Eggs Don't Get Sick
Posted by bpopp @
10:06 PM - 106
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High school's Home Ec classes do these stupid assignments where they assign a couple an egg to take care of for a week. I guess the intent is good, but it's really criminal to even imply that it's anything close to parenting.
On Thursday night around 12:30, my 16 week old daughter woke up crying. She felt a little warm so we took her temperature and it came back 103.5. We weren't sure exactly what to do so we paged our pediatrician. He called back a few minutes later, asked a few questions, and then told us to take her to LeBonheur Methodist. We were both thinking that they would keep us in the waiting room for a few hours, take her temperature, give her some tylenol, give us that look doctors give to overprotective parents, and then kindly send us home. We couldn't have been more wrong (except for the waiting part).
After a couple hours in the waiting room, we went back and sat in a examination room. Another 30 minutes or so later, the doctor came in. By..
Conservative Relapse
Posted by bpopp @
01:05 AM - 96
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Just when I was starting to feel like a liberal, this stupid sh*t had to make headlines. Innocent people are getting tortured and raped and shot with .50mm enriched uranium, cancer inducing bullets, and nobody seems to really care that much. But let someone shoot at a f'ing book and they want heads to roll (literally). This region is just so f'd up. I still can't get over how much the liberal community despises religion (ie. Christianity), and yet, you don't hear a peep from them about how retarded stuff like this is.
Quote: BAGHDAD - President Bush has apologized to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and promised prosecution of a U.S. soldier accused of using a copy of the Quran for target practice, Iraq said on Tuesday. "The American president apologized on behalf of the United States ... promising to present the ..
Google is Sorry
Posted by bpopp @
05:05 PM - 78
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WTF? Just did a google search for 'Drupal filter articles' and I get back this:
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Air conditioning really is one of the greatest inventions of all times. I can't imagine summers without it in places like Memphis. It's been unusually cool here over the last few weeks, but it was still getting more and more unpleasant not having it in my new upstairs office. Over the last month I've dealt with it by putting a box fan in the open window on the highest setting. It sounded like a freight train and it was still 90 degrees at night some days (me, 2 dogs, and 3 computers=lots of heat).
A few weeks ago I went downstairs to get a coke (and a pinch of JD) and my f'ing dog tore threw the screen and jumped out the window. I sh*t-you-not. It's at least a 12 ft drop to the sidewalk below, so I thought he was either dead or badly hurt. Amazingly, when I got downstairs..
Lend a Ni**a a pencil?
Posted by von @
02:05 PM - 91
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Check out this video of a news story about an English teacher who used the dreaded "N word" when addressing a student.
I must admit, the "N word" is a very powerful word indeed. I just finished a poetry/literature class in which I had to read this word aloud in front of a room full of black women. We were assigned parts in a play that we were reading in class. I was so nervous, hoping that he wouldn't call on me to read a part, or that if he did call on me, that I would be given a part that didn't say this dreaded word. Everything was fine for about five minutes, and then it happened. I came upon the word. What would I do? I was having this crazy debate in my head about whether or not I would say the word, or if I'd stand up in protest and refuse!
I said it, but I did it so fast that I almost skipped it and then I just pretended that nothing happened, and everyt..
No More vonralls.com
Posted by von @
01:05 PM - 110
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Wow, I can't believe it. I let my domain expire, and someone actually bought it. I forgot to change my email contact address from midsouth.rr.com to comcast.net, so I didn't get any of the warnings.
Second Class NYC Tenant
Posted by bwcline @
11:04 AM - 150
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For 11 months may you enjoy the high rent of New York City living, but come the last month of your lease, get the F**K out of our way. New York is a very tough rental market, I can't stress enough the the aggressiveness in which thousands of people search for an apartment.
Brokers make 15% of the annual rent, meaning rent averages around 2500...so you have to pay a fee of $4500, then a deposit (usually 2 months) to get in to the apartment. This is a typical example of how Brokers act, they do not care about you or your belongings. At one point, the Broker told me that I didn't have anything worth any value, so it shouldn't be an issue, just hand over your keys so we can traffic strangers through your apartment while you are at work.
Quote: from a broker
Hi Brian,
We've been trying to get in touch with you regarding access to show the a..
I've pretty much disenfranchised myself with everyone I know for supporting Obama in this upcoming election. I must get 5 or 6 emails a day from friends and family trying to change my mind. 95% of them are total bullsh*t. The other 5 percent are "clever" wordplays on his name (my favorite part is Ashcroft trying to hold back the smile as he's being boo'ed).
It really amazes me that anyone would pick McCain over Obama. I'd still consider myself a conservative, but McCain is just so incredibly bad. He's flipflopped a half-dozen times on pretty much every key position of the election. He still vehemently supports the war and clearly has no idea what it's all about. He's the only candidate that has refused to release hi..
Roadtrip to Atlanta Ikea
Posted by bpopp @
03:03 AM - 178
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My dad and I drove to Atlanta on Friday to pickup my desk @ Ikea. It was a long f'ing drive (6:30 hours), but it was good to catch up. We don't get to talk as much as we used to so it was kind of cool. Once we got there, we started out going up into the showroom and I spent about 10 minutes looking for someone to help me. I finally found someone a few departments over, but she warned me she wasn't familiar with the Galant line. I told her which pieces I wanted and she made me a quick shopping list. Then we headed downstairs to pick up the boxes.
Once I found the correct aisle, I spent another 30 minutes finding all the different boxes I needed. I was obviously a little worried about missing pieces, so I asked a group of employees if it looked like I had everything before we checked out. They looked through my selection and assured me that I did.
I checked out and then started loading up everything into my dad's truck. As I was loading, I went through all ..
A MAME Cabinet Will Make Me Happy Again
Posted by bpopp @
12:03 PM - 213
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As my office nears completion, I have started planning my next project. It's something I've wanted to do for a really long time for unexplainable reasons. Like many guys my age, I spent a lot of time in dimly-lit arcades growing up. Our parents would drop us off with $5 and we would be in heaven for an hour or so playing whatever the game of the month was. It really was a significant part of my childhood.
I know that may sound sad to some, but I don't consider it a bad thing. It was much more social than what kids do today (XBox). I fondly remember a dozen guys of various ethnicities crowded around Street Fighter II with a row of quarters stacked on the marquee as people waited their turn to challenge whoever was kicking the most ass. Every so often, the adrenalin would get too high or personalities would just clash, and the two guys would pummel the sh*t out of each other (in real ..
BAGHDAD - President Bush has apologized to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and promised prosecution of a U.S. soldier accused of using a copy of the Quran for target practice, Iraq said on Tuesday. "The American president apologized on behalf of the United States ... promising to present the ..