Dog Eat Dog
A co-worker down in NJ used to remark. "It's a dog eat dog day and I'm wearing
Milk Bone underwear." Well here's a
link to to a hilarious dog eat dog video. Good dog Sybil.
On another dog eat dog day note. Here's a pit bull that lost a fight with a porcupine though I suppose it could be an all animal remake of movie
Hell Raiser. You remember the one that had that
pinhead character in it. This brings to mind the age old question do porcupines really shoot (or throw) their quills ? Just a decade ago one would have to head the the public library (for those under 12 it's a place with books you can borrow for free for a week or two). Here is a
link that provides the answer and more.
ba
Follow Up Post - 02/10/06
Hey here are some fun facts about the picture.
1. I know nothing about the dog.
2. I found the image online and was as amazed as most of you have been.
3. To quote a line from one of the original Inspector Clueseau movies "it's not my dog."
A friend who is a vet surgeon told me that Pit Bulls are dumb. I believe him. If it was a Collie or a Shepard or even just a mutt I might feel more pity.
-ba
Hotels & Toilets
I was meandering through my laptop's hard drive the other day and I came upon this photo. Initially I couldn't remember why I'd taken it. It's a scene from the bathroom in the Hotel I stayed at while in Atlanta.
The GATech & Conference Center. It's identical to just about every
bathroom I've ever seen in a hotel. Towel rack over the toilet. Hmmm towel rack over the toilet. Then it struck me. Oooucchhhh..... It just struck me again. I submit to you, the slightly above average readers of this blather, that hotel bathrooms are designed by women. Why you ask ? Well think about it. The typical man sometimes gets in the shower without thinking about a towel because he can usually just bellow to his wife for one when he realizes he forgot.
"HONEY I FORGOT A TOWEL COULD YOU HAND ME ONE ?" In this case no wife. So with soap in his eyes he reaches over the
TOILET for a towel and if he's lucky, he snags a towel. If he's not ? Towel in toilet. Do you see my point ? What do men never put down ?
The seat. Now you understand why women design hotel bathrooms. Training men, one hotel visit at a time.
ba
Spatial Relations
Once again I come upon a scene where I have to ask.... WHAT WERE THEY THINKING ? These people hired a cabbie to take them to Best Buy where they promptly bought a 32" CRT style TV that they couldn't fit in the trunk of the cab even if they took it out of the box. As I walked away I heard the cab driver say "maybe the back seat ?" bwaa ha ha ha
NEWS FLASH - Huge TV drives demand for larger vehicles. Emissions and gas mileage be damned.
I WANT MY BIG TV !
ba
Wrong End
I came upon this scene whilst walking to work this morning. It was happening in the driveway alongside the Sheraton. A skid steer was lifting up the front end of an older pickup essentially by its bumper. I stopped to watch and as it seemed like an odd event I decided to take a picture. The guy in the skid steer got concerned about the picture taking (can you spell damage) and yelled out to the heavyset guy "why's he
taking a picture?" I answered "no reason". Now since a conversation had started I felt okay asking the heavyset hotel security guy what they were doing and he said, "moving the truck because we have to get some buses through". I then inquired if it was in gear to which he said yes. I hung around for a few more moments and watched the skid steer try to push the truck (remember it was still in gear) to no avail. The bumper got twisted a little and the left front fender buckled slightly. At least the guy in the skid steer wasn't talking on his cell phone.
ba
Horrorday Inn
Been a busy last few weeks. The 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays for obvious reasons. Stuff explodes in the air. I love fireworks, explosions and flashing lights. It's a good thing I live in a state where the backwoods no good politicans have denied the public their God given right to lose a finger or hand to an explosion otherwise I'd be in FFF
*.
Went to a wedding in Rochester, NY. Nice wedding, great reception at the
Casa Larga. The Holiday Inn however was a Horror Day Inn. First we find out after we got there it was under massive renovations. Dust was everywhere. The sink leaked, there was an extra mint in the blankets under the bedspread (wrapped at least) and the phones weree hung up upside down for some reason I couldn't fathom. This particular Holiday Inn is called a HoliDome because it has a huge glass side that acts as an atrium to the inside rooms. Here is a picture of what I mean. This meant that if you wanted any natural light in the room you had to open your curtains in the windows, windows that every one walked by to get to their room. Are you staying with me here ? There are walkways right outside what are essentially solid glass walls in all these rooms. Didn't anyone think of the children? All it would take is for some newly weds (or Mr. & Mrs. Ass cause we ain't dead yet) to get caught up in moment of amore' and forget to close the curtains.
Truly though the most annoying thing was the cover for the A/C - Heat controls. They say a picture paints a thousand words ? Here's how I left the cover.
(remember clicking on a picture may make it bigger)
I borrowed a suit coat (yeah I own one but it is a woolen suit and it's been really hot this summer) from a friend who is the music pastor at our
church and for obvious reasons I don't want to mention his name. It was a nice coat but since he's taller the steves oops... I mean sleeves were a little long. The odd thing was the outer pockets were sewn closed ? No really sewn closed. You could drop a quarter in the one end but nothing of consequence was going in those pockets. Here's a picture.
I ax'd a couple of people why this might be and the only slightly, almost, maybe plausible idea or explanation was to make sure the wearer didn't put his hands in the pockets as this is considered goshe (spelling?) and un-refined by
Emily Post. I dunno maybe. I'm just hoping it isn't cause he's a closet
kleptomaniac. Think about it - pockets sewn shut as a training device. Force the wearer to walk through a Dollar $tore (the one's with the fake video cameras) with a coat with sewn pockets. bwaa ha ha ha....
ba
* Freedom From Fireworks - if your lucky you get a sponsor with all 10 digits.....
SorryMy@$$.com
**UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE**
I was able to post the picture of me shown below. There is a special and wonderful prize to be sent to anyone who gets a screenshot of it actually displayed in the www.sorryeverybody.com website.
I was reminded once again today of how the web is wonderful, wild and weird. In this case weird. There is a web site called
www.sorryeverybody.com where people post pictures like this.
NOTE: While I observed no nudity there were some words that would not be considered nice. They are people who are bitter about our Federalist system of government. So established to not elect by simply majority but by representative. Anyway I digress.....
Scanning through about 3 dozen pictures made me if I could post my own picture. Sadly the web site is seemingly not accepting any more pictures so unless it gets fixed and I succeed the 3 of you that frequent this personal web rambling of mine will be the only ones who see it. See if you
can spot the hidden message ?
Random Stuff
Just some random stuff today gleaned over the last week or so......
June-July is graduation party time in these parts and I attended 2 this Saturday. The first one was La's. La is the daughter of Mrs. Ass's bestest friend from childhood. We could only stay a little while but it was long enough to taste some of the best punch I've had in years. It was green
and had Citrus Frost and lime sherbert in it. Citrus Frost is a lot like
Wink "the Sassy One from Canada Dry" or
Fresca* you know those grapefruit sodas that are wonderful. I think they were afraid they hadn't made enough because this was what they were providing as a ladle. It took quite a while to get a full cup but on the upside was it was easier to score the sherbert. The other party was my nephew Rob. 1st Class event.
Dinosaur BBQ and a 1/2 keg of
Blue Moon** replete with Orange slices. mmmmmm BBQ & beer.
In the anything for a
$buck$ department - the other day we went to meet a friend who was returning from a
year in Poland and in the airport lobby was this table with two chairs sitting on top of it. Seemed like a stupid place for chairs so I said to my recently departed oldest daughter. I'll give you a buck if you sit in one of those chairs for a minute. Since bizzare behavior in airports can get you questioned behind closed doors I didn't think she'd jump at a measely dollar. I guess though since she moved out she needs all the money she can get and quickly climbed up on the table and sat in the chair. I preserved the moment with my cell camera. Special huh ?
As I've mentioned I've been traveling and whilst in Atlanta on the GA Tech campus I saw a ink jet cartridge vending machine. What a great idea particularly for a college campus. Procrastinators no longer punished by empty ink jet cartridages. I'm sure I'd have had to buy one at 3AM at some point in time.
Lastly for those who get confused by those pesky holidays like Easter that move around every year here is
help.
ba
* - link is dead don't know why ?
** - link may require you to verify age. So all you underage surfers don't just type in 03/19/1941 !! Stupid lawyers.
You've all gotten the email...
....now watch the video
I request assistanc.e for your cooperation.While I don't often publish stuff like this it did crack me up. Wish I'd thought of it. Click on the above link if you like creative humor.
During my recent trip to Atlanta I picked myself up a present. Okay actually Max, my nextdoor cubehbor (neighbor) bought one for me and I bought one for her. Pictured is
Cubes.
As you can see it comes with a male figure and all you need to create your own little cube world. So two things....
First I don't really want to use the stock stickers that came with it so please send me some ideas via the comments or email link. Whatever you suggest should be reproducable in very tiny size.
Secondly my birthday is January 28th and if you'd like to select the perfect gift this is it. Ultimately I'd like to replicate my current office area and co-workers. So click on the link above and have my birthday present in hand for next year.
ba
I'm Back
Told you earlier I was traveling and enjoyed a nice respite from the day to day issues of life. I wandered first to
LabMan a technincal services conference held this year at
Cornell University in
Ithaca, NY that deals with how to develop and maintain public computer labs on college campuses. It was interesting and somewhat educational even if I was surrounded by people who only lacked the
Chewbacca or
Darth Vader costume to feel right at home at a Star Wars convention.
Next it was off to Atlanta (or Hotlanta as they called it the last time I was there) for the
ResNET Conference held at
Georgia Tech. Not quite the nerd fest LabMan was but still a fair number of people best suited for jobs ummm errrr ahhh shall we say out of the public eye. Unbelievably while there were 300 plus people there I get
photo'd in the dinner line. Luckily it's my best side. mmmm BBQ Ribs...... No I haven't any idea what that thing on the table is. It wasn't edible.
Finally I (and 20 other friends and family) were off to the
Creation Festival in the middle of
nowhere PA. 4 days and nights of music, friends and
HEAT. Well okay 3 days of heat. Saturday was nice. Promised the kids we would go every year till they all graduated high school so I have one more year to go and then we'll see. It was very crowded this year and seemed a little more commercial then ever as after 4 days we figured out that Jesus prolly would drive a
Scion, go to
Liberty University and play an
Ibanez guitar. I'm not sure what T-shirt He would wear but based upon popularity of the festival attenders it would most likely be the "
Abortion is Mean" shirt. A simple two color shirt that describes what ? Abortion maybe mean but that seems to be the least of what it is. How about sad, consequential, final or maybe dare I say selfish.
Finally on the way home we stopped to get gas and relieve pressured bladders and I saw this.
Seems familiar ?
ba
On another dog eat dog day note. Here's a pit bull that lost a fight with a porcupine though I suppose it could be an all animal remake of movie Hell Raiser. You remember the one that had that pinhead character in it. This brings to mind the age old question do porcupines really shoot (or throw) their quills ? Just a decade ago one would have to head the the public library (for those under 12 it's a place with books you can borrow for free for a week or two). Here is a link that provides the answer and more.
