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No idea if this is supposed to be funny. It must've occurred after the news and the 1st song by the musical guest because I'm not laughing and neither is the audience.

Labels: egg on the face

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghanistan-drone-20110410,0,2818134,full.story

Labels: disaster, egg on the face, lotd

I had a pretty weird dream. And no, there was not the girl in it.

We were in Hawaii and we were going to run a 5K, 10K, half-marathon, or some such running event for charity. I decided to do it naked and dropped trou immediately.

We showed up hours early. I was in my birthday suit with the number bib and asian pointy hat to cover up my modesty. We wait for the rest of the people to show up. No one particularly notices that I am naked. As people start arriving, I begin to get worried about being naked.

What I thought would be only a few dozen runners quickly turns into several hundred. I try to hide. I find places in buildings to squat down and not show my dolphin. Of course, then I end up in some school classroom with a dozen ladies who take no notice of my dolphin. Embarrassing or humiliating?

When the run starts, I'm running the other way. Freud would have a field day.

Labels: dreams, egg on the face

Best story from the vacation...

Wednesday night before Thanksgiving we make it into Town, Waikiki, to see the Bob. We're also hungry, so after he closes up shop at the Mall, we go out in search of food.

"We're gonna go to that Korean barbeque joint next to the strip club."

And we're off. Two cars looking for that Korean joint by the nudie bar. The car I'm in stops at the first Korean joint, nudie bar combo we pass. There's Yakuza hanging out front. This must be the place! In we go.

"Table for 15." "Right, away!"

"Water." "Here you go!"

"What's this button?" "Summon you waiter!"

Five minutes pass.

"Should we order or should we wait some more."

"How many Korean joints next to nudie bars are there in Honolulu?" "This HAS GOT to be the place, right?"

*BRRRRIINNNGG*

"Where you guys?" "We're at the Korean joint next to the nudie bar."

"No you're not. We are." "No. We are."

Sorry, Yakuza Korean grille, we're at the wrong place.

We're in the car and drive one more block over. Here's the Korean joint next to the strip club. Who knew?

But look at this picture. It says volumes about how happy we were to eat yakinuku.

Labels: egg on the face, ha ha, Hawaii, picture, sights seen, tall tales, vacation

I sent in my latest Netflix DVD yesterday and remembered that I have only a couple of movies in my queue. I decided to fill it out to the minimum 6 movies. Hitting up the Netflix site I am greeted with all their recommendations. I find some movies look interesting. I like the fact that the genres and categories it shows me are super specifc. I hate the fact that the major action you can do with each recommendation is to instantly stream a movie.

Listen, Netflix, you know that I am on the cheapest plan and that plan limits my streaming to one movie. Why would I want to stream when I just want to add DVDs to my queue? I just want DVDs. Two a month if I can watch them.

So I have to click on the movie title to get the "add to queue" feature back. Too many clicks. I may have to just cancel.

Labels: egg on the face

Are you tired of the April Fool's jokes on the internet yet?

Google? Been there. Done that.
Slashdot? Yawn.
Youtube? Flwarthe!

Yup, boring. With the world as crazy as it is today, those April Fool's jokes fit right in, and you can't tell if it's a joke or not. Plus, the world today is a joke. We're just fools inhabiting it.

Labels: egg on the face

During our snow-mageden, I put new strings on my Epiphone ES-335 and started playing some songs. Most likely it was the boredom, but it was also because of the Blue Hearts that I restrung her. I most definitely wanted to play "Owaranai Utai" and "Linda! Linda!" yet I really want to play the sweet, trembling tones of surf music again.

Now I'm looking at getting a new guitar. Pure Fender. A Jaguar. Crap. I'll have to wait for the tax refund.

Anyway, I've spent part of the day researching the Jaguar. Yes. I want one. But don't those G&L look great? My favorite guitarist, Jerry Cantrell, is a devotee. Plus, you can't go wrong with a Leo Fender guitar telecaster. Mmm. My favorite style. I should string her up -- the candy red Tele. She was my original surf guitar not really suited for it but still shimmery tone and all.

But to the point of this post. I went into a music shop. You've got to be an eddie van halen to go into one. There's the music staff. They look at you and wonder if you've got the tone. Do you have what it takes to use the axe your about to buy? I sure don't. I played the jaguar for a bit in the back behind the amps unplugged. I like the feel. The music shop vibe I don't like so much. Too much pressure. Thank kami-sama for the internet.

Labels: egg on the face, shredtastic, the hammer of the gods

What's the etiquette for when you enter a bathroom stall as someone leaves? Do you make a comment? Do you act offended? Or do you suck it up and hold your snarkiness in, because you're about to add to the atmosphere?

Just wondering. (I was the one leaving, and another came in immediately as I walked out the stall.)

Labels: egg on the face, just asking

I don't quite know how to explain what's wrong with this venn diagram. What's the circle on the right supposed to represent? Why does the box that encapsulates it all have two labels? What's the junction supposed to represent when the circle doesn't really have anything? Hunh?

It's f'ed up. Bah. And I thought xkcd was smarter than this.

Labels: egg on the face, games people play, oops, review

Last day of August. After eight months, lots of eating of food, beer, hot dogs, burgers, slacking of the bike riding, and just lazing about on the couch, it's 202.6 lbs is what I weigh. Naked. First thing in the morning. That probably translates to 205 lbs during the day.

It must come down.

There are 122 days left in the year. I'm bringing it down. Target goal 185. ONE. EIGHT. FIVE.

The goal is to lose 20 lbs in 17.4 weeks, 0.16 lbs a day or 1.14 lbs a week.

Possible? Yes.

I just have to stick with it. Keep focused. Exercise. Eat lighter. Perhaps do the !! diet. Here we go.

Labels: egg on the face

"The Yankees are used to friendly crowds at Camden Yards, where the Orioles have been also-rans for more than a decade. But this time the park was stuffed with 48,607 boisterous fans, most of them wearing orange and black. They delighted in Sabathia’s struggles."

"New Stars Fizzle as the Yankees Absorb a Beating" NYTimes 4-7-09

Labels: Baltimore Orioles, baseball, egg on the face, qotd, sports

Oops. "Let the Right One In" has newish translation for the DVD/BluRay release. They're not the same as the English theatrical release. They are almost comical in their translation, "All your bases belong to us," style. They're gonna need fansubs, but done right.

On a side note, the English dub was terrible. We switched to the subtitles almost immediately. You couldn't take the kid seriously. Who are these guys doing the US release? Couldn't they have gotten some decent US anime voice dubbers to work through the emotions in the English dub?

Reading about this, I think it's best to get a import DVD and watch it on a region free player.

Labels: egg on the face, ha ha

Michael Phelps must be praising kami-sama for the start of baseball season and Alex Rodriguez. Ooops.

Labels: egg on the face, ha ha, oops

Choices made by business leaders yesterday affects what is happening today. These leaders only see the present and the near future, but don't imagine anything long term. They do craft business plans for that but honestly does it make sense that ten, fifteen, twenty years these plans all go exceedingly well? Probably not, so they innovate to make things work out. Yet, that innovation is only helpful for the present, and like a butterfly flapping its wings in China, you can never predict the repercussions of innovation will spread.

The pension plan was meant to ensure that the workers of a company was guaranteed a level of income well he retired. Health plans were also provided by the business leaders. These benefits to the worker were meant to stave of some form of social care and socialism by the government. It forced the business to be the ones granting workers benefits. The business leaders smiled because it weakened the worker's leverage. They are now dependent on the benevolence of the business leader who can hire or fire your and provide the benefits.

Yet, these obligations are too generous, and the business leader doesn't want to spend money on them. It makes them unprofitable.

Years ago, the Democratic president wanted to provide universal health care to the US. It was business leaders who didn't want to push for it. "We will end up losing money to ne'er do wells who don't work for us," they reasoned. Now they are coming to the government because they can't afford paying obligations that could've been ameliorated by universal health care. Couldn't these business leaders foresee that the obligations would've been spread around to every business and that their costs would've come down? Could they not see that having the burden of paying health care costs is making them uncompetitive with foreign companies who have their workers subsidized by government providing benefits? Are these business leaders smart?

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact

Labels: egg on the face, lotd, the market

If it didn't scare you, it made you laugh. The Bush Presidency.

Labels: egg on the face, ha ha, wankers

"My reputation grows with every failure."

George Bernard Shaw

Labels: egg on the face, qotd

The best-laid plans of mice and men
Go oft awry

Robert Burns, "To a Mouse"

Labels: egg on the face, qotd

"I am absolutely certain that Connecticut's going to have the good sense to send Joe Lieberman back to the United States Senate."

Sen. Obama (D-Ill.) circa election 2006

Labels: egg on the face, John McCain is unfit for the presidency, qotd, wankers, WTF

“I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.”

Alan Greenspan, Former Chief of the Federal Reserve

Labels: commerce, egg on the face, oops, qotd, the market, wankers

I have probably linked to this already. But you can't get enough of this one. So prescient. So true. And yet when it was written a lot of that stuff was tongue in cheek. I can't believe how true it became. So sad. How fucking sad! We are a poorer nation for having President Fucktard, George Bush, as our leader. What a fucking fucktard.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784

Labels: egg on the face, lotd, wankers