Who are you trying to fool with this shit?

Snoop Dogg did a guest appearance on the Martha Stewart show and Martha asked Snoop why he wanted to make "green" brownies?

I have several questions:

1) Is Martha Stewart trying to UP her "hip-ness" by having someone like Snoop Dogg on her show?

2) Is Snoop Dogg trying to appeal to a wider audience by appearing on the Martha Stewart show?

3) Is there anyone in the world that DOESN'T know that Snoop Dogg is stoned all the time?

I can't figure out what the point of Snoop Dogg on the Martha Stewart show is. Most of the things I see on TV are either somewhat thinly disguised or blatant attempts at separating me from my hard-earned money, but I can't seem to figure out exactly what this is all about. (Although Martha did mention that Snoop's second season of his reality show is about to start so there may be some kind of network/sponsor/production company/advertisers connections going)

Snoop Dogg, a father figure and a roll model? Really?
Snoop Dogg, Father of the Year? Really?
Snoop Dogg, pot smoking, gangsta raper parental roll model? Really?

It's true, the world really is going to end soon.

Why do people suck so bad?

You know how you go someplace and there is trash left all over the place by lazy slobs, or how people can't take the time to put their shopping cart in the cart return because those extra five steps to the cart return would most likely have killed them?

You know how some people can't seem to drive very well, I mean they suck so bad at operating a motor vehicle that you might guess that they would flunk their driving test even on their best days.

I wonder how some people are just poor excuses for human excrement to be shaped like what would appear to be a person but what really gives it away is the smell.

I wonder why some people are allowed to continue to exist when all they are not worth the space they take up in the universe.

Ah, rough night dealing with assholes has made me pissed off at the world (or rather some people living in this world.)

People Suck!

Nuff said.

On being narrow minded . . .

You shouldn't do it, be narrow minded that is.

Lets say you are narrow minded about politics, like you believe that the Democrats are to blame for all the problems in the world, or that the Republicans are the cause for everything that is wrong with the world today.

I say you should not believe that just one party has been the root cause of everything that is wrong in the United States. Having these one-sided views is just wrong and you shouldn't do it.

If you are smart enough and take the time to look for information on the causes of some of the financial or economic problems facing the world right now you will find that many of the problems were created by a combined group effort and no single party is to blame for everything.

"Well sure, but it's MOSTLY the Republicans or Democrats," you say. That's just wrong and shows a lack of intelligent thought and basic reasoning.

But, it's OK I understand that there are many, many people in the world that lack the capacity for intelligent thought and basic reasoning and I really wish all those people would just STFU!

Wow, just wow!

Right now it seems that every retail store, outlet, mall or anybody that ever sold anything to anybody wants me to BUY STUFF!

Every radio and TV commercial I hear or see is about extracting money from my bank account!

It's like the worse the economy gets the harder the advertisers push. We all know this year is going to be a difficult one for retailers, but will spending millions on over-the-top advertising really help the bottom line?

Wal*Mart and Target Corp. are really pushing the fact that you can get stuff for cheap at their stores, new big-screen TVs and housewares, but isn't the age of over-consumption, mass-materialism and just having a bunch of stuff somewhat outdated?

When you are wondering if you are going to loose your job and how you will feed your family if you do loose your job, isn't thinking "hey, I need a whole new 12-piece place setting for my Thanksgiving table" the furthest thing from your mind?

I think this should be the time of year that we all focus on what is really important, family, friends and loved ones rather than "getting more stuff."

Man this trend is really sad to think about, what I really need to do to make myself happy is . . .

Go shopping and buy stuff!

Employment in the "new world"

Just something to think about:

The "New Age" community

I don't live too far from Sedona and go there to Mt. Bike from time to time. Years ago some strange hippie-types said there were these "vortex" areas of energy in Sedona and from then on Sedona has been a hot-bed of "new-age" activity.

I can attest to the strange vortex energy in Sedona, because my wife and I have gotten turned around and confused several times while riding trails in the area.

The town of Sedona is very focused on tourism, lots of cheesy t-shirt shops and galleries with very over-priced art and bad restaurants that serve frozen food and claim it to be fresh, bad, bad, bad.

Then you have guys like this: James Arthur Ray, a nationally known New Age guru.

Mr. Ray charges people tons of money to go to Sedona for a retreat and then tries to kill them!

Jim Jones, David Koresh and James A. Ray what is it going to take for someone to shut this buffoon down?

Read more of the story in the New York Times

CGI gone wrong

Computer generated images (CGI) gone wrong! Only thing this is for is to separate you from your money. Don't fall for it!

It's all too much

There are just way to many things to be disenfranchised about these days. It's all so overwhelming, this person did that, and someone else did this stupid thing, my head is about to explode.



OK, OK so John Voight has gone completely 'round-da-bend on this one, and the comments from the "Young Turks" folks is just funny.

How about this: Twenty-three employees of France Telecom have killed themselves since the beginning of 2008.

Read more here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8252547.stm

And another story: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/why-are-so-many-france-telecom-workers-dying-1795171.html

The world is coming unglued!

Did I mention that I am afraid of heights?

I think I said this before, but when I was in my 20s it wasn't an issue, heights that is. But now, I get this strange feeling in my gut and my knees get a bit wobbly and I get a little dizzy. It's very strange, must be something to do with age?

Anyway, I not afraid of heights in tall buildings looking out windows, airplanes or bridges with railings or being in places that are high up. I'm only afraid of places where I could make a simple mistake and fall to my death.

Such a place exists, and it can be found in Zion National Park. That place is called the Angels Landing trail.


A hiking trail, seriously dude, your afraid of a hiking trail?

Oh no, not just any hiking trail, this is the grand-daddy of all hiking trails (at least for Zion it is). Kinda like taking a double black-diamond ski run.

This is a simple 2.5 mile hike, well the first 2 miles are fine, steep but fine, it's that last 1/2 mile that things get a little on the "don't mess up, or you will fall 1,700 feet straight down to your death" freaky side.



Talk about working to overcome your fears . . .

Look at the pictures, there is this chain that you must hold on to. Zoom into the pictures, you will see what I'm talking about, go ahead just click on the pictures.

You will see . . .

That was on the way to this

The "bucket list tour" continues.

Our first stop was at Horseshoe Bend (see post below), but that was just a little side deal I found on the Internet, our goal for this part of the tour was to get to this: Antelope Canyon just outside of Page Arizona.


Everyone has seen photos of Slot Canyon, aka; Antelope Canyon with it's beautiful sandstone rock formations.


We took a 2 and 1/2 hour photography tour (you must use a certified guide to visit the canyon) and the tour cost $50 each.

This is another one of those things that I think cost more than it should, but it's the only option to spend time in the canyon with enough time to play photographer.

Here are some of the results:

Bucket list

Do you have a bucked list?

A bucket list is a list of things you want to do before you "kick the bucket." This is from a Hollywood film or some sort of urban legend or something.

My wife and I were about drive from almost the Southern border of the United States to almost the Northern boarder of the United States and because we are old and don't like to drive too many hours in a day we decided to make tons of stops along the way.

The first stop, Horseshoe bend in Page Arizona, is just below the Glen Canyon Dam with Lake Powell sitting behind the dam. The area is amass of beautiful sandstone red rock formations and desert scenery.

It's not that I'm afraid of heights, it's just that I'm afraid of falling [from great heights].

Now when I was a kid hanging over the edge of a cliff didn't seem to bother me, nor did climbing over, under and around large rocks or mountains that had very long drops, which if you somehow lost your grip you would fall to your certain death.

But, now.

Now I feel this strange sensation between my "boys" and my "rear most exit," my knees get a bit wobbly and I get some sort of vertigo that can only be described as very similar to the sensation that Gregory Peck must have felt when filming the Alfred Hitchcock film!

Yikes!

OK, Horseshoe bend is surrounded by 1,100 foot cliffs! Dang it sure is neat looking!

I lay on my belly and inched up to the edge to take a few photos, very beautiful place to spend an afternoon taking photos.

Another strange phenomenon is that you could be in the middle of a thousand square miles or open space and the German, Asian or French tourist would somehow manage to stand so, so close to you that they invaded your personal space.

How do they manage to do that?

I really just don't like other people.

Online High School

Seriously?

WTF, as if kids don't spend enough time, not interacting with other people face-to-face to develop social skills and generally become adapted to dealing with people and communicating without being able to hide behind the "wall of Internet?"

I'm not talking about just taking one of two classes or taking online stuff to get your GED, I'm talking about full-time online high school for high school aged kids.

This just sounds like a bad idea to me.

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Ellen DeGeneres, a most unlikely super model

Cover Girl makeup has decided to use Ellen DeGeneres as it's spokesperson for it's makeup line.

I'm not sure how I feel about this?

I guess it doesn't bother, it's just that most supermodels exist only to make men want to have sex with them . . . Whereas, when you mention Ellen DeGeneres' name to most men, sex is the farthest thing from their minds.

I don't have anything against Ellen, I think her talk show is funny and entertaining, it's just that I always associate makeup with sexy woman and Ellen is not sexy at all to me.

What do you think?

No great things to say about the sad state of things . . .

Maybe a picture or two . . .

You and the Internet, a comprehensive guide

There are these things on the Internet called "Internet forums" where people post questions and other people post answers.

Most forums are dedicated to some common group, like cat lovers, or people with red hats, anyway on this one forum dedicated to stock photography this guy posted about how his long term relationship ended, and I felt compelled to respond. Here is my response:

No offense to the original poster, but I wonder about a few things here?

OK, so a long-time relationship ended - that is sad, I'm sorry, it sucks, etc. . .

What kind of a world do we live in where your first thought is to post about it on an Internet forum?

Maybe if it was a forum dedicated to relationships or couples or support groups or something, but an Internet forum for stock photographers?

Sure, there are a few people that know you here(as far as someone who has never met you and can make complete random judgments about you and your life based only on what you typed into some stock photo forum can "get to know you") So I am again scratching my head in wonder.

I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with what you have done (posting about your relationship ending), just that I don't fully understand the mindset of what you did.

At some point you will get people who will come in here and flame you and flame-bait other people, that is just what they (flame people) do. I'm guessing you would expect that, I mean after all this IS an Internet forum, which means you get all the differences of people from all over the world who will ALL have different opinions as to what you should do, or what you should have not done.

I would guess you would have some sort of "local" support system, friends, family or some people you could talk to about your situation? It would seem to me something like that would be your first choice.

For all I know maybe you did that first and you just posted here because you wanted some random strangers to feel sorry for you, or maybe you really do think of these people as "your family."

If you do consider these people here, whom you have never met in person, "your family" I wonder about a world or society where our "families" are random strangers we have never actually met.

How do we define friends, or family for that mater? Do you form a bond with someone you met for a few hours at a photo workshop, and because you share a common interest you are now "friends?"

So, if that is the case, now that weird guy next to me in line at the store who is missing his two front teeth and smells like he lives under the freeway share a common interest, we both like the same kind of beer or feed our cats the same food (except I don't think he has a cat), anyway does that mean he is my "friend" now?

Dang, this whole "Internet" "facebook" "social networking" thing just confuses me!

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

The other day my wife and I went to do a tour of the Taliesin West facility, a group of buildings built by Frank Lloyd Wright, a famous architect known for such buildings as "falling Water" and The Guggenheim Museum in New York city.

The Taliesin West facility is run by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the tours are divided up into different lengths with costs that range from $35 per person for adults for a 1hour tour and prices go up from there.


What exactly is the purpose of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation?

This is what the web site says: The foundation established by Wright himself at Taliesin West in Arizona aims to advance the principles of organic architecture and preserve Wright's ...

It seems to me the purpose of the foundation is to separate you from your money and collect a large pile of the oh mighty American dollar. Mr. Wright believed in organic architecture and as such built the roof panels out of canvas over a frame that would tilt and let in the afternoon breezes (notice the white panels in the photo).


I guess the only time Mr. Wright would visit Arizona was during the winter time because right now it's like 114 degrees here in Arizona and none of his buildings are air conditioned.

So, $70 for two adults to walk around and look at a bunch of non-air conditioned buildings for one hour seems a bit excessive to me.

Another one of those things that cost lots of money when it should not!

Google AdSense is a scam full of crap!!!

I sent an email to Google AdSense about logging into my account in April, and got a response two days ago!!!

Holly crap is that fucking slow or what! I hope they flag my post and send it to the CEO of fucken google!

These people are complete morons with the brains of knats! (which is really an insult to knats)

Get your fuckin' ads off my page you suck-ass dumbshits!

The world where we live

It seems to me that there are lots of people and business owners that don't seem to understand that our economy is, how shall I put this, in the crapper!

Over the last decade lots and lots of artificial wealth was created. All these business and people had created what, on paper, appeared to be massive wealth. One day all this massive wealth came crashing down and people and business owners realized they really didn't have anything, just fake, on paper wealth and none of it could be turned into real cash. Remember the old saying "Cash is King," well that is so very true.

So now most (there are still a few cash rich folks out there, but most are not) let me say it again, MOST people are living pay-check to pay-check and don't have a lot of "discretionary income" to be spending on things that are expensive for no reason whatsoever.

There are business and events that charge very high prices for things, not because they cost a great deal to make available to the general public, but because they want to line their pockets!

Now you might be saying to yourself right about now, "hey there Mr. Disenfranchised, what are you talking about?"

What I'm talking about is stuff that cost way, way more that is should or what it seems to be worth, that $45 steak at that fancy restaurant, the $48 admission price to the zoo, the $65 seats to the concert for a performer that hasn't put out a decent song or album in more than 10 years?

WTF, do these people (promoters, restaurants, performers, and business owners) think we are still made of money?

Profit and greed will drag this country down as long as people continue to believe that people will pay way, way more for things than they are worth.

Are you hungry?

How about some food?

Taking time out to "experience" life . . .

The bad thing about not having a regular job is that you never have any money. The good thing about not having a regular job is that you can do stuff when other people have to be at work.

If you are smart enough to figure out how to "work the system" you can see stuff for free and make a little cash on the side. I'm not talking about doing anything against the law, just "playing the cards you are dealt with."

I sure love the choice of ads Google decided to use on my blog!

WTF!

I was never confused!

I'm not gay, not that there is anything wrong with being gay, it's just that I'm not gay.

Whatever you do, make this ad go away.

When I go to the bathroom

What a strange way to title a blog post, but here goes.

When I go to the bathroom at some place like the movie theater or restaurants, Darth Vader is always at the urinal or stall next to me!



That is the sound I hear coming from the stall next to me, WTF dude?

Did you forget to take your asmtha medicine, or what?

One of these day I expect to hear "Luke, I am your father." coming from the stall next to me.

This is funny

Well, I think its funny.

General Motors is bluffing

GM told us all that the world would come to an end if they went under!

A lot of people said that if a business is not profitable, and is only run by greedy corporate fat-cats it should fail! All those greedy corporate fat-cats at GM said "if you let us fail," as if they had nothing to do with the billions in lost revenue, "the world economic machine will grind to a halt right at our feet."

I think they are bluffing.

GM needs to morph into some company that makes something people NEED, and is suitable for it's intended purpose and last longer than 3 minutes and 40 seconds.

General Motors, aka G.M. the people that thought the EV-1 electric car was a BAD idea and that the H2 Hummer was a GOOD idea, somehow think we should take advice from them.

If the Execs at GM were more concerned with producing a viable and salable product that people need and want and a bit less concerned about the company's stock price and their paychecks I think the company might have a chance.

Toyota, Honda and Nissan make reasonably priced, long-lasting, fuel efficient cars, and GM does not.

Lets let the people that do a good job at stuff (like making cars) continue to do that and have the folks at GM try to find something they are good at, like say short-order cooks on "roach-coach" lunch trucks that serve construction workers or scrubbing the graffiti of of New York city subway trains.

I loves me some british movies

Think Trainspotting.

All those thick, thick accents and gratuitous violence just drives it home.

Movies like Fargo, that have such great accents, and movies like both Pulp Fiction, and Fargo, that have the senseless violence that makes you wonder if there is any hope for mankind's survival.


Kind of like this:

Watch Hardly Working: Guy Ritchie and more funny videos on CollegeHumor

I added and/or changed a few of the links

First thought:
I added a link to my new wordpress photography blog and updated a few of the other links in the sidebar for your viewing pleasure.

Next thought, and beyond:
I think at any given time there are only about one or two people that have even taken the time to read or even view my disenfranchised blog.

I was talking with my friend on the phone and he mentioned that he read something on my blog. I was surprised and excited to know that someone read my blog, besides me.

When my wife found the post about Tyra Banks I caught flack for a few weeks, and every once in a while I will hear reference to "Tyra" from my wife, but for the most part even she, my wife that is, doesn't read my blog on a regular basis.

The friend that I mentioned earlier is "no longer with us" so I guess that is one less person who might, or might not read my blog. I wonder if people who have passed on can read blogs and surf the interwebs from wherever they are?

What is it that makes a blog interesting?

Is it keywords like: swine flu, newt Gingrich, Sarah Boyle or Barack Obama? Or is it just talking about thing other people can relate to?

The media sucks! Flat out, no doubt about it, they suck big time. It seems that almost all media is engaged in some sort of fear mongering, panic spreading, chicken little - the sky is falling sort of insanity.

Can you just picture the level of, pull-your-hair-out, we don't know how the react, down-right-stupidity the media would engage in if there was some sort of REAL crisis?

What will we do?

Suicide is painless

The phrase "Suicide is Painless" is the title of a song that most people will remember from the opening credits of the movie version of M*A*S*H, but if you think about it suicide is anything but painless.

I've had a few friends commit suicide and when I think about them I am just angry! Angry that they didn't let me talk them out of it, angry that they are not here and I can't help them, and angry because I miss being able to talk to them and tell them of the hurt and pain they left behind.

Suicide is a bit of a selfish undertaking because it doesn't think about anybody but the person that wants to just "not be." One person I knew went to the extent of arranging pre-paid funeralarrangements for his wife and driving himself to just outside the funeral home before he took his own life. WTF dude! It's thoughtful and creepy beyond understanding.

So far I have talked only about people I know in this post, but what about people I don't know?

David Kellermann, Freddie Mac acting CEO, was found dead in his home Wednesday morning. His death, still under investigation, is a suspected suicide.

Cheung Shu-hung, co-owner of Lee Der Industrial Co., apparently hung himself in his factory. The motive behind his suicide was not given, but I’m sure it wouldn’t take a genius to figure out. Cheug, and his company Lee Der, were under immense pressure by Chinese officials (who are eagerly trying to protect the country’s crucial export industry from a bad reputation of being potentially unsafe/dangerous). They have been trying to regain international consumer confidence, after a handful of recalls in the recent past, with new regulations, inspections, and increased pressure on manufacturers, like Cheung himself. Cheung’s Lee Der was temporarily banned from exporting products, causing him financial stress and damage. Chinese goods have been under fire after a chemical additive in pet food caused the death of some pets in the United States; and toxic ingredients were found in a long list of products, from seafood to toothpaste, which were recalled or rejected by a number of countries worried about safety.
Chung Mong-hun, a son of the late founder of the giant Hyundai conglomerate has been found dead below his 12th floor office. Chung, a top executive of the Hyundai conglomerate, was indicted recently to face trial over a scandal around the inter-Korean summit of 2000.

He was one of South Korea's top executives and had been accused of the illegal transfer of money to North Korea over the historic summit with the South. He jumped from his office on the 12th floor, the BBC website reported. Chung was chairman of Hyundai-Asan, a Hyundai subsidiary that runs a series of joint ventures in North Korea with the Government.

Chung had been accused of transferring up to $100m to the north to persuade North Korea to agree to the summit three years ago, which at the time was hailed as a historic success. However, North Korea's participation now appears to have been motivated more by money than a desire for reconciliation with the south.

Former Enron Corp. vice chairman J. Clifford Baxter was found dead in his car in a Houston suburb early Friday, the victim of an apparent suicide, police said.

Suicide is a sad and less than honorable way to go out, mostly because of what is left behind, which is shattered lives of angry loved ones.

I don't know what to say, but to my friends that I lost . . .

. . . I miss you brother

Stories about trees

This doesn't have anything to do with trees, but I thought I would title the post that way just to see if you were paying attention.

Life, Liberty, and the ability to access the internet

I'm always sitting in front of my computer. I am, in point of fact, sitting in front of my computer right now.

It's funny how some people will send out an email message and expect a response within minutes, like email is some kind of instant-message tool or something.

Some people get their email sent to their Blackberry, um I mean crackberry, these mobile devices are often referred to as CRACKberrys because of the addictive nature of being in constant contact with others.

I'm not sure I understand this need to be in constant contact with friends, relatives or business associates? There are people that are always texting their friends or family, texting while driving, texting while going to the bathroom, talking on the cell phone while in the bathroom, texting someone while you are in the doctor's office . . .

I just don't get it?

What sort of communication would someone need to have with someone else when the Doctor says "turn your head and cough," I can't imagine.

I sent an email message to my family a day or so ago and never got a response. I guess the excuse would be that they just don't check their email everyday. This is also something I just don't understand?

How could you not check your email everyday?

I guess for me, someone who doesn't text people, or talk to them on my cell phone while I'm in the bathroom, it just seems odd to not respond to an email message.

It's my connection to the outside world.

How to deal with real live pirates on the open seas?

I'm thinking that shooting them in the head is a very, very good idea

This method shows other pirates that general lawlessness and high-seas trickery will not be tolerated. This method sends the message that if you hi-jack one of our ships, or one of our friends ships we will not question you, we will not take you to jail, we will not let you have a trial, we will, however shoot you in the head.

Do not pass GO, do not collect $200 dollars, go straight to hell and swim in a lake of fire for the rest of eternity

I'm thinking after a few of the Somali pirates are shot in the head, and word gets out this career will become a lot less popular on career day at the local schools.

Hi class, I was going to bring my dad in for career day, but he is, or should I say WAS a pirate and was shot in the head and tossed overboard allowing the sharks and sea live to feed on his rotting carcase, so you see that is why my dad is not here.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think anyone should have the right to just go around shooting people in the head and all, but . . .

If you board a ship, or a plane, or car-jack someone at gunpoint with the intention of doing them harm . . .

Lake of fire!

More about Las Vegas

Las Vegas is a strange place, you see all kinds of strange people and things, strange people doing strange things, and well yes, Las Vegas is not like any place in the world.

Las Vegas is, how you say, Out Of This World!

One thing about vegas that is strange to me is when people bring their kids to a place that is commonly referred to as Sin City. I mean what is an 8 year old kid going to do walking down the strip at 10:30 pm on a Tuesday night?

People do really, really stupid things when they come to Las Vegas.

You see a lady, well just for the sake of this story lets call her a "lady", anyway you see a lady with a baby kind of propped up on her shoulder at 1:00 am in the casino where everyone, including the lady is smoking, and she is poking away at the gambling machine she is sitting in front of! Wow, what a way to grow up, lulled to sleep by the beeps, dings and lights of a smoky casino. Poster child for gambler's anonymous.

Another strange thing about the Las Vegas strip is, what my wife calls "Boobie trading cards," you know those little cards with half naked pictures of porn stars that those scummy dudes hand out on the sidewalk up and down the strip. They stand there flicking the cards against their fingers and it makes this "clickity-clickity" sound that somehow must be irresistible to the average passer by. You try to walk by a whole line of these guys, while all of them are making that "clickity-clickity" sound kind of like being forced to travel down some sort of "gauntlet of porn" all the while their hands are darting out to hand you a little business card sized picture of some porn star with giant boobs! Don't get me wrong, I love boobies as much, if not more than the next guy, but these guys just annoy me. Sometimes they will even try to hand one to me when I'm walking hand-in-hand with my wife, dude my wife could care less about you and your boobie trading cards and she wouldn't be upset if I took one, but it's just GROSS! I would think these guys could find a job doing something just a tiny, tiny bit more respectable, I don't know like say cleaning up the used condoms at a bestiality show or something.

Las Vegas has some really ugly things going for it.

maybe a few pretty pictures will help

oh yea, clickity click on the pictures, they are better seen larger

Las Vegas takes some practice

My wife and I visited Las Vegas for some fun on the strip.

No, not strippers, fun on the Las Vegas strip. The Las Vegas strip is a bit dirty and kinda gross during the daytime when the sun is out and you can see all the scummy losers in the bright sunshine. After sunset all the fat, bald dudes from the east coast with plaid shorts and sandals with black socks are still there, you just don't see them as much in the dark. Well, that and the fact that when the sun goes down they all move indoors to sit at a sticky bar stool in front of some sort of machine with dem blinking light and sounds and stuff.

The reason I say Las Vegas takes some practice is that if you want to eat decent food for a decent price, you must know how to "work the system." You can go to a buffet for $10 or so and eat all you can stand of the "worst cafeteria food" known to man, or you can pay $26 each for breakfast of finely prepared food.

First you take the $10 buffet and realize the food sucks, and is gross! At that point you try the second option and realize you just blew $50 bucks and change on freaking breakfast, a really nice breakfast, but still, it's fifty bucks! Next you might try to find some middle ground, like say Denny's where a grand-slam breakfast is like $2.99, or $3.99 or something like that . . . but nooooo! this is Vegas baby, a grand-slam breakfast is $6.99 and it tastes like frozen pancake batter and the eggs are small.

There must be a way to figure this place out?

One way is to go away from the strip, go somewhere "regular" working folk in Las Vegas would go to get breakfast. I think I need to go to Las Vegas a few more times to try to figure that place out.

Oh, yea click the picture, its badass, and if you what to know more about what's going on in the picture, comment on my blog.

The "Do Not Call" list

The do not call list do not work!

I signed up for the "Do Not Call" list in hopes that those poor, underpaid, nasty, grumpy, angry call-center employees would just not have my number, and therefore would not call me.

I could not be so lucky.

They still call, heck I even get the pre-recorded calls made by some computer where I don't even have a person to hang up on. It lacks satisfaction when I slam the phone down on a pre-recorded computer message.

This morning I got a call from a real live person who used my name like 27 times in the first sentence he spoke! WTF, dude: "hello Mr. Smith, how are you Mr. Smith, well Mr. Smith the reason I'm calling is that, Mr. Smith blah, blah, blah so Mr. Smith you know that this cause needs you Mr. Smith and Mr. Smith can we count on your help Mr. Smith?"

I should have just hung up on the guy, but having him use my name 47 times just seemed to piss me off, so I ask what his name was and shot back a volley of my own using his name in the words that I spoke at every possible occasion. This really seemed to upset the guy (ah ha, my evil plan is working), his response was "I'm just doing my job" and then he ended the call.

Ending the call might have been a wise decision for him as I was just getting warmed up as far as fitting the guy for, yet another orifice with which to excrete human waste.

I really wish I could make the sales calls stop, then maybe the voices in my head that tell me to fight back against angry call-center employees would stop.

Please make is stop.

Hello? Is this thing on?

No comments, no readers, no viewers. What do I gotta do to get someone to view, read and comment on my blog?

How about this shit, this is fuckin' funny

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Why is the air force bad at crowd control?

This past weekend my wife and I attended an air show at the local air force base.



This time of year the weather is nice here in the desert Southwest, but it was unseasonably warm for the airshow and there was a 2+ hour wait/line to get into the base and see the show. You would think the military would be a little better at crowd control, and if not why not use this event for a little practice?



Standing in the 90+ degree heat with one hundred twenty five thousand people is not my idea of a good time.



I took my camera and captured a few images.

The politics of narcissism

I read an article in Newsweek magazine the other day about California and it's economic troubles. I found the article interesting because I used to live in California, now I live in Arizona.

The article discusses how California has overcome economic troubles in the past for example:

For decades, California has epitomized America's economic strengths: technological excellence, artistic creativity, agricultural fecundity and an intrepid entrepreneurial spirit. Yet lately California has projected a grimmer vision of a politically divided, economically stagnant state. Last week its legislature cut a deal to close its $42 billion budget deficit, but its larger problems remain.

California has returned from the dead before, most recently in the mid-1990s. But the odds that the Golden State can reinvent itself again seem long. The buffoonish current governor and a legislature divided between hysterical greens, public-employee lackeys and Neanderthal Republicans have turned the state into a fiscal laughingstock. Meanwhile, more of its middle class migrates out while a large and undereducated underclass (much of it Latino) faces dim prospects. It sometimes seems the people running the state have little feel for the very things that constitute its essence—and could allow California to reinvent itself, and the American future, once again.

The facts at hand are pretty dreary. California entered the recession early last year, according to the Forecast Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is expected to lag behind the nation well into 2011. Unemployment stands at roughly 10 percent, ahead only of Rust Belt basket cases like Michigan and East Coast calamity Rhode Island. Not surprisingly, people are fleeing this mounting disaster. Net outmigration has been growing every year since about 2003 and should reach well over 200,000 by 2011. This outflow would be far greater, notes demographer Wendell Cox, if not for the fact that many residents can't sell their homes and are essentially held prisoner by their mortgages.

I found this information interesting because there seems to be a lot of "self-absorbed" jerks moving to Arizona from California, more specifically Southern California like Los Angles. How can you tell when you get cut off on the freeway or cut in front of in line at the grocery store that the person is from LA? well most of the time they have a California license plate on their Cadillac Escalade or are wearing a UCLA sweatshirt at the time and almost always on the phone at the time.

All I wanted to say is that I think self-absorbed, narcissist jerks suck and are the downfall of civilized society!

That is all, have a nice day.

Just one look

Well, maybe a few:

So so many things to be disenfranchised about

The world is in shambles

Rihanna might get back together with that guy that beat her.

Sharon Osbourne is being sued by some slut from her "charm school" show.

Helio Castroneves is on trial for not paying taxes.

A bit of a side bar, but do you remember when President George W. Bush wanted to invade Iraq and everyone that didn't support his plan were called "un-American" "anti-American," hell they even changed the name of French-fries to Freedom-fries because the country of France didn't want to send troops to invade Iraq.

Both France and Germany didn't support the United States efforts to invade Iraq and remove it's government because doing so would mean both France and Germany would NEVER collect on all the money they had loaned to Iraq in exchange for favorable prices on Iraq's oil exports. (this wasn't widely reported in the U.S. media because the Bush administration "pressured" most media outlets to "spin" the story like the U.S. is the good guy and France and Germany are pro-Muslim, pro-Iraq whiners.

Fast forward to Rush Limbaugh saying he hopes for the current U.S. president to FAIL.

Wow, I think ole' Rush has taken way, way too much Oxycontin!

Oh yea, I think Rush is a giant blemish on the world and should just STFU!

Holly Crap, this is cool beyond belief!

This looks like a good place to get a pint

How about something new

Everything is redone, there are no new ideas out there. Why oh, why doesn't someone with some talent create something new instead of redoing something old with a little twist?

Take a great bubblegum pop song and make it a duet . . . swing, it's a new country crossover hit?

WTF!!

Ouch, dude look both ways

First, I'm sorry for your loss to the family and friends of this event promoter. Second, ouch! Third, monster trucks are trying to take over the world, and kill people.

Some guys are good at their jobs

Some guys are very good at their jobs and some guys suck, they just phone it in. Yesterday a bunch of people on a US Airways airbus jet were very glad the guys at the front of the plane and flight crew were good at their jobs! (along with first-responders, coast guard folks, ferry people and just about everyone involved) All the people involved with this event deserve a big thank you and a gold star for making this very difficult situation turn out very very well.

You know how when you go to the DMV/MVD/Department of Motor Vehicles or post office and the person behind the counter doesn't seem to care weather you live or die right there in front of them, well I sure am glad these people don't fly planes or drive people around, or are responsible for human life in any way.

I'm glad this turned out well.



It turned out well for everyone, except the birds and the single person that was injured. My well wishes go out to the injured person, the birds, well not so much.

Why is Ann Coulter allowed to speak?

She, along with others of her kind sit back and rail against everything they are against to no end, but make no effort to change, alter, effect, fix or do anything at all to right the wrongs she, and those like her are concerned about.

The general public should as open-minded smart people minimize and marginalize her until her voice is so quite that we can not hear her speak. Wait, the general public is not very open-minded, because being open-minded is the same as being . . . gasp LIBERAL! and that is what Ann Coulter is against.

Maybe I'll get lucky and a group of single mothers will gather in the town square and stone her to death, or burn her at the stake. That would be a sight to see, yes sir that would be fun, we could roast hot-dogs and eat popcorn. We are having some fun now!

Advertising?

There are so many thing to feel disenfranchised about its hard to come to grips with the truly massive scale of "greed" or outright lies and manipulation of this fraud that is the world today.

One small example is:



In dark and lonely apartments where 250 lb woman/girls sit watching this television ad thinking that "if, and only if, I take Zyrtec, not only will my allergies clear up, but I'll be as cute/slim/happy/sexy as the girl in the ad.

It is sad to think that some very well paid advertising executives somewhere designed this as for just such a purpose.

It's called Image Advertising, and it's designed to make the viewer think that if they use the product being advertised, they too will have everything portrayed in the ad i.e., youth, beauty, wealth etc.

I wonder how many people can see through this huge "crap-tastic" fraud?