I use IceRocket to track visitors here. I just got some one from the Islamic Republic of Iran. He, or possibly she, got here via Google Images. This is the page he ened up on.
Frankly, I’m not sure what to say about that.
Other odd search request that end up here:
“army mos, high paying” - Let me make that easy. There aren’t any.
“darling i dont want to be professional for my wife” - Again, not sure what to say there.
“upgrading worth it 10.5.5 10.4″ - NO don’t do it!
“Nixon vs Mondale 1968″ - Ah, dude. Read a history book.
“was jimmy carter in the army” - Rational question. Nope, in the Navy.
“dungeons and dragons for linux” - That’s a bit geeky, but dumb. If it the web based stuff it will run, otherwise, not really. D&D is a table top game.
“1970 olympic flight seized by arabs” - Unless they mean an airline named Olympic, that’s a weird combo.
“drinking beer on lunesta” - Good way to get a long nap.
“upgrading from 10.4.11 to 10.5.5″ - NO Don’t Do It.
“pictures of cats and bats” - No bat pictures, but do have pictures of cats named after bats however, close enough?
“Rants of a lost life” - Nice turn of phrase. May steal that.
“I didn’t get into law school my life sucks” - my fair heart bleeds for you dude.
“can you get high off Amidrine” - Not really. Make you loopy and feel like shit however. Better than the headache, I’ll give you that.
“10.5.5 main.cf group” - Good luck. You will need it.
“using diclofenac with midrin” - Done it, but it’s not really a good idea unless you are getting regular blood test for liver and kidney failure.
“adderall ubuntu” - Odd mix there. Shoulnd’t need the adderal, Ubuntu installs fast enough that you should be able to finish.
“heather alexander alexander james adams wtf” - What? He’s a transexual filk singer. Can’t be the only one…
“fink vs macports” - Use Fink. MacPorts has issues. Not as many as 10.5.5, but fink still wins.
“24Q10″ - Nike Herc Rules!
“bristol stool chart type 4″ - That’s what you want, dude.
“working for michael kors sucks” - But he seems so fun on Project Runway.
“Apple postfix not working 10.5.5″ - I feel your pain.
‘”scary devil monastery” - We don’t talk about chickens here.
“is leopard 10.5.5 worth upgrading” - NO.
“OKLAHOMA ROADS SUCK” - Why, yes. Yes they do.
“MY LIFE SUCKS BACKWA” - Ah? what?
“why did jimmy carter suck” - Don’t know. Let’s re-visit that question in a year.
I live off of Sheridan. My current gig is on Sheridan. The City o’ Tulsa has decided to mangle the intersection AND the on and off ramps for the Broken Arrow Expressway. My normal 3 minute drive is, if I take the “obvious” route, is now about 20 minutes.
This, to put it mildly, suck extremely large things through very small straws.
My blog on why my life sucks just became a reason why my life sucked.
I’m sure it has to do with changing to FireFox 3.0 last night on the laptop, but my access to the admin functions of the blog went away. The send email thing was not working so I had, in essence a dead blog. I tried a little mySQL fu on it, but no joy. Poked Google with a sharp stick and found this emergency.php. Works like a charm.
I don’t watch a lot of TV, but the shows I do watch, all, repeat, all, of the scripted shows I watch this season has sucked or ended very fucking badly. Yes, I know there was a writers strike in the middle. Doesn’t matter, most of the suckage was in over all story arcs, not the gap in the middle and the shortened season.
Of course the biggest amount of suck was that there wasn’t a 4th season of Veronica Mars.
Oh, this is post is spoiler-rifick, but given that all the shows have been broadcast, I’m not going to spoiler tag any thing. If you haven’t seen these shows, well, too fucking bad.
In order of least suck to most suck:
House: OK, the “House’s Head/Wilson’s Heart” dual show was, quite possibly, some of the best TV since “A trip to the Dentist / Leave it to Beaver” (last two shows of Veronica Mars, season one, and the best scripted TV, ever). I’ll even give that it was better than “Not Pictured” (end of Veronica Mars season 2). Not better than “Spit & Eggs” (the end of the rape arc of Season 3 Veronica Mars), but better than “Hush” (Season 4, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and “”Once More, with Feeling”", the musical episode in season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
A note:
If you add in “Aftershock”, (episode 134 of Law and Order), “Smile Time”,”"Hero” and “Not Fade Away” from “Angel”, the “Bete Noire/Twilight/Kill Ari” arc of NCIS and the “Lady Heather” episodes of CSI you have my list of best scripted TV shows in the last 15 some odd years.
OK, back to why “House” sucked this year. Well, they started the season with the whole game show thing to choose the new team. “Cut Throat Bitch/Amber” was the last one not to make the team, but comes back as Wilson’s girlfriend, then is killed. Then they toss in “13″ having the gene for ‘Huntington’s chorea’, well, just a big bummer of an ending.
NCIS:
The good: They killed off Director Shepard.
The bad: They broke up the team.
Hopefully they will stop with the bizarre idea of the director of NCIS being active in field ops, much less going off solo and getting into gun fights with Russian spies. Pretty much any NCIS episode where Jenny Shepard was important in either sucked or was off the wall, or, normally both.
Shark:
Just should have ended at “Bar Fight”. The last 3 shows didn’t seem like they fit in with the rest of the season. “Wayne’s World 3: Killer Shark” didn’t feel like a series finale, it felt like a normal mid season show. Odd pacing, to say the least. Plus, given my own personal life the whole “Julie and her boyfriend” arc was off putting, to say the least.
CSI:Las Vegas (yes, I know not really the name, but just want to be sure you know which one I mean.) Of the “young turks” (tm TWOP), they got rid of my two favorites, Sara and Warwick.
Bones:
It’s a toss up between the existence of Dr. Sweets, the 24-year old psychologist who TPTB have Booth and Brennan see or them having Dr. Zack Addy ending up being the apprentice of “The Gormogon” serial killer. I literally screamed at the TV when I saw Dr. Sweets as a regular in the credits for one show. Of course me screaming at the TV isn’t all that odd.
This season has sucked, and sucked hard.
On the reality shows I watch, well, Top Chef isn’t over, so I don’t know about it, but their is a 75% chance that I’ll be happy with who ever wins. My personal favorite is Stephanie, followed by Antonia, and has been from the first show this season, but I could live with Richard winning. Lisa, well, not so much, however better her than Spike, who lasted way to freaking long.
On “Project Runway”, what the hell happened to Chris March? I suspect that if he didn’t use human freaking hair as a major part of his final collection he would have done better. The look on Michael Kors face when he heard Chris say the fringe was human hair was second only to Michael’s general reaction to the whole WWE Divas challenge. Both high giggle factors TV moments.
Just got weird. Again, with out violating more than my own privacy, I can’t go into the full details of why, but yeah, it’s weird.
On the geek side of life, I’ve beaten ’smallbox’ into submission, and it’s back to being mainly a Linux box, with booting into Windows if and when needed. Can’t say enough good things about Hardy Heron, the latest version of Ubuntu aka Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
I’ve also gotten quite fond of andLinux on the laptop. Really slick design. Runs a modified version the Linux kernel as a service under XP. You get more or less the full KDE experience if you run ‘kicker’ I’ve got mine configured to be a vertical tool bar on the left hand side of the screen, normally in “hidden” mode, so all you see in windows in a small button with an arrow pointing down. Once you click that, you get the normal KDE 3.5 launcher.
In other geek news I’m going to be starting a D&D 4.0 campaign, with the first “full” game coming up this Sunday. Granted it’s ‘Keep on the Shadowfells” to start with, but until the books and SRD comes out that is what we’ve got. The enWord.org’s “Pre-release” book is also a good starting point. The offical WOTC page for it has a 6th pre gen, which gives some idea on how to level up a Warlord, which is new info.
On the personal front, other than “weirdness”, Redheaded Girl and I need to talk about what the word “puppy” means. The white dog in this photo is the “puppy” that they rescued. She had called me to find out if I could keep it for the afternoon while they dealt with a situation out at Art Dude’s property. I said sure. When I got home, well, I went out to look at the “puppy”. Sorry, if you are that size, you are a dog, not a puppy. I’ll grant it might not be full grown, but still, that’s not a puppy. Sweet dog. Gets along just fine with other dogs (or at least with our 3). No clue about cats, but I’m sure we will find out real soon, given the number of cats Redheaded Girl and Art Dude have. Might keep the semi-tamed raccoon and the opossum off her front porch, but most likely not given that the pit bulls next door to her house.
Update: White dog gets along fine with cats. Some of my cat’s don’t deal well with her however.
On the professional front I’ll be back doing work at $WeSellUsedMacs next week. Don’t know how long that will last, but I’m trying to make it a “full time” part time job. I think, I can do a 20-30 hour week now, but we will see.
