uh, 7 things (1029 hits)
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Submitted by august sobriquet (View user info) at 2008-07-11 13:38:13 EDT
I am not able to do much of anything for any length of time. I am not the dogged workhorse type who will put their head down and push through a job, no matter what it is, until it sees completion. There may be some other animal's habits that would describe my working style, but I've already lost interest in trying to figure out what my type might be.
And that's just the preface to the awesomeness I am prepared to spew forth in sputtering spurts over the next bit of time, which to you, dear readers, will appear fully formed and amazing all at once.
1.The lady who lives in the apartment over from my work place puts her clothing on small drying racks. I can see them in her window when I walk by. The thing that is humorous is that all these shirts and towels and whatnot are tidily draped over the small racks and then ever so carefully protected from being blown off...in her living room...with numerous sturdy clothespins.
2.In my dream one time, I invented a new way to run that makes it virtually effortless to cover large distances in a shorter time with less fatigue. It is revolutionary. Anyone else had experience with this? (there we go, engage the reader and make them feel like their brain makings are of consequence to me)
3.I love to watch shows like People's Court and Judge Mathis. Generally I work during the day, so it is like a super special bonus feature in my life when I get the time to rubberneck at the wrecks that populate this genre of television. One of the very interesting things that I have noticed viewing these shows is how when people want to appear more responsible and credible, they begin to speak in the past perfect tense. Nothing ever just happened. It had happened. Nobody ever just did something. They had done it. Nobody ever just said something. They had said it. The past perfect tense is not an all the time affair people. Who is feeling me on this one?
4.I sometimes wonder if a thought that goes through the head of someone like GWB is along the lines of, "At least I know my family and I will be protected if all this shit hits the fan because, thank goodness, I have access to the best durn bomb shelter man and taxpayer's money can build. That shit is like a five star hotel dammit. I wish I could just take 5 eightballs and some teenage hookers and go there for two weeks right now."
5.I am a hippy for the new millennium. I have a solar hot water system and a kickass garden. I weave baskets, paint murals on things, wear ugly clothes until they wear out, go around in my bare feet, smoke the occasional weed, eat seaweed, brew my own kombucha, put food up for the winter, and regularly share dinners with my other hippy neighbors. I do reduce, reuse, and recycle. I wash my laundry with soap nuts.
6.I am also white trash for the new millennium. I have an old truck cap operating as a storage unit in my yard, my house is half sided in yellow aluminum siding, one quarter sided in white vinyl siding, and one quarter ripped down to the clapboards. It has been this way for a couple of years. My friends regularly drink Budweiser, PBR, and even Milwaukee's Beast. Last time my car wouldn't pass inspection due to a hole in the fender, I put duct tape on it and it was all good.
7.An acquaintance just found out that he has a tumor the size of a softball behind his face. The doctors say it is likely that it is not cancerous, but the surgery to remove that shit does not sound pleasant. Or the two weeks not moving afterwards.
There is my at least not COMPLETELY unreadable contribution to a slow moving Friday afternoon.
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Submitted by sexualchocolate1984 (user info) at 2008-07-16 10:37:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
You know the Deftones did a song called 7 Words.
Was it Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck
or...
Suck, Suck, Suck, Suck, Suck, Suck, Suck?
I don't know.
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2008-07-14 08:52:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.
Submitted by woolfe (user info) at 2008-07-14 04:29:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
wow, a blog-like list. top drawer.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2008-07-13 16:44:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Your title sucked. The rest didn't.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2008-07-13 16:24:50 EDT (#)
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haha Fey just made me chuckle like a chimp with one banana and two apples
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2008-07-13 16:02:17 EDT (#)
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You're a hippy/whitetrash, I'm a greenie/jetsetter. Offspring of our conjoining would be grippy jettrash.
Submitted by locksly (user info) at 2008-07-12 21:46:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
3.I love to watch shows like People's Court and Judge Mathis. Generally I work during the day, so it is like a super special bonus feature in my life when I get the time to rubberneck at the wrecks that populate this genre of television. One of the very interesting things that I have noticed viewing these shows is how when people want to appear more responsible and credible, they begin to speak in the past perfect tense. Nothing ever just happened. It had happened. Nobody ever just did something. They had done it. Nobody ever just said something. They had said it. The past perfect tense is not an all the time affair people. Who is feeling me on this one?
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2008-07-12 16:05:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-07-11 14:03:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'd like to know more about solar water heaters, it seems like a good energy saving idea. I'm more interested though in the newer solar technologies coming out, like the solar cell windows (clear glass that re-routes sun-beams into solar cells to be converted into energy.) which will be on the market by 2012 or so.
Also, I heard on NPR the other day about the large numbers of solar power plants that are trying to set up out in the southwest. It's been said that they could power "most" of the energy for the country, but they didn't give a figure for "most."
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solar power is such a joke...if you covered an area the size of Rhode Island, with solar panels, you'd have the same energy as, count um, 1, yes one, gas station
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2008-07-12 06:27:20 EDT (#)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h02jCrcPFJg
Hurty made it on to British TV!
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2008-07-11 16:24:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
streak breaker 2 below
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2008-07-11 16:22:46 EDT (#)
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You must have missed the 14 posts where Shlongy has indicated that he doesn't eat onions.
Submitted by august_sobriquet (user info) at 2008-07-11 16:05:39 EDT (#)
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re: Shlongy- I'm taking this as a grave affront to my person. This insult can not go unanswered! I smell delicious. Like garlic, onion, and salt. YUM.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2008-07-11 15:52:37 EDT (#)
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You sound like you smell.
But at least you can construct a proper sentence so I won't -2 that...because that's a rarity around these parts, Jim Bob.
Or, Sally Mae...whoever the fuck you are.
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2008-07-11 15:05:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i've noticed when people on tv want to look smart and credible they say "approximately" and "proceeded to" every other sentence.
would make a good drinking game
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2008-07-11 15:02:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2008-07-11 14:47:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
oddly entertaining.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-07-11 14:39:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 HIPPIES
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-07-11 14:20:13 EDT (#)
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Geothermal energy kinda scares me though. With our (humans) drive to "develop" and endless efforts to increase energy production, I could foresee the companies trying to widen geothermal gaps, in effect creating new volcanoes.
Submitted by august_sobriquet (user info) at 2008-07-11 14:16:54 EDT (#)
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I've been told that to retrofit an old house to run on solar electricity is expensive and not the most cost effective upgrade. My grand plan is to be able to sell this house and build new and use solar electricity. I'll have to check out that window thing.
My house uses most oil/energy for heating water for baseboard and hot water. There is a 110 gallon storage tank in my basement and those panels are providing all the hot water right now and will until into fall. In the winter, it will act as a preheat for the boiler. We have a masonry heater downstairs in our apartment, and the upstairs is on baseboard so this setup made good sense for us.
Another great technology coming up for heating and cooling is geothermal. All this stuff is a bit tough to sort out and I think everyone's energy solutions in the short term are going to be a mixed bag.
Submitted by BobSandwich (user info) at 2008-07-11 14:13:13 EDT (#)
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Submitted by august_sobriquet (user info) at 2008-07-11 14:06:37 EDT (#)
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well bob, it is hard to tell since you don't have any posts that i can go read. I guess I'll just take your word for it.
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I'm still watching and learning so I don't fuck up my first post. But my life is shit and is on track to get shittier. I might have you beat I guess, I did just receive a free 1988 Holliday Rambler travel-trailer a few minutes ago. I am going to turn it into a tramper-trailer with a wet bar and turn the bathroom into a walkin beer cooler. Maybe life is starting to look up now.
Submitted by august_sobriquet (user info) at 2008-07-11 14:06:37 EDT (#)
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well bob, it is hard to tell since you don't have any posts that i can go read. I guess I'll just take your word for it.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-07-11 14:03:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'd like to know more about solar water heaters, it seems like a good energy saving idea. I'm more interested though in the newer solar technologies coming out, like the solar cell windows (clear glass that re-routes sun-beams into solar cells to be converted into energy.) which will be on the market by 2012 or so.
Also, I heard on NPR the other day about the large numbers of solar power plants that are trying to set up out in the southwest. It's been said that they could power "most" of the energy for the country, but they didn't give a figure for "most."
Submitted by august_sobriquet (user info) at 2008-07-11 14:02:46 EDT (#)
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jack, i know, hard to believe, Huh? It wasn't even odd behavior that prompted the discovery, but nasal polyps.
Submitted by BobSandwich (user info) at 2008-07-11 14:01:54 EDT (#)
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Your life sounds more dismal than mine
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2008-07-11 14:01:22 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2008-07-11 13:51:17 EDT (#)
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+1, I too am a fan of Judge Judy. Used to think she was a harpy, now I am amazed she is still alive with the verbal bitch slapping she gives all the brain-dead gangbangers in her court. The lady has balls.
+1 for "An acquaintance just found out that he has a tumor the size of a softball behind his face." I'm trying to figure out where it has that much room to reside. Unless you're Shlongy there isn't a whole lot of unused real estate back there.
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2008-07-11 13:49:31 EDT (#)
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wow, the most sporadic poster ever.