Talk about hitting too close to home…

I Kept Playing — The Costs Of My Gaming Addiction

This one made me ponder for a bit…  OK, more than a bit.

FTA:

In January of 2001, a man with a tow truck came to my place of employment and took my car away. I had fallen behind on payments without realizing it, and Nissan had decided they wanted my Sentra back. My first thought as I watched the tow truck drive away was how many hours walking to and from work would take from my EverQuest time.

I worked at a company called FranchiseOpportunities.com, maintaining and creating websites, but increasingly my time there was spent either communicating with my EverQuest friends or browsing websites for tips on the best equipment and techniques for grinding experience points and gold. It was impossible for my co-workers not to notice. In February of 2001, Joseph Lunsford, the owner of the company, called me into his office.

“It wasn’t an easy decision,” Lunsford told me this month when I went to see him and talk to him about the person I used to be. “You were was amazingly bright. I was convinced there wasn’t anything you couldn’t do. You showed so much promise, but your interest in work just fell off. Projects started taking longer to get done, and it was obvious your head wasn’t in it. You left me no choice.”

Stephen, this is for you

Silent Bob: [to Holden, who has just revealed his trouble with Alyssa] Chasing Amy.

Holden: [Shocked that Silent Bob has broken his Silence] What? What did you say?
Silent Bob: You’re Chasing Amy.

Jay: What do you look so shocked for, man? Fat bastard does this all the time. He thinks just ’cause he doesn’t say anything, it’ll have some huge impact when he does open his fuckin’ mouth-

Silent Bob: Jesus Christ, why don’t you shut up? You’re always yap-yap-yappin’ all the time, you’re givin’ me a fuckin’ headache.

[to Holden]Silent Bob: I went through something like what you’re talkin’ ’bout, ‘couple years ago, this chick named Amy.

Jay: When?

Silent Bob: [annoyed] A couple of years ago?

Silent Bob: So there’s me an’ Amy, and we’re all inseparable, right? Just big time in love. And then four months down the road, the idiot gear kicks in, and I ask about the ex-boyfriend. Which, as we all know, is a really dumb move. But, you know how it is – you don’t wanna know, but you just have to, right? Stupid guy bullshit. So, anyway, she starts telling me about him – how they fell in love, and how they went out for a couple of years, and how they lived together, her mother likes me better, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah – and I’m okay. But then she drops the bomb on me, and the bomb is this: it seems that a couple of times, while they were goin’ out, he brought some people to bed with them. Menage a tois I believe it’s called. Now this just blows my mind, right. I mean, I am not used to this sort of thing. I mean, I was raised Catholic for God’s sakes.

Jay: Saint Shithead.  [Silent Bob elbows him, Jay motions as if to start a fight]

Silent Bob: Do something.

[to Holden] Silent Bob: So, I’m totally weirded out by this, right? And I just start blastin’ her. Like I don’t know how to deal with what I’m feeling, so I figure the best way is by callin’ her a slut, right? And tell her she was used. I’m-I’m out for blood. I really wanna hurt this girl. I’m like, “What the fuck is your problem?”, right. And she’s just all calmly tryin’ to tell me like it was that time and it was that place and she doesn’t think she should apologize because she doesn’t feel that she’s done anything wrong. I’m like, “Oh, really?” That’s when I look her strait in the eye, I tell her it’s over. I walk.

Jay: Fucking-A.

Silent Bob: No, idiot. It was a mistake. I wasn’t disgusted with her, I was afraid. At that moment, I felt small – like-like I’d lacked experience, like I’d never be on her level, like I’d never be enough for her or something like that, you know what I’m saayin’? But, what I did not get, she didn’t care. She wasn’t looking for that guy anymore. She was – she was looking for me, for-for the Bob. But, uh, by the time I figure this all out, it was too late, man. She moved on, and all I had to show for it was some foolish pride, which then gave way to regret. She was the girl, I know that now. But, I pushed her away. So I’ve spent every day since then chasing Amy… So to speak.

Another GOP’r who must be a riot at parties

From yesterday, at least I can say this guy stands up for himself.

It seems Rex Rammell from Idaho wants to get his “Hunt Obama Tag”.  True, he’s an idiot, but at least he was willing to try to speak for himself, unlike our stellar idiot from yesterday.

FTA:

UPDATE 8/28:Idaho gubernatorial hopeful Rex Rammell has refused to apologize Friday for his joke about hunting Obama, saying in a statement, “Anyone who understands the law, knows I was just joking, because Idaho has no jurisdiction to issue hunting tags in Washington, D.C.”

His comments were universally condemnedby fellow Idaho Republicans. “Rex Rammell’s comments are in very poor taste and should not have been said,” said Sen. Mike Crapo. “I disgree often with the President and his policies. But the comment was totally unacceptable and should not have been made,” said Sen. Mike Risch. Rep. Mike Simpson and former Idaho Gov. Phil Batt also offered harsh rebukes.

The truly hilarious part however is at the end of the article.  It’s where we find out that, yes Virginia, the gene pool is really cesspool in some places…

Rammell isn’t the first Rexburg resident who has drawn attention for making an anti-Obama comment. In November 2008, second- and third-grade students on a school bus there chanted “Assassinate Obama” after his election, prompting the mayor of this eastern Idaho town to publicly apologize.

Sad and pathetic, that about covers it!

I’m guessing Beck wrote this one?

Check out #4.  No, it’s not a joke…

http://washingtonindependent.com/56844/obtained-the-rncs-health-care-survey

Can you say I'm an idiot? I knew you could!

I would keep going, but…  why bother…

I just don’t get supprised anymore

Shocked maybe, not not surprised.

The supprise I suppose however is the admission.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/26/mike-enzi-gang-of-six-rep_n_269447.html

Yes, our good senators on the right are no longer trying to even pretend they are trying to help the “people”, it’s just about legislative cock-blocking.

Could you see a guy like this at a bar with you?

From the article:

Enzi found himself under attack at the town hall simply for sitting in the same room as the three Finance Committee Democrats. Republicans in the crowd called for him to exit the talks. He assured conservatives that his presence was delaying health care reform.

“If I hadn’t been involved in this process as long as I have and to the depth as I have, you would already have national health care,” he said.

Of course, if he was in a bar, I’m sure this idiot would be willing to take a spin on the dance floor with him.

“Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope,” Jenkins said to the crowd. “I suggest to any of you who are concerned about that, who are Republican, there are some great young Republican minds in Washington.”

Nice choice of words…

Of course there was the standard apology.  By a spokesperson…

Food for thought redstate folks.  When you shove your foot in your mouth?  Try to at least stand up yourself and take responsibility.

For t3h bay!

New blog post on TPB.

Riding out the storm

We have, ourselves, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our Internets, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.

Even though large parts of Internets and many old and famous trackers have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Ifpi and all the odious apparatus of MPAA rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the ef-nets and darknets, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Internets, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the baywords.org, we shall fight on the /. and on the digg, we shall fight in the courts; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, the Internets or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the Anon Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Cerf’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

Signed;

The Pirate Bay Crew – Always when needed.

Fight on brothas~

Oh my day today…

The great divide

Was having an interesting chat back and forth on Facebook about gun controll that turned a bit broad.  I figured it would be an interesting read here:

 Christopher voted in the take your gun away Poll along with over 16,386 other people.

would you support a nationwide handgun ban?
- yes
- no
- not sure

Yesterday at 1:55pm · Comment · LikeUnlike · Show Feedback (8)Hide Feedback (8) · Take this Poll · See Other Polls

You like this.

  Jim McKinstry at 1:57pm July 13 

dude, you’re gonna make Obama cry!! Go change your vote!

  Christopher Apostolof at 3:06pm July 13

Nooooo! Daddy I’m sorry!!!!

 Frank Fallon at 3:59pm July 13

There may be hope for you Apostolof…Wait, who am I kidding?

 Christopher Apostolof at 4:49pm July 13

All kidding aside, I don’t think it’s that rare. If you support the constitution, and you support the bill of rights, then you can’t just support the 1st and 4th.

Republicans forgot the actual meaning of “strict constructionist” when they decided to toss out the bill of rights. Not only do you have the right to own a gun, but you have the right to freedom of speech and the right to a free press.

The key to my “liberal nature” lies in my belief in amendments 4 through 10.

As I said, if you want “strict construction” then you can’t just believe in your right to choose what you believe, but you must defend those choices that are made that you find abhorrent.

The inherent nature of the republic demands that those minority voices be protected, and is the reason the founding fathers chose representative democracy rather than majority rule.

 

 

 Frank Fallon at 2:23pm July 14

A most eloquent defense, my friend…and mostly correct.
Republicans feel that the Bill of Rights do not apply to Islamic nutcases that want to kill us…
The Bill of Rights does specifically state a “Right” to keep and bear arms. It does not, however say anything about a right to an abortion, a job, healthcare & etc.

 Christopher Apostolof at 2:34pm July 14

I would argue only this. Freedom means nothing until it’s truly tested. We forget dark periods in our history such as Manzanar and our internment of Japanese US citizens. When it becomes acceptable to throw out such things as habeas corpus, we have issues well beyond simple politics.

It is fashionable to say “never again”, I see a different path forming.

In the words of a strict constructionist… They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

 

 

 Frank Fallon at 2:54pm July 14

The biggest usurper of our rights is in the White House as we speak. Remember your Orwell…Four legs good, two legs better”

 Christopher Apostolof at 4:06pm July 14

To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” –Thomas Jefferson

The divide between “conservative” and “liberal” is narrow at best on most issues.

The biggest issue however is that of legislation via a mandate from God. If done by a Mullah, we call it extremism, if done by SarahPAC, it’s called “family values”. The inconsistency built into the party, and the quest for denial of basic rights is a gap I can never bridge. 

Breakfast is for 1 AM

Ya just gotta have it in the middle of the night…

Amazing case mod

Normally I’m not one to gush over a PC case mod, though I love the whole fishtank PC thing, but this just blew my mind.

 http://acidcow.com/pics/2059-russian-wall-e-case-mod-110-pics.html

Warning, this thing is a modem killer, but it just makes you smile.