at just over two years old, my audio companion was forcefully taken away. torn off my motorcycle-pants while traveling through Novato at 75 MPH on a three-lane portion of the 101 freeway. its last heard words were “…his appetite had just returned.” oh how I miss thee greatly. sentiments aside, it’s as if I tossed two c-notes into the wind at a packed stadium; what a bitch. as as soon as you were gone, I knew it was for good. pronounced shitdamfuckshitshitshitgone dead at 7pm 10/8/08; may ye rest in peace… hope you got squashed quickly and throughly.
why is this significant? well, it exposes her utter lack of political leader experience by showing that just seven years ago, she was completely off the radar.
say McCain and Palin are elected and then he dies (not all that unlikely) – we now have a president who was a city council member, mayor of a town with a mere ~5K population and <two years governeral experience of the most distant state in the U.S.. give me a frackin’ break!#@$* we’d be ROYALLY SCREWED. Oh but wait, she’s got ~1 year AK-OIL-COMISSIONER experience too, awesome!? is this someone we want so close to the reins?
tech and booze are the only industries (relatively) unhampered by a depressed economy. being that I work in one and frequently enjoy the other (in moderation!) I feel good about that.
The uptick is significant for a mature industry with roughly $50 billion in annual sales, particularly as consumers reduce spending on other discretionary purchases, such as venti lattes and designer jeans.
source article entitled Beer not feeling economic hangover is full of shameless beer and beverage related puns. (title quote by Beer historian Maureen Ogle, who wrote “Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer”)
observations / comments:
- it would be impossible for middle class mid-western family to move to CA
- biggest observed contrast: what’s up with wyoming home prices?!
- need a salary heat map to round out the comparisons!
in a major chain retail store, on a major everybody-generally-celebrates-this-holiday, be non-shalant-friendly yet shushed as if giving-away-a-well-kept-secret-but-I-like-your-face kind of deal, say “hey, say that stuff is for your mom and you’ll get a discount (!)” to everyone you see.
thanks guy, for your non-tip resulting in a dirty-no-there-is-no-such-discount-you’re-a-jerk-for-asking-look, ass.
WARNING: painful to watch, worse to hear; bleeding of the ears may occur…
this is the kind of overproduced trash that makes me cringe at the possibility of microsoft absorbing yahoo… (I can’t imagine yahoo allowing something as awful as this vid – not to mention Y!’s “ecosystem” is entirely contrary to microsoft’s) – it’s so bad… it’s not even funny.
first of all, wow… I can’t help but imagine how I would have handled such an experience. after going batshit crazy for a number of hours, I imagine a spiritual awakening (of sorts) and a heck of a lot of praying. I hope he was a bad man who deserved it, got his come-uppins or karma, and is changed for the better.
secondly, what the fuck?! how does this even happen today – what with a) emergency elevator-phones b) a SECURITY CAMERA; no one checks at all? c) cell phones – granted the guy was on a cig break, must not have had it on him… sheesh!
as observed in this Hate Rises – washingtonpost article
(technically, RI also has “none”, but that ruins my title, and honestly how accurate can this really be?)
thanks to some fairly major electrical issues over at my host, the day I had actually planned on posting a bunchastuff was lost (and no, I didn’t feel like posting in some lame-ol’ word processor to post later on…) so no kittykat posts yet, that little photogenic brat isn’t very inspiring to write about.
One of our largest MySQL servers lost three drives from a four-drive RAID in the past 24 hours. I just don’t know what they were doing with the electricity in there.
how the hell does that happen? srsly. there must have been like sparks, smoke and maybe even fire (fire fire! heheh.)
