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what is with this snow suddenly? Last year I barely remember it snowing on christmas and suddenly we're stocking up on bottled water and flashlights here. well if you'll excuse me I need to go clean the garage and shovel the driveway for Jen. No freakin' way in hell I just pay hundreds of thousands of dollars so I could leave my car out in the driveway just because I've got some stuff in the garage.

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Ever try to play video games with a cat on your lap?

Juliet was obviously under the impression that we had set a place for her:

Lastly...snow on thanksgiving? wtf?
- High tech cars used to trap car thiefs. Optional automatic castration package being considered.
- Crazy guy uses fingers to serve himself turkey, family members complain...of course the next logical step is to stab them.

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good morning....before we continue with our usual program please excuse this interruption: MT-Blacklist comment denial on Dennis Judd's Blog: paydayl0an.com HAHAHAHAHAHAH, SUCK IT YOU STUPID INBRED RETARDED GOAT HUMPING DONKEY RAPING CHOCOLATE THIEFING SPAMER!!!! Thank god I put that in, there's been a huge increase in spam lately. I wonder if other blogs are feeling it. anyways...back to the usual post. There is only one link today...not because I have to go carve pilasters, but mostly because it's huge: - Kittens. Be warned that you cannot handle this. Credit goes to kaisa/nil.

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A while back I purchased Halo for the PC to play while waiting for the price of HL:2 to come down a bit. Plus since I've never played it, I figured I'd find out what all the Halo:2 hype is about. What a great game. Seriously, little things matter the most and I'll tell you the most impressive aspect of this game isn't the graphics or the story, but rather the load times. The damn thing loads in seconds. Every other recent game I've played (Doom3, Painkiller, etc) feel like they take forever, but this damn thing is soooo quick I can't believe it. Seriously, nice job. So anyways, I hooked the computer up to the TV so we could play it and also use the dolby 6.1 surround sound :) hehe Since Jen plays most of these games with me, this works out a lot better than cramming into my desk (which is huge) I think. She seems to like it. Anyways, off to Costco and the lumber store. Going to try to do the pilasters using the router table tim lent me (talk about a god send).

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What is Geocaching? Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache. That is until the cops blow up your geocache with a .50 caliber sniper rifle because they think terrorists want to attack an ice cream stand. I don't think the geocache community appreciated it. Of course I feel better knowing that some back water moron with the budget to afford a .50 caliber sniper rifle but not get trained on it are walking around with badges and guns.

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Usually I'm hoping it snows for christmas...but I don't remember the last time it snowed for Thanksgiving...here's a pic of our back yard:

Be careful how you drive out there (here's a first, courtesy of my sister who just discovered the internet)

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- Never threaten a father with raping his daughters if you don't want to get run over. Personally I'd get out afterwards and piss on em' too.
- Get free shipping on your Anal Cunt when you spend more than $30 @ Target.
- USB Powered Mini Aquarium w/Blue LED Nightlight. Just in time for christmas for all your geeky friends.
- How do you get a truck out of the water? I'm not sure, but I know how not to do it.
- Holy crap this is cool. Somebody got Doom3 to run on a set of VooDoo 2 SLI'd video cards!
- Are you fat? Ugly? Does nobody like you? Visit here to feel better about your pathetic miserable life until the final day when you die and rot in the ground. On a related note, Hallmark has fired me.

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You have to see this commercial of a transformer dancing car.

The video is here, and a article on how it was done is here.

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I have been having intermittant DSL problems for about a week now, loss of sync, low sync rate, and static on my POTS line. Of course what happens is they raise concerns about my IW...which I am 100% is not the issue...but hey, I only have been doing this for about 5 years so it's not like I know DSL or anything. *sigh*...anyways, after much wailing and knashing of teeth I finally decided to put in a NID Splitter in order to quell any considerations of IW problems. I never...NEVER wanted to do this because my office is on the 2nd floor, and any wire would have to be run along the outside of the house. This is a nightmare to do...and I just didn't want to put a hole in our house. So it took about 4 hours give or take, went pretty smoothly and of course I took pictures. Here's a pic of the NI when I opened the telco side:

This is the NID Splitter that I'm going to install:

Just for the hell of it I checked the phone line's polarity:

I used cable clips to secure the cat5 to the house...I recommend pulling out the little nails they come with and replacing with longer ones so you get some grip:

Here's the wire run where it exits the office wall:

And here the wire continues and wraps around the roof:

And finally it runs to the NI:

Here's a close up of the NID Splitter's label...for the heck of it:

While this model NID Splitter wasn't made exactly for the NI I have, it still fit easily inside:

The hardest part of this was probably having to cut a hole in the office wall...:(

Then there are these nifty little things you can use when there's no gang box to screw into:

And finally, all done....wrong color...but it's what I had lying around for now..some day i'm sure i'll change it to white:

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We spent most of yesterday working on trim work in the Family room/kitchen when we got back from the food bank. The results are pretty good and we even managed to pull out the fridge and rip out the old stuff and put new stuff back there as well.
Jen finishing up the closet quarter round

Close up of the closet hardware surround. Since the pergo is a floating floor and must be able to expand and contract we couldn't just nail the quarter round to anything...so that little "u" shaped piece you see is just glued together. When we put in place we'll drive one nail in to anchor it to the wood block the silver anchor is on....yeah, fun.

This is the 1/2 wall that seperates the Family room from the kitchen before we put the trim down

Here you see the trim work is down pretty much...no quarter round yet...didn't get a picture of it yet.

Also we were finally able to install the T molding for the pergo transition between the family room and the mud room walkway. The cut around the existing 1/4" round by the door jamb was a little tricky but came out alright after a few tries.
And finally some more pics of Moxie....here you can see her biting me, and being a couch potato:

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Got a cool new CD as an early b-day present from Jen. THANKS Speaking of Jen check out this cool pic w/ moxie:
And a less flattering pic of me...
Juliet getting festive....festive of course meaning "wishing she could kill us"
Moxie again...I think she sees something to kill/maim:
Nibbler loves the box....
The surgery to remove all of Nibbler's bones went well....

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Want to see a $1,500 dollar rug?
Crazy huh? Never thought I'd ever spend that much money on a rug in my life, but when Jen saw it she fell in love with it right away. I just had to buy it for her....it's going to look great in the dining room. Plus, this ain't no cheap Kathy Ireland knock off...this is 100% genuine expense stuff :) Links?
- The gift every geek will want, Robodump 1.0. A machine that sit's in the mens room and plays audio of someone pretending to poop.
- Guy goes nut's, kills his own sister, wounds his brother in law. Police give custody of sister's kid to the family. Obviously because they were such good parents.
- Holy crap....Wendy's video on how to Grill from back in the 80's.
- Marine being investigated over shooting a wounded Iraq soldier during the offensive in Falluja. Because normally in war we all sit around and make tea cozy's. Seriously....if you in a war here's a few hints:
1. most people don't play fair, that includes people willing to blow themselves up in the name of some holy jihad. What that means is they play dead, then when soldiers walk by they roll over and KABOOM!
2. If you want to seek refuge in a holy building...try to resist the urge to shoot from afore mentioned building. That will probably make people not want to respect where you are so much. Same goes for Hospitals, schools, and other places of peace.
- A nice little generic article on Spyware, and what it is. Kind of a spyware for dummies.
- It always sucks to be the new guy in prison...but if your this guy your completly screwed...(safe for work).

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[Former candidate Felber, flanked by his family and supporters, steps up to the podium in the bright autumn sunlight. Cheers and applause are heard.] My fellow Americans, the people of this nation have spoken, and spoken with a clear voice. So I am here to offer my concession. [Boos, groans, rending of garments] I concede that I overestimated the intelligence of the American people. Though the people disagree with the President on almost every issue, you saw fit to vote for him. I never saw that coming. That's really special. And I mean "special" in the sense that we use it to describe those kids who ride the short school bus and find ways to injure themselves while eating pudding with rubber spoons. That kind of special. I concede that I misjudged the power of hate. That's pretty powerful stuff, and I didn't see it. So let me take a moment to congratulate the President's strategists: Putting the gay marriage amendments on the ballot in various swing states like Ohio... well, that was just genius. Genius. It got people, a certain kind of people, to the polls. The unprecedented number of folks who showed up and cited "moral values" as their biggest issue, those people changed history. The folks who consider same sex marriage a more important issue than war, or terrorism, or the economy... Who'd have thought the election would belong to them? Well, Karl Rove did. Gotta give it up to him for that. [Boos.] Now, now. Credit where it's due. I concede that I put too much faith in America's youth. With 8 out of 10 of you opposing the President, with your friends and classmates dying daily in a war you disapprove of, with your future being mortgaged to pay for rich old peoples' tax breaks, you somehow managed to sit on your asses and watch the Cartoon Network while aging homophobic hillbillies carried the day. You voted with the exact same anemic percentage that you did in 2000. You suck. Seriously, y'do. [Cheers, applause] Thank you. Thank you very much. There are some who would say that I sound bitter, that now is the time for healing, to bring the nation together. Let me tell you a little story. Last night, I watched the returns come in with some friends here in Los Angeles. As the night progressed, people began to talk half-seriously about secession, a red state / blue state split. The reasoning was this: We in blue states produce the vast majority of the wealth in this country and pay the most taxes, and you in the red states receive the majority of the money from those taxes while complaining about 'em. We in the blue states are the only ones who've been attacked by foreign terrorists, yet you in the red states are gung ho to fight a war in our name. We in the blue states produce the entertainment that you consume so greedily each day, while you in the red states show open disdain for us and our values. Blue state civilians are the actual victims and targets of the war on terror, while red state civilians are the ones standing behind us and yelling "Oh, yeah!? Bring it on!" More than 40% of you Bush voters still believe that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11. I'm impressed by that, truly I am. Your sons and daughters who might die in this war know it's not true, the people in the urban centers where al Qaeda wants to attack know it's not true, but those of you who are at practically no risk believe this easy lie because you can. As part of my concession speech, let me say that I really envy that luxury. I concede that. Healing? We, the people at risk from terrorists, the people who subsidize you, the people who speak in glowing and respectful terms about the heartland of America while that heartland insults and excoriates us... we wanted some healing. We spoke loud and clear. And you refused to give it to us, largely because of your high moral values. You knew better: America doesn't need its allies, doesn't need to share the burden, doesn't need to unite the world, doesn't need to provide for its future. Hell no. Not when it's got a human shield of pointy-headed, atheistic, unconfrontational breadwinners who are willing to pay the bills and play nice in the vain hope of winning a vote that we can never have. Because we're "morally inferior," I suppose, we are supposed to respect your values while you insult ours. And the big joke here is that for 20 years, we've done just that. It's not a "ha-ha" funny joke, I realize, but it's a joke all the same. Being an independent candidate gives me one luxury - as well as conceding the election today, I am also announcing my candidacy for President in 2008. [Wild applause, screams, chants of "Fel-ber! Fel-ber!] Thank you. And I make this pledge to you today: THIS time, next time, there will be no pandering. This time I will run with all the open and joking contempt for my opponents that our President demonstrated towards the cradle of liberty, the Ivy League intellectuals, the "media elite," and the "white-wine sippers." This time I will not pretend that the simple folk of America know just as much as the people who devote their lives to serving and studying the nation and the world. They don't. So that's why I'm asking for your vote in 2008, America. I'm talking to you, you ignorant, slack-jawed yokels, you bible-thumping, inbred drones, you redneck, racist, chest-thumping, perennially duped grade-school grads. Vote for me, because I know better, and I truly believe that I can help your smug, sorry asses. Vote Felber in '08! Thank you, and may God, if he does in fact exist, bless each and every one of you. [Tumultuous cheers, applause, and foot-stomping. PULL BACK to reveal the rest of the stage, the row of cameras, hundreds of unoccupied chairs, and the empty field beyond.]

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So yesterday I changed the oil in my car. This is important for two reasons:
1. This was the first time I've ever changed the oil in anything in my life
2. It was on a Honda Insight I would like to thank the support of friends and other insight owners who encouraged me to change the oil, and gave me tips on it. But most of the reason for my decision to do this was brought about by Schaumburg Honda and their ridiculous increase of pricing due to the Honda Insight being considered a special vehicle. There is no way in hell I'd pay somebody 40 dollars to change the oil in my car just because it takes an extra 5 minutes for some high school drop out to take off 5 bolts to reach the oil pan. (normal oil change 29, plus special 11 dollar handling fee for Insights) This brings me to another facet of the oil change experience that only further served to convince me the world is filled with incompentent morons. There were a total of 8 screws and 2 J-clips missing from the undercarriage skirt. 4 course thread screws (2 in each wheel well) and everything else from the main skirt assembly. Let me show you what I mean, here is a picture of the skirt and where the bolts were missing. If you click on the picture a second time you can get a view larger than 640x480
As you probably can see, I ended up replacing them with 6mm metric flange bolts (and some 1/4" fender washers) that I was able to get from the local hardware store. I also already had some screws for the wheel well lying around. But it's not my point. Also, I ended up cutting off the corners of the plastic shroud so that I could use those screws for future removal. Much easier than trying to get those 4 across the aluminum bar...those bastards just spin... There has only been one place this car has been serviced....Schaumburg Honda. That means somebody there left these off on purpose/ignorance, and that is completely unacceptable. Lord only know's how long I've been driving the car around like this, and the plastic in the wheel wells was warped from the lack of support...probably perminantly. moving on....the oil change was pretty straight forward, but let's run down the price list as compared to paying for some other confirmed idiot to do this.
- Rhino Ramps $16.93 at Walmart
- 3 quarts Mobil 1 synth 0w-20 oil $4.77 each at Walmart
- Oil Filter ST6607 $2.07 at Walmart
- Creeper $14.97 at Walmart (completly useless...save your money)
- 5 crush washers from Honda $1.33 (you get a discount for buying 5...heh, 15% off)
Tim was nice enough to lend me his torque wrench and oil filter remover (thanks again) and everything went well in my opinion. I'm still checking for leaks but none so far. The torque wrench I used only goes up to 22 ft-lbs, and the factory manual calls for 29 ft-lb, but there's a lot of disagreement about that so I'll just keep my eye on it and if it doesn't leak, then all's well. Thanks again to Tim and the guys at the Honda Insight Forum at insightcentral.net for their help with figuring out what I'd need. After this initial investment future oil changes should only cost about 18 bucks, and now I can do them whenever is convienent for me...no more sitting around the car dealer with my thumb up my ass for an hour.

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Good morning everyone, lot's of work to do today, but how about some linkage: - Two headed turtle....now finally I can play Clash of the Titans with my star wars figures. Props to John Lambert for this link
- Public Enemy star Flavor Flav smacks dog on nose with rolled up newspaper for peeing in the house. Pussies around the world freak out.
- Man kill 4 year old for peeing in his truck. Hitler suddenly looking like an ok kinda guy again.
- 81 cats found in a 1,100 square foot apartment. Ex nun and nurse don't know how it got out of hand. According to that math, me and Jen have room for 170 more cats......
- The city of Chicago is one of the most corrupt places in the world. Read this article called "The city stole my car" and try....TRY not to get angry over the corrupt bastards pulling this crap.
- Homeless guy pulls a "falling down", shoots bridge worker who asked him to move.
- In canada, if you have a pickup truck with booze anywhere in the cab, you can be sited for transporting alcohol within reach of a driver. Regardless if it's open or not....simply because you can reach it.

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Nothing gives me more pleasure than looking at my log's and seeing that spammers have been blocked from posting!!!!!!!! (except being with Jen of course) take that you smut peddiling, donkey raping, shit holes!

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i've tried just about everything to get rid of blog spammers.... blog spammers are bastards that make comments only for the sake of promoting their website (usually of an adult or illegal nature) in order to scam people online into visiting them and buying their junk. Junk like "casinos", "viagra", "tramadol"...crap like that.... Why? because of three reasons:
1. Increases their google relevancy by having other sites link to them
2. Get stupid people to go there and buy stuff
3. because a lot of bloggers don't bother to keep them clean and leave the junk. I've tried renaming the posting cgi multiple times, even adding a preview requirement that makes you look at the post before you can submit it....no luck. I've also banned every single IP that ever posted spam on my site... Well today I installed a blacklist program, of course specifically the globally popular Jay Allen one. I have high expectations that future spam will be minimal...give it a week of course and I will be donating to support the cause as well. *phew* running a website isn't always easy.... That being said, Moxie is doing well...she eat's alot and sleeps alot. We're making progress on the trim work in the family room slowly but surely. Thing kinda got help up this week with me having to work a maintenance window and Jen's work held it's grand opening and the lead singer from five for fighting was there. Pretty nice guy, took his time to talk to people and signed all the autographs before leaving.

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So we decided on the name of Moxie for the new cat....nothing else was really sticking....and Jen was against my suggest of "tar heroin" for some selfish reason.

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D00d! I so totally got ripped off by the onion! Check this out, a while back I did a rant on how all the tv shows are about fat bumbling guys with hot chicks that don't make any sense, and when I was reading the onion last week I found this news in brief saying the same thing almost in concept....except a lot better and funnier. :) Still kinda weird.... Have you see the lastest promotional poster for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

(you can get a bigger picture by clicking on it, and then again on the site that's hosting it) How freaky is that pick? Reminds me more of Clockwork Orange that Willy Wonka... Anyways, moving on.... - AVOID SPRAY ON SIDING...IT"S A SCAM!!!!! Plus the dumb ass company that markets this BS to their fly by night contractors is suing the website. This is the #1 reason we do all our own work on our house.
- If you get a mysterious package from 9g communications, refuse it! They're tricking people into accepting cell phones they never ordered.
- Target is NOT allowing the Salvation Army to ring outside their stores this year. Personally I'm all for this, considering the amount of fiscal waste that exists in most large charities. If you want to help, volunteer at a local food bank or do something physical. Collecting money that only partly goes to the cause is complete crap.
- Awesome music video on e-pauly.com. Safe for work as long as your wearing headphones :) Really, you gotta see this. It's based on a song by TISM called "everyone else has had more sex than me".
- This ones for Jessamine. Music video called "Lotion" by the Greenskeepers. Lotion as in "it puts the lotion in the basket or it gets the hose" *shudder* Probably the freakiest thing is that the actor that played "buffalo bill" is Ted Levine...also known as Captain Stottlemeyer on a little show called Monk.

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Everytime we go to Petsmart we have to walk by the cats there for adoption. I mean it's pretty obvious we love cats and such, so it's kinda like walking by a shoe store and not looking in the window (for you ladies) or walking by sears and not checking out the power tools (for us guys).
Well, for the past month we've been seeing the cat below. She doesn't have a name yet but she'd only about 11 months old and has been there for a whole month. Now the orginization we adopted her from is a no kill shelter called Pets in Need Midwest.
5 cats is a lot, and both me and Jen agree this is our maximum number. Thankfully we have a big house, so one more cat shouldn't be a big deal. We're still weening her into the fold so we don't know if she'll get along with the others but we hope so. Neither of us want to have to return her.....so we're taking things slow. Plus we're taking out time naming her so we can avoid something obvious like "snickers" or "dusty". Personally, I'm rooting for Guinness :)

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Last night me and Jen finally beat Final Fantasy: After Ruby and Emerald weapon, Sephiroth was super easy. I really took my time with game building up all the characters to level 99 and giving them all the sources I could (power, guard, speed, etc). But now it's over......now I've played every FF game except 11 (which I am ok with....no online stuff for me). Guess now I have to paint :)

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It seems lately that I can't get the new Gwen Stefani song out of my head. It's probably one of the coolest video's I've seen in a while honestly. If I've learned one thing this week it's that Ruby and Emerald weapon and mother fooker's to kill. Even with level 99, knights of the round, and every materia immaginable on. God love FF7 because I've just about finished beating it after about oh....a year. Something else I already knew, but was reminded, was not to fire paintballs at cars.
- Paintball Prank Kills Teen. I want to feel bad for the teenager, and I realize I should...but I just can't find the energy to really feel that bad at all. We all did stupid shit, but man....plus who the fuck gives their kid a suburban to drive around in?
- Hey, good job driving crime and drug dealers out of the neighborhood, now we're increasing rent so you can't afford to live here.
- god I love these stories of hypocrisy. US marshal gets full-time pay for few hour's work. Seriously, is this a surprise? No...no i'm sure this only happened here and isn't a wide spread problem...really, i'm sure.
- Meet an oxymoron: vicious chihuahua.
- US soldiers mutiny over “suicide mission” in Iraq. Interesting....
- Chainsaw motorcycle. No...not a theme...the bike is powered by 24 chainsaw's. If only they had this on Mars.
- Interview with a woman who cut the penis off her husband. This is becoming a very disurbing trend. What ever happened to ....oh say....leaving? I would think that picking up a set of keys, opening the door and perhaps driving away would be less psychologically scarring that permanent removal of another person's genitalia and feeding aforementioned genitalia to a local canine. then again that's just me.

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Been meaning to mess around with the webcam to see how well it can pickup images in low light. It does amazingly well actually, considering it has no IR lighting built in. So I threw the laptop in ralph's rooms and put a low light 40 watt bulb in for backlight just for kicks. hopefully he won't mind the extra light tonight. Guess we'll see if he wants to make his webcam debut or not....

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Just in case anybody wonders why I'm not updating....playing games and relaxing :) on the bright side, at least I'm not being evaluated, with these quotes from actual employee evaluations:
Some highlights include:
- He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.
- This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
- He brings a lot of joy whenever he leaves the room.
- It’s hard to believe that he beat out 1,000,000 other sperm.
- Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap. Heh, courtesy of Tim...who obviously wasn't to busy himself :)

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