LEGENDARY DOOMBEAST!!!@

Internet service still acting retarded, so there was little choice but to contact Comcast and speak with a technical support representative. Pointless and uninteresting story short: Comcast is sending a technician out Sunday afternoon to investigate. Most likely the issue is with the signal levels outside (or from the outside to the cable jack) or the modem itself (or both). What was intended to be 96 hours of World of WarCraft life-wasting is now 48 hours of World of WarCraft life-wasting and 48 hours of timing out and life-wasting.

I shouldn't complain too much: my Sunday could have been much, much worse. I have to wonder, though: did Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly kill these police officers? Since our Department of Homeland Security is automatically assuming any attacks on state/federal government employees is the responsibility of "extreme right-wingers" like myself.

[ @12:30PM PST - suddenly everything loaded up -- hmmm ]

THAT IS ALL FOR SATURDAY.

My 2GB RAM kit arrived Wednesday, but since I got home after the leasing office was closed, I wasn't able to get the memory until today. Well, I now have 3GB RAM in this computer (1GB x2 + 512MB x2). That's a 50% increase. Brieflyl, I mulled over getting two 2GB kits, but since I'm still using 32bit WindowsXP, I would "lose" ~784MB worth of that memory. Plus, I'd be stuck with four 512MB sticks that I don't have much use for. (I think I'll take my previous "supervisor's" advice and "donate" some of my surplus RAM to my work computer -- because trying to do my job with 384MB of RAM sucks ass. We spare as many expenses as possible!)

Now, to play some RAM-hogging games...

Okay, so, I watched the second episode of The DL Chronicles when I got home this evening (but before I went on my walk). The premise of the second episode was more plausible than the first episode. The guy "on the DL" in the second episode is not as attractive as the guy in the first episode, but the gay "foil" in the second episode is exponentially more attractive than the flaming homogay in the first episode. (If only there was an episode that featured the "DL" guy from the first episode with the gay bro-sexual in the second episode. Instant boners!) The conflict of the second episode hits slightly closer to home - the struggle of "hiding" one's homosexuality from one's immediate family, for one's own sake and theirs. The sassy "fag hag" in the second episode is a stereotype in herself, I think, though I wouldn't describe her depiction as offensive. Just the sassy black female friend that every gay man should have.

After getting home from a Monday of mostly dur flurr flurr durrrrrf, I watched the first episode of The DL Chronicles at gay.com before heading out for my evening walk. Mostly because the black guy in the first episode, "Wes", is a really handsome man. The premise is kinda hokey, I think, and the "antagonist" of the first episode, "Trent", is too flamboyantly, totally-gay-but-not-intended-to-be-obvious obvious gay (obviously). Still, I can get into handsome black men that aren't an unattractive stereotype of black men (see also: any and every black gay porn in existence, try "SeXxXxX DAWGZzZzZ: 'N' DUH PouND", as I'm sure that exists). I'm not sure if I'll watch any other episodes, but the first wasn't the worst expenditure of 28 minutes that I've ever endured.

I just know these things.

back to work, ho!

The Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday that men should no longer perform testicular self-exams for possible testicular cancer. In addition, the HHS refined its recommendations regarding routine prostate exams to screen for prostate cancer, a leading cause of death of men over 50. HHS chief mouthpiece, Kathleen Sebilius, announced at a press conference on Monday that the HHS would be modifying it's previous recommendations regarding routine prostate exams from recommending that American men be screened for prostate cancer every two years starting at age forty to now recommending American men be screened for prostate cancer every five years starting at age fifty and above. The news comes on the heels of the HHS's recommendation that women begin getting regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer at age fifty. The previous government recommendation was that American females seen their OBGYN for mammograms starting at age forty.

"Just as breast self-examinations can result in false-positives that result in unnecessary visits to the physician, I urge the American man to leave the matter of testicular cancer screens to licensed, government-sponsored doctors." Sebilius cautioned at the press conference.

Sebilius went on to state that the HHS was revising its recommendations for regular prostate checks due to the sharp rise in claims filed by physicians for prostate exams. Sebilius cited a 2009 study that found that 80% of doctor appointments for potential testicular cancer were scheduled erroneously because a growing number of men confused their second testicle with a potential cancerous lump in the scrotum.

"We want our fathers, sons, and brothers to be in the best of health," Sebilius stated. "However, we do not want the system to be bogged down with unnecessary visitations for non-urgent or non-medical emergencies caused by confusion brought on by untrained hands mistaking a normal, second testicle for a cancerous lump."

Sebilius stated that the HHS was concerned about unnecessary exams depleting doctor availability for genuine medical concerns.



( sorry, I don't have a link to provide you because this is from the future and the future is not here ... yet )

The guy seated next to me on the flight back to Seattle was gay and one of the two fight attendants was hella gay.

But, in unrelated news, I ordered myself 2GB of RAM (1GB x2) to "max out" my computer at 3GB RAM (1GB x2 + 512MB x2) since I'm still using WindowsXP and intend to remain using WinXP for the remainder of this computer's shelf life. I'll upgrade to Windows7 when I acquire my next computer (hopefully in late 2010) and load that rig up with 4GB RAM at least.

I need to go walking as I didn't walk at all during my vacation, but I was busy enough that I got plenty of walking done to not feel like a slug for six days and nights. I also need fresh bread and milk.

And a hot dude with ample body hair.

[ Edit: This guy will do:

...bbl gotta poop...

( dedicated to jaewin564 )

Yesterday marks the one-month mark of walking before and after work. I only missed two "sessions" (AM or PM but never both) in that time. So the math is approximately [(30 x 2) - 2] * (5280 * 2) = 612,480 footsteps in four weeks.

[ Editor's note: At this point, the constant "flicker" of the text - as if LJ is trying to auto-save each tenth of a second - is really unbearable and I just don't have anything more to add because FFS ]

Okay, hippies, I think I get it.  "Organic" is hippie-lingo for "tastes like raw ass."

See, I went to the QFC to get a sammich for lunch, but they didnt have any of the sammiches that I like.  Well, since it's really odd to walk into a grocery store and walk out without making a purchase, I decided to get some bananas because I keep hearing how fruit are some sort of magic food.  Well, all the bananas had been recently put out by the produce clerk (I did that once, circa Q1+Q2 1999) and they were all a lovely shade of inedible green.  The only ripe bananas were ... "organic."

Okay, well, I live in the Pacific Northwest, so I guess the axiom/idiom/urfaceium "When in Rome..." applies here.  Curiously, the organic banana stalks are taped together so that you are discouraged from breaking off one-or-two bananas.  (Leave it to hippies to try to pass their precious "organic" bananas off as "evil pesticide-riddled, genetically-altered" bananas because the evil bananas are cheaper by the pound.)  Well, I found a three-nana stalk so I purchased that.

When I came home, I sliced up one banana to mix in with my Banana Nut Crunch cereal (CONTAINS NO ACTUAL BANANAS).  Well, gentle readers, let me tell you: organic bananas are terrible.  Christ.  Yuck!  Blech!  Ewwwwwww.  What the hell is this?  I'll stick with my genetically-modified bananas generously coated in unicorn-killing pesticides.  (Unicorns were a serious agricultural pest which is why farmers had to destroy them -- look it up.)  

In 48 hours, I will be arriving at Sea-Tac International Airport.

Lou Dobbs Quits CNN


Wouldnt it just be hilarious if Mr. Dobbs was hired on by Roger Ailes as a Fox News Channel commentator?

I THINK SO BECAUSE SO MANY OF YOU WOULD HATE IT SO MUCH <3

[Black] Columbia Professor Punches [White] Woman

FROM THE ARTICLE: "McIntyre was released without bail at his arraignment last night."

Would you say that the Manhattan police were behaving stupidly, Mr. President?  I wonder if I could slug a black female and walk away with zero bail.  Ahhhhhh, white privilege.

On this day, Veterans Day, we salute those men and women who have served in the US Armed Forces.

So special thanks to clintiskeen , gonesurfin , flyboys and others on LJ who have served our country.

And special, special thanks to two of the most important veterans near-n-dear-2-me: the paternal unit and the maternal unit

A QUESTION FOR DOMINIC, MAJOR7, & ANYBODY ELSE** WITH A DOG (BUT MOSTLY DOMINIC FOR REASONS THAT WILL BE APPARENT TO HIM):

For a rat terrier: "Dingo"

While out on my morning walk, I was thinking about what I would name my dog if/when I get him.  (The thought was primarily because I pass by this condo for sale on my morning walk that I think I would love to own.)  What would I call him?  I'm pretty set on a male dog because males are the superior sex, but I have nothing against the bitches.  It's just that a female dog requires a different name.  Is "Dingo" an okay name?  I think it might be, but Dominic sorta has a monopoly on naming dogs about Australasian nouns, so I thought I better run it by him first.




* ( source )
** ( except chucknoblet , for he has a cat and thusly could never love a dog )

The radio program for Seattle host David Bose plays at 3-6PM PST, so I cant listen to his show during the week as I am dutifully working to generate tax revenue to pay for somebody else's health care (which still footing the bill for my own insurance).  It's only been six days since the election, so maybe I'm being impatient, but: WHEN CAN WE EXPECT SOCIETY TO DISSOLVE IN WASHINGTON?

Since Referendum 71 was approved - I've not heard of any silly recount drama - I kinda figured the streets would be crawling with homosexualized zombies.  Think 28 Days Later, except, instead of rabies or whatnot, people - specially males - are afflicted with a raving, raging, unquenchable lust for sodomy.  And during the downtime, said ho'zombies seek to dismantle the institution of "the family".  BTW, anybody got any plans to marry their dog or maybe a vacuum cleaner?  I hear that's the next logical step in the degradation of American society.

Or maybe we are doing that already?  I don't get out much.

Chris Baker on the Glenn Beck radio show: (paraphrasing) "The US military will kick you out if you're gay, regardless of your skill, ability, character, whatever.  Gay = Gone.  But a crazy, America-hating, Muslim psychologist gets transferred around in the name of political correctness..."

Indeed.  Let me know when disgruntled homosexual soldiers start indiscriminately fragging their brothers.

Now, if only the big gay agenda was able to capitalize on this notion.

( ABC )

Checking my odometer this morning:
1) The morning walk route is approximately 1.3 - 1.4 miles.  Adding a couple blocks [eventually] will push that over 1.5 miles
2) The evening walk route is approximately .9 - 1.0 miles.  Adding a couple blocks [eventually] will push that over 1.0 miles

So, each day, I'm walking ~2 miles in downtown Des Moines.  After a couple weeks that should be over 2.5 miles.

1) Ive got a triforce of volcano pus-pimples on my left temple.  Ive punctured and squeezed, but the shit isn't really deflating.  Applied a very hot washcloth to my forehead repeatedly during a shower, but still.  Primary suspect: pillow case.  That shit is getting bleached tonight.  Blech.

2) I really want a rat terrier.  So much.  But I just cant afford a dog and I wouldn't make a very good puppy-parent.  Still, they're so adorable.  I want him <3.

3) Stopped by Church's Chicken for the first time.  Delicious.