Studying Process:
1) Take a clean yellow pad with nothing else on it. Title the first page “List of Shit Shu Needs to Remember” Make study guide out of it.
2) Take Gingko everyday. It’s a load of crap, but I don’t want to jeopardize anything at this point.
Day of the Exam:
1) Wear the lucky shirt (critical!)
2) Kiss as many cats as possible for luck. Must kiss the not so bright one for reverse bad luck.
3) Take lucky eraser pen. Take lucky TI-84 calculator.
4) If it’s a math test, rub lucky math appendix (damn)
Post Exam:
1) Potachos for dinner. (critical!)
End result? The magic number is now at 6.
Bravo, our Timneh African Grey parrot, had lead toxicity that led to paralysis. The lead’s out, but he’s still paralyzed. We’re starting acupuncture treatments on him to hopefully stimulate his leg muscles. Today was the first of three weekly treatments. He got three little needles on each foot. He did very well. There may be more rounds if he makes progress.
Yes. This is acupuncture on a bird.
I purchased Songs for Tibet from the iTunes Store. Apple had the brilliance of featuring it at the start of the Olympics. That pissed off a whole bunch of people from China’s IP range, as evident from the reviews. Not only is it an awesome album (Imogen Heap, Suzanne Vega, Jackson Browne, and Rush!), but it’s a fun way to stick it to those commies.
Wait… dude… what? From AP:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080809/ap_on_re_us/cloned_dogs_mormon_hostage
SALT LAKE CITY - A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She may be the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave.
A paper trail of court documents and jail booking information uncovered by The Associated Press suggests 57-year-old dog-lover Bernann McKinney is Joyce McKinney, who in 1977 faced charges of unlawful imprisonment in the missionary case. She jumped bail and was never brought to justice.
Here’s Joyce McKinney and Bernann McKinney. You decide.
And this last line:
“She’s ugly as sin now,” he said. “But, sure enough, that’s her.”
Alright, you guys - writer and the quotee - very funny. Just had to flip the asshole switch, didn’t you?
I’m in Tysons Corner, Virginia killing a couple of hours. I decided to stop and visit the Apple Store. The 3G iPhone’s been out two weeks and yet there’s probably 150 people lined up outside waiting for one. It felt good to flash mine around. Yes the same one Im using to post right now.
Wordpress put out a iPhone app so you can blog and manage your blog from your iPhone. I’m in the bathroom at work right now! Yay technology!
If you go to the App Store on your iPhone to read reviews, about 99% of negative reviews are like the following:
“WTF? Shud be free!”
“A BUCK FOR THIS???”
First off, what are you people? Twelve?
Second, it makes the reviews and star ratings worthless. It’s conceivable that for a $1 or $2 program that these reviewers did actually buy the program, but I’m betting that most price bitchers have not actually used the programs that they’re whining about. If you see the reviews for a $20 program that reads, “OMGWTFBBQTOOMUCH$$$,” do you think the reviewers actually bought it? Of course not. They’re just bitching for the sake of bitching. Does it work as advertised? What did you like about it? What didn’t you like about it (besides the price, you commie).
This is what happened to my friend Stuart Montgomery’s FortuneBall. The first reviews, and the only negative ones, are from these morons who are only complaining about the price. The app’s a neat little demonstration of the accelerometer, and it’s ONLY TWO DOLLARS.
Two dollars. They’re whining about two dollars. See, I think there’s a huge problem with the iPhone 3G launch — They did it over the summer. If Apple released it during the school year, these entitled little shits would be studying for their trig exam instead of trolling reviews of all apps that have something else besides “FREE” as the cost. If you’re a parent of one of these punks you need to 1) Slap them once in a while 2) Make sure they’re working on their summer reading list, because they obviously aren’t right now 3) Buy them another Che shirt to shut them up.
I love open source software as much as the next guy. Hell, I owe my whole career to OSS. This, is just ridiculous, though. No, not everything should be free. If you want it to be free, download the SDK and make a competitor. Don’t you think that’s more constructive than spending your time “LOLDISUX” all day at the iTunes store?
Here’s a little secret for all those wanting to be Californian. Do you know why this picture is hilarious and true? No, it’s not the comments about the other parts of the U.S. It’s the fact that the creator put “(awesome)” underneath “California.” That’s what makes this such a Californian creation. It’s such a CA thing to do. There lies the humor. Bravo, sir, bravo.
If you live in Monmouth County, New Jersey, you undoubtedly have heard Basil T’s campy and moderately annoying radio commercials. It’s a dining establishment here with its own brewery on location. The reputation, I gathered from several people, was good beer, mediocre food.
Wow, mediocre is quite the understatement. Basil T’s ranks up there with really bad dining experiences I’ve had in New Jersey, and believe me, there’s plenty of crappy food here. Most bad places in this area are cheap like Cobblestone Diner, the never-mourned Olde Towne Buffet. Basil T’s manages to be crappy and expensive, thereby taking the crown of the Worst Restaurant Ever.
We went there on Friday night. It’s the usual trendy, classless, house-flipping, American-Idol watching, new money crowd. We had a margherita pizza, beet salad, broccoli rabe pasta, one beer, and a Coke. The mozzarella on the pizza was sparse. The whole thing was overcooked, which nuked whatever flavor the cheese had. Domino’s is better than that Frisbee was. At least Domino’s puts cheese on their “pizzas.” The pasta was way too firm - probably undercooked. The service wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t remarkable. The beer was ok, but certainly not worth the journey. Total price? $80 frakkin’ dollars! For bland, awful, weirdly-textured food! And those cheapskates had the nerve to charge me for the refill on the Coke!
If you have $80 to blow and you’re looking for anything tastier than food at Basil T’s let me suggest the following:
- 80 Tacos at Taco Bell on 36 in Eatontown
- 15 Sandwiches made by an angry Hispanic lady who will mess up your order at the Red Bank Wawa
- 8 bags of tree bark from the Lowe’s on 35 in Eatontown
So, in summary, Basil T’s is awful, and they totally ripped me off.
