March 26th, 2005
So Close
Nearly lost three #1s with one left until Arizona decided to butterfuck themselves. Next time I get into coaching I'll have to remember that "dribble with your back to the basket until there's 3 seconds left, then huck it" play.
Posted by fad at 8:38pm
An Update As I Watch The Game
I created a new category called "Posts I Will Delete". These will be posts intended to be temporary or ones I just know as I hit "save" will be deleted. Why post something just to delete it? Well, that's my problem, not yours. So if you see one of these (other than this one), probably not worth commenting or even noticing as it will likely be gone by the next time you visit (like earlier tonight).
Posted by fad at 7:38pm
And I Didn't Even Get A Card
I hate National Let's Go To A Really Busy Supermarket And Try To Use The Self Service Scanners For The First Time In Our Lives Even Though Electronics Confuse And Frighten Us Day.
Posted by fad at 11:34am
March 25th, 2005
Huzzah
Duke is gone. I can die in peace*.*Offer only good should I die in the next couple weeks.
Posted by fad at 11:03pm
Site Stuff
Over the last couple weeks I have gotten sick of the more persistent comment/referral/trackback spammer addresses and have been blocking them from contacting the computer completely. A couple times I have discovered that I accidently copied and pasted the wrong address and blocked someone just trying to read the site. If you suddenly find yourself unable to even contact this site, send an email. The couple times this has happened, it took me a couplefew hours to discover, so don't count on me to always fix it myself. If you were one of these people, I apologize for the weirdness. Well, that weirdness. Ok, all the weirdness. And that scratch.
Posted by fad at 4:22pm
Victory!
Woo! After years of trying through deletions and strange behavior, looks like I finally alienated everyone! From now on it's just me and the comment/trackback spammers and that's the way we likes it!
Posted by fad at 3:37pm
This Fails Every Single Time
So....any requests? I didn't drag my bongos and jazz kazoo all the way down here for nothing.
Posted by fad at 2:25pm
Me Do. Me Rite Gud
Maybe I'm not too dumb to be a teacher afterall.City officials recalled preparation material for math tests that had been sent to teachers after discovering they were filled with math and spelling mistakes.Especially when it matches my lifestyle as it already is.
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Several answers in the guide were wrong. There were also sloppy diagrams and improper notation of exponents. There were at least 18 errors in the guide, and grammar and spelling issues proved just as problematic as the math. For example, the word "fourth" was misspelled on the cover of the 4th-grade manual.
Posted by fad at 12:49pm
I Hope It's Stuck In Your Head Too
A tale of horror so terrifying because it's true.The words? "It's a Small World."I was on a boat that was stuck like that for about 15 minutes. Really, it's surprising we didn't start tearing apart the other riders and beating ourselves with their severed limbs while forgetting all abilities of language. Getting stuck for 15 minutes in Pirates of the Carribean in the middle of the big boat battle, while still annoying, was a lot cooler.
I hate those words, and I hate that ride.
I got stuck in the fabled, animated, indoor excursion about 30 years ago on my first trip to Disneyland.
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By stuck, I mean the ride broke down. The little boats that float through cavernous rooms, while billions of little dolls sing "It's a Small World" over and over and over and over and over, broke down.
And we sat there.
Five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes.
Posted by fad at 12:35pm
Exploiting My Intense Fear Of Algae
Funny. This is exactly what women do when they see me approaching them.Octopuses, known for using camouflage to avoid predators, have been observed apparently trying to sneak away by walking on two arms while pretending to be a bunch of algae.Others were seen trying to hide in underwater haystacks and slowly creep from the scene.
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In Australia, O. aculeatus was seen raising two arms above its head before lifting four more and moving backward on the two remaining arms. The researchers described it as looking like "a clump of algae tiptoeing away."
Posted by fad at 11:59am
Pong
On a technical note, anyone else having trouble pinging blogrolling.com, or is something hudged on my end?UPDATE: And as soon as I complain, it starts working again.
Posted by fad at 11:53am
True Life Conversation During A (Secondhand) Smokebreak
....| Friend 1: | So it's surprising to me that he's a Republican since he's gay. |
| Friend 2: | Wait....Aron's gay? |
| Friend 1: | Yeah. You didn't know? |
| Friend 2: | No. Not a clue. |
| Me: | Bet that Cowboy and Indian party he was talking about last week makes a lot more sense now. |
Posted by fad at 11:49am
The Lesson Here Is Never Try
Ah, what the hell. What's the point of being self-destructive if you don't self-destruct? And that includes posting lots of craptacular, unfunny posts.Update: Mistaken link removed. My apologies to Prairie Fire for my misunderstanding.
Posted by fad at 11:45am
Um
Hi!UPDATE: I got really sick of the inanity and uselessness of this site of late. So, starting next week it'll be all Dostoevsky and C. S. Lewis all the time! Ok, just kidding. It'll just have to wait until everything stops feeling so stupid. Consider this my spring break. Oh yeah, and my protest that I can't seem to ping blogrolling.com anymore.
Posted by fad at 9:17am
March 22nd, 2005
Please Direct All Emergency Business To The Proper Authorities
CLOSED FOR INVENTORY
Posted by fad at 1:38pm
March 21st, 2005
As Plushies Weep
On the way home, there was what appeared to be a large mess of roadkill. Turned out to be a box of stuffed animals that had fallen onto the road. They had been run over several times. Quite the shredded -- yet easily recognizable parts -- mess remained. Probably will look even more realistic as dusk falls.
Posted by fad at 5:41pm
Nerts!
Chicken!
Posted by fad at 3:23pm
Using Classic Bad Expert/Good Expert Technique
"Experts question reduced-sugar cereals"Then they grilled some corn.
Posted by fad at 1:17pm
Oof
I don't care if they say it was instant, this is not the way I want to go.
Posted by fad at 12:59pm
Rio, Rio De Janiero. I Can Do It. I Can Do It.
Yeah. Sleep walking. Sure.Officials say the 15-year-old boy was sleepwalking aboard Flight 1185 when he apparently walked into the cockpit door. The flight crew decided to land in Memphis as a precaution.Having roomed with a couple sleep talkers/walkers before, I'm glad I suffer from neither (though we all will mumble a bit in our sleep once in a while). However, it is highly entertaining.
Posted by fad at 12:36pm
It's Got All This Shit In It
With my ....issues...with tornado potential, this would have left me somewhat freaked for a bit.Skokie residents had a rude awakening Sunday when one of the north suburb's tornado sirens went off for nearly an hour because of an apparent malfunction, prompting a series of worried calls to emergency dispatchers.But don't worry, a keen investigation is underway.
"It's got a bunch of circuit boards, so maybe there's a glitch in there. I don't know."One gets the idea that the fire captain isn't much of an electronics oriented guy.
Posted by fad at 12:08pm
Lebanon Vacuum Filler Syndrome
Here's a little detail I honestly never expected to read.Tens of thousands of demonstrators waved Somali and U.S. flags Monday as they denounced any attempt to send Ethiopian troops to their Horn of Africa country to secure Mogadishu for the government-in-exile's return home.They were waving U.S. flags too? There's something interesting in there. I'm not 100% sure what, or to what depth even those things I think might be there are. How's that for a sentence. Their point is that they don't want large parts of the international troops being sent in to try to secure Mogadishu to come from any neighboring country for obvious reasons.
Posted by fad at 11:44am
Speaking The Unspoken
Looks like new trials a-plenty for many convicted murderers in California.The California Supreme Court ordered the hearing in San Jose to investigate the sworn statement of [a former prosecutor], who said he and other lawyers in the Alameda County district attorney's office routinely used peremptory challenges to keep Jews and black women off juries in capital cases.And they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for the stupid law.
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"No Jew would vote to send a defendant to the gas chamber," [he]alleges the judge, who was himself of Jewish descent, told him.
[The judge "]was only telling me what I already should have known to do," [he] stated. "It was standard practice to exclude Jewish jurors in death cases."
Posted by fad at 11:37am
Name Envy
Robert "Voting Is Fun" Mugabe has done the impossible. He actually went too far even for me in criticizing Jimmy Carter.Observers for the March 31 elections have been invited from generally pro-Mugabe African states such as South Africa, friendly countries such as China, Iran and Venezuela, and from the Southern African Development Community, a generally supportive regional body.Do not cross the Carter.
"They left out everybody who gave them a negative report,"
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"Zimbabwe is a disgrace," said Carter, referring to the country's electoral system. "Mugabe declared that the Carter Center is a terrorist organization and asked us to leave."
"There is a growing suspicion in Zimbabwe that the sole objective of the SADC and South African observer missions is not to ensure the full expression of the 'one person, one vote' principle," but to legitimize a victory for Mugabe's party, said Welshman Ncube, a leader of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change party.The rest of the story details how Mugabe's thugs and state control of media is making sure the elections go his way. And they could just out of pure weariness of the population. I just quoted that part because Welshman Ncube is a great, great name.
Posted by fad at 10:47am
Sharply Caught Between Heavens
I'm beginning to think there is an underground cult dedicated to sacramental sword attacks. Actually, I've thought that for a long time. What I'm actually beginning to think is that there has been a schism and now the apostates have taken up axes.Police ended a stand-off with a man wielding an axe in woods in Dorset by opening fire with plastic bullets.An ax in the woods? Heavens! Though of course it was probably a bit more brandishy than just carrying it about. Still, this religious war is worth keeping an eye on.
Posted by fad at 7:04am
All Shall See Them And, Well, Twitch More Than Tremble
The first of the Four Turtles of the Inconvenience Apocalypse has made itself known.A turtle that was the only survivor of a pet shop fire may have emerged with a hellish memento.Too coincidental indeed, my friend in the fight. For this turtle is Private Itch! Soon to follow will be the turtles Moderately Leaky Tire and Constantly Running Toilet. While they are still called the Four Turtles of the Inconvenience Apocalypse, there are only three as Weird Pointing Thing In Sock That You Just Can't Seem To Find But Won't Stop Jabbing You was eliminated due to budget cuts. He was delicious.
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[The owner] now says he sees an image of Satan's face on the critter's shell. He can spot lips, eyes, a goatee, shoulders and a pair of pointy horns on Lucky's back.
"The marking on the shell was like the devil wanted us to know he was down there,'' [he] said. "To me, it's too coincidental that the only thing to come out unscathed would have this image on it.''
Posted by fad at 6:43am
March 20th, 2005
C. M. Burns U
Apparently at Mississippi State they are still used to waiting for someone to get the ball out of the peach basket.
Posted by fad at 6:38pm
Oh Boy!
It's time for the Cingular sponsered Cingular Halftime show, sponsered by Cingular, the company that sponsers the Cingular sponsered Halftime Show sponsered by Cingular!
Posted by fad at 11:54am