What the hell is wrong with people?

OK, not really people. Cops, Teachers, MADD, and anyone else who thinks the below is a good idea.

Seems El Camino high school in Oceanside California had a lot of its students die in DUI related automobile accidents in a VERY short period of time. Like, all on the same day, or weekend.

Oh wait. No they didn’t. But that is EXACTLY what the police told their classmates. Only, they did it one class at a time, only telling them about the “dead” student from that classroom.

From SignOnSanDiego
May 26 a uniformed police officer arrived in several classrooms to notify them that a fellow student had been killed in a drunken-driving accident. The officer read a brief eulogy, placed a rose on the deceased student’s seat, then left the class members to process their thoughts and emotions for the next hour.

WHAT THE FUCK?! Tell ‘em a classmate died, then let ‘em take it in. This from the police?

Next comes the “HA HA, jokes on you” moment.

About an hour later at 10 a.m., students were called to the athletic stadium, here they learned that their classmates had not died. There, a group of seniors, police officers and firefighters staged a startlingly realistic alcohol-induced fatal car crash. The students who had purportedly died portrayed ghostly apparitions encircling the scene.

Oh cool! They didn’t really die, and now we get to see a “startlingly realistic alcohol-induced fatal car crash”

Said the CHiP officer who runs the faking of dead students:
Though the deception left some teens temporarily confused and angry, if it makes even one student think twice before getting behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated, it is worth the price. When someone says to me, ‘Oh, my God, you’re traumatizing my children,’ I’m telling them, ‘No, what I’m doing is waking them up’.

Uh, who the fuck made this CHiP officer the “decider” on how to tell kids about the danger of drunk driving.

None other than Mothers Against Drunk Drivers. They developed the program. Figures. Because no real mother would come up with this… and MADD hasn’t been run by women in years. It is now run by highly paid men.

But, now that the student body knows about this, how do they plan on “waking them up” next year? I have an idea.

Go to their school classroom and pick a student and tell him his parents died in an alcohol-related fatality. That should be a fun learning experience.

I AM.

Lots of people nowadays work with computers. I’ve been doing it for about 20 years now.

The difference in the computers many of the newer “nerds” work with, and the ones I work with is the operating systems.

Todays nerds work most often on computers using an APPLE operating system; some version of Windows; or some flavor of LINUX. Sometimes they are standalone systems, or they could be networked and/or utilizing some type of client/server application.

While I do use the above types of machines (with the exception of Apple products), they aren’t the core of my computing existance when it comes to work.

I work on multiple platforms. The company I work for currently has three mainframe systems. Two of them are zOS operating systems (formerly known as MVS) with each running a different JES subsystem. I’ve been an MVS/JES2 person since 1988. We also have a dinosaur mainframe running VM/VSE. Our three mainframes are split into eleven seperate LPARs.

Next up are the IBM eSeries i5 Midrange system (formerly known as AS400s). We currently have 5 production and 4 test LPARs on this type of equipment. AS400’s are pretty common for business processing use, and many midsize companies run forever on them without ever feeling the need to go “bigger and faster”.

Last but not least is the Windows/Linux world of servers. We have too many to count. The company has approximately 12 rows (each row is at least 60 feet long) of servers and blade centers.

So, are ya feeling the nerdiness?

BTW, there was a time, way back when, that I had and actually wore an IBM pocket protector.

What does an Old Fart need more than anything?

Well, besides beer, whiskey, steak, and lots of money.

A cool toilet seat!

Bought a new throne for the porcelin poop recepticle today. It’s a Bemis White Round toilet seat, with innovative Easy2 Hinge/Lift Off and Slow-Close technology.

WOW! I KNOW. Who knew toilet seats could have the words “innovative” and “technology” in their descriptions?

But, hold onto your seats (yeah, bad pun)… I figured you needed to see it for yourself.

I had always thought the apex of the toilet seat was the cushioned seat. But no more. Imagine the possibilities with this new technology. No more waking the significant other during those barely awake 2:45am pissing on the floor sessions when you lose your grip while putting the lid back down! And Party, Party, Party! Puking will now be a cinch, just a quick twist of the clips and the damn lid is out of the way!

XO, over at Hip Suburban White Guy, gets a little testy at finding out he’s not evil.

I, on the other hand am the definition you find when you look up the word EVIL.

How evil are you?

I do take umbrage at being labeled an AOL employee though. Real computers run zOS or MVS, not some fucking version of windows… so AOHell doesn’t have the MIPS I need to take over the world, or at least screw with your life a little bit.

The KFC at 47th and Troost was the scene of an attempted robbery. I say attempted because the lowlife with the gun left without getting anything. Nothing. Zilch. Not even a “spork” and napkin packet.

So, why is this news?

Well, it seems the the KFC employee on duty at the time didn’t feel that their life was worth the big bucks that KFC pays its chicken slingers, and BOLTED at the first sign of a weapon.

Thats right. Took off running for the door! I’m Outta Here Suckers!

I really don’t have a problem with it.

If a poultry purveyor panicks and feels in peril in the presence of a pistol, then prances out the portal, who am I to pass judgement?

Too many “P’s”?

Anyhooo…

I just thought it was funny that the fact that the employee ran out of the store is the BIGGER story in the link above (to KCTV5)

OK…

The word Senator is redundant when mentioning cheaters and liars, but I thought it kinda rolled off the fingers (not really).

I’m tempted to say this will be my final “spygate” related post. I really want it to be. Honest.

It actually will be, if a certain Senator will shut up, as I have advised him in this blog. I’m just not sure if he’s as intelligent as you obviously are for reading this blog. I can suck up, can’t I?

Cheaters. Bill Belichick. Yep, he cheated. He got caught. He got punished. He was held accountable for his “crime”.

Liars. John Tomase. Writer for the Boston Herald. He wrote the famous “The Pats Taped the Rams Superbowl Walkthrough” article the day before this years Superbowl. Well, turns out he knowingly wrote an article that wasn’t verified. In other, more to the point, words… he fucking lied. John Tomase wrote a retraction… an apology to the Patriots, saying he was wrong to write what he did. Did he get punished? He’s still a writer for the Boston Herald. He’s still the Patriots beat writer as a matter of fact. I don’t see him getting any interviews with anyone involved with the club anytime soon, but other than that… he gets a pass.

Senators. Arlen Specter. While mouthing off about starting a congressional investigation into the NFLs handling of this, Mr. Specter was asked by a reporter if there was maybe a hint of a conflict of interest, given Mr. Specters close ties with Comcast Cable. Mr. Specters reply: “I’ve been at this line of work for a long time and no one has ever questioned my integrity.” The reporters moved onto a new line of questions. Uhmmmm, wasn’t the very fact that they asked him that question mean they were IN FACT questioning his integrity? But they gave him a pass.

So, Cheater paid for his error. Liar and Senator are free to keep fucking up without being called on it.

Like I said, I hope this is my last post on Spygate. But I don’t think the DC dipshit can stay out of it. I think the Chemo is getting to him.

It’s that time of year. Oops. It’s been more like two years, but it is coming to a close.

Election time. The Big One. POTUS. President Of The United States.

As a libertarian, I have very focused reasons for how I vote. Taxation is a huge factor in how I vote. So, as you can guess, Democrats don’t get a lot of my votes. Not saying I never vote for a Democrat, but it is very rare.

Of course nowadays, there isn’t much difference between the Dems and the Republicans when it comes to taxation. Just what they want to spend that money on. Oh, and before any rightwingers decide to jump down my throat about taxes, I’m not just talking about Income Tax. The Congressional Record is silly with so called “read my lips” Republicans who’ve done nothing about taxes.

But, this is about the POTUS.

I believe every registered voter should be required to read Gene Healys’ book “The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Presidential Power“. In the book, Mr. Healy examines America’s dangerous slide from an elected servant (G. Washington) to an elected monarch (insert power hungry POTUS here). The book goes through the history of the office, showing why some POTUS who have executed the office as it is constitutionally written are looked down on by historians and then by the public. For a fair review of the book, read Radley Balkos write-up.

Not a good day overall, but better than the weekend.

Sure, it was beautiful outside, sunny and upper 70’s, but I got a sinus infection Saturday! My eyes have put out so much watery mucus, I think I’d be dehydrated if it weren’t for all the water in Bud Light.

Feeling a little better today, thanks to the wife purchasing some “horse pills” mascerading as severe sinus medication. Just going by the size of these damn pills I’d figure they’d be good for a weeks relief. HELL. NO. Four hours!

Found this over at 3 O’Clock in the AM (see links –> )

What Your Taste in Music Says About You

Your musical tastes are upbeat and conventional. You are an easy going, optimistic person. Family and friends are very important to you. You enjoy caring for and helping other people. You thrive in a tranquil environment, and you do your best to keep things peaceful. You enjoy your life. You have your priorities straight.

Senator Arlen Spectre, of Pennsylvania, isn’t going to let the NFL claim that Spygate is over. In quotes to ESPN, Spectre has basically threatened to hold hearings in the US Senate if the NFL doesn’t give him the results he wants.

Senator Spectre believes this is a good use of taxpayer money.

Lets see…

The US imprisons a higher percentage of its population than another other country in the world.

The US is fighting two wars in the middle east.

It is illegal for any US citizen to take the money they have earned through their own hard work, and gamble it in an online poker game.

The economy is faltering

Gas prices are averaging around $4.00 per gallon.

But whether or not the NFL investigated the New England Patriots video taping habits is the issue most pressing at this point in this senators mind.

Mr. Spectre. Sit down and shut the fuck up, until you figure out what you are actually supposed to be working on.