Month: June 2004

Ray Charles, the Grammy-winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as “What'd I Say” and heartfelt ballads like “Georgia on My Mind,” died Thursday, a spokesman said. He was 73.

Blind by age 7 and an orphan at 15, Charles spent his life shattering any notion of musical boundaries and defying easy definition. A gifted pianist and saxophonist, he dabbled in country, jazz, big band and blues, and put his stamp on it all with a deep, warm voice roughened by heartbreak from a hardscrabble childhood in the segregated South.

Bunch of incompetent fucks. These are people that cannot find their ass with both hands and a map.

They've managed to screw up my loan payments YET AGAIN, and this time my rent check bounced like a superball, making my roommate unhappy and blemishing my credit history.

ahem, can everybody hear me? yes? good.

The National Bank of Canada is run by a bunch of poo-flinging monkeys that can't tell dick from elbow!

thank you, that is all.

Jaysus!

Get an email from my boss yesterday, telling me we have a meeting with a few developers for an upcoming project today at 12:30. I figure ok, nothing too bad.

The fucking thing lasted 4 hours.

FOUR HOURS!!!

Nonstop. My brain is officially fried. For the last hour and a half, I was watching people's lips move, and hearing wonkwonkwonkwonkwonk (sound like Charlie Brown's parents).

I need a drink.

Just got a phone call out of the blue. It's my mom, telling me she misses me and she loves me. Teehee :D

Tonight was a fun night, and it really hit the spot. eniran picked me up after work and, after a quick hop at my place to get some pasta sauce goodness, we headed over to her mum's place so I could cook dinner for the two sarcastabitches. Her mum is a blast, I love her :D

Made lasagna and some muffins (so good!), which were all well received (yay!). After dinner, we went to see Shrek 2. It's a GREAT movie. I need to see it again. That movie spoofs everything of note in the last 10 years, from Flashdance to the Little Mermaid. Most excellent. I'm certain that I missed a ton of gags, just because there's so many of them, and they go by so quickly.

Now I'm back home, and I'm going to read a bit before going to bed. Maybe have a muffin… yes, that definitively has potential :D

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – “Boys, if you vote for the liberals, I'll strip,” a girl in jeans and a revealing shirt teases Hungarian voters in a mock advert for the European elections. It was filmed for a joke during the shooting of the liberal Free Democrats official broadcast, in which the girl features, campaign coordinator Gabor Horn told Hungarian news portal index.hu.

The Web site has posted the seven-second clip at www.index.hu/cikkepek/0406/szdsz.mpa.

The short ad is a lighter moment in an increasingly bitter campaign for the June 13 elections in which the ruling party Socialists and opposition Fidesz sling mud at each other.

Atheists are often very grumpy and bitter and will lash out at children
or they may even try to trick you into neglecting God's Word.
I ended up on this website today: http://objective.jesussave.us/kidz.html, don't ask me how I got here, I don't even know myself.

Man…. I have my beefs with organized religion. I especially have issues with people saying “my religion is better than yours”. Case and point, a quote from the website, when Lambuel asks Habu (an elephant dressed up as a hindu):

Wouldn't you rather have just one God who loves you a bunch than a bunch of gods that don't love you at all? Jesus loves everybody, even the unsaved like [you]

Then you have Professor Giraffenstein, the creation scientist, who says that the earth is less than 10,000 years old and T-Rex was a herbivore (so the Ark's passengers were safe, yay!).

Man, this website is making me violent…. I'm sorry if this might offend some people, it's not my wish, but material like this makes me really, really mad. I'm reading the answer of Herr Professor Giraffstein about who was Cain's wife. Basically, if you believe the book of Genesis, you realize that it's either a sister or a niece. Yay, incest. But it's ok. Incest at that time was ok, because our genes were still in their divine state, before sin got involved and started introducing mutations (boo!)

I'm not making this stuff up. This is quoted from a christian science website:

This means that the entrance of sin into the world caused humanity's once-perfect “genes” to become more and more imperfect with time. Since close relatives have similar flaws, then the flaw would be highlighted and emphasized in any kids they might have. But before sin had a chance to mess things up bad, people could marry a close relative and not worry about the effects to their kids. Once sin and death started adding flaws to a person's genetic code, God in His wisdom made some rules against marrying close relatives. God is SO SMART!

Can't explain something? Say God did it and it's all good. Next question please!

Fuuuuck. I'm going to go bash my head against a wall for a little while now.

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Edit: sorry blacksquiggles, I couldn't help it… I found more stuff to rant on.

Why apple computers are sold by godless communist hippies

Original link: http://objective.jesussave.us/propaganda.html

However, these propagandists aren't just targeting the young. Take for example Apple Computers, makers of the popular Macintosh line of computers. The real operating system hiding under the newest version of the Macintosh operating system (MacOS X) is called… Darwin! That's right, new Macs are based on Darwinism! While they currently don't advertise this fact to consumers, it is well known among the computer elite, who are mostly Atheists and Pagans. Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an “Open Source” license, which is just another name for Communism. They try to hide all of this under a facade of shiny, “lickable” buttons, but the truth has finally come out: Apple Computers promote Godless Darwinism and Communism.

But is this really such a shock? Lets look for a moment at Apple Computers. Founded by long haired hippies, this company has consistently supported 60's counter-cultural “values”. But there are even darker undertones to this company than most are aware of. Consider the name of the company and its logo: an apple with a bite taken out of it. This is clearly a reference to the Fall, when Adam and Eve were tempted with an apple by the serpent. It is now Apple Computers offering us temptation, thereby aligning themselves with the forces of darkness.

I've been re-reading the Harry Potter books recently, mostly because the latest movie is out. A few days ago, I ran across a link on FARK about HP fanfiction.

Now I have nothing against fanfiction. I've read some really good stories over the years. These are not some of them… You might wonder why I'm putting up a list then. I just want to share my amazement with all you fine people. You would think that after years on the internet, I'd cease to be surprised at what people will come up with…. Apparently this is not the case.

Here, for your pleasure, are some of the websites I came across while doing a quick googling for Harry Potter Fanfiction:

weasleycest: an LJ community that is dedicated to fanfic involving usually more than one Weasley.

pornish_pixies and erotic_elves: two communities “that hosts nothing but smutty Harry Potter fanfiction and fanart”. The first is slash and femslash, the second is hetero.

http://afa.expecto-patronum.net/index2.html : another weaslycest website. Apparently, it's a popular topic.

http://www.fictionalley.org/fictionalleypark/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=14: a listing that points to stories written about ANY KNOWN CHARACTER PAIRING YOU CAN THINK OF! and I do mean any!

LONDON (Reuters) – In a bid to lure men in Britain away from TV soccer games and into book shops, publisher Penguin Books will send out a sexy model to offer 1,000-pound prizes to males spotted reading a selected title.

The publicity ploy, launched Monday, aims to boost sales among men, who on average buy fewer books than women.

“It's to sex up the book industry, which probably needs it, but also to address the more serious issue that reading has fallen off the radar of younger men,” said Neil Griffiths, author of Penguin-published “Betrayal in Naples.”

Penguin's so-called Good Booking Girl will canvass the streets this month for men older than 16 years reading versions of Nick Hornby's “31 Songs” that bear a special cover sticker. A different title will be chosen each month.

At the same time, Penguin, a unit of Pearson Plc, released results of a poll in which 85 percent of women said a man could increase his chances of getting a date by talking about a favorite book. By contrast, more than half the men polled said they believed that flattering a woman would suffice to impress her.

An accompanying Good Booking chart of 40 books recommends such lad-friendly Penguin titles as Anthony Burgess' violence-filled “A Clockwork Orange,” Raymond Chandler's noir thriller “The Big Sleep” and Jack Kerouac's beat odyssey “On the Road.”

talisker's LJ stalker is raspberrysalmon!

raspberrysalmon is stalking you because they saw your picture and fell in love.. They are also eating your food when you aren't looking!