very nice t-shirt spotted
while walking around boston this afternoon, i saw someone wearing a brownish/olive t-shirt (lightly faded/distressed) that had this on the front.
page.
plant.
bonham.
jones.
i smiled.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Go fuck yourself.
i've been told this many times, certainly my parents were the first to tell me this, so i'll give them the credit.
If you can’t find anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
random pictures of the moment: the daily display (v06.24.08.am)
taken during my daily display of human idiocy(tm) this morning.
lots of red lights.
i wonder what those pieces make up. i saw a similar truck the other day with the same type of pieces and wondered.
cliffs along rte 93 south
pleased with this picture, altho slighly misframed. but not bad for how fast i had to take the picture. i liked that the trees that are around this one are full and lush, and then you have the grizzled bark of this one standing proudly above them.
Monday, June 23, 2008
2nd storm vid
here's the 2nd brief vid i shot this afternoon. shows just how much rain there was and it was like that for a good 15-20 minutes straight.
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bitchin' stormy afternoon
stopped by market basket to pick up some frozen lunches and just before i got there, the heavens opened up and visibility went from clear and visible to i could barely see in front of me with my wipers on high. a few minutes later, i pulled into the partially flooded parking lot at market basket and spent the next 20 or so mins sitting in my car enjoying the passing thunderstorm. just missed by about 2 seconds a picture of a nice lightning bolt. and a few minutes after parking, i heard a pop which turned out to be the building losing partial power. when the rain stopped enough, i headed in and while waiting in line with my frozen lunches, the building lost all power except for the generator powering the registers and the emergency lights.
the first picture was shot facing south, the second is a picture of the building sign on the fritz, and my first ever youtube vid (it's not very exciting) of the sign behaving all glitchy. (it was off when i left the store.)
R.I.P. George Carlin
JJ & i saw him in lowell a few years ago and had a good time. he is definitely one of the comedy greats who will be missed. and with that, even tho it is a hack thing to do, i give you the one thing that everyone wanted him to say.
Thank you for the laughs.
Friday, June 20, 2008
it's picture time!
unfortunately, they were all taken with crappy cellphone camera. maybe i will upgrade this weekend...ponder ponder ponder...
june 17, 2008
348p
i received a brief email from M that simply stated "sideways rain!". we didn't have the sideways rain, but it was POURING. (yes, that is a touch of blue sky over the roof of a doomed building)
june 19, 2008
817a
taken during my daily display of human idiocy(tm). i recognized it as a front loader, but wondered why it had a large fluid filled tank on the back. then i got around it and realized that it was probably the hydraulic fluid that drove this beast.
june 20, 2008
512p
stopped by chez target on the way home tonight. when i went in, it was sunny and clear, like the right side of the first picture (shot looking west). when i came out 15 minutes later, i saw dark clouds on the left (west/southwest). and it started to rain. i'm pleased (and surprised) that the crappy camera was able to catch the light streaming.
the second shot is looking southwest as i was starting to feel the rain fall. wasn't heavy or last long, but it was enough to deter me from enjoying a nice ice coffee that i would have obtained at the said starbucks in the picture. (it does have a drive-thru but i wanted to walk over.)
is there a perfect album?
last night i was listening to Vast's Visual Audio Sensory Theater and thinking about how it's one of those albums that i just like pretty much all the way through. so i started to ponder what other albums that i listen to that i would consider to be a 'perfect album'.
my definition of a 'perfect album' is pretty much a CD that i can put on that i listen to from start to finish without wanting to skip tracks. and if i want to keep listening to it, all the better.
i tried to think of other albums (and there are quite a few), but the only ones i could think of last night was Garbage Version 2.0 and Nirvana Nevermind & MTV Unplugged in New York.
i'll try to think of others, but in the mean time, what do you consider to be a perfect album?
Thursday, June 19, 2008
this could prove to be interesting
granted, it's a highly reputable paper reporting this, but this could prove to be an interesting blend. (you may squee now eva)
Lemmy and Page join forces
Published: 18 Jun 2008
ROCK lords LEMMY and JIMMY PAGE got on so famously at the MOJOs afterparty that they decided to swap numbers.
MOTORHEAD frontman Lemmy and LED ZEPPELIN axe maestro Jimmy were deep in conversation during most of the bash and they clearly intended to continue their conflab at a later date.
But their efforts to swap details were hampered by technology — because neither of the ageing duo could use their mobile phones properly.
One amused onlooker revealed last night: "The pair of them spent an age looking both amazed and confused as they attempted to stab contact numbers into their mobiles.
"They looked like two old cavemen discovering some shiny new objects in the forest."
But a monumental Led Zep/Motorhead hook-up may still be on the cards — because the old-timers gave up their struggle with the phones and scrawled their respective digits on beer mats before parting ways.
The party, at the Parker McMillan club, opposite the awards venue, went on long into the night.
NICK CAVE’s dapper band THE BAD SEEDS toasted their Best Album triumph by demolishing a bottle of bourbon between them.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
i got nothin'
i've only just stopped giggling. last week i needed to work on our file/print server, and it was short notice, so i sent an email to the users in this office (who would be most directly affected by my work). i did what i needed to do and that was that.
or so i thought.
just a little while ago, i received the following from of our managers who very obviously hadn't read my message when i sent it.
last tuesday.
june 10th.
(names have been changed to protect the guilty)
From: B,E
To: Molius
Cc:
Subject: RE: IMPORTANT - Access to [file/print server] will experience a short interruption at 4:30pm, June 10th
Molius, do you mean today? June 17th?
Thanks, E
_____________________________________________
From: Molius
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:04 PM
To: MN Users
Subject: IMPORTANT - Access to [file/print server] will experience a short interruption at 4:30pm, June 10th
Importance: High
The I.S. Department needs to do some maintenance on [file/print server] today at 4:30, June 10th. This maintenance will require rebooting the server.
This will affect:
- Printing
- G: Drive
- J: Drive
This interruption should only last 15 to 20 minutes.
Thank you.
-The I.S. Department
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Monday, June 16, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
dog + beer != good idea
i don't quite know what to say about this. if you give a dog the taste of beer (and they like it), doesn't that make it more likely they are going to go after MY beer?
Bowser Beer
Friday, June 13, 2008
and for you pollen lovers...
here are a few shots from the other day. during the hazy, hot and humid stretch we had the other day, the trees decided that it was time to get sexy. so out of pretty much nowhere, everything was covered in pollen and gave everything a wonderful yellow tint.
when the weather finally broke, we had a string of thunderstorms that brought beautiful weather we are currently enjoying.
the other night, i took a picture of the driveway (you can see my footprints) and again the following morning (12 hours apart) and you can see how much of it was washed away. i had to laugh as the moment after i took the first picture (720pm), a wind gust blew all of the pollen and it looked like a little pollen-dust devil. the final picture is the end of the gutter next to my walk.
june 10, 720pm
june 11, 730am
parking douchebags.
i arrived at work on june 5th to this sight:
and then, this afternoon, i was treated to this sight (sorry, crappy phone camera pictures)
and the other day at lunchtime, i saw a 3rd douchebag who did something similar, so all i have to say is this:
LEARN TO PARK YOU FUCKING DOUCHEBAGS!
Sunday, June 08, 2008
this should be a quick one as i need to get back to the laundromat to pull my laundry.
we are in the start of the earliest heat wave that i can remember (that's 3 consecutive days of 90+ degree (>32 C) weather for those who care). yesterday wasn't too bad, but it certainly wasn't pleasant. the new car handled the a/c use quite well, and i'm still pretty pleased with the fuel economy, even tho sitting in traffic doesn't help.
i told M yesterday that i had to laugh at the irony friday night - my feet were cold enough that i needed my slipper socks (if my feet are cold, then i'm cold) knowing that yesterday was going to be the start of the oppressive heatwave.
well, i need to get back. told you this was going to be short.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
happy news
(we'll see how long this bog entry stays posted but.....)
New Residents Album Coming
Jun/03/08 03:06 PM
Yes, that album titled (all together now) THE BUNNY BOY has been officially outed by Cryptic. Not a lot of info as of yet, but I know you cling to each morsel so here is one for you. It will not be in the storytelling era section. It is in fact, 19 individual songs. Yes songs. And yes it is also a full blown show that will tour into 2009.
I asked if the show inspired the album or if the album inspire the show. The answer I got was that I have not asked the right question and therefore do not deserve an answer.
You can trust the Cryptics to be cryptic.
favorite phrase: FULL BLOWN SHOW THAT WILL TOUR INTO 2009
Monday, June 02, 2008
i don't know about you, but every car i've ever been in that had doors that auto-lock, when you try to open the door, it opens. yes, i understand that rear doors may have the child-safety lock enabled, but not the driver/passenger doors.
and one can guess what color hair i immediately thought she had. (sorry - the stereotype will never die)
Woman Calls Orem Police To Free Her From Her Locked Car
Automatic car features are supposed to make life easier for motorists, but they may be leaving some people without the know-how to do things the old-fashioned way. That’s what happened to a driver in Utah County who became trapped inside her own car.
A woman called Orem police Friday afternoon needing help because her battery died and she was locked inside her car.
When police arrived, they found the woman sitting in the car, unable to get herself out. She couldn’t hear the officers instructions through the rolled-up windows so she motioned to them to call her on her cell phone, according to police.
Once officers were able to talk to the woman on the phone, they were able to tell her how to manually operate the slide lock mechanism on the inside door panel to open the door and free herself.
“I'm just glad she had a cell phone to call for help,” an officer said.
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