Profiling

So I stopped at Pick n Save on the way home to get some beer
(obviousl). I go to check out and te cashier lady asks me about the
Brewers (godbortion). How did she assume I was a fan? Then the guy
behind me in line goes up (he's black) and she asks him about the NBA
playoffs. WTF? Is that racist? I'm not sure.

In "things that piss me off" news: ATMs that project your balance on
the screen for 2 minutes after you are down. I go to a bar this
evening (obviously) and go to the ATM. It asks if I want a receipt.
No. Then when I am down it projects all my information including
account number and balance on the screen for 2 minutes. In a crowded
bar. I find that there are ATMs like this everywhere. Why? If I wanted
my balance I would have asked for a receipt. If I wanted everyone in
the place to know my information I would grab a megaphone. It makes no
fucking sense.

Back with videos

It's been almost a month, sorry about that to start up my revival here are some sweet videos of Hold Steady.








This has the best intro of a band ever.

From Colbert on Friday:

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These guys just f**king rock. Summerfest July 1. Be there. (note: EdGrimley may yell at high school students at the concert)

There are heroes, and then there are HEROES, and then there are f**king HEROES

Dwight David Honeycutt is a hero, check out this real video:




Still don't think he's a hero, read this. My god, there are so many great one-liners in this, you could start your own t-shirt line.

There are heroes, and then there are HEROES

Kiefer Sutherland is my hero. He plays all American bada** Jack Bauer on 24 and when he is not working he plays Kiefer Sutherland, American drunk. He has been quoted as saying "I work hard, I play hard." And play hard he does. Recently there was this story about him being tossed from a bar on a Wednesday night. You don't really need to read any other stories about him getting drunk, all you need is to look at the following picture:

Classy. In case you need more here is another one, here, and here.

Thank you Jack Bauer for saving this country numerous times and thank you Kiefer Sutherland for making it okay to be a grown-a** man and getting ridiculously drunk, sit at a table with no pants on, and get tossed out of the bar. We salute you.

Enlightened

So I went over to a friends house today to just kick it for awhile and watch The Masters (which I normally never watch). Mickelson was trying to hit a put and right when he hit the ball a leave thing fell between his ball and the hole. (that's not a euphemism) The ball hit the leave and didn't go in the hole. The announcer said it was "synchrodestiny." What? Is that a word.

A quick google search opens a whole world of what it is.

"SynchroDestiny is coincidence but it contains a purpose. It contains a meaning. It has a direction. It has intention. And where do those qualities come from? They come from you."

There are some other interesting sites with an explanation. One of them even had a great quote: "it's time you stop playing hide and seek with your destiny." Did that just blow your mind?

Roller Coaster of emotions

So on Friday night I went out and consumed some beverages with two mortal enemies and afterwards stopped at my local watering hole. When I walked in I was slapped by a grown man (who actually looks like this actor) within 30 seconds because I didn't recognize his wife. This guy used to live in the neighborhood and was the King of this place, but he moved away about 3 years ago and now makes one appearance a year. I don't know if I have ever met his wife with her clothes on before.

On a positive side I have been listening to a series of Ricky Gervais podcasts. It's Ricky, his comedian buddy Stephen Merchant and introducing the straight guy in all their jokes, Carl Pikington. Ricky and Stephen just ask these bizarre questions like what will the future be like or who should be able to adopt. Carl's answers are bizarre, and then Ricky and Stephen just make fun of him, and he doesn't realize it. It's hilarious. Ricky Gervais is an on-the-spot hilarious comedian and has a great laugh.


Hilarious, their jobs are rapists and getting rid of the bodies, and they are trying to raise their child homosexual because there is too much pressure to be heterosexual.





HBO has turned these Podcasts, and others by the trio into a new animated show "The Ricky Gervais show."

Wear the sticker...........

So on Thursday at work we were asked to wear a sticker to support the efforts of the Union and our contract negotiations. The sticker read:

Great Teachers
+
Fair Funding
=
Student Success

While I can't argue with the logic of the formula, I can argue with the logic of the effectiveness of wearing a sticker at school. The only people who are going to see it in school are the students, and I don't think they have much control over the funding in the district. I got the sticker and didn't wear it and explained the above logic to a teacher who told me, "that's the point. We are showing the students that we are trying to increase their success but are unable to because of the lack of fair funding." Really, do you think the students are picking up on that? I went the whole day without wearing the sticker.