Dico, Dico, Dico

Is This Shit For Real?

CTJ — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:29:58 +0000

I guess this is the kind of shit you have to expect in an era where Wrestling and Psychic “reality” shows are considered valid programming for the Sci-F - oops I mean Scyfy channel (yay! branding over substance, lets let marketing fuckers and lawyers ruin even more shit!).

Fuck.

Well, there’s my social calendar fucked for the next couple of months.

CTJ — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:01:38 +0000

I’d just resubbed my Wow account, and had finally gotten around to checking the email account I use for that, when I noticed I’d received a legit cataclysm beta invite last week. I re-check my b-net account and sure as shit, it was right there.

I’ve been geeking out on some of the preview vids that various folks have put out, and everything looks GREAT… so much so that’s put me off the game in it’s current state.

Though I have raided, I really like rolling alts & leveling and all that - the whole building process I guess, and I just can’t bring myself to do that before the new low level contents ships.

I’ve beta tested a few games, Age of Conan being the most recent, Lord of the Rings online where i was actually able to log bugs and send constructive feedback (which is what you’re supposed to do in a beta) and of course DDO which was notable because I did it about 30 yards from the 14th of July Bridge in Baghdad via satellite, on a sub par laptop with about as much latency as you’d expect. I was utterly useless on that one, but it was still kind of cool to be in on it,

If I think about and have the time, I’ll throw the odd shot and commentary up

So rare it’s notable

CTJ — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:59:02 +0000

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.

Freedom Fries

CTJ — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:53:10 +0000

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 & Shitty Cable Documentaries Masquarading as History.

CTJ — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:40:45 +0000

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]

One Hoopy Frood

CTJ — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:31:12 +0000

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.)

Citizen Baby

CTJ — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:49:56 +0000

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.

Patriot movement mythology

CTJ — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:13:16 +0000

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?

Catching up

CTJ — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:22:36 +0000

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.

I think i bit off more than I can chew…

CTJ — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:51:06 +0000

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)