Water balloons. Super-slo mo. Geek heaven.
Monthly Archive for June, 2009
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Do you resemble the any of the people in Twilight? (Except you would be older – because Twilight is about teenage vampire sex and angst. People who read this blog don’t have any of those.)
I’m not talking about blogging about Twilight, I’m talking about blogging in the Twilight.
I like it, and recommend Twilight computer use – outside. Did I forget to mention I meant blog outside in the Twilight?
Now that the evenings are in the mid 70′s, it’s the perfect time to drag your laptop outside and find a place in the shade with a nice breeze and give it a go.
I’m sitting in the NASCAR/Cigar Bar right now with Sedona laying a few feet away, nose and ears twitching to catch every scent and sound.
It’s not twilight as I write this, it’s about noon, so it’s closer to 85 degrees, but the breeze is wonderful.
I’m catching up with reading the Sunday Stealing Memes and dropping little turd comments all over the blogosphere.
Battery is at 38 minutes, which is great. It will force a shutdown soon. Twilight blogging/reading should not go on for hours.
Even in the shade I found there is one required purchase: a shade for your laptop. If you are handy you can make one… I bought this…
Before the shade, I spent a lot of time hunting for my cursor. I thought about downloading an app that would make a giant cursor, but that probably would also load me down with malware.
There still is a pretty bad reflection off the screen, but not so much that I can’t handle it in the shade. In the bright sun, I’m dead. Just like the Vampires of Twilight.
bwahahahahaa.
This will be my finest hour. I am so negative. I never say anything good about anything or anybody.
I hate this meme.
Sunday Stealing: The Hate Meme
1. Most hated food: Broccolli, Brussel Sprouts, Aspergrass, Boiled Cabbage, Liver, Calf Brains, OMG, I could write a whole post about my most hated foods.
2. Most hated person: Today? Penis Cheney and Rush Limblow. Also that guy that invented golf and called it a lifetime sport.
3. Most hated job: (for pay) Cleaning rotten corn out of a metal storage bin in the middle of summer. Cleaning rotten wheat chaff out of 24″ wide gutters 100 feet off the ground, stripping apple trees of suckers in the middle of August. (First two were for my dad – he made me do it because he couldn’t hire anybody else to do those jobs, the last was the first job I got fired from. It was at Green’s Orchard in Allen, MI and we got in an apple fight. Apples = profit to orchard owner. Oops.)
4. Most hated city: Detroit, MI, even in the boom times, it was a rough city.
5. Most hated band: Homer, MI High School Marching Band. They always beat us in marching contests. Bigger school. I’m sure they recruited from the inner city kids that had rhythm and were on ‘roids. (And isn’t they have the most pathetic website you have ever seen!!! Qualifies for answer to next question…)
6. Most hated (non-blog) website: MSN Money Portfolio Manager. Used to look at it daily and dream of retirement. Now I don’t even update it anymore.
7. Most hated TV program: I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, or any of those “let’s all jump in the hot tub and hit on each other, shows.
8. Most hated politician: Strom Thurmond. Old ignorant fool that is getting a pass because he is older than Jesus’ toe jam.
9. Most hated artist: (painter) Picasso and Pricasso
10. Most hated book: Sound and the Fury
11. Most hated shop or store: The ones that don’t have guy stuff and I have to stand around waiting for Nancy. Why don’t these stores have the good sense to put in a couple chairs and a TeeVee? Instead they let us shift from foot to foot letting out loud sighs, or worse yet, say things like “yeah, that’s fine, can we go now?”
12. Most hated organization: Al Qaeda.
13. Most hated historical event: The Recession of 2008-09.
14. Most hated sport: Got me scratching my head, which is odd because I’m not a big sports fan at all. Wow, that’s unreal, I can’t think of a sport I HATE.
15. Most hated technology: Telephone. Nobody ever calls me with good news.
16. Most hated annual event: Sweetest Day. It’s one of those made-up commercial holidays just to extract money from men. Sometimes I skip it, sometimes I don’t, either way I feel manipulated.
17. Most hated daily task: Wiping my ass. I wish we had a bidet with a blow dryer.
18. Most hated comedian: If I hate them they don’t make me laugh, so they aren’t a comedian in my book. They may refer to themselves as such, but to me that doesn’t count.
19. Most hated blog: The Bloggess
20. Most hated song: Happy Birthday. Stupid lyrics.
I still can’t think of a sport I HATE. Wow, that freaks me out.
Bill Gates, the richest man in the universe, decided that the exact hunk of Wyoming – the same place that some monks wanted to cloister themselves (is that still legal in Wyoming?) - is a vast spread of Wyoming he wants.
The monks have been trying to raise the almost $9 million it would take for them to live on the few hundred acres near Yellowstone to be alone.
Instead Bill Gates swoops in with Thousand Dollar Bills flying from his underwear, like Underdog, and snatches this pristine land from these peaceful God-loving men.
In a solitary monastery under the Rocky Mountains in northern Wyoming, the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming seek to perpetuate the charism of the Blessed Virgin Mary, living the Marian life as prescribed by the primitive Carmelite Rule and the ancient monastic observance. This new monastery of contemplative monks lives a life of faithful orthodoxy to the Magisterium, where joy and peace abound in a manly, agrarian way of life.
Take a look, and tell me who belongs more to this land… The Dark Lord Bill of Prickdom, or the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming.
Aside from the fact that the monks blend in too much and might get mistaken for a trophy elk, who could argue that these men belong here.
Even Buffalo Bill, who used to live on the Lake Irma Ranch, would agree.
The fabled South Fork ranch is 21 miles from Cody and includes Buffalo Bill Cody’s historic hunting cabin. Cody named the 492-acre property after his youngest daughter.
So Nerdy Bill Gates is a two time loser on this deal. He buys land out from under a cult of religious fanatics and it’s land once owned by a revered American hero. Has Bill Gates ever toured with somebody like Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull?
No, he plays bridge with rich old white guys.
Here’s how one of Bill Gates future neighbors put it:
“What a drag they are on the rest of us who would simply like to be invited up for dinner occasionally. I for one just wish them and all the tourists and the oil companies would leave here and let us work toward being like Medicine Bow, or Burgess Junction, or Powder River. “
Usually the rich are good care-takers of the land. But in this case, Bill Gates is a Prick.
Carmelite Monks would have been best care-takers of this land.
I sense a road trip coming on.
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Pick the one answer a man would give in answer to this question:
Do you want me to go get dog food?
- I’ll be going out later.
- I can get it.
- There is enough until tomorrow.
- It’s OK.
- Are you going by there?
- Do you have money?
- Yes.
