Da foosball

Can someone explain to me why football is the biggest sport in the US? It doesn't really make all that much sense to me. Americans have low attention spans, yet football is so slow. So what keeps them watching? I also don't get how a country that is so afraid of homersexuals can watching men wear the tightest pants conceivable, and then watch them all smack each other on the ass.

It's a stupid sport. STUPID.

Better late than Never

In a couple days it'll be 2008. Maybe the new year will be the year that I finally get my fat ass in shape. Maybe the new year will see Deb get preggers. Maybe the new year will be the best year of my career so far. Maybe this year we'll be able to finish all the renos in our condo. Maybe this year I'll be able to find a fucking Wii!

Maybe...

The Cleanest Button

I don't like buttons. Here's why:

• Zippers are stronger.
• Zippers are easier to undo quickly.
• "Buttons" is a bad cat name.
• It's also a bad pop song.
• I was at war with a button today without knowing it.

Let me explain.

On Christmas morning there was a lot of laundry to do so after opening our presents we put a load on. It was an uneventful load until the middle of the spin cycle when a horribly loud, high-pitched scraping sound filled the house. Luckily the spin cycle was almost over so we pulled the still-wet clothes from the washing machine and started drying them while I had haunting visions of Boxing Day shopping for a washer/dryer combo.

The next day I woke up and remembered the washing machine. I was determined that I was not going to let some problem get the best of me without at least trying to diagnose what caused it. So, after visiting whirlpoolparts.ca and printing the complete exploded parts diagrams for our model I grabbed my tools and started dismantling the washing machine. At first it was a tough puzzle: the dryer hose was in such an inaccessible location that I couldn't figure out how it was installed. The side panel had one screw that was in an impossible-to-access location. The top seemed to not have any accessible screws. All problems had easy solutions that I only discovered after devising my own inferior approaches. The dryer hose was easily reachable after opening the large service panel. The side panel screw was in-your-face accessible after removing the front panel. The top was held on by two giant retaining clips.

Once I had the panels all off I found the three bolts holding the motor, gearbox, clutch and water pump (sounds like a car, doesn't it?). Armed with my socket set I removed the three bolts and everything came apart. I removed the basket and carried the motor et al. out to the garage for some serious surgery. At this point the machine looked like a floating dryer with a supporting frame below.

In the garage I was pleasantly surprised to find the whole assembly was held together with just retaining clips. I removed two and the gearbox fell off. I removed two more and the water pump fell off. I spun the motor's shaft and it felt like a brand new motor. I turned the gearbox and it turned with ease. Neither made a sound so I moved on to the water pump. I couldn't grip it to turn so I pushed it back on the motor and spun the motor in reverse. The unit spun and then I heard a snapping sound and a rather large black piece came out of the water pump. Great, I thought I had broken the water pump. However, looking closer at the piece that came out changed everything. It was a button, and it had scuff marks on it where it was scraping against the impeller. Holy crap, I had fixed the washing machine.

After announcing this most excellent discovery to Lori I proceeded to re-assemble the motor, gearbox and water pump and put the machine back together, this time making full use of the proper assembly procedures I had discovered during the disassembly. I took some time to clean everything as there was a considerable amount of "washer gunk" that built up over the years. Everything went back together and when I started it up it ran perfectly with no horrible sound.

I asked Lori about the button and she remembered it had come off a jacket she washed a couple days ago. I'm surprised it took that long to cause a problem.

It Be Christmas

Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips, and Advice on First-Year Maintenance

I require this book.

Ne(rd)w Years Eve

Provided there aren't any other plans going on, I was thinking we could do something at my place. I guess you guys are going to be expecting cheese as usual, since I imagine I'm under threat of assault to my lower extremeties if I don't provide. :P (I'm looking at you, Russ.) I'd imagine some dinner would be involved as well.

So post here if you're interested about what's going on so we can start to plan.

PS: if a Wii happens to come over with one of you guys, I won't object.
PPS: dumb jokes re: the above PS means nofoodforyou™

I could take 19 5 year olds in a fight

19

Edited by Steve: Fixed the URL.

Negligent Homicide

I swear to god, if I ever have kids I'm keeping them in a box for the first 15 years of their life.

http://www.ronwilliams.org/Health/negligent-homicide.html

this guy is right on the money.

Another one

I had to post this. It seems staged, but it's still hilarious.

They're Master Debaters

Who doesn't love National Public Radio? This is from the last election, but still applies.

Lori's Birthday

Lori's birthday is coming up next Wednesday so instead of waiting until the following weekend to do something we're going to go out to dinner this Saturday, December 1st. The Swiss Chalet here in Langley was recently converted into the Coza Tuscan Grill and it's supposed to be really good. Who's up for some Italian food?

Yoga Noogie!!

There's money in them thar weeds

Quick, look around your yard and find something you know you could never sell, let alone make a living by. Now, as a joke, create a website to do just that. Sound like a waste of time? People will come knocking if you're selling tumbleweeds.

OLP

So I just finished listening to Naveed and I must say, OLP's old stuff is SO much better than their more recent albums. In fact, I don't think that's just my opinion. I think it's a fact and anyone who disputes this fact probably denies the holocaust happened.

Think about it.

My Top 5

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4
3
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Crayon Physics

We need to add some kind of link list that saves us from having to create new posts just to post a link. Every time I create a post just to share a link it seems like a waste.

But enough about my wants, I'm posting because I just watched a video about a yet-to-be-released game called Crayon Physics Deluxe and I already want it. Remember the game "The Incredible Machine"? Crayon Physics Deluxe is the same idea but with a twist: you draw your own objects and the game will figure out how they behave. It's what Spore would be if it were imagined by a kid. Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best ones (I'm talking to you, Tetris).

Update, 2 minutes later: Its inferior precursor, Crayon Physics, is already available to download. It's nowhere as cool as the Deluxe one shown in the video though.

Damn right!

Clicky the linky!

This is just for you Budday:

Surveys and Tasers and Elections, oh my!

The phone rang. Apparently the entire province of Ontario wanted to talk to me - at least that's what the caller ID said. I was curious who it was so I picked up.

"Hello I'm <someone> from <some company I forget>. Would you like to participate in a 10-minute survey on topics concerning British Columbians?"

"Alright", I said.

Lori wasn't home and I was just going to warm something up in the microwave so I had time to kill. I figured it'd be worthwhile since I estimate my answers represent probably 1,000 opinions. Over the course of the survey I was asked all sorts of questions concerning general transportation, the Port Mann bridge expansion, tasers (mentioning Robert Dziekanski specifically), provincial elections, federal elections, women-only election ridings, privatizing government, the RCMP, the selling and leasing back of government buildings, Indian land claim settlements and BC Hydro. There were probably a few more that I forget but those illustrate the general nature of the survey.

During the survey I could tell the client paying for the survey had some obvious biases. For example, most of the transportation questions may as well have been written by a Greenpeace activist who only rides public transit and has never held a real job or owned a car. I countered by strongly agreeing that the Port Mann needs to be expanded and that public transportation is not the holy grail the tree-huggers keep insisting it is.

After the survey I got my warm food and headed upstairs to look up some of the issues it raised that I was not aware of. About half an hour later the phone rang again.

"UNKNOWN NAME 866-751-1872"

I thought it was odd that an 866 number was calling me so I picked up.

"Hello, we're conducting a survey on topics concerning Canadians. Could I speak to a person in the household 18 years or older?"

Well, isn't this odd. I thought that maybe the first company screwed up and called me again but the number was too different.

"That's me" I answered.

I was eating, so I didn't take kindly to being interrupted but I had to find out if this was the same survey or just a weird coincidence. It could've been the same with its large overlap of topics but it had some oddball ones thrown in for good measure: federal elections, the RCMP, window and door caulking, tasers (also mentioning Robert Dziekanski), Brian Mulroney and Karlheinz Schreiber, alcohol, leaded Chinese toys and the obligatory household income question. The questions were also worded much differently.

"On behalf of Ipsos Reid, thank-you for participating". A-ha! That was not the same company as the first one. It seemed as though one survey was paid for by a political party currently holding office and the other one was paid for by their opposition. It made me laugh that if that were the case I could've given two completely different answers thereby either supporting both or opposing both - but I didn't. They both got the same, boring answers.

If the Port Mann bridge gets twinned, the government doesn't privatize its environmental work, Canada pays closer attention to toy safety and the police end their "Tase Everyone" campaign, I will take sole credit.

Update, Nov 26: As John Wright commented below, here's the story "starting tomorrow" quoting the Ipsos Reid survey: Canadians split on Taser moratorium. It even mentions Mr. Wright by name so I believe his comments below are genuine.

Update, Nov 26: Google News found me a story published today quoting the survey: Liberals narrowing gap with Tories: poll.

Aquilini Family

Dont think ive forgotten about you. I want my Frosted Malt!

24: the unaired 1994 pilot

Jetta stories: Mechanic For A Day...Or Two (part 2)

(This is part two. Part one can be found here)

On Sunday I was up at nine, elated to see the sun shining in the window. Once outside I noticed just how hard it was to work in the low light of an overcast, rainy afternoon the day before compared to the bright sun of today. It was going to be a good day.

I started by draining the water from the flush which took no time at all since I knew each step intimately. Then I dried out the inside of the block and detached and cleaned out the coolant reservoir so that no remaining water or leftover dirt was to be found. I reinstalled the thermostat, carefully paying close attention to its direction and alignment, and bolted on its cover using my IKEA wrench.

Once that was done I moved on to the coolant flange. It was another two bolts but this time they were both readily accessible. I removed both of them with ease and was surprised to find that one was a bolt and one was a nut. I thought that was weird until I saw the reason the dealer wanted $250 to do this job: a metal coolant line was running right over one of the bolts and was bolted directly to the flange. If the hose was rubber this would've been a moot point but it was metal and wrapped around the block to the thermostat and I didn't know what type of seal it used so I was hesitant to disconnect it. Lori walked out and was seeing how things were going so I showed her the existing flange and the new one and... wait, this didn't look right. The new flange was different from the existing one. The dealer gave me the flange for a slightly different engine configuration which promptly ended the flange replacement job.

After this disappointment I needed some success so I started on the spark plug replacement. I knew this job should go fairly smoothly as I could see all four plug boots and they seemed to be fairly accessible. The first plug lived up to this and was replaced in a few minutes. The remaining three were somewhat harder to get out but I eventually found the awkward positions to contort into to manipulate the boots and the job was done. The old plugs were completely black which told me the fuel mixture is too rich and supported my O2 sensor diagnosis.

For another cheap success I replaced the air filter too.

To finsh off the day I hooked all the hoses back up and refilled the coolant with new stuff. After following the Haynes manual for refilling I headed up to Cobs for bread while watching the thermostat more closely than the road. The temperature headed up to 90 degrees and stayed there right in the middle like it should.

After one weekend the car only got new plugs, a new air filter and a coolant flush. Now I know why shops charge what they do. However, doing thee work myself forced me to learn a lot about the car and saved me money at the same time.

What's next? I did nothing for the misfiring so that still needs to be addressed. I ordered an OBD-II reader from eBay and I have the instructions to test the O2 sensor with a multimeter so I'm going to do that next. I'll also talk to the dealer about a method for replacing the coolant flange - I may do it myself another time once I get the right flange and know how to remove and reinstall the metal coolant pipe. The saga continues...

Jetta stories: Mechanic For A Day...Or Two (part 1)

This weekend I discovered that it's somewhat dangerous owning tools. On one hand, they give you many mechanical advantages that the human body is just not built to deliver. On the other hand, they give you a false sense of knowing how to take on jobs that require them.

Let me back up for a sec. Two weeks ago our car started behaving badly. Maybe "badly" is not strong enough. It started misfiring when idling and it was not at all subtle about it. Looking back I should have clued in that it had been trying to tell me something for a while: gas mileage was getting progressively worse to the point that my Mach 1 burned less; at a long red light I could start to smell gas; on rare occasions when starting it'd go from zero to 1000 RPM and then back down to zero just as fast; the check engine light had been on for the better part of six months. I know what you're thinking - it's the same as I'm thinking while writing this and it rhymes with "dumbass".

The misfires happened on the way to work which prompted a quick diagnoses from me while riding shotgun: "Honey cut it out, that's hard on the car!" I don't remember the rest of that day.

When I finally came to, I decided, through a meticulous diagnoses process consisting of Google and my Haynes manual, the O2 sensor was to blame. However I wasn't sure enough to just act on it so I took the car to the VW dealer last Monday for a routine wallet raping and bonus diagnostic check.

I was at work when I received the call: "There are many problems..." They said the main problem was a vacuum leak which was causing bad O2 readings which was causing the misfiring. However, during the one-sided conversation I was sure the guy was making up names for parts that need to be replaced. What's a 'coolant flange' anyway and why would it cost $250? After turning down all the quoted work I hung up and did more research. It was then that I decided I could do much of the work myself. How hard could a coolant flush and flange replacement be?

I showed up at the dealer the next day and got the parts I needed. Standard rectangular air filter? Check. Special German-made pre-gapped spark plugs? Check. Special German-made Audi/VW coolant with big warnings against using the domestic green stuff? Check. Real-life not-making-this-up coolant flange with o-rings? Check. Vacuum hose? Not quite. They said the technician that did the diagnostic replaced the vacuum hose on the spot so I didn't need it. I found it hard to believe that the main problem was a free fix but the secondary problems were extensive. Besides, the car seemed to run worse than before I took it in.

The rest of the week was uneventful and the weather was really nice every day so when Saturday rolled around and I woke up to the sound of rain I should have realized that auto repair just isn't in my deck of cards. But who was I to go this far and not actually do anything?

I waited until the afternoon to see if the rain would stop but it just kept pouring. At around 2:00 I nosed the car into the garage door and started at it. I like to tackle the hardest jobs first so the work gets progressively easier as I go. In this case that meant the coolant flush and flange replacement. I started by draining the radiator which was so easy I began praising Germans and their intelligent engineering. This turned out to be a premature celebration.

The next step is to drain the block which required the removal of a clamped-on hose without cutting or ripping it apart. It's those minor details that can really ruin a good day. I thought I was hooped because for all I knew the hoses had been clamped in the same place for six years and weren't going to be easily coaxed off. After developing a technique for removing spring-loaded clamps and performing some very technical hose-jiggling, the hose released its grip and started sliding off. Disaster averted.

I learned that a thorough flush requires the block and heater core to be flushed as well. The heater core is easy since it's part of the whole system but the block has a major annoyance in the way that needs to be removed: the thermostat. "The what? Oh crap, I didn't sign up for this!" It felt like I was at the entrance to a rabbit hole and I had no idea how deep it went. Dutifully, I forged ahead and after finding the thermostat (you know you shouldn't be removing a part when you don't know where it is) I broke out my socket set and started disassembling. The first bolt came out easy but I wouldn't be writing this if the second one wasn't the hardest bolt to access. Due to the alternator and air conditioning pump being in the way it took me an hour and some harried searching through my garage looking for a magic tool I didn't think I had. But I did! Thanks to IKEA furniture and my insistence of keeping every tool that comes with them I had the exact box wrench I needed. I couldn't believe my good fortune. Ten minutes later I had the second bolt off and the thermostat was out.

Now I was ready for the flush so I rolled the car back, hooked up the garden hose to the radiator and flushed that sucker until the only thing coming out was clear water. Than I flushed it some more for good measure. It took me so long to get to this point that I wasn't going to do a half-assed job of it. At this point I was losing light so I put the hood down and packed things up for the night.

Come back tomorrow for the exciting conclusion.

The Condom Song

The greatest safe sex video ever! Fast Forward to 5:42 in. WOW!

Microwave Fun

This may just be the greatest website ever

Broken

I fell down the stairs backwards and broke my ass. Okay, maybe not "broke" but the sucker hurts. SO a note to RJ and anyone else who might be pregnant, don't miss steps. The big belly gets in the way of your normal visual path, so you might wanna hang on for dear life.

Baby is fine. I felt kicking right away after I got back up. I think the little booba thinks I was on a rollercoaster (with all the screaming and banging around) So I'm just gonna roll with that one. LOL.

Peace out my nerds

GST

I'm testing an add-on I installed on Firefox called ScribeFox. It allows me to make a blog post without having to go to blogger, login and make my post. It's pretty slick.

So the GST is dropping down to 5% starting january 1. SWEET

Powered by ScribeFire.

Full Moon

There's a full moon tonight and the sky is completely clear. In case you missed it, I took a picture.

XKCD

I discovered XKCD tonight after reading this hilarious one (note: hilarious only to database geeks). I had heard about it before but tonight I went through some of the past comics. There are some real gems in there.

Bowling Saturday?

Anyone up for bowling this Saturday? 5-pin or 10-pin is fine.

Halloween Plans

Hey does anyone have any plans for Halloween or the weekend before? Morgan and i went out and got costumes but don't really have anywhere to wear them!! We were gonna go to a friend of Morgan's but they decided to have their party a week early and where already going to a wedding (and its my b-day).

We're NERDY!

I love you guys, just wanted ya'll to know.

And I'm 6 months preggers
HOLY CRAP!


KISSES

Calling All Nerds

Could've done it on facebook but I felt like going to the blog. Remove this later if you like!

It's my birthday this weekend, Saturday to be exact. Is everyone busy this weekend with family stuff for our Canuck Thanksgiving or are peeps free? Dinner out could be on the table and our little blog group is all invited of course. Get ahold of me here or somehow and let me know!

PS: previous post? I swore it read "Batwomb."

Bafwomb

So here it is, biznitches!

When 2 job offers is NOT a good thing

So I was offered a great job at the Vancouver Olympic Committee on monday. Sweet! But FUCK! (butt fuck???) I was also offered another great job at Raymond James today. Both have pros and cons. Major ones: VANOC is only till 2010, but it's interesting work. Raymond James is a senior role that'll get me into management, but the hours are 7am to 3pm. DAMMIT! I hate having to choose. Working for the olympics would be fucking kick ass, but I'll be just about 30 when it ends... and most likely have a baby. Do I really want to be jobless then? By that time I could potentially be a manager at Raymond James, making some good green and telling people what to do (maybe even telling them they're fired? mwaaahahaha!)

I should be ridiculously happy that I got 2 offers (and I am) but I'm also quite sad because in the end I have to say no to one of the offers.

In fact, I've already accepted one position, so the other one is no :( Sorry Vanoc...

Bruce Allen is not a racist!

For those of you not in the know, People are getting their knickers in a bunch over comments made by Bruce Allen on his CKNW editorial show on Sept. 13 (look it up, I'm too lazy to link to it.) It's quite clear that he's not being a racist in this commentary, but instead stating his opinion about how people come to this country and decide that they don't want to follow our rules and laws. This isn't racist! What's wrong with telling people to obey the laws of this country?? Don't approve of your daughter's husband? fair enough... but don't kill her! Don't like the fact that you can't drive your crappy honda 150km/h on knight st? Fine! But that doesn't mean you actually SHOULD.

I just don't have the energy for a good long-winded rant right now.

Dont Taze Me Bro

The last minute is gold. The first three change it from horrible police brutality to hilarity.

Work Stuff

Alright Nick here ya go!!! Work has consisted of, so far, 2 weeks of INTENSE training, mostly computer stuff. I'm up at 6am (which I'm totally not used to being a server in the past) and dragging my ass onto skytrain, since driving at that time is totally out of the question!! Training is 8:45am-5:30pm. By the time I get home I'm exausted and have to muster up energy to make dinner, although sometimes Puddles is nice enough to get it started for me. I'm usually in bed by 10pm, after watching the OC, an absolute must!!!! Except tonight since there's the season premiere of Beauty and the Geek 2 hrs long!!!! I'll have to tape the OC and watch it tomorrow, which might be hard cuz it's Next Top model!! Hmmm decisions, decisions!!! So by the time the weekend comes along all I wanna do is absolutely NOTHING. Last weekend me and Puddles watched TV and laid in bed most of the day. It was awesome. We also went to the Lions game which was surprisingly cool. So now you're up to date. Don't get me wrong though, I'm loving my job. Its exactly what I expected and wanted. PEACE OUT!

Candy Dates

So even though we is Canuckleheads, we still need to gear up fro the election coming up next year. So here are the candidates who are running for their party's nomination

you people are naughty

I'm not seeing any posts here, people.

Steve, you haven't posted much of anything... naughty naughty. Why not update us on your current projects, or tell us what part of fatherhood you're most looking forward to.

Stormy, you haven't posted much either. Why not tell us about your wild and crazy ways as a young person.. you're the youngest I think. Aside from your woman.

Puddle's bitch (btw, this makes no sense. his name on here is stormy... shouldn't it be stormy's bitch?) you haven't posted either young lady. I want details about this new job. what colour is the carpet? how many pens are on your desk? Is your boss a jackass?

Lori, post the new ultrasound pic. Then tell us about the latest goings-on in Soap Opera land. We all know you watch them daily.

Ampersand, dazzle us with your fancy college education. Sell me on something, Mr. marketing degree. Hey, Steve, there's your PR guy for your product. Plus you can get the pity sales cus he's wheelchair'd.

Bee, give us some stories or rants. Your spoken word is a train wreck, but you've got skillz when it comes to writing.

Russ-kun, we need to get on this political bashing stuff. election day is only a year and 2 months away. There must be some quality republicans to bash. Fred Thompson is running, let's rip him a new one... he was the DA on Law and Order, so he must be a good president!

Dragonfly... uh... make sure Russ-kun doesn't get us all killed.

Budday, give me Wayne's Xbox360.

Weekend

So since summer is almost over and the weather is supposed to actually be pretty good. I figure its a good time to have a pool party. I know its last minute, but everyone is welcome to come.

one more for you little yard apes

Dedicated to Princess Daisy

buck futter

doobie doobie doooooo

Long weekend

Okay, so this is the last long weekend of the summer and we should all maybe get together.. Any suggestions?

Darn Appendix's

Well by now if you haven't heard of our adventure on thursday night i will tell you all about it....It starts off with Russ being at Work and not feeling well, Now being the macho man that my husband likes to think that he is!! LOL He wrote it off as having cramps, and thought that it might help if he went to the washroom... That did not help the matter.. He continued to work all day through the pain and at the end of the day when he came home,, he was in excrutiating amounts of pain. Now I being the loving and caring wife that i am, I suggested that we go to a clinic and have it looked at. The Doctor at the clinic saw him and immediatly sent hm to the hospital..We arrived at Royal Columbian at 6 o'clock and waited and waited and waited and finally saw a doctor then it was determined that YES he did have appendicitis and that it did need to come out so there we were again waiting, this time for the surgeon. they came finally and did all the pre-op checks that they needed to do and they took his appendix out at 1:30 am on Friday morning.... What a fun start to the weekend!!!!! He was alright when i lefthim at 3:30 this morning, but i am heading up there to see him for around 10am.

Starbucks Home Invasion

Are there too many Starbucks?

Is using hands inconvenient?

Of all people, the Japanese are the ones who invented this...

" 'I just thought it's inconvenient' to have to use your hands to switch on iPods or phones,"

Now, yes I'm sure there are GOOD uses for this, like the disabled and such, but still. To market this as a tool for people to be even lazier just seems retarded. I'd expect as much from americans who seem to only want to get fatter as "civilization" progresses, but the Japanese? Domo Origato, Mr. Roboto?? Domo? Domo.

Read A Book!

Ok, so it's not "Christian Gangsta Rap" but it certainly is helpful to many gangstas. Best if you're not at work. :)

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

The game lat night was awesome. The Mariners would have destroyed the White Socks if It wasnt for Jim Thome. The man hit two homers, one run scoring sac fly, and one ball over the wall that Ichiro made a freakish catch to pull in for four RBI's. After getting down 3-0 the Mariners scored a run in the fourth two in the fifth and four in an awesome sixth inning that had the near sell out crowd of 41k screaming.

This takes the cake for all pop culture videos...

F-ing hilarious.

Clicky me

Video: Internet commenter business meeting

If business meetings were like internet comments. It's funny 'cus it's true.

Strike!

In light of the recent civil strike that's going on in the city, I thought I would share my views on this.

To all the garbage strikers: If you have a problem with the public getting rid of their garbage by using a private company, then maybe you should get back to work. If you are sooo in love with garbage that it outrages you to see someone else do your job, then perhaps you should get things figured out so that you and your true love can be together.

To the general public who is outraged about the rich having their garbage picked up for them because they're part of a "fancy folk club": Umm....just so you know, when you're rich you can pretty much get anything you want, so get over it. If you want the same things they have, then get rich.

That being said, I have a few choice words about the strikers who are a few blocks away from my work. A little back story first though.

I have worked for my company for almost 2 1/2 years. I used to drive to work then, and part of that territory was the fact that finding parking is next to impossible after 8am. I would leave so that I would have an extra 30 minutes to find parking before I had to start (some days it would take longer). So, I would be driving up and down the streets looking for a parking spot and every single day I would see a group of men (about 30 or so) just standing around. It finally dawned on me that they were on strike.

I don't drive to work anymore, but I still see that same group every single day. It irritates me. It sometimes makes me feel angry. When I walk by them, I want to scream at them to get a better union or just get a better job. I don't know why I seem to care so much about them because a lot of these men seem to like standing around doing nothing. These guys are mixed in age (between 20-50) and for the most part you might mistake them for bums (and everyone knows how I feel about bums).

It astonishes me that they just don't care and have no ambition about their livelihood. These people need to stop being selfish and get a life.

Flight of the conchords

It's business time.


Yes, it's another video. eat my poop.

I want my dollar or my taco!

Some people shouldn't be allowed to use a phone

What's the score of the red wings game?

This blog is becoming a spot to post funny videos... lets get something else going.

with that in mind, go here... If you haven't seen it yet, it's damn funny.

Assbeard out.

Stonervision

Something funny i found

Derka Derka Derka

So I'm sitting here at work, sort of doing work, and I can hear my boss talk to one of her many outside consultants (who does the work that I should be doing...) and they're yelling at each other in chinese. It's hilarious, but at the same time it's ridiculous. Way to be a professional.

You little yard apes!

Shush'ems in the Theatres, kids.

Beowulf

This is for you, Deb

Click-o-rama

Warping Children

Such wholesome toys. Such depraved people.

Little Kids Face vs Large Exercise Ball

reposted in case you missed it the first time

Russ and Jenn's Wedding

I have posted a bunch of pictures on our picasa web gallery. Link is to the right --->

A lot of them are the same picture, just in B&W. Deal with it. There's also about 500 more pictures that I haven't posted. Cus they either sucked or cus they sorta sucked. I blame Russ.

Baby kicking?!

I felt it already!!!!



Abuse from our baby.


YAY!

Confederate Flag

The US elections are gonna start getting into swing next year. And with the demise of the 100 percenter we need another republican blog to harass. It was far too much fun last time. And now we have new people to join in. For those of you who dont remember the last go around. Its kinda like hitting a hornets nest with a stick. Except republican bloggers cant sting you back. Deb I know you are gunning to be called milktoasted again. And Im sure assbeard just needs to be pointed in the direction of something to start screaming at.

HgyHgyHobo

Tonight he's fighting for a meal

Master of Our (Annoyed Grunt)main

If anyone tried to get here last night and couldn't it was because I was screwing with the toomanynerds.com domain and it took a few hours for the changes to take effect. Now that it's settled down you'll notice that we're no longer under blogspot.com even though Blogger still hosts us. How's that for a nerdy post?

It must be spread

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So I'm looking out the damn window at my damn work and I'm thinking "DAMN!" It feels like the fall or something.. it's so dark and gloomy and wet.

I did a search. It seems that our old buddy Malachy Joyce's blog the Hundred Percenter is now invite only and his domain name is now owned by some cyber squatter. I guess he was just a gassy windbag after all. So now who are we going to exchange witty banter with?

Abortions for some, miniature american flags for others!

Sociopath

A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others and inability or unwillingness to conform to what are considered to be the norms of society.

Nick's Birfday

So, I'm next in line to turn 27. This special, special day is next Wednesday (August 15). Since I don't think anyone wants to do anything midweek we'll probably want to do something on the weekend. Russ and Jenn are bastards, and they'll be in Seattle at a ball game on saturday, the 18th, so I guess we'll have to do something on the friday. I was thinking some dinner and then a movie. Or if it's a nice night maybe we'll head down to the beach, take in the sunset, and grab some dinner then... or whatever.

Chime in so I know who is all coming.

1st post!!!

So here it is! The replacement for the Bean Dip. Enjoy.