Dico, Dico, Dico

CEO of McDonalds basicly tells the Center for Science in the Public Interest to go fuck themselves.
If more company execs had balls like this guy there’d be less legalized shakedown bullshit like this going on.

I still have bruises from the severe facepalm I did when congress pulled that “freedom fries / freedom toast” bullshit a while back, but evidently we dont have a monopoly on such asinine smacktard stupidity:

During the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2006, several religious Iranian groups advocated changing the name of highly popular Danish pastry (Shriniye Danmarki), given its name association with the source country of the offending cartoons.[4] The Iranian confectioner’s union designated “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad” as the new name for Danish pastries made in the country as of 15 February 2006, although compliance with the proposed name in bakeries was mixed and short-lived.[4] Related to this, many protesters in several Muslim countries, angered by the pictures of Muhammad, boycotted Danish goods. “Roses of Muhammad” (Persian: گل محمدی “gole mohammadi”, literally: Muhammed flower) is a traditional Persian synonym for variety of pink rose flowering shrub.

(I came accross this on wikipedia. Why i was looking up Danish pastries on wiki is really nobodies business.)

Tivo is simply awesome. I love it. I’ve been a subscriber for years.
However having switched over to satellite in anticipation of a move (and to save a shitload of money) it became clear that the jerry rigged tivo/dish network setup wasn’t going to work out.
So I set out to cancel my account.
I’d been at it for a fucking hour.
Considering how much control you have over your account & service level in account management it is absolutely fucking ridiculous to be forced to go through an 800 number in order to cancel an account.
I’m not bagging on the CSR’s - this is a case of fucked company policy and there’s absolutely no excuse for it.

Never again. Fuck that shit and Fuck Tivo.

Also,
America! The Story of Us.

[diatribe removed - the clip above about sums it up]

I just realized I’ve owned and been using the same towel for something like 35 years.
It’s a big multicolored striped beach type towel. It is truly ugly as sin.
It was a key component of a halloween costume when I was about 7 or 8.
It went all through sports with me in middle and high school.
It was handily present during an awkward moment with a high school girlfriend.
It moved out with me at 18.
It was with me when I shacked up with my first, well, Shack Mammy.
California, New Jersey, Oregon, Idaho other places, other jobs.
Hell, this fucking towel went with me to Iraq.
Yeah it’s got a couple tears and one of the corners is starting to fray, but still does it’s job.
This towel has seen me through a lot.
That’s a hell of a fucking towel.

(this came up because my wife wanted to chuck it. I said no.)

My Baby passed her test! She’s one step away from Citizenship, At which time she can freely use the same two word answer I usually use when questioned by nosy bureaucrats.

I’m not gonna get into Specifics (or even dates), but based on our situation, I’ve long suspected that someone/or multiple someones “had our back” so to speak through out this entire process.

To them I say thanks.

random thoughts on patriot radio…

1. I constantly hear about heavy metal poisoning of the water supply/food supply etc - yet every other ad on these shows is for some kind of fucked up snake oil silver or gold based food supplement. Last I checked, silver and gold are heavy metals in the same class as lead. (am I wrong here?)

2. Valid concerns sounded out about mercury based preservatives in vaccines, ring kind of hollow when shouted out by someone sporting skin tags - hint: the same mercury based preservative is used in tatoo ink. Say What? Mercury does some nasty shit biologically speaking, but isn’t it a bit late to complain about it at that point?

Bullet points!

• It’s 2010… Should be about may before I stop dating shit XX XXX 09
• Nasty downright debilitating sinus infection of the past 2 and half -3 months, finally appears to have been beaten back
• My Baby ™ got her test appointment and becomes a citizen soon!
• Should own our own house by Spring/Early Summer
• I still have too many level 80’s in WoW.
• Successfully honored last years resolution to ignore politics. this year I think I’m gonna go for the more traditional “weight loss” resolution.
• Renewed some contacts, folks I haven’t seen in over 20 years, so that was nice.
• Finally found my goddamned hat (the green one I picked up in Babel in 2004)
• Got another bigass monitor

more updates as events warrant.

Finally got my drawing, painting & sculpting station sorted out in a way that meshes good with my tech (work) area without having to resort to bunk-desks.

All those cool fun projects I went on about wanting to do (new years rant) are back on track.

Blame the delay on my Irritation at IKEA for canceling my favored desk model, the Jerker (behold in all it’s glory) out of the blue for no fucking reason only to later replace it with the inferior “frederik”. I Knew I shoulda bought a couple spares damnit

Blame the delay on my central air unit going out on the hottest day of the summer.

Blame work

Blame wow,lotro,aoc,war, etc etc

OK don’t blame IKEA or any of the others, It was all me. well maybe work can take some blame, but I’ll go easy on work. without it i couldn’t buy various neat things that make life less of a drudge - things like pants, whiskey, Tortas, a new fuel pump for my rig, Copenhagen, tivo, and oh yeah, BIG ASS 26 inch HD monitors.

This thing is fucking huge. It’s almost too big. I thought i was doing fine with my trusty old 20″ scepter (from Costco) but damn this is nice.
It was also the catalyst for my recent burst of activity as far as getting shit sorted out spacewise.
All i need to locate now is a reasonably priced large format flatbed scanner (18″ by X minimum)

new WOW Expansion

“…Some of the new race and class combos include dwarf mage…”

Dwarf. Mages.

Dwarf. Fucking. Mages.

DAMN YOU BLIZZARD!!! I want my life back! *whimper*

Worgen is the new alliance race, Goblins went horde (no big surprizes there.)

I guess i wont have to worry about it till around Grune 43, 2422 when the expansion is actually released.

Burnt out on Warcrack,

Back to Warhammer Online…