Twenty Thousand Tonnes of Machinery

Terror Free Oil

2007-06-01T16:15:00.000-04:00

Cool site that list safe companies to purchase gasoline from.

Check it out at http://www.terrorfreeoil.org/companies.php

I Am John Doe

2007-03-28T14:16:00.000-04:00

Dear Muslim Terrorist Plotter/Planner/Funder/Enabler/Apologist,

You do not know me. But I am on the lookout for you. You are my enemy. And I am yours.

I am John Doe.

I am traveling on your plane. I am riding on your train. I am at your bus stop. I am on your street. I am in your subway car. I am on your lift.

I am your neighbor. I am your customer. I am your classmate. I am your boss.

I am John Doe.

I will never forget the example of the passengers of American Airlines Flight 93 who refused to sit back on 9/11 and let themselves be murdered in the name of Islam without a fight.

I will never forget the passengers and crew members who tackled al Qaeda shoe-bomber Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 before he had a chance to blow up the plane over the Atlantic Ocean.

I will never forget the alertness of actor James Woods, who notified a stewardess that several Arab men sitting in his first-class cabin on an August 2001 flight were behaving strangely. The men turned out to be 9/11 hijackers on a test run.

I will act when homeland security officials ask me to “report suspicious activity.”

I will embrace my local police department’s admonition: “If you see something, say something.”

I am John Doe.

I will protest your Jew-hating, America-bashing “scholars.”

I will petition against your hate-mongering mosque leaders.

I will raise my voice against your subjugation of women and religious minorities.

I will challenge your attempts to indoctrinate my children in our schools.

I will combat your violent propaganda on the Internet.

I am John Doe.

I will support law enforcement initiatives to spy on your operatives, cut off your funding, and disrupt your murderous conspiracies.

I will oppose all attempts to undermine our borders and immigration laws.

I will resist the imposition of sharia principles and sharia law in my taxi cab, my restaurant, my community pool, the halls of Congress, our national monuments, the radio and television airwaves, and all public spaces.

I will not be censored in the name of tolerance.

I will not be cowed by your Beltway lobbying groups in moderate clothing. I will not cringe when you shriek about “profiling” or “Islamophobia.”

I will put my family’s safety above sensitivity. I will put my country above multiculturalism.

I will not submit to your will. I will not be intimidated.

I am John Doe.

Link

2006-11-29T11:20:00.000-05:00

I'm a huge fan of Guitar Hero and I've put a fair amount of time into playing both 1 and now 2. I've been feeling kind of "meh" about the new Guitar Hero, so I thought I'd do a side by side comparison of the two and see what I turned up. Ratings for songs as follows,

"-" I rarely play the song, just not into it, boring, etc.
"+" Good to Great song that I play often.

Guitar Hero
1. Opening Licks
- "I Love Rock & Roll" - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
- "I Wanna Be Sedated" - The Ramones
+ "Thunder Kiss '65" - White Zombie
- "Smoke on the Water" - Deep Purple
+ "Infected" - Bad Religion

2. Axe-Grinders
+ "Iron Man" - Black Sabbath
+ "More Than a Feeling" - Boston
- "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" - Judas Priest
+ "Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand
- "Sharp Dressed Man" - ZZ Top

3. Thrash And Burn
+ "Killer Queen" - Queen
- "Hey You" - The Exies
+ "Stellar" - Incubus
- "Heart Full of Black" - Burning Brides
- "Symphony of Destruction" - Megadeth

4. Return of the Shred
+ "Ziggy Stardust" - David Bowie
- "Fat Lip" - Sum 41
+ "Cochise" - Audioslave
- "Take It Off" - The Donnas
+ "Unsung" - Helmet

5. Fret-Burners
+ "Spanish Castle Magic" - Jimi Hendrix
- "Higher Ground" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
+ "No One Knows" - Queens of the Stone Age
- "Ace Of Spades" - Motörhead
+ "Crossroads" - Cream

6. Face-Melters
+ "Godzilla" - Blue Öyster Cult
+ "Texas Flood" - Stevie Ray Vaughan
- "Frankenstein" - The Edgar Winter Group
- "Cowboys from Hell" - Pantera
+ "Bark at the Moon" - Ozzy Osbourne

Bonus Tracks
+ "Fire It Up" - Black Label Society
+ "Cheat on the Church" - Graveyard BBQ
+ "Caveman Rejoice" - The Bags
- "Eureka, I've Found Love" - The Upper Crust
- "All of This" - Shaimus
- "Behind The Mask" - Anarchy Club
+ "The Breaking Wheel" - Artillery
- "Callout" - The Acro-brats
- "Decontrol" - Drist
+ "Even Rats" - The Slip
- "Farewell Myth" - Made in Mexico
- "Fly on the Wall" - Din
- "Get Ready 2 Rokk" - Freezepop
- "Guitar Hero" - Monkey Steals The Peach
- "Hey" - Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives
- "Sail Your Ship By" - Count Zero
+ "Story of My Love" - The Model Sons

Guitar Hero II
1. Opening Licks
- "Shout at the Devil" - Mötley Crüe
- "Mother" - Danzig
- "Surrender" - Cheap Trick
- "Woman" - Wolfmother
+ "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight" - Spinal Tap

2. Amp-Warmers
- "Strutter" - KISS
- "Heart-Shaped Box" - Nirvana (note - they overpowered the bass line and made this song suck)
- "Message in a Bottle" - The Police
- "You Really Got Me" - Van Halen
+ "Carry On Wayward Son" - Kansas

3. String-Snappers
+ "Monkey Wrench" - Foo Fighters
- "Them Bones" - Alice in Chains (note - they used the new very un-Lane Staley singer, song sucks)
- "Search and Destroy" - Iggy Pop and The Stooges
- "Tattooed Love Boys" - The Pretenders
+ "War Pigs" - Black Sabbath

4. Thrash and Burn
- "Cherry Pie" - Warrant
- "Who Was in My Room Last Night?" - Butthole Surfers
- "Girlfriend" - Matthew Sweet
- "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" - The Rolling Stones
+ "Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns N' Roses

5. Return of the Shred

- "Killing in the Name" - Rage Against the Machine (note - another replacement singer, this one sucks especially bad)
+ "John the Fisherman" - Primus
+ "Freya" - The Sword
- "Bad Reputation" - Thin Lizzy
- "Last Child" - Aerosmith

6. Relentless Riffs
+ "Crazy on You" - Heart
+ "Trippin' On a Hole in a Paper Heart" - Stone Temple Pilots
- "Rock This Town" - Stray Cats
- "Jessica" - The Allman Brothers Band
+ "Stop" - Jane's Addiction

7. Furious Fretwork
- "Madhouse" - Anthrax
- "Carry Me Home" - The Living End
+ "Laid to Rest" - Lamb of God
+ "Psychobilly Freakout" - The Reverend Horton Heat
- "YYZ" - Rush

8. Face-Melters
+ "Beast and the Harlot" - Avenged Sevenfold
+ "Institutionalized" - Suicidal Tendencies
+ "Misirlou" - Dick Dale
+ "Hangar 18" - Megadeth
+ "Free Bird" - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Bonus tracks
- "Arterial Black" - Drist
- "Collide" - Anarchy Club
* "Elephant Bones" - That Handsome Devil
* "Fall of Pangea" - Valient Thorr
* "FTK" - Vagiant
* "Gemini" - Brian Kahanek
* "Jordan" - Buckethead
* "Laughtrack" - The Acro-brats
+ "Less Talk More Rokk" - Freezepop
+ "The Light that Blinds" - Shadows Fall
- "Mr. Fix-it" - The Amazing Royal Crowns
+ "The New Black" - Every Time I Die
- "One for the Road" - Breaking Wheel
* "Parasite" - The Neighborhoods
* "Push Push (Lady Lightning)" - Bang Camaro
* "Radium Eyes" - Count Zero
* "Raw Dog" - The Last Vegas (Winner of the "Be a Guitar Hero" Contest)
* "Red Lottery" - Megasus
+ "Six" - All That Remains
- "Soy Bomb" - Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives
+ "Thunderhorse" - Dethklok
- "Trogdor" - Strong Bad
- "The X-Stream" - Voivod
- "Yes We Can" - Made in Mexico

So that's . . .

Guitar Hero
25 -
22 +

Guitar Hero II
31 -
22 +
11 Neutral, guess i haven't played them enough

So weirdly enough, I like the exact same number songs from both games. Wierd to me, because I thought Guitar Hero II was severely lacking in good songs. I think part of it might be that a bunch of those songs on the first game I have marked "-" are actually more enjoyable to play than the "-" songs from Guitar Hero II. Most of the opening songs for Guitar Hero II just really suck.

And this new beta of blogspot sucks. Thanks for bolding half my post and the not being able to fix it.

Veteran's Day

2006-11-10T09:05:00.000-05:00

Going to work today, which is unusual for anyone who does government work. But so it goes when you are short a man and expected to the do the work of two. I'd complain to my boss, but hell, I'm really enjoying the work. Another rare situation that.

There is a good chance I'll be testing to my next belt level in shaolin next week. Possibly. I probably could have tested months ago, but I'm not the kind of guy that is there just to jump through the ranks and make black as quick as possible. But now the instructor has been hammering on me to test . . . so I guess I'm going to do it. Assuming I pass, that leaves just one more level of brown and then I test to black. Which honestly means that much, except that the real training starts at black. Whatever the case, I've really been enjoying it and man, such a great stress reliever.

Oh yea, as a follow up to that interview that I failed a few months back. Well, I have heard through various third parties that my name is actually a bad word at that company ?!?! How is that even possible, they didn't even hired me, I never filled out an employee application. I swear, that was the weirdest interview I have ever done.

Ann Coulter on the election results

2006-11-09T09:32:00.000-05:00

A good read,

Historic victory for Diebold!

The most important quote is comparing the results of this election to previous 6th year election results,

In fact, if the Democrats' pathetic gains in a sixth-year election are a statement about the war in Iraq, Americans must love the war! As Roll Call put it back when Clinton was president: "Simply put, the party controlling the White House nearly always loses House seats in midterm elections" -- especially in the sixth year.

In Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth year in 1938, Democrats lost 71 seats in the House and six in the Senate.

In Dwight Eisenhower's sixth year in 1958, Republicans lost 47 House seats, 13 in the Senate.

In John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson's sixth year, Democrats lost 47 seats in the House and three in the Senate.

In Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford's sixth year in office in 1974, Republicans lost 43 House seats and three Senate seats.

Unfortunate Results. Possibly.

2006-11-09T09:01:00.000-05:00

It could be an unfortunate day for mankind. That is if an America barely under the control of Democrats does end up pulling out of Iraq and backing away from the war on Islamic Terrorism. Hell, we even have a Muslim in congress now with ties to the Nation of Islam and other Islamic groups that support terrorism. Awesome.

But as with all elections, it's a lose - lose situation. Anyone who knows me has heard how I feel about politicians in general. R is just as corrupt as D and vice versa. Power corrupts and all that.

That said, I'm still a bit surprised. Only so much though, I've found that terrorism is not only a complex subject, but also an uncomfortable one for most Americans. I don't think most people understand the value of America's presence in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. So this is what we get.

And let's not forget the MSM influence. Another vastly unfortunate, I'd say even anti-American, mechanism is our country. I watched of a bit of the news as the election results came in and it was like they were throwing a party. My, so non-partisan *sarcasm*.

Ultimately, I am going to hope for the best, as pointless as that may be. I had heard a rumors that some of the Democrats were a bit more conservative and I am going to hope level headed. Time will tell.

In other news I am massively overloaded with work and under a lot of stress. As always, I go from doing practically nothing to do far too much. The nature of the business I suppose? It's starting to get old.

mid-term elections

2006-11-06T09:59:00.000-05:00

Ahh, it's people like Mr. Anonymous in my last post who will be out shouting "CHEATERS!!!" once the election results are in. Hell, they are already planning on it. It's funny how the Silent Right ends up sending the lunatics on the left into a foaming frenzy.

http://thenaturaltruth.blogspot.com/2006/11/either-we-win-or-you-cheated.html

Personally, I agree with the common sentiment I am seeing all over the conservative blogosphere, most Americans aren't will to go with the Democrats and initiate a full on retreat from radical islam.

Kerry . . . what an idiot

2006-11-02T11:50:00.000-05:00

If you haven't been following the latest news in regards to modern democrat thinking, you need to do some reading. Apparently, only the dumb and poor enlist in the military. Amazing, I never knew, thank you John Kerry for enlightening us. Asshole.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23187&only&rss

Internet Gambling

2006-10-02T11:50:00.000-04:00

Well, major bummer there. So severely gay that congress would tack on the internet gaming prohibition to that bill at the last minute, when it has absolutely nothing to do with port security. Thanks congress for once again failing to Represent.

Say What??

2006-09-27T15:25:00.000-04:00

Huh, well I received a response from the company I was interviewing with. They said they thought my resume was "overstated". Uh huh. I'll tell you what really happened, there was an unfortunately large woman in the interview that was giving off some bad vibes. She was very dismissive of everything I had to say and at one point pretty much accused me of lying. Specifically, she tried to trap me with questions about another contract I had worked on, not telling me she was also on the contract and whatever bitch. At the time, I didn't think to much of it . . . as the rest of the interview went pretty well. Heh, I guess that lady had more pull than I initially credited her.

Fortunately, I had no intention of taking the job, I was more feeling it out for our move to Dallas next year. With that said, I am pretty pissed off that they (they being that woman) me would accuse me of lying. Sigh.

Updates

2006-09-23T13:46:00.000-04:00

So, quite a bit happening lately.

Going to shaolin very regularly since . . . June or July, something like that. Starting to feel pretty good, body is getting back in shape and in just the past few weeks I've finally caught up to where I was 2 years ago as far as my forms are concerned. Good stuff.

Lots of crap happening on the job front. As I mentioned on the boards, that company did not win the contract they have been pursuing for about 6 months now. Really, that's a good thing for me, as I was going to have to tell them no. I would have felt bad bailing on them after all this time. Problem solved and I am sure they are devstated. They were just so incredibly sure they had the contract. Man.

I switched to a different contract within my own company and it's looking to be a good one. The other guys on the team are cool and the work is very technical. The job site is only a 10 minute drive from my house, which by itself is a freaking miracle. Contract is supposed to go till next May or June, which is perfect timing for us, with our potential move to Dallas. All and all, it's shaping up rather well.

Had an interview with EMC, the MS Practice division last week. Interviewed with them just to have a fallback plan in case my current contract goes sour, which I am finding out over the years is always a possibility in this line of work. The phone screen and the interview went pretty well I thought . . . more then well, I thought I nailed it. But they haven't gotten back to me. Kind of wierd, but whatever.

Out with the black

2006-09-12T15:39:00.001-04:00

That black was killing my eyes. Getting old? Probably.

This is Islam

2006-07-28T10:58:00.000-04:00

Execution of a teenage girl

My response in the associated Digg,

Every decent human being should be outraged by this! THIS is what Islam IS. American Islamic organizations would have you believe all the bs they constantly spew about "peace" and "understanding" and this or that. LIES. This is just one story out of hundreds regarding the atrocities committed on a daily basis directly under the name of Islam. When will people recognize that this is war for civilization as we know it? Muslims worldwide already know this, acknowledge the war and brutally practice Jihad against us.

Islam is the great evil in the world today and this story is just a small dark drop in the bucket of what we are dealing with. Wake up America, before it's too late.

2006-07-27T18:36:00.000-04:00

Cowboys and ?

2006-07-25T10:10:00.000-04:00

Forwarded from a friend,

Three strangers strike up a conversation in the airport passenger lounge in the Ft. Stockton Airport (deep west Texas), awaiting their flights.

One is an American Indian passing through from Taos. Another is a Cowboy on his way to Fort Worth for a livestock show and the third passenger is a fundamentalist Arab student, newly arrived at Texas State University from the Middle East.

Their discussion drifts to their diverse cultures. Soon, the two Westerners learn that the Arab is a devout, radical Muslim and the conversation falls into an uneasy lull.

The cowboy leans back in his chair, crosses his boots on a magazine table and tips his big sweat-stained hat forward over his face. The wind outside is blowing tumbleweeds around, and the old windsock is flapping; but still no plane comes.

Finally, the American Indian clears his throat and softly he speaks, "At one time here, my people were many, but sadly, now we are few."

The Muslim student raises an eyebrow and leans forward, "Once my people were few," he sneers, "and now we are many. Why do you suppose that is?"

The Texas cowboy shifts his toothpick to one side of his mouth and from the darkness beneath his Stetson says in a drawl, "That's 'cause we ain't played Cowboys and Muslims yet, but I do believe it's a-comin."

Kerry the fool

2006-07-24T15:58:00.000-04:00

Kerry knocks Bush on handling of Mideast conflict

Right Kerry. You single-handlely would have stopped Hizbollah from attacking Israel. Stopped THOUSANDS of years of conflict right in its tracks! Amazing!

What a complete fool.

Botched Paramilitary Operations

2006-07-18T10:50:00.000-04:00

http://www.cato.org/raidmap/

Very cool map displays the rampant misuse of authority by SWAT teams around the country. Read some of the stories, really makes you wonder . . .

BMD

2006-06-20T16:47:00.000-04:00

US makes missile defense system operational

Interesting, first saw this link off of LGF. But one has to wonder after see those photo's from NK . . . are we really worried about anything from NK? I mean, they are running wood burning cars for crying out loud. I imagine this tin can "missile" they are going to test is just going to explode on the platform or something equally ridiculous.

The conspiracy theorist in me is asking if there is another reason we have activated the BMD program. Hmm.

Very cool photos from North Korea

2006-06-15T14:53:00.000-04:00

Russian tourist went to NK and snapped some really cool pictures. Gives you a good picture into the . . . wierdness / unreality over there.

"We will bury you without firing a shot."

2006-06-15T12:47:00.000-04:00

--Nikita Kruschev to the USA at the UN

Political Correctness — The Revenge of Marxism

The most cohesive, well written article I have ever read on the threat of modern day Marxism (aka Politcal Correctness). If there is one essay you should ever read, this is it.

New project in mind

2006-06-15T12:10:00.000-04:00

I am considering a new project which I thought up the other day. I'd like to map every institution withing a certain radius of DC (say 25 or 50 miles) that has anything to do with Islam (like with google maps, or something similiar). Along with mapping, I'd like to start collection information about these intitutions (mosque's, schools, that crazy camp here in VA, foundations, etc). I'd also like to start collating any news in the area that has anything to do with Islam. Those are my starting points. Thoughts?

and then....

2006-06-13T13:24:00.000-04:00

hah, still waiting! fancy that. leave it to the government to plod along at a snails pace.

started kung fu (which makes no sense, really it's just shaolin fighting techniques, but that's too long to say) last night. and wow am I ever tore up. my muscles seem to be degenerating by the second, soon I'm going to end up in a wheel chair and have to call Adam up to wheel me around like an invalid!! physical pain aside, I feel 100% better already. too long without any physical activity, too much beer, too much LAN Party, I was starting to feel terrible in the past few months. hoping to turn that around before the wedding.

hey, all that rove crap is just cracking me up. they were so *SURE* they had him, locked up and tossed into a deep dark prison. TOO BAD BITCHES, HAAHAHA.

Still waiting

2006-06-02T11:57:00.000-04:00

Yea. No word yet. Not even a peep out of the government. Ah well. Sure would like to know though so I can get on with my life.

New Job?

2006-05-18T10:03:00.000-04:00

Anxiously waiting for news on this job I am pursuing. Met a few guys on a project I was doing late last year who worked for a very small startup (like 10 people). They, for some reason, liked me enough to want to bring me in on this new contract they are bidding on. It's been a long process, government contracts always are, but we should know for sure by tomorrow. Hopefully. It would be great work, with some really intelligent and hard working people, in a technically interesting environment . . . and more money of course.

Place I'm working at now is DEAD. Casey bailed last week, for him it was either bail or shoot himself in the head. It was getting that bad. This place is a complete dead end and unfortunately it looks like my company just doesn't have any where else to put me right now. They are cool with me leaving and I'm sure would take me back any time, if I wanted. So no hard feelings there. But man, I can't wait to get the hell out of here.

Doom and Gloom

2006-05-15T00:02:00.000-04:00

Along with Nightmares.

*sigh*

Islam . . . Rotting From Within.

2006-05-14T19:00:00.000-04:00

Thanks to Google and Bob's research, we can see the sickness that dwells inside the minds of Muslims brought to light.

This is very horrifying list, but I think it's extremely important that people confront the horror and realize what incredibly sick and twisted people Islam gives rise to.

For those of you that can handle this and do read the list, just remember what you see = the evil of Islam.

Some other search terms the Islamic world leads the globe. I included India in all of these rankings since India has more Muslims than the population of Japan, who despite it's reputation for perversion was unranked in all searches. I've included the rankings for regions where these searches are most popular as well as the language version of Google they are most commonly performed in:

sex with children
1. Pakistan
2. India
3. Iran
4. Egypt
languages
1. Arabic

child pussy
1. Pakistan
2. India
6. Turkey
languages
1. Turkish
3. Arabic

child penis
1. Pakistan
2. India
5. Turkey
languages
2. Turkish

children fucking
1. Pakistan
2. Iran
3. Egypt
4. India
5. Saudi Arabia
languages
1. Arabic
5. Turkish

child rape
1. Pakistan
2. India
5. Malaysia
languages
2. Turkish

girl rape
1. Pakistan
2. India
3. Malaysia
4. Iran
5. Indonesia
7. Saudi Arabia
languages
1. Indonesian
2. Arabic
6. Turkish

boy rape
1. Pakistan
2. India
4. Malaysia
5. Saudi Arabia
languages
1. Arabic

fuck little girls
1. Pakistan
2. Iran
6. India
8. Turkey
languages
2. Arabic
5. Turkish

baby pussy
1. Pakistan
2. India
9. Turkey
languages
1. Arabic
3. Turkish

child sex pictures
1. Pakistan
2. India
4. Iran
6. Turkey
languages
1. Turkish
3. Arabic

little girl pictures
1. Pakistan
4. India
7. Turkey
languages
2. Turkish

gay sex pictures
1. Pakistan
5. India
7. Malaysia
languages
4. Arabic
5. Turkish

gay sex photos
1. Algeria
2. Morocco
4. India
5. Saudi Arabia
languages
2. Arabic
6. Turkish

rape pictures
1. Pakistan
2. India
4. Malaysia
languages
2. Arabic
6. Turkish

baby pussy
1. Pakistan
2. India
9. Turkey
languages
1. Arabic
3. Turkish

girl fuck
1. Iran
2. Pakistan
3. Egypt
4. Saudi Arabia
5. Malaysia
6. India
7. Indonesia
languages
1. Persian
2. Arabic
5. Turkish

little girl fuck
1. Pakistan
2. Iran
3. Indonesia
4. India
5. Turkey
languages
1. Arabic
2. Turkish

boy fuck
1. Pakistan
2. Iran
3. Egypt
4. Kuwait
5. Saudi Arabia
7. Malaysia
8. India
9. Indonesia
languages
1. Arabic
2. Persian

sex boys
1. Pakistan
2. Saudi Arabia
3. India
4. Iran
languages
1. Arabic
6. Turkish

gay boys
2. Saudi Arabia
languages
1. Arabic
10. Turkish

child fuck
1. Pakistan
2. Iran
3. Egypt
4. Philippines
6. India
7. Saudi Arabia
8. Indonesia
9. Turkey
10. Malaysia
languages
1. Persian
2. Arabic
4. Turkish

children fuck
1. Egypt
2. Iran
3. Pakistan
5. Saudi Arabia
8. India
10. Turkey
languages
1. Persian
2. Arabic
7. Turkish

baby sex
1. Pakistan
2. Iran
3. Egypt
4. India
5. Saudi Arabia
languages
1. Persian
2. Arabic
5. Turkish

baby fuck
1. Pakistan
2. Iran
3. Egypt
4. Saudi Arabia
5. India
languages
1. Persian
2. Arabic
5. Turkish

fucking baby
1. Pakistan
2. Iran
languages
1. Arabic
2. English
3. Turkish

sex with baby
1. Pakistan
2. India
3. Iran
languages
1. Arabic

Islamic world, I dub thee 'Axis of Hypocracy, Pedophilia and Perversion'. I guess that's about as much as you can expect out of a religion created by a warmongering pedophile.

Link to the original thread - Here.

Google Trends reveals interesting trends

2006-05-11T08:20:00.000-04:00

Boobies

I posted this on the board, but wanted to discuss some of the more interesting aspects of this tool here. Trying two semi-work safe search terms "boobs" and "sex" returns some interesting results. If you switch the view to Regions, Pakistan is overwhelmingly 1st as a searcher for boobs and for sex, Pakistan again comes first for regions and switching to Languages shows Arabic ahead by a good measure. Just for reference, CIA Factbook shows Pakistan as 97% Muslim. Ah, the hypocrisy of Islam. So violently against pr0n on the surface, but so mired in it behind their closed doors.

On the other hand, American comes in at No. 5 for "boobs" and doesn't even make an apperance for "sex" in the top 10. Honestly, I think Americans are just a bit more advanced than "boobs" and "sex" and I'm sure some NWS searches would expose more of America's immmoral searches. Heh.

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side note, "boobies" returns no arabic, instead the top 10 cities are almost all US with US leading by far in regions. wtf?

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Oh man, this is too good.

Frances dirty little secret - Love The Cock

1. Nice France

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Didn't do a search personally, but apparently "cunt" returns Tehran, Iran as #1.

Building Fences

2006-05-10T10:26:00.000-04:00

Read here.

Found this on Malkins blog today and wow, I really wish I lived closer so I could help these guys out. This whole "flooding over the border" issue is completely out of control and the government seems to be completely ignoring it. Really disgusting. In anycase, the minutemen are great, I wish them the best.

2006-02-20T09:38:00.000-05:00

Via LGF, a commentary on last weeks mainstream media blow up over Cheney's hunting accident. Because you know, he's Republican. And uses a gun. And works for Bush. So in the media's eyes, apparently, he is Satan manifested in the flesh of a human. Impeach Cheney! I'm just waiting for the stickers to start showing up here in the cess pit of DC. Can you even impeach an VP? Who knows.

Bonfire of inanities

I liked this part in particular....

And on the world front, as the hunting accident is still being rehashed for inconsistencies, investigated for further nefarious activities and the possible consumption of, gasp, a beer in the woods, the cartoon wars go on, Iran continues its nuclear build up, North Korea remains a menace, Hamas continues its activities to destroy Israel, we have helicopters down off the African coast, the UN remains a rotten borough, Islamist terrorists are still killing people in Iraq and the Philippines and the beat goes on.

But at home the US press burns in its own bonfire of inanities and it won’t step out of the fireplace or look outside its ridiculously small box because there was a hunting accident and somebody’s got to pay.

Oh yea, Lana is of the firm belief that he is one of 7 replicants that actually control the entire world. And that's Lana's take.

so true....

2006-02-17T09:44:00.000-05:00

the way things really are

Wedding

2006-02-16T11:32:00.000-05:00

An unofficial update on the Wedding Situation. We are currently scheduling the wedding to happen sometime during the first week of December. The location is still in the Virgin Islands on St. John. It's going to be small and informal, on a beach somewhere on the island. I doubt there is going to be a formal reception, but more than likely we'll all go somewhere afterwards. And our plans really aren't more complicated than that.

All are welcome of course, although tickets, lodging, etc are on you. I'll post the exact day once we have that figured out.

Toothpaste

2006-02-15T14:37:00.000-05:00

I was in CVS grabbing a soda and sure enough, I stumble on some wierdo in the joint. Old black guy in front of me had about 10 tubes of Crest toothpaste he was buying and nothing else. Now, why does a person buy 10 tubes of toothpaste at once? Are they making meth out of this stuff now or what? He also demanded they double bag his toothpaste. Wow.

The Hammer Drops

2005-12-05T14:25:00.000-05:00

I can’t even say that I have time to post this, as that would be a lie. But I’m making time because I’m getting rather fed up with my current assignment. As some may know, I was placed on another contract, temporarily, to assist with rolling out a security product. Well, the whole project is FUBAR’d. I basically had to step in and start stomping on people, because the project wasn’t getting done right. This means I’ve ended up stepping out of my normal engineering/technical position and I’ve somehow stepped into being a “manager”. And let me tell you, it’s the suck. I worked stupid hours last week, with no time left to do anything more than work and sleep. And the work I’m doing is not what I was hired to do. I am not a manager by any means. I’m just an engineer. But so it goes. Hopefully I’m done here by the 23rd and back to engineering.

I’ve given up on that premature attempt at a second blog. One blog is enough. 1up has some cool features and whatnot, but it’s just too much time. That and I can’t access 1up from where I am working right now.

Lana is working at Barnes and Noble now. She says it’s really relaxed, at least compared to other places she has worked in the past (restaurant’s), so that’s good, no stress. And, the other day, she managed picked up two George R.R. Martin books for $3. We are totally going to exploit her position there as much as possible to fill out our library some more.

Bought a Christmas tree for the first time ever. It’s nice, makes the house smell good, eh, better, can’t smell the cat’s as much. Not sure what we are doing for Christmas yet. My work schedule goes until the 23rd and Lana is probably working Christmas Eve. So who knows.

Gaming Blog

2005-11-18T10:00:00.000-05:00

I've started another blog, for my gaming addiction.

Gaming Blog

1up is actually a pretty cool site. I've read it quite a bit lately after I went there to sign up for their xbox360 giveaway contest. Which I don't have a shot in hell of winning.

The Color of Crime

2005-11-17T14:48:00.000-05:00

Hey, say what you want, avoid reality to your hearts delight, but the Truth will knock you flat here.

http://www.vdare.com/taylor/050913_crime.htm

This organization swam through what I can only imagine is a humongous mess of federal databases and came up with some rather amazing, or not so amazing if you are like me, numbers on who commits crime in our country based on race. They have just a few of the points listed on their site, but the book is cheap to buy ($9).

Just a taste of what is in store for you...

Blacks are just 13 percent of the population but they commit more than half the muggings and murders in the country. Hispanics commit violent crimes at about three times the white rate.

The proportion of blacks and Hispanics in an area is the single best indicator of how dangerous it is. The racial mix is a much better predictor of crime rates than poverty, unemployment, and dropout rates combined.

Although Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby wring their hands over black-on-black mayhem, blacks actually commit more violent crime against whites than blacks. A black is about 39 times more likely to do violence to a white than the other way around, and no less than 130 times more likely to rob a white.

And yes, everyone's suspicions about rape are correct: Every year there are about 15,000 black-on-white rapes but fewer than 900 white-on-black rapes. There are more than 3,000 gang rapes of whites by blacks—but white-on-black gang rapes are so rare they do not even show up in the statistics.

Well, bloody hell, whoda thought? Oh yea, only every white person that is now being victimized by the sick pattern of racism against white people in modern America.

A direct link to the book HERE. And thanks to Bob for sending me this link.

Interesting. Depressing.

2005-11-17T13:47:00.000-05:00

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20154

An interview with...

Bill Tierney, a former military intelligence officer and Arabic speaker who worked at Guantanamo Bay in 2002 and as a counter-infiltration operator in Baghdad in 2004. He was also an inspector (1996-1998) for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) for overseeing the elimination of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles in Iraq. He worked on the most intrusive inspections during this period and either participated in or planned inspections that led to four of the seventeen resolutions against Iraq.

A very interesting, yet extremely depressing read. Really, there is no good news in here, just another verification that our country is rotting from the core.

One of the more interesting features of the article to me was his perspective on the state of our military, of what cowards they have become. I just finished reading the autobiography of a long time Navy Seal who served as both enlisted and officer from '59 - '89. His book matches up very closely with what Tierney had to say about the lack of real Warriors in the American military. Instead of Warriors we have Politicians and Ticket Punching Career Men which translates to Pansy or perhaps a more direct translation would be Pussies. Hell, all of us that were at the Pentagon saw it first hand. And all this adds up to yet another broken mechanism in our country. Sad.

How long do you think we are going to make it?

Back to work

2005-11-12T11:24:00.000-05:00

A neat little plug-in was released for Blogger that allows you to publish post from word. So perhaps, just maybe, my post will be a bit more legible now, heh. But with the good, always comes the bad, as you can see the NVNCBL chat box is now permanently dead. I have plans to write my own chat box…which I will probably get around to doing whenever I start working on my other website again…which won’t happen till I am done getting my MCSE (two test away). Shouldn’t be too hard to code, but any time spent scripting, is better spent studying at this point.

I have officially started working again, and now that I am back to work, it looks like I am going to get slammed. Work karma always catches up with me. For whatever reason, God only knows why, I keep getting these stupid long paid “vacations” followed by periods of intense working. Kind of. I guess the last time I worked stupid hard was on that one traveling project…yea…I don’t get it. Anyways, I am going to be working on two different projects over the next few months. One at night and one during the day, which is cool with me. This is exactly the time of year when a little extra money goes a long way. The work itself isn’t bad either. The night project is going to involve deploying a security tool, mostly monkey work, but my company apparently has plans to make me and this other guy the tech experts on it, never hurts to have a few extra skills to help dodge the Axe whenever they start swinging it. The real work will be during the day helping Casey out with a bunch of real engineering projects for another government organization. We are going to be unleashing our Shock and Awe engineering tactics (heh) to hopefully blow this organization away, in order to snag these design and implementation contracts coming up. Casey and I both would kill to get a solid design contract under our belts, and right now indications are good that our company is going to score. I think.

Working. Kinda. Sorta.

2005-11-03T10:47:00.000-05:00

My boss asked me to come help Casey for a few days downtown...which translates to go sit at a desk in some basement so we are not billing you to overhead. So here I am, no problem. Mission Accomplished. I mean literally, there is nothing to do here.

Lana went to see NIN last night with Ryan. I was "working" kinda late and those two are bit more fanatical then me about NIN, so off they went to the MCI Center...which turned out to be Prozac Land. Apparently the show was nothing like though rough and rowdy crowd we had at Denver, it sounded more like the the Land of the Living Dead. Which of course, should come as no surprise to anyone that has lived here in DC. This place sucks.

Finished Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy the other day. Eh, not so good. I've been wondering for many years why I fell asleep everytime I picked up this book. And now that I have forced my way though it, I understand. It just was not funny. I mean, don't get me wrong, Brit humour can be good. I'm all about Monty Python and Terry Pratchett. But Adams...not so much. Too many drugs, not enough funny.

On the other hand, I just re-read Fahrenheit 451 and man, Bradbury is just a rock solid writer. Whenever a I get a few dollars together I need to go re-read some of his other stuff that I don't have in my collection right now, Door into Summer, Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine, etc...all great books.

Two test from my MCSE. And a promotion/raise. Since that is really all it's about.

General Update

2005-10-24T14:19:00.000-04:00

So life goes on. Slowly.

Still not working yet. My boss has loaned me out to another project till we manage to get started with the real work, which looks to begin early Jan. My temp work involves some proprietary software product that they are trying to get up and running for another Justice division downtown, somewhere near Chinatown. I have no problem helping these guys out, as my company does not look to kindly on leeches like me that sit at home and bill to overhead for months at a time. Which is exactly what I have been doing since late August. Although I have been using my time somewhat wisely, studying, getting closer to my MCSE 2003....although I figure it doesn't hurt to play poker in the background while I study and make a little bit of extra cash.

And on the subject of poker, I have been doing well since I started again. Or I should say, since Pacific started me again. I received a message in my email one day saying that Pacific Poker would give $10 for free as long as I logged in during this certain timeframe. Well hell, I said, I can make something out of $10. Sure enough, a few weeks later, I'm sitting on about $300, which is steadily growing. Pacific is by far the wildest, craziest online poker...but extremely lucrative if you have the patience. There have been some rough swings due to some terribly bad beats (AA cracked more than once thanks to maniacs) but in the long run, which is what I play for, it has been working out for me.

Plus I just can't study. I just can't play poker. They are both too boring do by themselves. Together, all is good.

Our new place here is working out...ok I suppose. I'd give this place a 80% to 90% rating if the road noise hadn't turned out be so bad. Turns out we live about 50 feet from 95 and it is VERY LOUD. That aside, we have a lot of space here and we never hear the neighbors. Which is good.

Z has been parked for about 3 weeks now. Gas prices have killed the poor thing. Thinking very bad thoughts about trying to trade it in for an FX35. Which actually gets worse gas mileage. Bad James, Bad.

Lana is bored out of her mind. We are waiting to hear back from a contact at my company, who is supposed to have the inside on tech writer jobs there. No word yet though. Would be a fairly bad commute for her, but the opportunity would be too good to pass up.

Oh yea, Islam can go to hell. Just wanted to make sure any of my more liberal visitors didn't think I was slacking off!

Because the West is facing a concerted effort by Islamic jihadists, the motives and goals of whom are largely ignored by the Western media, to destroy the West and bring it forcibly into the Islamic world -- and to commit violence to that end even while their overall goal remains out of reach. That effort goes under the general rubric of jihad.

Picture of The Day.

2005-10-11T00:05:00.000-04:00

7 Myths about Islam

2005-10-11T00:00:00.000-04:00

http://hnn.us/articles/16536.html

Don't Ever Be Deceived.

2005-10-09T17:15:00.000-04:00

Islam attacks since 9/11

Look at the link above and remember this every time you see the media, or anyone for that matter, trying to tell you Islam is about Peace, Moderation, Love or Compassion.

Islam is nothing more than excuse for these murderous bastards to justify their killing sprees. Not even an excuse really, but a framework for their way of life, which is subjugating and destroying all who are not Muslims. Hell, it goes beyond that even, because they murder and terrorize themselves (Iraq being the huge case in point right now). The thought of Islam should sicken every man and woman to the core. That we tolerate their presence in America, their outright hatred of us and our values while they live here, sickens me. We are harboring nothing more than criminals, intent on bringing this country to it's knees.

I'll say it and stand by it, Islam needs to be eradicated. With extreme prejudice.

Uh...Boring.

2005-10-05T23:38:00.000-04:00

Just not a lot going on lately, so nothing to post. I've moved here and well, there is nothing to do. My company has no work for me right now. Lana is out in Austin for a while, so I'm sitting here surronded by unpacked boxes...studying, playing some poker, and some BF2. And that is really the extent of things right now.

2005-09-25T21:53:00.000-04:00

We made it. Horrible drive, started out wednesday afternoon and got here late saturday afternoon. Mostly settled in, though our stuff won't be here till later this week or perhaps next week. So we are rough it until then. Looks like work wants me to come in first thing tomorrow morning, so no "getting settled in" time, heh.

2005-09-22T12:26:00.000-04:00

Moving today, finally. Typing this from the floor of my apartment as the mover monkeys scurry all around dragging all my crap out into the truck. It's been a while since I last posted and quite a bit has happened since then. My offer letter came through not long after my last post. Then there was some more rigamarole getting the moving company lined up. My company has a preffered mover, which I was trying to work with at first. They came back and quoted us at $7,000 to move and I just about shat my pants. Somehow, the person that came to do the visual survey of my apartment, thought that we have 8,000lbs of crap in here. This blew my mind and I was struggling to find that extra 4,000lb car that she must have seen somewhere in here. Idiots. Then working with this moving company some more, I came to realize how super shady they were and cancelled the whole deal. It was just a setup for disaster. Ended up going with Mayflower, who quote was much much more reasonable and overall, they have been 100% more professional. If you are looking to hire movers, I strongly reccomend Mayflower.

After a bit of cleaning here, we may be heading out as early as this afternoon, although that really depends on how we feel. We plan on stopping in St. Louis to rest for the night and meet up with Adam and Kelly. Then from there to Pittsburgh, where we plan on stopping by to visit Mr. and Mrs. Rose, possibly my brother too. And then the last short leg to VA. No idea how that is going to work, since we don't have the keys and really have no estimated arrival time. Someone out there can expect a call from us pleading for shelter.

Rather worried about gas prices. I thought katrina was going to hurt us. Ha. Now another cat 5 comes up, driving gas prices even higher just in time for our cross country drive. Blah I say.

Company lost the contract they hired me on for. Funny, in a sad way. I don't lose my job or anything, but I don't know what happens next. I am assured they won't be firing me anytime soon, heh.

Fallen Out Of Time

2005-09-06T02:43:00.000-04:00

Or so it feels to us, as we sit here with...well not much to do. Since we are trying to make sure we have enough money to actually move (whenever that happens), we don't really have any money to go out, for any reason. Thus, we've been living like hermits as of late. I've been studying like a fiend for my next Microsoft test since last Tuesday, while Lana has lounged around catching up on some reading. My test is tomorrow at noon...and we have a leftover bottle of champagne (Gruet Brut, not the best stuff, but affordable considering our current circumstances) lined up either for celebration or consolation. I've invested a lot time and some money into TestKing, so here's hoping that they live up to their claims and reputation.

6 20oz bottles of Pepsi invested in the Xbox360 campaign so far. I just want to go out and buy 300 of them and find a good time slot to dump them in. But Lana, the voice of reason here, thinks not. So it goes.

Corporate Jibber Jabber

2005-08-26T02:05:00.000-04:00

I spent a great deal of time this week in meets with people throwing around all kinds of ridiculous terms, TLA's, etc... Casey calls this "synergy", personally I call it "bullshit". Literally, it's just bs these companies throw into their business deals...for some reason? But whatever, we gave the proposal today (well, they did, I ended up saying nothing) and now we wait to hear back. Although, we are still pretty sure we have the contract. I'm looking forward to getting started.

We settled on a place to live in DC this week. Originally, we were very set on trying to rent a townhouse in the area, for the extra space. Well, suffice to say, that didn't work. I don't know if it's the time of the year, market conditions...something...but anything livable was just way too expensive ($1800+ for the cheapest places). This caused me to switch gears over the weekend and begin scoping apartments. I found a rather nice place about 1/2 mile from the Van Dorn metro and right at the junction of 395/495/95. You really can't get a more convienent location, well, at least for us. It's kind of expensive...but you know after living in this area before and have to come back to this filthy illegal alien infested white hating dump, I was more the willing to pay the big bucks to live comfortable for the duration of our stay.

I hope to have us start moving next week. We are still very much looking forward to getting together with everyone when we can, and for Lana to meet all of you, so keep in touch.

DC Update

2005-08-20T10:42:00.000-04:00

Although I haven't done much in the past two days of working with Casey, I feel like I have accomplished more in those two days than I did the entire time I was working on my last project. It's good to be back in a job, doing work that I enjoy and fortunately working with people I know and like. Good stuff, my mood is already vastly improved. Busy though, between work and trying to find a place a live (which isn't going very fast), not much time to do anything else.

Already blew a tire on the rental car, which makes two rental cars now I've literally destroyed a tire on. This time me and Casey were trying to get the hell out of DC on a friday afternoon, trapped by the legions of other people trying to do the same...made a u turn too wide and boom, split the sidewall of the tire clean open on an apparently very sharp curb. We were stuck right in the middle of Georgetown, in a small alley trying to get the spare on and get the hell out of there. Ah well. I'd say I would be nicer to rental cars in the future, but that would be a lie...

Job = Job = Job

2005-08-16T10:42:00.000-04:00

So the end of one and the beginning of another. It was a quiet 8 months here working for the Man again. No real stress, not much to do and . . . well not much else. I won't be missing it by any means, indeed, if anything I'm just anxious to start really working now. For those that don't know, today turns out to be my last day at work. I went from about a month left of work here in Denver as of last Thursday . . . to "pack your bags, you leave in 2 days" as of yesterday. Isn't that the way this stuff always happens? So I fly into DC tomorrow and I'll be there for 10 days. Then I suppose I come back, get all my stuff moved and something? Depends on when this contract they have been bidding on really starts, I would assume early September.

Our initial moving estimate from Mayflower was $4200 to pack everything we own and move it. Lower than I thought . . . but I don't think my company will end up using them. Doesn't matter to me, as long as it get moved. Although the timing of the move may turn out to be an issue. We have to balance moving our stuff at just the right time so it doesn't arrive too early in DC before we actually have a place. And we are going to be trying to get our apartment here in Denver rented out as soon as we are moved out. Turns out, if we manage to get it rented (and they will be advertising as soon as we vacate), it works like an early lease end with no penalties. And they are quite confident it will sell fast, with our building now at 90%+ capacity and no other floor models left like ours. In fact there is a waiting list for apartments (heh, I guess they still like to call them "lofts", whatever) like ours. So this may all work out in our favor.

We are still looking and really hoping we can find a townhouse (maybe a house) for rent in the alexandria/arlington/fairfax area. There is definitely quite a bit out there available, and thanks to Casey's suggestion to check out Craig's List, we have managed to find a bunch we like. The problem with these buggers always turns out to be that initial security deposit of one's month rent. Which to me is just ridiculous. Say we managed to find a place with a move in date of the first week of Sept. That'd be like ~1 month's rent + 1 month's rent security deposit + 1 month's rent back here until we sold the place + whatever application fee's = 1 bizillion dollars. Which I am sure seems cheap to all you new home owners who have paid several bizillion dollars to enter into the world of home ownership...but man, it's just a lot.

Oh, and just as a last little prod . . . I've taken the "liberty" of wearing my favorite t-shirt on my last day here - Live Free or Die.

Always. On. The. Road.

2005-08-10T10:24:00.000-04:00

Or so it seems. Our "adventure" to pick up Lana's stuff from Dallas was excruciatingly painful. Three days of driving, with bits of loading and unloading boxes and furniture out of a Uhaul that didn't have a ramp in between it all. I mean, how many Uhauls don't have ramps? And we are still not done unloading, her car has a bunch of boxes and mirrors in it...we are just too worn out though. Now that we have finally consolidated our belongings (that was 2 years of paying the storage facility @ $70 a month)...it looks like we have a fair amount of, well, stuff. The Mayflower people are coming out Thursday to take a look and give us an estimate. I believe my company is going to give me $5K to move, I should think we can manage to operate within that.

Speaking of which, I believe today could be the first day that the clock officially starts ticking in regards to this new position. After quite a bit of background work, unofficial talks, etc...it looks like the position is solid. And although I haven't quite given my notice yet, there should now be paperwork moving around back at HQ preparing to get me transferred back to Good Ole Virginia. I'm hoping to have the offer letter in my hands within 2 weeks. Hopefully.

Oh and just as a small prod...I took the "liberty" of wearing my favorite t-shirt to "work" today...

Tractor Trailers of DOOM

2005-08-01T10:57:00.000-04:00

13 hours on the road overnight this past Saturday and man, am ever feeling it. That is just a painful drive between here and Dallas, no matter what time you do it. But I have the car back, safely at that and I'm finally starting to feel like things are back in order.

Didn't have much leisure time in Dallas, but I did manage to get a few things done. Packed up all of Lana's "things" that are in storage (and have been there for two years now). Looks like it is all still in good condition, which surprises us, and we are looking into hiring some movers to get all of it up here to Denver in short order. Any recommendations for a moving company? We really have no idea where to start.

The highlight of the weekend was finally getting to go shoot with Lana's father. He own's a Sig P210, and blood fucking hell, is it ever a sweet gun. We had two there, as he managed to borrow someone else's for me to shoot. You shoot this gun and it feels like the slide is rolling on ball bearings it is so smooth. This is due not just to perhaps some of the best engineering out there, but also the unique way in which they have the slide running on a rail inside the frame...usually, in every other gun but this one I think, it goes the other way. I've done some shooting with my BHP and honestly, I haven't done so well at the range, until now. With this thing, I was consisently shooting palm size groupings. Which really blew me away. Great time and a great gun.

Everything was good, until I had my first ever AD (accidental discharge). I have shot a few different kinds of rifles and pistols and I have NEVER fired a round unless I meant too. Until Saturday and man, it was embarrassing. We were sitting there making fun of the idiots that had shot holes in the roof and other really silly places. I was talking to Lana's father with the gun in my hand and my first stupid mistake was to leave my finger on the trigger and not on the trigger guard. Fortunately, I had it pointed down range and slight downwards. Stupidly though, I thought the safety was on. Of course, it isn't and as I was making some point I just barely squeezed the trigger, accidentally, and boom, gun goes off and I hear this pinging noise. I had managed to shoot the stupid metal pole that was holding the roof (full of bullet holes from other idiots) up. Good thing is, the range was empty. Otherwise there was a chance that thing could have rebounded and done some very serious damage. I have no idea where the angle took that bullet and I didn't want to know. Thank God I had at least trained my self to always be aware of where the gun is pointed...because the other two points of training failed me. Moral of the Story, keep your hand off the trigger unless you are ready to shoot it. Ah well, if you shoot enough...it's bound to happen.

On the drive back, I was pulled over by a cop of course. He saw I didn't have a front license plate and wanted to give me a hard time. No ticket or anything, but annoying. And no way in hell am I putting a license plate on the front of my Z.

Also, at about 4am in the middle of my drive I encountered this crazy ass trucker. Damn truckers, all of them are crazy I think. This particular fruit cake was driving down the road at about 40-50mph, with at least a few rear tires blown out on his trailer. So the trailer was actually jacked knifed at a 30 degree angle to his right...but man, that didn't stop this lunatic. There was smoke and sparks shooting out everywhere and he was talking up half the road...just moseying along. Totally crazy, especially when you are delirious from driving and already seeing things that aren't there because you are so tired. I didn't even know what to do, but I sure as hell wasn't going to stay behind him until his truck flipped over. I Slowed down and let him get some distance ahead of me and then I just stomped on it and blew by him as fast as I could. Which is really fast in a Z, heh. I couldn't really look at the speedometer, but when I did glance down I was in the 130's. Fun stuff, but man, I thought for sure that truck was going to flip at any second. And I'm sure it did at some point, that guy had to have been drunk or who knows...

Slowly, ever so slowly, I'm making progress moving into this position back in DC. A lot of stuff happening today in regards to that, and hopefully I have a more definite idea of how things are going work out here in a few days. It looks like my name is going on the proposal though, so...yea...we'll see.

Weary

2005-07-22T18:45:00.000-04:00

I feel very worn out after the trial, the damn car, and trying to get this new job lined up, which also leads to the problem of getting myself moved to DC. And then the damned Muslims start bombing the crap out of London on top of all of this. Hah, I'm just tired. Whatever.

But here is a good read for you,

And Then They Came After Us

At least it's a 350z...

2005-07-18T13:45:00.000-04:00

The car did not end up selling on Ebay afterall. If you look through every closed 350z auction on ebay that they have listed...you would see that only about 5-10% of the listings are actually selling. And most of those are convertible's or, what looks to me, hot items. I still think my Z was the best deal listed there, for that particular model. But I also think the market for the Z is rather dead right now. Every car sales site I've been to is just flooded with these vehicles. And none of them are moving.

Ah well. It really is a great car to drive. I'm going to go ahead and get it refinanced again through USAA. USAA really does have great rates for members. We managed to get Lana's car refinanced at 5.25%, which is just ok for a new car, but for her car which is used, a rather good deal. Now if I can just get the Z down to that rate...well it really wouldn't be more affordable, but at least a little easier on us.

My trial is set for tomorrow at 9:30am. To say I'm stressed out right now would be an understatement. I still expect nothing to come out of this, just a lot of inconvenience, but we'll see. I'm flying out in just a few hours and I don't get into DC until 12:40am tomorrow. Was planning on staying with Casey (even thought about asking Donny for a small space to sleep for a few hours), but I found out the courthouse is all the way up in Leesburg. So I ended up booking a room a mile away from the courthouse, hopefully I can squeeze an extra hour worth of sleep in now. Lawyer seems to think we won't get heard till around 12pm. And from there my flight leaves at 4pm, back in Denver by 9pm and back at work by 8am the next day. Man. Rockin. Assuming they don't throw me in the slammer. heh.

Played in the Denver Poker Tour again last night, some friends of ours came up and went to the bar with us. And I managed to draw the most horrible cards in 2 hours I have ever seen on the tour so far. Best hand of the night was 55, which I didn't even take to the flop thanks to a pre-flop raise of 5x the BB. I ended up not winning a single hand, hell, I didn't get see anything past the flop. I won't ever be using that dealer again, heh. Lana's friend's boyfriend played in the tournament with me and drew about that same, ended up going out just 15 minutes before I did.

The most Sane article from MSM I have seen. Probably ever.

2005-07-15T18:07:00.000-04:00

Call Them What They Are: Those who murder Iraqi civilians are terrorists

Two words not uncommon to editorial pages are "resolve" and "sacrifice," especially as they relate to war.

Today, this editorial board resolves to sacrifice another word – "insurgent" – on the altar of precise language. No longer will we refer to suicide bombers or anyone else in Iraq who targets and kills children and other innocent civilians as "insurgents."

The notion that these murderers in any way are nobly rising up against a sitting government in a principled fight for freedom has become, on its face, absurd. If they ever held a moral high ground, they sacrificed it weeks ago, when they turned their focus from U.S. troops to Iraqi men, women and now children going about their daily lives.

They drove that point home with chilling clarity Wednesday in a poor Shiite neighborhood. As children crowded around U.S. soldiers handing out candy and toys in a gesture of good will, a bomb-laden SUV rolled up and exploded.

These children were not collateral damage. They were targets.

The SUV driver was no insurgent. He was a terrorist.

People who set off bombs on London trains are not insurgents. We would never think of calling them anything other than what they are – terrorists.

Train bombers in Madrid? Terrorists.

Chechen rebels who take over a Russian school and execute children? Terrorists.

Teenagers who strap bombs to their chests and detonate them in an Israeli cafe? Terrorists.

IRA killers? Basque separatist killers? Hotel bombers in Bali? Terrorists all.

Words have meanings. Whether too timid, sensitive or "open-minded," we've resisted drawing a direct line between homicidal bombers everywhere else in the world and the ones who blow up Iraqi civilians or behead aid workers.

No more. To call them "insurgents" insults every legitimate insurgency in modern history. They are terrorists.

Perhaps the most sane, grounded in reality article I have read in a paper EVER. Who is this person? Who had the balls to stand up to the mass amount of pure sewage spilling forth from the mouths of the left wing media? Who ever it is, Kudos, a strong pat on the back and prayer that they will stick to this. Linked from LGF.

Thursday's Picture

2005-07-14T14:52:00.000-04:00

Dead silence from the Main Stream Media

2005-07-14T13:10:00.000-04:00

Iraqi's Protest AGAINST Terrorism

Yea. Since could actually be considered good news, you won't hear a peep out of the MSM. Lord Knows what would happen if we started actually hearing something positive from the creeps that run that circus.

But you have to figure, that these people are just as human as us, not all of them can possibly be caught in the elements of Islam that promote Ultra-Violence. Hell, I'm sure there are plenty on people that live in Iraq that could care less about Islam. It's just unfortunate for that all the Media cares about is the violence, they don't seem to care a wit what else is going on over there. Nothing about how we are helping them rebuild their infrastructure, or helping Iraq to establish a democracy, hell, anything positive you know? It's really sad.

That said, I don't think there is a shot in hell of any of this working. They are too tribal, too much violence in their history, and too much Islam. Personally, I think the whole effort is doomed. But what else can we do? We know Saddam's regime was assisting international terrorist efforts, we know he was doing his damnedest to develop incredibly destructive weapons (yea, let me just interject, the MSM drivel that tries to say otherwise is just a load of BS), he had to be taken down. I don't blame Bush for that much at least.

Go live in the Dungeon? No. No thanks.

2005-07-13T16:14:00.000-04:00

I formally turned down the offer today to go work in at FBI HQ. No thanks. I am very aware of what kind environment exist down there, what the work is like and how the work is going. They were not willing to meet my salary requirements and apparently, they did not care to negotiate with me either. So I will be sticking with Plan A (Uhh, which is all I really wanted to do in the first place). It's just that Plan A is going to take some more time to materialize...which is hard on us, the waiting, but I think we can hack it.

As for the Auction, I realized I made a bit of a mistake. My auction is ending 6am freaking sunday morning *slaps head*. Argh. Well, if someone really wants it...and they should, as it is a damn good deal, one of the best I have seen on ebay...they are going to put in a sniper bid, or log on the night before and bid what they want it for. Most 350Z auctions see no action until 48 hours before auction end. So we'll see starts to happen on Friday.

Lana's last day of work is Friday. And there was much rejoicing. That jackass of a boss...well...I just hope he crashes and burns. I don't know if everyone knew what was going on there or not, but this guy was not paying anyone over $27K a year and demanding that literally EVERYONE there work overtime without pay. Added to that, he dumped so much extra responsibility on Lana (who is now, thanks to this extra work, a fully qualified Level 1 Help desk tech, I'll vouch for it) that it just blew her out. Manage the entire office by herself, arrange housing for all their consultants and provide IT support? Uh yea, go #@&! yourself Michael. AND this guy would let his emotions get a hold of him and *literally* pitch fits, yell at people and just generally act immature. While I, again literally, just wanted to walk in there and send his jaw bone back into his head cavity with my fist. Ah well. It's over now anyways.

Last Ditch Effort

2005-07-08T11:05:00.000-04:00

Ebay Auction.

Well, a month on Auto Trader was a wasted $100. One call and nothing happened. So I've put it up on ebay with a rather low reserve compared to the actual car value and here's to hoping it sells.

Got Fish?

2005-07-06T12:42:00.000-04:00

We had a damn good time, just not near enough time to do everything we wanted to do. We didn't get our camp set up until 1am on Saturday morning, but we up at 8am that day and proceeded to do some serious fishing. Lana's father didn't get in town until later that day, so we hiked down into a canyon we like to fish that is near our camp site. The water was running very high and fast this year, making it a bit more difficult to navigate the streams. A lot of the stream was actually white water and any attempt to get in would result in getting washed down stream. But the fish were biting, just had to cast in the right spots. It was slow going in the beginning of the canyon, more open there and accessible to fisherman, but as we headed towards the later part we started catching quite a few good fish. We had decided though to release all of our first day catches, karma and whatnot... Although Lana pulled in a rather large guy that we just couldn't let back in there, too much good meat on him. And we found a small section of the stream with quite a bit of gold dust in some calm sandy pools. Lana wasn't sure that anyone had ever found any sizeable nuggets in those streams, but her father said someone had pulled a 4oz nugget...maybe bring a pan next time? heh.

The next day, Sunday, we pulled in a Large amount trout from a few different streams. Had to keep moving because the water was so high, it made it difficult to find fishable sections. Me and Lana found this one pool, that was pretty much covered by trees on both sides leaving on a 1 foot section to cast your line through. I knew there was going to be fish in there and sure enough we must have pulled 5 out, including this huge toad of a trout. Then we go to get out and there this bull roaming the fields (they let cow herds graze in those valleys) and I look over and this thing is pawing the ground getting ready to do something. So we duck behind the bank while Lana's father is cleaning the fish..and a few minutes later this bull had snuck over and was within 20 feet of us. Fortunately he was just getting ready to cross the stream...still though, it could have been bad. Damn cows.

Last day we went up to Big Meadow lake, which is pretty high up there in the mountains. We were rather close to quite a few snow covered peaks. The sun was blocked by clouds that day, with a good wind blowing and it got pretty damn cold out in that lake up to waist in freezing water. With a great deal of patience and persistence, me and Lana's father managed to land not only the largest trout of the trip, but by far the largest trout anyone had ever seen come out of that lake. We even had some comments from other people at the lake, they had never seen trout that large come out of there. Lana's father is pretty sure it was because the streams were running so high, it was early in the year and the fish were just waiting to head up stream to spawn. That and we literally spent about 6 hours out there in the lake, casting non-stop, moving to different spots depending on where the fishing were surfacing and I was going out as deep as I could without getting water in my waders. We got some pictures of the monsters, I'll post them hopefully sometime in the future.

Overall, a good trip, we ended up bringing home several pounds of trout filet's. And while our trip was mostly just fishing, we really didn't have enough time to do much else...and eh, we both really like to fish.

Picture of the Day

2005-07-01T14:30:00.000-04:00

Back Into The Mountains

2005-06-29T12:03:00.000-04:00

We will be heading out camping on Friday for the July 4th weekend. Meeting up with Lana's father and getting away from civilization for a few days. Not as long as I would like, but neither myself or Lana has any leave. We are driving out Friday at 5pm and I am estimating we will get there around midnight or so, if we are lucky and even luckier still to get one the camp sites I have in mind. And we will head back on Monday night...really a shame we don't have more time to spend out there. Nothing more than fishing and hanging out around the campfire I imagine. Which is fine by me.

Weather is supposed to be clear, high 60's during the day and mid-30's at night. Could vary a bit, as we usually camp higher up in the mountains than in town. Streams are still running high from the snow melt, a bit higher than normal with the rain we've had lately. Should make for some good fishing.

For the curious, here is where we normally go fishing in southern Colorado.

Battlefield 2...Best FPS Ever? Could be...could be.

So much for Japan

2005-06-27T17:09:00.000-04:00

Well, it would have been cool and in a way I was kind of hoping it would work out...but I suppose it wasn't meant to be. BAE was not awarded the contract and that is that. So I'm down to hopefully getting on the contract with Casey, which may or may not happen with the MS deal in the works for him. If that doesn't work out, I'm left with hoping for something else to pop up randomly...or going to the dreaded EOC in the basement of FBI HQ. I really really don't want to do it...although the pay and work would be better. This is, even if I don't want to, if it comes down to the wire, I will.

New Board

2005-06-26T15:59:00.000-04:00

Mostly up and ready for posting. Still a bunch of tweaking to do, but it's looking good so far.

http://fourzerosix.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl

Real Casualty Statistics for Iraq

2005-06-24T17:26:00.000-04:00

Check it out here. It's a good reference point when you are reading the stories that the MSM (Main Stream Media) spews out on a daily basis, which are then taken and blown out of proportion by the Left. 1729 killed since we began in March 19, 2003. Draw your own conclusions from there.

Coming Soon....

2005-06-24T14:54:00.000-04:00

fourzerosix.net

TSA News

2005-06-23T16:15:00.000-04:00

TSA fined me $250 for bringing "Three Martial Arts throwing knives" through a security checkpoint. Which is bullshit, but what am I going to spend another grand on a lawyer to fight it? It's a scam, another example of the government abusing power in the wake of 9/11. I sent them the check today...so that's clear, if nothing else.

My court date was re-scheduled to July 19th. The lawyer still fully expects me to get off clean, I'm just being inconvenienced by having to show up. Again, trapped by the system.

2005-06-23T13:18:00.000-04:00

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

Yeap. I did.

2005-06-22T12:05:00.000-04:00

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

2005-06-21T14:01:00.000-04:00

Yea, it was mostly just standing on the shore over the weekend. In fact, more like 100% standing on the shore, neither of us managed to get even a single bite. The first lake we went too was definitely stocked with trout, but there were so many people there...it was too close to a town and overdeveloped, felt like tourist fishing. We only stayed 15 minutes and then drove 20 miles out into the mountains to place called Echo Lake. I believe it was at about 10,000 feet, high enough that there was still snow in the evergreens around the lake. Not nearly as crowded, but that may have been because we didn't see a single fish all day. No fish pooling, jumping, swimming around the edge...nothing. I doubled checked the Colorado wildlife website later and they don't even list that lake...so it probably was dead, or close to it. Still, the view was good, the air was clean and we had a good time.

Lana's mother is popping into town for a few days and I already have a lake lined up to fish at over the weekend, while they do some shopping at a nearby town. Shadow Mountain Lake and Grand Lake...both reporting excellent fishing conditions right now. They are pulling 22"+ trout out of Grand and reporting good fishing out boats using spinners (my choice of lure) on Shadow Mountain. I plan on renting a canoe or kayak and spending the day on the Lake.

Battlefield 2 is out today, I expect to be pickup my copy after work and immerse myself. Anyone else going to have their copy today?

No real news on the job front, although today they posted the position for my job here in Denver on BAE's website. So if you are interested, or know someone with a TS/SCI who is, let me know. Also looks like Tampa is going to be opening up on the same contract, so again, TS/SCI looking to go to Tampa, let me know. BAE took down all the listings for Japan as of Monday, so I am trying to get some word on what is going on there. My "Contact" in DC is still working on getting some news for me, nothing definite there yet either. And it looks like there is a chance Microsoft might be sucking him into the Great Evil...so, heh, we'll have to see. Microsoft never did get back to me on my resume, so that's that I suppose. In general, I'm in a holding pattern...just waiting for news on something, anything really.

In other news, I am setting up a new domain and establishing a new board to keep in contact with everyone. I expect mainly just to coordinate gaming activities, but no real defined purpose really. I'll post the details here when I have them.

Tell Dick Durbin what a traitor he is.

2005-06-20T18:18:00.000-04:00

http://durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm

I left a very detailed message telling him exactly why he represents everything that is wrong with America. I also recommended he resign his position immediately. Good God, how the hell do people like this get in office? What is wrong with the people of Illinois? It really blows my mind. Shouldn't, but it does.

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In other news, consider signing this Petition to prevent the Left from turning 9/11 memorial into the farce they want it to be. For some background, check this article out. It will make your stomach turn to learn what they want to do with the site and who is on the committee.

3 for 3

2005-06-17T15:39:00.000-04:00

Welp, that makes the third time in a row that I have placed 3rd in those Denver Poker Tour tournaments. Probably the best night I have had there so far, I was getting a lot of really good cards. I ended up coasting through most of the tournament, winning a very few key hands until the final table. Once we got down to the last 3, I was actually the chip leader. Unfortunately, I was so tired and had just a wee bit more to drink than I should have (seriously, wasn't drunk, but just tired and sleepy and just a bit of alcohol makes that much worse) and I ended up calling some guy all-in with total trash. He had trash too of course, but his pair of 5's was better than my 84o or something. Ah well. I went all-in the hand after that just so I could go home. The other thing is, the final tournament is in October and I really doubt I will be in the area for it. So I guess I wasn't try as hard as I could have.

We are off to go fishing tomorrow. I found what looks to be a pretty cool lake up in the mountains about an hour west of here, mainly stocked with trout. I'm just looking forward to leaving the concrete jungle and relaxing by the lake. The bums, mexicans, ambulances, fire engines, cops, police copters, noisy cars, noisy people and lack of any green really start to wear on you after a while

Moving On

2005-06-15T18:18:00.000-04:00

I broke the news today to my boss that I would soon be looking for another position elsewhere. There is only so much boredom at work my brain can put up with and it's time to find a job that actually has some, any, technical work to it. Japan, Microsoft or working with Casey, I hoping something out of that works out soon...both myself and lana are anxious to move on.

Further BF2 Impressions

2005-06-13T13:12:00.000-04:00

After playing the Battlefield 2 demo some this weekend, I have gained a better perspective on the game. I liken BF2 to Wolf:ET, they have somewhat similar learning curves, steep but fun once you get the hang of it. A lot of the power and what is going to make BF2 a great game is hidden in the interface, so initial perceptions aren't going to cover these features. Some of those features being the use of the Commander and Squads, these are things that are really making the difference to me...well aside from all the stat whoring that is going to happen.

First off, squads, you have the ability to create a default squad, custom named squad, lock you squads to limit members, and send squad invites to players for quick formation. The squad leader can send orders to his squad which have visual representation on the mini-map, making it very easy to coordinate squad movement (e.g. Attack this point, Defend this area, Move to this location, etc). Most important of all, you can spawn at your squad leaders location, giving your squad leader (or yourself) strategic value. In just a few pickup games with random people, either as squad member or squad leader, people really seemed to be taking advantage of these features and it seemed to do a good job at giving people focus and coordinating attacks. Me and John played a few games and utilized the squad abilities to good effect. It really does add a nice level that was missing in previous BF games.

The Commander position is even more critical. I assume the Commander will have different roles for different maps, but the ability to call in mortar fire in the demo map can be quite devastating to the other side. If you have a good commander on your side, UAV placement for radar tracking can prove very useful, and repair/medical drops can be used to effectively support a position. All of this really depends on the skill of the commander, but I have definitely seen a commander turn the tide of battle. The other side of the coin is that a good special forces crew can go blow the shit out of all the equipment the commander uses, like the guns/radar/uav shack. So if you are facing a good commander, it's either time to go SF or hope you have a few good SF guys on your side.

Last feature improvement that I'm covering now is the revised point allocation system. You get points for everything now, which is exactly the way it should be. You heal someone? Points. Repair something? Points. Blow up radar emplacements? Points. Not only that, it tracks everything you kill/blowup and rewards different titles based on the actions you take. So if you blow a lot of aircraft out of the sky, you get Best Air Defense or something. Same thing goes for sniping, taking out tanks, driving around a tank, etc...it delegates it all out.

And as a side note, while the stat tracking isn't enabled globally right now, it appears to be enabled locally on servers. On the one server I have been playing on quite a bit (Denver BF2 or something like that), I have managed to get experience points that opened up the next level of guns for all the kits. Just as an example, for the anti-tank kit now, instead of a simple machine gun, I can use this great fully automatic beastly looking shotgun that holds about 20 rounds a clip. I like to see things like that, features that actually make a difference in game play as opposed to 1% better at something ala WoW.

Enough ranting for now, if you haven't downloaded the demo, you really should.

Short review of Battlefield 2

2005-06-11T19:51:00.000-04:00

Well, so far, so good...but nothing spectacular. I would say it is more like a good leap forward for the battlefield series, everything runs a lot smoother, graphics look a lot better and well, everything has just been improved. The new battlefield commander is turning out to be useful, I was skeptical when I first heard about it. But the artillery bombardments and UAV support is definitely handy. The vehicles are all much better, very smooth and fluid, feels like you are riding in a tank or humvee, well done there. Troop kit selection, still exploring this, but pretty much more of the same. It is definitely a bit harder to kill people, I assume because everyone is wearing body armor. To me, the most exciting part of BF2, isn't even in yet, that being the online persistent score keeping. They didn't enable it for the demo, which is kinda goofy to me.

So far, so good. But I'd just rate it good with the demo experience so far. I will still be buying this game the day it comes out, so it's not like I'm unimpressed.

The Future if the Pro-Islamic Left has their way...

2005-06-08T18:49:00.000-04:00

The inoffensive population was indiscriminately massacred, men, women and children alike, with rifle, revolver and machine gun fire. In one room alone, eighty-one men from the Baz tribe, who had taken shelterÂ were barbarously massacred. Priests were tortured and their bodies mutilated. Those who showed their Iraqi nationality papers were the first to be shot. Girls were raped and women violated and made to march naked before the Arab army commander. Holy books were used as fuel for burning girls. Children were run over by military cars. Pregnant women were bayoneted. Children were flung in the air and pierced on to the points of bayonets. Those who survived in the other villages were now exposed day and night to constant raids and acts of violence. Forced conversion to Islam of men and women was the next process. Refusal was met with death. Sixty five out of ninety five Assyrian villages and settlements were either sacked, destroyed or burnt to the ground. Even the settlements which existed from the year 1921 and who had no connection in any way with the trouble were wrecked and all property looted by Iraq army and tribesmen.

This quote was taken from the an article that discusses the early years of Iraq from the perspective of a British diplomat at the time. This specific quote is what happened to a tribe of Assyrian Christians who where unfortunate, in that they still existed in Iraq once the Muslims gained power. And I will tell you straight up, that if Muslims have their way, this is the future they want.

Don't believe me? Try reading This. Muslims burning the flag in NY and conspiring to overthrow the country. I am so incredibly angry right now I am at a loss for words. Suffice to say if you see headlines about a man burning the Quran in front a Mosque in Denver...well, you don't have to look too far.

Heh, I should know better than to read LGF.

Bye Bye Z

2005-06-08T13:42:00.000-04:00

Well, I finally found the means to get the Z sold. It will soon be up for sale in the Dallas area and, hopefully, sold in a short amount of time. It was a cool car, I had fun with it, but I am not unhappy to see it go. We will be saving upwards of a grand a month with the vehicle sold, so we are both pretty happy about the deal.

We are both looking forward to getting out of Denver now I think. I still really like Colorado and wouldn't mind staying here indefinitely, but not in Denver. Denver is just another city like any other city. And living downtown is really starting to wear on me. That and this job I have. I really need to have a job that actually uses what I know. Staring at the wall all day is starting to get old.

We have 4 options at this point, as I see it. First, through our "major" connection, I am looking at getting on a contract as a "real" systems engineer potentially in Aug/Sept back in DC. I think this is the most realistic option right now, in terms of what may materialize. Of course, our "connection" would know better than me, heh. Second, again through the Connection, Microsoft is apparently hiring people for it's federal sector in a few months. With my TS clearance and reasonable amount of knowledge, I would think I have a fair shot of obtaining a position there. We'll see, I really don't know enough about it to even guess. Third, there are a few positions open with my company in Atsugi, Japan...one of which I am almost positive I could get based on my experience and what they are looking for. Unlike the other two moves, which are upwards career-wise, this would be more of a lateral move. But it would be incredibly cool to spend a year or two in Japan. Fourth, is just to stay here for the next 6 years on this contract. Suffice to say, neither of us are particularly excited about that. In fact, I really don't see it happening. I would probably do my best to get a job in a Iraq for 6 months rather than stay here on this crap contract.

Not much else happening right now. And don't expect to see me on the boards till that bastard bobb is good and gone, heh.

Dirty Politicians

2005-06-07T12:39:00.000-04:00

KERRY JUST AS STUPID AS BUSH!

So. All that talk of Kerry being SOOO much smarter than Bush during the elections....and it turns out, they are both just as dumb as the other one. Amazing. No, actually it's not. What gets me is the people, the people who during the election battles tried to make Kerry look like such a super smart politician. Admittly, Kerry was better with public speaking than Bush, but definitely not smarter. So I could see people thinking that meant Kerry was smarter. But again, the Left, the Looney Left, they will take these little things and develop huge elaborate stories in defense of their Figurehead. Who is just as much as a dishonest dirty politician as Bush, as any politician out there.

People Are Idiots.

What's funny is, this is nothing more than a side note now. Had this come out during the election, how would the outcome have been affected? KERRY JUST AS STUPID AS BUSH! Man, I would have loved to seen a headline like that during the election, LOL. Ah, Kerry the Krook. Bastards, one and all.

Government quotes WND

2005-06-02T16:29:00.000-04:00

I was reading an article on the internal news feed here at work, referring to a case where the FBI recently arrested a man charged with bringing over 60 Iranians illegally over the Mexican border and to my surprise, they were quoting directly form WorldNetDaily. Huh. I love how people have always tried to discredit them, based solely on the religious leanings of the editor. Yet apparently, the government doesn't haven't a problem with putting them right along-side the NYT, WPO, among others. Course, not that you would see something this incredibly important at any MSM outlet. I mean, bloody hell, not only does it highlight the huge problem with illegal immigration, but it puts Iran in a bad light, recognizes that there is a terrorist problem stemming from Iran and more than likely these guys were all Muslims and everybody knows, Islam is a religion of Peace! Certainly not terrorist sneaking into our country to blow shit up. Oh no.

Retards.

Rather hilarious, but in a terribly sick and twisted way. Sick, because if Joseph Farah was anything other than a self proclaimed Christian, the entire left wing would strike out viciously at anyone who said a single negative thing about them, and then probably try hire the ACLU to sue said person. The double standards of the left make me seriously ill.

100 Day Cold

2005-06-01T18:18:00.000-04:00

Anyone else heard of this? Supposedly, according to Lana, you get a cold for that pops up 3 times in 100 days, but lies dormant in between. This is the 3rd pretty bad cold I've gotten in about that time, so I tend to think it's true. I was pretty much bed-ridden over the holiday weekend and ended up leaving work after only an hour on tuesday. I was too sick to sit there and play WoW even. Blah. Didn't much matter, since the weather was crappy most of the weekend anyways.

We did manage to get the range, finally, on Saturday morning. We had a good time, going through a few hundred rounds of .22 and 9mm. Lana's High Standard Supermatic Citation (Military) .22 turned out to be really easy to shoot, very accurate, but it was jamming ever 4 or 5 rounds. I am pretty sure the clips we are have are just too old, the springs in the clip seem a bit sticky to me. If I remember right I think the gun is from the late 60's, early 70's and the clips seem original, so no surprise. The BHP operated flawlessly of course, although the operator still needs to work on ability to actually use the gun. Lana pointed out that it was the recoil that was probably putting my aim off...eh, I don't know, I am still hoping to get some one on one time with her father so I can really learn to shoot rather than just winging it. It was no surprise that Lana's groupings were far better than mine, with both pistols. She knows her stuff, no doubt.

I just randomly started playing Star Ocean: Till The End of Time when I became ill over the weekend and man...I'm am completely sucked into it. I'm not going to write a full review just yet, but I am going to say that so far, so good. The size of the game is daunting but on the other hand, that is part of the fun.

Looks like I am going to have pay the big G. that tax money before June 20th or suffer their wrath. I've never gotten a letter from the IRS before and I just don't feel like playing around. I tried to do a payment plan with TurboTax, but yet again, it didn't go through. Bunch of bull. Seriously, it's just one thing after another with us. It seems that every month some new massive bill gets thrown at us. Blah.

Damn the Media. Straight to Hell. Seriously.

2005-05-23T18:14:00.000-04:00

I'd link this, but I know you guys are lazy. Read this, seriously. You aren't going to find stories like this anywhere in the leftist infested main stream media for a reason. Mainly because involves something called "The Truth", which appears to have disappeared from Media's minds.

On Operation Matador

LGF reader Joe G. forwarded this letter from Marine Colonel Bob Chase, about his experiences in Operation Matador; note the section about his interview with NBC News:

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Was talking to Gino and he asked for some details on the MATADOR fight. Figured, by now since many of you might have caught some of the interviews, you’d like to hear, “the rest of the story...”

Matador is now officially over, supposedly, they were going to fight our way back and “destroy” us - guess they missed the turn at the dairy queen. We are back and the final tally was Good Guys - 125+ enemy dead, many more wounded, and 39 detainees of some significant value. The bad guys, who talk a real good game - 9 Killed (6 in the one Amtrak) and 30 wounded (most will return to duty). Not a bad weeks’ work.

As we have said, our intent was to make ourselves big by leveraging our firepower and mobility. This area was a real sh*thole for AMZ criminals. We knew it, 1st Division knew it, but working it on a regular basis was tough. We kept some recon there and got the timing pretty well, brought up a bridging unit from the Army in Baghdad, then went across in the middle of the night (that was probably the only part that didn’t go on sked (the bank gradient was poorly assessed) but we had near and far-side security already in and a blocking position near the Syrian Border.

The enemy figured out after about 4 hours that we were there in force. They came down with about 100 fighters (no, scratch that - they were TARGETS) and made the poor decision to take on a battalion in open ground. They withdrew - we went after them into a place called Ubaydi. Many mounted boats and tried to escape N, we pushed Air, and the Cobras sunk a bunch of trash barges that night. Meanwhile, we continued to push west across the river. Our far-side units started to see pockets of insurgents move to key areas to emplace mines/IEDs. They came out, snipers took them out; their friends came for the bodies; they, joined them on the deck - permanently.

The force started getting the tanks and LAVs across later than we had hoped; but when they did! Our first casualties came at a high-rise where the enemy had prepared positions; a platoon moved in under fire, 2 Marines, a SSGT and a LCPL were first in the hatch and received a burst of MG fire. As the unit assumed they were dead (no additional fire/no one came out), they lit up the house and dropped it with a coupla 500-pounders. As we moved to recover our Marines (NONE LEFT BEHIND), we discovered that the LCPL, though wounded was still alive (he is serious, but stable). Unfortunately the SSGT had taken a round to the grape and had been killed by the initial burst

We moved on; portions of the task force moving along known rat-lines and others working Intel developed in the cities of Ramana and Karabila. Fighting was sporadic, intense, and one-sided in outcome. We followed individuals into buildings, we leveled the buildings; all night, every night. Marine Air had eyes up and shooters on-station - talk about a guardian angel! Each night we re-assessed, looked at the Intel and developed the next target sets. We stayed down there until a few days ago; then shifted to a series of caves in the north.

The caves were on an escarpment and rumors abound about whether these were Bin-Laden like caves - answer no, mostly small caches and some protection from about everything but a hellfire with a laser designator. We exploited some and closed most of them permanently. The enemy propaganda talked a lot about how they were going to kill us as we retreated, etc. They showed pictures of devastation in Al Qaim (caused by an intramural fight between the tribes and foreign fighters, no less) and blamed the Americans. Al Jazeera called to speak to me and interviewed me twice on air - yes, I called the enemy cowards, again, that hid behind women and children in the cities and caused their death by their cowardice. Played well, enemy swore they had captured/killed the “enemy commander.” Went on again last night to ridicule them for their lies and continued fear of death, told them the destruction of AQ was evidence that, “the noble tribes of Iraq also reject those that deface their holy places and dishonor their dead.” We’ll see if a wanted poster appears tomorrow - bad news is, they still didn’t get pissed off enough to come out and play.

We went back across the river without incident, decided to “poke a stick” in Ubaydi (where the big fight was), just ONE MORE TIME before we left - NOTHING, they wanted no part of these Marines again! We’re all back at base camps and Forward Operating Bases, maintaining, cleaning, talking sh*t, and prepping for the next smackdown!

NBC interviewed me again last night - good stuff, but they harped on the casualties. I told them it was war; they wanted to know if a whole squad was killed in the track. As I told them a squad’s worth of Marines were killed/hurt (6 KIA,14 WIA) but it was NOT the catastrophic loss of a squad (it was a HQ track). NBC wanted to know how to refer to them, as a squad, company, etc. I told them, pretty bluntly, “refer to them for what they will always be - US MARINES!” They continued to push (I was starting to become a bit agitated) - they wanted to know how we considered this a success with the deaths (I nearly lost it), and how would we remember them, would there be a ceremony? You know what happens when I get into this mode - thought you might appreciate the answer:

We can never replace a fellow Marine or best friend but I can attest that he died doing what we all hope to be doing as Marines, they were advancing, leading, and setting the example - they were being MARINES! It may not matter in the grand scheme of things to anyone but us, but we are singularly proud that we have and know Marines that fought and died like these. We remember and memorialize them and keep them alive every single time we put on this uniform — we are just honored to wear the same eagle, globe, and anchor as these warrior/heroes. We don’t make policy, we don’t decide on the fight, but we do fight and win. And when we win, it is because every one of these Marines fight with us in sprit - and we will not, we cannot let them down. To we Marines, Semper Fidelis is more than a motto - it was to them, and to us who were privileged to fight with them, a way of life.

Not sure that will get on the tube. Unfortunate, because I think we should all be such Marines when our time comes.

S/F, Bob

no news...not really good news

2005-05-17T13:06:00.000-04:00

Paid the lawyer yesterday, $1K. Somehow, it turns out that we had enough to not only pay the lawyer, but also enough left over for food and even some entertainment money. Additionally, I seem to have misread the court date on the summons and I'll be going to court on the 21st of June now. The initial fury over the whole mess has pretty much dissipated, now I'm just angry. I am waiting to see if the lawyer can get them to drop the whole thing before the court date, but I still don't see it happening. Still no word from TSA on how much they are going to fine me.

And I am not sure what is going on with DC yet. Other than the usual way these things work, very slowly and usually no one knows what is going on. Which is fine with me. I may be bored out of my mind here, but man, you just can't beat the commute. I don't know, it would suck for my resume to be stuck here for 5 years...but on the other hand, it would be 5 peaceful years. In any case, I am really looking forward to getting on this next contract (or current contract) with Casey. No peace, but the ultimate rewards of such a venture far outweigh the short term sacrifices.

WoW had been sucking me in pretty good for a few days there. Largely, because of that guild I was trying to get back into. Too bad their leader turned out to be a bit of an asshole, thus I've abandoned my efforts to get in and will be returning to a more normal playing time. PvP is where it is at for me right now. 100 Honor Kills yesterday alone, somewhere around 150-180 HK's for the week. I expect to jump up at least a few ranks. Good thing about PvP, is you can play for however long you want with no obligation. I hate getting caught in a group for hours and hours. Lana hates it too, heh. So maybe it is for the best that I didn't caught up with Apex. I think I would have ended up playing way more than I wanted too.

No shows or poker lately. Still waiting for June to really get back into poker. And we just haven't had the money for the shows we wanted to see. Lana is heading off on her very first "business trip" to San Francisco tomorrow...wish I could with. A really cool city.

NIN show review

2005-05-05T12:33:00.000-04:00

Well, I like to go to shows, no doubt. I enjoy listening to artist perform live. Problem is, I hate people. We tried to get as close as possible to the stage last night and ended up in a roiling mess of people going crazy. Bunch of nazi mofo's showed up, not to watch trent, but to start their own personal ska mosh pits. Retards. Lana was pretty much oblivious to all the nonsense, so I was pretty much lifting her up and dragging her from safe spot to safe spot while trying to stay close to the stage.

Uh, other than all the retards, the show was pretty cool. I mean it's NIN after all, pretty much impossible for it not to be good. He stuck mainly to all the good old stuff (closer, march of pigs, hurt, etc...) along with some of the better tracks from the new album, including the song casey mentioned in the chatbox there. Best song of the night, by far, was Reptile. Trent was really threw himself into it, crowd was pretty much going berserk. Hell, I was impressed with every song he did, he may almost be 40, but he is just as into his songs as the last time i saw him back in 2000. And apparently, he has been taking steroids past few years. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but Trent the Bodybuilder just didn't jive right in my mind with his music.

Dresden Dolls opened for them, a small band with a girl on the keyboard and a guy on the drums (two songs he played an acoustic guitar). Faces painted white and wearing some silly goth clothing...it was actually pretty good. The drummer in particular was crazy, he synchronized his drumming to the songs with a lot of...almost wild mime-like movements. It was weird, but kinda cool. Some drunk jack-ass was saying how much they sucked the entire time they were one stage, out the top of lungs...oh how I wanted to knock his ass out. The epitome of a rude ignorant American.

so tired....

2005-05-04T16:56:00.000-04:00

Not a lot of updates right now and most of you know why. Still sorting out the mess with this cop.

Going to see NIN tonight, I'd say it lift my spirits...but, heh, it's NIN afterall. Supposed to be a good show, it's getting good reviews. Still looking forward to it, even through the depression of all the garbage I'm wading through right now.

Playing poker tomorrow or Saturday. Let's see if I can make it 3 out 3 for some final table action....

Killer Kats

2005-04-22T12:48:00.000-04:00

So...I was doing my normal morning routine the other day, part of which is opening the door for the cats to watch the cars drive by and smell the fumes. We live on the 6th floor and I suppose the cars look like rather large bugs to the cats, they like bugs, probably one of their favorite toys. In any case, we don't have a patio, just a grill that keeps you from falling to your death if you get too drunk. Well, I walked away, getting ready for work and I step back into the living room for second and I see both cats at the door staring intently at nothing. Our cats are not best friends by any means and anytime they are that close, you know something is up. I can't see what they are freaking out about, but suddenly, our huge fat black cat leaps over the little gray cat and there is an explosion of feathers. Well, she walks back in, proud as a can be, with a sparrow in her jaws, straight to her food bowl where she deposits the bird. You have to understand, this is the laziest cat I know. It rarely moves and then only to poop or eat. And she has no front claws. And she is frightening of EVERYTHING. So I was pretty blown away that she managed to get her first bird.

Alas, she dropped the bird on her food and the thing got up and flew straight into the window. I had hoped she had killed it and would start to devour it, but she is just too stupid. I once tried to feed her a live fish from the fish tank, she's always trying to kill the fish behind the glass (very very dumb creature) I was trying to do her a favor, but...she ran away in fear. So anyways, the bird is flopping all over the place by the window and my gray cat (also exceptionally stupid) is just sitting next to it, lazily batting at it, looking very confused. Not even the slightest bit interested in eating it. Ah well, I gave up and just tossed the thing out the window. It was fine, flew away like a shot. Black cat didn't even break the skin the panzy.

I really want to get a rat or frog...toss it in the bathtub with the cats and let them tear it to shreds. Lana is not to keen on the idea, Battle Arena Kitty, but I suspect she may come around eventually.

Honestly though, I think they would be stupid and not know what to do. I try to train them to be killers, but it's rather hard to do with these guys...fat and lazy...overfed. They are experts at pooping and stinking up the whole apartment though. Really, it's their only specialty.

In other news, I've given in and gotten a gmail account. Interface is much better than yahoo and more importantly, my yahoo account was drowning in spam. I've been holding out for years, but now the spam filters are catching important emails randomly...I'm just not down with that.

For those of you not coming to the LAN party, well, you're gay. You should go.

Craziest Hand Evar.

2005-04-15T17:14:00.000-04:00

Yea so...played another game in the Denver Poker Tour last night instead of going to shao-lin. Same rock solid gameplay that has been doing me well in these tournaments plus getting Kowboys twice, help propel me to the final table, probably the easiest ascent I've had yet to that point. Ok, well final table comes around, I manage to make it to the last four. We have a huge chip leader to my left, small next to him and then a guy who is about half my stack to my right. I'm on the SB, betting starts with small stack and he goes all in. Figured he had royal something, not a pair, just trying to make a move. Well, guy to my right goes all in. Ok, I figure he wants everyone else out of the pot for an easy takedown on the short stack. Problem is, I'm sitting on a pair of 6's, which at this stage of the game is a good hand. Figuring these other two jokers were being just that, jokers, I went all-in...myself trying to dissuade the huge chip leader from going in. Well too late by now, this is a pot he can't resist and he goes all in.

I'm a bit surprised at this point, can't say I've ever seen all 4 final table guys all-in. First guy, short stack, turns over KK. Figured I'm screwed right now. Guy to my right turns over 88. Not only am I screwed, but somehow 3 people have a got a damn pair. Guy to my left, chip leader, turns over freaking JJ. 4 people all-in on 4 pairs. Unbelievable. And I'm sitting on the bottom pair no-less. We are all a bit shocked at this point. The flop turns over freaking an 8, a 6 and something else, giving me and the guy to my right three of a kind. Again, just unbelievable. We both end up hitting a boat when a pair turns up on the board, beating out the two royal pairs, sending the short stack out of the game in 4th, cutting the chip leader to pieces and leaving him in 3rd, me in 2nd and the guy to my right in 1st. It was really crazy. The dealer had never seen anything like it, nor have I.

That guy to my right was stupid lucky after that. Hitting AA the next hand. Hand after that I'm dealt A9 in the pocket, push all in and the same bastard has JJ. I mean, what are the odds. If I had won against that JJ though, I definitely would have placed 1st. Ahh.....someday.

Unbelievable...

2005-04-13T16:41:00.000-04:00

One of the full time IT staff members here (not a contractor, an actual GS employee) managed to plug a power cord for a removable harddrive into a video card's s-video port. How they crammed it in there, I don't know. Why they thought they needed another cable, besides the monitor cable, going into the card...I don't know. They did manage to leave it plugged in there for a few months before an outside IT person associated with another government branch came in and found it like that. In the meantime, it looks like the mouse port blew, video corruption and lots of HD corruption on the internal SCSI drives. I'm surprised the thing didn't start a fire, let alone stay running this whole time.

So that's the material I have to work with here. We are talking real bottom of the barrel personnel. Who are making decent money off your tax dollars. Oh I laugh.

"The one thing we learn from history, is that we don't learn from history."

2005-04-12T16:46:00.000-04:00

Yea, it has been a while since I've updated.

Has anyone else here heard of this ZOG thing, bob just clued me in today. Zionist Occupation Government...some crazy psycho idea that the "Jews" are controlling world governments with some "take over the world" agenda in mind. Wow. Lunatics. It's unbelievable the amount of irrational hatred towards Jews there is out there. It seems like every time I hear something from the Left these days, they are blaming it on the Jewish population. Zionism this, Pro-Zionist that. Very eerie, very disturbing. If they aren't in the middle of trying to disarm America...they are trying to start another holocaust. What is broken in the minds of these people?

Of course, there are many biblical prophecies that refer to the anti-Jewish sentiment that will come about in the End Times. So it's not like I'm completely surprised, it's just how it is actually playing out that gets me.

On to lighter news, as you may have noticed I made it to yet another final table. The Denver Poker Tour has resumed and I played my first tournament of the season last night. After taking such a pro-longed break, I found myself quite able to stick my goal of tight-aggressive-solid play and did quite well for myself. It was hard at first, the table was full of the usual loose aggressive playing just about anything that caught their fancy. Stack sizes were varying wildly all around, except mine since I wasn't hitting anything and I refused to play mediocre hands. I spent the first half of the tournament doing nothing but watching the other players and trying to get the best read I could. We were on the 3rd or 4th level of blinds when I finally started making my move with KK, taking down a large pot. I proceeded to double and triple my hand in short order with a few other decent hands. Down to the final three, I was actually pretty close to 1st place, just a few bet's behind the guy. Unfortunately, I lost on a pair of Kings to his pair of Kings, with the low kicker. The only mistake of the night, I was doing my best to work on looking for tells and this one time, I didn't look at my opponent before pushing all in. He had KQo, I had K6s. Our king came on the river...I know if I had even glanced at him, I could have gotten some read...ah well. Closer to getting first place, which is the only real goal in these tournaments, as that's the ticket winner to the final.

Still going to Shao-Lin and feeling 100% better. Started up WoW again, but as I thought, extremely casually. I suspect I will make 60 in a few months, who knows though, as I'll only be playing a day or two a week. And I'd like to play my rogue some more, so I won't be concentrating solely on Goulet.

Midnight Club Madness 3 should be out today, saw the ISO out on the ps2 newsgroups, still waiting for the Xbox version show up somewhere. Not sure if I'm going to finish God of War or not. The game is getting rather ridiculous with the amount of gore and other terrible things. Makes me a bit queasy when I think about it. Too bad, because other than that, it's one of the better games I've on PS2 in recent history.

System Engineering for the Man

2005-04-05T14:20:00.000-04:00

It is interesting. Terribly boring work, but interesting what they are doing. I took the job with the knowledge that really, no engineering work would be taking place. I was just there to make them look good and drop a few hints to the guys here how to do their job. They enforced that by centralizing all the administrative capabilities back at HQ, leaving the field workers very limited rights, just enough to do their job. Well, they took another step further recently and removed more rights from the guys in the field. And then they let the license expire on one of the primary tools we are allowed to use to interface with AD. So what this all boils down to right now, is that I have the rights to change printer cartridges...and that's about it. Everything else has been opening a ticket in their crappy helpdesk system and having HQ fix the problem. Amusing, I am essentially getting paid a crapload of money to change printer cartridges.

Amusing, but utterly stupid. Only the government would allow this kind of inefficiency to exist. I'm stuck in a another project where there are some obvious "work ethic" issues thanks to poor management and huge amounts of waste.

Shao-Lin training progresses. We just got some pictures developed from about 6 months ago and it appears that I somehow managed to lose between 10-15lbs of what I had gained through shaolin in those 3 months I took off. Pretty terrible. My metabolism just needs to chill. My first night back last Thursday left me in a good amount of pain for 4 days, still recovering but I expect my 3-4 hours tonight will wipe out the lactic acid (actually, a quick google search says lactic acid is not responsible for long term soreness, so what is?)...only to develop more I am sure. Good stuff in any case. I am not sure how I will be utilizing it to fend off the attacks of Steve and john at the LAN party though. John is easy enough, but Steve has quite a bit of mass behind him. Most the training I get says to either break a joint or gouge out eyes in that scenario, heh. Funny stuff.

Still working through GT4. My copy of God of War was the bad rip (they messed up ripping the 2nd layer at first), so I'm stuck at level 4. Blah. God of War is a really amazing game as I mentioned on the board. If you have a PS2, I would highly recommend adding this to your collection. I've been checking for Jade Empire about twice a day, although I don't expect to see it until the day it gets in the stores. And hell, I might just buy it by then.

The bums continue to terrorize Denver, the warmer the weather gets, the more of them I see...

Jade Empire Gold

2005-04-01T17:05:00.000-05:00

Big news. Anyone else waiting for this?

Homeless...Yea Right.

2005-04-01T14:53:00.000-05:00

Speaking of updating, I've been meaning to go on a rant lately...damn work for interfering with my plog/blog updates!

Lana and I have been somewhat thrust into a situation where we are much more in contact with, shall we say, "street people" aka "damn bums" since moving to Denver. Little did we know, before moving into our Loft (which I still think is just a fancy apartment that they didn't bother to install a ceiling in) that there were a bunch of "homeless shelters" just around the block. I put that in quotes, because these places aren't so much shelters as they are an excuse for the bums to congregate and buy drugs. There's a huge catholic mission with steel spear tip fencing a block away which is across from a very old dilapidated soup kitchen, and between them is a bit of dirt that the bums camp on. Lana mentioned another mission close by...and there are various bum facilities up and down the street as well.

Mixed in all this are several high rent loft complexes and other living facilities for people that actually have jobs. Which makes for an odd mix to say the least. And I really don't see it working.

Here are a few examples of what we have to put up with....

When we first moved in, there was a bum that would drive her bicycle up behind our building (we look right down into the alley) at night and proceed to camp against the adjacent building and then get drunk right in plain view of about 100 different windows looking down at her.

In the same alley, Lana was home for lunch one day and just happened to glance down at another bum, who was just merrily smoking away on his crack pipe. Right in plain view of all these apartments again and in broad daylight. He happened to look up and see Lana looking at him, realized what he was doing and ran away.

Lana has spotted this young asian kid who hangs out at the bum camp, during peak bum hours (early/late evening) with a backpack, shades and fresh clothes. Obviously not a bum, obviously the local drug peddler.

We are, rather unfortunately, unable to go to the grocery store near us, because again, the damn bums have infested the area. These are not nice old bums...these are highly aggressive, some crazy, some drunk, some high as kites bums that will wander around the park lot screaming (literally at he top of their lungs) at people, asking for money, screaming and cursing when they don't get it, begging people to help load their car (which is the most ridiculous thing) and again screaming when denied. That's in addition to the minorities criminal problem that area has...but that's another rant.

Walking home, I go in through the back door to my complex. I just...I just don't like to walk up to the door going into my building and encountering some drunk ass bum pissing all over the door. I mean really, what am I supposed to do there?

At a parade and some drunk off his ass bum is standing nearby cursing and rambling at everything and everyone. This guy comes up to me and Lana and starts babbling, again very obviously drunk (best case scenario there). This bum reaches out and tries to touch Lana's arm. Uhh, well, having taking a fair amount of martial arts by then, I was quite ready to destroy this guy. But of course, I shouted at him to back off and he ran away...otherwise I was about ready to tear his arm out of socket and shove it down his throat. Bullshit, I should not have to put up with that.

The cops, fireman and ambulances are in this bum infested area many times throughout the day and night. Who knows why...crime? Bums dying? I don't know.

These people...I don't even like to call them homeless. A true homeless person, doesn't have a home but more than likely rather wants one to live in. He doesn't like living on the street, begging, getting drunk every night, getting high when he can and whatever other various criminal activities take place at that level. The people we deal with here are nothing more than street trash. I'm sorry, you have two working legs and aren't crazy in the head and you expect me to give you money to support your crack habit? Please. There is no way in hell I will support that lifestyle. If these were the days of Mad Max, it would be shotgun time if any of them approached me. And if you are crazy in the head...chances are you've done too much cheap crack and put yourself there. And don't get even get me started on missing two legs. There's a homeless guy without any legs in downtown Chicago and he is the most foul mouthed, vile, aggressive bum I have ever seen. I have Zero empathy for these people.

Do you think it's safe or reasonable for these Americans that actually live here, that pay their taxes, that more than likely contribute to society in a meaningful way (even if that's just by going to work) to put up with this kind of environment? Should they have to put up with bums verbally assaulting them while trying to buy groceries? Put their personal safety on the line when they leave their apartment? Put up with camps of street trash that draw criminal elements?

No way in hell. The whole area needs to be Sanitized. And I mean wipe off the face of the city and built over.

I think the the real solution for now is to ban pan-handling altogether, a solution that Dallas has implemented and by all appearances seems to be working. These are not the days of lepers and unfortunate individuals. Most of what I see out there these days are cracked out street trash committing crime. And by allowing them to pan-handle, we are merely encouraging their behavior.

No American should have to put up with this. No way, No how.

I hope some bleeding heart liberal reads this and here is what I have to say to them. Let me take you to downtown Chicago...hell even downtown east Denver at this point, say 2am on a warm Friday night. We'll leave said liberal down there by themselves for a few hours in a random alley. See how long they survive. Let them deal firsthand with an aggressive street trash population. Let's see what the think about pitying these disgusting people, empathizing with them, supporting their behavior...After a bunch of cracked up bums gang rape you, or beat the shit out of you, or God knows what else.

Well...Oh Well

2005-03-30T16:10:00.000-05:00

As you can imagine, I just didn't have enough to make my comeback. Now, now is really the time I've decided to step back and re-analyze my approach and get some good poker reading in. I promised myself I wouldn't re-deposit any money for the next 3 months after this, and I'm sticking to it. Which is fine, there are plenty of other things I've been meaning to do, catch up on, that my poker time has been eating to.

Although, I will be playing in the denver poker tour still. It's free, and between the prizes and live table experience, it's worth the time spent. The next season starts on the 8th of April and I fully intend on making it to the final this time, heh.

Still playing GT4 and a new game, God of War. Which is just absolutely incredible. Check out the reviews, many people are already calling it the game of the year. It's like someone took the idea from the game Gladiator and made it 100 times better. Definitely worth buying, or at the very least downloading for the swap trick. There are few more steps in the swap trick these days, but it still works.

small gains

2005-03-25T17:56:00.000-05:00

47th out of 350 in a $2 tournament yesterday ate the rest of my money at TGC. So long for now.

Over lunch today, I placed 3rd in a SnG at Empire leaving me with barely enough money to perhaps make a comeback. It will mean extremely solid ring game playing, but I think I can do it. As long as Todd isn't sitting down next to me, heh.

Disinclined

2005-03-24T15:50:00.000-05:00

Yea, I'm a bit more reluctant to put much more time into poker at this point. Only so many bad beats and stupid mistakes you can make in a row. I'm down to not more than a few bucks at both sites, thanks to really horrible calls. I really don't know what exactly happened between now and then.

Well, kind of. I think what it is, is that I just don't dig on ring games. It's too boring online. So I end up calling on hands that suck, just to do something. I suppose I just don't have the willpower to handle ring game playing. I don't know. My goal when I re-deposited money in last week was to just play ring games and build up a balance. But looking back at the past month or so, I managed to get by just fine on tournaments.

Blah, just going to have to re-evaluate my future moves here. I see myself going to tournaments though at some point, I just enjoy them more.

In the meantime, if I can scrounge together the money, I'm looking at going back to kung fu. The difference between actively practicing and what I am doing now (which is nothing) is huge. I just don't feel as good physically, which then makes me drag mentally. We'll see, I'm dead broke right now, so nothing is happening anytime soon.

I've put out a few feelers for some positions in DC. Nothing definite, or even remotely close, but there are, potentially, some positions open that would involve not only a pay raise, but much much better work. Going back has it downfalls, no doubt, but I think the benefits would out-weigh the bad aspects of such a move. And this current job just has me wasting away, badly. There really is nothing to do here, and they pay me for it, but I am beginning to worry about the long term consequences of staying in a spot like this. Again, we'll see.

Todd is a bastard.

2005-03-23T11:18:00.000-05:00

heh, no he's not, but he is terribly lucky.

I started on empire last night and at my first table, I stumbled across the absolute worst player I have ever seen. .10/.25 blinds, longhand and a prime idiot. This guy was calling 100% pre-flop, irregardless of any raises of any size...and the guy would frequently call all the way to the river...and fold to large bets. It was great. I managed to triple my buy in on this guy in like 45 minutes. He would lose a lot, sometimes get lucky on a big pot and then lose a lot more.

Well, I'm sitting there chatting with Todd, ranting about this guy, so Todd takes the seat next me. We're just going along, playing this guy and suddenly, we reach an unfortunate showdown. I'm dealt QQ and raise pre-flop accordingly. Todd and the idiot call me. I really didn't want Todd in the pot, I knew it was going to bad, for him I thought at the time. The flop comes over something like J109 if I remember correctly. This puts me on a open ended straight draw, with the high end of the straight and leaves me sitting on a very good pair worst case. I'm not sure how the betting went, but I think the idiot we were taking apart went all-in first. I dumped my hand all-in, trying to let Todd know to get out. Well, unfortunately, Todd was sitting on an 8 and something else, giving him an open ended straight draw. He calls me all-in and the pot is now at $107 with everyone all-in. The turn landed a 7. I don't even remember what the river was, not a King I know that. Ah well, that's the way it goes.

I still ended up on top for the night. Moved up to the .25/.50 blinds and made a bit of money. Placed 4th in a SnG...no money there, but close.

More ring games tonight, boring, but lucrative. I'd much rather just play tournaments every day...but the money just isn't as easy the as ring games.

Finished my iB license in GT4 last night. Started on some of the rally races and special missions. Rally races are interesting, they actually penalize you for hitting the wall too hard or hitting the opponent. Still have not figured out what A-Spec points are for, but the special missions give you loads of them.

Poker is a State of Mind.

2005-03-22T13:26:00.000-05:00

Because the days that my brain just isn't focusing, my poker goes completely downhill. I ended up down last night due to just that. If you aren't focusing, all it takes is one bad call, falling into a trap and losing a bit of money...next thing you know, you are on the tilt. Only at the time, you probably don't realize it. And keep playing and losing. It's bad spiral. Someday I'll learn.

Not that I lost everything, I just don't like ending a day down.

Switching to Empire tonight for a change of pace.

Back and Forth and so on....

2005-03-21T13:01:00.000-05:00

Once again, I found myself placing one away from winning a ticket into one of the tournaments with huge pots. I placed 14th out of 138 in a $100K satellite tournament. The tickets started at 13th, haha...I kill myself. I actually made a very bad call that last hand, one of those situations where I, for some reason, can't stop betting. I'm still working on that. Usually, now that I think about it, this happens to me when I have top pair. And either someone has a kicker that hit, giving them two pair, or they have top pair with a better kicker. In this particular case, it was a showdown between myself on the BB and the SB. And the SB totally outplayed and trapped me. At this stage, if I would have gotten AQ, I probably would have bet to represent. This guy was either a very good player or just didn't know what the hell he was doing, I am thinking he was actually pretty good. He just calls with the AQ, no slowplaying, like any other hand. I have Q2 suited and call. The flop lands Q and some garbage. And thus began my betting to the end. The first time he called me, I should have realized something was up. Ah well. I did make my money back, as the money started right at 14th.

Played a bunch of $2+1 SnG's and lost every one. I seem to have much better luck with SnG's on Empire than I do on TGC. I've played a mere 3 or 4 SnG's on Empire and out of that, placed 1st and 2nd in two different games. TGC, I've played probably 10-15 and only managed to place 2nd out of all of them. Should tell me something, but I will probably continue to play them.

Went out fairly early on a few freerolls over the weekend, wasn't really playing them though.

Ring games continue to fare well, for the most part. I managed to end up on top about 80% of the time over the weekend, although one time I did manage to lose all of what i sat down with. Again, calling on top pair, all-in even...maybe not such a good idea eh?

GT4 continues get to better the more I play. Great game, in fact, probably the best non-arcade racer I have played to date. Best arcade racer award is pretty tied between PGR2 and Burnout 2...tough call there, Midnight Club 2 takes a solid second.

As for the rest of the week...well they took out my daily $5 freezeout that played at 1730 my time. And they took away the Sunday $75K I was trying to place in. What they do have now is interesting and perhaps better. Two $100K every weekend, Sunday and Saturday, one of which is a freezeout (which is most excellent) and a bunch of satellites every week to get a ticket from. They changed the 100 raked hands freeroll from $1k to $2k, increased the entries to 2000 and the money starts at 80th, which makes them a bit more lucrative. Adding to that, between no and March 31st, every ring game I play adds points for an entry into a $15K freeroll in April for the top 1000 players that have accrued these points. First prize for the freeroll is an entry into WSOP, which i consider well beyond me, but an entry into the tournament itself I do not. Although I imagine the competition will be stiff. So I plan on playing a bunch of ring games to accrue points (and money while I'm at it), and then the occasional satellite/freeroll depending on how the bankroll is looking...

The Return of 20K

2005-03-17T21:20:00.000-05:00

It was payday today, so I put a few bucks back into The Gaming Club. Sat down to play some rounds at a ring game, $.25/$.50, turned $25 into $65 in 30 minutes and quit for the day. Heh.

And then, the Jetta.

2005-03-08T16:09:00.000-05:00

Lana wanted me to post some pictures of her new ride. It is an '03 VW Jetta GLS and quite a bit better than the honda's we were looking at as an alternative. That's our "loft" *cough*apartment*cough* in the background there. And then to the left slighty is the alley where the bums go to smoke crack and get drunk. And about a block over is the bum camp. City living...

bored bored bored bored BORED BORED BORED.

2005-03-08T14:24:00.000-05:00

Wow, what a boring job. If they didn't pay me an bunch of money, I don't know how I would make it, heh. But seriously, I can't see myself going all the way to June of 2006 fixing printers and unlocking user accounts. It demeaning actually. I do manage to find some time to work on some rather advanced VB Scripts that I am looking to get implemented across the contract (hopefully). Thus boosting my Performance Review for next year and perhaps qualifying for a raise this time. In any case, it's not really enough to keep my brain going, so DC is unfortunately looking more and more like it might be happening again. Blast.

Taking my "Winning Low Limit Hold-Em" book with me over vacation, although a quick browse through shows that I already have all the basics he covers. Hopefully there are few tips in there that prove useful, and it doesn't hurt to go over the odds again.

Lana is stealing some snacks for our plane ride, since apparently, AA is now charging for snacks and meals. Which is ridiculous. The whole airline industry is just going to pot. Oh well.

Taggerboard really sucked, like mentioned to the right here. Was causing the whole sidebar to lag and half the the time, it wasn't even displaying the post. Trying this new chatterbox, we'll see how it works out.

Also, I plan on posting more statistics over there in future. I started with my final table wins and eventually I'll be posting all my wins...and maybe losses too. Probably put some charts there, etc, it all helps my game to be able see the swings. Hell, I didn't even know I had made that many final tables till I started adding it all up. There are beginners out there whole will play for months and *maybe* see 1 or 2 final tables. That makes 7 for me in 2 months, a good confidence booster.

Back to being bored some more.

Or not

2005-03-07T14:43:00.000-05:00

Well, I ran out of things to do the other day, so I took some of the money I pulled out of TGC and deposited it into Empire.

Empire recently lowered the blinds on the NL tables, making for a more interesting game. The blinds on the $25 NL ring games (meaning you could sit down with a max of $25) used to be .5/1. Now they are much lower at .1/.25, allowing you to see many more hands at a much better price. Which works good for tight playing. Well, technically it should. I ended up down a bit that first day, just playing ring games and one $5 Sit-N-Go (single table tournament, top 3 pay).

Saturday mornings I usually wake up with laptop right next to my bed and play a tournament with my morning coffee. I decided not to break this pattern since I still had some funds in Empire and joined a measly $1 tournament with about 400 people in it. Heh, and wouldn't you know I placed 7th, making for my first final table in quite a while. I was in a really good position all tournament, consisently holding 1st and 2nd place. The bad thing is that I became really ill for some reason, food poisoning or something, so I was having trouble concentrating. I was a shoe-in for 1st place even at the final table, but I made a rather bad call on one hand. Probably trying to steal the pot or some such, I don't remember exactly and I went out. $15 win, woo-hoo. I like to think of it proportionally, so if I had been playing a $20 buy-in, that would have been what, a $300 win? Time, it's just a matter of time.

Played a few more ring games the next day, made some decent money, nothing great. Sat down and played another $5 SnG and placed 1st, first time ever for me, winning another $25. At that point, I cashed out. We could use the pocket change for our trip to NC and GT4 has been calling my name lately.

Speaking of which, what a great game. If you like racing games and are even a bit OCD, I don't see how you could manage to find a better racing game experience. I don't know how many hours I have in so far, but I have about 15 cars in my garage, just about done with the Beginners Events and starting to work on some of the professional events. My best car so far is a used '96 Evo GSR I picked up for like 13K credits. Dumped in the first level of turbo, intercooler, racing exhaust, and the rest of the GT basics (first level of weight reduction, CPU upgrade, etc) and I've got it running at 370HP. Fun car to drive, the 4WD lets you take turns much more aggressively. Still playing with the suspension settings, don't have a total grasp over what all it does. And I really need to dump a new transmission in there, not getting full use of my engine with the factory gear ratios and lack of 6th gear.

I say good if you a bit OCD because no other game I know of rewards OCD behavior like Gran Turismo does. It's really all about hitting every turn at exactly the right speed on exactly the right line, which changes with every car and every upgrade. Obviously, there is more to the game than just that, but it rewards the "need to do everything perfect" tendacies I tend to have with racing games.

Hardest part of the game so far are the license test. Maybe i just suck, but I can barely get bronze on the test. Very hard. Probably get some nice rewards for getting all golds on a test, but it will be a while before I find out about that.

We are off to North Carolina Wednesday morning, not sure about internet access from the hotel. So if you don't hear from me for a week...well, you just won't here from me for a week, heh.