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

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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?

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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)

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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

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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!

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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

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*snicker*

silly catholic church.

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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.

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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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hahahaha...

not like many people care who read this, but i thought this was funny. i'm looking thru the reviews of Tool's show at Coachella last night (4/30/06) and one person said the quote of the night was the following (not by MJK):

Guard 1: "Look at all this knuckleheads. What band is coming up next anyways?"
Guard 2: "Tool"
Guard 1: "...Oh shit."

hahahahahaha....guard 1 obviously knew what he was in for.

only 3 songs of 10,000 days were played, and initial impressions appear to be positive. so those curious, here's the setlist:

Tool
Coachella
4/30/06

01. Stinkfist
02. The Pot
03. Forty-six & 2
04. Jambi
05. Schism
06. Eon Blue Apocalypse
07. The Patient
08. Sober
09. Lateralus
10. Vicarious
11. Ænema

hey eva - MJK is sporting one hell of a mohawk

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heh

i was complaining on saturday about how much scalpers are charging for tickets on the upcoming Tool mini-tour. the voice of Tool himself posted the following to their board.

THE FOLLOWING IS A MESSAGE FROM MJK

"Many people are complaining about the sold out shows. Relax. We're doing a full on tour at the end of the summer which goes almost everywhere. And in the new year, we'll go almost everywhere else. These are just a handful of warm-up dates. There's nothing much we can do to out wit the scalpers. If you have patience, just don't buy the tickets from them. just wait until August. Screw them. Believe me, if I could design a virus that would leave scalpers totally impotent, mute, and penniless, I would. Same goes for lawyers. (I have a whole different virus in mind for mini vans. More on that later.)"

glad he's not happy about it. i can wait until later this year. i'm sure i'll be listening to a whole bunch of shows shortly, and it won't be long before Coachella (3 days from now).

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linkage

oh give me a fucking break. that's one of my all time favorite beverages...

what they aren't telling you is that when he was placed in his burial robes, it was a russian priest who did it. (xref VL & JS)

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the impatience of drivers

i'm not the most patient driver sometimes, and anyone who has ridden with me when i get irritated knows that a flury swears go flying pretty quickly. (commuting is almost opposite for me, i've found resigning myself to the fact that it's going to be slow has done wonders for my stress levels while going to/from work. plus good music helps, so it's only people who do bonehead things that bug me.)

anyways, per my usual sunday morning ritual, i head out to pick up the paper and my coffee. as i'm waiting my turn to pull into the parking lot, there are 3 cars heading towards me. the first car pulls into the lot. the second car slows down to give the guy room to turn so that he doesn't rear end him. after the first car has pulled into the lot, the second car continues rolling slowly, beginning to speed up.

not fast enuff for car #3 who hits his horn and makes a gesture to get going. i chuckle, but i couldn't help but think that this guy hasn't figured out that it's SUNDAY and on SUNDAY there are these things that drive called SUNDAY DRIVERS. they tend to have slower reactions, drive more slowly, etc, etc. what, are you late for your 3 hour bible-brow beating? jackass. you couldn't wait 3 seconds for car #2 to speed up, sheesh. i might make a comment about how that person is being pokey, but i'm not going to tap my horn...

then, as i'm heading back, paper, coffee and muffin aquired, there's a stretch of straight road that people have a tendancy to zip down (it's a 40mph zone). when it comes to driving around town, i tend to be a little more respectful (laugh if you like, but i prefer not to zip around small towns), especially on quiet sunday mornings. this nitwit decides that he wants to go zipping down (opposite direction of me) towards 93 and not a second after he blows by one of the side streets, do i see the familiar front end of the local police cruiser. he makes a right to follow and barely around the corner the familiar flashing blue lights are on.

so the lesson of the day is this:

sunday + rush = not so good idea

maybe there really is something to being a sunday driver. so relax folks, take a lesson from the sunday drivers - plan ahead, take your time and enjoy driving. sunday is supposed to be a lazy day.

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hehehehehehehe...

doubt it will go anywhere, but i approve.

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for shame...

this fucking pisses me off.

greedy pig fucking assholes.

buy tickets only to scalp them. i want to go, i really do. but i wanted to pay my $66.66 for my ticket. (and i was willing to pay for the bend-me-over charges)

but this is a fucking disgrace.

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