Car thief? Second offense? Send him to the chair.
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Blogus Interruptus
Fuckin’ IBM. You order a part on Sunday with two day shipping. They warn that the part might take up to 72 hours to ship, so at the very latest, I’m thinking Friday before I get my replacement WiFi card if I order two day shipping, so I did. And when I checked it on Monday: it shipped that day. The tracking number is posted shortly there after: UPS, FedEx, DHL, and USPS have no record of it, but by all accounts, it should be here for Wednesday. I back up my data Wednesday morning and prep the machine (pull the battery, remove the HD, keyboard and lower bezel) and wait. At home. All day.
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ARGH!
This blog is stopping me from book writing, but I can’t help myself! Bah.
And now a scene from my local Starbucks…
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Yay! The Bitch is Gone!
After watching “The Apprentice” for nine weeks, that useless and whiny bitch (Omarosa) has finally gotten fired! And she couldn’t even go quietly! She had to go ahead and have a whole crying scene while waiting to go back inside the Boardroom and she ended up barging into the conference room before she was called for: big no no. Trump flipped at that, and quite rightfully yelled at her for it! Oh and if you watch “Today” tomorrow morning, I can promise you that “race” will come into the picture, even though she’s American like the rest of the candidates and, if she wants to play the African-American card, Kwame nominated her to be in the Boardroom.
Anyone know anything about that artist “Leah” that they had on the show tonight? The cute little Italian with the good artwork that WOPs like us can relate to? She was all types of goodness – pity she didn’t get more screen time…
Democracy: A Case Study
Democracy has been brought up in press quite a lot lately, between the ongoing drama of a presidential election and the constant bombardment of updates about gay marriages, and it’s actually got me thinking about how democracy is only half working in today’s America.
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Fire Sale?
What a difference a week can make. I know the NY Rangers have been sucking ass lately, but I’ve somehow gotten used to that, having been a fan before and after the memorable 1994 season. But this week. Wow. They traded off Nedved to Edmonton, then Kovalev to Montreal, and now Leetch to Toronto. Leetch. Who’s been there for longer than I dare remember. At least he’s going to a very active hockey town, but man, it stings. Since they’re selling off everything they own, I wonder if I can buy Messier for like two-fiddy or something…
A Bittersweet Starbucks Moment
Being single in today’s world is not an easy thing to be. In fact, it’s usually a very painful cross to carry, because society tends to treat single mammals like they are some sort of social leper. Everything in our society is geared to make you feel that being alone is wrong. That it’s somehow unethical or decadent or well, just plain wrong. Being single with kids isn’t as bad. At least you’ll have a “family” of your own and the empathy from other parents in the country, but if you use birth control, and are still single, then you may as well not even exist in society at large. At least, that’s what you’re led to believe, if you pay attention to how some people and the greater media tries makes you feel about it. I won’t have any part of that though.
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Amendment To Prevent Same Sex Marriages?
Somehow this became a full-fledged political hot button this election year, and I have to wonder what all the bullshit about it is. Personally, if you set all of the religious issues aside, and they should be set aside, since this is a government issue, this is a very simple thing to figure out.
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Howard Stern Suspended?
[New York Times]: Clear Channel Communications, the biggest radio broadcaster in the nation, suspended the Howard Stern show from its stations yesterday after announcing a policy to prevent the broadcasting of indecent content.
I never thought I’d see this again in the headlines, not after he found a home at K-ROCK and put most of this kind of crap behind him… anyone know what he said?
“I Don’t”
Saw this proposal on Good Day New York this morning, but a local-to-the-scene NBC affiliate was nice enough to put up a link so that we could share it on the ‘net. I would love to interview both of them to see if a) they had talked about it and the guy hoped that something public could temper her feelings or b) if she was caught completely by surprise and had no idea it was coming… either way, I pissed myself when I saw it; I’ve always wondered if all those proposals at Yankees games were accepted…
Big Steak Thursday
Familiar with Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday? If you are, you have to be familiar with Big Steak Thursday. It’s a cornerstone of the whole [secular] aspect of the Catholic church.
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Tuesday is Whitehead Day!
Fuckin’ OI. Have you been out driving on a weekday morning or afternoon lately? I run my errands now – as I have my days free still – and I find it to be far more hazardous that a weekend. I figured there would be fewer people on the road, what with the workforce being at work, but I didn’t realize that a whole gaggle of old people would be out the roads. I also didn’t know that Tuesday is Senior Citizen Discount day at every retail place in Derby (Connecticut) – anywhere that you try to get to will take you at least twice as long, due to the brigade of drivers that won’t go over 20mph. Do yourself a favor: stay at work on Tuesday unless you want to wade through a sea of white (and silver) heads at the local WalMart, IGA or Shop Rite.
I Hate That “Ewwy” Feeling
When someone asks me for an email address of someone that isn’t in my contacts list, I often rely on the “address popup” feature of Outlook to find an address for me. It’s nice enough to keep track of who I’m sending email to, so why not use it to lookup people you’ve recently email? Um, well, a good time not to use it is when someone emails you for the address of an employee of a company that you both used to work at, especially when that you’ve gone on to complain about annoying their inability to complete paperwork on time or to reply to email and phone calls in the body of the original email. Odds are you will do what I have done: accidentally CC the person you’re complaining, which is rather embarrassing even if you don’t work there anymore… and I don’t get embarrassed as a rule, but this is pretty fuckin’ close to it.
Now I just wonder how long it will take for that annoyingly ugly “ewwy” feeling in my stomach to go away, so I can eat lunch without massive agita.
Smoking Ban Bad For Business (NOT)
So lately there’s been a bit of a hubbub about smoking in public places here in Connecticut and New York. I know NY has had different levels of non-smoking in restaurants both in and out of the City, but I think they are smoke free for all restaurants. Right now, CT has banned smoking in all restaurants; smoking in bars is allowed until April 1, 2004, when those too go smoke-free. Do I smoke? No. Do I care? You’d better believe it.
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Jeter to A-Rod to Giambi?
Or maybe A-Rod to Jeter to Giambi? Does sound pretty good doesn’t it? The only thing I wonder about is how much better it will sound in during away games at Fenway.
*snicker*