... here's something to brighten your day.

As in the bright glare of a mushroom cloud.

It's out in the blogsphere. Let's hope the general public sees the video clip.

Last Monday, the 23rd, I became a cyborg. I showed up for my 1:20pm appointment to be fitted with my new cybernetic components.

( Details on becoming a cyber-organism )

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: The whirring of cooling fans and the hiss of air-conditionin

You go, grrl.

It's a lengthy read, but worth it. It's pretty damning information from FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. It's truly amazing that the treasonous people she mention (and do mean T-R-E-A-S-O-N-O-U-S, and not in the Anne Coulter sense) not only are still in positions of power, but seemed to get promoted. WTF? You fsck up something regarding international security ... and you're promoted?!

Current Mood: enraged

I have paid off the last of my credit cards. They are ALL GONE.

The only plastic I wield is a debit card craftily disguised as a Visa and my corporate credit card. And by Ghod it's going to stay that way.

Current Mood: ecstatic

United Airlines sucks little pointy rocks through pigeon anuses.

The flight to and from St. Louis was on a plane engineered for conveying toddlers and monkies, not adult humans. I wonder at being asked "window or aisle" since my midget-sized seat was both a window and aisle seat. The storage bins and underseat spaces were probably adequate for keeping, say, a child's lunchbox but not for laptop cases. I had to remove my laptop on both legs to check in its case at the plane. To add insult to injury I spilled my four (4) ounce coke on the floor since toy airplanes and clumsy humans are mutually incompatible. Naturally the laptop got splashed. Fortunately it appears unharmed.

Making us stay in that plane-built-by-Tonka for fifteen minutes while "the ground crew prepared our plane and retrieved door checked in luggage" added insult to injury. I would have preferred to wait for my laptop case outside where I could stand upright, as my ancestors have done for millions of years.

To add further insult to injury, my luggage didn't show. I wasn't alone in this predicament; many of my fellow passengers were forlornly eyeing the carousel for luggage gone missing. I predict that the tiny cargo hold couldn't hold everyone's luggage, and so had to trickle over on subsequent flights. If United used the same airplines, it might take several trips to get all the luggage for that flight across.

If they insist on using that model plane, they should consider having pairs of planes for flights -- one for passengers, another for their luggage.

United Airlines sucks.

It sucks even more for closing the baggage problem counter next to the carousel associated with a flight that obviously was experiencing severe luggage related problems. Making people already pissed off move from one long line to an even longer line across the terminal only further enrages them.

In fact, I was so fucking pissed off that, noting that it would be ABOUT AN HOUR BEFORE I SPOKE TO A ``REPRESENTATIVE'', THAT I JUST LEFT THE AIRPORT. WITHOUT MY DAMN LUGGAGE. I had already been there an hour and wasn't about to stay another damn minute. I figured that I could just call in the problem from the comfort of home.

United Airlines sucks.

It further sucks because the toll free number gets an unhelpful automated management system. Each time it says "I am unable to help you. I will try to contact a baggage representative. <pause for five seconds> I have been unable to contact any baggage representatives as they are busy helping other customers. Please try again later." It doesn't even hang up the phone. The line just stays open, leaving you hanging. Which is what I was doing, literally, with regards to my missing luggage.

Wankers.

Worse yet, this is delaying a road-trip down to North Carolina. I cannot leave until I have my luggage back in hand.

They better not make me drive back to Dulles to retrieve it.

Current Mood: enraged

Kinda misses the point, actually.

This coming weekend is the Virginia Scottish Games in Alexandria, Virginia. My pipe band will be competing on Saturday both in the MSR competition and in the Slow Air, Quick March competion. We will also be one of the duty bands ¹ Sunday.

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¹ Meaning we honk around the Games grounds a couple times, and show up for the massed bands. Ho hum.

My $50 refurbished TiVo will arrive next week.

No more scrambling for blank scratch tapes. No more SciFi fscking moving shite on me, thus invalidating preprogrammed recording sessions. No more pressing-record-on-VCR-does-not-actually-record-dick-HAha-YOU-LOSE problems. No more tapes jamming whilst recording.

Of course it will arrive next week when I'm in Rolla for business. (What, me go there for pleasure?) The trick will be arriving back in time two Friday's hence to set the damned thing up for SG-(1|Atlantis).

I'll have ONE MORE GO at recording with ancient VCR technology for this Friday's shows.

Meanwhile, I may have to explore BitTorrent or similar services for the SG-Atlantis premiere. Gee, not like I have the time to do that. *harumph*

Current Mood: annoyed

Does anyone have the SG-Atlantis premiere recorded? Due to technical snafu, I only recorded the first half. Naturally the tape ran out just as they encounter the Wraiths.

fuckfuckfuckFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK

Ok, it's official. I need a PVR.

*scampers to check TiVo site*

Current Mood: frustrated

Ah, yet another example of a fine, love-thy-neighbor "Christian". A 70 year-old woman atheist wrote a letter of complaint when the Anne Arundel senior center replaced a moment of silence before meals with prayer. She got this response from her delegate, Don Dwyer, Jr:

"You state it is not fair for you, oranyone else who is not a Christian, to have to listen to others prayers in order to have a nice meal with other senior citizens," Dwyer wrote. "You go on to ask, 'is there any law that would help me change this practice?' If the atheist (sic) of Maryland want something different then I would suggest building an atheist Senior Center where you won't have to hear any prayers but leave my people alone."

Dwyer ordered Sayre to "immediately stop any attempt to interfere with the religious freedoms of my constituents who use the Brookly Park Senior Center."


Grrr.

Current Mood: angry