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05:00 pm
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Cross-posted to my Hotshot journal and Nation_OOC
A matter has come to my attention, and I will not, and in good conscience CAN not, simply stand back and fail to speak up.
Several days ago Kiko resigned DC Nation. As a result, there was fallout among three of the other mods, and Joe also resigned. At present, Joe's original character of Caleb Zukov is in limbo, as he is in a plot at the moment. As a result of this, the moderators are, at present, risking the existence of this board by playing games of brinksmanship.
When Joe left, he made it clear that as the creator of the character Caleb Zukov, it is his decision that Caleb Zukov not be played by anyone other than him, and offered an alternative resolution. The moderators are threatening to temp Caleb Zukov anyway, in direct violation of the creator's instructions. Should this happen, Joe's only two options are to either allow someone to effectively steal his creative property, or to report the incident to Livejournal as a violation of its terms of service. Should this happen, the board will most likely be shut down, and regardless of the effect of this post, I think the members of this board deserve to know. Everything we've created is presently in jeopardy because of this.
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09:46 am
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Happiness is...
...Harris waking me up with a kiss on the cheek, a hug, and "Can I have waffles now?"
Current Mood:  happy
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11:15 am
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PA Labor and Industry- Joining incompetence with stupidity
So this is just fucking great. Bethany is on her way here, I have a $20 doctor's appointment tomorrow, and we have a $400 bill to deal with, and meanwhile the fucking assholes at the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry have assured me that it's no big deal, because they'll only be sending my unemployment through two days late. Which means we'll have money by Friday.
YAY! And only two fucking days after I need it for trivial shit like paying my bills and eating! And all of this because they need to "re-test" me because it's been a year from the time I filed my claim. Re-testing consists of-
operator on the phone - "Did you work in the last year?"
Me - "Uh, no."
Operator- "Okay. We're done, and I've released your payment, and you should have it within 48 hours."
Hence the unemployment claim, you fucking twit. And that's LITERALLY all it was. My unemployment was placed on hold, and now isn't going to get here until Friday, because some useless moron in Harrisburg thought that "Hi, person calling about your unemployment compensation. Are you unemployed, person calling about unemployment?" was not only an intelligent question, but important enough to disrupt the money people live on to ask.
No, of course you're not incompetent, negligent, or stupid, PA.
Current Mood:  angry
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06:25 am
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Welcome to Philly. Don't be a dick
http://www.kyw1060.com/Angry-Mob-Nabs--Beats-Person-of-Interest-in-Child-/4511176
For those that can't tell from the headline, the 'person of interest' that was wanted in the rape of an eleven year old girl, who just happened to look exactly like the police drawing of the suspect, was actually caught by a mob of locals. And while I know that mob justice isn't right, I can't help but feel good about the fact that the local people found out about it, and turned his ass in. Yeah, they got out of hand, and they shouldn't have put him in critical condition, but usually crimes like this would have ended with either the suspect having to be hunted down by the police, or they never would have gotten him at all because everyone would have been telling the police that they didn't see or hear anything.
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05:52 pm
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Without Morons, Where Would We Get Most of Our Amusement?
From catholic.org http://www.catholic.org/prwire/headline.php?ID=6815
"Angels & Demons: Full of Half-Truths, Historical Inaccuracies and Outright Lies says Catholic Author"
And in news just as shocking, apparently there is no cigar-smoking Canadian running around with unbreakable metal claws and a healing factor, and the video footage of that star ship fighting the Romulans wasn't actually beamed back to Paramount studios from the twenty-third century.
It's called a movie, people. Not a documentary. Since some of you obviously don't know the difference, let me point out a few things. Matthew McConaughey is not being chased by ghosts of his former girlfriends, John Cena's wife has not been kidnapped by anyone, and Dwayne Johnson is not actually running around with space alien kids.
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02:13 am
[Link] | Galactica- Drive it like you stole it.
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07:30 pm
[Link] | I'm surfing the web as I kill time until the Series Finale of Galactica, so I'm okay with fanboying and going "WANT THESE!" http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/detail.php?p=65497&SESSID=a9091035a31322c45e884f8f843d43e4
On other news, that Egyptian Prince who wanted to buy our freezer a few years ago has apparently gotten into the real estate business. We've been looking at houses, and in the middle of looking, I got an e-mail back from a guy who had a three-bedroom house in Northeast Philly(great school district) with a garage, all for $750 a month. Kiko and I were seriously wondering if the guy who posted it accidentally skipped the zero. When we got back to the house, though, there was an e-mail saying that the house was available, and asking me to fill out the application. I did so, and we went to look at a legitimately nice apartment, and came back to find the following e-mail-
Thanks for the mail to me, i told you in my mails that am not available to show you the house i have been transfer to western region and if you want to see it mean that i should send you the keys to the house before that you need to make deposit payment so that i can be used it to ship the keys via fedex
Thanks
IT'S NOT EVEN IN FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH, YOU ASS-CLOWN!!!
Seriously. Do people really fall for this shit? It really did remind me of the guy who sent me an e-mail in 2005 saying he wanted to buy our freezer for $50, but he only had a blank $250 money order. He wanted to send it to me, have me cash it, and then Western Union the money to him. For those playing along at home, the punch line to that particular gag is when the FBI knocks on your door wanting to know about that forged Money order you cashed.
Current Mood: facepalm
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12:56 am
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I love WWZ
Anyone who liked the book should definitely get the audiobook, if only for Mark Hamill as Todd Wainio. Mark Hamill even does a great job showing that no, you don't come through half a decade of fighting the living dead without a few 'issues.'
"If a dart didn't stop a feral, we sure as hell did." (In a cheery voice) "Nothing screams like a feral with a PIE round burning in his gut."
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12:27 am
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Nothin's but Bs
We just got our final grades for the semester, and I GOT STRAIGHT Bs!
This has never happened before. Not in elementary school, high school, or last time I was in college. I don't think I can make the dean's list because of a math class that I withdrew from, but it's worth noting that my grades would normally have me on it. Right now I'm in such shock that I just went back and separately looked up my midterm grades to make sure they were different so I knew I hadn't checked the wrong grades.
Current Mood: shocked
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06:59 pm
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High School Musical
I haven't seen High School Musical 3 yet, but having seen the second one, I'd love to see the five-year reunion special. That way we can see Zeke after he wakes up, sees what he chased for two years and loses his will to live, Ryan Evans and the husband he picked up in San Fran, and see Gabriella going "You know, after a while I just got tired of being like 'stop going evil, Troy.'"
I swear, from what we see in the first two movies, Anakin Skywalker's got nothing on Troy Bolton when it comes to taking every chance he gets to descend to the dark side.
Current Mood:  amused
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04:23 am
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No context needed
*While looking at a picture of the CGI Ninja Turtles movie from last year*
Joe: Does Splinter look weird to you?
Me: Dude, he's a three-foot tall anthropomorphized ninja rat. You're gonna have to be a bit more specific.
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06:14 pm
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Yet more Olympic Class bullshit
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/16/olympic.wrestler/index.html
Yeah. That'll teach people who think they have a right to point out that the IOC is a joke and a pathetic mockery of the Olympics. And yeah, for those playing along at home, these are indeed the same assholes citing fairness and integrity while ignoring the sixth-grader on the gymnastics team. You want to talk about an insult to the other athletes? How about the fact that apparently giving them a fair playing field is less important that sucking China's third-world-country-with-delusions-of-grandeur dick? Does that count?
Fucking idiots.
Current Mood:  pissed off
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04:26 pm
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Headline: Faith in Olympics Confirmed Dead After Being Buried in Chinese Bullshit
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0808/oly.china.gymnastics1/content.1.html
If that girl in the middle is 16, then I'm ready for retirement, and my Dad's fuckin' Methuselah. Multiple news agencies have easily dug up news reports from before the Olympics stating that about half of the "women"'s gymnastics team is below the IOC's mandatory age of 16. The IOC is refusing to look into it, though, because they don't want to offend the host country.
Yeah, thank you, spineless glad-handing jackasses. Not offending the host country over something insignificant like blatant cheating is MUCH more important than the integrity of the Olympics. And apparently it's more important than expecting the host country to actually stick to the stipulations they agreed to in order to get the Games in the first place, since the IOC has also failed to do a single thing about China openly violating the stipulation set by the IOC that international media personnel be allowed uncensored access to the internet during the games.
Maybe this rant is over the top, or me blowing things out of proportion, but right now I feel like myself and the whole world is being stabbed in the back by the IOC, and having something that used to be about competition and camaraderie taken from us.
When I think of the Olympics, I want to think of things like this year's marksmanship women's pistol event, where a Russian and a Georgian found themselves next to each other on the medal podium, and hugged. What mattered to them wasn't that they were Georgian or Russian, what mattered was that they were fellow Olympic athletes, and that they were both facing their country at war while they were thousands of miles away. But instead I get to hear how the International Olympic Commission is too tied up with political garbage to be bothered with their host country defiling the spirit of the Games by cheating.
And, yes, this is a personal issue for me, because while I follow football, scholastic wrestling, and more recently baseball, one of my most cherished sports memories is of a gymnast. Kerri Strug nailing her vault on a sprained ankle still makes me tear up when I see it twelve years later. She didn't do it because she wanted to be on a Wheaties box, or for any of the political crap that's been dominating the Beijing Game. She did it because her team needed her to. As soon as she hurt herself and her coach came over, she didn't ask how badly she was hurt. She asked if they needed another vault from her, and when she found out they did, she gave it to them.
Those things are what the Olympics are supposed to be about. A couple of weeks where we get to watch people from around the world, most of whom can't even communicate with each other without a translator but who are still united by the fact that they love their sport. It's supposed to be about the things that make the people of the world one people, not the politics that make use different.
Current Mood: pissed off
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02:26 pm
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I want this shirt
For all the Robot Chicken fans: http://www.snorgtees.com/aluminumfalcon-p-482.html
Current Mood: amused
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02:55 pm
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I say GODDAMN!
http://cbs2chicago.com/watercooler/Drexel.University.games.2.762715.html
Cliff notes amount to the beginning of actual interface between human brains and computers. This is cool. Lots of bad potential, but still lots of cool potential.
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02:03 pm
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In Memoriam
Rusty
1993-2008
A truer friend could never be found.
Current Mood: heartbroken
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09:56 pm
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*Blink*
For those of you who may not have heard courtesy of Joe and Kiko's journal, we got the house. To be exact, we got the house on Walnut Street in Philadelphia, and as Kiko said, you can see One Liberty Plaza(the building they show on all the KYW news shots) from our front porch.
I think it took me longer than Kiko and Drew to post about it, though, because for me, this is HUGE. I grew up seventy miles away in Bucks county, and all my life, when I thought of "the big city" I never thought of New York or Los Angeles. I thought of the huge building they showed on KYW's news commercials, and Independence Hall. To be completely honest, I never even dreamed that I might get to live in downtown Philly, so when Kiko told me we got the house yesterday, my jaw hit the floor, and the other people in the room started to worry about me, because I was completely unable to speak for almost a full minute. Tomorrow afternoon we get the keys and sign the lease, though, at which point the Exodus from Chester begins, and I get to live in the City of Brotherly Freaking Love.
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12:48 am
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I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray
It's almost one o'clock on Friday morning. In eight hours I need to be up and going so I can run errands before going into what is always our biggest day of the week at work. By all accounts I should be asleep, but I can't.
I miss Harris. I miss getting up with him in the morning, having breakfast together while we watch PBS kids. I miss the at-least-once-a-week occurrence of waking up to find that at some point in the night a four year-old has moved me two feet over to make room for him, and the "I got away with it again" grin he always wakes up with on those occasions. I miss reading to him, and helping him spell new words and count higher. I want my son back, and every morning that I have to get up and go to work without my hug and kiss hurts.
Current Mood: heartbroken
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10:58 am
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Major Whoa
Talk about your silver linings. I just got off the phone with the latest company who would like to collect on my school loans, and while the lady was telling me that I can set up a payment plan for a one-time payment of 75 dollars and then 23 dollars a month, she off-handedly noted that roughly forty-five days after this plan goes into effect, I will again be eligible for student loans. My default status will also be removed from my credit record.
Now see, boys and girls? This is what happens when you're nice to the people you want money from. You get the damned money, as opposed to when you call with threats and bullying attempts, which customarily gets you hung up on.
Current Mood:  giddy
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01:51 pm
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Out of Curiousity
Is there anyone else out there who will click on an advertising link if they like the page it's on, even if they're only moderately interested in what the link leads to, or is that just me?
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