Olympics Over and Other Thoughts

Here is a pretty good run down of the best and worst of the Olympics.

I had friends over last night. My house is officially blessed I suppose.

I made a new CD. Best of 2008 pt 2, or otherwise known as what I'm listening to non-stop.

Airborne Toxic Event: Sometime Around Midnight
Beck - Gamma Ray
Black Kids: I'm not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You
The Walkmen: Four Provinces
Britney Spears: Piece of Me (Boz O Lo Remix)
Low vs Diamond: Heart Attack
Cold War Kids: Something is Not Right with Me
David Archuleta: Crush
Lil Wayne: A Milli
Pink: So What
Okkervil River: Lost Coastlines
The Ting Tings: That's not my Name
Does it Offend You, Yeah: We are Rockstars
Kings of Leon: Sex on Fire
T.I.: Like I Do
Shiny Toy Guns: Ricochet

Haha: Tiki Barber Drops the C Word

Don't know if this will go MSM, but it's on all the blogs today. Tiki's partner sort of mocked him for not having a super bowl ring, and he got back at her by saying "Total Medal Count" but not that C word, the C word without the O. Really, right at :30. After that, everyone is so uneasy. It's quite humorous, and offensive, all the same.

From what I read, Tiki is quite the ass. But look at the body language, they clearly hate each other. And Brian Williams trying to save the day by saying "Count" all over. ha!

Leda Smith's Got a Gun

This is a great story about how you deal with intruders. However if it is at night I will shoot first and ask questions later (cuz you can do that in Texas. as long as they are in the house)

"85-year-old Leda Smith of Point Marion, PA is not about to let some punk ass bitch with her home! On Sunday afternoon, Leda was chilling in her home, probably smoking a bong and listening to Wu Tang, when she heard some bitch breaking into her house. Leda said her neighbor's home was recently robbed, so she had been keeping a .22-caliber revolver near her bed.
She went on to say, "I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun. I said 'What are you doing in my house?' He just kept saying he didn't do it." Leda then made the 17-year-old robber call the police while she kept the gun pointed at him. She ordered him to hand her the phone so that she could report his ass. With the 911 operator on the line, she instructed him to lie face down on the floor with his legs spread. She continued to the point the gun at him. This memaw doesn't eff around. I guess watching all those episodes of "Barney Miller" really paid off.
The 17-year-old was charged with attempted burglary and related offenses in juvenile court."

BTW, I post interesting stories that I like. They can be happy, sad or cruel. This is an anonymous blog. Please don't take anything personally. I would never use this blog to vent against family or friends. Every thing here is here because it is interesting. The only thing personal I said was "thanks for the birthday wishes" and "I love you". So , just an anonymous blog here. folks.


I have no sublimental motives. OK?

I can't wait to hear the 911 tape of this call!

A New Twist on the Nigerian Letter Scam

I have to give credit to this one. I feel like responding just to see what I get back and mess with them. This time they actually are writing as the persona of the US Secretary of State. He wants to give me $30 million dollars! Awesome! I mean really they send this to millions accounts a day. It only takes one response to bleed your account dry....

"

Good day to you, I am Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Secretary of the United  States National Treasury.  President George W. Bush nominated me to be the  74th Secretary of the Treasury on June 19, 2006. The United States Senate unanimously confirmed me to the position on June 28,2006 and I was sworn into office on July 10, 2006 by Supreme Court
Chief Justice John Roberts. As Treasury Secretary, I am the President'sleading policy advisor on a broad range of domestic and international economic issues.

Before coming to Treasury, I was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs. I joined Goldman Sachs in 1974 in the Chicago Office and became a partner in 1982. From 1983 until 1988, I headed up Investment Banking Services for the Midwest Region and became Managing Partner of the Chicago Office in 1988. In 1990, I was named Co-head of
the firm's investment Banking Division, and in 1994 I rose to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer. In 1998, I was named Co-Senior partner, and with the firm's public offering in 1999, became Chairman and CEO.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, I was a member of the White House Domestic Council, serving as staff Assistant to the President from 1972 to 1973,and as staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon  from 1970 to 1972 I graduated from Dartmouth in 1968, where I was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and All Ivy, All East, and honorable mention All American for football. I received an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1970.
I and my wife, Wendy, have two  children, Amanda and Merritt.

The United Nations have given me due Instructions,alongside with the World Bank to wire a sum of $30m US Dollars Only into your Bank Account in a Legal way. that is why I have contacted you, as the United States Department of Justice, in The Person of the Attorney General Peter will get some documents for you so that this Transaction can be completed without delay the following documents needed are as follows

1: United Nations Stop Order Document
2: World Bank Clearance Certificate
3: Proof of Ownership Certificate.

These four documents are needed before I can proceed with the transfer into your bank account: in the meantime; I want you to Re-Confirm the following details to me for your Case File Processing.

Legal First and Last Name:
Complete Residential Address & Age
Direct Telephone No & Fax
Legal Occupation and Position
Address of Occupation

Please get back to me as soon as possible,You can reach me back via my Personal Email and Note that you can reach me faster via my personal email/Direct Telephone Conversation.

Thanks and God Bless you.

Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Executive Secretary United States Treasury Department
Main Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20220

You may send U.S. mail to
US Treasury Department.
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20220
Office Fax: (202) 622-6415General Tel#:(202) 622-2000
Personal E-mail: henrypaulsonjr3@gmail.com"

Song of the Year: Airborne Toxic Event "Sometime Around Midnight"; Low vs Diamond "Heart Attack" a close second...

You remember how I said I like to listen to songs on XM on the way to work, and sometimes I catch something so awesome and epic I giggle with glee? Well, this is it. This is the song of the year folks. Don't worry, it will not get radio play. It just builds and builds and builds. This is for the headphones. The head bopping. But, if you don't like Intervention you probably won't like this.

I can understand if you don't like it. But I fell in love from the first guitar pick. wow. Give it a try (btw the quality of this is prob 128 Kbps, which isn't great): (BTW it's only 30 second! but if you go to IMEEM you can hear it all)



BTW, I promised you this song in full version when it got posted. If you want to understand quality difference, this one is probably 320 Kbps. You can hear it. And it is definitely in the top 10 of the year: (SAME IT IS ONLY 30 Seconds but you can hear it on imeem or find on hype machine)

Olympic Moments: Nike with The Killers "All the Things That I have Done"

They are hard to catch because they are usually taped. Phelps is the easy one since all his were in prime time. I'm missing all the Track and Field and just getting the highlights. I'm watch most all the soccer games. Beach Volleyball Finals is Thursday morning, the same time as Final Women's Soccer so I will be flipping. Men's Soccer Final is seriously at midnight or something. Forget that.

Favorite commercial, Nike with The Killers "All the Things That I have Done":

Just When I Thought I had nothing, a woman named Dolores Aguilar Passes

Thanks to Dlisted, here's an obit that's supposedly real:

"This touching and eloquent obit showed up in the Times-Herald Napa/Sonoma paper. It's already been removed from the papers website, but I'm going to choose to believe that this is a real obit. It's just too amazing to be fake.

I'm sure that when I'm finally strapped into the jet plane to hell, my family will just copy and paste this shit as my obit.

Dolores Aguilar, born in 1929 in New Mexico, left us on August 7, 2008. She will be met in the afterlife by her husband, Raymond, her son, Paul Jr., and daughter, Ruby.

She is survived by her daughters Marietta, Mitzi, Stella, Beatrice, Virginia and Ramona, and son Billy; grandchildren, Donnelle, Joe, Mitzie, Maria, Mario, Marty, Tynette, Tania, Leta, Alexandria, Tommy, Billy, Mathew, Raymond, Kenny, Javier, Lisa, Ashlie and Michael; great-grandchildren, Brendan, Joseph, Karissa, Jacob, Delaney, Shawn, Cienna, Bailey, Christian, Andre Jr., Andrea, Keith, Saeed, Nujaymah, Salma, Merissa, Emily, Jayci, Isabella, Samantha and Emily. I apologize if I missed anyone.

Dolores had no hobbies, made no contribution to society and rarely shared a kind word or deed in her life. I speak for the majority of her family when I say her presence will not be missed by many, very few tears will be shed and there will be no lamenting over her passing.

Her family will remember Dolores and amongst ourselves we will remember her in our own way, which were mostly sad and troubling times throughout the years. We may have some fond memories of her and perhaps we will think of those times too. But I truly believe at the end of the day ALL of us will really only miss what we never had, a good and kind mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. I hope she is finally at peace with herself. As for the rest of us left behind, I hope this is the beginning of a time of healing and learning to be a family again.

There will be no service, no prayers and no closure for the family she spent a lifetime tearing apart. We cannot come together in the end to see to it that her grandchildren and great-grandchildren can say their goodbyes. So I say here for all of us, GOOD BYE, MOM."

So there you are.

On a happy note, US Women's Soccer made it to the finals. They beat Japan 4-2. It was a blowout. I managed to get through he whole day without seeing the score! Thursday's gold medal game will be on USA, so I can watch in at work on USA. The other games have been on MSNBC, which for some reason I don't get at work.

What me? Yes lucky me I have a tv in my office. And two managers who are European and totally get soccer, which means cool that I can watch soccer at work.

Sunday Night: whatevs

don't have anything substantial. Managed to get through Friday without hearing the results of Women's Soccer (olympics), hope to do the same tomorrow. Got it DVR'd folks.

And because, you can never get enough of Dr Horrible

Cat likes Music

What can I say? she likes my music. Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes.

News out of LA, Not Shocking

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From the city that makes it illegal to build fast food restaurants because its citizens are too fat, aka ignorant, to make healthy food choices, we now bring you this. Home Depot's et al must provide shelter to the "day laborers" gathered in their parking lot:

"Major new home improvement stores opening in the city of Los Angeles may have to build shelters for day laborers under a City Council ordinance approved Wednesday.

Under the ordinance, proposed by Councilmembers Bernard Parks and Ed Reyes and passed unanimously, all proposed home improvement stores of more than 100,000 square feet would have to obtain a conditional use permit from the city. Most Home Depot, Lowe's and other big box home improvement stores would meet this threshold.

In order to obtain the permit, the developers of the stores would have to present plans to address the issue of day laborers congregating on the property and waiting to be picked up for jobs. These plans could include building shelters for day laborers that include bathroom facilities, though the ordinance does not specifically mandate that such shelters be built."

What's next? look out, Houston. Now the Home Depot shopper will be forced to provide a job to said day laborer or be arrested for discrimination, or something like that.

Friday Night: 080808 Let the Games Begin!

Had our safety meeting today. We do it monthly and it is always followed by Birthday cake for the lucky one of the month. Today = Me! We had Tres Leches from Americas / Churrasco's. It was sooooooooooo gooooooooooooood. (the birthday person gets their choice, so on multiple b-day's we have had up to three cakes! Like The Office!)

It's been a long time since I hear a song on the drive in to work (almost always XM Ethel) and heard a new one that just caught on: Low Vs. Diamond "Heart Attack". Never heard of them. It's not on Imeem yet (an approved website, by the way of the artists and labels). I'll upload when I find it.

The pics of tonight's Olympics Openings are beautiful. Ralph Lauren stock went up today 4% after CNBC reported they outfited the USA team in the opening ceremony. good looking outfits (slide show linked here)!

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Awwwww: All Dogs go To Heaven

Got this story via bestweekever via urlesque, whom I have never heard of. Aww, post officers can be awesom.

The US Women's already lost their first soccer game today against Norway. If we win out the group we can maybe face them again in a medal game.


Awww!


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Let the Disgrace Begin: China Olympic Treatment, who needs Human Rights when you can arrest and censure?

Richard Justice, a respected Chronicle sportswriter, offers this "disgrace" assessment of the issue.

Sally Jenkins, and equally respected USA Today writer, writes a similar article, "Speak Up and get Shut Down".

I know what I think about China. They should have never gotten the Olympics. When our own US State Department is officially warning them that they will have zero privacy in their hotel rooms and elsewhere, it is just stating the obvious. I will be curious how the reporting will be. I don't know what to say about Bush going there, because it is the Olympics and the US and USSR played the boycott games in the 80's. hmm, what do you think?

Have you seen the actually funny Paris Hilton retort? Can't believe I said that in the same sentence.

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

Edouard (What a stupid name)

I don't understand that name. Anyway, SciGuy reports two scenarios, one good for Houston and one bad. Actually, the good is actually bad because we need the rain:

"

Edouard strikes Galveston Island: If this happens then conditions tomorrow should be pretty much be as I describe below. It will be very wet and very windy, a day to avoid being outside if possible. Expect rainfall totals of 3 to 5 inches across the Houston region, with isolated totals of 8 inches. This remains the official forecast.

Edouard turns toward the Texas-Louisiana border: Such a scenario is possible and Jeff Masters, of The Weather Underground, believes this will happen. He's usually a reliable source. If this plays out the Houston metro area won't get much wind, and we'll probably get less rain than the 3 to 5 inches currently being forecast."

I've got my stuff ready. Going to order pizza tonight in case it is bad tomorrow and can't get out. Got my batteries, flashlights, slim jim, coke zero, protein shakes, and work computer so no expectation to go to work if it is unsafe (BTW: I have most that stuff every day. I did not make a run on the stores. I bought a gallon of water at Walgreen's and my C batteries for my toy at the dollar store. no lines!). Here's my emergency toy (It's cool, it has a flashlight, a TV, a weather radio, normal radio, siren, thermometer):

forget it, blogger is down. I'll post the pic later.

Eduoard Update

I have removed all references to Eduardo and instead will link to the Sciguy or NOAA.

The 1000am report has been released