White woman or black man?

Palin for VP as a white woman. Obama for President as a black man. One of these two will find themselves in one of the highest (or highest) positions in the planet. I’m proud to see that my country has finally found a little diversity in our politics because we’ve had it in our [...]

News snippets

It turned out that the civilians are working on Friday so I actually had one extra day of work this week. I find out about my extra shift eight hours before I was to be at work so it wasn’t that bad of a deal. They were, apparently, unsure if I was going to [...]

31 days, 744 hours, or 44460 minutes

Irregardless of which way you add up the numbers, I’m going to spend a long time away from work. I have a bunch of leave available and I decided, hey, why not take a bunch of it all in one giant go? I won’t be traveling far from home during the duration of my [...]

The Manning brothers and Oreos

I caught the last of the three videos tonight while watching television and laughed – alot. A quick search of youtube led me to the original and some “behind the scenes” interviews. All three of the videos are worth a watch. At times like these I wish I would have gotten into advertising – [...]

Democratic convention preempts my fun

Its eight o’clock and I want to watch TV. The Olympics, along with some obscure and nearly unwatchable sports, are gone and back is the regular television schedule. Unfortunately, on the second night on Olympics free television I’ve found that everything that I want to watch has been preempted by the Democratic National Convention. [...]

It’s too strange

The following website is too strange not to share – so – here you go. Sexy People is a collection of some truly horrendous photos of people trying to look decent. Get your fix of professionally photographed mullets, people that inhabit bus stops, and those that shouldn’t be allowed to breed. This site, despite [...]

A Day for the Dogs

Today I volunteered for an event with the K9 Scooters NW club. It was a pull training course. Basically, you bring your dog and all day we teach you and your dog how to pull. We get them fitted with a harness and you both get to learn about scootering together. It’s usually a [...]

Bluecoat – the harlotrous jezebel of pain

My opinion hasn’t changed in the past few months. I think Bluecoat is a horribly coded web filter that does a poor job of characterizing content. Much to my surprise, they have tweaked the algorithm and I’ve seen some noticable changes. First off, they no longer categorically block websites that have the word blog [...]

O’hare, snow, and a cat

This is the best short story I’ve read in quite a while – here’s an excerpt

I can’t explain this, so you’ll just have to believe me: last month my brother and sister-in-law asked my wife and me to adopt one of their cats. Maybe that doesn’t sound like much to you. Maybe you [...]

Bikes

The stationary bicycle has been my preferred form of cardio for quite some time. The first time I got on it I thought I wasn’t going to make it but I figured out how to get my rythm and I figured out how to use the up and down stroke to reduce muscle fatigue [...]