Ganked from horny_oryx:

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The Garfield Minus Garfield comic strip keeps getting stranger and stranger:



Who knew that John Arbuckle was really a bottom? (Linked because my parents read this LJ and probably don't know what that word means in this context :-P )

In other news, the Chipotle in Ardmore is offering FREE BURRITOS today! I'll be there around 7 PM feeding my fat face.

I bought Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel for the Play Station 2 last weekend and beat it last night. Yeah, I'd say it was worth the the $12.99 I paid for it... and not a penny more. I'm glad that game's over.

Some recruiter decided to call me yesterday at work. I cannot begin to wrap my brain around what prompts these people think: "Gee, I'm going to call someone at work during business hours and try and get him to leave his job there!" Then said recruiter went screaming over the line as she war-dialed her way across the floor and bothered some other co-workers too. Not cool.

Also speaking of work, was CCed on an e-mail from a co-worker a short while ago. That's not unusual. The fact that the primary recipient of the email was the Cron Daemon was, however. In fact, I don't think I ever saw that done before. :-)

And finally, in Anthrocon news, we have a couple of featured musical performers this year. Both Tom Smith and Alexander Adams will be performing live concerts on the evening of Thursday, June 26th at AC.

From http://stlouis.craigslist.org/ats/636810922.html, found on a mailing list that I'm on:



And they have a website, too: http://www.crammedorganisms.com/

I was thinking of going, but it has the look and feel of a very commercial convention, more like a trade show actually. Not like say, a fan-oriented convention. :-/

I've wanted to ask this for awhile, so here we go!

Note that everyone can view everyone else's answers. This is for personal safety, so everyone knows how far away they should stand from each other at the next convention. :-)

If you know of any good fart jokes, BTW, feel free to leave them in the comments.

Poll #1183609 Farting
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

How often do you fart?

How loud are your farts?

How bad do your farts smell?

What is your uh, range?

Wow, I missed when this game was released for the PS2:



For the curious, the song is called Jungle Boogie and was recorded by Kool & the Gang in 1973.

I had a crazy dream last night, in which I had visited my old high school and gave a presentation to the computer club on Life, The Universe, and working in the computer industry. What's scary is how intense the dream was. I recall myself going through different sections in detail and giving real world examples based on my own experiences. I even recall this in the form of a Powerpoint presentation, which is downright creepy.

If I were giving such a presentation, I think it would come off looking like this:

- About me
-- Working in the industry for 10 years
--- 6 different employers. Laid off twice.
-- I did *not* attend college
-- I studied additional technology on my own
-- Networking networking networking!

- School
-- Bad grades aren't the end of the world
--- But don't drop out!
-- Practice your skills
-- College may not be for you
--- But education still matters!
-- Networking networking networking!

- Higher education
-- It's expensive
--- Student loans
-- Great practice for the real world
--- Office politics
-- Get involved with clubs/organizations
-- Networking networking networking!

- The first job
-- Getting your foot in the door
-- It's *who* you know
-- Networking networking networking!

- The office
-- Office politics
--- Rank vs. leverage
-- HR. Don't piss them off.
-- Don't exceed your access.

- Things that keep me up at night
-- Outsourcing
-- Outsourcing
-- Outsourcing

- Your career
-- Technology that does not exist today
-- Find a niche and become an expert
-- Keep up to date
--- Slashdot, Wired, etc.
-- Networking networking networking!
--- LinkedIn

- Any questions?

I think that covers most of the things I'd talk about. Did I miss anything? Maybe I should have a separate section on office politics. Hmm...

Well, a normal person who collects swords from Xena and Highlander, that is. :-)

From An article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:



Glad to hear that he got along well with us. That's always a good sign.

I know why Comcast didn't show for your appointment.

Because they were busy doing donuts in their work van, that's why:



And people wonder why I don't want to do business with Comcast.

Seen on CNN.com just now:



Yeah... I'd be careful of using phrases like "finish off" in that context...

Of course, the following headline of "Keep it Pumping" makes me wonder just what drugs the CNN editors might be on today...

I took another picture of an advertisement at SEPTA's Market East station today. But first I have to mention that SEPTA has been on this "green" kick all month. They have these "green" advertisements all over the station about how using public transit saves on fossil fuels and whatnot. And I think that's good--I'm all for conversation.

But some of their signs make my eyes bleed. Like this one:



So... what's wrong with this picture? Well, if you look closely, there is green and blue lettering, right next to each other on a white background. Can't see it? Look closer, I assure you it's there. But yeah... putting similar colors like that next to each really doesn't work out that well.

Keep in mind that no flash was used on that picture, so there is no "washing out" of the colors. What you see in the pic is pretty much what I saw when looking at it from a distance of 3 feet.

My inner graphic designer is crying.

Yesterday was pretty crazy. The first thing that blew my mind was discovering that one of the regulars from the Anthrocon forums not only lives half a mile away from me, but also rides the same train into Center City every day. We pretty much saw each other on the train on a near daily basis without knowing it! Maybe I should start wearing my Anthrocon t-shrits around town more.

The second thing was the vandalism I saw of a Cottonelle ad at Market East Station:



Here's a closeup:



So yeah, it's been an interesting week I think.

Here are the total election results from last night:



It gets more interesting when the results are broken down by country. Lisa barely won in Delaware County, which has her "home" township of Radnor:



In Montgomery Country, her opponent pretty much destroyed her.



So, what can we learn from this? For starters, character really does matter. When you employ sleazy campaign tactics, people are going to call you on it and talk about you. And when your response to the criticism is to whine about your opponent's "harassment". Holy crap... do you even know what "harassment" is, Lisa? It's repeated unwanted contacted by another individual with the intent to annoy. Criticism != harassment. Good lord.

Actually, just to wander offtopic a bit here, we've been dealing with some pro-Lisa trolls on the Save Ardmore Coalition website on and off over the past few months. And they spewed out phrases like "harassment" and "cyberstalking" when complaining about the criticism of Lisa. Similar tactics to what Lisa used in her blog? Hmm. This makes me wonder just how closely the trolls may have been connected to Lisa? After all, it'd be yet another scandal if Lisa Paolino was found to be involved with trolling a civic group....

Got my days off for Anthrocon. All 5 of them. From the Wednesday before the con until the Tuesday afterward. The Tuesday is my day of recovery. :-)

In other news, my mom "found" a $50 savings bond from when I was born. That should be worth quite a bit by now. However, she is holding it hostage until I buy her and my father Anthrocon memberships. Wait, what?!

I've been trying to cut back on my Lisa Paolino bashing, because it's just too darn easy. It's like beating up a midget. A blindfolded midget. A blindfolded midget with his hands tied behind his back. But then I got wind of her latest scandal and realized that she is a bigger douche than I thought.

Please look closely at the following ballot, which was sent out in the mail to voters in Montgomery and Delaware counties:



That looks all nice and... official... right? Except, it's not. She has not been endorsed by the Republican Party in Montgomery County and that is flat out not an official ballot.

When her opponent, Lance Rogers found out, he was pissed, and understandably so. He then proceeded to bitchslap her so hard in court in Montgomery County on Friday, that she flew clear across the county line, landing in Delaware county and got smacked around again in an emergency hearing on Saturday.

What's even crazier about this whole thing is that Paolino's "representative" in court, one "Mimi Auchincloss", who actually tried to say that passing out fake ballots is protected under the First Amendment. Riiiight. And I'm the Queen of Denmark. Look at my crown! Isn't it fabulous?

All this craziness, and Lisa hasn't even been elected to office. She is clearly out of control and I seriously doubt that she has the interests of her voters in mind. I do not believe she has any business holding any office.

Today's dose of stupid consists of trying to rob a police station:

http://www.copsatwork.com/police-station-getting-robbed.htm


The runner up is this guy, who argued with a cop and kept insisting that "you can't arrest me until you read me my rights". The officer's taser politely disagreed:

http://www.copsatwork.com/some-idiot-tasered.htm
 

alexismckee just showed me this video, which shows "how true Danes are", according to him.

Went through my work email this morning, all 100 pieces of it.

We've done a few company trips to Hershey Park and places like that in the past. Looks like my employer is planning a new trip: to see The Lion King on Broadway!

I've seen it twice before, and the last time I saw it... I was facepainted up like a cheetah and almost made the Big Elephant trip in the opening song, because one of the performers was staring at me. Let's see if I can not make that happen this time. :-)

Since folks have been asking, I have finally published the letter that Lisa Paolino's attorney sent me. It can be found on the Save Ardmore Coalition site at:

http://www.saveardmorecoalition.org/node/2202

I have a bit of a rant there, but I'll add a little here. It just boggles my mind that she would do such a thing. What was she thinking? Is she really that ignorant of First Amendment issues to think that she could force someone to take down content that she doesn't like?

And yes, she is currently an elected official. She sits on the Board of Commissioners in Radnor. Isn't this like... some sort of misconduct on her part? Any legal types out there who can comment? Quite frankly, I have serious concerns about someone like her being responsible for running a township when she is pulling stunts like this.

This is the shortened version. A more detailed report and pictures will follow in a week or so.

DAMN I had a good time there! That was one of the best well-run conventions I have seen in a long time. I tip my beret to girtygrin, 2_gryphon, nikvulper, Jibba, Gerret, Ed Hyena, Basil, and all the other staff who worked hard, got things done, made this into a most excellent convention experience.

Did I mention that this was a first year con? The fact that it went that smoothly makes their achievement even more outstanding.

My rating: A+++ Would definitely do business with again.

I think I've done enough Lisa bashing for a bit. It's kinda like shooting fish in a barrel, really.

At point blank range.

With an elephant gun.


So anyway, I'm gearing up to go to Furry Connection North this weekend. I hope I'll see many of you there.

And now, for a bit of humor, I have a video from Graham Chapman's memorial service. The reason it is humorous is because Graham was a member of the sketch comedy group known as Monty Python. Of course, this means his service was conducted by the other members of the Python Group. They managed to make people laugh without being patently offensive. This video also includes the Eulogy as delivered by John Cleese:



Man, I wish I could get someone half as classy to speak at my funeral some day.

Fire Chief John Fallon is not very happy with Lisa Paolino right now.

It seems that earlier in the month, she sent out campaign literature (pictured on right) in the mail which featured a photograph of Chief Fallon standing behind Lisa in full uniform. The implication here is that Lisa had his support, except... she didn't. Not only did he not support her, but he never gave her or anyone from her campaign permission to use his picture in her literature. What was Lisa thinking?

What's even worse is that this has had consequences for Chief Fallon, namely in that is caused his friends and neighbors to think that he supported Lisa, when just the opposite was true. I can only imagine how awkward that must have been, seeing your picture plastered all over some random candidate's political mailing and having to explain that to people.

Did I say Chief Fallon was not happy? Maybe that's an understatement, since he pulls no punches in his letter to Lisa. Here is an excerpt: Wow. Nobody messes with Chief Fallon. Not even Chuck Norris Rick Astley.

For the curious, the full 2-page letter can be viewed here: [Page 1] [Page 2]

I think this is a prime example of how Google's PageRank has a bit of a democratic bent to it:



Generally speaking, when you type in someone's name, the very first result in Google is the person's website. Do it for just about any politician, or even people with individual blogs, and you'll see this happen. It also works for corporate entities and non-profits. So for Lisa Paolino's official site to NOT come up when people search for her name is quite significant. I think it's rather telling when a candidate's scandal comes up higher than their campaign's official website.

Moral of the story: Lisa Paolino can get all the monetary donations she wants, but money won't buy a higher PageRank.

In related news, it seems that lawn signs for Daylin Leach and Lance Rogers have been disappearing, yet Lisa's remain untouched. Random acts of vandalism? Or an attempt to sabotage her opponents? I guess we'll find out soon enough on this one.