I was talking to one of my coworkers today, who mentioned watching some documentary about the Holocaust, and what a horrible event it was. It reminded me of the time I met a survivor. It was during the first year I was working @ my current job, back in 2002. In addition to shipping orders…
Category: Life The Universe and Everything
EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A CRAPPY JOB
That’s right, I think everyone should have a job that they hate. I don’t mean forever, of course. But at least once in your life, for a period of time that shouldn’t be too long, but just long enough to really hate it. a job that they can’t stand. A job that makes you dread…
OKCUPID GOLDMINE
A couple of weeks ago, someone shared this new Tumblr site called OKCUPID GOLDMINE, which appears to be a worthy successor to the now-defunct “Nice Guys of OKCUPID” site which I previously wrote about here: “NICE GUYS” FINISH LAST (BECAUSE THEY DESERVE TO)” This one seems to be striving to be a bit more fair,…
REMEMBERING DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Well, it is Black History Month, after all… As Chris Rock said in one of his routines years ago, the only thing they ever taught in school about “Black History” was Martin Luther King Jr. Like that was the answer to everything. What’s the capital of Zaire? MARTIN LUTHER KING! But, y’know, the truth is,…
DRIVE SAFELY
I saw a car accident on my way to work this morning. I’ll try my best to describe the situation so you can picture it in your head. Imagine a 4-way intersection. That’s not exactly what it was, but close enough. Two lanes going South, two lanes going North, and one West lane and…
“NICE GUYS” FINISH LAST (BECAUSE THEY DESERVE TO)
A couple of weeks ago, someone launched this new blog on Tumblr called “Nice Guys” of OK Cupid. And it quickly got quite a bit of attention across the net. It’s basically meant to expose (& mock) the fallacy of the men who complain that they can’t find a good woman because they are “too…
SPAM
I don’t know what the frak happened, I must have clicked onto the wrong website somewhere, but for the past 4 or 5 weeks I have been getting a crapload of SPAM. I mean, way more than usual. Around 25 new emails a day. It all goes to the Junk folder, so @ least I’m…
AMAZON.COM’S AWFUL OVERREACTION
Why is Amazon deleting writers’ reviews of other authors’ books? By Carolyn Kellogg If emails from Amazon’s customer service team are a fair indicator, it appears the online retailer considers authors to be direct competitors of other authors. And email chains are all we have to go on, as Amazon did not respond to our…
GREED IS NOT GOOD
There was a situation at my job recently, where a 10-year employee was suddenly fired. And we found out that it was because he had been caught stealing from the company. This was a huge shock to everyone, because it was so unexpected. I personally thought that I knew this guy very well but, apparently,…
ONE THING I NEVER UNDERSTOOD ABOUT PIRATES. . .
<img src="” alt=”” /> No, I don’t mean THAT kinda pirate. I mean THIS kinda pirate: Look, I’m against piracy, illegal bootlegging and file-sharing of intellectual property, be it music, movies, ebooks, whatever. But I don’t really want to argue about that right now. My confusion is about the motivation of the uploaders. I totally…
THOSE WACKY ROYALS
So, some worthless scumbag paparazzi snapped pictures of Princess Kate topless, and they’ve been published in several magazines along the world (no, I will not link to them here, look ’em up yourself perverts ^_^ ) Now, for the record, I think this is a horrible invasion of her privacy but, on the other hand,…
NEWS 9-11-2012
I thought I’d comment on a few random stories in the news today. . . Paul Ryan To Go Up With Television Ads For His House Seat HUDSON, Wis. — Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan plans to begin airing ads in Wisconsin as he asks voters to elect him to an eighth House term…
REMEMBER, REMEMBER, THE 11TH OF SEPTEMBER. . .
It’s almost hard to believe that it’s been 11 years since that day. I remember I woke up that morning, I think it was around 5:30am, got up to use the bathroom and then got back into bed to sleep some more before getting up for work. As I lay in bed I turned on…
OLD PEOPLE DRIVING
Doctor sued over fatal crash by patient with dementia Survivors of the driver’s boyfriend accuse the doctor of failing to report his patient so the DMV could take her license. September 07, 2012|By Jessica Garrison and Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times Nobody disputes that 85-year-old Lorraine Sullivan steered her Toyota Corolla into oncoming traffic, causing…
FACEPARCHMENT.COM
I saw this new viral promo video for MIRROR MIRROR, an updated film about Snow White, starring Julia Roberts as the evil Queen. And my first thought was: that’s funny. And my 2nd thought was: I wonder if they locked down all those fake domains? So I checked and, well, guess who owns FACEPARCHMENT.COM now,…
Originally posted on click, view, learn – adam maikkula:
I’ve written before on Jay-Z’s partnership with Water For Life and the UN to raise awareness of the world’s water crisis, but after seeing a video from the World Food Programme about rapper 50 Cent visiting Somalia to see how his donations have helped during the…
SPACE: THE FINAL FRONTIER
I know I’m late on this, but I still felt it was worth writing about. Newt Gingrich promises to build a moon colony by 2020; make it a U.S. state By Tecca | Today in Tech – Thu, Jan 26, 2012 The race for the Republican presidential nomination is about to blast off into outer…
Originally posted on The Eburne Chronicles:
A neighbor on my block has a Confederate flag hanging from his porch. I find it deeply offensive, but there seems to be a “don’t fuck with me, I won’t fuck with you” understanding between us that keeps the…
BLAH BLAH BLAH
Dang, for a bloke who calls his site “iBLOGalot” (& I still can’t believe that domain wasn’t already taken when I tried to register it), I sure don’t seem to be blogging a lot, lately. Here it is, Jan. 22, and my last post was Jan. 11. That’s no good. Don’t you hate it when…
THE TEN PRETTIEST JEWISH WOMEN (in my opinion).
10 BROOKE BURKE Forty, and still fabulous! 9 CINDY MARGOLIS She’s Milf-tastic! 8 LISA LOEB I think whomever invented the word “adorkable”, had her in mind. 7 SARAH SILVERMAN Funny is sexy 6 MILA KUNIS I only recently came to appreciate her. She grew on me over the years. 5 EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI Didn’t always like…
TIGER WOODS, HERMAN CAIN, JAY Z, and BLACK KIDS
Tiger Woods Ends 2-Year Victory Drought Two years after his life and career came crashing down, Tiger Woods is a winner again. One shot behind with two holes to play, Woods finally looked like the player who dominated golf for so much of his career. He birdied his last two holes Sunday, making a 6-foot…
MY “BLACK FRIDAY” MESSAGE TO EVERYONE…
Hey you! Yes, YOU! It’s that time of the year again, so you know what that means? It’s time to spend money! So what are you waiting for? Go spend money! Lots and lots of money! Buy things! Buy lots of things! Don’t worry about the price of anything, retailers across the country are slashing…
BLAH BLAH etc.
Ex-wife put Hulk Hogan against ropes in divorce settlement Linda Bollea, 52, who divorced Hulk Hogan in 2009, received a little more than 70 percent of the couple’s liquid assets in their divorce settlement, a recent court filing shows. SHE got 70%?!? How many body-slams and chair-shots to the head did she ever take? He…
WHAT YOU TALKIN’ ‘BOUT?
I’ve been very lax on both keeping this blog updated, and keeping up with what’s going on in the blogs I have listed on the OTHER BLOGS I READ list on the front page. I’ll kill two birds with one stone and go look over each blog and then respond to whatever their most recent…
11-11-11
Let’s look @ the news. First Thoughts: Romney’s clear path I’m beginning to think that, instead of a Mormon, Mitt Romney is actually a Satanist. Because it seems like he must have made a deal with the devil to get him the GOP Presidential nomination. So far, he’s been running the perfect campaign, he has…
