Links of the day 2/25/05

The Apprentice Game - Looks like Dilbert is as short as the series should have been
Nanaca Crash - Best was 1961.27m
Road Kill Candy Angers Animal Rights Activists - You want that in a pita?
3m Security Glass Ad - Shit, where's my c4?
Snow Falling - Shit that sucks
Balance and Beyond Watch the balance one... kinda cool
Ebay: Ducktato
Foxtrot and Foxtrot

Sharing cell phone minutes

I ask you, is it really "sharing" when she uses 500 minutes and I use 100 out of 500 minutes?
Yes you read that right, it means that I'm paying for the extra minutes that she uses at $.45 a minute.

I'm a Christian, deal with it.

Okay, so I’m a Christian. I’ll say it again. I’m a Christian. Now you already have a picture in your mind as to who I am and what I believe and what I stand for right? Well, I can tell you that you are probably right on most fronts. However I’m not what you would call the typical Christian. That is close minded and bible thumping hypocrite. Now I am probably a hypocrite sometimes, I’m not going to deny that. I’ve said things and done the opposite before. I think we all do at some point. There are those moments of judgment where you decide to do the wrong thing for what ever reason. However when it comes to gays and such I have a problem with fellow “Christians”

You see there was this episode of Wife Swap. A very shitty show that comes on after Alias. In this show they took a black mother married to a white man and put her in a house with two mothers. Yep they took a bible thumping Republican black woman and placed her in a liberal lesbian home. You would think that hilarity ensued right? Well, you would be wrong. In fact by the end of the show I was ashamed of the “Christian” woman because, while she was standing for her “beliefs”, she was creating a bad name for the rest of us. At one point she flat out attacked the lesbians and told them that they were doing it just to “shack up” with one another and that at any time they could stop pretending to be gay. Now I’m not one to draw a distinction between life style and choice and open and closed minded, so I won’t. I will however say that being “open minded” not mean that I should agree with what everyone is doing. If that were the case then people could do whatever they wanted and call it a life style or better yet just how they feel about things and everyone would have to agree with it because we all need to be open minded.

On an episode of The Real Gilligan’s island (again a really bad show) one of the “Howell’s” decided to take the leap from gay to bestiality. That is, if we let gays get married then next you see people wanting to marry their pets. She said “snake”, I’m sure it was to draw a reference to Adam & Eve, but whatever….

So, where and I going with all of this? I don’t know. I see an article like the one talking about how Christian Fundamentalists are attacking Shrek 2 because of some gay type references it and I just want to find a rock and hide under it. My wife always like to point out how “Christians” are acting and I have to take offense to it every time because I associate myself with being a Christian. I often find myself apologizing for the rest of them or saying how they are not really being “Christian” in the full sense of the word and I also have to point out that everyone is human so mistakes will be made.

I just wonder why it is that when you claim that you are a Christian that several things seems to happen.

1) You are the authority for all other Christians.

2) Anything that you do will be held to a higher standard than say a Buddhist or Muslim.

3) Everything you disagree with suddenly becomes national news.

4) When sharing your personal beliefs it becomes an attack

5) You’re a Holier than thou asshole.

All I can say is that Christians are the worst to other Christians and seem to be really bad when it comes to talking to anyone who is not like minded. Like mice they seem to be the only type of people who will eat their own kind. I claim to be a Christian. I stand by that fact. I am not infallible and I am not above anyone else. In fact I believe that to be a true Christian you need to actually be a servant. I cannot hold anyone up to my ruler and tell them that they don’t measure up. All I can do is disagree with their actions and continue to treat them like the human beings that they truly are.

Shrek 2 has cross dressing in it. Spongebob sang a song that has been associated with gays. The purple telitubby has a triangle in his head so he’s obviously gay. Bert and Ernie shared an apt and bathtub together so they must be gay, I mean who would live with another man for that long and suddenly not want to drop the soap in front of him? Aladdin had that scene in it that told the tiger to take off his clothes. Little mermaid’s video cover had a penis drawn into the castle if you closed one eye and turned it upside down and viewed with only full moon light. Disney doesn’t hire any straight animators only gays. Lesbian bars are a sea of sinners and are all going hell. It’s statements like these that disturb me. If you don’t want you kids to watch it, then find don’t let them watch it. Don’t tell the rest of the world what you don’t let your kids see. We don’t care.

I grew up in an over protective home. My parents wouldn’t let me watch He-man for some reason. I think it’s because it had skeletor or that Orko was a sorcerer or something. Therefore I missed out on a lot of things in life and I grew up thinking in a destructive manor that has caused issues in my life. I was always taught to hate the sin and love the sinner, and then I shown to hate the sin and the sinner. It never made sense to me. So now I don’t judge people based on their sins. I find out about them before I pass judgment on them. Often times I hate someone not because of who they represent (gay, Christian, Muslim) it’s because they are a bitch or an asshole. If you want to think otherwise, fine. If you shelter you kids. They will just rebel all the more when they are finally set free. You can’t control them forever. I say let me be exposed to things that they normally shouldn’t be and then discuss it with them. Let them figure it out on their own and don’t let them just think something is the way it is just because you say so.

Anyway… back you your regularly scheduled life.

Links of the days (2/23 - 2/24)

Gizoogle - Check out the summary of site and stuff. Oh and hit translate and it will give you world as only snoop could.
Elephant Dung Paper And you thought all paper was shit
Man attacked trooper with a chain saw - Must not have been very sharp.
Anti-gay religious group targets Shrek 2 - Did you ever find bugs bunny attractive when dressed up and played a girl bunny? Neither did I, I was just asking.
Florida prosecutor arrested after running naked into wrong car - Oops, I love the photo they used for the article.
Only the dog knows for sure
Boeing's 747 Large Cargo Freighter Dev Plan - Fucking cool the way that they can change the inside like that.
ebay: Landspeeder for sale - I love the bumper sticker "My kid light-sabered your honor student at Jedi Academy
ebay: Wierd star wars one of a kind cast - I wonder if Lucas knows about this.
Play time: Tetris 1-d - Still working on my highscore
Chicken Diapers - Um... yeah
Attention shoppers: Bored College Kids Competing in Asile 6 - Sounds like a perfect thing for Game night
Artist Plans Titanic Iceberg stunt - Not sure that's really art.
That's because I roll d20s
Bad ass knife block
On edge - I met that guy

Links of the day 2/22

Mission: McDonald's Bathroom atendant - All kinds of foreiners, Russian, Japanese, New Jersey.
Camer-Mounted Spectacles May restore site - EU - Yes, but do they look like a banana clip on your face?
Video Game Rage - I've done my share of dying in quake... but damn I didn't take it that bad
Ohio state president pu on Ebay - People will by anything on ebay.
Fox Trot - Yes, but does he get any travel powers?
Family of Peru 'Mermaid' Fed up with Freak show - FOllow up to a previous link of the day. My question is, then why did you go on TV?

COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT . . . .

ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: Thanks..I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about buying a computer.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou.
ABBOTT: Your computer?
COSTELLO: I don't own a computer.I want to buy one.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou.
ABBOTT: What about Windows?
COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?
ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?
COSTELLO: I don't know. What will I see when I look in the windows?
ABBOTT: Wallpaper.
COSTELLO: Never mind the windows.I need a computer and software.
ABBOTT: Software for Windows?
COSTELLO: No. On the computer!I need something I can use to write proposals,track expenses and run my business. What have you got?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?
ABBOTT: I just did.
COSTELLO: You just did what?
ABBOTT: Recommend something.
COSTELLO: You recommended something?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: For my office?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!
ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.
COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK, lets just say I'm sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?
ABBOTT: Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: Word in Office.
COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?
ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue "W".
COSTELLO: I'm going to click your blue "w" if you don't start with some straight answers. OK, forget that. Can I watch movies on the Internet?
ABBOTT: Yes, you want Real One.
COSTELLO: Maybe a real one, maybe a cartoon. What I watch is none of your business. Just tell me what I need!
ABBOTT: Real One.
COSTELLO: If it's a long movie I also want to see reel 2, 3 & 4. Can I watch them?
ABBOTT: Of course.
COSTELLO: Great! With what?
ABBOTT: Real One.
COSTELLO: OK, I'm at my computer and I want to watch a movie. What do I do?
ABBOTT: You click the blue "1".
COSTELLO: I click the blue one what?
ABBOTT: The blue "1".
COSTELLO: Is that different from the blue w?
ABBOTT: The blue "1" is Real One and the blue "W" is Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows..
COSTELLO: But there's three words in "office for windows"!
ABBOTT: No, just one. But it's the most popular Word in the world.
COSTELLO: It is?
ABBOTT: Yes, but to be fair, there aren't many other Words left. It pretty much wiped out all the other Words out there.
COSTELLO: And that word is real one?
ABBOTT: Real One has nothing to do with Word. Real One isn't even
part of Office.
COSTELLO: STOP! Don't start that again. What about financial bookkeeping? You have anything I can track my money with?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: That's right. What do you have?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?
ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer
COSTELLO: What's bundled with my computer?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?
ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.
COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?
ABBOTT: One copy.
COSTELLO: Isn't it illegal to copy money?
ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy money.
COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?
ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT!

A FEW DAYS LATER . .
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?

ABBOTT: Click on "START"..........

Holy shit is that hail? In Arizona?

Walking the hallowed halls of work I came across two people talking about the weather this past weekend. The guy was talking to a woman and telling her of the sea of white that he had found in his back yard. Upon further examination he discovered that it was hail. Now here in Tucson hail is not out of the question. Hell we had snow on Easter once. However the lady responded to the man with "hail? In Arizona?" Which got me thinking... how long has this person been here? I mean I've only been at this job for 8 months... so I don' t know when she got here... but she didn't say "Hail? In Tucson?" she added Arizona. Now Arizona has a wide climate. You have the desert, and then the mountain areas. North of Phoenix and Flagstaff gets down right freezing. We have skiing for crying out loud in Purgatory and places in Flagstaff. There's even a place called snow bowl which has snow every year. If you want to get closer to Tucson, there's mount lemon which has snow every year as well. I went sledding there last year.
So for someone to be surprised by hail is a mystery to me. I hope for the teller and tellee that they discover the "other" parts of Arizona someday and find that, yes there can be hail and snow in Arizona.

Links from the weekend

New Jersey sues Blockbuster over "no more late fees" - Yeah I didn't believe them either
Rays to nab nuclear smugglers - That's what they said about x-rays.
Ebay: The Right to tell me what to do with my hair - Just another example of how to make a buck
Ebay: 1998 Honda:Accord WILD LXI - Yes, but you can't drive it. It's like modding your pc case and you can't use it
Ebay: Tim Horton's Trays/Cup Holder - For those that want to sound proof a room or just carry drinks
Diners Enjoy buffet dinner in the buff - Remember fat people are harder to kidnap
Who do you trust more: G.I. Joe or A.I. Joe? - Making science fiction a reality. I wonder if that chick that sued the Wachoskis will sue the gov'ment.
Mission Op: Tip over Porta Potty - Glad to see we're looking for Terrorists
Dr. Fun
Dilbert
The Funny Papers - Knock Knock
Play time - Yeah, I couldn't even get around the track
Magical Trevor 2 - For those that don't lock their machines :)
Hair Raising - For you Bill lovers
Asstastic Racing - Don't you usually have to boil that first?
Smart Glass - Holy crap that's brilliant
Sex hungry rocahes lured to death - Is PETA going to get mad?
Russian scientists who inveted hangover cure make pill that keeps you drunk - Hang over, no! I'm still drunk