Monochrome Rainbows

Christians proving their inteligence

2009-05-21T11:31:00.002-04:00

Mom of the year let her daughter die from undiagnosed diabetes. She thought that the kid was sick because of demonic attacks and prayed for spiritual healing. Isn't there some minimum skills test for parenting?

Sad Story

A poem

2009-05-19T21:38:00.002-04:00

Hi Internet I wrote you a poem.

Old mother Hubbard lived in a shoe
Old mother Hubbard sometimes ate cat poo
Old mother Hubbard's walls were made of lead
That might be why she wasn't right in the head
She had some touble speaking and sometimes she said
Rah Bazah-haha foopy doopy hoo hoo

Your welcome internets

Dirt pile

2009-05-19T20:52:00.003-04:00

This is the area of my lawn known as pool hole. It's the bane of my lawn mowers existance. The mower can't get through this area that used to have a pool on it. I have thrown dirt rocks and anything else in the hole for two years and not managed to fill it.

A challenger has appeared! An epic struggle between pool hole and dirt pile is now raging. Eventually the pool hole will lose unless my back gives out first. I have a shovel and I'm not giving up DAMNIT!

Yes!

2009-05-18T15:14:00.002-04:00

MMMM Beer

2009-05-16T21:10:00.003-04:00

This Sam Adams White Ale is pretty darn good stuff. It's a little bitter but very crisp and refreshing.

WTF of the day

2009-05-15T15:40:00.000-04:00

I don't know what this is or why I can't stop laughing at it.

Random funny

2009-05-15T11:51:00.002-04:00

Don't take it home with you

2009-05-12T15:46:00.002-04:00

I was talking to someone today about how work especially anything government funded in Michigan is getting very stressful lately. At some point I mentioned that it's not bad so long as you don't take it home with you, it being the work stress. He responded with "How do you not take it home with you?" which is difficult sometimes.
It's hard to leave work stress at work and live the parts of life that are supposed to be fun without worrying about work. I like to think that I manage it pretty well though. I have been trying to come up with some tips on how to separate work stress from real life.

1. The organization was there before you and will be there after you leave, quit thinking that everything rests on your shoulders.

2. If you put in an honest day stop worrying about what's left to be done, you're only one person.

3. You will never make everyone happy no matter how hard you work.

4. What's the point of having a job if you take the stress home with you? Enjoy the results of your labor, if you don't there was no point to doing the labor.

Mondays

2009-05-11T11:49:00.002-04:00

Monday is a strange day in my house. I have the typical Monday blues that most 9-5 office workers have but Rachel is the opposite. Monday is her day off after a weekend of retail hell so she likes Mondays. It's an amusing contrast that I'm tired and grumpy but she's happy to have a day off.

Penguicon

2009-05-03T21:38:00.004-04:00

The Media

2009-05-01T09:19:00.002-04:00

What happened to journalism in America? I'm a news junkie and maybe I'm wrong but I think it gets harder every day to find reporters reporting facts. What makes it worse is that all the major TV media outlets are guilty of this. Why are opinion poles and biased pundits replacing reporters stating the facts?

Here's is the definition of pundit from Merriam-Webster, a person who gives opinions in an authoritative manner usually through the mass media. That's my problem with every news outlet interviewing these people, they are just giving opinions not facts.
Whats worse is that there is no criteria for being a pundit, any biased blowhard can get on the news and make up stuff.

My prime example that led me to this post was Fox news the other day. They were letting everyone know about a hate crimes bill that's in the House right now. Did they give an accurate summary of the bill and report where party lines were going to vote on it? No of course not, they made up stories about how transvestites with stump fetishes will be able to rape veterans and anyone trying to stop them would go to be guilty of a hate crime! I double checked and that pundit was totally wrong and just spreading nonsense.

They never even bothered to sum up actual wording of the bill they were talking about. This is why I listen to the BBC instead of U.S. news most of the time.

LOLZ

2009-04-29T08:33:00.004-04:00

gay marriage

2009-04-28T08:16:00.002-04:00

I was involved in the old gay rights for marriage debate in a class I'm taking and I took a very libertarian stance that nobody liked. If marriage is a question about religion which the only defense of people who oppose gay marriage then why is this a government issue to begin with?

We are supposed to have a separation of church and state but the state is deciding who is allowed to get married which is a church issue. If gay people want to be married as far as civil stuff like custody and pensions go that should be a totally different issue.

Now I'm annoyed because I found another example of politicians getting paid with my money to debate something they shouldn't have any right to decide about to begin with.

Student Loans

2009-04-25T12:14:00.003-04:00

I'm looking for advice on how to minimize the damage that student loans are going to do to my life.
Right now I'm going back to college and those oh so easy to get loans from Sally Mae are starting to pile up. From mid 2008 to today I have racked up $6,200 in loans for about 8 classes. I think I have about 35 more classes to go so this number is going to explode soon.

I'm trying to come up with ways to make the damage more bearable. Right now I'm trying not to fail any classes, that's just throwing away money. I'm also buying all my text books used online with my own money. This saves about 80% on the college book store price. The last thing I'm doing is saving, I don't want to part with my money until I have to but I am putting away everything I can to throw at my final loan balance once repayment time comes.

My question is what else can I do? Does anyone have any tricks to minimize student loan debt?

Ubuntu is getting better

2009-04-16T10:01:00.003-04:00

I put Ubuntu back on my home laptop yesterday. The last time I did this I had to screw around for a while to get the wireless driver working with NDIS Wrapper. This time my wireless card showed up in the non open source driver list and I just had to click enable.

Every time I use Ubuntu it seems to be getting more impressive. I love that all of the media stuff like flash and java all get installed with just one command. I even got some really old windows software working through WINE without any issues.

I'm going to try and help with Linux community since I'm using such a good product for free. I'm not a programmer and I don't have a ton of extra cash sitting around so I will have to look around for ways to help. If anyone has some ideas let me know.

Sales Creatures

2009-04-15T14:33:00.004-04:00

I've been dealing with some technology companies to get a few quotes for a new phone system. One company which should be the most well known and experienced of them has been driving me nuts. Here is a short list of how to have a company be horrible at sales.

7. Question my network products in a semi obvious way to let me know your trying to up sell me on stuff I didn't ask you to pitch to me.

6. Sell for a company that only uses partner companies so I have to deal with multiple sales people for one product.

5. Insist that it's necessary for a face to face meeting but don't bring any products.

4. Be late and admit that you totally forgot about me.

3. Try to up sell

2. Try again to up sell

1. Keep trying to up sell even after you get told that it's not appreciated.

I'm starting to understand why some people have elaborate methods of blocking sales people out. Once I get this project finished It's going to be a long time before I sit and listen to anyone who has Sales Engineer on his business card.

I got no wheels

2009-04-14T16:47:00.002-04:00

My car broke down and I'm stuck at home. I'm going to call the repair place in a minute and see if it's done. With any luck I can have a car tonight. It would be nice to be able to get to work tomorrow.

2009-04-12T20:22:00.002-04:00

Easter Sunday was Easter funday this year. I went out to lunch with my brother and my grandma. It was a good time and I had a great fillet steak. Now I don't know what to do though. There's nothing on TV and I finished my homework. I did just find a 91 F150 pickup for sale on craigslist for $50,000. That was amusing for a few minutes. I'm guessing that guy won't get his asking price.

Not so serious

2009-04-09T10:06:00.003-04:00

My last post was too serious. I am not here to take things seriously so have some of this.

Cultual Diversity

2009-04-09T09:03:00.002-04:00

So I'm doing a cultural diversity class for college and I have mixed feelings. I feel like I might as well be a racist since I'm never going to escape annoyingly liberal mandatory cultural training. I will admit that I love being a troll. Jokes that turn people red in the face will always be great for me. I don't care if me poking fun at the world upsets someone. How I roll is how I troll and even though it makes me a jerk it's my right.
I have never actually discriminated against anyone and I don't care to. It's one of those things I just never cared much about and it's not a big deal to me. That's my point here, why won't cultural diversity training go away? It's mandatory at work and at school because apparently I'm a racist no matter what I do. I understand everyone comes up with these stupid trainings to try and cover their own butts. It doesn't change the fact that it's annoying to no end.

Polar Bear Attack

2009-04-07T08:15:00.002-04:00

He's attacking with razor sharp cute.

Spotted WHAT?

2009-04-05T17:04:00.003-04:00

Eat some delicious spotted dick. Did I just insult you or give a real desert menu suggestion? Spotted Dick is an imported British desert. I snicker and laugh when I see it in the international section of Meijer. I decided to buy some and try it out this weekend. Check out the price tag, this stuff better be good.

It's pretty easy to make just microwave it for a minute and put some butter on. When I looked online I also saw that custard is very popular to put on it. I could see that because it might cut the sweetness of this cake.

So on to the taste. Spotted dick is a very sweet super moist sponge cake with raisins in it. It's actually pretty good but that little 10oz can is a tricky one. I would say that a quarter to half of that can is a desert for one person. It's so rich of a cake it made me feel a little sick afterward. Rum cake does the same thing to me if I eat more than one small slice. It's good cake so I'm going to pick up another can for my next gaming night and let friends try it out.

OMG Tribbles

2009-04-05T16:56:00.003-04:00

We went to the Detroit Science Center to check out the Star Trek exhibit. It was an interesting time for $20. The science center had a neat free area full of science based toys to mess with. That part was just as fun as the Star Trek stuff to me. We took some pictures but not many of the exhibit. No photography was allowed due to copyright issues.

Darths & Droids

2009-04-02T08:13:00.002-04:00

I love this web comic. It's Star Wars being roll played by people who have never heard of Star Wars. Whats funny is that the story line of this comic actually makes more sense in some places than the real Star Wars movies.

Here's the linky goodness to the rest of the comics. Darths & Droids

April Foo's

2009-04-01T08:39:00.002-04:00

Well it's April foo's day again, do you pity a foo? My dad already enlisted me to get my mom this morning. I think he's gotten her twice today now. It's also foo's day on THE GOVERNMENT for hiring me. I have been sitting at this desk for exactly two years as of today.

Ahhh it smells like another fine day at THE GOVERNMENT extra meetings for everyone!