Well I seem to have discovered this in my mailbox today.
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A Moment of Silence
Earlier this evening a once great e/n, blog, whatever, site fell in to hybernation after a long run as being a highly read site by myself and many others. aitsu.notd.net is no longer. But for those wishing to follow some fallout from camp AiTSU, try out Hooray for Humans.
I realize that not much posting has been done to this site either. Sure, we get a good post out of derek, kenny, sanborn, or myself every so often, but not on a frequency that we were all once used to. Well, I for one am about to change all that. Expect more posts, and maybe after a few bad posts, I'll fall back into the whole routine of posting on a regular basis. Hell, it might even be funny, but don't bet on that. Just wanted anyone reading that this site still has a pulse, and will continue to.
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A Kentucky doctor is being sued for allegedly showing a little too much school spirit.
A woman claims her doctor branded the letters 'U' and 'K' into her uterus before removing it during a routine hysterectomy.
MORE...
The doctor videotaped the operation and gave a copy to Means and her
husband.
The lawsuit says the tape clearly shows the doctor use a cauterizing instrument to carve the letters into her uterus before removing it.
David Means claims he has suffered a loss of companionship with his wife because of the incident.
Well I guess either the husband or the wife was a Louisville fan...
It would seem I CAN actually get drunk off of Mountain Dew.
(Click on Over 21 to see the real link.)
I am missing:
Rolling Stones -- Forty Licks, both cd's
Sublime -- Sublime, cd
Moby -- Play, cd
The Promise Ring -- Wood/Water, cd
The Strokes -- Is This It, liner notes
Dashboard Confessional -- Unplugged, cd
Air -- Everybody Hertz, liner notes
A.F.I. -- Very Proud Of Ya, liner notes and case
If you happen to come across any of these items, please give them directions to my apartment.
Oh yes, and download "Don't Mug Yourself" by The Streets.
This morning I thought the entire Eastern United States had been completely decimated while I slept. See, I woke up this morning and turned on my computer and logged onto Yahoo. Glancing at the news headlines, I read "Arctic blast tears through eastern US", but I thought it read "Atomic blast".
I was like "OMG", as I thought everything east of the Mississippi had been eradicated by suprise attack with WMD's.
Yeah, turns out you guys are just chilly and have a collective case of the sniffles.
best video game move ever.
and yes, i'm a huge jerk for posting such a large image.
Rollingstone
R. Kelly was arrested today in Miami and hit with child pornography
charges. Police detained the R&B singer (born Robert Kelly) at an area
hotel without incident, and he is being held at the Miami-Dade county
jail with bond set at $12,000...
...The new charges are a result of the Chicago investigation. After his detainment in Florida, a search of the home he was renting turned up twelve photographs of a nude, underage girl; three images reportedly show Kelly having sex with the girl.
I guess I'm just pretty much speechless. Once, my God
man that's disgusting, NEVER do that again. Do it again; to hell with
you. See if I buy Chocolate Factory when it comes out. That'll
show you.
As the search for NOTD staff members continues, it appears the resurgence of dinosaur attacks has claimed everyone on the staff except myself. That being said, I'm at work, currently making popcorn and repairing broken pool cues. Before I head to Sanborn's favorite, the information kiosk (why you ackin like a--like a kiosk), I'll make some notes.
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Maxx Barry's second novel, one that picked up production rights months
before it was ever published (George Clooney and Steven Soderberg) was
published today. Jennifer
Government has already received a few reviews, some bad,
some good, including one from Kirkus
Reviews that said it was "Catch-22 by way of Matrix." I would
scoop this one up immediately, but I've got to finish Kingdom
of Fear first.
From Plastic: "The Guardian reports that Tesco has developed a credit card that will advise you if you might be spending inadvisedly, by changing colour when you breathe on it. A survey for the store revealed that one in three people had made purchases whilst drunk that they later regretted. Like too much alcohol, I would imagine." Tesco sounds like a Tabasco Sauce company.
In Stockholm, Sweden at Karlstad University, birds feasting on fermented berries are getting drunk and playing chicken with the glass.
Thousands of waxwings began gathering in the trees outside the university late last week to feast on ripening rowanberries. The birds haven't learned to say when.
"So far some 50 drunk birds have lost their lives when crashing into the university's big windows," University spokesman Hans Jensen said. "But the worst is over, the berries are beginning to run out."
I've learned a little French. ESPN has been sucking
a lot of dick lately, pardon my French. Sports fans know LeBron James,
the high-school basketball prodigy who's widely favored for the number
one pick in this summer's NBA draft. ESPN has televised two of his high
school games as of late, and in the most recent Daily
Quickie they've got nothing better to cartoon his new $45,000 Hummer.
After the hype, I just hope the kid remains humble.
Another basketball pre-teen-pre-star has been hanging out with Shaq.
From last
Wednesday's Tennessean: "[Auri] Allen, a seventh-grader at St. Vincent
De Paul School, will be featured on Ripley's Believe It or Not on TBS
at 8 tonight. The 12-year-old, who is 6-foot-8, 280 pounds, was first
featured in The Tennessean in August and has gained nationwide attention
since."
Hunter S. Thompson's new book, Kingdom of Fear, hit stores last week, and I picked up mine at a Borders. The subtitle sums it up: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century. So far so good, it's an hilarious read where the good Doctor discusses modern America and reflects on past experiences. The back cover features a naked Thompson shooting into the air.
If any of you have started getting those gay-ass Messgenger Service SPAM pop-up message windows, you NEED the following link. Smiley and I found it just a bit ago after getting pissed off one too many times.
I was robbed today.
$50 was stolen from me today. The culprit: The University of Kentucky police department. As many of you well know, on Halloween I managed to break my left fifth metatarsal playing ping-pong, and in November a screw was inserted to quicken the healing process. Today I was told by my doctor that the bone had healed nice and quick, but that I needed to hold off on the long distance walking for a couple of weeks. The UK campus is quite large, with 34,000 lunatics about each day. It's quite a walk from my house to class to the library, etc. So okay, nice, I can still legally use handicap spaces with no crutches at all. I proceeded to the student disability office to get my temporary handicap sticker, and was inside no more than seven minutes. When I came out, my car--which was in a handicap space--had a ticket stamped 10:55 a.m. and totaled $50.00. The temporary sticker in my hand said "Issuance: 11:00 a.m." Five minutes costs me fifty dollars. First of all, I did have another handicap sticker in my window; however, it was issued in December and expired at the first of the year. Calmly proceeding to go through the chains of bureaucracy (in which I’d been through already in the order of four different offices just to turn in my doctor’s signed parking forms), I went to the police station to show them my dilemma. With an evil eye and no sympathy whatsoever to my situation, the desk clerk said, "We can't void that, you'll have to appeal." “Five minutes!” “Sorry can’t do it.”
No wonder students hate the parking office—and all meter maids that go with them. Now I have to file an appeal process to get my $50 back because I parked in a handicapped spot while getting my handicapped sticker.
Some reading this will give me my due, placing the blame on myself, but if you’re a student, you know the ridiculous amount of parking tickets that are whored out day in and day out.
I am going to appeal this bastard of a ticket, stay
tuned.
the best part about writing programs...
...customizable button labels:
stupid rating systems.
i received my grades today. while i passed all my classes (or at least got grades sufficient to meet my graduation requirements), i performed a wonderful feat that not many can lay claim to.
see, my roomate and I previously took a bowling class to fulfil physical education.. er, "human performance" requirements for graduation. while I earned in the C range, he earned a wonderous D.
since then, he has many times laid claim to "best grade ever" in a bowling class.. with his wonderful D. people would marvel at his story, wondering just how in the hell someone can earn a D in bowling. it was really quite humorous.
well, i beat him. i earned a D- in my second bowling class last semester. i now hold the title of "worst possible passing grade for a bowling class".
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why would someone leave their computer on, all programs open, with unsaved files, when they leave the office for the night? the files just get lost when the computers reboot for system maintenance at midnight.
these are the people i work with.
LOOK! It's the fun filled NEW HOUSE/SMiLEY room preview picture pack!
NOTE: Final picture of the bunch, was taken in kennys room.
Last nite I bought The Wicker Man (1973), which stars an unrecognizable and much younger Christopher Lee (Saruman, from Lord of the Rings) playing the part of Lord Summerisle. It's an eerie, but thought-provoking movie similar to Shirley Jackson's The Lottery. It's a story of a consciously normal and scarily-modern pagan cult on a Scottish island that must sacrifice a "virgin fool Christian" of a man (Edward Woodward) who comes to the island as a policeman searching for a missing girl. Not your average horror movie, and was labeled "The Citizen Kane of Horror Films" in that it was a groundbreaking film that didn't follow the typical Christopher Lee "hammer" films. It has a great celtic score, and CRAP if there's a 2-DVD special edition out as well, with over 30 minutes of added scenes, so I'll have to buy that now too.
Oh yeah, and that license plate looks like a Raisin
Bran cereal box.
Good gawd, it looks like something straight out of Teletubbies.
This is not a comment.
Oh My God...I swear, I'm moving before September.
Apparently the Media has kept this secret under wraps for the past week or so; I don't blame them, I'd be embarrassed to report this as well. Well to report it seriously that is.
On December 27th, the Governor along with the Transportation Secretary, and representatives from the Tourism Development Cabinent held three press conferences to unveil the new "Kentucky, It's that Friendly" vehicle license plate.
The
plate pictured to the left will soon be appearing on cars across the
state. The new design will be featured on the regular passenger plate,
the disabled parking plate, and the recreational vehicle plate. On Monday,
January 6th, over 700,000 of the new plates will be shipped out to all
Kentucky counties. When car owners come in to pay their yearly registration
instead of getting the standard renewal sticker, they will receive one
of the new plates.
I don't think I've ever been more ashamed to live in Kentucky than I am at this very moment. Jay Leno has made fun of the state for the past few nights due to this new plate. As much as I hate to hear it, he's right. This quite possibly the stupidest thing I've seen our state government do in recent years, and it really has absolutely nothing to do with government.
What I find to be the most ironic part of this whole thing is in the release article:
Quote: The new license plate depicts a smiling sunrise over rolling hills of bluegrass with the message “Kentucky, it’s that friendly” placed under the state title. The design is the result of a partnership between the Transportation Cabinet, Tourism Development Cabinet, and Governor’s Office. Their work began well over two years ago in order to create a functional, readable plate that would encourage tourists to visit the state.
It took them TWO years to come up with this spectacular design. I'd hate to know how long they worked on the new "slogan" itself, several generations of lawmakers had input I'm sure. A 6 year old could have come up with a better design in 30 minutes than these "officials" did in two years. In any event, you can read the rest of that article here, and even more random information here.
So come September when I have to register my car I suppose I'll shell out a few extra bucks for one of the many other designs of plates we have to offer, or maybe I'll just get a truck so I can get the plain white truck tag. Whatever I end up doing, one thing is certain, this tag will never appear on a car owned and operated by me.
Please keep all comments to yourself.
Well if anyone happend to catch it yesterday, there was about a 20 min. period of time that NOTD and all hosted sites were down. I'm sure some of you remember a similar incident in early December. Well in December I was told by my host that the cgi script karma.cgi associated with greymatter was using too much server CPU resources. So I had all of the NOTD sites disable karma voting. Yesterday I was informed that the comments feature was now doing the same thing. So for the time being comments are disabled as well. I really don't want to keep them off forever so I've got some decisions to make. Possible change of blog script to something like moveable type, or--even though I'd rather not--a complete change of hosting service. I'll decide sometime soon I suppose, but until then feel free to email any of us if you have something to say, or just keep everything bottled up inside until I make a decision.
In the mantra of slashdot
folk, FP MOFOS l33t 2003!
Happ Happ Happy New Year. Now back to my 21st birthday countdown... 49 days.