Archive for November, 2006

The MPAA can suck my……….

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Ubergeek Dave sent me this piece of utter bullshit from the MPAA. Apparently if I have a TV greater than 29″, check, 2 or more comfortable chairs, check and stereo, check, I need to pay a $50 fee or a $500,000 per video fine if caught. Here’s a snippet that got my blood boiling.

“Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn’t give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That’s a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends,” said Glickman. “Ideally we expect each viewer to have their own copy of the DVD, but we realize that isn’t always feasible. The registration fee is a fair compromise.

So if my daughter has a play date over and they watch Finding Nemo, I have to pony up $50 to the MPAA? I have two words for them, FUCK OFF! Like they say, read it all and get pissed.

***Update***

I was trying to remember where I heard of this Dan Glickman asswipe, then it hit me. He’s an ex congresscritter. That makes me hate this fuckwad and his policies even more.

Another one for OTB.

It’s snowing!

Monday, November 27th, 2006

I love it when it snows. Even though we’re only supposed to get about 3 to 4 inches, it’s still nice to have it once in awhile. Here’s a view from my home office window. I know it’s not very good.

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Here’s one from the front porch.

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I know all of you people from the east and mid-west are laughing at me for calling this snow but you gotta take when you can get it. At least I don’t have to drive in it, unlike people I know(ubergeek and Chevelle Rob)

Oh, how I love to beat the Irish!

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

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And beat them silly we did(voice of Yoda).This has to be my favorite part of the whole enchilada.

Quinn, playing his final regular-season game, completed 22 of 45 passes for 274 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions. He also rushed for 74 yards – most of it on a 60-yard scramble in the second quarter.

Rhema McKnight caught six passes for 109 yards and one touchdown and Jeff Samardzija had six receptions for 79 yards and one TD.

The three Notre Dame losers stars – all seniors – leave school having never beaten USC.

Ha Ha! Neener neener neener!

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Happy Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

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Osama in Hell

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

One day in the future, Osama bin Laden has a heart attack and dies. He immediately goes to hell, where the devil is waiting for him. “I don’t know what to do here,” says the devil. “You are on my list, but I have no room for you. You definitely have to stay here, so I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’ve got a couple of folks here who weren’t quite as bad as you. I’ll let one of them go, but you have to take their place. I’ll even let YOU decide who leaves.”

Osama bin Laden thought that sounded pretty good, so the devil opened the first room. In it was Richard Nixon and a large pool of water. He kept diving in and surfacing empty handed. Over and over and over. Such was his fate in hell. “No,” Osama bin Laden said. “I don’t think so. I’m not a good swimmer and I don’t think I could do that all day long.”

The devil led him to the next room. In it was Tony Blair with a sledge hammer and a room full of rocks. All he did was swing that hammer, time after time after time. “No, I’ve got this problem with my shoulder. I would be in constant agony if all I could do was break rocks all day” commented Osama bin Laden.

The devil opened a third door. In it, Osama bin Laden saw Bill Clinton, lying on the floor with his arms staked over his head, and his legs staked in a spread eagle pose. Bent over him was Monica Lewinsky, doing what she does best. Osama bin Laden took this in disbelief and finally said,”Yeah, I can handle this.”

The devil smiled and said “OK, Monica, you’re free to go”.

Lifted from Wicked Thoughts. 

Drool, whoda thunk it?

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Another one from Ubergeek Dave. Well it seems that drool has magical opiate properties surpassing Morphine. Here’s my favorite pull quote.

“Its pain-suppressive effect is like that of morphine,” says Catherine Rougeot at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, who led the research. “But we have to test its side effects as it is not a pure painkiller,” she
says. “It may also be an anti-depressive molecule.” 

I’m a little leery of the research because if it is proven true, I should wake up every morning with a giant shit eating grin on my face possibly lasting decades and I should be able to pound my head into the wall without any reprucussions. Keep it up Ubergeek!

Machine Gun Robot

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Thanks to Ubergeek Dave for sending me this one. Between the Japanese and the South Koreans nobody does the automated better. Check out this new machine gun sentry developed by Samsung. You gotta love that they make plasma TV’s AND killer robots. My favorite part is this.

It has a sophisticated pattern recognition which can detect the difference between humans and trees, and a 5.5mm machine-gun. The robot also has a speaker to warn the intruder to surrender or get a perfect headshot. 

Niiiiice, perfect headshot, sweet. Watch the video, it’s cool. One thing I noticed was they used live targets to test the functionality of the pattern recognition system. When I saw these guys walking around with the gun trained on them, the only thing I could think of was I hope that thing isn’t loaded.

History of Conservatism and Liberalism…..

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Rob the poker dude/Chevelle motorhead sent this amusing bit of history.

Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in winter. The 2 most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into 2 distinct subgroups: Liberals and Conservatives.
Once beer was discovered it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early human ancestors were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That’s how villages were formed. Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as “the Conservative movement.” Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q’s and doing the sewing, fetching and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement. Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as ‘ girliemen.’
Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy and group hugs and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided. Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.
Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting revolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men! Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn’t “fair” to make the pitcher also bat. Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, Marines, athletes and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living. Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to “govern” the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tame and created a business of trying to get MORE for nothing.

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Bitter?

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Have my recent posts seem a wee bit pissy? Talk amongst yourselves in the comments. You guys know how to use the comments, right? Just click on the little thing that says comments and friggin SAY SOMETHING DAMMIT!

Local TV news…..

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

SUCKS! That said, all TV news SUCKS. The wife and I were watching an interesting episode of House on our local FOX affiliate when they decided to switch over to coverage of the Oregon Govenor’s race. In this age of the intertubes, google and youtube I’m held hostage to the whims of some TV program director who thinks I want to watch some politician promises not to rip me a new one with taxes. If I want to find out what is going on in the world, the last place I’m going to look for it is on my TV. Check my blog roll and you’ll can find out much more balanced and fair analysisof the news than you’ll ever be able find if you only watch the boob. Here’s the rub, shows like House pay the bills for these local stations so they’re shooting themselves in the foot when they do things like this. If you care to delve into this issue of how the media(newpapers and TV in particular) are going the way of the horse and buggy visit Jeff Jarvis‘ site and he’ll school you on the future of media.

**Update**

I tried to call the station with their number provided on their website. The first call ended with a “all curcuits are busy…blah blah blah, the second was received with a rapid busy tone, my next call was the always pleasing “your call cannot be completed as dialed please check to see if you dialed the right number”. Well, fuck you, I know how to push fucking redial on my phone you fuckwads. I was born at night but it wasn’t last night dickweed!

**Update #2**

I emailed the local Fox station and they responded via email this afternoon. Here’s what I wrote.

No wonder you networks are hemorrhaging viewers and money. Case in point., cutting off House for election coverage.A show that pays your bills and you run right over the consumer like we don’t matter. If I want to find out election results I will google it and get it unbiased, quicker and with less opinion. I watch your channel for your entertainment not your news. News not = entertainment, get it?

Here’s their response.

Tonight the Fox News Department interrupted regularly scheduled programming to bring you the concession and victory speeches from the Oregon Governor’s race. Breaking into programming is always a difficult decision, especially during a popular show like House. However, Fox 12 is committed to covering news that impacts you. We feel the election of a state leader rises to that level. We’re sorry for the inconvenience this caused our viewers. We hope to bring you an encore episode as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Patrick McCreery
News Director

**Update #3**

The wonderful people at Fox sent me another email about their litle election snafu. Here it is for posterity. The weird thing is the email was signed by Patrick McCreery but the email was from one of his lackeys. Figures.

We have been unable to reschedule the episode of House that was interrupted to bring you the concession and victory speeches from the Oregon Governor’s race. We are told this episode will, however, be shown on the USA network this Friday, November 17 at 11 PM for those on Comcast Cable or at 8 PM for those of you with satellite dishes. For those of you not on cable or satellite, Fox will be re-airing this program at a future date yet to be determined.

Sincerely,

Patrick McCreery

News Director

Guess the Race

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

This just pisses me off to no end. If this happend in Beverly Hills to a protected minority, it would have been a national news story for months with the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson getting indignant about race relations in Amerikkka. They’d demand the perps heads even before a trial or anything. Here’s a tidbit of the article.

The taunts and jeers grew more aggressive, the victims recalled, as
did the size of the crowd. Now females joined in, and everyone began
saying “We hate white people, f— whites!”

At this point, the girls began to run, but the pack of assailants ran ahead of them and kept them surrounded.

“It was like animals, like a pack of hyenas,” Michelle said.

She
was trying to call 911 on her cell phone when the taunts began, but
kept getting busy signals. She tried three times to call, she said, but
never got through to an operator.

The suspects also began to gradually separate the girls, first by grabbing Laura by her long hair and yanking her backward.

She
said she tried to fight off a group of girls who surrounded her and
were clawing and hitting her, but then a man came up and slammed her in
the head with a skateboard, knocking her unconscious.

“One of the witnesses told the police that he saw my legs
go straight up in the air and I hit the ground face first,” she said,
accounting for the bumps and bruises on her forehead and around her
nose and eyes.

Her friends watched, horrified as the man raised the
skateboard over his head and slammed her again as she lay on the
ground. Others in the pack also began to hit and kick her motionless
body.

BTW, read the comments on the site for some more interesting perspectives.

Haggar Slacks, Oh the things they can doo.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

My bud Rob the poker guru/Chevelle motorhead sent me this link. I never knew Haggar slacks were so versitile.

I’ve had it!

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Some sick f*ck from Pakistan decides to Google “father f*ck his daughtar pic” and I’m numero uno on the hit list. What the f*ck is it with these Muslim countries and their obsession with pr0n? Not just regular pr0n but sick shiite with animals and your own daughter. WTF is wrong with these people? No wonder these demented fools fall for the 72 virgins thing. They’re so dam sexually repressed no wonder it’s so easy to get them to strap on the ol’ splody belts and race to heaven. The fact their religion hasn’t had a new thought in 700 years doesn’t help either. They force their women to cover up 99% of their bodies so not to tempt the men. What are the men supposed to do? Well they can either go out behind the camel shed and spank it, marry some chick you’ve never seen because of that dam burqa or blow themselves up to get to those virgins. H*ll they still think the desert nomad life is the shizzle and hey don’t those sheep p*ssies look like good. I know the way to win the WOT. Create the Playboy bunny brigades. Thousands of scantily dressed hot chicks scattered everywhere. They wouldn’t even need guns, the other side would give up. Once you’ve captured them all you put them in jails run exclusivly by gays and lesbians. Their heads would be spinning so fast from this contradiction they would be scarred for life. Hopefully questioning their devotion to the Religion of Peace to the point they have no choice but to give it up. Once they’ve been successfully deprogrammed, we ship them to Berkeley. The other thing I would do would block all internet traffic into these countries except for pr0n sites. 100% pr0n, 24/7 365. I feel better now, don’t you?