November 11, 2009
To those who were civilians from 1985 to 1991 - thank you for being the kind of Americans worth serving.
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September 14, 2009
Which is very exciting, because 43 is the largest non-McNugget number!
If you can think of anything more exciting than that, leave a link to it in the comments, or just tell me about it.
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May 13, 2009
The rules:
1. Post the rules on your blog.
2. Tell 7 5 random things about yourself.
3. Tag 7 3 people at the end of your post.
4. Pass on the tag.
1) My laptop (IBM Thinkpad T30) has both a TrackPoint finger control and a touchpad. I use a wireless USB wheelmouse.
2) I tried growing catnip indoors over the winter. Worked pretty well for about 3 months until I left the door to my room open and the cats ate everything right down to the roots. I'm growing it outdoors now until next winter.
3) Remember the cat-paddling video?:
Amber has the same reaction. I'm in no position to judge someone else's pleasure preferences, though.
4) I hate reality TV shows. The endless in-show recaps, the over-extended pauses before someone answers a question or reveals a choice, the hyper-dramatic music, and the way they cut to contestants verbally describing their reactions to "surprises" when we JUST saw them bugging their eyes and dropping their jaws. Oh, and the clumsy product placements. The only one I don't hate is Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, mostly because it's not elimination-style, and the people he screams obscenities at are desperately deserving of having obscenities screamed at them.
5) I believe that Unskippable is an acceptable substitute for Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Next victims:
Blogson GEBIV of There's One, Only!
Hapkido of Crunch Time
Hetero life-partner Graumagus of Frizzen Sparks
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September 08, 2008
This year, my thematic request is quotes from Douglas Adams.
If you don't know why this is appropriate, just Google the number.
Anyway, I'll start:
"a cupful of liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."
I don't know why, but that description never fails to tickle me giddy.
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June 20, 2008
Give or take a few hours.
To help me celebrate, you can leave a comment for me, and include a link to something that's either "delightful" or "disturbing". You don't have to mention which it's supposed to be.
I'll start:
Pictures of naked women. But they're in famous works of art, so it's actually intellectual and classy. But the entire montage is to stripper music.
I found it delightful.
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June 18, 2008
That would be Saturday, June 21st, 2008, which is five years after Saturday, June 21st, 2003.
Early Saturday, I will have a blogiversary post for you to leave comments on. Here's my request for gifts:
Leave a link to something that's either "delightful" or "disturbing", but don't mention which it is in your comment.
Surprises are fun.
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January 27, 2008
SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 movies, you have no life.
Mark the ones you've seen. Copy this list, check the movies you've seen, add them up, and include the number in your post title.
(x)Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x)Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
() Boondock Saints
() Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
(x) Blazing Saddles
() Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
() Along Came Polly
() Deep Impact
(x) KingPin
() Never Been Kissed
() Meet The Parents
() Meet the Fockers
() Eight Crazy Nights
() Joe Dirt
(x) KING KONG
Total so far: 10
() A Cinderella Story
(x) The Terminal
() The Lizzie McGuire Movie
() Passport to Paris
() Dumb & Dumber
() Dumber & Dumberer
() Final Destination
() Final Destination 2
() Final Destination 3
(x) Halloween
() The Ring
() The Ring 2
() Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber
Total so far: 13
() Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
() Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
() Ghost Ship
() From Hell
(x) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
() I Am Sam
(x) The Whole Nine Yards
() The Whole Ten Yards
Total so far: 17
() The Day After Tomorrow
(x) Child's Play
() Seed of Chucky
() Bride of Chucky
() Ten Things I Hate About You
() Just Married
() Gothika
(x) Nightmare on Elm Street
(x) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
() Coach Carter
() The Grudge
() The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
() Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 22
() Bad Boys
() Bad Boys 2
() Joy Ride
() Lucky Number Slevin
(x) Ocean's Eleven
() Ocean's Twelve
(x) Bourne Identity
() Bourne Supremecy
() Lone Star
() Bedazzled
(x) Predator I
(x) Predator II
() The Fog
(x) Ice Age
() Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
() Curious George
Total so far: 27
(x) Independence Day
(x) Cujo
() A Bronx Tale
() Darkness Falls
(x) Christine
(x) ET
() Children of the Corn
() My Bosses Daughter
() Maid in Manhattan
(x) War of the Worlds
() Rush Hour
() Rush Hour 2
Total so far: 32
() Best Bet
() How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
() She's All That
() Calendar Girls
() Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks!
() Event Horizon
() Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
() Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
(x) The Terminator 3
Total so far: 38
(x) X-Men
(x) X2
() X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
() Sky High
() Jeepers Creepers
() Jeepers Creepers 2
() Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
() Freaky Friday
() Reign of Fire
() The Skulls
() Cruel Intentions
() Cruel Intentions 2
() The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2
(x) Shrek 3
Total so far: 46
() Swimfan
(x) Miracle on 34th street
() Old School
() The Notebook
() K-Pax
() Kippendorf's Tribe
() A Walk to Remember
() Ice Castles
() Boogeyman
() The 40-year-old-virgin
Total so far: 47
(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Total so far: 53
() Baseketball
() Hostel
() Waiting for Guffman
() House of 1000 Corpses
() Devils Rejects
(x) Elf
(x) Highlander
() Mothman Prophecies
(x) American History X
() Three
Total so Far: 56
() The Jacket
() Kung Fu Hustle
() Shaolin Soccer
() Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
() Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(x) Shaun Of the Dead
(x) Willard
Total so far: 60
() High Tension
() Club Dread
(x) Hulk
() Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook
(x) Chronicle Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
() 28 days later
(x) Orgazmo
(x) Phantasm
( ) Waterworld
Total so far: 65
(x) Kill Bill vol 1
(x) Kill Bill vol 2
() Mortal Kombat
() Wolf Creek
() Kingdom of Heaven
() The Hills Have Eyes
() I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
() The Last House on the Left
(x) Re-Animator
(x) Army of Darkness
Total so far: 69
(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Total so far: 75
(x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
(x) The Matrix Revolutions
(x) Animatrix
(x) Evil Dead
(x) Evil Dead 2
(x) Team America: World Police
(x) Red Dragon
(x) Silence of the Lambs
(x) Hannibal
Final total: 85
Next victims:
Contagion of Miasmatic Review
That 1 Guy of Drunken Wisdom
_Jon of We Swear
Physics Geek
Shaun & Joey of Cheap Shot Entertainment (they're young, but they're both film students - I expect a good score).
Sarah of That's Not Very Nice!
By the way, if any of the above actually do this, please drop a link in the comments to this post. I'm old, and I don't get around my blogroll like I used to. Gosh durn lumbago, ya know.
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January 12, 2008
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Color me bemused. I can't imagine how she found it. Although she probably has interns to comb the web for sidebar fluff, so I doubt it's actually personally approved.
Still, I'm a little embarrassed by this link. When I wrote that piece, I didn't END it so much as... just quit writing... because I was tired from my day job. I told myself comforting procrastinators mottos like "It won't get posted for a couple days [IMAO has a scheduled-post feature that actually works, unlike the still-broken one here], so I can put a little polish on it tomorrow", and "it doesn't really matter if it's good or not, the audience is forgiving of the occasional near-miss".
Then it winds up with a celebrity endorsement.
It's like dashing out to the grocery store in your sweats & bad-hair-day hair, and being accosted by a CNN reporter and her camera crew.
On the bright side, it turns out that Ann Coulter doesn't have anywhere NEAR the site traffic that you'd suspect a crudely-entertaining, political bomb-throwing polemicist like her would have, so it wasn't as humiliating as, say, being Instalanched would've been.
Small favors. I'm grateful for them.
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January 01, 2008
Just gotta vent a bit.
The week in Jamaica was awesome and the 7 days of drunken nudity really hit the spot.
However, when I returned to work on Wednesday morning after getting home at 10:30 Tuesday night, I discovered that my lazy/incompentent coworkers had decided that keeping the computer system updated on the vault's cash transaction was "optional" because they were "busy".
And they hadn't balanced the vault once during my absence (supposed to be every day).
Starting Wednesday, and including Saturday, I put in 60 hours over 4 days unfucking everything that got fucked up while I was on vacation.
When I left, the vault was a well-oiled machine. When I got back, it was Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang.
BEFORE Caractacus Potts started working on it.
After Monday (another 15 hour day), everything was unfucked.
Of course, due to the holiday, we've got to cram 5 days worth of work in to 4 days. I expect it's gonna be another busy week.
However, after the 7th, there aren't any more bank holidays until Memorial Day, so I may actually get to work normal human hours at some point.
Wish me luck.
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Now, I'm not pulling some kind of Rachel Lucas, claiming that I'll be checking out of the blogosphere, but recent changes in my life situation require that I set some priorities and make some choices. Not necessarily easy ones, but ones that I feel will be best for me in the long run.
Couple things driving this, and stemming mainly from a very relaxing vacation where I took some time to think thinks over in a setting where I wasn't beset by pressures & deadlines.
First, my day job - which I really do enjoy - is asking for about 60 hours a week on the clock, plus 7-8 hours of non-quality windshield time. There's just not much left over.
So what to do with it...
In my years of blogging, I've tried a lot of different projects - King of the Blogs blog reviews, running the Alliance of Free Blogs, Graffiti Currency, Love Notes, Precision Guided Humor, Filthy Lies, smutty innunendo, raising blogkids, hosting comment parties, and assorted knick-knackery. I've learned and grown from all of it. It's had an inestimable effect on the person I've become, and I don't regret any of it.
Perhaps the biggest event/process was becoming a paid contributor to IMAO, after starting off as a lowly fan-boi with no sense of humor and a lot of admiration for the comedy stylings of Frank J.
When I started blogging, I had no idea that I could actually write humor pieces. I think there was always a bit of fantasy that I could parlay my blog into some sort of paid daily column, but it was kind of iffy, at best. However, these days, I find myself more or less doing just that. I write 5 days a week at IMAO, usually original satirical political pieces, and I find myself thoroughly enjoying the constant reader feedback. Its very emotionally satisfying. More so, even, than my day job.
Looking toward the future, I don't want to be doing my day job in 10 years, but I wouldn't mind writing for IMAO, or some other paid, published vehicle. Unfortunately, any efforts that I put into regularly posting at Bad Example will inevitably interfere with that.
So it looks as though something has to give, and it will be my posting here.
There will be no more daily features at Bad Example.
Posting here will not cease, but it will become an afterthought, receiving only those entries which niggle at my brain too much to be silent about, but which don't fit the mold at IMAO.
In short, Bad Example will become, essentially, a blog about nothing, lacking theme, substance, and goal.
Not shut down so much as not maintained.
I will be focussing what little time & energy I have to spare at IMAO, where I expect to continue posting five days a week.
I have to say that dedicating my life to writing political satire (or at least cruel, derisive, anti-leftist polemics), isn't necessarily my primary career choice. Frankly, politics and current events can be a bore. However, I find that I do enjoy the raw challenge of taking a news story and twisting it in my head until it yields up a humorous angle. It's not always easy, but the mental gymnastics required DO pay off with a certain amount of psychic satisfaction that is both rare and precious. It would be nice to dedicate my writing talents to building up and supporting causes which are good, but there's also value in mocking, belittling, and knocking away the smug, self-satisfied importance of ideas which, I believe, would do this nation great damage if they were to be given general credence. For example, it'd be nice to propose a practical, free-market based health care system, but it's also good to mock a government-run system by pointing out that it would have the customer-service anti-mentality of the US Post Office combined with the soulless inefficiency of the DMV. There's all kinds of fun to be had in stomping the cockroaches of leftist dogma.
Still, I can't help thinking of what I'll lose with this decision. There will be little to no time for surfing my blogroll (not that there HAS been for the last few months), and there will be the inevitable drifting apart from the friends I've made in the on-line world over the last few years. I won't be able to keep up with everyone's blogs, and I fear that we'll wind up as strangers or mere passing acquaintances. The potential for loss tears at me, despite the fact that I recognize it as an inevitable price.
Yet I know that I'll still be able to keep in touch, here and there, and I take strong comfort in the knowledge that my blogkids have all turned out well, and become strong, talented bloggers in their own rights. I must trust them to raise and guide their own blogchildren and bloggrandchildren to the best of their ability. The apron strings have long frayed away and I can look out with pride to see the bloggers they've become.
On the bright side, I know I will still be able to enjoy the physical company of those bloggers in my local sphere. The Illinois-Wisconsin border will continue to be a gathering place for good times, great minds and wonderful company. I hope that it will become more so with each passing year.
So for now, it's less posting here, more at IMAO, and as for the future, we'll just have to see where it takes us. Wherever it leads, I can only hope that it will be as much fun as as the past.
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November 06, 2007
Do you continue to do this because you want to or because you promised yourself or someone else you would?Also, do you ever force yourself to write one because either we (your readers) or your wife or you might be disappointed if you don't?
Actually, I wrote 365 Love Notes between July and October of 2006 when I was still working at the pizza place & had a lot of "sitting on my ass time" to play with. I planned to publish them here every day in 2007.
I started writing them again in July of 2007, but at the end of the month, I got this new job. The thing about this job is that, although it's not physically taxing, I have to stay sharply mentally focussed for the whole time I'm there, which is generally 10-12 hours a day, five days a week. Outside of that time, it's hard to find the will, much less the desire, to focus on anything at all, because I feel so drained.
I stopped composing new Love Notes in mid-August because they just weren't flowing right, and forcing it wasn't helping.
My original intent with the first batch of Notes was to publish them in a book and then buy an island in the Bahamas with the royalties, but I didn't know how to go about doing that (the publishing, not the island-buying), had no one to ask, and found that nearly all information sources on the topic dealt with publishing either novels or "how to" types of non-fiction. Self-publishing is out because I know my limitations, and self-promotion is not something I do well. So I contented myself with posting them here, just so I could have the satisfaction of letting other people enjoy them.
As for disappointment... well, there's certainly some of that involved. I've always believed I can write ANYTHING if I try hard enough, but after composing over 400 little love-bites, it's amazingly difficult to avoid repetition. Add in my mostly-missing energy level and my all-too-short time for recreational writing, and it's just not a mountain I can climb anymore.
So I'm not sure what I'm going to do after the end of the year. I may start posting the ones I have for 2008 and then start trying to write one a day to finish out the year. Or I may just let it go after December 31st. I don't know yet.
Not a very satisfying answer, but it's all I've got. We'll just have to wait & see.
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October 22, 2007
Here's the long version of my answers:
Do you support or oppose:
1) SCHIP expansion that was vetoed by Bush.
Oppose - I'd like my health care system to come with a label that says "Now 99 44/100% Government Free!". Anything that doesn't move us from where we are now to that goal goes straight to the dumpster.
2) Law of the Sea treaty.
Oppose - I can't believe this communist-fantasy piece of crap is still around. The whole "if you want to mine the oceans, you have to share the wealth with third-world shithole nations because they CAN'T mine the oceans."
F*** that.
3) Hate crime laws.
Oppose - Crime is crime. Punishing someone more because of his skin color seems like a violation of Equal Protection to me.
4) Gay marriage.
Oppose - Gay marriage has nothing to do with love & commitment, it has to do with health insurance & Social Security benefits.
If you love a man and want to have financial & legal entaglements with him, have a lawyer write up some reciprocal wills & powers of attorney, then refer to yourselves as "married" in public. Same damn thing.
5) Using the following enhanced interrogation techniques on captured foreign terrorists: stress positons, sleep deprivation, and waterboarding.
Support - whatever it takes to win the war.
6) The war on drugs.
Oppose - Prohibition creates more crime, violence, and human misery than it prevents. Anti-drug peer pressure from churches, family members, and social organizations is the correct tool for minimizing drug use, not the brute sledgehammer of law enforcement.
7) Congressional term limits.
Support - I like it better when my lawmakers haven't been in office long enough to develop the connections necessary to game the system. Constant turnover will make Congress weak, confused, and ineffectual, which is how I prefer the people who try to run my life.
Some form of Balanced Budget Amendment.
Oppose - I prefer my government to spend less than it steals in taxes, but you can't write a law that the lawyers on the Hill can't weasel out of. A BBA is an exercise in futility.
9) School vouchers.
Support - I would prefer my school system completely supported by tuitions instead of taxes, but anything that loosens the stranglehold of government control is a step in the right direction.
10) The Missile Defense Program.
Support - I've never met an incoming enemy missile that I wouldn't prefer to have shot down by an American one.
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October 11, 2007
[Bosco wielding Pointy Stick O' Inspiration]
Turns out his REAL name is hypergraphia.
[Hat tip: American Digest]
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September 25, 2007
The thing is, I only have so much time outside the job, and I can either spend it copying, pasting, and cross-posting, OR I can spend it WRITING.
I've chosen the former three out of habit for a long time.
Now I'm choosing the latter.
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September 24, 2007
I'm exhausted all week, and it takes me half the weekend to feel human enough to even start doing any blogging, and by then, it's Sunday, and it's time to get ready for work on Monday.
I need a break.
So for starters, I'm cutting out the recycling, the copycatting, and the cross-posting at Bad Example.
No more Graffiti Currency - it's all in the archives anyway.
No more Dirty Minds Quiz - that's just typing somebody else's words from a page, which feels tedious.
No more cross-posting from IMAO - you want political humor, you know where to go. And I've heard that some load-time issues got fixed, so you don't have to wait an entire day for the front page to show up.
I *am* keeping the Daily Love Notes (for now) because I still have 3 more months worth written. Don't know if I'm continuing it next year or not.
The rest will be... whatever I'm in the mood to write.
Or not, as the case may be.
We'll see what happens.
PS Not saying I'll NEVER post in the above categories again, just saying they won't be daily features any more, because doing them daily has become not-fun.
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) I miss your "little known facts" about certain states or places. Just thought I'd pop in.
Hope you get some much needed rest.September 15, 2007
Just wanted to show off some of my presents.
First, those who gave me exactly what I wanted:
Richmond of One for the Road who actually brought me a voluminous set of boobs covered in frosting, which I enjoyed nibbling on. It's the GOOD frosting too. The kind with so much sugar it makes your head buzz. I *love* that stuff.
Lynn of Violins & Starships who gave me something artistic AND indecent.
Pam of Pamibe whose motto is apparently "go big or go home".
Bloggranddaughter Ktreva of The Reality Ranch found a picture of that bra I designed.
Bloggranddaughter Mrs. Who of House of Zathras does a little 80's retro.
Blogstump Contagion of Miasmatic Review offers flashing footballs and a football fan.
Bloggranddaughter VW bug of One Happy Dog Speaks went dress shopping.
Bloggreatgranddaughter Tink of Tink's Tribulations combines Polish women, water, and a glass shower stall. Now THAT'S a recipe for fun [Hat tip to Pan].
Speaking of showers, Leslie of Leslie's Omnibus has a faucet upgrade.
Rachel of Pereiraville shows off some body paint. Hope it's edible.
Oh, and a cheery little birthday ditty, too.
Blogdaughter Teresa of Technicalities has a picture that makes me wonder how to spell that sound I make when I shove my face between a pair of boobs and shake my head back and forth rapidly.
Blogdaughter Machelle of Quality Weenie has a shot of a woman who may shop for shoes, but never gets to enjoy them afterwards.
Blogdaughter Oddybobo has a shot of the woman who did more in the 90's to revive leather fetishism than any other human being.
Bloggreatgrandson Spurs of Pull My Finger apparently thinks I smell bad, because he left me some cologne.
Blogdaughter Michele of Letters From New York City offers boobs for a cause.
Roses of ACK! THBBBT! has a couple... um... what was I talking about?
Blogson GEBIV of There's One, Only! was too shy to post an interesting video on the virtues of Nissan's vehicle construction. Fortunately, shyness is not one of my vices.
And here are the well-wishers, in the sense that they didn't wish me any specific harm:
Sandor (formerly of The Zoo and creator of the Blogosphere Political Compass Project) bought me a Great Scotch (per the Amazon donation list) and asked me to spend it on beer. Guess that means I should buy Guinness with it.
Blogdaughter/niece Sarah of That's Not Very Nice! is a little "fuzzy" on the concept of how to properly fill a bra.
Susie of Practial Penumbra - who I understand a lot better, now that I'm working 12-hour days.
Frank J of IMAO who - in a very un-Stan-Lee-like moment, revealed my secret identity.
My co-worker Yvonne - who doesn't know about this blog - had the bad timing to ask me when my birthday was on Thursday. It was a direct question, so I couldn't lie. Anyway, she bought me this Homer Simpson birthday balloon, even though she's only known me for about 2 weeks:
Blogdaughter Skippy of Boudicca's Voice.
The apparently blogless Temujin.
Blogdaughter Tammi of Tammi's World who was boob-blocked by her work computer.
The apparently blogless Fast Eddie - same story.
Blogson Peter of Shakey Pete's Shootin' Shack, who foolishly assumed that boobs have an expiration date.
Phelps of The Everlasting Phelps mocked my age, but I think he's just bitter because I told him to get off my lawn.
Blogson That 1 Guy of Drunken Wisdom, who somehow thought that Faith No More had something to do with breasts.
Jerry of Back Home Again.
Finally, my two favorite comments from the many left on my IMAO birthday post:
_Jon of We Swear:
"ass"
KT Cat of The Scratching Post:
"On this day, we celebrate wildly for without your birth our lives would be as cold, dead ashes in a gutter filled with rotting leaves and some other gunky stuff that has worms swimming in it if you look at it under a microscope.With you, there's not so many of those wormy doodads."
And finally finally, this cartoon has nothing to do with my birthday, but it kinda describes what it was like putting this post together.
Just wanted to thank everyone who participated. This is what makes getting older worth it.
NOTE: If I missed your contribution or there's a typo or screwed up permalink, just give a holler in the comments.
UPDATE 1:15 PM - Blogson Mike the Marine of From the Halls to the Shores threw a Guinness & ran away.
UPDATE 9 PM - T1G tries again, does better.
UPDATE 9-16-07 - Joan of Primordial Slack offers the firmest boobs I've ever seen.
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September 10, 2007
On Friday, I will have a post up that you can link to to help me celebrate.
This year's theme... Boobs.
Specifically adult human female breasts.
Pictures, videos, discussions, jokes, games, anecdotes... whatever.
Post something, then leave a link in the comments (or e-mail it to me at harvolson-at-gmail.com) and I'll post a big round-up of your thoughtful gifts on Saturday.
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September 08, 2007
Looks like the trend may continue for a while, so weekends will probably be the only times I can keep in touch.
If you don't hear from me Monday thru Friday, don't take it personally.
UPDATE 11PM - I'd like to clarify that I'm not complaining. The fact is, my supervisor puts in at least an hour more per day than I do, and sometimes more.
Not only does he have the same 45 minute (one way) commute time I do, and he has a wife like I do, he also has a kid like I don't.
Makes it really hard to feel sorry for myself when I'm watching the guy work his guts out like that.
If he's not gonna whine about it, I'm not gonna either.
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August 22, 2007
Some explanations for my answers:
1) Should we re-institute the draft?
Not only no, but HELL no. If a government can't get a sufficient all-volunteer force to fight its wars, then either the war isn't worth fighting or the government needs to offer more pay & bennies to entice people to sign up.
The draft is a form of slavery. You don't do that to free men.
2) Would you like to overturn the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in the military in order to allow gays to serve openly?
No. Straight teenage soldiers are still teenagers and operate under a teenager's code of machismo. I think it's too much to ask them to curb their animosity towards homosexuality. I saw what it did to morale when someone on my ship was accidentally outed. It does NOT make for unit cohesion.
3) Would you favor replacing our current tax system with the Fair Tax, a flat tax, or a national sales tax?
No. Eliminate it, replace it with nothing, and cut social(ist) spending programs. Income tax is NOT the only source of Federal income, and if the Feds only did their Constitutionally authorized activities (such as national defense), the budget wouldn't need income tax revenue to pay the bills.
4) Would you like to see Gitmo closed down?
No. I want it filled to the brim with terrorists. Who should be tortured until they give up all their useful information, and then executed.
5) Would you like to see the Patriot Act repealed?
No. Despite a LOT of bitching from the left, I've yet to hear of any court case challenging the constitutionality of any provision of the Patriot Act. Until I hear of it being used as an excuse for unconstitutional actions, I support it as an essential tool for fighting the War on Terror.
6) How would you say the national economy is doing?
A) Good or excellent shape
B) Fair shape
C) Poor or terrible shape
A - I've got a good job and my stock purchases are gaining in value. Speaking as a microcosm of the national economy, things are great.
7) Karl Rove is planning to retire this month. Overall do you think that Rove has been
A) an enormous benefit to Republicans and his loss will definitely hurt the GOP.
B) so-so as a political strategist.
C) completely overrated and bad for the GOP overall.
A - He makes liberals wet themselves with fear and/or anger. What's not to love?
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August 17, 2007
Basically, I hand huge piles of money to armored car drivers in the morning, put away the stuff they brought in from the night before, get the new huge piles of money ready to go out the next morning, and check in the returning drivers' slightly-less-huge piles of cash when they return from their routes.
Good news: my work space is air-conditioned, I get to play with (literally) millions of dollars, there are VERY few dull moments, and it pays about 15% better than that asshole bank that fired me a couple years back.
Bad news: 45 minute commute each way, and I'm currently pulling 10-11 hour days once I get there.
Silver lining: lots of overtime pay, and weekends off.
Dark cloud: not a lot of time for the blogging I want to do here at Bad Example, since I spend a good chunk of what little free time I have fulfilling my contractual obligations over at IMAO.
However, so far I'm still managing to juggle everything. We'll see how long I can keep it up before something gives.
Oh, and if you see someone driving down I-90 trying to scribble blog-post ideas into a notebook at 65 mph, give a wave, because it's probably me.
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