May 9, 2008

Welcome back... THUD

There is such a thing as a bad customer.

Apparently, he's been on a rampage through the tech floor during my absence.

He's been tormenting and harassing and insulting the techs for years.

Management won't finish him off, despite his bleeding the company dry with wasted labor costs fending off his unsupported issues.

Maybe they're waiting for a tech to lose their shit, post this guy's information out on the web, and shout HACK THE FUCK OUT OF THIS FUCKING FUCKER! to the hills.

*shrug*

Weekend's right around the corner.

Whatever.

May 8, 2008

Sick Day

Sick day.

I feel like someone beat me with a hammer.

Blogging won't be light. It'll be nonexistent.

Going back to bed.

May 7, 2008

Tom

Tom Kirkendall takes a look at the Astros season so far.

Average team... things to be hopeful about and things to be concerned about.

Jose Cruz is an absolute misery at the plate. Call up Brandon Backe to pinch-hit, dammit.

JR Towles is making Brad Ausmus look good at the plate now.

Mark Loretta is fading.

If Michael Bourn continues to bat under his weight, it'll be a test of Cecil Cooper. Garner failed the Jason Lane test. Cecil's going to have to think this one over really hard.

Continue reading "Tom" »

T Minus Five Days

Black Tie Martini Club is working on a landmark production that in a less-fucked-up-universe should cause tsunami-level waves across the podosphere.

Fuck Dawn and Drew.
Fuck Adam Curry.
Fuck Leo Laporte.

This is the shit podcasting was made for: crazy-assed insane "I've got a digital barn, let's put on a show" collaboration.

Yeah, this one's gonna get me lynched.

Fuck it. No matter how hard you tie the rope, you can't choke off my laughter.


Now I want to dig up some other old scripts and get them polished.

And, yes, I'll make sure there's more than two parts in them. Otherwise Daphne's gonna whiiiiiiiiiine.

Sheesh.

Marvin

I got this in my inbox today:

This week's theme: eponyms.

Simon Legree (SY-muhn li-GREE) noun

A harsh taskmaster.

[After Simon Legree, a brutal slave dealer in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896).]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=simon+legree

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

"In Brutal Bosses and Their Prey (1996, Riverhead Books), Harvey Hornstein
identifies six variations on Simon Legree."
Sal Marino; Brutal Bosses From Hell; Industry Week; Jun 22, 1998.

Public service message:

Please donate to these organizations to help with the relief work in Myanmar:
Doctors Without Borders: http://doctorswithoutborders.org/
Unicef: http://unicef.org/

I've been a subscriber of A Word A Day since... sheesh... pretty soon after it got started, I think.

As for the word itself, well, Marvin Zindler thought it was cute to give that to me as a nickname.

I looked it up, read Uncle Tom's Cabin, and pretty much agreed that I had a vicious streak on vendors and idiot whiny coworkers that obliterated any good I could do for them.

But then, so did he.


As for donating to the relief work in Burma, I'll do the usual contribution to Maagen David Adom.

If they refuse the aid from Israel, fuck 'em all.

May 6, 2008

Twitter Meetup

Apparently, there's some kind of Twitter meetup tonight at 6006 Westheimer... Chua... Chum... Ch-something restaurant that isn't Chuy's.

Shouldn't be hard for me to get to if I use the 53 back and forth. I may get there early to see if there's anything in that area I need to buy.

Oh, and some guy named Chris Brogan will be there. He's one of the Boston Marketers, so that'll provide some nice quiet napping time...

"Blah blah blah Social Media blah blah blah Web 2.0 blah blah blah hire us to enhance your online community marketing presence blah blah blah."

Now Tom Waits... that's the guy coming to town I wanna see, for sure.

I walked by Jones Hall yesterday... in the rain, no less! (Okay, so I could have taken the tunnels to the box office. I'm a moron.)

They don't know what the deal is there yet, which makes perfect sense. They think inside the box at the box office... said "Ticketmaster" and "The performer's website" and pretty much everything indicating that there really wasn't much point to caging two Homo sapiens in a glass booth under a building to tell me that they couldn't do anything, eh.

Oh well. I shoulda given them some candy or something.

Dicky J needles Roger

You know that Roger The Mercenary is in bad shape when Richard Justice piles on:

He made Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire look good. At least they had sense enough to keep their mouth shut. Everytime Clemens opens his he seems less and less honest. He's the butt of jokes on late-night TV. He won't be getting into the Hall of Fame unless he buys a ticket.

If he goes to prison, will he request that the judge give him 22 months?


From Twitter:

scottlo @isfullofcrap you've got to imagine The Rocket will get Clemency

BOO!

May 5, 2008

Houston, we have a problem with Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks must be talking about some other Senator named Barack Obama:

"As an official celebrity, I know my endorsement has just made your mind up for you," the 51-year-old actor says in a short video titled, "Beware: Celebrity Endorsement."

"History with a capital `H' is going to be made this November, no matter who the president-elect is. I want Barack Obama to be president of this country, a country that once said people with his skin color were only three-fifths of a human being."

Hanks, who won Oscars for his roles in "Forrest Gump" and "Philadelphia," explains his decision: "It's because of his character and vision, and the high road he has taken during this campaign. He has the integrity and the inspiration to unify us, as did FDR and Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy and even Ronald Reagan when they ran for the job."

*sigh* Integrity?

The flip-flopping Obama did during the whole Jeremiah Wright situation was downright disgusting and pathetic.

It's going to be a serious hold-your-nose-in-November kinda year, folks.

First Blood

Okay, so Chadley finally got tagged for an earned run.

Yes, he has six unearned and two losses, but getting tagged for an earned run after 17 innings of work in a month... that's not bad at all.

Looking at the Gas Can Alley in front of the Borden sign at Minutemaid, that would be quite welcome.

500 ball for the Astros now, and a march of losing teams ready to up their records at the Astros' expense.

Should be interesting to watch.

Burnout

The "Dead Zone" television series started off really, really cool.

Then... it started to drag.

Yeah yeah yeah there's been a few wicked twists here and there. They even took out a primary and changed the chemistry of the cast a touch.

But in the end, I gave up watching it.

I kept thinking "Get on with it! Let's drop the gloves and finish this sucker!"

"Nip/Tuck" got to that point. Even though the writers kept throwing the characters at each other in deeper and deeper pits of depravity and evil, at some point you start to wonder at what point does someone pick up a scar that doesn't heal?

Sure, the supporting cast gets mown down every season, but there comes a point at which a primary needs to go down. Hard.

Maybe I've gotten to the point where I can't deal with watching an arc-based series in series. I need to watch as a marathon session.

Cinco de Meow Meow

It's Cinco de Meow Meow today...

frisky shot glass tequila

Have a shot of tequila.

May 3, 2008

Backlog

I've finally posted the backlog to the 100 Word Stories podcast.

Enjoy the hell out of it, folks.

May 2, 2008

Beggars can't be bombers?

The UN is cutting back it's toys for terrorists' tots and meals-on-carbomb-wheels programmes n Gaza:

Rising prices and funding shortages have forced the United Nations to stop providing emergency food aid to more than 13 percent of the 750,000 Palestinian refugees it generally feeds in Gaza, a UN official said Friday.

The United Nations' Relief Works Agency has over the last few weeks gradually reduced the number of Palestinian refugees to whom it distributes packages of basic foods to some 650,000, spokesman Matthias Burchard told The Associated Press.

It has also had to further reduce rations, he said.

"Soaring food prices, transport and fuel costs are forcing us to reduce what we can give," Burchard said.

The cost of fuel in Iran and Venezuela, of course, is ludicrously low. cents for the gallon.

Strange how that doesn't somehow get imparted to their so-called brothers in armed struggle, eh? Makes you think they somehow get off on Palis pantomiming and staging scenes of suffering and degradation for the international press.

So, where is the real problem? Why is the begging bowl not as full as it is supposed to be?

The funding gap comes from the fact that Arab Islamic Petrotheocracies pledged over 700 million bucks for the year and barely delivered 150 million bucks.

Most of the money they actually delivered, of course, going to either weapons or third rate goods meant to provide cover for weapons smuggling.

Makes you wonder about the suckers at the State Department who keep writing check after check, eh?

May 1, 2008

Three up, three down

Qualls took down Berkman, Lee, and Cruz last night.

Big Fifty rolls on while the Astros continue to slide into the cellar of 2008.

As for Cruz, well, this is what happens when nepotism hits the roster.

Guy's done a great job filling in the sub-100 Jason Lane role.

If Clemens had stuck around another year, would his kid have blighted Minutemaid?

The UNRWA knowingly hires terrorists

(Via Aussie Dave, whose father needs our prayers)

What's even more surprising is that Red Ted's CNN is reporting it:

One person was killed and three were wounded Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a metal shop in Rafah, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.

Israel Defense Forces confirmed the airstrike.

The person killed was the deputy commander of the Islamic Jihad military wing, according to the Palestinian sources, who said he also served as a school headmaster at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency school.

UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunnes said he could not immediately confirm that the person was employed by the United Nations, and added that staff members who bring politics into U.N. institutions are fired immediately for violating staff rules.

In any other organization, there'd be a thorough investigation, people fired, charges filed, etc. and so forth.

Instead, these folks will be tapped for promotions, bonuses, and work harder to get their gun-toting cousins on the UN payroll.

April 29, 2008

Procurement Disaster

It's official now... the primary contractor for the new light rails lines is gone and METRO is left begging for a replacement:

After more than a year of unsuccessful contract negotiations, the Metropolitan Transit Authority has ended talks with Washington Group International to be the prime contractor on four planned light rail lines.

Metro now will try to reach an agreement with Parsons Transportation Group, which ranked second among three candidates for the job when WGI was chosen in January 2007, Metro President and CEO Frank Wilson said.

Wilson said WGI will be compensated for $77 million in design and engineering work and that Parsons will build on that head start, allowing the projects to move forward on schedule.

How many tens of millions will taxpayers get nailed with because Frank Wilson and his minions can't work out a budget that actually has footing in reality?

A twit pans Twitter

Houston Press vomits up a buckload of stupid over Twitter.

My response has been documented in the comments at Second Thoughts as well as during my daily walk around Bayou Place:

What next? The Houston Press hires a food critic without the sense of taste and smell?

We Will Sell You The Rope You Will Hang Yourselves With 2.0

Bwahahahahahahaha classic!

Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say.

The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.

Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning.

(Wonders if there's any Chinese who know Arabic... Saudi flags that say "OOH LOOK! A SWORD!" under the sword.)

Qualls vs. Berkman

Qualls wins:

Qualls, who came to Arizona in the trade for closer Jose Valverde, struck out Berkman on five pitches to end the inning.

“He came in and threw three nasty pitches,” Berkman said. “There’s nothing you can do when he throws the ball that way.”

I can't wait until the Diamondbacks come to Minutemaid in August. I am so totally there.

QUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLS!

April 28, 2008

IAEA

Satellite evidence was recently presented to Congress that clearly shows that the Syrian facility bombed by Israel was a nuclear facility.

Among the dead, there were North Koreans with nuclear weapons expertise.

Mohammed El-Baradei condemned... the Israeli airstrike on the Syrian nuclear facility.

And so it goes.

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