This Blog Is Full Of Crap http://isfullofcrap.com/ Sturgeon's Law says that 90% of everything is crap, but why settle for just 90%? en Copyright 2008 Sun, 11 May 2008 17:56:25 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss It's alive! It's alive! It's alive! Black Tie Martini Club. Heh. Heh. (We're totally gonna get lynched.)]]> http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/its_alive_its_alive_its_alive.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/its_alive_its_alive_its_alive.html Podcasting Sun, 11 May 2008 17:56:25 -0600 Mother's Day Mother's Day 2005: 4 cats Mother's Day 2006: 3 cats Mother's Day 2007: 2 cats Mother's Day 2008: 1 cat I'd prefer not to do the math, thank you very much. http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/mothers_day.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/mothers_day.html Cats Sun, 11 May 2008 12:38:59 -0600 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. http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/welcome_back_thud.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/welcome_back_thud.html Work Fri, 09 May 2008 09:29:17 -0600 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. http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/sick_day_1.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/sick_day_1.html Personal Thu, 08 May 2008 09:39:00 -0600 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.]]> http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/tom.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/tom.html Astros Wed, 07 May 2008 12:15:11 -0600 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.]]> http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/t_minus_five_days.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/t_minus_five_days.html Podcasting Wed, 07 May 2008 10:38:47 -0600 Marvin 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.]]> http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/marvin_1.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/marvin_1.html Personal Wed, 07 May 2008 06:13:14 -0600 Twitter Meetup "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.]]> http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/twitter_meetup.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/twitter_meetup.html Houston Tue, 06 May 2008 10:26:13 -0600 Dicky J needles Roger 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!]]> http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/dicky_j_needles_roger.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/dicky_j_needles_roger.html Astros Tue, 06 May 2008 09:18:48 -0600 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.]]> http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/houston_we_have_a_problem_with.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/houston_we_have_a_problem_with.html Shut The Fuck Up Mon, 05 May 2008 12:32:36 -0600 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. http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/first_blood_1.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/first_blood_1.html Astros Mon, 05 May 2008 12:24:27 -0600 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. http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/burnout_1.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/burnout_1.html Personal Mon, 05 May 2008 09:47:38 -0600 Cinco de Meow Meow frisky shot glass tequila Have a shot of tequila.]]> http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/cinco_de_meow_meow_1.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/cinco_de_meow_meow_1.html Cats Mon, 05 May 2008 08:15:33 -0600 Backlog 100 Word Stories podcast. Enjoy the hell out of it, folks.]]> http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/backlog_3.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/backlog_3.html Podcasting Sat, 03 May 2008 20:14:47 -0600 Beggars can't be bombers? 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?]]> http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/the_un_is_cutting_back.html http://isfullofcrap.com/2008/05/the_un_is_cutting_back.html Zionist Fri, 02 May 2008 09:10:21 -0600