Sigh.

I have neighbors. He's either not there much or quiet as a church mouse. She is a bull in a china shop. STOMPing around the place and the stairs, having LOUD conversations on the phone. It would appear that her life consists of smoking, getting really drunk, and talking about it to her friends. I'm not sure, but it sounds like she hasn't been out of jail all that long. And I'm pretty sure she has no idea how thin the walls are. Picture one of those college girls whose social skills consist mostly of swearing. You know, a skank Ho party girl type? Now add a few decades and you're there.

My psychic powers feel there might be police cars in the future.

Life Plan

Slab

So today I put a little over a ton of crushed rock into a hole and then poured concrete over it. Pretty exciting stuff. :-)

What about the rest of you?

Lights, Action

So, no power loss, at least where I live. We do have ongoing flash-flood advisories, but that's kind of normal for this time of year.

The movie was called "Wanted" with Angelina Jolie. My opinion? Large parts of it were the most idiotic stuff I've ever seen, but it was entertaining. The characters developed nicely without hitting me on the head or becoming sock puppets. Don't go into it with a lot of expectations, and it can be fun (if a bit silly).

Quick One

It's supposed to be pretty crappy tomorrow, thunderstorms and all. So I think I'll post less and stay up and watch a movie tonight. Who knows if the power will be on tomorrow. :-)

Hope everyone is well out there.

Just The Facts

Facts can be powerful and dangerous things. All too often I see somebody grab a handful of facts and take a wild guess or try to intuit what they mean. Worse yet, I frequently see people (in advertising and politics often) throw a sprinkling of facts into something they may or may not be related to in an effort to add credibility, knowing that we viewers often assume they wouldn't use them if they weren't connected. We lie to ourselves and they like it that way.

We are the only ones that can be responsible for critical thinking and reality checks. Nobody will do it for us. Ads tell me that certain behavior can increase my risk of some dreaded disease by 40%. Wow, that sounds pretty serious. Except when you find out that the initial risk was less than 1% to start with. So maybe I've gone from .5% all the way to .9%. Oh, the horror.

Or the bit I heard today where I'm told how many kids (are estimated) to have preventable hearing loss as if it's a sign that our modern society is getting so loud as to be the cause. I'm not told how this statistic (estimated) compares to years past. I'm not told why these (estimated) kids are suffering damage. Is it possible their own choices and behavior might be involved? Is it possible that more kids are diagnosed because more kids are tested today? Are these facts related? Or am I being bamboozled with numbers to hammer home somebody's point of view?

I'm getting a bit tired of it all. Maybe I should start making up my own uses for facts in retaliation.

What's Yours?

Okay, what's the worst movie you've ever seen? Short descriptions are okay, make sure to tell why it was bad.

For me it was a horror movie that was so incredibly predictable that a five year old could have written it. Not scary, just stupid. One house, one small boat, a bicycle, some knives, nobody that could act, and (best of all) no soundtrack. I mean no music at all. No building the suspense, and long sections without any real sound. If memory serves me, I think they made a sequel.

Land of The Dead

So I just got back from the store. I had a craving for something crunchy. There were three of us in there walking at a regular person pace. Everybody else was going no faster than I could crawl. Bare kneed on concrete. With shopping carts. And not really paying attention to others around them or where they were going. It felt like Friday night in a Zombie movie except they weren't trying to eat anybody's brains. Maybe movies and video games *can* creep into real life as my hands had a strange itch to load smooth, plastic shells into a shotgun.

The State of Culture

These won't entertain you for a terribly long time, but they are kind of entertaining.


http://cursebird.com/


http://www.morphthing.com/

Austraila Rules!

Today I got a care package from Earthkissed containing all sorts of wonderful things. Info from the home center, coins, flags, veggimite, and (best of all) TimTams. For those of you in Oz, I don't have to explain. For those of you here, think chocolate. And crispy cookie with a kind of fugdy middle. Okay, just think delicious. And then there's the TimTam slam. You can use Google. :-)

Aaaaaaarrrrgh!

So we still do Daylight STUPID Time, but now we don't even do it when the rest of the world does. I really hate it when the pukes in the government do stuff to try and look busy and concerned when we all know they're just covering their own asses. Oh, and they tell us it's for our own good.

Assholes.

Show of Hands

Have you ever known somebody who said they have contemplated suicide and you can't help wondering (silently) if maybe that might be the best thing if they're determined to be so unhappy?



Of course you can't suggest it because they would be happy to let you have the responsibility.

Spring?

It got up in the 60s today (about 18C) and it felt a bit like spring. It probably wont last long but it was kind of a relief for those of us who've gotten a bit bored with winter and depressed with all the talk of financial doom on the tube.

Tomorrow is, in fact, another day.

Not For Me, Thanks

I was gonna post a picture, but they're just kind of nasty. Besides, I think you all know how to work google by now. People are actually having their eyeballs tattooed. And sometimes it goes wrong. (cringe) I guess I'm just not man enough to risk my sight for fashion. Don't they make all kinds of really cool contact lenses for this now anyway?

(shrugs)

The Right License Plate

I know the people whose house this is and am told that the girl driving this car had to be taken to the hospital to have her stomach pumped as she was so incredibly drunk. Oh, and it took almost an hour to get the car back out from under the house to where you see it in the pictures.

Too Much Time

Not enough useful things to do. This is what happens when geeks get bored. :-)

Be nice, it's my first killer clown picture. No offense to the original picture, just playing around with software.