was the human rights bit that was cut out, which makes for a painful transition. plus at the end of One, they do a bit of Unchained Melody that is completely snipped, again another awkward edit.
otherwise, it's not bad. very nice transfer, and the 5.1 audio isn't really used for anything other than crowd noise. except for Money which uses it for the cash registers. and speaking of Money, it sounds like they did slow the beginning slightly (the backing tape played a little too quickly, so they had to slow it down when they went into the song). i'll have to compare.
the bass Sting plays is well worn. i liked Annie Lennox's arrangement of Sweet Dreams (altho the keyboards were a little lost in the mix). for you Simon LeBon fans out there, his face got FAT. can't help but laugh at how old Esther looks. i realize that she's in her 40's, but still, the shot that they have of her in the DVD case makes her look OLD. kinda disturbing (in a creepy Skeletor way).
no real idea who the majority of the artists who have a song on the discs, but i'll give credit to Robbie Williams for a very spirited performance. Scissor Sisters (has NSFW boobage, so don't say i didn't warn you) are just plain weird (their cover of Comfy Numb, not played at Live8, is interesting, so points to them for that). i miss the intro for The Who which was pretty funny, they could have at least kept the band intro for it.
so while i bought it strictly for Pink Floyd, you should check out the real reason that the concerts were held.
Live8 website
Make Poverty History
have Stewie do things for you
dance, eat, kill lois are good places to start.
be sure to try things a few times as you may get a different response each time.
Monday, November 07, 2005
return of the molius
after some time off from the blogosphere, the Rev. Molius has returned.
well, at least a little bit. had to attend a funeral this weekend. (details are in previous posts) and aside from feeling as tho i was bullied into going by my uncle (he tends to be on the bullying side anyways), i had a really good time. some of the details may find their way into the blog of molius, but for the moment, they'll stay hidden away (including a fairly large skeleton that i didn't know existed - the intrigue! the wonder! what could it be? what would be so shocking that had molius not been sitting down, he would have fallen over? stay tuned? maybe...)
in any event, after returning to the world w/o my family, i had a really crappy commute into work. highlighted with my hitting the backlog of traffic just as Evil Playground reached the sample that said:
"essentially screwed"
(sorta sounds like it is from Lord of Illusions, which provides many samples in FLAvour of the Weak)
fucking classic.
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