Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Monday, June 05, 2006
that's a bright idea
i got a funny thing in the mail today - Phantom Fireworks sent out a flyer advertising...get this - FIREWORKS!
apparently they are opening a few new stores up north in the kentucky of the north (as a friend would say). so what better way to drum up business than to encourage those of us in massy2shits to break the law and purchase incendiary devices that are illegal to own or set of in the fine commonwealth of massy2shits.
at last check, the only people that were allowed to transport and/or display fireworks in the state are those with proper licenses. so here i sit in front of my laptop with the flyer to its left wondering just how many people are going to break the law, head north to northern kentucky, purchase fireworks and then transport them across state lines and set them off at some point in the future.
yay Phantom Fireworks. congrats on encouraging people to break the law.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
this weekend has been fairly quiet. yesterday was a nice day with M, but the weather sucked. we attempted to see Over The Hedge yesterday afternoon, but the 430, 500 and 530 showings were sold out, so we went elsewhere. (something about a kids movie and rain seems to bring the little brats out of the woodwork)
today was a little better in the weather department, managed to get my laundry done this morning. otherwise, not much to the day.
i was just watching Flip This House on A&E and they are working on a house in Myrtle Beach that they paid $849k for ($45k in fixing it), and sold it for $1.475M. i'm wondering what the buyer of the house is going to think when they see this on tv. but then again, if you are going to be paying that much for a house (granted, a block from the ocean), you really don't care.
oh to be able not to care.
prolly make it an early night tonight. had to get up early this morning (comparatively) so i could make sure i got the big washers, but then there was next to no one there today which was suprising. usually sunday is a busy day after 830, but not today.
at least i don't have to go on some relatively pointless trip to amsterdam for a 3 hour meeting. there's a real bright idea, you'll fly out monday night, arrive tuesday afternoon, have the meeting wednesday morning and then fly back that evening. stoopit people. oh well. little can be done, but it will semi-get me out of going to a wedding i don't want to goto in july. but even so, that's a pretty crapass thing to do.
Friday, June 02, 2006
damn
Jun 3, 2006 5:25 pm US/Eastern
Fed's Investigating Robertson's Jet After Crash
Televangelist Was Not Aboard; Two Pilots Dead
(CBS/AP) GROTON, CT. Federal investigators are back on the scene today to examine a Learjet, owned by religious broadcast Pat Robertson, that crashed yesterday in Long Island Sound while trying to land in heavy fog, killing the two pilots and injuring three passengers. Robertson was not aboard.
Authorities have released the identities of the five people aboard jet. All five were from Virginia. Both pilots were killed. Police today have identified them as 59-year-old Robert Janule of Hampton, Virginia and 55-year-old Michael Kiser of Suffolk, Virginia.
Their passengers sustained minor injuries. They've been identified as 50-year-old Douglas Fuller, of Chesapeake, Virginia, 52-year-old W. Preston Fussell of Chesapeake, Virginia and 53-year-old Norman Fortner of Suffolk, Virginia.
The jet is owned by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson, who wasn't on board. Robertson's company rents the plane out and has a leasing agreement with International Jet Charter of Norfolk, Virginia, which chartered the plane yesterday.
The plane, which was heading from Virginia to the Groton-New London Airport, went down in the water in heavy fog. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies were back at the site today in their ongoing investigation.
Federal investigators believe fog contributed to a similar plane crash in the same area that killed four people last year
The rescued passengers were able to get out of the plane on their own and were taken to the hospital for minor injuries, state police spokesman Sgt. J. Paul Vance said.
According to Phil Laferrera, an organizer of the Tony Siragusa Celebrity Golf Classic, the passengers were heading to Connecticut to attend a charity golf tournament this weekend at Foxwoods Resort Casino. It went down a half-mile short of the runway at the Groton-New London Airport.
A spokesman for the Connecticut Department of Transportation said the plane may have hit one of several approach lights mounted in a cove near the airport. Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration are on the scene and National Transportation Safety Board authorities are expected to arrive today.
The jet is registered to Virginia-based Robertson Asset Management. The company is owned by Robertson and is separate from the Christian Broadcasting Network, spokeswoman Angell Vasko said.
She said Robertson was not on the plane and rents it out because he uses it infrequently.
"We're still trying to figure out who was on the plane," she said. "It's not Dr. Robertson, or (anyone) related to CBN or related to Dr. Robertson's individual businesses."
Coast Guard officials said the chartered, twin-engine Learjet 35 took off from Norfolk, Va., about 12:30 p.m. Friday and stopped in Atlantic City, N.J., to drop off two passengers before heading to Connecticut.
Rachel Waszkelewicz said she heard the crash and ran out of her house and onto her dock, but it was too foggy to see, so she called out to a group of lobstermen.
"Everybody jumped in their boats," she said. "You could hear voices. I don't know if it was from the plane or if it was boaters yelling to them."
Dick Sawyer, who lives in the neighborhood, said, "You could barely see past your hand at the time." Five minutes later, he said, the fog lifted just enough to reveal the jet in the water.
Two of the passengers were checked and released at a local hospital, while the third was kept overnight for observation.
(© 2006 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
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)
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
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