living will

Mom? Dad? If my brain ever turns to spinal fluid the way Terry Schiavo's has, you'd better pull the plug.




If you don't I will haunt you.

stuff

In about 7 weeks or so I'll be moving. If anyone in the Lancaster, PA area wants my stuff, let me know. I'm getting rid of my nightstand, desk, and bureau. I'm debating on departing with my books because they really are an awful pain to move, but they are too much apart of my soul. I love my books. All this stuff I'm selling for about 45 bucks total (not the books). The futon I might sell for another 50 or I might put it up on an auction site (not Ebay, which steals your soul and money).

Related: Your stuff owns you. I am always amused by my friends (particuarly the ones who still live with mom and dad) who buy buy buy lots and lots of junk.

congress is a bunch of loser dummies

who continue to waste time.
To be honest, I don't care if MLB players use steroids. If shrunken testicles, bitch tits, wild mood swings and acne are their thing, it's their personal choice. I am continually shocked by people (including the parents of those who committed suicide bought on by roid rage) who put the blame on others. Taking steroids (given there is a TON of readily availble information out there) is a PERSONAL CHOICE. People who take them are taking their own PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY into their own hands. Republicans are all about this. Stop trying to legislate idiocy. If people take stuff that harms them, well that's their own fault. And if they die because of the idiot decisions they make (LIKE TAKING STEROIDS WHICH CAN AND DO ALTER YOUR STATE OF MIND), well tough cookies.

Watching Congress waste time when we have an astronomical deficit that will surely bring down the world economy in the medium-to-long term just made me want to scream. And question why I even bother voting when all they do is waste time and put on these retarded press shows. Oh no, Steroids!

This is almost as bad as "Oh no, Clinton's Cock!" Meanwhile, while the media and legislative body was distracted, terrorists declared war and quietly targeted our cities.

Yeah I so went there.

Advice to Congress: There are WAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more important issues. You guys are losers for picking this one to put out the media blitz for. Total. fucking. losers.


I am getting really cynical in my old age.


As an aside, mainly because this post is one of amazing cynicism (and they've been on a roll lately), check out The Decadent West and this post on China. I couldn't have said it better myself.

ha

Okay, now we're just mutilating Irony's decomposing corpse.

grrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr

I'm pissed. Here's why.

It is the kind of TV news coverage every president covets.
"Thank you, Bush. Thank you, U.S.A.," a jubilant Iraqi-American told a camera crew in Kansas City for a segment about reaction to the fall of Baghdad. A second report told of "another success" in the Bush administration's "drive to strengthen aviation security"; the reporter called it "one of the most remarkable campaigns in aviation history." A third segment, broadcast in January, described the administration's determination to open markets for American farmers.

To a viewer, each report looked like any other 90-second segment on the local news. In fact, the federal government produced all three. The report from Kansas City was made by the State Department. The "reporter" covering airport safety was actually a public relations professional working under a false name for the Transportation Security Administration. The farming segment was done by the Agriculture Department's office of communications.
Under the Bush administration, the federal government has aggressively used a well-established tool of public relations: the prepackaged, ready-to-serve news report that major corporations have long distributed to TV stations to pitch everything from headache remedies to auto insurance. In all, at least 20 federal agencies, including the Defense Department and the Census Bureau, have made and distributed hundreds of television news segments in the past four years, records and interviews show. Many were subsequently broadcast on local stations across the country without any acknowledgement of the government's role in their production.

1984......

disturbing


There are lots of things odd and disturbing on TV today but the new Burger King Commerical takes the cake. The first time I saw it, I wasn't quite sure what was going on. I honestly thought it was some kind of soft core pornography Like:

Dallas Cowboy's Cheerleaders?

Big Cabooses?

Twins with buckets full of ranch dressing? (Now that just weirded me out.)

Breasts growing on trees? (being picked by a fairly buxom young woman giving the camera the Jeff Gannon "come hither" look. . . entendre my god. Her hair was even blowing ever so gently in the breeze......)

And I'm not absolutely sure if I saw this in one version of the commerical, but there was a giant chicken dressed up in S&M gear. I'm half surprised there wasn't a sling in there. If you don't know what S&M gear is, God Bless you. You haven't been warped. May you never be warped.

Talk about bizarre.

And talk about effective. That damn song is in my head for hours after seeing that jarring and somewhat pornographic commercial. Damn, I want a Bacon Crisp Chedder Tender Ranch right now damnit! Burger King appears to be going the Quiznos route----make something bizarre that might disturb some people------disturb them into buying your fast food. We never did find out what those rat things were that Quiznos was using (did we?), if they were indeed rats. However I wanted Quiznos from the second I saw it, even if the commercial was . . . weird.

And now that damn song is in my head again. I'm off to Burger King.

creepy


Has anyone noticed a strange tag during the commerical breaks on TV? It's a Latin phrase. omnium finis eminent or something like that. At first I thought it was a production company but then I saw it during shows.

Google searches were rather fruitless.


If anyone knows, drop me a clue. It's creepy.


UPDATE: I spelled it wrong. Here's a better search. Still quite creepy.

I've noticed it on NBC and Sci-Fi. On NBC, it was a five second tag right before the 11PM news after Law and Order's latest clone went off. On Sci-Fi, I think the first time I saw it was during a movie (Frailty, with Bill Paxon, very disappointing by the way). The next time was, ironically since it means the beginning of the end is near, during Battlestar Galactica.

I think it might be a tag for the new War of the Worlds movie that's coming out this summer. Or someone with a very wacky sense of gallows humor knows something the rest of us don't.


UPDATE NUMBER 2: They're for the new War of the World's movie.

job search


I've begun my job search now that all my graduation paperwork is finally in and processed. I bought my cap and gown today. That was weird. (Graduation is May 7th. Cards of well wishing can be directed to

12 University Drive, Millersville PA 17551

)

So far, applications and resumes have been sent to:
1. A consulting firm in DC that was looking for "an energetic recent college graduate" for a staff assistant.
2. The CIA (Office Assistant. Foot in door type job)
3. The Department of Transportation as a Program Analyst. It was a student job, meaning I should send them my transcripts (oh no.....)
4. Planning Trainee for the state of PA, I'm on the hiring list (I scored 80 out of 100.)
5. Transportation Planning Specialist Trainee for PENNDot, also on the hiring list.

I also applied to a think tank that does work with democracy, but I don't really remember the name and it was so long ago (and I haven't heard anything back either).

That's it so far. I'm taking the PA State Civil Service Exams in March for whatever I can find.

Send me job leads. I'd like to get something lined up to start in June so I don't have to move back in with the parents (and they'd probably like it if I didn't move back in either.)


And while you're at it, send job leads to my friend Rachel too. She needs a job.

fish

I'm a tropical fish addict now. I went out and bought a new Betta (he's red and feisty...would you like to help name him?) and two Blue Ram Cichlids. I was more worried about the Rams but they've adjusted to my main tank well. Spot, my lone poor male guppy seems to think one of the Rams is a big female guppy. He's followed it around all day.

The Rams do need names.

It took a few years but I think I may have found my hobby. That, and shortwave radio.

Wow

It's the scandal that keeps on giving.


(R to NC-17 rated pics. Hot Escort fake White House Journalist Action. Don't click if you've got kids around.)

heh

So I've been following this story about Jeff Gannon/J.D. Guckert/HotmilitarystudM4M and find it rather amusing. You can read all about it at Daily Kos or Atrios, both of whom are in the links off to the left. I don't feel sorry for him in the least. For one thing, he wrote gay-bashing stories for his news service (which has scrubbed them from their site. Wayback machine anyone?) while he was probably gay all along. He got outed. Too bad.

Furthermore, I think when the FMA comes up again, certain members of Congress who vote for it should be outed (and we all know they exist , they're just self-hating or whatever). It sounds nasty, but I, for one, am sick of the hypocrisy.

Moral of the story, don't be a hypocrite.

That and CNN is officially Right-Centerish Propaganda. I named it that almost three years ago. I'm glad I was right all along.

finally!

Fly EAGLES Fly!

It would be wrong to gloat and say "I told you so." In memorandum would be, and is, better.


So much death for this senseless war. My god.

category:life

Today was the big interview. I of course was quite nervous----it was my first non-academic interview (since I've worked most of my 4.5 years at Millersville for the University with a brief retail stint) in quite some time. So naturally, I was nervous. I dressed to kill and nearly freaked out because my socks were the wrong color. As I waited for the #16 bus to head into town, it was not the cold that was making me shake, it was my nervousness.

I got downtown early and headed to the courthouse. Downtown was strangely deserted---we were supposed to have an ice storm so I suppose everyone took the day off. I swallowed all the yucky nervousness (which tasted like badly cooked chicken) and marched over to the courthouse.

Then I shined. It turned out to be a very good interview for the internship. I got an idea of what the county GIS department does and generally felt it was a good fit. Now...it'll be a few days before I hear back because there's two other people who applied for the same two posistions, giving me a 66% chance of getting placed.

Wish me luck!

(By the way, I finally graduate May 7th.)


UPDATE: I got the job. I am now a GIS Intern.

Category: life


Guess what? I got my first interview! It is for an internship at Lancaster County GIS. Wish me luck!

Oh yes, I suppose, since it is a new year and 2005 will be a much better year than 2004 was, I'll start writing again.