It's not the caption that I'm particularly wondering about it's how the F*** that Husky got up there to begin with and why he still looks so happy...

TFLN

(617): omg i finished an entire carton of double double chunk chunk ice cream last night...
(716): what? what exactly is in double double chunk chunk?
(617): self-loathing.

(415): I set the bag of cheetos on the open box on my coffee table while I was watching TV. I was so high I ate half of the styrofoam peanuts in the box by accident. Am I going to die?
(510): I hope so

(508): Do I have a sign around my neck that says "SWM desperately seeking ultra-plus-size woman that likes everything I do"? I swear they're organized
(914): No, but you do have a sign around your neck that says "Free cupcakes."

(512): Fake titties should be able inflate and deflate like tires. So on Saturday you can put on your Double D hooker titties or Sunday put on your size B church tits.

BRILLIANT!

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Well, turns out a housing on the engine block had sprung a leak and it was COOLANT not TRANSMISSION FLUID. *whew* Yes, I'm a panicky ninny-hammer. Still have to take a look at the undercarriage to make sure that Smartie's road-worthy for a trip to Joliet in August, but so far it doesn't look too bad. It's a small $215 crimp in my savings, but FAR better than the $2000 it COULD have been had it actually been my transmission. I have come to the conclusion that if there's an issue with the exhaust, it can wait until before my next Drive Clean test...

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If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

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Marry, Shag, or Cliff from Fannyfae who has no idea how I feel about all of these women! *grin*

Rules:

1. Comment to this and I will give you 3 people.
2. Label which you would marry, shag, and throw off a cliff.
3. Provide pictures of the 3 people.
4. Post this meme with your answers.

( Memeage )

7:00AM testing  = teh suxxors...done now heading home for a nap.

Yay?

Blech.

That is all.

As some of you may be aware, I'm a Whedon-ite.
I'm not a Buffy fan or an Angel fan, however, I'm that much rarer and more elisive breed known as a Browncoat. Yes, I love Firefly. I can sing you "The Ballad of Jayne" from "The Hero of Canton" and I can sing the Firefly Theme Song, and pretty much play along when all of them say their lines on-screen in both the movie and TV show.
Well, when the Writer's Strike hit and there were a-rumblin's of Joss Whedon doing something on the web, just for that, I can honestly say I got tinglies. I bought the webisodes off iTunes and then when they announced that there was going to be a DVD, I pre-ordered that too...it finally arrived and I couldn't be happier! Hee hee hee..."Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" on DVD and "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog - The Soundtrack" is mine as well!

JOY!

The Mighty Q, CILQ 107.1 FM is having a themed music weekend this weekend, as they do every weekend, but this one is extra special. Unlike most weekends where they focus on one band, or one genre, this weekend they are focussing on an instrument instead, and I urge everyone to tune in.

This week is The Week-End of The Cowbell.

Ayuh, you read that right, it's a COWBELL WEEKEND, baby! All songs featuring that most clunky of instruments that became notorious for being the prescription for Christopher Walken's fever. :-D

Go to http://www.q107.com to listen live on the web!

January: Well, let's change that rating shall we?

February: Man, sounds like an old Marvel comic from the 70s, doesn't it?

March: Apparently, based on my answers, I'm good in bed.

April: Conversation started at 12:44 this evening:

May: If your life was a sci-fi TV show

June: I was pondering on the differences in exchange rates.

July: The Maple Leafs have signed a few UFAs today, and some are making me scratch my head and some are making me happy...

August: Yay!

September: Time for me to get emo...

October: OK, for those of you that have met and know me...please let me know how accurate you think this is... :-D

November: Heh.

December: As many of you know, there has been a LOT of change at the company that Taqai and I both work for.

Update on Canada's Current Political Crisis

Governor General Michaelle Jean has suspended Parliament after cutting her vacation short. Parliament has been prorogued until January 26, 2009 with the Conservative government's budget to be delivered on Jaunary 27, 2009. This does not mean that we are out of the woods politically, as a matter of fact, far from it. What this means is that the government and opposition now have an additional 52 days (7.5 weeks) to try to garner as much support in the House of Commons as possible either for the budget (Conservatives) or against the budget (Liberals, New Democratic Party, Bloq Quebecois, Independent) as possible, in essence a mini electoral campaign should the budget be voted down in January.

For those unfamiliar with Canada's electoral system, it's a Parliamentary Democracy. What this means is that the country is divided up into political ridings and dependent on where you live, you vote for the politica candidate of your choice for their seat in the House of Commons (aka Parliament). There are 308 seats to be won in the House of Commons, and Canada uses a first past the post system to determine which party governs. 154 seats are required for a majority in the House of Commons, meaning one party has the power to make ALL the decision (provided everyone follows the party whip's decisions). Currently, Canada has a minority government.

This is the second minority government in the past 5 years and it's broken down thus:
Conservatives = 143 seats
Liberals = 77 seats
Bloc Québècois = 49
New Democratic Party = 37
Independent = 2

What this means is that if the Conservatives put forth something that the rest of the political parties don't agree with, as they have no majorty in the House of Commons, it can be voted down in a vote of no-confidence and we Canadians go back to the polls to try again. As the conservatives are outnumbered 165-143, this means that the Conservatives will have to garner the support from another party in order to pass legislation in the House of Commons. This ALSO means that should the other political parties band together, they can overthrow the current government and install a coalition government instead, which will usually be helmed by the leader of the largest group in the coalition government.

I know who I voted for, and I know what I WANT to have happen, given the current political situation, but if certain leaders get their way, we could be in heaps of trouble.

As I see it, by having Michaelle Jean prorogue Parliament as he did, Stephen Harper is acting in the best interests of Canadians. We didn't vote for a coalition government. Had we done so, every part would have received the same number of seats in the House of Commons (77). By proroguing Parliament, Stephen Harper (believe it or not) is following Canadians' wishes in attempting to preserve the minority government he has been dealt.

We'll see where this goes, my oh so cheeky political monkeys! More updates as events warrant!

As some of you may know, gentle readers, (though I'm not sure how many, after the general exhaustion following the American election) Canada has recently become a hotbed of political activity.

After aligning himself with the separatist Bloq Québecois and the NDP in 2004 to topple then-Prime Minster Paul Martin's Liberal government and forcing a general election in which the Harper-led Conservative Party of Canada (formerly the Canadian Conservative-Reform Alliance Party or CCRAP), Stephen Harper has come out publicly attacking Stéphane Dion and Jack Layton for allying themselves with Gilles Duceppe of the Bloq Québecois, saying an alliance with separatists will fracture the country.

Hmmm...hypocritical much?

Yeah...we are facing a new era in Canadian politics today as Prime Minister Stephen Harper will either prorogue Parliament to avoid a vote of no-confidence, thus forcing a second general election in under 3 months, resign as Prime Minister, again, forcing a second general election in under 3 months, or resign and let Jack Layton (NDP), Stéphane Dion (Liberal) and Gilles Duceppe (Bloq Québecois) form a coalition government to take us through to 2011 and the next general election.

More as events unfold.

CUSA Says “Kill Whitey!”

Cystic Fibrosis dropped as beneficiary of Carleton University’s Shinearama Fundraiser.

The Carleton University Student’s Association voted yesterday to drop support for Cystic Fibrosis at its annual Shinearama because, according to the student presenting the motion, Cystic fibrosis "has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men." When presented to Student Council, there was 1 person who voted against the motion. Apparently the disease, which shortens life expectancy to around 35 years for sufferers, is just not “diverse” enough to merit support from the Carleton University Students’ Association.

That we have come so far as to allow an issue like race take precedence over solving an disease is something that saddens me. What if there was a vote to drop support and funding for Sickle Cell Anemia research, a disease which primarily affects black males? You bet your sweet bippy there’d be an outcry. To stop your association with an organization like The Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation after such a long time is a shame and a real blow to the research that they do into solving this killer disease.

For too long, the “majority” here in North America, and in Canada in particular, has been marginalized by the “minority” who are, ironically enough, now the majority. The majority are expected to support all of the causes that the minorities support and not their own because apparently they’ve received enough support over the years. I’m NOT a member of the majority, though I do blend in quite well, thank you, I am, in fact, a rather visible member of the minority (because I’m so darned good looking), but I cannot, in any shape or form, get behind this. When race becomes an issue instead of solving a disease and finding a cure, we have gone way too far. That a disease that kills people young is being dropped as beneficiary for a fundraiser because it doesn’t affect a large enough portion of humanity or only affects a certain portion of humanity is WRONG.

It is wrong-thinking, wrong-hearted, misguided and mean-spirited. It is pushing a racist agenda to the extreme. To drop support for research into a disease because it does not affect people of your race, colour or creed is the WORST example of racism. To stop supporting research into a fatal disease because that disease doesn’t affect your race is short-sighted. I could launch into hyperbole about how not supporting research for a cure for this disease technically makes you murderers, but I’m sure that you’ll receive enough mail about it in the coming days that it won’t be necessary for me to do so.

Please just know that I think that presenting a motion to stop supporting research for a disease that kills at such a young age is wrong and near-sighted, and worse yet, to support and vote for that motion is an embarrassment to the CUSA and should be remedied as soon as possible.

For those interested in sending a message to the Carleton University Students’ Association, below are the names of the officers of the CUSA as listed on their website at http://www.cusaonline.com .


Brittany Smyth, President
pres@cusaonline.com
613.520.2600 ext.1603

Erik Halliwell, VP Student Issues
vpsi@cusaonline.com
613.520.2600 ext.1607

Kweku Winful, VP Finance
vpf@cusaonline.com
613.520.2600 ext.1604
download budget

Shewit Kalaty, VP Student Services
vpss@cusaonline.com
613.520.2600 ext.1606

Carlos Chacón, VP Internal Affairs
vpi@cusaonline.com
613.520.2600 ext.1610

James Witherspoon, VP Student Life
vpsl@cusaonline.com
613.520.2600 ext.1617

From Akhetnu:
"...screw you, NRA, for not defending my nunchuck rights! Melee weapons are people too."

Anyone remember Ego Ratings for enchanted weapons in D&D? Yeah...lol...I had a sword that wouldn't cut on Thursdays and Sundays. Made questing a pain in the ass.

That is all.

A local radio station, CILQ107.1FM (aka The Mighty Q, Classic Rock Q107) has a feature every day called "John Derringer's Tool of the Day" and as an example of who gets picked for this dubious honour, I present the following scenario:

If you're told that the restaurant is closed, you have 3 choices:
1. Thank the staff and go to another restaurant;
2. Thank the staff and wait patiently for them to begin serving again;
3. Do what this guy did...

Apparently, being hetero makes me completely boring...interesting...

So, awetitu, your LiveJournal reveals...

You are... 0% unique and 50% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy women). When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 32

(The average level of weirdness is: 29.
You are weirder than 69% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

( Yup. )

Anyhoo, that's my joy for the day...lol...

Man, you know you did something wrong when it hurts to just sit...and I MUSTA done a whole lotta wrong in the past 24 hours. As it currently sits (get it? I'm PUNNY today...) even when I'm not moving, my knees are singing Chinese opera. It's beautiful when you know the language and story, but extremely painful if you don't.
My thighs are in agony as well, and I know what that's from, but the pain across the yoke of my shoulders...that's a new one on me.
I want a bath...or a masseuse... :-(

...I has one *points to left*.

Teehee :-D

That is all.

"I'm gonna kill you all kinds of dead..." -The Spirit

"Someone get me a tie, and it damn well better be red!" - The Spirit

That is all.

...why must you make my life difficult?
Is it really that much to ask that you perform as advertised and that those selling you are truthful? I have been lucky in that the tech stuff I've bought online has been good and actually works, but for serious, you need to work for other people too, not just me. This is the 2nd time in a year that technology has not performed as advertised, and I'm getting a little pissed on someone's behalf here.
It's not asking too much that you do as you should, and I refuse to believe it's a defect on the receiver's part that causes you to malfunction, so please, in future, do what you should, OK?

01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
No, but I'd like to be, and I think I've made some strides in that direction. At least I hope I have instead of just completely skeeving the object of my affections out...

02) What was your dream growing up?
To be a pro hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs...I shit you not. Man, did I dream little. Seems like ANYONE can make that team these days.

03) What talent do you wish you had?
The ability to accurately read people...this way I can sort out if someone is playing me or not.

04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
Beer me!

05) Favorite vegetable?
Vegetables? What are they?

06) What was the last book you read?
"Sky of Swords - A Tale of the King's Blades" by Dave Duncan

07) What zodiac sign are you?
Pisces

08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
2 tattoos, one on each shoulder.
Left side: Scottish Rampant Lion outline filled in with St. Andrew's Cross.
Right side: Scottish Matheson Family Crest.

09) Worst Habit?
Heart-eating. I was gonna say smoking, but I actually did quit finally.

10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
Yes. You don't have that creepy look about you, that whole 8 heads in my duffel bag look.

11) What is your favorite sport?
Lacrosse. Both to play and watch.

12) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
Depends on what time of day, if I've eaten recently, how horny I am, if my TV works...

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
Laugh, make jokes and prank-call people on the emergency in-elevator telephone until help arrives to get us out.

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
Pffft. You wouldn't believe me if I told you, so I won't...actually, I honestly can't think of something that bad that has happened to me...

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
I'm left-handed.

16) Do you have any pets?
1 dog, 2 cats, 1 lizard.

17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
I'd opffer you a beer and apologise for the dog and cat hair EVERYWHERE...

18) What was your first impression of me?
She's quiet, but not serial-killer quiet...we can work with that.

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
Annoying more than anything else...I've always hated clowns ever since I went to the circus as a child and a clown killed my dad...

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
I would drop 25 lbs.

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
Conscience.

22) What color eyes do you have?
Brown.

23) Ever been arrested?
They gotta catch me first!

24) Bottle or can soda?
Can. I can crush them and feel MIGHTY!

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
Pay off one of my three credit cards, or portions of each...

27) What's your favorite place to hang out at?
Don't really have one. When I was drinking, The Ridgetown Pub. Now, not so much...

28) Do you believe in ghosts?
Yes.

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
Sleep = ORSUM!

30) Do you swear a lot?
Are you fucking kidding me? What kind of a shitty question is that?

31) Biggest pet peeve?
People that don't use proper grammar.

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
Zany...and that's on a good day.

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
Yes/yes. I'm one of them hopeless ones...

34) Favourite and least favourite food?
Pizza/Pizza.

35) Do you believe in God?
I believe in Gods, yes.

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you
Done and done. :-P

Not much else to be said...other than I wanna win the lottery! :-(

Oh, and just for ( schvitz and cackles )

It's been on pretty heavy rotation here in Canada and I crack up every time I see it...

What if My Little Pony really was from Hell as many speculate? Well, thanks to a link I ganked from Aaron William, creator of the BRILLIANT PS-238 here's a look at My Little Cthulhu (courtesy of Spippo at DA)

My lol for the day...

Last song on radio before work: "Don't Fear The Reaper" - Blue Oyster Cult

Song currently stuck in head: "Don't Fear The Reaper" - Blue Oyster Cult

Image currently stuck in head:


Halp!

As at 9:03AM, a friend of mine in Calgary reminded me that it was now 7 years since the second plane hit The World Trade Centre in New York City, and I stopped. It gave me pause, because it was something I never thought I'd gloss over in my mind and yet, here I was, on the morning of September 11, 2008, 7 years on, and not at all concerned about the event. Truth be told, I was embarrassed as 9/11/2001 marked the day that the world as we knew it changed, and not for the good.

I heard the event live on the radio in traffic on my way to a new job, and quit the job that same day when I heard one of the employees say, after watching Tower One fall, "This is great, get a list of employees and start cold calling!"

This morning, reactions in the office were varied, everything from "Well, I had forgotten," to "Say, it is about that time, isn't it?" to "Who cares?" to "I thought it was a movie," to "It was bound to have happened." The reactions from everyone ranged from the slightly embarrassed at having let it slip to outright indifference. All of the Americans on my f-list would have probably received a text from me today at around 11AM EST, approximately 20 mintes after part of The Pentagon's E-Ring collapsed. I do apologise, but like remembering everyone's birthday (or at least trying to) every year, there are things that I try to remember, and as sad as the event may be, the attacks of September 11, 2001 are events that should not be forgotten or trivilaized or internalized or desensitized, in spite of the best efforts of the media to make it so. These watershed moments are ones that HAVE to be remembered otherwise they will be written out of history by those that would prefer that we NOT remember them.

So please, take a moment to sit down today and give thanks for the courageous first responders to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, send prayers for those that lost their lives, prayers for those suffering from 9/11 related illnesses and especially for those family, friends and loved ones currently on the front lines.Those who have passed on will be missed, and those on the front lines will need our support.

I, as well, must offer my apologies for being lax in my observances. I have not been as diligent as in the past in paying attention to those that have already passed on. It is not a deliberate attempt on my part to avoid the past, I will be more aware and care-full in the future.

Thank you all.

Rumour has it that in the next Batman movie, Christopher Nolan is thinking of casting the following two gentlemen:
Johnny Depp as The Riddler
Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Penguin

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

That is all.

Yes, I'm certain that most of you know about http://failblog.org and if you don't, you should really check it out...it has supplanted ichc.com at least temporarily as my internet home for lulz.

With that, I bring you the most EPIC fail ever: Wii-Fail

Enjoy!

Your result for The Altered Consciousness Test...

Daka/Dakini

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Man, this is fast becoming my FAVOURITE MEME! Woot!

1. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random. The first article title on the page is the name of your band. Write it down.

2. Now point your trusty web browser towards http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3. The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album. Write these down too, hopefully in the same place you wrote your band name down.

3. Our third and last visit on the internet shall be http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/. The third picture, no matter what it is, and no matter how attractive the other pictures are, will be your album cover. Don't cheat on this one!

4. Lastly, open up your favo[u]rite graphics program and apply your editing skills to combine all three, and post the results.

( You couldn't have made this shit up if you tried...completely random, man...but you almost can see it... )

The amount of fun you can have with this meme is limitless! :D

Though I'd resurrect this one...

1. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random. The first article title on the page is the name of your band. Write it down.

2. Now point your trusty web browser towards http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3. The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album. Write it too down, not too large, not too small, somewhere in the same place as the name of your band. (Only kidding, just write it down however you want...)

3. Our third and last visit on the internet shall be http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/. The third picture, no matter what it is, and no matter how attractive the other pictures are, will be your album cover. Don't cheat on this one!

4. Lastly, open up your favourite graphics program and apply your editing skills to combine all three, and post the results.

( Check for the cover here! )