| Paparazzi blocking your car to get a photo? That's a beatdown. |
[May. 29th, 2012|04:58 pm] |
"So you're saying sir that you were assaulted by Justin Bieber and now need medical attention? You're realize that he's 4'4" and weighs maybe a buck aught four? That's like admitting you got mugged by a fifth grader."
Those photographers are parasites and I refuse to accept the argument that the people they harass wanted to be famous and hence, deserve to be hounded and blocked in any time they set foot in public. |
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| A bit of history |
[May. 28th, 2012|05:04 pm] |
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Memorial Day began as "Decoration Day'' in the 1860s, to honor the 625,000 soldiers who died in the Civil War. Think of that amazing number: The number of Civil War dead is more than the population of Wyoming today. The number of Civil War dead is 11 times the number of American troops who died in Vietnam. According to Yale historian David Blight, the first Decoration Day event was organized by freed African-American slaves in 1865 in Charleston, S.C., where a parade of 10,000, led by 3,000 black schoolchildren, took place to honor the dead around a racetrack that had been used as a burial ground. In 2010, some leading Charleston residents dedicated a memorial for the first Memorial Day - so re-named in 1882 - at a reflecting pool in the city. |
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| The first day of Summer was today |
[May. 20th, 2012|08:56 pm] |
For me, anyway. See, Summer is typically official on June 21st but I don't go by those Soviet-like standards but instead use the simpler metric of 'First day I have to turn on the air conditioning', which was today. Hot, noisy day. And my car was blocked in the parking lot by one of the new residents who came home last night obviously drunk and only backed 2/3's into their spot. Along with the new family-types who moved in and constantly leave the front door pushed open. That door is the only thing keeping random tweakers from wandering into the complex so I have a problem with it be left open unsupervised.
Looks like tonight might be cure for my insomnia though, because I'm very, very tired. Probably going to be up another half hour, if that. And we all checked out the solar eclipse at 6:30 tonight. It was hard to see but the light got weird for a while. |
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| I kind of loved the Avengers |
[May. 16th, 2012|05:25 pm] |
I grew up reading all of those comic books - initially my dad would buy them for me on his frequent work trips. Early ones were mostly Batman & Superman. I didn't really like either of them however, it was Spider Man and the X-Men who spoke more to me and I had a huge pile of Captain America, Iron Man, Swamp Thing, Fantastic Four, etc. I subscribed to Thor for a few years. The film hit all the right notes though and the casting worked.
Oddly, I haven't seen any of the origin films except the original Iron Man. I'll have to fix that now.
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| "Execute Error 37" |
[May. 15th, 2012|03:24 pm] |
Diablo III, Blizzard's newest game, "launched" at midnight last night - which means that by now, people have been unable to log in for the last 12 hours. Gamers being slightly obsessive, many of them had today off so they could play and as of right now, estimated fix times keep jumping ahead by 1-2 hours and it still isn't working.
For the record, I will pick the game up, but I'm taking a day off on Thursday, when all these shenanigans will be fixored.
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