sco stfu

sco, why don't you just stfu and foad?

100 year flood

so i think it's me, cuz while i was in fargo we had the 100 year flood of 97, and now in las vegas we just had the 100 year flood, on my birthday no less.

i just set up some streaming radio stations in freevo, and am listening to kexp from seattle(hi robyn, call me) as we speak. it's kind of a nice change after 3 months of recursive random play of my ogg vorbis collection(ok so half of them are mp3s, but all the new stuff is ogg).

so bush fights wars how i imagine he fucks, a great start, but blows his wad early and loses interest. he can't finish anything right. i feel sorry for laura(his ugly wife). evidently they figured that once saddam left power that the rest of the country would fold with no resistance. i guess they didn't read about the french resistance in ww2. i mean the french folded with hardly a tap, but they managed to be a pain in germany's ass for the rest of the war. not to say that the iraqi resistance is on the side of good like the french one was, but they are being a serious pain in our ass. bush needs to be honest with the american public and send a overwhelming force over to iraq and do nation building right. this doing things on the cheap is being pennywise and pound foolish. i didn't agree with the reasons for the war, but let's finish what we started, and make iraq a shining example for the middle east instead of a total fucking mess.

flies fly out of her head

this is just too sad/funny to notlink to. read it all, as it gets worse the more the dialog goes on.

chimay dinner

well, i just got back from a beer tasting dinner where i was able to sample 3 different flavors of chimay as well as 3 other beers from kwak and tripel darmeliet to some weird cherry beer that went great over ice or ice cream.. anyhow, it was a wonderful time. the food was excellent, and the beer spectacular, and on top of all that, the people at my table were wonderful people to be with. i had a gay couple, a home brewer, and a reporter for a beer magazine at my table, so the conversation was very informative about beer and stylish about gays. :) the dinner started with spinach dip, followed soon after with an amazing sausage stew. the main course was filet mingon with asparagus and german mashed potatos, with ice cream with a cherry beer over the top for dessert. at $40 for dinner, 6 different beers(more that 6 were consumed) tip and tax included it was definately a nice night, and one i hope to partake of again soon. oh and i scored 4 chimay glasses for my home, how can you beat that?

server upgrade

well the upgrade is to the point where the sites are back up, even if they don't all run right quite yet. I have spent the day upgrading linux and running cable to the upstairs neighbor so that he can share my internet connection. needless to say i'm about ready to crash for the night and finish up tomorrow.

server upgrade

well the upgrade is to the point where the sites are back up, even if they don't all run right quite yet. I have spent the day upgrading linux and running cable to the upstairs neighbor so that he can share my internet connection. needless to say i'm about ready to crash for the night and finish up tomorrow.

netwerk outage

netwerk-x and it's affiliated websites will experience an outage this weekend whilst i install a new hard drive and upgrade to RH 9.0 and fix all the problems that come with that upgrade. after it is back up i will start working on moving the mtk sites over to netx and hopefully will get things taken care of before bh moves to his new house.

todd and bh have always been generous enough to supply me with server space when i was in need, and it's nice to finally be able to return the favor. aren't friends wonderful.

now the truth comes out

sco execs get caught dumping stock.

and now a sco modest proposal.

don't like the person in office, just buy them out

so the california recall is getting out of hand. it seems that 195 or so people have filed to run for governer. they say the ballot may be 12 pages long, and we thought the butterfly ballot in florida was bad. what a farce this is. remember this all started within months of the election, so obviously this isn't about davis's performace in office, since he hadn't had a chance to perform before the recall push was underway. even more evidence that the american political system can be bought.

so now we have a midget, a body builder, a porn star, a liberal conservative (3 of those have speech problems) and 190 or so other people running for a position that may or may not need to get filled, using voting mechanisms that california was getting ready to replace because of the florida fiasco of 2000. all because in california you need a ridiculously small percentage of people to start a recall. i'm pretty sure that they don't have to have been the people who voted in the first election, and with our dismal turnout at elections that means that a bunch of people who didn't vote when they had the chance are now hijacking the political system because some rich fucker paid lots of people to go door to door and get signatures. anyone else think this smacks of heather's bigfun petition/suicide note?

on a brighter note, i went to see the aquabats a while ago, and they were a riot. they are a superhero band, and they put on a great show of punk rock interspersed with witty commercials, and water breaks. then they stop the concert towards the end and have a seahorse race where they take 2 little kids from the audience, place them on inflatable rafts and have the crowd surf them to the back of the hall and then back to the stage. the atmosphere was great, and it was amazing to see lots of aging punkers who had brought out their children to see the show. a family punk concert, who'da thunk it?

separated by star trek

so it's come to my attention that bh and wil wheaton are starting to look like each other.

you be the judge:

has anyone else noticed that nytimes.com doesn't get blocked by mozilla's popup window blocking? it's the only site i've found that i still get pop ups on, and it's annoying me.

buy clothes from sweat-x an all union clothing company started by either ben or jerry of the ice cream fame.

pop country music

so one of my co-workers is on a country music kick(she has about 1/month, and they last about 2-3 days) and it has brought to my attention just how bad country music that gets played on the radio sucks. after a lunchtime of "have you forgotten" and "it's what i do" and shania fucking twain, i'm about ready to puke. and what is up with people playing "have you forgotten" when they talk about the war in iraq? iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. but hey, i guess if you appeal to the patriotic side of id10t's they will blindly follow you anywhere. maybe we should tell people that if we got universal health care it would stop bin laden. at least then we would be using their sheepness for good instead of evil.

speaking of evil, it has gone on it's yearly month long vacation to texas, to the western white house. what a fucking joke. i wish i could take every august off, especially if i didn't really work that hard the rest of the year. "i don't even have to come into the office for this job, i can do this job from home."

i am the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.

oh, if we can get enough people(10) discoelvis is going to go to the savage sevens tournament in september. this is a tournament where the 7 people who start the game have to finish the game, no subs except for injuries. games are to 7 points, and the 10 person roster means that some people will have to play 3 games in a row. should be fun.

slashdot reflecting

power sources for the modern vampire. and we all thought the matrix was unrealistic with it's power source.

why does the american public not get upset about stuff like this? bush is the most dogmatic, misleading president i've ever seen, but still we let him get a free ride. we talked about reagan being the teflon president, but i think bush is the new and improved stuff i see advertised on late night tv.

hizzay to the izzey

so i've moved to a new apartment, my first on my own in vegas, and they have a small gym for use by the residents, so i have been taking advantage of it. i do about 30 minutes on the eliptical trainer 4 days a week. i don't know if it is having an effect of me, but i assume it is. that's the problem with trying to get into shape, the changes are so slow that you don't really see them yourself. it takes someone who hasn't seen you for a while to comment on them for you to realize that you are making body modification progress. the main reason i'm motivated to exercise is to improve my ultimate playing, and i think it is having an effect on that. my goal is to get in shape enough that people no longer pick me to defend when they need a rest. in paticular there is one guy who comes out occasionally who likes to line up on slow people so that he can make lots of plays since he is faster than them(although he has lost a step since i first started coming out, which makes me feel happy in a vindictive sort of way), and i want to be able to burn him badly enough that he never wants to cover me again. (is that so wrong?)

on to more important things, wil wheaton will be in vegas this weekend for a star trek convention and i would really like to go meet him, but i don't want to pay the $30+ for admission. maybe he'll have a book signing here someday. i remember not really liking weasley crusher on the series, in the same way i didn't like riker or troy. i didn't think they helped the series. i never had the hatred for them that the people who started the alt.weasleycrusher.die.die.die newsgroup did, they just weren't my favorite characters of the show. anyhow, years after the show i found wil wheaton's web site, and i have really enjoyed reading it for the past year. he seems to have become so comfortable in his skin in a way that i wish i was. i feel a strange sort of pride that someone i used to watch when they were a kid on tv has become such an intelligent, thoughtful man(as if i had any part in it).

oh and does anyone what to be a part of my "when will bush fuck up again" market that i'm starting to help predict presidential stupidity?