Intellectual Poison

It sounds like it might be an exotic dessert or something. But the story is real and, while it starts really badly, this one ends really well and that's the good thing.

Brazilians Race to Adopt Abandoned Baby in which a 2 month old baby girl was found floating in a black plastic bag on Pampulha Lake in Brazil. Now people are flocking to adopt the little girl (who was released from the hospital 2 days ago) and, of course, outraged at her mother, who has been caught.

Whatever your troubles, whatever is bothering you, putting your child in a plastic bag and throwing her into a lake is not the answer. It cannot be the answer. I'm glad she was found so quickly or this would be another awful case of infanticide. As it is, she's lucky to be alive.

The amazing thing is that the rescue was caught on camera live by someone who happened to be there with their camera going! Well, maybe not so amazing anymore in this day of ubiquitous digital gadgetry. But still damned cool!
Tags: abandoned baby, Brazil, happy ending

I don't get some marketing decisions, they appear to be made specifically to drive business away. My latest irritating in regards to marketing was a expiring Blogrolling account that I'd decided I wasn't interested in renewing for a couple of reasons.

One is that Blogrolling's code in my blogs would sometimes hang the load time forever. My blog would not load completely because of their javascript hang up.

And the other main reason is that Bloglines does what Blogrolling does better and for free. Its simplistic to create custom blogrolls in Bloglines and incorporate them easily into the template. I have been meaning to do this for a little while but never find the time. Maybe I'll get it done tonight.

But the final nail in the coffin for Blogrolling? Sending me a reminder email every day for the last couple of weeks about my pending account expiration with no means to stop the emails. Sorry but that's fucking rude and annoying. You're charging for a service that I can get better for free elsewhere. Good luck with your business model.
Tags: blogrolling, expiration, marketing, Bloglines

So Sammy Alito got confirmed this morning and the nation is weaker, our rights are more fragile and, if you need an abortion, get it soon because they won't be legal for very much longer.

Sammy Alito represents a sharp shift away from individual rights in America. He represents a concentrating of power in the executive branch (i.e. giving Bush more power to step on the law and the American people) and is all about exposing the soft underbelly of the nation to the gentle predations of eternally ravenous corporate raiders.

I'm sad for our country.
Tags: Supreme Court, Alito, confirmation

No, I don't mean the painfully manipulative commercials for the Christian Children's Fund that saves children and then gives them food too.

Nope, there's a series of commercials for the NBA that has people doing their job in the 24 seconds given by the shot clock (yeah, I barely know basketball so bear with me as I cannot stand the sport). The first one was a pair of window washers who basically clean the entire side of a building in 24 seconds while doing a terrible job and nearly killing themselves. Not a bad ad for demonstrating how little time NBA guys have to do their job in.

But the really disturbing commercial is the guy getting the straight razor shave and his barber starts going faster and faster and faster until its really just too damned disturbing to watch and I have to change the channel. Yes, its hard to get your job done in 24 seconds but damn, that's just scary as flippin' hell. Shaving cream is being whipped around and the razor blade is flashing all over this rather frightened dude's face as his barber is watching the clock and now what he's doing.

Its not like I was about to go and get a shave but now there's not even any chance I'd ever even think about considering it. Regardless that it was an ad, the image sticks and hell no am I letting anyone near me with one of those deadly razors. Hell-freakin'-no!

There's also another one where the ad is based on an informercial and the product is basically a fan with razor blades attached. Its not as awful but the premise is close to the NBA commercial but without the graphic fear component.

And, oh yeah, the shot clock ad doesn't really work on me anyway, I'm still not going to watch a bunch of sweatin' freaks play a sport that's less interesting to me than watching bass fishing (which is almost as bad as watching fishing gadget infomercials).
Tags: badvertising, NBA, straight razor, marketing, shot clock

A lighter word of the day today.

Pardiot - party idiot. The moron who ALWAYS gets too drunk and does something incredibly stupid for which he must apologize the next day. Don't be the pardiot. It also sounds a bit like part-idiot which works as well since the party idiot is part-idiot.
Tags: pardiot, fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

In one week from this morning I will be looking at the opening of our conference, which will be the culmination of several months of work on my part. During the process my main co-coordinator quit which squarely shouldered the burden on me. Loads of fun and joy.

This last week will be a very, very busy one. I'll try to get posts up as usual but they may be fewer and farther between for the next week or so.

The good thing is that next Tuesday evening will be the end of this first conference of the year. And that'll mean my huge deal will have passed and I'll be able to return to my usual PR activities, sort of.

This next week will see lots of scrambling, lots of checklist making, lots of last minute repairs, setups and deals. Its not going to be very much fun, I know. And the kick in the nuts on top of the whole thing? I've gotta be on the road next Sunday afternoon during the only SuperBowl in the last few years I've given the first damn about. My solution is to roll early, arrive early and find a spot to post up and enjoy the football game up in the city.

At least I get to look forward to a totally awesome room up in San Francisco, photos will be forthcoming, of course. I'm going to ask for a room that looks down towards the China Basin and Pacific Bell Park but I'm sure I'll be happy with wherever I end up.
Tags: work, conference, busy

Today went from decent to shitter in only a couple of hours and a couple of screw ups.

One, the conference program we had designed and printed has substantial mistakes in it. Enough to force us to reprint them for around $1200 which is making my boss angry at me for not catching it even though she also proofed the same copy I did.

And the designer is blaming a lack of installed fonts for the final copy of the program containing double bios and missing five of them. I am not anywhere near that stupid.

Second, Discover Card just won't let it go. They sent me a bill today. Six weeks (give or take) after I "shut" my account. They owe me $50 but haven't sent it, instead they are keeping my damned account open in the hopes that they'll get their filthy credit hooks into me again. I'm not anywhere near that stupid. But I sure do love the customer service rep's attitude when I demanded that they close the damned account. Her snottiness was ever so helpful.

Never ever, ever get a Discover Card. They are a crooked asshat of a company that does not serve their customers so much as they service themselves at their customer's expense.
Tags: stupid, assumption, discover card, discover card scam

Cancer.org has put together The Great American Health Check, a great online resource to figure out what your individual health risks are, to help get into better shape or to help quit smoking. Its free and kicks out a personalized list of concerns to print out and bring to your doctor.

My personal health areas to check on: Lymph nodes, oral cavity, skin, testes and thyroid.

I got thumbs up for my physical activity and diet and my BMI (body mass index) is just below the threshold to start worrying but that's most likely because I carry a fair bit more muscle than most men my height.
[Update: The interface is incredibly crappy to try and use. I had to click the box about a hundred times before it actually started the health check. Sorry about that. I've written them twice to let them know how crappy and difficult their interface is.]
Tags: personalized, health, check, Great American Health Check

Bushito - the Bush path of Bushido, lying, incompetence, old-boy networks, no-bid contracts, rubber stamp approvals, warrantless wiretaps (without need) and more. Bushito is not honorable or laudable, it would be laughable if it weren't resulting in our nation circling the drain while he and his cronies help themselves to billions and billions of our dollars.
Tags: bushito, fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

You know, sometimes, when people get the spotlight they will start to do anything at all to keep in that spotlight.

Like Bode Miller talking about being drunk while ski racing a couple of weeks ago. Now he's decided to call Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong drug using cheaters.

Bode, unless you've got some specific evidence of Barry or Lance cheating then do us all a favor and just shut your damned talkhole. Or quit racing and go back to your cabin so you can drink yourself into an early grave, whatever you angry asshole.

I hope Lance and Barry sue you for libel. Why you haven't been tossed off the US Ski Team as a walking cancer is beyond me. Who cares how good a skier you are.
Tags: Bode Miller, Barry Bonds, Lance Armstrong, skiing, cheat

A political new word of the day.

Bushgeois - pronounced Bush-wah, like Bourgeois but those rich folks that have directly benefited from Shrub's tax cuts for the rich, program cuts for the poor administration. It could also be applied to anyone who's a member of the Bush inner circle making money hand over fist from his pet war and "reconstruction" in Iraq.
Tags: Bushgeois, fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

A month or two ago I came across Air America broadcasting on a local AM station and have made a point of listening in on my way home in the evenings if I'm driving.

And, for the most part, I think they've got a great product. That's based on listening to the Majority Report with Sam and Janeane.

But there are several areas where the station could use some serious improvement. Like the announcer for the show, who sounds like a drunk wrestling announcer and I actually change the station in order to listen to his overdrawn out pronunciations. Its really grating and could be easily fixed by having someone else intro the show.

Another main criticism is the fluff music crap during the drivetime. They'll fill airtime with instrumental music that's nice and all but isn't talk radio and isn't political. They'll sometimes have some moronic Intelligent Design lady deliver her canned and stupid little speech about why ID deserves to be taught alongside evolution. I know they do it because it riles people up but its stupid regardless.

The ads for other shows are distracting and not interesting. The Randy Roads Show (sp?) is one I've got absolutely zero interest in listening to because of the promos where she is a snarky idiot about semantics and Karl Rove. Sorry, that's not working, try actually adding something to the conversation instead of being a mere detractor, there are plenty of you already.

I think Air America would be much better served if they dispensed with the attempts to be funny AND politically charged. Do one or the other (preferably the politically charged) but not both. Trying to do both waters down the important messages.

Please get a new announcer who doesn't make me want to punch him in the face and send your old announcer back to the WWE where his intonations are welcome. They are a distraction on the radio.
Tags: Air America, radio, shortcomings

I love lists like this, especially when they are damned funny.

Business 2.0 101 Dumbest Moments in Business 2005 because of stuff like this;
36. We know why you fly ... JetBlue.
The winner of the American Airlines "We Know Why You Fly" contest, which promised to award 24 round-trip tickets to the traveler who submitted the best video about his airborne experiences, turns down the grand prize. Why? Because American fails to cover the winner's federal, state, and local income taxes, which amount to about $19,000, or $800 per ticket. More.
And who could forget such profanity laced hilarity as this;
40. Just google him. We hear it really ticks him off.
"F***ing Eric Schmidt is a f***ing pussy. I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google."
-- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in response to the departure of Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft "distinguished engineer" who left last year to work at Google. The alleged aria, punctuated by the tossing of a chair, was cited in a sworn statement by Lucovsky that became public during court hearings over another Microsoft-to-Google defection in September. Microsoft denies Lucovsky's version of the incident. More.
Tags: Business 2.0, 101 dumbest dumb business, list, 101 Dumbest Moments in Business 2005

Caught this on my way back into the office from Trader Joe's and am thoroughly pleased at how well it came out. The lighting is good and the details are crisp and really nice. A good photo if I do say so myself, and I do.

I'm starting to get an itch to get a camera with a much stronger optical zoom. I'm finding myself coming up against the limitations of my little SD500 often enough to make me wish for a more powerful frame to work with. Don't get me wrong, I love my SD (though I'd be thrilled to bump up to the 550 with that sweet 2 1/2 inch screen on the back, rawrr!) but I am wishing more and more for a stronger zoom, image stabilization and a more powerful flash.

But with the new baby on the way and house taxes and all the other myriad joys of being an adult, a dad, a husband and a homeowner, a new camera is a little ways off. But perhaps I'll add to the wishlist for the change jar. More on that later when I get some photos of it completely full.
Tags: blue, flower, macro, Canon, SD500

If you're one of those folks worried about an assault in your bedroom, you are not alone. From the website....

It is reported that 50% of people in London are worried about security and sleep with some form of self-defence to hand, for use against intruders.

The 'Safe Bedside Table' has a removable leg that acts as a club and a top that doubles as a shield for self-defence. This is for people who are willing to take on an intruder, providing an extra sense of security whilst in bed.

If you live in constant fear of someone breaking into your house and assaulting you in your bedroom then perhaps you should consider replacing that single use night stand for this multi-purpose defensive night stand! Its a night stand, its a shield and club, its a place to put your lamp, its a weapon to bash to holy tar out of someone.

Now if I could only get over the image of battling intruders in my birthday suit. Damn.
Tags: functional fashion, bedroom weaponry, intruder

This is nasty, nasty in a bad way.

Chinese Migrant Workers Travel in Adult Diapers because the trains they are travelling on have no toilets. Yes, you read that right, people are wearing diapers so that they can go to the bathroom without proper facilities. No wait, there are proper facilities but the trains are so stuffed full of people that there's no way to get to them through the mass of bodies.

Some people became deranged and jumped from the train. And many just sat in their own excrement for hours and hours and hours.

And yes, that pretty much turns me stomach as well.

Reports say that 3.8 million people travelled by railway on Monday alone, just to give you some scope of the problem.
Tags: China, adult diapers, migrant workers, no toilet, train ride from hell, disgusting, civilized?

So first let's hit up some good news, the IP Fictionarium has opened (and the requisite XML feed, of course). Its still skeletal but its a start and I'll be populating it with previously published words as well as new ones that I've not released to the wilds yet.

And today's new word is NOT political, go figure.

Calmradery - from calm and comradery, when the presence of your pal really helps to keep you calm and in control. Kind of like having to confront some asshole and knowing you've backup in case they throw down.
Tags: calmradery, fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

In what universe could the CIA have thought that giving a bad set of blueprints for an implosion device that would reduce the size of a nuclear bomb from a large missile to a briefcase sized device?

Sadly, this universe. This bodes extraordinarily badly. Here's a quick summary. Back in 2000, a Russian nuclear scientist was used as a pawn by the CIA to try and misdirect the Iranian nuclear weapons program by feeding it bad blue prints (nuclear blue prints with intentional flaws embedded in them). The problem is that the scientist gave them a note about the flaw and the blue prints contained plenty of useful information to help propel their program.

A few years later, a CIA communications operative screwed a high speed transmission burst and effectively ruined the CIA intelligence network in Iran by exposing all of the agents. So, we don't know how far Iran is in developing the bomb now. And we went after Iraq why?
Tags: CIA, nuclear weapon, Iran, Iraq

I'm not positive of the exact date of the anniversary anymore, its clouded by the sands of time and the coastal fog, but this week (or last) marks my eleventh year in California!

I came out here in 1995 to finish my college in the only Mediterranean climate in North America as I'd just come back from the only one in South Africa (Cape Town) and have yet to find a compelling enough reason to go somewhere else.

Yes, I miss my family an awful lot sometimes. I miss being able to see my nephews and neice as often as I would like. I miss being able to go and spend a lazy Sunday at my mom's or my aunt and uncle's (because they have the never-ending supply of the best damned hickory smoked bacon you'll ever smell or eat, well not JUST because of the bacon).

But I am happy here, I love Santa Cruz. I love being near the ocean, love the friends I've made here, love my family I've created here, love my wife, my son, my hound. This is home for me. Just not precisely where we are happening to be living right now. But that's alright, our home is together and that works just fine for me.

So yeah, Happy Anniversary to me!
Tags: anniversary, eleven years, transplant, New England, Santa Cruz, California

Osama bin Laden recommends William Blum's "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" and sales go through the friggin' roof.

From number 209,000 on the Amazon best seller list to number 30 in a week. I wonder if Osama gets referral bonuses?
Tags: Oprah, terrorist, Osama, book club, Amazon

Coproruption - copro for shit, corruption for, well, being corrupt. Shit eating corrupt fucks like Tom DeLay who bluster about their innocence while being implicated in another separate scandal.

I can't even look at this sickening bastards without imagining the crap streaming from their faces. Frist, DeLay, Rove, Cheney, Bush, McClellan, all of the current GOP leadership qualifies as coprorupt. And, let's toss in a few turncoat Dems as well, Joe Lieberman is a shit snarfing coprorupt wanker who should renounce his Democratic party ties and just go and join the Dark Side for real so he can sniff at Shrubya's exhaust vent and call it fresh air.
Tags: coproruption, fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

It was over in the first quarter, the Broncos' post-season hopes were dashed against the fast and furious defense of the Pittsburgh Steelers. They were a good team but their offense just couldn't stand up to the Steelers D.

The crowd noise was not a factor. Big Ben's sore thumb was not a factor. The Bus's asthma was not a factor.

The Steelers' will to win was the factor. And they played like superstars. What was Big Ben's first half quarterback rating? 144.something? Yeah. And this is his second season in the league? Hehehe. That'll work out just fine.

It was a good game to watch if you're a Steeler fan or if you're an anti-Broncos fan (as many are). And who else should go to SuperBowl XL but the larger than life Steelers led by the great Jerome Bettis and Hines Ward?

Bring on those other guys. Who is it? Seahawks or Panthers. Doesn't matter, they're about to get runned over by a man on a mission. This will very likely be Bettis' last season and what better way to end a Hall of Fame career than with a SuperBowl victory? Which you can take to mean that I'm calling it for the Steelers, say 31-17? Yeah, that sounds about right to me.
Tags: Steelers, Broncos, SuperBowl, SuperBowl XL, Panthers, Seahawks

Most of the time I'm reasonably comfortable around my house. I get along with all of my immediate neighbors and generally just try to stay low on the radar. But then there comes to happen certain things that remind me of how strongly, how deeply and how passionately I want to sell this goddamned house and get to some place where my driveway is all my driveway and my nearest neighbor would be hard to hit with a slingshot.

What would you do if your dog started going berserk at the front door and, when you looked out, you saw some douchebag pissing on the side of your damned house?

I probably should have let Nande out to tear his cock off but instead I charged out at himn and started shoving and pushing him away from my house shouting at him the whole time. In retrospect it might have been a stupid thing to do but I just got so damned pissed off.

I want to move so very, very badly. Before something bad does happen.

To his credit, one of the two boys that live next door came over within a few minutes and apologized for the guy who his dad would have chased off at first sight. I guess. And, of course, I'm all amped up and wondering if I should be camping out by my front door with 9 and 1 already pressed. Sure makes for a happy house, I'll tell you what.

Instead I'll probably use the energy to search for land and housing so that we can sell and move to space that's more conducive to our needs. And what a very nice day that will be.
Tags: domestic disturbance, moving day, assholery

Note, I've made this post a little sticky so as to not lose it in my ever growing tide of posts.
I promised a post expounding on my views of capital punishment in the wake of Stanley Williams' execution. So let me try to explain how and why I believe in the death penalty.

At its most basic level, its an attempt to create a tautology, a balanced equation. An eye for an eye has a natural balance to it. If someone kills then shouldn't they forfeit their life as payment? Doesn't that follow naturally the one from the other? What I mean is that prematurely and wantonly ending another person's life, that is, capital murder cheats another person out of the fullness of their life. I have zero issue with attempting to "fix" that imbalance by removing the life of the person that wantonly ended the other's life. No, its not perfect but its the best we can, until we can reanimate the dead or take a killer's life force and implant it in the dead body of the one they killed. If it were possible to repair the damage their murder caused then I'd have no worries with ending capital punishment but we don't have that particular technology yet.

And tonight, Clarence Ray Allen will be put to death for the murder and conspiracy to commit murder of four people, three of whom were killed after he was behind bars. The issue has been that he is too old to be put to death and should be allowed to die naturally. But naturally would involve him running from some lions or maybe a hungry pack of gorillas. That he is an old murderer does not invoke any sympathy from me. He engineered the deaths of three people while behind bars. That tells me that life without parole ISN'T a deterrent to murder. It tells me that the death penalty does end that person's capability to inflict suffering on the world.

I'd like to revisit that too old to be put to death argument. I heard an anti-death penalty person being interviewed on TV say that, because of his age, Clarence Ray Allen posed no threat to anyone. Which is, in reality, utter bullshit. He orchestrated the murder of three people while behind bars, what would stop him from doing so again? His age? How and why would his being a mean old murderer stop him from having other people killed? He DID represent a threat from behind bars, he WAS a dangerous criminal to have locked up and, with his execution, he's no longer able to exert his evil influence on anyone anymore. That isn't to say that he couldn't have had plans to have someone killed after his death but he's done making those plans. So yeah, he was a threat and a danger even as an old and mostly infirm man. Life without parole means life behind bars without further repercusions from your actions so why not work through your enemy list and see how many more you can cross off before dying? Life without parole is no deterrent to a murderer, execution without the chance of further harm is.

Perhaps that is cold and ugly to read or consider. But I consider the death penalty to be a resolution and closure. You killed and so you are killed.

[Update: I forgot to mention the typical counter-argument to capital punishment, that it is more expensive to put someone to death than it costs to keep them alive for the rest of their life behind bars. That's a symptom of a problem with the administration of the death penalty, not with the death penalty itself. The imbalance of expense can be repaired by fixing the system because I agree that its ridiculous that it costs so much more to put someone to death than to keep them alive and under lock and key for 30 years.]
Tags: payback, retribution, murder, capital punishment, execution, death penalty

Today's new word came to me while playing TextTwist.

Incum - the money a prostitute earns.

Tags: incum, fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

If we were so damned intelligently designed then could someone please explain ear hair? That ain't no intelligent design, that's a freakin' abomination to mankind.

If we had been lovingly sculpted by a God then don't you think he would have thought enough to NOT make hair sprout from your ears as you get older?

Yeah, me too.

Complex and perfect machinery, indeed.

And here's another one to let the ID folks wrestle with. ID holds that things are put together so fantastically well, in such a complex manner, that there has to be an intelligent superbeing doing the creating. Yeah? Well explain to me the Duckbilled Platypus, nature's mish-mash animal with parts from several different animals.
Tags: intelligent design, theology posing as science, false science

The big news for this morning is that we now know that the little bean in my wife's tummy is human and is also a little boy! I wasn't so worried about the human part but its always nice to get some reassurances that you're not going to give birth to an alien or something.

And the proof of his boy-ness was not subject to dispute. So we're excited and now get to start thinking about names.
Tags: baby, boy, ultrasound

This is a pretty accurate shot of Graydon these days. He's a happy little guy but he's also very much into stretching his limits. A minute after this, he lifted the shelf above up and dumped all his stuffed animals on the floor. And then dumped the shelf over too.

He's a wonderful little guy but I am looking forward to when he can speak better and relay his desires without having to resort to acting out and doing things that he knows are upsetting and/or dangerous.

Today is the big day! We've got a doctor's appointment in about and hour and a half and then we will find out whether we are having a little girl or a little boy. The excitement is building but the odds makers are still running dead even at 50/50.

And our new marketing manager started yesterday which means that my plate is not heaped quite so high anymore. Its still plenty high but at least now I can see some light at the end of the tunnel.
Tags: cute kid, mischief, my little boy

Happiness is seeing your eBay auction jumping by $50 in the last hour with 4 days left in the auction.

We're still not up to my reserve but I like the trend upwards!
Tags: eBay, auction, bidding

Today's new word reflects the current state of debate in America, we are fully immersed in a cockracy.

Cockracy - of or being in the state of being "led" by a bunch of cocks. Or by people who think with their cocks and swagger like roosters all the time. Another aspect of the word refers to the cockification of issues as a means of driving a wedge into the ranks of those who would normally be opposed to a cockracy.

Also, if Dick Cheney somehow climbed into the presidency then we would most certainly be stuck squarely in a cockracy and a Dicktatorship, the standard greeting being "Go fuck yourself". Nothing like a kinder and gentler politik, is there?

Happy Cockracy Day!
Tags: cockracy, fictionarium, new words, inventing language, NWotD

So I am getting myself re-enrolled in my company's health insurance program which will allow us to remove me from our small business policy which will end up saving us a minimum of $200 a month and I'll have better coverage in several areas.

One of which that will pay off almost immediately is the better dental coverage and, more importantly, the more immediate dental coverage. One lovely thing we've learned since purchasing our insurance policy is that there is a 12 month waiting period for major dental work. Something our agent somehow failed to mention and nearly cost us $1400. Needless to say, we are not impressed or pleased with our agent.

But I will be able to get my cracked tooth repaired for alot less money next month and that will make alot of things easier, not less painful but fiscally easier. Which is good because we're having a baby and the baby is going to cost us a few shiny pennies to bring into the world.

And the teaser on the baby front is that we will be finding out the baby's sex tomorrow! Woohoo! I'm still leaning towards it being a boy but my lovely wife is waffling and thinks it might actually be a little girl. Either one is fine, just not both and not neither. And human, human would be good too.

The other thought I have after dealing with this whole insurance pain in the ass is that we, the United States, should really get a national healthcare system in place soon. Its embarassing that we do not have national healthcare already as its been on the table forever now and the politicians just can't seem to get it done. Lack of will, lack of votes and far too much money being made by insurance companies. Its not helped by big companies like Wal-Mart foisting a huge portion of their costs on the local townships (and good on Maryland for passing legislation forcing them to be better corporate citizens)
Tags: health insurance, saving money, new baby

There is almost nothing as fan-fucking-tastic as a good cup of coffee with the exact right amount of creamer. And this morning's coffee hit the bullseye squarely and then, when I prepped my thermos for work, another arrow splitting that first bullseye.

Damn, good coffee makes getting out of bed almost worthwhile.
Tags: coffee, perfect, creamer

Eminem's strange and estranged ex-wife cum wife again, Kimberly Mathers, is, from all reports, pretty well batshitinsane. Though perhaps it would be kinder to say that she has "issues" and leave it at that.

But that does not preclude her from also being pretty damned hot too. Yeah, you go Slim Shady.
Tags: Eminem, remarries, Kimberly Mathers, batshitinsane

No, sorry fashion designers with no good ideas, we do not need clothing for men that have silk-screened boobs on them and a weird lumberjack-ish look to the whole costume. I do not know what circumstances would call for such a look but these times are not they.

This is bad fashion, this is unsettling fashion, this is similar to the hoax Japanese x-ray panties from a couple of years ago. Because these are real, this is some designer's design, not a hoax. And it is seriously butt ugly too. I like how the tough-boy model is trying to look tough while wearing a shirt wit