I'm ceaselessly amazed at just how much the American need for über-Olympian style physiques has so permeated into the ether that not only have we desired to find chemicals that will do it quickly, but we've directed our scientists find chemicals to do it post-haste. Force Factor supplement ads abound on nearly every page I visit, and I wonder, as ( Read more... )

I have been working for several weeks to get this post out, and we'll see just how effective my typing is this time. Originally, I had been planning on regurgitating vast quantities of vitriolic, bilis flavored rhetoric in regards to the widely reported, unconscionable, treasonous types of acts commited by dishearteningly unenlightened assklowns by ( Read more... )

This month has been rife with postings, bloggings, writings, and musings regarding the past decade. I started this journal in 2005, and gods only know if I can make a respectable list with what I've got left of a brain after far too much rum last night for New Year's Eve, but here goes.  The double aughts (amusingly, not far from the size of ear ( Read more... )

So, I popped open my browser today, and one of the first news items available is a link to a Space.com video of when worlds collide, which led to me reading a few articles about planets that orbit their suns in retrograde fashion, which Neptune's Triton also does, and the fact that I've just missed the Perseids, but I have a plan for the Leonids ( Read more... )

Called doc's office today and left an exceedingly polite message with his assistant that I had, in fact, gone to pathology, asked nicely for the piece that they were supposed to be holding for me, and they informed me of no such order to retain it, and that I wasn't exactly sure how that managed to slip by, but if there was a way to resolve the ( Read more... )

If only my artistry extended to those orange freeway barrels.  Unbelievably creative.

Also, you may be aware of the current hysteria following a mainstream news article claiming that there were at least half a dozen porn stars working in the industry that had tested positive for HIV? To begin with, these are all lies, because the last outbreak was ( Read more... )

The past weeks have been despairingly pugnacious, not only in terms of work and its arrangements, but also in terms of what I've had to deal with between doctor's visits, the surgery, the recovery...none of which has even by a shadow compared to the emotional turmoil that my family has put me through in the past 48 hours.  My elderly grandparents ( Read more... )

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So, the following is a recapitulation of several recent events.  A couple weekends ago was the NYC tattoo convention, which I make a solid attempt to appear at almost every year, but, which a few people attempted to impede my progress towards by staging a bus accident at my exit thereby creating an entire parade of rubber neckers on their way out ( Read more... )

First of all, lots of luck to jaspamaster , we'll be thinking about you. Now, on to the weirdness: First off: India, apparently, has an engineering university (cuz that's a surprise,) which challenged its mechanical engineering students to create a motor vehicle unit that had not yet been designed. A small group of individuals therefore completed the ' ( Read more... )