Ich bin sour

I cannot find a smile. I am angry and can't vent. What I want to die is my anger. I hate it! Damn do I hate being pissed -- no vent, just eat the anger and let it digest, hoping it will pass. There are too many things to name. It isn't the little things -- the main issues are aching me.

I burn.

Castle walls are hip again

If you thought the dark ages were over and long ago, then think again! Bagdad is getting its own wall. The US wants to build one at the Mexican border. I'm sure other nations will follow, keeping up with the Joneses. The theme here is not East Berlinish, keeping the populace in, but rather keeping the untouchables out. I think, if given a choice, the US should wall up all of LA, California. Yep, that would be okay!

I also think that they could have some plasma screens or something advertising for products available online at stores, so the unwanted to still spend money in your country/city/region, but not infect it with their presence. Come, buy here, just don't stay. Thank you, Management.

term: pulled a boner

Perhaps it means something embarassing. Imagine a guy at school, when for a good reason or no good reason at all -- broing! You dare not stand and if the bell rings, well, you've suddenly discovered a page needing erasing (for time to elapse). The mistake was being a guy -- with everpresent ideas of sex and women.

In my mind, I'm thinking of Yoda commenting, "Obi Wan has lost a planet. How embarassing. How embarassing."

photo smart

I brought in a CD with pictures to make a quick print for family. The picture isn't what's important, but the prompts at the self-service were. After using the CD, it asks at the end if I would like to make a picture CD. Uh, would it have been too costly to put in a couple lines of code to eliminate that?

by accident

I was at Walgreens today, making a purchase at the counter, when I mentioned to the saleswoman there that there was an oddity on a picture they had showing. She leaned over to examine the picture, I turned away from the picture to see that she was looking at it and ... cleavage. It wasn't intentional. I feel so ashamed because it was unintentional. If I had wanted to see, I would have put forth more effort. I happen to know who she is because of where I get my hair cut. She is the bi-polar daughter of a woman who works at the "salon/gallery". The saleswoman also has a child. I believe that she's still living with some guy, though unmarried.

Popeye's down day

So, they traced down the ill farm with e-Coli and laid down napalm, and it was good. And then they laid down more napalm and found that it was good, and rested. A second group wanted to know why there was e-Coli, but there wasn't much left of anything to examine, so they rested.

Spinach farmers gathered today to file for government tax abatement from a really bad year. The good news is that there weren't any advertisements that needed pulled for there are about 30-70 ratio of people who like to those who don't like spinach. You can't con people into liking it.

Popeye's chicken was unaffected except for the quasi-intellectuals who pieced together only parts and fragments assuming that Popeye's sold spinach. To-be fried chickens could only dream of an avian salvation. Disease would only bring about death in another manner. In retrospect, the chickens fried at Popeyes were overly soaked in oil and fat and killed more people than is calculated.

What's interesting is the biological processes of transmission and carrying of bacteria in crops such as spinach. I know that some plants and crops absorb heavy metals, but keeping e-Coli in stasis is, well ... new to me. I thought that it wouldn't be viable after a short time.

impressed with ziploc

impressed with ziploc
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

What happens when you overfill a plastic container, then freeze it? Well, this is one possibility. I found this in the freezer and cooked it for the folks. It was frozen chili. I liked the smoke and steam while it cooked, adding to the mystique of the shot.

Here's a little Ditty, 'bout John Chapman

While many people become legends after their deaths, John Chapman, born in Massachusetts on September 26, 1774, was a legend in his own time. Known throughout Indiana, Ohio and Illinois as Johnny Appleseed, John Chapman began his travels at the age of 18. Here are some interesting facts about this unique individual.

John did not randomly scatter apple seeds in the wilderness, rather he planted nurseries of apple trees with fences around them for protection from livestock.

He had a business plan. When Johnny traveled on, a willing neighbor would care for the nursery and sell trees on shares. Johnny would return in a year or two to check the nursery and collect his earnings.

Johnny died near Fort Wayne, Indiana, after traveling the wilderness for nearly fifty years.

Before his death he tried to give his wealth to the needy. However, Elizabeth, his sister, inherited over 1200 acres of nurseries worth millions even then.

Each year in mid-September the Johnny Appleseed Festival is held at the Johnny Appleseed Park in Fort Wayne near his grave.

Spam, then my commentary

From:Mike Johnson
RUE 25 MACCORY
ABIDJAN-COTE D'IVOIRE.
WEST AFRICA

Dear [recipient],

My name is Mike Johnson from Sierra Leonian. I am 20 years old and a student. Please I would
like you to assist me as urgent as you can,before they kill me.My father is a wealthy cocoa
merchant.Trouble began early last two year when my father's associates began suspecting that my father is not givingn proper accounts of all the tonnes of cocoa being cultivated by local
farmersn in some villages.

This mistrust deepens between Oct-Sept, 2004 when they discovered avery large some of money my father deposited with a Bank here in ABIDJAN-COTE D'IVOIRE (FORMALLY IVORY
COAST in West Africa. As a result of this discovery and the envy on the money he was poisioned by his associates.At his hospital bed ,he revealed to me the reasons of his sickness and directed me where to get the documents of the said deposit which he made on my name as the next of
kin,being the only child.He dvised me that in case he die, that I should not stay in this
country Sierre Leone because his associates will equally kill me hence my mother had died five
years ago of breast cancer.

He also instructed that if he dies, I should look for a foreign partner who will help me to transfer the money out of this place (Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire), to his account and the person will help
me to invest the money in that country. Based on this, I had to contact you
bearing in mind that you will be humane enough to protect my life. My father finally died on the 5th of june,2005 and since then, I was out of school and went into hiding because
of my father's asociates. All the relevant documents of the $8.000,000.(Eight Million United States Dollars) that was deposited in a Commercial Bank by my late father, are with me now.

I will give you 15% of the total money, if you can help me transferring it into your Account, for onward investment in your country. Please contact me immediately with the above E-mail address and include your telephone and Fax numbers to enable me send you all necessar
documents asregards the money before they kill me. It is a risk free transaction.

I'm waiting for your urgent reply.

Best regards.sincerely,

Mike Johnson

............
"I went into hiding", so that's why he's typing it! It also explains why he correctly spells words in one place and then incorrectly in other places. "Sierra Lionan ... of the said documents", wow! I can imagine so many other nation using these phrases. Gosh, I should honestly trust some one I don't know who has the name, "Mike Johnson" who is a Sierra Lionan; with this "risk free transaction". Yeah, I'll hop right on that. I guess he got the idea from the Nigerian prince.

Why Africa? I suppose because it is a technological island; isolated and a very large continent with many nations -- generally poor and in turmoil. I can imagine a Madagascar prince emailing from the thriving metropolis' there, or, hey, how about rich Ethiopia with thriving kingdoms and stable government. I guess they need to find a fast track to infomercial purchasers.

girl who was so stupid

I was in love with a girl who was so stupid
She said she got shot by some guy cupid
I said I don't care about that
Now let me take shot on that
I was in love with a girl who was so stupid

used eharmony, lovematch, dates dot com
all my dates turned out to eventually bomb
game and charm, money, fame
in the end, it's just me to blame

I was in love with a girl who liked to show me
But what I really wanted her to do was blow me
She'd tease me day and night
and that would make us fight
I was in love with a girl who liked to show me

used eharmony, lovematch, dates dot com
all my dates turned out to eventually bomb
game and charm, money, fame
in the end, it's just me to blame

I was in love with a girl who was a baker
When she made a lot of noise she was a faker
Variety is the spice of life
She said she'd never be my wife
I was in love with a girl who liked to show me

inspired by Girl on LSD by Tom Petty

do homework

do homework
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

I was supposed to do what? I think in school I had a few of these pages, useless save for humor. So, like, this isn't going to help my grade, right?

runners up

"Today the Democratic and Republican primaries were held all across the country. So far, it's evenly split between those who forgot to vote and those who chose not to vote."

 --Conan O'Brien  

IHOP sign

French Toast
Fantasy
Now Hiring

Okay... what does that mean?

Bitchin'!

I wanna boycott because it makes noise! What a load of BS! This is a crowning example of where NAACP really fails to make itself credible. If they would look at the numbers, there is no real reason to throw a fit. Then F 'em, don't build there and let them exercise atrition onto their "constituents". What a ruddy bother, why put forth the time to type it? Oh, look ... they started using blue ink in the newspaper, that must be racially motivated.

madness course 101

I've been with thousands of beers, throughout all these years

....

I keep drinking and peeing and peeing and drinking, and always too soon!

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searching for analogy

I couldn't find a comparably bad horror film to relate it to Hills Have Eyes, until I saw Cerpicio's blog, then remembered Cabin Fever. Now that had terrible with horrorible, splashed grossly with wretched. I suppose it was better than Cabin Fever, but only that it had better special effects. As a side note: Hills Have Eyes had the serial killer from Silence of the Lambs ("Hannibal the Cannibal" helps find man sewing woman suit), captured by mutant cannibals. How ironic! He also plays the detective on Monk (series on USA) -- Ted Levine.

wrongful use of information

"Since you previously purchased a book by Lemony Snicket, we wanted to let you know that the author's new book, The Beatrice Letters (A Series of Unfortunate Events), is now available. Order your copy today. Of course, as a Member you'll save 10%."

 

Barnes and Noble shows why tracking is bad and the mild implications it can have.  Why would I want them to track my purchases?  Who else has access to my purchases?  That's plain evil!  I guess the lesson here is, don't buy where they "temp" you with like-purchases.  Now, had I bought a CAR, which is $14K - $65K, I might understand a couple of years later, they send you a card wondering if you might want to "upgrade" or "upscale" your vehicle.  When they track $5 purchases, that is truly scary.  What then does the grocery store do?  Do they send me carrot coupons because I buy a lot of veggies, or new BOLD laundry detergent advertisements?  Tp Barnes and Noble for a year of spamming and now purchase tracking, I give an F or single finger flying flag, if you get my metaphor.

The Hills are Alive with the sound of shit!

My word! Hills Have Eyes is like watching Bad Taste wihtout the humor and and the dialogue of Chucky, mixed a Troma film. What the? I suppose, for lack of a better anaology: X-files with interbreeding family of many generations expanded into a full-length movie noting nuclear testing as cause of mutations (stubborn miners who wouldn't leave). Gee, sound famiar Louisianna?

I would strongly recommend against this movie, unless you want to turn people off from movies, in which case it works great for that project.

In other news

I need to wind down -- slowed with time (no, that never works), alcohol can, sleep is better, but that is a long away dream. I slept well for about 2 hours this morning, then the morning began and my wonderful sleep was necessarily interrupted and moving, planning and other things began. Of course, ending in Mother returning home, it was worth it. The bathroom plans were hit and miss and there is still work to do.

Home

After 3 weeks and lots of pain and suffering, mother has returned; somewhat victoriously home.