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Friday, July 10th, 2009
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3:32 pm - Grrrr....
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| Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
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12:06 pm - Gotta feel sorry for abusive dads... NOT!
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So Michael cut his dad out of the will.
When will the media start referring to him as Penniless Joe Jackson?
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| Friday, June 26th, 2009
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3:05 pm - RIP
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| Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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8:27 am - Father's Day success!
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For father's day, I flew home from an 11 day vacation in hawaii.... IN FIRST CLASS! Alison upgraded us all with her miles for Father's Day. Sweet!
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| Monday, May 18th, 2009
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1:14 pm - Sung to the tune of "Kyle's mom" by Cartman
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If you don't know the tune to Kyle's Mom, you should youtube or hulu or whatever it is you kids do these days.
Katie's a bean :
Wellllllll
Katie's a bean, she's big ole bean,
She's the biggest bean in the whole wide world.
She's a cutey bean if there ever was a bean
She's a bean to all the boys and girls!
On Monday she's a bean
On Tuesday she's a bean
On Wednesdays and Saturdays she's a bean
Then on Sunday just to be different
She's a super king Kamehameha Bee-on!
Have you ever met my beeb Katie bean?
She's the biggest bean in the whole wide world,
She's a cutey bean and she has beany hair,
She's a bean, bean, bean, bean, bean, bean, bean,
Bean, bean, bean, bean, bean, bean, bean, bean,
Katie's bean, she's such a sweetie bean,
I really mean it,
Katie bean, she's a cutie, giggly bean
Such a cute gigglin' bean, Katie beeeeean!
Yeahhhhh, Chaaaaa!
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| Monday, May 11th, 2009
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9:52 pm - Commuting...
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So I work very close to home and very close to work. So I've been dropping Katie off at daycare. This has led me to the conclusion that commuting in a truck sucks. So I've suggested to Alison that I get a small commuter car for dropping off Katie and scooting to work. She has laughed in my face. However, I still long for one!
My two favorite ideas are :
Mini Cooper Clubman
Volkswagen Beetle (from the 60s or 70s!)
How awesome would either of those be? SO AWESOME!
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| Friday, May 8th, 2009
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10:51 pm - Katie barfed in my eye.
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In my eye. She barfed right in it. Pow.
I was wearing glasses and she managed to not get a single drop of baby vomit on them. It was like in that terrible assassin movie where they can bend the flight path of bullets, except with barf. And instead of hitting a side of beef, it hit my eye.
It made me wish I had an eyewash station in our house, cause that stuff BURNS!
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| Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
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8:52 pm - I haven't really watched Heroes since about the third episode of season 2
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And watching the finale of season 4 made me remember why.
Edit : Suresh - SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP! YOU MAKE DOUGIE HOWSER SOUND LIKE MORGAN FREEMAN! YOU MAKE DAFFY DUCK SOUND LIKE MARTIN LUTHER KING!
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4:35 pm - Lame baby post.
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I haven't posted much about the fact that I'm now a dad. And I have been one for almost seven months. Yah, I went a little crazy around the delivery, but I haven't said much since.
Well to rectify that, here are my top 5 favorite baby nicknames I have given Katie in no particular order :
KatieBean
Beebzilla
Dr. Beeblestein (She's the one that makes us feel aaaallllright!)
Sugarbutt
Beebzlebub
I like being a dad, but I miss not having to schedule 'goof off' time.
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| Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
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9:46 am - OMG...
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| Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
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12:54 pm - I started my new job.
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| Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
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9:46 pm - OMG...
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Lost is the Twin Peaks of our time.
Seriously, in a decade we'll look back and think "What the hell? Why did we watch that again?"
If it turns out the island is possessed by a ghost, I'm shooting my T.V.
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| Friday, December 26th, 2008
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9:00 pm - More of the book. Wait, what book? Oh yah, THAT book!
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So I was writing a book, and kinda got distracted when my computer went down, and baby-making stuff started up. But I recently went back, reread what I had saved by putting it up on LJ, and decided to start it up again. So sneak a peak back at the previous entries, and then you can read the next chapter, if'n you want.
You can find the first chapter back here, but you need to be on the book filter. Just let me know if you want to be on the filter, eh?
( Click for Chapter 5 )
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| Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
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8:37 pm - I finally saw it....
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So I finally saw Idiocracy. And I gotta say, I agree with everyone who said "Interesting and potentially thought provoking premise.... absolutely shitty execution."
I think I laughed once in the whole movie.
Even monkey erections didn't make me laugh. How bad to you have to mess up to make me not laugh at MONKEY GENITALIA?
It did make me think, however. Specifically, it made me think "When the hell is this movie going to be over?" I'm EXTREMELY glad I NetFlixed it, and didn't buy it.
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| Monday, December 8th, 2008
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8:59 am - So very, very true...
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| Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
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8:43 pm
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| Monday, November 10th, 2008
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2:27 pm - Let's bail out the Auto Industry.
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I'm all for bailing out the auto industry to make sure we keep manufacturing jobs in the U.S.A. How should we do it? By laughing as Ford/GM/etc go bankrupt. Instead of giving them the tens billions of dollars they need to stay in business for another year before before begging for more, why not give grants to small companies with well fleshed out ideas for efficient cars?
Why not give Tesla a grant instead of Ford? Why not Aptera?
Why keep the big three around when they've demonstrated their inability to run a profitable company? We could use a little baker's dozen instead of a big three.
Management has screwed their companies, and the unions danced on the corpses. Unions and businesses need to operate like symbiots, not like parasites.
Ridiculous pensions, job protections, and medical plans destroy companies just as surely as poor management foresight and lack of proper planning.
Let the big three fail, but encourage small companies to buy up their factories and get them humming making... well, something besides hummers.
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| Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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10:16 am - Politics
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Well, it's election time. Here's my opinion, and it's as worthless as anybody elses.
Economy : Neither candidate has shown that they understand anything about what's going on. We've had a massive credit bubble over the last 20 years, one that really got cooking over the last 10 and went nuts over the last 6 or so. All this babbling about keeping house prices up is stupid. The problem isn't falling house prices, the problem is artificially high housing prices. They are currently correcting. Falling house prices is a good thing for our country in the long run. The stock market collapse is similar. As a whole, we got to the point where we couldn't service our debt awhile ago. But thanks to shoddy lending, we could borrow MORE to pay off our current payments and buy more shiney stuff. Now it's gotten to the point where we can no longer even pretend we can pay off the debt and can no longer take on more debt to mask it. That means we have to start paying off the debt and living within our means, and defaulting on the portions we have no hope of paying off, usually mortgages.
When this all shakes out and housing is back down to where it's cheaper to own than to rent, but you have to have 20% down to buy, housing will bottom out. The stock market will get back down to where buying a stock is worthwhile based on the dividends, not on expected price growth.
John McCain said we need to buy up people's mortgages and keep them in their houses. Socialist. Retard.
Barack Obama said similar things. Socialist. Retard.
Advantage : None. (Or Ron Paul!)
(Minor note, Obama does have fewer supply side idiots on his economic council, so if it came down to it, I'd tip it to Obama.)
Military : McCain has some experience in the Military constantly crashing planes, Barack has none. If we really were in a serious war, I'd have to tip it to McCain. How do we know Obama would properly crash planes?
Advantage : McCain.
Foreign Policy : Well, McCain acts like a sanctimonious asshat a lot of times, and Barack comes across as a statesman. But that just may be that McCain's been around a lot longer, so we have more of his gaffs on tape. And Obama seems less likely to bomb and more likely to talk than McCain. I'd have to say I lean Obama here.
Advantage : Obama
Social Policy : I used to like McCain because he refused to bend to the Religious Right for his politicking. Now he's got his nose up the Bible Basher's butts. Freedom of Religion means that YOU DO NOT SET LEGAL POLICY BASED ON THE BIBLE! Anti-gay and gay marriage is a prime example. Freedom of Religion means that gay people can get married. THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS! If I believe gays can marry, but your interpretation of the bible is that they can't, the government should err on the side of individual rights. McCain cozying up to the nut jobs on the right changes this from a no-advantage to Obama. And with more supreme court justices retiring, we need more socially liberal judges up there to keep people from spreading religious sanctioned hate ideology into law.
Advantage : Obama
Government Spending : Both Candidates suck. Smaller government, please. Obama will do the typical democrat move and shovel money at poor people, and McCain will shovel it at rich people. And they'll both do it by stealing it from our kids via deficits. Republicans and McCain have lost all claim to fiscal conservatism, so this is no longer an advantage McCain, it's a toss up. (And both candidates are tosspots in this category.) The government has no business doing a large percentage of what it does. And all anybody who gets elected to anything does is try to INCREASE the size of the government. Idiots. It may well take a real revolution to resize government. Neither candidate says anything useful about Social Security or Medicare.
Advantage : Ron Paul. (Again!)
Immigration : Illegal immigrants suck. They're breaking the law to get here, and being exploited by their employers, and they bring a lot of crime with them. Legal immigrants are good. They're harder to exploit and bring less crime. Nobody ever proposes the correct solution, which is to fine businesses that hire illegal aliens 100k per illegal alien. Give it a one year deadline before you go in and start shutting down businesses that employ illegals. If you can't run your business without exploiting illegals, you don't have a good business plan, so goodbye and screw you. Allow for more work-visas with citizenship routes to mexicans and other foreigners. As for illegals already here? Go get the hell in line in Mexico. But allow businesses to request work visas for specific people for a fee. They still have to go back to Mexico for processing, but they can bump to the head of the line. Once you're working legally, THEN we can talk about a path to citizen ship. If you stay in the country illegally past the one year deadline, NO CITIZENSHIP FOR YOU EVER! Also, we should amend the constitution to make it that any baby born to a mother who is LEGALLY in the U.S. is a citizen, otherwise, no.
Neither candidate takes any realistic stand on illegal immigration. Not even McCain can bring himself to say it's a serious problem that needs short-term pain for a long term solution.
Advantage : None.
Health Care : McCain and Obama both throw out health care plans. McCain says he'll generate more competition from providers decoupling insurance from employment, making healthcare affordable to those who don't get it from work. Obama wants to expand work/gov insurance to everybody. Nobody shows how they'll REALLY afford to do it, or talks about long term costs. The truth is that not everybody can afford the best cutting edge medicine, and we shouldn't try and force it to be available to everybody. If you want universal coverage, it has to be limited to cheap and effective medicine and prevention, not to expensive procedures. The only way I can see it working is a very minimal universal coverage, which covers checkups, cheap and effective preventative medicine, trauma, and minimal obstetrics. (And a few other routine things that I didn't think of.) Things that shouldn't be covered : Replacing hips for 80 year olds, Preemie care if born more than 6 weeks early (These kids have millions of dollars in health care problems per kid beyond just staying alive), transplants past 65, etc. Private insurance can cover whatever people are willing to pay for, but the very basic services are available to everybody. BUT ONLY THE VERY BASIC SERVICES. As medicine progresses, things get cheaper/easier/safer and would eventually move into the basic services. But we're not spending millions to keep people alive an extra year. Private insurance can do that.
Advantage : None
Iraq : Nobody is going to solve this. And I don't believe Obama is going to yank us out of there in his first hundred days. And McCain sure as heck isn't going to. I'd LOVE to be able to give this to Obama, but I just don't believe he'll pull us out quickly. I hope I'm wrong because I think he's going to win.
Advantage : None.
As you can see, I only barely like Obama in this election. I hope he'll be a better president than I think he's going to be. And having majorities in both branches of congress isn't going to help him be a good president. Rubberstamp congresses allow for executive excess as Bush has so amply demonstrated.
As for Congress/senate, I'm voting AGAINST any incumbant that voted for the housing bail out bill, or to allow Bush to go to war, or for the Homeland Security Act. So... I'm voting against all of my incumbant, basically. Even if that means voting for a republican. DOWN WITH INCUMBANTS!
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| Monday, November 3rd, 2008
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4:34 pm - Obama's Grandma Died!
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I of course told work I had to go home and mourn. I'm too sad to work now.
Oh wait... I'm not sad at all. In fact, that news has zero bearing on me, the economy, the fitness of anybody who may or may not need me to vote for them, or the price of left-over halloween candy.
SO WHY THE HELL WON'T THE NEWS SHUT UP ABOUT IT?
You too, LJ communities.
It is not news.
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| Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
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11:33 pm - O...M...G...
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How can you make a movie with Jackie Chan and Jet Li and make it suck? Watch The Forbidden Kingdom and find out!
<vader>The sauce is weak in this one.</vader>
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