Have you ever had a night when all hell broke loose, in a good way?
My friday started like every other one. Get up. Get ready. Work, work, work. Well, thats where all sense of normality or common sense ended for me. Having been on call for the previous week all forms of social gatherings that involve alcohol were out. As in my profession the ability to analyse and think properly are paramount. Well, end of business Friday I was freed from the constraints of employment. I guess I had a bit of pent up energy that just needed to get out.
It all started innocently enough with some friends and coworkers at a local downtown Toronto place. To get a sense of this group, mostly 30- 40 (age wise) professionals, with some exeptions in either direction. Slightly more on the male side than female.
We ran this place to its logical conclusion and then went in search of some entertainment and more good fun. Well, we found it. It proceeded to a host of different clubs, bars and pubs before we ran out of legal drinking time at 2:00 AM. Then we proceeded to one of the friends place with a host of hangers on.
The debauchery continued until my mind and body finally gave out sometime around 5 AM. It was a good time had by all. With the exception of one of my friends who decided sometime around 2:30 AM that since He had no idea who this hanger on was that He needed to leave in a hurry. Anyway, He quietly left and everything resumed.
My particular evening came to an end when my body took over and demanded "Its time to go home. Right Now!" So I did.
My observation: while "carpe diem" is probably my only motto, it needs to be tempered with a little common sense. Saturday was a total write off. Please, let summer come soon!
Here in Canada we have a news program called "The Fifth Estate". Tonight I checked it out while waiting for something to go wrong with a server. Anyway, the issue tonight was "Sticks an Stones" discussing the current state of the US news media.
This was my first experience with Bill O'Rielly and Ann Coulter directly. I have one thing to say, "Oh My God". I have heard of both individuals before. It now all makes sense to me how moronic conservatives form their opinions. Bill refused to speak with the CBC in fear that they woulld portray Fox as "Conservative". In my humble opinion they seem to be able to create that opinion without any outside help.
Both of these idiots when confronted with Canadian discontent at the war in Iraq threatened to put some kind of unknown sanctions on Canada. The response was the same in both cases. Canada and the US have the largest trading relationship of any two nations anywhere. Coulter went on to spout off of how we were such staunch allies contributing troops during the Vietnam war. Wrong. Both showed extreme ignorance of history of Canadian involvement is US conflicts.
Bill went on to espouse that it would happen, just like in France, making up some fictitious French publication named "The Paris Review" that claimed billions of dollars in economic loss due to loss of trade with the US. Hey, lets just make shit up on the fly! Of course this was also when being the topic was critical of the US invasion of Iraq. Back here in reality French/US trade has gone up. At least now I know where complete morons like Deshanews gets off threatening the same thing when He does not like what I have to say. I have always known this individual could not think for himself. At least now I know where He gets his information from, as well as his self important threats.
Hi triumph was abusing an interviewee whose father had died in the 911 attacks: "Out of respect for your father ... Shut UP!". Nice.
Coulter's idiocy was too bizarre to even bother with.
Other highlights included a Canadian conservative named Virginia Marsden (a sometime guest speaker on O'Rielly) who when asked, after the White House admission that there is no WMD's in Iraq responded "By who's definition?". Um, I guess that would be the White House's Virg, baby!"
They also showed how the more you watch fox news the more you are likely to believe 1 of 3 verifiable lies about the war in Iraq:
1. WMDS *sigh*
2. Saddam had a direct connection with the 911 attacks
3. Iraq was an immediate threat to the US
Incidentally, Fox news is now available in Canada as a digital channel that I have. I guess its a part of my cable deal: I certainly didn't have it. I have to check this out, for shits and giggles at the very least! I always wondered how a myopic freak like Lynnkramer knew anything at all about Canada, being the freak that he/she is. Now I know.
Do you see “Intelligent Design” is a valid scientific theory? If so you are bound to find the “flat earth society” quite enlightening. Don’t let yourself get sucked into believing the tripe those liberal atheist types are trying to feed your children in commie public schools.
“Spherical theorists” have been attempting to brainwash us for years with the idea that the earth is round. Its time to stand up for what’s right.
Some interesting highlights from these folks:
The original flat earth was confined, restricted, and twisted into a perverse spherical shape by a conspiracy of TELEVISION BROADCASTERS in an attempt to realize their dream of TOTAL HUMAN MIND CONTROL through subsurviant captive homogonized market share.
What about the northern and southern hemisphere?
Globularist rot. This implies the Earth being a SPHERE, which it is not. The Earth has, however, an Inner and Outer Ring.
I love this stuff! The truth is out!
The moral of the story?
Never let a little thing like reality get in the way of your chosen brand of idiocy. Don’t like fundamental tenets of science? Whoneeds them! Everyone knows that most of this science malarkey is just a clever cover in order to destroy your religion and all that is good and holy in the world.
That is only the first step. The real goal of course is ultimately to watch society destroy itself in a spiraling vortex of anarchism. The root of all this is satan working through the hysterical liberal folk. Armageddon causing mofos won’t be happy till they see the four horsemen of the apocalypse running up the street. Stock up on home defense today, before hordes of godless liberal hordes ruin everything.
A public service announcement especially for my fellow bloggers, Deshanews and Lynnkramer. Don’t forget the tinfoil hats boys!
The wonderful world of wireless technology. About a year ago I picked up a wirless router and PC card. Shortly thereafter I also picked up an aftermarket wireless NIC for my xbox.
The xbox card is handy so that I can cart the thing around to various audio/visual setups around the house, xbox live, and shares from my PC. So that was kind of a fun thing. The real enjoyment however has come via the PC card I just got for my laptop. There is nothing quite like being nice, warm and comfy in your bed AND being able to be able to provide support, check my mail, get on the web. All that good stuff.
If you are really organized, really lazy, or both I highly recommend getting some wireless G action. Although B at 11 Mps is more than double what most cable/DSL networks (3/5 Mbps) offer the G at 54 Mbps provides a signifigant improvement in range. It’s the best tech gadget I bought in a long time. An absolute must for the discriminating geek.
Since I had all the other infrastructure setup I have really missed out on this surfing action from bed. Warning to all: if you have a signifigant other they may complain about bed surfing action. When this happens my suggestion is to get them in the bed surfing action! Then they stop complaining J. If that fails, just give them some regular action. Then they just get sleepy and leave to your surfing fun. Hee Hee.
Edgar Allen Poe was one my earliest obsessions with English literature. He is widely accepted to be the father of the modern short story. I learned more about writing from his works than perhaps any other writer. He approached each and every sentence towards the overall work. There is little to nothing in the way of extraneous information in any Poe work.
When I lived in the US I had the opportunity to visit the Poe houses in Baltimore and Philadelphia. I was in the room where the “Tell Tale Heart” was conceived and written. It was an amazing experience for me. I saw the actual floorboards that inspired him.
As is all too common with those gifted with genius, he was vastly under appreciated during his own lifetime. He hardly was able to make a living at all. He was beset by personal tragedy from early life to his dismal end. Truly, a writer far ahead of his time.
Its nice to see articles like this and know that others appreciate him as I do, whoever He is:
Fan marks Poe’s Birthday
By KASEY JONES - Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP) — The mystery man was dressed for the cold rather than tradition, and some spectators were not quite as respectful as in years past.
But for the 56th year, a man stole into a locked graveyard early on Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday and placed three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on the writer’s grave.
Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe House and Museum, who has seen the mysterious visitor every Jan. 19 since 1976, gathered with about 20 people Tuesday night to glimpse the ritual.
“It was absolutely frigid,” Jerome said of the sub-20 degree temperature.
No one, not even Jerome, knows the identity of the so-called “Poe Toaster.” The visit was first documented in 1949, a century after Poe’s death.
This year, the visitor arrived at 1:10 a.m. in a heavy coat and obscured his face with a black pullover, Jerome said. He was not wearing the traditional white scarf and black hat.
“He put the roses and cognac at the base of Poe’s grave and put his hand on top of the (tomb) stone. He paused and put his head down,” the museum curator said. He left after about five minutes, Jerome said.
The visitor’s three roses are believed to honor Poe, his mother-in-law and his wife, all of whom are buried in the graveyard. The significance of the cognac is unknown.
People who stand vigil usually respect the visitor’s desire for anonymity, which, along with the visitor’s quick moves and the cover of darkness, have kept his secret well.
But this time, some spectators “created a nuisance,” Jerome said. Some entered the locked cemetery; others confronted Jerome after the stranger had departed and demanded that he reveal his identity.
500 tbuck contest: What the hell is Lynnkramer talking about?
The first individual that can decipher what Lynnkramer is blathering on about in a coherent manner wins 500 tbucks! Good luck! Submit as often as you wish!
This Bad Boy Turned a year old yesterday. Fortunately for him He got some Hamburger action! Unfrotunately for the rest of us He decided to rip a chunk out of a very large silk oriental rug. Grrrrrrrrrrr!
Meanwhile Bad Boy Boo's Archenemy (and best friend) indicated that she could give a rat's ass that it was Boo's birthday, in fact, she says, "That bastard can rot in hell!" and "I am going to chew him a new one!"
Of course, although she says that, in her heart of hearts, she would be devastated without her compainion. Sorry Otis! I let the proverbial cat out of the bag! Hey come back Otis! No cat here!
I don’t normally post stuff that I get through email here. Mostly because I dislike the ubiquitous presence of email in my life. Pesonal, professional, spam, and alerts. Gah. This particular mail I received from a friend of mine I found to be pretty good stuff that everyone should know. The credit agency numbers listed below is applicable only in Canada but the rest of it I would think to be fairly universal. Hope that you find it helpful.
Excellent advice I thought should be shared!!! Read this and make a copy for your files in case you need to refer to it someday. Maybe we should all take some ofhis advice! A corporate attorney sent the following out to the employees in his company.
1. The next time you order checks have only your initials (instead of first name) and last name put on them. If someone takes your checkbook, they will not know if you sign your checks with just your initials or your first name, but your bank will know how you sign your checks.
2. When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts, DO NOT put the complete account number on the "For" line. Instead, just put the last four numbers. The credit card company knows the rest of the number, and anyone who might be handling your check as it passes through all the check processing channels won't have access to it.
3. Put your work phone # on your checks instead of your home phone. If you have a PO Box use that instead of your home address. If you do not have a PO Box, use your work address. Never have your SS# printed on your checks.(DUH!) You can add it if it is necessary. But if you have it printed, anyone can get it.
4. Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine. Do both sides of each license, credit card, etc You will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call and cancel. Keep the photocopy in a safe place. I also carry a photocopy of my passport when I travel either here or abroad. We've all heard horror stories about fraud that's committed on us in stealing a name, address, Social Security number, credit cards.Unfortunately, I, an attorney, have firsthand knowledge because my wallet was stolen last month. Within a week, the thieve(s) ordered an expensive monthly cell phone package, applied for a VISA credit card, had a credit line approved to buy a Gateway computer, received a PIN number from DMV to change my driving record information online, and more. But here's some critical information to limit the damage in case this happens to you or someone you know:
1. We have been told we should cancel our credit cards immediately. But the key is having the toll free numbers and your card numbers handy so you know whom to call. Keep those where you can find them.
2. File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction where your cardit cards, etc. were stolen. This proves to credit providers you were diligent, and this is a first step toward an investigation (if thereever is one). But here's what is perhaps most important of all : (I never even thought to do this.)
3.Call the 3 national credit reporting organizations immediately to place a fraud alert on your name and Social Security number. I had never heard of doing that until advised by a bank that called to tell me an application for credit was made over the Internet in my name. The alert means any company that checks your credit knows your information was stolen, and they have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit. By the time I was advised to do this, almost two weeks after the theft, all the damage had been done. There are records of all the credit check initiated by the thieves' purchases, none of which I knew about before placing the alert.
Since then, no additional damage has been done, and the thieves threw my wallet away. This weekend (someone turned it in). It seems to have stopped them dead in their tracks.
Now, here are the numbers you always need to contact about your wallet, etc. has been stolen:
We pass along jokes on the Internet; we pass along just about everything. But if you are willing to pass this information along, it could really help someone that you care about.
If people continue to speak to me in this manner I am afraid that one day I will lose my mind. You know that you are one step away from going postal when:
- You begin to look at Mental health facilities as a viable vacation. Hey! they have servants (for some reason they are referred to as guards) for you, cool white coats, and all the free drugs you could want! Macrame!
- You start finding the "sportsmans" counter at Canadian Tire an attractive place to hang out. With all the shiny guns!
- You book crimelibrary.com under the same folder as dictionaries and other reference books
- Lynnkramer, Deshanews, Noguru and The Cao start to sound like they know what they are talking about
- You start clicking your heels together 3 times by lunch time in the futile hope you will magically transported to Kansas
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Why not change it up a little? You know, just for yuks! No need to stare at the same old message till you want to stick a fork in your eye. If you can't laugh at your own utter incompetence at keeping a web server up tblog, what can you do? Do you have any suggestions?
I'll just let this exerpt of a comment war speak for itself. Totally unedited. Full of grammatical and spelIing errors and all. It is however missing two posts the blogger managed to delete previous to my copy. The only thing altered is the color:
My Three favorite excerpts from this idiocy:
“You get off on trolling, I suppose you’re either getting paid to do it, or you get your rocks off by doing it. Either way, you’re a total and utter imbecile, devoid of intelligence and the ability to think and reason. I’m not here to trade insults with people. I have no idea why you feel it necessary, but whatever floats your boat. ”
-The Blogger "Cao":
This Beauty:
75.Deviant, go waste your time on one of your liberal ideas. Coming here to rip apart people isn’t doing anything towards making libs look like decent people; in fact it just justifies why conservatives cannot agree with you on anything. This isn’t your blog, and you have no business coming here and attacking like you do. Reports can be made to your ISP and you can loose your internet access, for the very things you are saying and doing here. You can thank your liberal buddies for this infringement upon your right to free speech here. “Abuse” with ISP people doesn’t always refer to swearing, but spamming is always considered abuse. The owner of this blog can consider your repeated comments as spam. This is the first and only warning you get.
- Some idiot named "Raven"
This was where the two posts were deleted by the cao before I saved them all. Mostly LMAO! Being told about how I would "loose" my internet access :) Egad! Whatever will I Do! I kindly explained to them that I welcome any manner of idiocy that they can put together :)
I hate getting sucked into these things but some folks are just asking for it.
and my personal favorite:
77.Well you must get paid nothing then as it appears you just got out of the looney bin. It’s time to put on your man sandals. Don’t forget your purse. I’m going to delete his comments now. He’s switching IP addresses faster than I can ban him. And he’s spamming the comments so fast I don’t have a chance to respond.
Switching IPS? Its called a router, Cao you little techno peasant, you!
Well, all I have been looking to replace my MP3 player. My last one was a 10 GB el cheapo that I dismantled *permanently* while at the height of drunken revelry. Oh well, now I have an extra 10 GB notebook drive.Note to self: Troubleshoot hardware when not consuming vast amounts of alcohol.
Despite the sexiness factor I have decided against the IPod. Its just too pricey for what you get. It also is limited in what it can do without expensive add-ons that come integrated with other players. For instance, I am leaning toward this bad boy:
The iRiver h320h340:
Plays up to 600 hours of digital music* 20GB of internal storage† Large, vivid color display Ultra-fast USB 2.0 transfers Supports secure transfers from Windows Media Player™** Rechargeable battery lasts up to 16hrs View JPEG or BMP images Built-in FM tuner Integrated voice recorder Record music from any audio source(no PC required) Supports MP3, WMA, ASF and OGG music files Store or transfer files of any type Enhanced 3D audio MSRP: $329.00 USD
The iRiver PMP-120
Plays digital music and video files 20GB of internal storage** Store up to 80 hours of video or up to 600 hours of music* Wide 3.5 inch vivid color display Connect to your home entertainment system Built-in FM tuner Integrated voice recorder Record music from any audio source (no PC required) Built in speaker Store or transfer files of any type USB On the Go to attach to digital cameras USB 2.0 support Rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery Up to 10 hours of battery life (audio) Up to 5 hours of battery life (video) Replaceable battery MSRP: 499.00 USD
So, is it worth 170 bones for the video capability? What do you think? Any other suggestions or players that you like or have had experience with
Kind of says it all doesn't it? Sorry for the crappy quality but you get the point. I am not actually angry about anything or at any of our servers. I am just sick: my head feels like a block of wood. I can't hear, smell or taste anything due to a bad cold. Added bonus: I have been waken up at midnight or so for the last four days for support issues. Ahhh well all the issues are resolved now that I am not on after hours support so that my compadre can get a decent nights sleep, hopefully.
Whenever I feel crappy I love to read the following letter to remind myself that no matter how shitty my day is, well, it could be worse. Incidentally, I have no idea who wrote it,but I'm sure glad they did!
April, 1998 Hi Sue,
Just another note from your bottom dwelling brother.
Last week I had a bad day at the office. Before I can tell you what happened to me,I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wetsuit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of shit sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temp. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose which is taped to the air hose. How this sounds like a damn good plan,and I've used it several times with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is I take the hose and stuff it down the back of my neck. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a jacuzzi.
Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my ass started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my ass started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened to me. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. This is even worse than the poison ivy you once had under a cast. Now I had that hose down my back. I don't have any hair on my back,so the jellyfish couldn't get stuck to my back. My ass crack was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into my ass. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the comms. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he along with 5 other divers were laughing hysterically. Needless to say I aborted the dive.
I was instructed to make 3 agonizing water stops totaling 35 minutes before I could come to the surface. I got to the surface wearing nothing but my brass helmet. My suit and gear were tied to the bell. When I got on board the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to shove it up my ass when I get in the chamber. cream put the fire out, but I couldn't shit for two days because my asshole was swollen shut. I later found out that this could easily have been prevented if the suction hose was placed on the leeward side of the ship.
Anyway, the next time you have a bad day at the office, think of me.Think about how much worse your day would be if you were to shove a jellyfish up your ass. I hope you have no bad days at the office. But if you do, I hope that thought will make it a little more tolerable.
My dad has friends that have been living in Phuket (when not working) for at least the last 25 years. He heard from them after the tsunami and they sent a few pics of the devastation.
As it turns out everyone had been up celebrating on Christmas till the wee hours of the morning, as is wont to happen in such a triopical paradise. Which was a really good thing as they had plans to head to the beach that morning that were cancelled due to hangovers. Otherwise, they probably would have been square in the middle of the beach for the first wave. Thank god for drunken celebrations !
I have personally been to all the locations shown in the slideshow and it kind of blows my mind to see what happened there. I think the current death toll in Thailand is now over 4 thousand with 1/2 of them being tourists. I wish I could go help out with the recovery but life being what it is, that looks unlikely.
Sometimes, Mother nature can be a downright bitch.
