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July 23rd, 2008
08:06 am
So, every time I post on LJ, I get random bot messages on AIM from people with "trout" or "salmon" in their SNs. But it's not bots. It's real people who are getting the same fake message from me, with a fake fish name instead of mine. After determining that it was all fake, and that neither of us are hot sexy girls, we go about our business. But something out there is scouring LJ for posts, and then sending messages to one from another, in some sort of gay virtual blind dating service.
This happen to anyone else?
Oh, and I need another hot teenage internet girlfriend. Mine all keep getting lives. :(
( transcript of one of these fish encounters )
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July 21st, 2008
08:18 pm
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12:25 pm
This is hot.
Also check out the "Fear of the Dark" cover.
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July 17th, 2008
06:38 am - news and links for today
I'm too lazy to actually write a good post, or even substantially comment on noteworthy items, so I'm just posting a bunch of links to posts that have done all the work.
God vs. Intelligence
Fox News will begin showing Creation "Museum" advertisements. It's bad enough that so many people believe in this crap, but now that it's on during the news, it must be even that much more true.
http://community.livejournal.com/endcreationism/256079.html
USA vs. Women
Department of Health and Human Services Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion.
http://community.livejournal.com/antitheism/987423.html
As always: question everything, love each other, and send me your nudies. Or just show me in person.
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July 14th, 2008
08:17 pm
Is there a website that has emails I can send to my coworkers and family who keep sending me these racist God is an American spam huggie letters? The last one suggested I thank a veteran because Americans speak English. I'm sure some of you have ideas on what I can send my redneck friends and family.
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July 11th, 2008
July 2nd, 2008
04:54 am
So apparently California has just banned driving while talking on cellphones, unless using a hands-free set. That's like saying it's OK to drink and drive as long as you're using a straw.
Christians have their own version of Wikipedia. It is apparently an attempt to filter lies from truth and provide factual information that hasn't been tainted by Satan.
I thought I had more to post, but this enough stupidity for tonight.
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June 20th, 2008
07:57 pm
Hi. I'm still around. There is just nothing much interesting to post that you haven't read before: I love ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ninvampiress. Work sucks. Rome rocks. I'm still a handsome devil. Etc. Firefox 3 runs a hell of a lot more smoothly than Firefox 2 did. Justin at work quit. I'm trying to teach ninvampiress to play Magic, but she refuses to be that much of a nerd.
I just noticed where someone replied after I left them a birthday wish the other day, but I never got a notification. The recent comments page doesn't even show that they replied. I hope I didn't miss anyone else!
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June 2nd, 2008
10:53 am
What TV shows do you like? Something different, preferably. I need something new to watch.
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May 6th, 2008
10:12 am
Let it be known to those whose habit it is to admire the disregard of authority, that there may be great men even under bad emperors, and that obedience and submission, when joined to activity and vigor, may attain a glory which most men reach only by a perilous career, utterly useless to the state, and closed by an ostentatious death.
-- Tacitus, Agricola
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May 1st, 2008
10:11 am
Hooray for the weekend after seven straight. They cut our hours yet again. I thought more business meant more hours. Odd how that doesn't seem to be the case sometimes. Our assistant manager will be working part of the nights with us. He says he's doing it because things aren't getting done to his satisfaction. I think it's a good idea. Now he can see some of the things that go on at night, and why things aren't getting done.
Scipio molted again. There's a little shrimp suit lying crumpled on the bottom of his skullcave. The water won't quite clear up. I did a water change last week, and thought that would do it. I probably will do another one. The hornwort is growing like mad. It took a couple of months for it to catch, and Frankie has uprooted and destroyed most of it, but three of the stalks that are left are have almost reached the top of the tank. I can't wait to get a gigantic tank to put all kinds of shit in there.
It's fucking snowing for three hours now. In May. Today is one of the Festivals of the Bona Dea. Where can we find a pregnant sow? I ordered some books for the wifey, and some Roman shit for myself: some cookbooks and some books about the army from 100 BC to AD 200. Isn't that the right positioning for those abbreviations? I downloaded Tin Soldiers: Julius Caesar. This is the best game I've played since before I got tired of Madden NFL. I'm going to buy the vifey a new computer too. Hers is dead.
Send me love.
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April 25th, 2008
12:09 pm
News for the day:
After Near Extinction, Humans Split Into Isolated Bands
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080424-humans-extinct.html
About 150,000 years ago, humankind split into small groups—living apart for a hundred thousand years before "reuniting" and migrating out of Africa, a new gene study says.
The Future of Sports
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080425-space-station-sports.html
Astronauts, by necessity, work hard in space. But during their precious time off aboard the International Space Station (ISS), some spaceflyers are picking their brains to come up with the future of space sports.
I started to watch Caligula, the one with Malcolm McDowell, and realized I was no where near stoned enough. Have you seen this? I'm definitely sitting down next weekend and watching it.
Brand names 'as old as civilisation itself'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml;jsessionid=0LECYUVDXYG0NQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/earth/2008/04/23/scibrand123.xml&site=30&page=0
Bottle stops used five millennia ago in ancient Mesopotamia (today's Iraq), the birthplace of cities and writing, carried symbols that marked them out as the earliest evidence of branded goods.
nite nite
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April 16th, 2008
11:48 pm
World's oldest tree discovered living in Sweden
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/world039s-oldest-living-tree-discovered-sweden-15937.html
The world’s oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden. The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by growing between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time.
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01:55 am
$312.48 at King Soopers today. That's a new record.
So apparently Expelled is more of a crock of falsifications and outright lies than even Bowling for Columbine was or government anti-drug propaganda is. Looking at this might be helpful before watching it. Granted, if you already want to see it, you're likely either already laughing or for some reason take it seriously, so getting the truth up front probably won't be much of a help.
Hooray for weekends. Mine started off with a kiss from my beautiful wife and a breakfast of steak and shrimp. I'm kinda almost out of pot, though. I have some, but it's not a lot. I waited too long to Make The Call. I do that about every other time.
Like a balloon, and something bad happens.
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April 14th, 2008
09:20 am
I just watched Peter on family guy put four shells into a double barrel breech load shotgun and then fire it five times. hmmm
Work sucks less now that I stopped paying attention when people invent reasons to get pissed off. I also don't like getting phone calls at home chewing me out for things that happen while I'm not even there, so I'm going to stop paying attention to my manager too.
Time to go smoke. Latah.
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March 31st, 2008
07:02 am
I'm sad. I bought Battle Line for ninvampiress and me to play, because it seemed pretty simple and easy going. After reading the rules, I've decided that the game just sucks. It's pretty much gin rummy with hoplites. meh. I also bought the abridged rule set for the Great Battles of History line of games, to go along with Caesar - Conquest of Gaul which I already have. I figure I'm not going to find that many people who will play. If I use the simple rules, it might not scare quite as many of them away.
For all of you who hate managers on principle, I'd like you to try being one. I spend the first 15 minutes of each shift listening to my crew bitch about how much they hate work and why they can't work that fast tonight because [insert excuse], which is almost always their own damned fault anyway. Then there is the bitching because we don't have enough crew to cover absences and emergencies, but when a new person gets hired, the bitching turns to getting fewer hours each. I also love when they get pissed because I have to ask if they did what I told them to do (don't you trust me?), go check to see, and find out they lied to begin with. That goes along with me passing on specific tasks from the store manager--e.g. ordering a specific product, and getting offended that I don't trust them to do their job. Sorry, but you're not perfect, and guess who gets in trouble if you make that mistake? They complain about other people doing the very same things they do themselves. They think it's OK to resolve issues through revenge and spite. Everything is always me me me me me. Poor, poor, you.
If you hate your manager, look at yourself and see if you aren't part, if not almost all, of the problem.
Scipio is now in the 30 gallon tank with Frankie and Buzi. He has a new skull to live in which is probably three times as big on the inside as his old one. We're using the old tank to grow green cabomba so we have an excuse to leave it set up. Frankie keeps eating the leaves off of the ones in the big tank, so we can grow extra. Unfortunately he's eating it a lot faster than it grows. He shredded the hornwort we bought earlier. There are only a few tufts left. I keep shoving the bits that break off into the gravel. It sort of looks like grass when it starts growing.
We need and can't find popsicle trays to make juicesicles. Someone send us some. :)
And finally, the perverted picture request of the day: Make yourself up to look like a cat and send me pics of the result.
Toodles.
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March 25th, 2008
12:32 pm
I vote Peyton Manning best SNL host ever.
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March 18th, 2008
11:38 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm
British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke, author of over 100 books, dies in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.
:(
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March 15th, 2008
01:34 am
Today is the anniversary of the day Caius Iulius Caesar was treacherously murdered in the Forum days before he could embark on his Parthian and/or Dacian campaigns by those he called friend and son.
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March 14th, 2008
09:26 pm
I'm at a sleepover with three sisters. What are you doing on this Friday night?
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