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Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
1:12 am	I'm voting for Newt Besides voting to legalize alcohol sales on Sunday in Cobb County, there's another election I'm going to vote in tomorrow, and that's for Newt Gingrich for the Republican nominee for President of the United States. Why Newt? There are three good reasons, and they're named Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul, the only other candidates running. Mitt Romney, or as I call him, the Lying Suckweasel. He's been hitting every other campaign with cheap smear ads all along, because he's been outspending everyone else. In the Florida debate, he stood right there and said he had no knowledge of an ad that was running that had him in it saying "My name is Mitt Romney, and I approve this message", so he's either grossly incompetent or, again as I call him, a Lying Suckweasel. Furthermore, if Republicans are going to win the Presidency in November, they have two main issues: the economy being in the toilet, and that people hate ObamaCare (has always polled 50-60 percent in favor of repeal at Rasmussen Reports). Romney got RomneyCare passed in Massachusetts, then touted it as a model for ObamaCare, and now is disavowing any knowledge of that. He can't run against ObamaCare without looking even more blatantly like a Lying Suckweasel than normal. Rick Santorum-- well, all you need know about Rick really is that not only does he hate both abortion and birth control, he's even against amniotic fluid testing as part of prenatal care because he thinks it leads to more abortions. Plus he's a Big Government Republican, Erick Erickson has lined out all the wasteful crap that Santorum voted for when he was a Senator. Ron Paul. Ron Paul published a newsletter in the 1980s with his name prominently at the top of it that had racist content. There's absolutely no way in bloody hell that he can defeat the first black President, all his other lunacy aside. So that leaves us with Newt Gingrich, whose economic advisors say that Newt's budget will balance the budget by the end of his first term. Remember when we had a balanced budget before? That was because Newt Gingrich was the Speaker of the House. It's time for economic competence. It's time for Newt Gingrich to be the next President of the United States. (Comment on this)
Friday, August 19th, 2011
9:25 pm	I claim the verb 'malparaphrase'. To malparaphrase: to describe some event or concept with an inaccurate summation. Malice is not necessarily indicated; it can also be a noun, or turned into other parts of speech appropriately. Googling it comes up with only 12 matches, and none of them look appropriate (other languages, or things like opti- mal paraphrase, or others with a space), so I can't find anyone else having used it before. Since languages are one of humanity's first open source projects, go forth and use it as you will. Current Mood: inventive (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 30th, 2011
1:49 am	Debt So Obama and the Democrats maxed out the nation's credit card, and have the unmitigated gall to demand that the bill not come due until after the next election? What the fuck, over? Current Mood: political (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
10:29 pm	Eureka I was thinking about this week's Eureka episode, and how it was a very good thing that nobody there had listened to Dust In The Wind, ..( Here be spoilers! ) (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
10:56 pm	7 Days Of Sex Challenge Hm. Apparently the Second Annual 7 Days Of Sex Challenge starts tomorrow (Sunday). Well, what are you waiting for? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
9:04 pm	NCAA's opening round The 'First Four' name for the four games in the opening round of the NCAA tournament is awfully silly. Though, when they inevitably go from 68 to 72 teams, they can call them the Extra Eight. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, March 14th, 2011
1:31 am	2011 flat ASCII NCAA bracket They decided to screw with the bracket more this year by upping the number of teams from 65 to 68, which ups the number of opening-round games from 1 to 4, so I couldn't exactly hide it in the middle of the bracket like I did previously. I tried sticking them in between the regionals but that looked really cramped and ugly, so I pulled them out and stuck them in the upper right and lower right corners. 2nd Round 3rd Round Regionals 1st Round Dayton March 17-20 March 24-27 March 15-16 1. Ohio State ----\_________ Texas-San Antonio \_16E 16. _______________/ (7)|_________ Alabama State ----/ Wed 8. George Mason --\_________| | Alabama-Birmingham\_12E 9. Villanova -----/ |_________ Clemson ----------/ Tue 5. West Virginia -\_________ | | 12. _______________/ (2)|_________| | Final Four 4. Kentucky ------\_________| Fri/Sun | April 2, 4 13. Princeton -----/ East |_________ 6. Xavier --------\_________ Newark | | 11. Marquette -----/ (7)|_________ | | 3. Syracuse ------\_________| | | | 14. Indiana State -/ |_________| | 7. Washington ----\_________ | | 10. Georgia -------/ (5)|_________| | 2. North Carolina \_________| | 15. Long Island ---/ |_________ 1. Duke ----------\_________ | | 16. Hampton -------/ (5)|_________ | | 8. Michigan ------\_________| | | | 9. Tennessee -----/ |_________ | | 5. Arizona -------\_________ | | | | 12. Memphis -------/ (8)|_________| | | | 4. Texas ---------\_________| Thu/Sat | | | 13. Oakland -------/ West |_________| | 6. Cincinnati ----\_________ Anaheim | | 11. Missouri ------/ (4)|_________ | Thu/Sat | 3. Connecticut ---\_________| | | (1) Denver | 14. Bucknell ------/ |_________| (2) Tampa | 7. Temple --------\_________ | (3) Tucson | 10. Penn State ----/ (3)|_________| (4) Washington DC | 2. San Diego State\_________| | 15. Northern Colorado Houston |_________ 1. Kansas --------\_________ | 2011 16. Boston University (8)|_________ Fri/Sun | Champion 8. Nevada-Las Vegas_________| | (5) Charlotte | 9. Illinois ------/ |_________ (6) Chicago | 5. Vanderbilt ----\_________ | | (7) Cleveland | 12. Richmond ------/ (1)|_________| | (8) Tulsa | 4. Louisville ----\_________| Fri/Sun | | 13. Morehead State / Southwest |_________ | 6. Georgetown ----\_________ San Antonio | | | 11. _______________/ (6)|_________ | | | 3. Purdue --------\_________| | | | | 14. Saint Peter's -/ |_________| | | 7. Texas A&M -----\_________ | | | 10. Florida State -/ (6)|_________| | | 2. Notre Dame ----\_________| | | 15. Akron ---------/ |_________| 1. Pittsburgh ----\_________ | 16. _______________/ (4)|_________ | 8. Butler --------\_________| | | 9. Old Dominion --/ |_________ | 5. Kansas State --\_________ | | | 12. Utah State ----/ (3)|_________| | | 4. Wisconsin -----\_________| Thu/Sat | | 13. Belmont -------/ Southeast |_________| 6. St. John's ----\_________ New Orleans | 11. Gonzaga -------/ (1)|_________ | 3. Brigham Young -\_________| | | 1st Round Dayton 14. Wofford -------/ |_________| March 15-16 7. UCLA ----------\_________ | Southern Cal -----\_11SW 10. Michigan State / (2)|_________| Virginia Commonwealth/ Wed 2. Florida -------\_________| North Carolina-Asheville\_16SE 15. California-Santa Barbara Arkansas-Little Rock/ Tue Current Mood: march madness (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
3:00 am	Daylight shavings Nine clocks changed for daylight savings. Less than some years. Current Mood: timely (Comment on this)
Monday, March 7th, 2011
11:04 pm	Charlie Sheen, like everyone else Charlie Sheen to me seems like a man who doesn't realize that the microphone of Life is still on. I fully expect that sometime in the coming weeks he's going to come out and say, "Dude, I was on a bender and totally lost track of time, I'm sorry-- wait, what? it's 2011 already? March? What's a twitter? And what happened to my TV show?" (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
2:13 am	Dude. Sylvester McCoy as Radagast the Brown. And, Cate Blanchett returning as Galadriel. This is going to rock. Current Mood: more Tolkienesque than normal (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
9:03 pm	Do your part to help piss off Nintendo! Nintendo has decided to be lame and is attempting to trademark the phrase 'on like Donkey Kong'. So here's what we can do to spite them: replace it with 'on like Krazy Kong'. Krazy Kong was a ripoff bootleg of Donkey Kong back when Donkey Kong was second only to Pac-Man in the arcades at the beginning of the 1980s. Nintendo sure won't want to trademark that phrase! Tell your friends! Down with 'on like Donkey Kong', up with 'on like Krazy Kong'! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
4:07 pm	Sex at least once a week. Doctor's orders! http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/21/why-you-should-have-sex-at-least-once-a-week/ (Comment on this)
3:25 am	Your election choice: zombie apocalypse vs. barking dog This whole piece is just made of awesome. I'll give you the punchline paragraph: But the Democrats will counter that the Republicans also suck. And while this is true, it’s not really going to help them. As I pointed out before, both a dog incessantly barking and a zombie apocalypse are things that everyone would agree suck. Yet no one during a zombie apocalypse, while hiding out in a boarded up mall, would turn to the other survivors and say, “We don’t want to kill all the zombies; then we’d have to go back to being woken up at night by that annoying dog next door.” But this is the best argument the Democrats can come up with. “Remember how awful the Republicans and Bush were? You hated them. You don’t want to go back to that.” Yes, why would people want to go back to when 6% unemployment was considered high? (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 20th, 2010
1:01 am	21st annual Brigadoon Day for 2010 TinyMUD Classic is up for its 21st annual Brigadoon Day! Come visit at muds.toccobrator.com 4201, for more info visit Classic's webpage: http://toccobrator.com/classic.html (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
2:00 am	Dude, this is pretty fucked up right here http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/ (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
12:45 am	Fuckhead lawmakers trying to run our lives, part 1389 Check out this bullshit that the Legislature wants to cram down our throats: A Toccoa legislator is sponsoring a bill to require random drug testing of recipients of unemployment compensation benefits and other government assistance. HB 1389, sponsored by Rep. Michael Harden, would require that the cost of the drug test be paid by the recipient or deducted from his or her benefits. Failing the drug test could result in a loss of benefits. Harden's proposal calls for the Georgia labor commissioner to conduct annual random drug testing of unemployment benefit recipients. Yeah, because people on UNEMPLOYMENT have money to burn just to satisfy the nanny instincts of some fuckhead congressman. How about we put breathalysers on the floor of the Statehouse and require that every state senator and congressman have to pass one before their vote on any bill be counted? That would do a lot more good, IMHO. Current Mood: pissed off (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
8:17 pm	Finrod's 2010 flat-ASCII NCAA men's tournament bracket 1st Round 2nd Round Regionals Final Four March 18-21 March 25-28 April 3, 5 1. Kansas --------\_________ 16. Lehigh --------/ (1)|_________ 8. UNLV ----------\_________| | 9. Northern Iowa -/ |_________ 5. Michigan State \_________ | | 12. New Mexico State (5)|_________| | 4. Maryland ------\_________| Fri/Sun | 13. Houston -------/ Midwest |_________ 6. Tennessee -----\_________ St. Louis | | 11. San Diego State/ (2)|_________ | | 3. Georgetown ----\_________| | | | 14. Ohio ----------/ |_________| | 7. Oklahoma State \_________ | | 10. Georgia Tech --/ (6)|_________| | 2. Ohio State ----\_________| | 15. Santa Barbara -/ |_________ 1. Syracuse ------\_________ | | 16. Vermont -------/ (7)|_________ | | 8. Gonzaga -------\_________| | | | 9. Florida State -/ |_________ | | 5. Butler --------\_________ | | | | 12. Texas-El Paso -/ (3)|_________| | | | 4. Vanderbilt ----\_________| Thu/Sat | | | 13. Murray State --/ West |_________| | 6. Xavier --------\_________ Salt Lake City| | 11. Minnesota -----/ (6)|_________ | Thu/Sat | 3. Pittsburgh ----\_________| | | (1) Oklahoma City | 14. Oakland -------/ |_________| (2) Providence | 7. Brigham Young -\_________ | (3) San Jose | 10. Florida -------/ (1)|_________| (4) New Orleans | 2. Kansas State --\_________| | 15. North Texas ---/ Mar 16*/Arkansas-Pine Bluff Indianapolis |_________ 1. Kentucky ------\_________ \Winthrop | 2010 16. East Tennessee State (4)|_________ Fri/Sun | Champion 8. Texas ---------\_________| | (5) Spokane | 9. Wake Forest ---/ |_________ (6) Milwaukee | 5. Temple --------\_________ | | (7) Buffalo | 12. Cornell -------/ (8)|_________| | (8) Jacksonville | 4. Wisconsin -----\_________| Thu/Sat | | 13. Wofford -------/ East |_________ | 6. Marquette -----\_________ Syracuse | | | 11. Washington ----/ (3)|_________ | | | 3. New Mexico ----\_________| | | | | 14. Montana -------/ |_________| | | 7. Clemson -------\_________ | | | 10. Missouri ------/ (7)|_________| | | 2. West Virginia -\_________| | | 15. Morgan State --/ |_________| 1. Duke ----------\_________ | 16. * -------------/ (8)|_________ | 8. California ----\_________| | | 9. Louisville ----/ |_________ | 5. Texas A&M -----\_________ | | | 12. Utah State ----/ (5)|_________| | | 4. Purdue --------\_________| Fri/Sun | | 13. Siena ---------/ South |_________| 6. Notre Dame ----\_________ Houston | 11. Old Dominion --/ (4)|_________ | 3. Baylor --------\_________| | | 14. Sam Houston State |_________| 7. Richmond ------\_________ | 10. St. Mary's ----/ (2)|_________| 2. Villanova -----\_________| 15. Robert Morris -/ It seems like it gets harder each year to convince a printer to do a simple 80-column, 66-line monospaced page. Oh well, at least this year I didn't have to figure out how to reformat my bracket, like I will next year if they expand the tournament to 96 teams. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
4:26 am	New alcoholic drink So, I've been experimenting with a new alcoholic drink lately. I don't have a name for it yet, so if anyone has any suggestions, please comment away. Here goes: 1.5oz vodka 1.5oz irish cream (Bailey's or other) 1.5oz Kahlua 1.5oz amaretto 6oz milk Nestle Quik ice Combine Nestle Quik (as much as you'd use with 12oz milk; for me 3 heaping spoonfuls) with 6oz milk in one glass. Stir vigorously. In another glass combine all 4 of the alcohols. Mix together (I do it by pouring it back and forth between the glasses a couple times). Fill the rest of the glass (you'll probably want an 18-20oz glass, preferably insulated) with ice. Add a straw (if that's your thing) and enjoy. Current Mood: somewhat drunk (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
4:29 pm	Finrod's Dice Game If you are or ever were a gamer geek (the paper and pencil type, not the online computer type), you probably have at least one set, and probably more, of those dice collections that have one of every major type, usually 1 each of d4, d6, d8, d10, d12 and d20 (some have two d10s, for use as percentile dice). Friends that aren't gamer-types may have asked you what such a set is for, and really there isn't a good short answer to that question. That is, until now: tell them that they're to play Finrod's Dice Game. I came up with this game while pointlessly playing with such a set years ago, but I never got around to writing down the rules anywhere. So with no further introduction, here are the rules: --- Finrod's Dice Game --- This game is played with 1 die each of varying sides: 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 20 (hereafter abbreviated d4, d6, etc.) The play is much like Yahtzee, except there is only one goal: get the dice into an increasing, or at least non-decreasing, order. In short, to win, you need: d4 < d6 < d8 < d10 < d12 < d20. If you don't have that, but you at least have d4 <= d6 <= d8 <= d10 <= d12 <= d20, then you tie. Otherwise, you lose. You get three rolls, exactly like Yahtzee, where you can reroll any or all (or none) of the dice on your second and third rolls, but you must choose which dice you are rerolling before any are rolled. That's it for the rules. For multiple games, keep track of your win/tie/loss totals; for competitive play, you can play that whoever gets to a certain number of wins first wins the match, or the only person to have not reached a certain number of losses wins, or count a tie as half a win and half a loss and whoever has the highest winning percentage after a given number of games wins. There are some tricky strategic decisions that come up at times, but I'll leave the analysis of those for another post, or to you the reader. Have fun! Current Mood: calculating (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
10:06 pm	Job Opportunity In Nevada BEATTY, Nev. -- The owner of a brothel more than two hours' drive from Las Vegas said she hopes to hire Nevada's first legal male prostitutes within a month, now that a state health board has approved a method to test them for infectious diseases. Shady Lady Ranch owner Bobbi Davis told The Associated Press she believes the world's ready for women, or even other men, to legally buy sex from hired hands at her remote bordello near the Nye County town of Beatty. (Comment on this)