Personal - Five things that are pissing me off

On no particular order...

1. Now Kerry nuts it up and starts showing some back bone? Now?!?!
2. Dolts who over-react to a cartoon. It's a cartoon! I don't get all pissed off and start making death threats when someone makes a cartoon about... well, anything. Know why? BECAUSE IT'S A FUCKING CARTOON!
3. Corporations cutting staff to increase profit... Immediately after announcing their last quarter profit.
4. That the 10 and 6 Steelers are in the Super Bowl and the 10 and 6 Chiefs are sitting at home on their fat arses. Nice work guys. Really. Enjoy Hawaii, ya jerks.
5. That I can't afford to buy comics anymore. Sure, I could pool some clams together for a couple titles a month, but to get the complete stories I'd have to shell out 50 or 60 bucks a month!

Games - World of Warcraft via Google Maps

Awesome. Just awesome.

Religion - Fatwa me? No, no, no... fatwa you!

Saudi Arabia has recalled its ambassador to Denmark, while Libya said it was closing its embassy in Copenhagen.

On Monday masked gunmen briefly stormed the local office of the EU in Gaza, demanding apologies from Denmark and Norway, where a paper reprinted the cartoons.

The Danish Red Cross said it had pulled two employees out of Gaza, following a threat from the militant al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Reuters reported.

A statement on the internet purporting to be from an Iraqi militant group called on fighters to "hit whatever targets possible belonging to these two countries and others that follow their steps".

WTF?

Is there ANYTHING they won't call for violence over!?!?

EDIT: Here's the offending cartoon:

Music - Pink Floyd to Tour In 2006?

Yes, according to albumvote.co.uk.

Personal - What the duce is that supposed to mean?!?!

I recieved our weekly email newsletter from the chief high muckety-muck for (name deleted to keep my job) and it included all the congratulations, atta-boys and general nice work team stuff, but at the end... There was this paragraph...

"The new (again, still need the job) may be a less comfortable workplace, but you can expect it to be more dynamic and rewarding. We’re counting on you to take (bills to pay, you know) from good to great. Let the journey begin."

Less comfortable? What do you mean less comfortable? For whom? Are you taking away my chair? Will I be forced to work underwater? Will there be swinging axes only inches over my head at all times?

To coin a phrase... "I have a bad feeling about this."

Personal - Note to self

Start writing blog entry titled, "The 7 Deadly Blog Entries," detailing my favorite parts of each of the big 7 that are gonna put me in hell.

Stay tuned.

Personal - For the last time...

This had an intelligent designer:


This... not so much:

Personal - Got my ticket

Personal - HEllo? This is 911, what's your emergency?

Did you know that even if a cell phone has the SIM card removed and no calls can be made or received, you can still make and complete a call to Emergency 911?

I didn't.

My daughter found out this morning.

Politics - It can't happen here

I never, never, never thought I'd link to the Fox news site, but the brilliant Radley Balko (of the Agitator) has a fantastic predictions for 2006 column up.

Get ye to the Faux News site!

Games - The Escapist

The Escapist is a very well written gaming magazine that takes the focus off of cheat codes, killa moves and exclusive previews and instead focuses on the more mature gamer and the culture they grew up in.

This droid recommends reading it.

Politics - Bush has a posse, and they suck

Crooks and Liars has a great screen capture of an MSNBC news confrence with Bush surrounded by his "A-Team."

Politics - Abramoff pleads guilty, will cooperate.

*happy dance*

For every congress-critter who gets indicted, take a drink.