Avast me hearties!

Ahoy! Today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Shiver yar timbers, and have a swashbuckling good day. And plunder!

Failing that, there's the Manning Bowl tonight on Sunday Night Football. Who will Archie Manning be rooting for. Or will both landlubbers be keel-hauled to Davy Jones' locker with a Tom Brady Well Deserved Beating?

It’s full 90 time… And a few other things

I just watch the Vikings get raped and pillaged by the Saints. Brett Favre received a Tom Brady Well-Deserved Beating. I guess he needs more Geritol. He kept his depends on, though…

It’s 52 minutes and change into the Sounders FC match with Real Salt Lake. And it’s a scoreless tie. Among the highlights tonight have been Casey Keller stopping a penalty kick, and only one yellow card so far. There should’ve been another penalty kick at the other end of the pitch, but that’s the one thing nearly all sports officials have in common: they’re blind. That’s the only reason why I can explain no-calls…

A couple of months ago, I upgraded my keyboard/mouse set to another wireless set. I’ve always used a PS/2 keyboard/mouse set (mainly becaue at the time, I was still playing with Win9x), and my new set was USB. My problem was it never worked until the OS loaded to a gui (which isn’t a problem until you need to boot to recovery console, or you need to format/partition your drive). It wasn’t until I Google’d it that I realized I should probably enable ‘legacy usb support’ in my BIOS.

My HTC HD2 has enough ‘shoulders’ to run WinME. Though I dance in the street because there are several version of Android that work with it. Perfectly. With my Rhodium, there are a couple of version of Andriod avaialable, but there are still several issues with it. too bad, IgwanaRob…

After having way too many late night hypoglycemic episodes, the dietician my provider referred me to agreed with my suggestion that I take my Lantus shot in the morning instead of at bedtime. The other significant change was switching me from NovolinR to Humalog. Apparently though, I was supposed to get the pen, but the pharmacist didn’t read the prescription, and I got the vial instead. Oh well.

82 minutes and still tied…

A week to go...

Football season starts next week. I'm talking about the professionals. Yesterday, the hawks made their final cuts to get the 53 players. and among the shit-canned is TJ Lastnameicantdpell...Good Riddance to him. Teams don't need divas. Well, he may not have been a diva, but for what he was making, he should've been performing like Steve Largeant. It could be worse. At least we don't have to deal with Pac-Man Jones, TO, or Chad Ochocinco...

Elsewhere, I've heard that say least two Hiesman winners are now among the unemployed. The Dogs went to Provo, and were beat by the Quarterback Factory. The Cougars just got massacred. And that was before they even got into the stadium...

There may be hope for the Detroit Lions. They actually mauled a Christian....

Hawks vs. Vikings

It's the SeaHawks vs. the Vikings tonight. I think the Hawks will be the ones raping and pillaging tonight. And having a senior citizen on the team isn't going to help Minnesota... Anyway, the NFL had insituted s couple of rule changes with Favre coming back fir one more season: The Vikings will be allowed an extra center. One will snap the ball. and one will hand Brett his walker. Knocking Favre's dentures out will be sufficient to tackle him. If Brett gets lost, the nearest player id required to point him to the goal line. And finally: Geritol is now a banned performance enhancing substance... But this is all moot. done I have to work, and will miss it...

So I'm watching some pre-season football

Right now, its Minnesota vs. St. Louis. The best football I've seen through the years I'll admit has come from the preseason games. There's nothing like playing for your job to motivate you to perform. In the past, I've thought Seattle was The Team to beat. And than the regular would come along, and I would be disappointed when the season started. But I'm excited for the Hawks under Pete Carroll this year. And perhaps there's even hope for the Lions to even maul Christians this year...

it's mighty hot today...

And I have to work fortunately in an AC'd location. Enjoy the sun...

Hey Igwanarob!

The Energy ROMS run a lot better on the Leo than the Rhodium... Perhaps something to do with the fact that it's what Energy uses himself. BTW, did I mention that I have an HD2 now?

Leo vs. Rhodium

My boss got an HD2 a few months back, and promptly went back to his jsilbroken iPhone. He then put his phone up for sale. Yesterday, the price came down to something I could afford, so I took him up on it. It had a few pluses over the Rhodium. First, the speed: I've a full blown tower at home that's slower than this (although my Touch Pro is also faster than it as well, but you get the point...). Second, there's the memory: your apps will run faster if you don't have to install them to your memory card... Then there's the multi-touch screen, the more advanced Android development, the 800 x 600 display...

But a tiny part of me misses the stylus and the physical keyboard, but I can deal with that...

So Long, Don

Don Wakamatsu just got shit-canned today. The Mariners still suck. The Sounders FC, on the other hand, have clawed their way back to .500. Are you giving it your full 90?

The next sacrificial lamb in Seattle is Daren Brown, who comes to from AAA Tacoma, which unlike it’s affiliate up north can actually win games. Let’s hope he can bring that experience to the laughing stock of The New World Order (Mind-Control Division)… Who am I kidding? The Mariners suck. Your career is now officially over, Daren…

It’s back

Training camp started Saturday. I’m personally curious to see of the Seahawks can be better than they were last year, though that shouldn’t take too much effort.

Due to a new person at the day-job, and an ensuing change in my schedule, I won’t have to work sunup'\sundown every sunday. Which means hopefully I can get home for the Sunday Night game now (which is the Marquis NFL game now). I’ll still have Mondays off, so I can also watch the Monday Night game as well…

Go Hawks. Though I hear the Detroit Lions were actually able to finally maul a Christian the other day. There could be hope for them as well…

MySpace mating calls…

Back when MySpace was still just barely relevant, I created a MySpace page. I updated it almost daily. Then, a few weeks later, I realized Facebook was where it was at, at that’s where I do my Social networking now.

But since my MySpace page is open to the public (just like this blog), I’ve noticed on occasion, I’ll get messages from total strangers (all of them from the female persuasion).  And they’re seeking to be more than friends. And they’re all out of state. I know better than to reply to them or to even acknowledge that I’ve read their messages. Besides, most of them are from the other side of the country (though I also take what I see in the profiles with a grain of salt. This is the same Internet that would have me beleiving that Belgium really exists, and Elvis is dead…).

It never fails. I logon to MySpace, and I get a mating call. Don’t waste your breath. I’m not a fool.

Halftime

Are you giving your full 90? The Sounders FC are leading Colorado 2-1. Very Entertaining game. First goal came in the first few minutes. And the best way to respond to getting scored against is to score your own. Preferably in the next 30 seconds or less…

KISS on Leno

I still haven't forgiven NBC for what they did to Coco. In fact, I still won't have anything to do with any of their sponsors. Having said that, I was channel surfing tonight and noticed KISS was performing on the tonight show. I'm not impressed. Not at all. Paul Stanley is obviously having a bad hair day. And I thought I saw Gene Simmons wearing Depends... They're a bunch of has-beens, never-was's, and also-rans. I used to be a fan.Then they decided to use my email as an advertising medium, and this card-carrying soldier in the KISS Army took the Boulder Pledge and defected. Seriously, if a gimmick ever existed, they've tried it. Even Ted McGinley and Cousin Oliver have said that KISS has jumped one shark too many...

You're right. I'm not that big of a KISS fan...

Cleaning things up

As of Monday morning, I had 6 printers in my room. I bought one (and it did work at one time). The rest were given to me from various & sundry relatives. None of them actually worked, though one I installed on my computer because it was a multi-function printer, and the flat-bed scanner still worked. And I still had what was left of my previous computer lying about.

My father, in addition to surprising me with the brand-new printer, offered to drop all my stuff off for recycling. Now I actually have space in my closet now. Everything went, with the exception of the expansion cards from my old computer (they can fit in my junk drawer, and they may come in useful in the future) and my old hard drives (I am physically destroying those to ensure the data doesn’t fall in the wrong hands)…

George Snuffs it

George Steinbrenner has died. I’m sure he will be sorely missed in The New World Order (Mind-Control Division). But I will remember him for all the World Series rings. And the payroll. Seriously, A-Rod and Derek Jeeter’s salaries are greater than some nations’ GDP…

The way baseball is played will never be the same. And the same could be said for how it is managed…

So I'm on the bus to work...

And I just noticed Northbound I-5 betwwen the Tacoma Mall and Lakewood is completely blocked due to an accident. Apparently people still don't know how to drive. I simply prefer to tap my pass and let the professionals do it...

The mother of all catch up posts. Well, maybe not…

Yes, I know I haven’t been posting that much as of late. I kept thinking it was because I just had one monitor. Then I added another monitor when I got my cheap, twin-headed video card. And I still kept slacking off. Then I thought I’d post more from my phone (you can tell those posts, as I no longer bother to tag those posts). Maybe it’s because just post to Facebook now. But don’t despair. I may not post as often as one would want, but I haven’t forgotten it completely. Anyway, in no particular order, here’s what’s up:

• I finally got a decent TV tuner in my computer. It’s still an ATI based chipset, but there are differences. For instance, no more ATI multimedia center (there were always at least three different programs and restarts involved to set up my old ATI TV wonder pro, which on one occasion was worth a post in it’s own right). The new card, just put the cd-rom in, and you’re good to go. It even has Windoze 7 drivers (from The Anti-Christ). But the one thing that has one me over is the fact that I can run my TV tuner in my second monitor, and not have the computer crash on me. Right now, I have the Sounders game on, and I’m giving my full 90 while writing this.
• I was at Best Buy a couple of week ago, buying a hard drive (yes, I filled up a 250 gig drive. Easily). I just wanted to get a 500 gig drive, and the Best Buy employee went to upsell me to a 1 tb drive. And all he did was point out that they were the same price (same brand, same model). So I got a 1tb hard drive. BTW, I also replaced my DVD burner (went all SATA, and I thought my original one going south on me…). I can now make major computer changes now with unplugging and dismantling the tower (however, I must add a serious do not try that at home, unless you like frying really expensive electronic components….)
• Also getting replaced was my printer. I ran out of ink a time ago, and I stopped using it (it eventually got pulled and put in the closet). I bought new ink for it recently, and discovered that it was broken. My mom upgraded her printer, and gave me her old one. It could still print, and it had ink, but I had to feed each individual sheet into it. Until my father surprised me with this.
• Cliff Lee got traded. Being a pitching ace is no guarantee in The New World Order (Mind-Control Division). I care more the Sounders FC than the Mariners…
• Miguel Montano just got a red card. Not a smart move for your first start…
• The summer weather has finally arrived. By tradition, the sunshine didn’t come until July 5. It was a little bit cooler today, but I think the summer weather will stick around until right before Labor Day weekend, when it will switch back to rain. Oh, and will rain on SeaFair weekend…
• I heard somewhere that 1 in 4 Americans don’t know who we declared independence from. I’ll fill you in on the truth: we declared independence from Mongolia when George Washington and Abraham Lincoln teamed to defeated Rodan.
• New Twilight is out. I’m still neither Team Edward nor Team Jacob. I’m still Team Grandpa Munster.
• Steve Caroll has a new flick out. It should be good. This was after all Gary from The Ambiguously Gay Dou…
• The Sounders are still getting some good chances. Shorthanded…

Its the fourth today...

And I hope everybody has a patriotic National Get Drunk And Blow Yourself Up Day... One out every four Americans doesn't even know who we declared independence from. I don't know if that's a poor reflection of our education system, or poor programming choices by the History Channel. There's one thing that America has in common with The Middle East, India, Pakistan, and most of Africa: we were all British territiory at one time. That's right. I blame all of problems of Middle East upon her majesty the Queen...

So I just left the doctors office...

And I was dissappointed. Steam wasn't coming out of her ears, and her head wasn't spinning. It cant't be that bad. My doctor's trying to protect me from a heart attack, and I'm trying to give her one.

BTW, doctors, when you start patients on a new medication, it would help to tell so. I can't take it if I don't know I'm on it...

Only in Parkland...

Only in Parkland can one get panhandled at 8 on a Sunday morning before getting on the bus. Twice.

BTW, happy Fathers Day. In years past the tradition was to get my dad a really tacky tie. And he actually wore some of them. O still know what I'm going to do this year for him...