This Land

This Land is your land.

One of the funniest flash films ever. Great job, and good funny all around.

GEORGE W. BUSH NOSE JOB?

GEORGE W. BUSH NOSE JOB?

Yup - good ol' GWB got his nose replaced. Maybe it was too brown from sucking up to his Halliburton buddies?

Sorry if it's old news. Just thought it'd be fun to share.

UPDATE to the Cheese-covered guy story - it was NACHO cheese!

CNN.com - Cheesy, nude Monn arrested - Jul 20, 2004

Updated for your pleasure.

My job

Well it's been a few days now that I've switched over to L.L.Lozeau as far as money-making is concerned. And I love it.

Consider this - Mrs. Lozeau (Daughter of Léo Laurent Lozeau, founder) is still at the helm, with her husband. She actually came down and met us (all 7 of us in training) and spoke with us, being all nice and friendly, and said that she hoped we had fun there. And she really meant it, too. She asked each of us where we worked before, and when I said "C.A. Barbier Photo, in Lachine" she instantly said "Oh, with Mr. Giroux! Then you must know Francis (he's the guy who worked there after I left) - he's at the Camera counter..." She actually remembered, 2 days later, when she introduced our bunch to her husband, and said "this is Eric, he used to work at Barbier with Giroux." And her husband answered "Oh, Pierre! How is he, I haven't seen him in a while! Surely you know Francis! He worked there, too."

I've never seen more hands-on management, from up-high. And it looks like it works, too. You can clearly see that they care, that they show up every single day and walk around on the floor, and actually help you out when there's a lineup.

Even better - we have specifically been instructed to take our time with customers. If one guy talks to you for 2 hours about his cat pictures, and wants to know how he could perhaps make them better, or even if he just wants to talk about his cat, take the God Damned Two Hours it takes. The customer'll be happy. We have been officially promised by the Photofinish Manager that he will never, ever ask us to "move it" or "clear the customer, we've got a line-up". Ever. And if another customer bitches that he waited in line for an hour while we were explaining things to another customer, we have been told to say that "if you ever need to have us spend two hours with you to make sure your order is correct and you're happy, we'll take all the time we need, and then some". And that's official Lozeau policy.

It also feels nice to work in the largest photo store in Canada. You see, everywhere I used to work, anytime we didn't do some thing we'd just go and say "Oh, we don't do this, go to Lozeau". Well, guess what - I'm gonna have to get used to saying yes quite a bit.

And being the largest means also that I'll be handling only the photofinish counter. That's right, we're going to be eight behind the mother fucking counter, taking films and handing people their pictures. All day, non-stop. I swear to God, there's always a line-up. Sometimes, it stretches to the entrance of the store. And it's a big store.

I'm also getting cost+10% (same old, same old) on pretty much all products in the store - including my next baby. Oh yeah.

It's nice to work some place I actually like again.

Police Arrest Cheese-Covered Naked Man

WESH.com - News - Police Arrest Cheese-Covered Naked Man: "Maryville police say they arrested a 23-year-old man wearing nothing but cheese early Sunday."

Um, yeah. Cheese.

Dihydrogen Monoxide Conspiracy

Dihydrogen Monoxide Conspiracy

There's a major government coverup concerning this dangerous chemical. Read up, find out about it, and you'll know what's up.

If you really wanna find out what it is and are too lazy to figure it out yourself, you can just click

Dihydrogen Monoxide is actually H₂O...

And there was much rejoicing

It's been ages, but I'd ordered new shirts on ThinkGeek, and they've arrived.

(For the curious, I got myself one of these shirts.)

Yay me. I also got my girlfriend one of the the Common Cold Plush Microbes. It's actually quite big, I'm surprised. I was expecting something tennis-ball size, while it's actually about softball-ball size (if my recollections of what a softball-ball look like are correct).

All in all, I'm happy. I've been waiting for a PA shirt for ages, and now I actually got 2. Yay.

Mein Teil

Wow. Just watched the new Rammstein video (ed2k link). Whoa. That is messed-up, but it kicks the usual ass that Rammstein kick whenever they show up.

If you have the opportunity to see them live, I strongly suggest you show up. They don't charge much (by big-ticket-band standards) and put on what is most certainly one of my top-3 shows ever. (The other two, if you're interested, are Pink Floyd's 1994 'Division Bell' tour, and Cowboys Fringants' Bell Center show.)

New single = new album = new tour. I'm giddy already.

"Crap I Drew on My Lunch Break" is actually the name of the comic

Crap I Drew on My Lunch Break

This one's a nice one!

New job

Well, I start at Lozeau tomorrow morning.

Good news all around. Téléperformance can suck it.

I'm going to get paid $9,50 to stand behind the photo counter, have people bring me their films to get developped, and give them their pictures back once it's done.

Keep in mind, $9,50 is what I was getting paid LAST at Compucentre, after 4 years and being Assistant-Manager. So, same pay, none of the responsibilities. Schweet.

But I always feel awkward saying 'I quit'. I always feel bad about it, even if I'm working for a big corporation that really couldn't care less about me. Today isn't going to be fun.

New syndication options.

You will notice two new links in the 'Links' section.

One has replaced Blogspot's own Atom XML feed, Feedburner's being much more standard-friendly.

The one right below that says 'Add this blog to My Yahoo!' and means just that. Click on it, and Shazam! Not quite exactly is now part of your My Yahoo page.

Ain't it nice?

Gmail

My new email address is as follows:
redlion (at) gmail dot com

Please update accordingly.

Yes, I will probably soon have invites. Yes, I'll let you guys know.

gmailswap is the shiz

I gots da mad G-mail skillz, yo.

Or, I will just as soon as Mr. Joshua Turner, from Kansas, MO, send me the invite.

All that e-mailly goodness for what? A Halo figurine. Master Chief. Red.

The one I tried to sell on eBay a while back, got $10 for it, and the guy
a) never got around to actually sending me money, and
b) Left me bad feedback on eBay about the whole mess.

I'm quite happy to get rid of it, and I'm also quite happy about getting Gmail.

All in all, I'm quite happy about things. Except now is the time I should be going to work. That, I'm not ecstatic about.

Just what I said before, only now it's official.

I've always said this.

Now it's true.

How do I know? Quizilla told me.

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!


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So there.

Download Firefox now, or the terrorists will have won

From Yahoo News: 'The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer.'

US-CERT actually released a Vulnerability Note:

There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites. Such a decision may, however, reduce the functionality of sites that require IE-specific features such as DHTML, VBScript, and ActiveX. Note that using a different web browser will not remove IE from a Windows system, and other programs may invoke IE, the WebBrowser ActiveX control, or the HTML rendering engine (MSHTML).

All in all, you really should use Firefox.

I like this quote

I just started reading Goats (a comic strip, in case you didn't know).

It's actually pretty funny, and I'm only up to February 1998 in the archives. But I know what I like, and I like this quote: "There's a fine line between excessive sarcasm and permanent bitterness."

I guess you've got to read the strip to get it, maybe.

Anyways, off to work I go in about an hour.

Oh, and just like Matt...

Athena


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Weapons are not your thing. You would prefer to
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Back to work

Back to work tomorrow.

It feels weird - I have Wednesdays and Thursdays off. Plus, last Saturday I was, well, um... what was it already? Oh yeah! sick! <wink wink nudge nudge> So that means we had St-Jean Baptiste, then I worked last Friday, got a day "off", worked 3 days (one of which we finished early, because the whole company moved to a new building - I ended up working 5-9h30), get two more days off, and now it's over. 5 days a week.

I feel like I was out on bail, and I'm thrown back in.

It's not that it's a bad job. I don't mind it that much. It's the schedule.

Working 5PM to 11:30PM is a killer. You never get to eat dinner with people. You get home, everyone's asleep. You can't "do stuff" after work. And I'm still in the mindset that doing stuff before going to work means getting up crazy-early. Plus, I seem to be the only one of my "team" (read: the-people-I-was-in-training-with) on that schedule, so I always have my breaks alone.

Add to that the propension to stay up until ungodly hours in the morning, and you have a lifestyle completely at odds with everyone elses', including, but not limited to, my girlfriend's. You see, she's of the school of 'at midnight, it's time to start going to bed' - and I fully understand that, seeing as how she used to stay up super-late and wake up at noon, and when she quit doing that, she lost like 20 pounds and didn't feel so sick all the time anymore. I really don't want to pull her back into that schedule.

The only good part of starting work at 5PM is that you never, ever, have to worry about getting up late, setting your alarm, etc. In fact, you can basically stay in bed late every single day.

But that's it, really. Anyone know of a non-telemarketing job that pays semi-well (read: above minimum wage) and that is on a more "regular" schedule?

IMDB's top 100 movies of all time.

IMDB's Top 100 Best Movies of All Time generate this HTML for your own page at ObeytheFist.com
Rank Movie Didn't See It/ Started It/ Finished It/ Hated It! 1 Godfather, The (1972) Started It 2 Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) 3 Godfather: Part II, The (1974) 4 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) 5 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) 6 Casablanca (1942) Finished It 7 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) Finished It 8 Schindler's List (1993) Hated It! 9 Shichinin no samurai (1954) 10 Star Wars (1977) Finished It 11 Citizen Kane (1941) Finished It 12 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Started It 13 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Finished It 14 Rear Window (1954) 15 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Finished It 16 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Finished It 17 Memento (2000) 18 Usual Suspects, The (1995) 19 Pulp Fiction (1994) Hated It! 20 North by Northwest (1959) 21 12 Angry Men (1957) 22 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 23 Psycho (1960) Started It 24 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 25 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 26 Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) Started It 27 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 28 Goodfellas (1990) 29 American Beauty (1999) 30 Vertigo (1958) Started It 31 Sunset Blvd. (1950) 32 Matrix, The (1999) Finished It 33 Apocalypse Now (1979) Started It 34 Pianist, The (2002) 35 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 36 C'era una volta il West (1968) Started It 37 Some Like It Hot (1959) Started It 38 Third Man, The (1949) 39 Taxi Driver (1976) Started It 40 Paths of Glory (1957) 41 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 42 Fight Club (1999) Finished It 43 Boot, Das (1981) Started It 44 Double Indemnity (1944) 45 L.A. Confidential (1997) 46 Chinatown (1974) 47 Singin' in the Rain (1952) Started It 48 Maltese Falcon, The (1941) 49 M (1931) Finished It 50 Requiem for a Dream (2000) 51 Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) Started It 52 All About Eve (1950) 53 Se7en (1995) Finished It 54 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Finished It 55 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 56 Cidade de Deus (2002) 57 Raging Bull (1980) 58 Rashômon (1950) 59 Wizard of Oz, The (1939) Finished It 60 Sting, The (1973) 61 Alien (1979) Finished It 62 American History X (1998) 63 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 64 Léon (1994) 65 Vita è bella, La (1997) 66 Touch of Evil (1958) 67 Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) 68 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Finished It 69 Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) 70 Great Escape, The (1963) Started It 71 Wo hu cang long (2000) 72 Reservoir Dogs (1992) 73 Clockwork Orange, A (1971) Finished It 74 Amadeus (1984) Finished It 75 Modern Times (1936) Finished It 76 Ran (1985) 77 Annie Hall (1977) 78 Jaws (1975) Finished It 79 On the Waterfront (1954) 80 Braveheart (1995) Started It 81 High Noon (1952) 82 Apartment, The (1960) 83 Fargo (1996) 84 Sixth Sense, The (1999) Finished It 85 Aliens (1986) Finished It 86 Shining, The (1980) Finished It 87 Strangers on a Train (1951) 88 Blade Runner (1982) 89 Metropolis (1927) Finished It 90 Duck Soup (1933) 91 Finding Nemo (2003) Finished It 92 Donnie Darko (2001) 93 General, The (1927) 94 City Lights (1931) 95 Princess Bride, The (1987) 96 Toy Story 2 (1999) Finished It 97 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 98 Great Dictator, The (1940) Finished It 99 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 100 Lola rennt (1998) Finished It
Which movies have you seen?

I've written as 'started it' the ones I saw part of in one of my Cinema classes.

(edit: moved down - took too much space up there)

askthetechgirl.com

askthetechgirl.com
AAAAAARGH!!!! This is so, so, so wrong on so many levels.

It's actually one of the saddest things I've seen, bar none.

It's basically the bastard child of a phone-sex service and a tech-support line.

Select quotes:

I'm not your average computer geek - I'm also a professional wrestler and actress. (Maria)

Some things that really make me hot are Macromedia Dreamweaver, Homesite, various FTP apps, Windows, Microsoft Office, Outlook, Outlook Express, JASC Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Image Composer, HTML and Java Scripting."

If none of that grabs you (and you want to be grabbed, don't you?), we can talk about the upcoming 3rd movie in the Star Wars trilogy, Sandman comics, Simpson's trivia or the new Cure album, among other, less G-rated things. (Tara)

Uggghh...

Jon's irritated.

Although my long-assed rant might have been seen as 'pestering' or 'pressuring' to you, that was certainly not my intention, and if it appeared so, I apologize muchly.

This is going to sound harsh, but although I consider you a very nice person (perhaps 'friend' would be too strong a word, but bear with me here), I most emphatically do not think that "sticking to your guns" or however you want to call what you're doing (conviction, ...) is "strenght of character". I pride my character on having an open mind, and leaving my options open.

You know me, I've got some very strong opinions. The thing is, I'm always open to discussing them, and you can actually end up convincing me.

I certainly wouldn't want you doing something you don't like just to "shut everyone up". That would be wrong.

I'm just trying to put forward ideas, and exchange views.

I understand if you're tired of it, and I'll stop.