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What's a guy got to do to get some Congressional thanks? More than give a New York theater company $25 million, apparently.
At yesterday's grand opening of the Pershing Square Signature Theatre on 42nd Street, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), whose district encompasses the Frank Gehry-designed theater complex, made sure to thank those who helped make it a reality. He offered gratitude to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and actor Ed Norton. But he forgot to mention the man Norton convinced to make the Signature Theatre the Pershing Square Signature Theatre—Pershing Square Capital Management founder William Ackman.
The charitable arm of Ackman's hedge fund gave the center $25 million to keep tickets at the Signature affordable for the next 20 years.
A Nadler spokesman told the New York Post that the congressman's omission was an "oversight" and that "he has nothing against the guy. He's very thankful and appreciative."
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Sex and the City Movie Is the Super Bowl For Women
The brains and wallets behind Sex and the City: The Movie are touting the May 30 release as the "Super Bowl for women." And while viewers will likely be consuming Diet Coke and popcorn rather than licking their sticky buffalo-wing-sauced fingers and sipping on brews, one thing will remain constant between the Winter and Spring events: the heavy advertising.
So what kind of products can you expect to be placed alongside our favorite Manhattan women? There are eight marketers whose products will appear in the movie including Skyy vodka, Bag Borrow or Steal, Coty fragrances, Glacéau Vitaminwater, Mercedes-Benz (picture above is evidence), and the jeweler H. Stern. While it's unclear which other two companies are connected with the movie, most of these seem like an appropriate fit for the May audience.
Do you think connecting these products with the movie will make you identify one with the other? Perhaps you'll start sneaking a Vitaminwater into the theater instead of that Diet Coke.
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Opening Up an Uninspected Wall
So, we know there were splices that were supposed to be corrected in the wall. The GC swore up and down that the splices were fixed.
The rough electrical on two walls was not inspected. The building inspector hesitated about making the GC open up the walls.
The building inspector will be back this week.
What would you do? Would you insist that the uninspected electrical walls be opened up?
"The rough electrical on two walls was not inspected."
That is reason enough to force him to open it at his expense.
You might start by sending the head of inspections at the AHJ a written letter with return receipt detailing you concerns.
This is really starting to sound like $$ money is involved, and not the kind openly transferred.
Be sure that everything else on your property is in order before you fire off a letter to the inspector's supervisor/office. Such a letter often results in a multitude of other inspectors/code enforcement officers/insert-name-of-obscure-govt-office-busybody here going over the place with the proverbal fine toothed comb.
reading through all your posts about the nightmare you've been having, personally I say try to cut your loss's and get rid of them!
From all your posts it sounds like none of your contractors have a clue what they're doing. Have him open the walls then fire him. Who knows what else he's done that you haven't found and who knows what else he's going to do now that he's mad at you. Get him out of your house ASAP!
The contractor(s) should be willing to put all your concerns to rest... are these two walls interior walls? if all that is needed is to open a wall or too I would insist.
Interior walls usually don't have insulation, use a hole-saw on every other stud and then an inspection mirror of camera..easy fix
Have the wall opened and the wiring inspected. I can't tell you how many rehabs I've done where splices have been made just hanging in the wall, some with just electrical tape or friction tape and even duct tape wrapped on them. Have it done right.
I didn't take exception with your post. I asked what state he was in since his comments about what the AHJ found acceptable defy logic (and the NEC or any other electrical code I saw).
It has been my stated opinion since PLUMERIA showed up here that the entire job needs to be ripped out and done right, wiring, crappy tile job, etc....


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So this sweet morning we thought that we would start you off with something that is one part scheming and one part dreaming. As Mr Robert Kelly said 'I believe I can fly' and this morning it is a super power that we sincerely desire. Especially when you are in Central London and you have a slow burning desire to punch tourists in the back of the head.
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Less than a year has passed since Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 first arrived on the PlayStation 2 and won GameSpot's elusive perfect-10 score, and already we're being presented with the beginnings of another entry in Neversoft's incredibly excellent skateboarding series. Activision recently sent us a three-level demo build of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, and it's given us a good feel of what to expect from the upcoming game.
The full roster of pro skaters from Tony Hawk 3 has returned in Tony Hawk 4, and Brazilian skater Bob Burnquist makes his triumphant return to the fold after his stint in Konami's ESPN X Games Skateboarding. Though no hidden skaters have been revealed yet, there are four slots on the skater select screen that are grayed out, and the hulking gorilla seen riding a skateboard on the Neversoft logo screen is a probable suspect.
Past Tony Hawk games have featured some pretty outlandish level designs, sometimes resembling a regular skate park more closely than the locations they're masquerading as. The three levels featured in the build of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 we've been playing suggest that Neversoft is aiming for a style of level design that has a more solid grounding in reality. There's the university level, which is closely modeled after the campus of and outlying areas around the University of California at Berkeley. The San Francisco level features some of the most well-loved skate spots in the city, including the Embarcadero area, the ledges at Third and Army, and Pier 39. The Alcatraz level covers the infamous prison turned tourist destination all the way from the ferry docks to the roof of the main jailhouse. All three of these new levels are easily the largest we've seen in a Tony Hawk game so far, and their size, in tandem with their more-realistic design, lends them a sprawling feel and makes them seem as though they're not quite as dense with skate-park-style objects as the levels featured in other Tony Hawk games.
With each new entry in the series, the gameplay mechanics in the Tony Hawk games have been incrementally refined and expanded upon, and Tony Hawk 4 has its fair share of new tricks. The most highly touted new mechanic in Tony Hawk 4 is the spine transfer, which serves two key purposes. Firstly, when two half-pipes are set up back-to-back, a press of the L2 or R2 buttons while you're in the air will let you go up the side of one of the half-pipes and down the corresponding side of the other, which nets you an extra transition combo bonus. This trick can also be used to save yourself from a bail if you misalign a vert trick and are in danger of hitting the pavement instead of the ramp. While it's not as revolutionary as the manual or revert tricks were, the spine transfer is simply another good addition to the huge arsenal of moves available in the game. Taking a page from Acclaim's Aggressive Inline, you'll also be able to hitch a ride, or "skitch," by grabbing onto the backs of the cars, trucks, and other vehicles that you'll encounter. This can be easily done simply by getting within a few feet of the back of a vehicle and pressing up on the D pad. Once you have ahold of the bumper, a vertical balance meter much like the grind balance meter appears, and if you fall too far to one side or the other, you'll simply let go. But, if you press down on the D pad while the balance meter is still centered, you'll be sent rocketing forward at tremendous speeds, making it possible to catch bigger air than has ever been possible in a Tony Hawk game before.
The multiple grind, lip trick, and manual system introduced in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 has undergone some fundamental changes. No longer do you have to press a direction on the D pad in combination with the triangle button. Instead, once you've executed a grind, lip trick, or manual, pressing any combination of the square, circle, and triangle buttons will transition you into a new trick. This new system feels more dynamic, allowing for much faster transitions between different tricks. Many facets of the core trick system have also been expanded. While the double and triple flip tricks in Tony Hawk 3 could only be performed with certain tricks, this limitation has been lifted in Tony Hawk 4. Interestingly, while the level design in the game is moving further toward the realistic, the new special tricks are leaning toward the more fantastical, and we've seen moves involving dribbling a basketball, spray-painting graffiti, playing a guitar, and having a fight with a ferret.
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Probably the single most fundamental change that's been made to the series for Tony Hawk 4 is the layout of the game's career mode. No longer will you be limited to two-minute runs on a course. Instead, you'll enter a level with an infinite amount of time to skate around, explore the level, or just goof off. When you're ready to start tackling goals, you'll have to approach certain people on the street--designated by the big blue arrow over their heads--at which point they'll lay out a challenge for you and the clock will start ticking. Many of the challenges have been seen before, such as high-score challenges, pulling off specific tricks using specific objects, collecting items, and participating in competitions. One of the challenges new to Tony Hawk 4 is the C-O-M-B-O challenge, a kissing cousin to the S-K-A-T-E objective that charges you with the task of collecting the letters to spell "combo" while maintaining a single combo trick. Successfully completing challenges will award you with stat points that can be used to increase your skaters abilities, new special trick slots, and cold hard cash, which can be used to buy new skateboards and gear. The new layout changes the pacing of the game significantly, as you can only try one challenge at a time. It's certainly different, but the net effect of this change still remains to be seen.
A peculiar gameplay addition found in Tony Hawk 4 are the new in-level minigames. In the university level, you can approach one of the players on the tennis courts and challenge him or her to a match, and in the Alcatraz level, you can go to the exercise yard and swing at baseballs thrown by a ghostly pitcher. The gameplay in these minigames is pretty simplistic, requiring you to simply use the X button to swing your skateboard as though it were a tennis racket or baseball bat, and the ball physics seem highly questionable. Depending on how these minigames shape up in the final version of the game, they could either be a quirky little aside, or an ugly blemish on the game.
Tony Hawk 4, like Tony Hawk 3 before it, will have a full-featured online multiplayer mode, though now that Sony has finally released its network adapter here in the US, hopefully more people will actually be able to play the game online. Though the build of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 that we've been playing doesn't actually contain any of the online components, we've been able to deduce two key pieces of info about the online modes from it. First, much like the PC version of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Tony Hawk 4 will feature a capture-the-flag mode, a team-based game in which players attempt to infiltrate their opponents' base, grab their flag, and return it to their base before their opponents can do the same. Second, Tony Hawk 4 will add the ability to skate on custom maps created by players in the game's park editor in the online mode. This prospect is very exciting, as the possibility of having a nearly limitless number of new parks to play online could seriously extend the replay value of the network mode and has the potential to help foster a strong online community of players attempting to outdo each other's park designs.
Though it's not as significant a jump in visual quality as we saw from Tony Hawk 2 to Tony Hawk 3, the graphics in Tony Hawk 4 have been visibly enhanced. The skater models have been touched up a bit to look even more like their real-world counterparts, and they've been equipped with a host of new bail animations that are specific to certain situations. There are also new idle animations--if left standing still for a few seconds, Tony Hawk will rub the back of his head and check out the scrapes on his elbows. As mentioned earlier, the levels we've seen are much larger, and they now feature more-complex geometry and some incredibly sharp new textures. Many of the textures carried over from Tony Hawk 3, such as the different clothes and gear you can equip your skater with, have been cleaned up and are now on par with the textures that are new to Tony Hawk 4. The GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox versions of Tony Hawk 4 that we've been playing all basically look identical, but the aliasing seen in the PlayStation 2 version places it just slightly under the Xbox and GameCube versions. Even still, it's shaping up to be the best-looking entry in the Tony Hawk series thus far.
Since the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater first appeared on the PlayStation, the series has consistently maintained high standards for sound design, featuring crisp environmental sounds and amazing licensed soundtracks. From what we've heard so far, it would appear that Tony Hawk 4 will uphold this tradition. Much of the same skate sounds from the last Tony Hawk appear to be intact here, along with a handful of new bail sounds. All the people you'll encounter in the game, from other skateboarders to random pedestrians on the street, have their own unique voices, with the pro skaters featured in the game providing their own voice work. It's rather apparent that these skaters are not professional voice actors, as their delivery of their lines can sometimes be kind of stifled, but this inclusion adds a certain air of authenticity to the game nevertheless.
While Activision is still working out many of the contracts for the game's soundtrack, the current build features no less than 35 brand-new licensed songs, thoroughly covering several different genres of music and virtually guaranteeing that everyone will find something to their liking. There are tracks from AC/DC and Iron Maiden for the metal heads, tracks from Gang Starr, De La Soul, NWA, Public Enemy, and Run DMC for the hip-hop crowd, and tracks from Agent Orange, Goldfinger, Less Than Jake, and the Sex Pistols for the punk rock kids, and that's just to name a few. Barring any serious problem Activision might have obtaining licensing rights, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 will have the biggest and most well-rounded soundtrack of any skateboarding game to date.
The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games have always represented the very best of what the skateboarding genre has to offer, and from what we've seen so far, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 looks like it will uphold this trend. Be sure to stay tuned for our continuing coverage of this very promising action sports title.


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I have recently started making rolled beeswax candles. I am getting great results with my tapers. They burn all the way down without dripping. But my pillars are another matter. They always start to drip at some point. What am I doing wrong?
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March 28, 2015
that escalated quickly
So we are going back and forth about college basketball and I am catching a well deserved amount of flack for my beloved Cyclones tournament performance. It stayed pretty civil for the most part but somehow we strayed down a torture path. This led to enduring torture which moved into administering a single torture event to the other person. Before I go on you should know that I fully understand how bizarre this conversation might seem but this is the stuff I live for. My brain craves this type of twisted thinking.
Anyhow, parameters were set such as duration and overall damage. (I had a sneaking suspicion that he had done this before) We landed on a single instance lasting no more than ten minutes (not including prep time) with no resulting permanent major handicap other than mental damage and some maiming. I wanted clarification on the maim so we went with nothing that would result in death without immediate medical attention like sawing off a limb for example. Supplies must be listed in advance and the winner would be determined by the other persons overall discomfort with the concept. My opponent elected to go first which was a mistake.
He listed supplies as handcuffs, pliers, duct tape, and salt. Then he went on to talk me through my fingernail removal in great detail. It was impressive and I have to admit that I had just read about similar torture in a book so I had some vivid mental pictures in the hopper. The cuffs secured me to a table and the duct tape was for my mouth and body to a chair. Both nice touches and added to my growing inventory.
His description was pretty good and I could tell that when he finished he mentally dropped the microphone on the stage like a battle rapper declaring victory. maybe...
My supplies were a bit more mysterious. A board, a hammer, a nail, rubber gloves, a box of 40mm glass rods, a furniture dolly, a case of duct tape, and a workbench. The devil is in the details and also the secret to really getting under someones mental skin, so there is no way I'm going to give you the full workup I provided my opponent. I will sum up so you get the overall gist.
Duct taped naked to the furniture dolly with just his eyes nose and junk exposed he would be wheeled to the height adjustable workbench. Wearing the aforementioned rubber gloves I would stretch his unit on to the board driving the nail into a pinch of foreskin to hold it in place. I ordered a case of the glass rods because I'm not real confident in my dickhole insertion skills. I might have mentioned that the blood from failed attempts could ultimately aid my cause.
You get where I'm going, it ends with a series of delicate hammer blows to shard-up the glass. I was hit with silence for a couple seconds then his response was "you said dickhole and I got really uncomfortable." a longer than normal pause "you're sick, but I'm stealing that whole thing and using it with someone else" I declared myself the victor and got no argument.
My favorite phrase from our debrief of the game "Who uses the word dickhole?"
I need to tell you a little more background. He admitted that he thought he would gross me out with his description because he had played this particular game before and my admitted first attempt would be weak. So I told him that he lobbed one into my wheelhouse. I mentioned that there is so much constantly swirling around in my noggin that I try to write every day to blow off a little steam.
Promises were made about being allowed to read and never talking about it in mixed company (those who don't know about this site) I also asked for permission to write about this which he gave with the caveat that there be no way anyone could ever identify him in any way as a participant. And for the first time in my long history I sent someone my writing for pre-approval. He considered my description accurate but thought his effort deserved better press.
I reminded him about the victorious writing history and he acquiesced. I apologize for the lack of post yesterday but it was off at the editor and I had nothing else.
March 26, 2015
blog on blog consider yourself warned
WordPress is my longest online relationship but we broke up because she was spoiled and kept asking for more money just to hang out. If you have sent me a note (by the way as always the stupidtom mailbag is located at stupidtom at G male dot com. If you can't figure out the email address from my clever bot deceiving description then you do not deserve to correspond with yours truly) asking me to join back up with WordPress or any other service I have read your request and I think about it all the time. Sadly spending money on this nonsense makes no sense to me and everything that WP charges for I get done for free on Blogger. Might not be as pretty but beggars choosers.
As for all of the other sites I HAVE to try... no I don't. I look at them sure. But I always find something that annoys. Medium is by far the most recommended. It is pretty and simple and gives you a built in audience and promotion system. If I were a writer trying to get noticed for a paying gig I might be on that thing. But a basic part of it bugs the crap out of me... They can use my stuff any way they want once I put it on their site. The language is cloudy as all good legalese should be but that rubs me the wrong way.
I am under no delusion that the things I plop out are worth anything but cranking out content for a company drives me a little crazy-er. That is one of my basic troubles with Facebook. People who type on that thing are working for Book Face for free. Yes I know that I am doing the same thing EXCEPT those little ads on the side of this blog are going to make me a hundredaire someday.
This thing is already longer than I wanted to spend on bloggery. I just wanted to say that I am not ignoring your Tumblr, Medium, WordPress, Svbtle, and other requests. This particular pile of words will remain on this site until the Google Gods decide that they don't like it any more. Blogger that is. And when that day comes I'll shop for a new home.
As a reward for anyone who toughed that awful post out I was looking through the notes on my phone this morning and found a t-shirt slogan I wrote down. "Going to McDonald's for a salad is like going to a hooker for a hug." the other note next to it read "giant dude wearing this made me smile"
March 25, 2015
sproing brake
The homework thing doesn't really bother me and I am trying to not climb up his hind end about it as his mother is so far up there that she can work him like a ventriloquists dummy. (see what I did there with the dummy entendre...) I think he might be paying a little price for her current employment state of flux. The program where she works is being shut down. Not due to a lack of funding because it is located in a very affluent area but more attributable to the great job that she and her coworkers did. The program is too popular and is being folded into the school district.
Why not just stay with it you might be thinking... and the answer is lack of Masters Degree. This makes me crazy on a bunch of levels not the least of which is my core belief that the people who teach kindergarten should just be able to tolerate that environment day in and day out. ( what in the hell does day in day out mean? I should have just typed day after day. Now I have myself all jammed up ready to head down a rabbit hole.) So she found out that another ACT might be required for a return trip to college and some of that spillover anxiety splashes upon the boy now and again.
Near constant video games does not help his cause but the pickup outdoor basketball tournament that was scheduled for this week has been called due to SNOW. This thing is not cheering me up like it usually does. I need to head out into the world tonight and experience some other people. If nothing else I will drift by WalMart for a little slice of humanity.
March 24, 2015
a quick mental drift
March 23, 2015
I would probably do the exact same thing I'm doing right now. I love the company and love the work. It is my passion because I have made it so. And yet money, or the lack there of, still haunts me. Now this is a weird time of year. Taxes are an unwelcome nut punch and tuition bills threaten my sanity but more than that its just the cost of existing. I have begun to try and puzzle out how I can work out another income stream and for some reason that stresses me the eff out.
It could be my mind churning like a washing-machine trying to solve this problem but I am stuck. You are the unfortunate witnesses to my meltdown as this is the only therapy that I'm interested in at the moment. (I reserve the right to have a full blown breakdown at my discretion where therapy will ultimately be a condition of my release from custody. If I'm going to go crazy it wont be some mamby-pamby self committal... Full On Bat Crap Lock Me Up For Everyone's Protection Style. but I digress...)
This will pass like a wave as soon as I come up with a modified fiscal plan. That and to finish watching my recorded Alaskan Bush People episodes. Ever need a little boost? This is highly recommended. I will not ruin it for you in any way as it is best experienced ice cold but you will leave every episode with a ton of questions and wanting more. If you are my in person friend I am willing to talk like these folks at the drop of a hat. For those playing along at home the first word you need to master is bush.
March 21, 2015
I got little to nothing
It's like I am a character in a movie swimming on top of some deep water. The audience knows there is a monster heading my way. They can see it, they can hear the creepy music, I'm just getting some weird disturbances across my belly. No need to panic. I know some of whats headed my way here in the real world. My bride is headed back from cleaning the other house where a shop vac mishap more than doubled her normal time.
The boy has a bunch of friends across the street playing in some sort of basketball tournament that will probably be followed by a pile of stench landing at my house looking to get fed. And then there was talk of a video game tournament... I guess I'd rather have them in my sight because the day is quickly coming where I will need to go hunting if I want to see what's going on.
I think I just need a nap but that feels like walking toward a known minefield. Just going to keep walking around trying to maintain the illusion of productivity until my wife returns from her terrible road trip. There is a nice symmetry in matching exhausted and this will also allow me to eventually pass out to the sounds of teenagers not shutting up.
March 20, 2015
hangover hungover
First, day drinking is for college kids and professionals. I have been out of the game too long to even qualify for the senior tour so Thursday was a challenge. And after my beloved Cyclones were knocked out in the first round I might have spiraled into an angry pace for just a bit. This caused a shift to vodka and red-bull that I am still paying for this morning. The games keep coming and afternoon turns to evening in a blur very similar to a Vegas trip.
Staggering out of a bar at what seemed like two in the morning (8:15pm) we were hunting for a night cap and some suppressive grease. We found it in a little hole in the wall downtown filled with regulars and drunks just like I likes it. Our waiter was so happy to see new and potentially tipping faces that he provided excellent service. Even buying our beer which would have been half of the tab. This earned him a 100% tip as we walked out.
I should also mention Trivia Night was going on. This was not run by a member of Mensa. The dude running it was probably voted the smartest in the bar or is the only one with a reliable internet connection and access to a printer for the answer sheets. Holy cow was that entertaining. We would have won running away because I think we only missed one question and the winning team missed four. They won a round of shots for their team and a t-shirt. One t-shirt for the four of them. Classic.
What to do when one feels this bad? Repeat the previous days poor choices of course. The drunk bus will be picking me up soon for a trip to a greasy spoon to lay a base for the day. Then its off to the races again. At least my heart will only be broken a couple hundred times as the various TVs show Iowa States defeat to a satellite school in a burst of clips on a constant loop. Back to burping fire and sitting on the curb waiting for my friends...
March 18, 2015
Some of them talk to the camera as if it were a live studio audience and that is the purest form of the art. They say something that is supposed to be funny or draw a reaction then pause for said same. The best talk about themselves and their cameras as if they were a production crew. "We're back" gets said a ton and one of them even had me thinking that someone else was on the ride with them. I took three videos to figure out that her partner wasn't in the sleeper bunk and only because she started complaining about being alone on the road. And once I noticed I couldn't unsee the ones who were experiencing and audience reaction where none existed. If they ever make a two way GoPro Camera they should test sales in truck stops.
Now that I've marked my trail I can go back whenever I feel like and I'm not sure how I will use this new found treasure. Maybe as a pick me up if I'm ever feeling like I can't take it anymore... Or a reality check when I am wallowing in self pity and stop being thankful for what I have.. Like I said I'm not sure but it does have me reflecting on my ability to become a hermit. These folks are nothing but alone and you can tell it takes some of them to a place few humans go willingly. No judgement just genuine concern for the plight of our goods as they travel across the country and some of the batcrap crazy people who do that work.
And speaking of people speaking to a pretend audience... in related news... that Volvo truck based RV thing is bad ass.
March 17, 2015
using all the road
...and speaking of lack of sleep our middle child is still adjusting to college life 3/4 of the way through her freshman year. I went down and picked her up Friday night because she was way off her normal game. On the ride home a little parental research determined that she had slept around eleven hours in four days. She was telling me how art school was kicking her ass and I countered by explaining she was doing a great job all by herself. After a couple days at home over the weekend paying off most of her sleep debt I think she realizes the dangers of missing and importance of getting enough sleep. I do so love it when my children figure out new and interesting ways to scare me.
For some reason today I am eating like a pregnant homeless woman. (holy crap that was a terrible image and I regretted it the second I finished typing) Leftovers have forced me to create combinations that have me squirming with a belly full of live snakes. Is is ironic or just stupid that this comes on the heels of advising my child to take better care of herself? Probably stupid as I knew that pork was dangling near the edge of its eat by date. Oh well, the best cleaning usually follows a natural disaster. You can infer, imply, or take that in any direction you see fit.
In other news my recent financial anxiety caused me to check out my current earnings from the advertisements on this page. I am proud to report that I have currently earned a whopping $4.54 which means it should only take me a little over six years to reach the hundred dollar threshold where Google will write me a check. So I've got that going for me.
And finally one of the greatest times of the year is almost upon us so yours truly will be taking a day and a half off work to celebrate. No I am not talking about St. Patrick's day as we are dead nuts in the midst of it. I am referring to the first games of March Madness. I have a couple unavoidable and unrescheduleable (I know, not a word, SHUT IT, the squiggly red line says so but you understood me) appointments but I will be waiting for my Uber driver by 12:30 and then its wheels up. Posting forecast for later in the week is spotty at best.
March 16, 2015
Lack of sleep deep thoughts
I came to the kill switch idea as I pondered why things taste the way they do. Water for instance, delicious when you are thirsty but nothing special. Same with vegetables, awesome when starving but nothing you're ever going to gorge yourself on. This led me to wondering why the things that were good for us didn't draw us in. You know, water that tastes like Hawaiian Punch or beer, kale that eats like a field of fresh fried potato chips, doughnut flavored broccoli, you get where I'm going.
Then it hit me that we are too smart for our own good. We figured out how to make good things taste effing incredible and we didn't stop with food. Mild hallucinogens that you had to work your ass of to enjoy are concentrated and cross bred or refined into stuff that a lot of the population just can't quit. Then I started down a whole plastic and fuel related line of thinking that bored my brain to into hitting the sleep reset button.
As I struggled to remember the concepts it hit me that whatever designed this massive complicated machine that we are a part of probably built in some safe guards and we are triggering them all over the place. Screwing up on multiple fronts is something that humans do pretty well and I think that might be by design. We tend as a species to take a "top of the food chain" and "if we can figure out how we should be able to do it" mentality if its smart or not. I was heading toward selfishness then steered down a dangerous road thinking about whats really wrong with religion is people... but passed out.
The only reason I remember most of this is I kept scribbling notes on my phone with that stupid built in stick they call a pen. Pretty entertaining and my half asleep in the dark on a screen handwriting is atrocious. I have no other real direction for this other that I was on a long stranger than normal trip last night and wanted to write about it.
March 15, 2015
The problem is that I don't want a complete remodel. A, because I can't afford it and 2, because I'm not really sure what I want to do just yet. I know I want the current thing gutted and hauled away. The drywall is crap and covering up the complete lack of insulation that the home builder failed to put in. So its basically taking away the drywall and other detritus down to the studs including the garage door itself and all of the hardware as well as framing out the opening where the door used to be and installing a couple windows and some siding.
Everyone I've talked to wants to do the complete thing or at the very least do the electric and drywall. The problem with that is I'm not sure where the outlets and lighting will go until I see what I'm working with and decide on a design. Also, I'm not sure I want to go with drywall either. I've seen some really cool alternative interior walls and I would like to take this thing on as a project this summer. Then I'm trying to figure out if there is a cost effective (cheap) way to do spray foam insulation as I would love to turn this thing into a cooler. This will be a great sound insulator which will help with my job as well as help keep it comfortable with minimal effort and expense.
All of this leads to me wanting to get this done in stages with as little cost as possible. (are you sensing a theme from the two kids in college guy?) Basically a professional's nightmare. And so here I sit sketching out the first stage. I need to do this because I have to pull permits for this work. Not only as it is in the front of the house for all to see but also if my dream of leaving this state ever comes true I don't want an unpermitted room that the city knows nothing about taking a chunk out of my future ass.
The city isn't real happy with my plans either. Things are much easier for them if the whole thing comes in drown completely out. I completely stumped the person on the phone when I said I have no idea what will be included in the final project. dead silence. like I was joking. Then he said "bring in what you've got and we will see if we can issue a permit." I love government. Anyhow, if this thing gets off the ground I will try and post my way through the project. I started to tell you that yesterday I had mentally planned a complete tiny house attached to the front of my just a little bigger one. This should be fun if nothing else.
March 13, 2015
I only know this because her Facebook stream or whatever its called is filled with anti-Monsanto stuff and good for her for caring about what goes in to her family's bodies. Personally I think that we already outlive our design specs so this doesn't even register on my list of things to think about. But due to her successful saturation campaign it did seep into my thoughts and my brain being what it is took things in an alternate direction.
Why don't the scientific geniuses at Monsanto take time away from fruit and vegetable manipulation and get along combining two of natures perfect foods. I am talking about the pig and the cow. It should be called the POW! (*trademarked as of this publication or at least I get one of the first ones for my own grilling pleasure) This thing should be a greatest hits of the two animals. I would be glad to consult on what to keep and or enhance from each individual animal.
Obviously the size of the bovine needs to be retained. Giant bacon should not just be a dream. The hams will probably look like the bolt-on enhancements that those Kardashians wear. Ribs should be thinner leaning toward pork in girth and cow in length. Look, I don't need this monstrosity to survive in the wild so I don't really care if it's skeletal structure can adequately protect its organs or not.
Ideally this thing should be raised in Japan by the gods who invented Kobe Beef. Warm, dry, confined space where your every need is catered to including but not limited to rub downs and an unlimited supply of beer. This thought is rolling down a hill fast but for some reason my mouth is watering...
Picture me on the Island of Doctor Moreau running around with a napkin tied around my neck fork in one hand knife in the other. Also picture earplugs as talking food just isn't right. And maybe not running... OK definitely not running. Driving a 4 wheeler. Possibly pulling a huge grill or smoker. ...time to stop now.
March 12, 2015
olde timey thoughts
Maybe he listens just a little bit. I am a huge fan of John Kuebler's quote "Show me your friends, and I'll show you your future." because I think there is a lot of truth in those words. I do a lot of variation on a theme work with my child like "If you hang around with idiots don't be surprised when people think you're on too." Anyway, you are not one of my children and have no real need for my course correcting attempts...
For me this time was a whirlwind of discomfort. Freshman year sucked. Trying to figure out my place in a new world, my body betraying me by pumping hormones through my system at an alarming rate, voice cracking, bone stretching growth spurts, acne, pretty much the standard order. The evil genus who thought up High School and timed it with the hot mess of puberty should be repeatedly nut punched in purgatory.
Coming up on summer this was the one where everything really changed. Rather than a standing swimming pool meeting every day followed by night basketball, kick the can, or general hanging out there were sports camps and work and thoughts of driving not to mention the opposite sex. I was a steaming pile but no need to scare the boy just yet. First he needs to successfully complete his Freshman year.
I need to go now as my mind is racing about things like running toward a ringing phone that hung on the wall and finding out where all of your friends were by the pile of bikes in a front yard.
March 11, 2015
If you treat me poorly expect the same in return
I had to call a utility company in another state about a bill problem we were having. Their system had us owing a huge amount of money that we did not. I was sitting with a years worth of bills and a bank statement showing cashed checks to the company so I was fully prepared for a brief problem correction call. I was actually in a great mood because I knew we were not at fault.
*Side note: When we were living in our first home my wife and I had a spot in the kitchen where all of the bills were stored after opening. One of us would pay the bills in the bin about once a week. Bills got paid, simple system, all was well. That is until we got a $6,000.00 plus bill from ComEd. I almost shat myself and went about the business of proving we paid but it turned out that in fact we had not. Our system made it very easy to think the other had written the check for the lights and they were on and running that entire time so no reason to question things.
Once I had them on the phone they adopted and eff-you-pay-me stance while I countered with questioning how long someone can go without payment before things get shut down. It took almost two weeks, a number of supervisors, and threats to go to the local media with a story about how the big bad corporation made a mistake and was trying to extort a young married couple with two young children and another on the way. We ended up paying just shy of $400 and from then on the bills showed up like clockwork.
**Side note to the side note: Had I known we were getting free juice every single thing in our home would have been electric and there would have been an octopus of extension cords running all over the neighborhood. I am not above sticking it to the man as long as the man is not me.
My representative decided that he was going to deal with me as he did with every other behind in their bills deadbeat he talked to every day. This decision came before he picked up the phone becasue when I started to explain what was going on he cut me off and asked how I was going to take care of the bill. I wont bore you with the exchange but it ended with me asking for his supervisor just after he told me his operator ID. I asked him to let the person know that the conversation was being recorded on my end as well. (Their hold message mentioned training purposes) He tried to get cranky about me not telling him that but I reminded him about the policy so all of his conversations were on the record.
Once I had the supervisor on things went well. She did get ten minutes on all of the reasons that she needed to get rid of the employee I was just talking with and a couple of tips on how she might train the rest of the room. I think I started with a point but I wore myself down to a dullard.
March 10, 2015
I read a quote today
And it started me thinking which is always a dangerous thing. The quote goes "if travel were free you'd never see me again." And in my case that would be partially true. I think I would have spent a good decade traveling historic sites all around the world. There's something about standing on the same ground where sh*t went down.
That is precisely why I drug the family to Gettysburg. I'm going on and on about the battles and how the poor farmers who owned the fields couldn't plant crops for years and everyone just stared at me like I was an alien. I'm talking about army encampments and blah blah blah. Crap, I'm beginning to bore myself.
Anyway, I'd visit the biggies, seven wonders, the famous museums, and my beloved battlefields but I think I would circle back at least once a year. Its weird once you head down that thought road because who knows if I'd have a family or what the hell would be going on with me.
Know it all nomad living in a diesel pusher RV writing a grumpy travel column for anyone who will pay. Maybe picking up extra cash bar tending or working booths for hire at trade shows. Possibly the art thing could have reared its interesting head and never let the need for cash put it down? Who knows, the possibilities are endless.
I think the brain is his level of crazy right now as there are a lot of people who are in a state of flux all a round me. Folks who are pondering these very questions with the secret desire to make them come true. I'm lucky enough to be relatively happy and able to think about alternate life paths for fun.
I wish you could see my face right now. I'm pretending to be pissed because the boy has let his schoolwork slip. He asked what I was thumb typing and I told him it was apology letters to his teachers. I need to get back to a mindless game. Easier to maintain resting bitch face.
March 9, 2015
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Then the automated services showed up. I started over again on a thing called Radio Userland (I don't name 'em I just use 'em) http://radio-weblogs.com/0102368/2001/05/08.html I don't really understand why almost 14 year old nonsense still haunts the internet but its interesting. Too bad all of the links and pictures have been stripped out. I was still drawing some stuff for posting back then and my phone pictures sucked hard.
I'm not going to bore you with my posting and different service meanderings over the years. Let's just leave it at I should be a lot better after all this practice. Anyhow, I was kind of off work today but ended up sitting here anyway so tomorrow isn't so bad. Being gone and basically out of communication for a week is trouble. I am one of those mild to moderate OCD people who can't stand large unread count notifications so I needed to dig into the intimidating pile of email. Once I cleared most of the detritus things calmed down quite a bit. Tomorrow will most likely get bumpy but I cut the stack by a considerable amount.
I was playing the Apple keynote in the background because even though we broke up a while ago I still like to keep tabs on whats doing. Those things are very entertaining if you are not a complete locked in fanboy or girl. The clapping must be exhausting. I have trouble mustering applause for a single thing that I love let alone a couple hundred times during a show where people are selling me things.
I swear I heard that there will be a version that starts at $10,000. I actually feel bad for those rich idiots. Douche of the year must be a real thing. There is a part of me that thinks the solid gold 10K version started out as a joke. Something like "I'd bet if we made one out of gold someone would pay ten grand for it." And so they shall.
So if you've been here since this beginning thanks for staying around for more than a hundred of these things. Now get back to work.
March 8, 2015
still spent but a recommendation
March 7, 2015
Winding down
March 6, 2015
Then add in the fact that I was given the coveted after lunch speaking slot and I also followed an incredible professional motivational speaker and you have a recipe for one twisted in a knot of anxiety stupidtom. It didn't help that I was so amped up I couldn't sleep. My talk went well but now I am exhausted. Luckily those two headed out again tonight to see the mouse so I have a couple seconds to myself.
I was trying to go to sleep but my feel are throbbing so badly that I think they might be expanding and contracting cartoon style under the covers. So I thumb type this to you in an effort to ride this out and take my mind off of the pain. My phone says I walked over 5 miles in my dress shoes today. Holy shitsticks tomorrow all day on my feet again is going to be a challenge. I havent been to tired to write in a long time but this week my ass has officially been kicked.
March 3, 2015
Mrs Toads wild ride
It snowed overnight and I knew traffic and travel in general would be a struggle today so I left with plenty of time to get to O'Hare. I wasn't feeling well after the brief trip through our neighborhood so I noticed too late that she was getting on the wrong highway ramp. I told her as we were about halfway up and she got really rattled. She hit the gas as if speed would make up for her navigational error and the car began to fishtail.
Time really does slow down in those situations. I clearly remember thinking "it's OK we are going to hit the guardrail but I am a five minute walk from home and I can start over. My driver had other ideas that probably included keeping her car safe from said same steel rail. Instead she over-corrected to the left which sent us spinning into traffic. Two full revolutions and during the second one she took her right hand off of the wheel and began to cross herself.
That's when I snapped back into reality and began screaming for her to put her hand back on the wheel and take her foot OFF of the gas. We came to rest sort of in the middle lane of the 3 facing oncoming traffic and she was in a full panic. She reached for the shift lever as if to put us in reverse and I barked out instructions again. The oncoming drivers were swerving and slowing so there was an opening to get straight back to the ramp and head in the correct direction. Luckily heading northbound on that particular road isn't very popular (real life friends this is Palatine to 53) from where I live so the move was flawless.
She merged onto the highway and we went up to the next street to turn back into the right direction. In the three minutes it took we were headed back past the site of out spin and there was a huge accident. One vehicle had flipped completely on its head and it looked like five or six total in the calamity. She began crossing herself like crazy and neither of us spoke about her obvious culpability in that whole mess.
After she calmed down she got real chatty. I'm not sure if she thought I was going to report her or if there was some guilt flowing out with the adrenalin but she could not shut up. Probably best because I was fending off motion sickness and her constant chatter was keeping my mind off of an internal evacuation.
I'm at the airport now. Everything is delayed. I sent the required I love you test to my immediate family just in case this is my day and that was just a warning shot pr preview. The sweating and shaking as well as my side order of nausea have all subsided. As soon as I finish thumbtyping this I am going to find something really bad for me to eat. I have no idea how to end this because I am suddenly exhausted.
March 2, 2015
First I read all magazines in que starting with the actual printed ones moving on to the electronic subscriptions. Once that was done and the eyes ached a bit it was time for the DVR. That took most of the day and I diluted all that television with internet. I have a constant backlog of things to look at on the world wide waste of time. I throw most of it into an Evernote folder named Bored. This can be anything that I think might take me down a trail, and, at the moment of discovery, I don't have the time to burn. (Captain Comma just chopped the mess out of that last sentence.) MAN my brain works in some strange ways.
Take this video for instance...
I also had time to get in on a couple of flame wars. I thought about taking screen shots but I don't want to give away all of my real and secret identities in one place. I realize that anyone smart enough can find anything out but I like to pose a little challenge, play hard to get... Anyway, this is the week of the largest cell phone show on the planet MWC or Mobile World Congress where everyone but Apple shows their stuff. I tell you this not only because it is on my bucket list to attend but this week everyone wants to brag and argue about stuff they buy and are going to get.
I really get a kick out of stirring up sh*t. Yesterday I spent a full half hour telling a dude with an htc tattoo (yup, you read that right, smartphone brand on his dumbbody) that I worked for the company and we were in a lot of trouble. I told him that we overspent on celebrity commercials and things were not looking good. He was understandably upset. I even ended the communication with a fake warning from my "corporate security department." Yes, I can be quite the a-hole when I wanna.
This wasn't a random attack by the way. He had spent way too much time going after some Apple and Samsung people and frankly once it annoyed me I jumped in. I might not understand why people feel the need to declare their stuff the best but I do so enjoy arguing with them about it. My latest trick involves confusing the technology in a post. Mention something Android and then mix in a feature exclusively Apple as if they were part of the same system and wait. people. go. crazy.
That even bores the crud out of me after a while once the realization and sadness of a life dedicated to a brand kicks in so I went back to cleaning out my web trash pile. Spend enough time on the internet and you begin to understand why we might be about due for a meteor strike do-over button on the entire human race. We can be a troublesome bunch.


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is ipe sawdust toxic?
Is ipe dust toxic? If so, what can we do to protect ourselves when sanding it? I'm also worried about it lingering and harming the kids.
Depends on your define of toxic. Its not all that great in your nose breathing it straight in no. Using the sprit of a sound mind a thinking person sanding any South American lumber would put on a dust mask or better yet a bandanda soaken in water.
This is pretty much standared wood working 101 not just for ipe but any other wood sanding effort.
If you mean toxic like nuclear waste, or a chem spill from a plastic plant, or little kids eating lead paint chips. No its not toxic there is no lingering mist or ground poison involved with South American lumber sanding.
I have heard of woodworkers that had a bad reaction to Ipe dust. One used to work for me...for a short time. Some people can't handle exposure to any dust. I have been exposed to years of Ipe dust, and I haven't had any bad reactions. When I'm cutting Ipe in the shop, I wear a mask...on a deck, I never wear one.
On the other hand, scientists are working with lapachol as a chemical that slows down certain cancer and HIV cells. Lapachol is found in trees from the Tabebuia family...Ipe.
In some countries, Ipe trees are called Lapacho.
I'm not making this up...check out the link below
I like to think that Ipe dust is keeping me healthy :-)
Here is a link that might be useful: chemical properties of Ipe
EXCELLENT question. there are websites that have the side effects/toxicity of different woods. I was frankly worried when I started using it the first time because I had a bad allergic reaction to tiger wood. Seriously affected my breathing. Happy to say - I had no issues with Ipe
Not specified for specie by OSHA but there is an MSDS for wood dust that captures"all wood dust" as toxic. Like the above masters stated, some are worse than others and some react differently to different people. An ounce of prevention ........
All dust becomes toxic at cetrain levels. Back when I started as a carpenter they didn't know this yet and I developed quite severe allergies to the fine wood dust created by power sanders, which I used all day long. Went to doctors and was told the only wood dust that can cause allergies is Cedar. We never worked with Cedar so I knew this was simply not true. I started wearing dust masks or a respirator when using the power sanders, coupled with vacuum collection and got the allergies under control. Years later the "experts" have determined what we knew all along: breathing any kind of dust is bad for you.
I've been a builder for 15 years now and am in the middle of a good skin reaction from my work with Ipe this week. I'm glad I had my respirator on because it may have saved me from the hospital or?. My affected skin areas are in a state of rash and swelling 3 days since! I've had a history of seeing my skin react to "danger" so I'll likely do a prick test from now on when a new exotic species is presented for me to work with.
When I'm cutting ipe indoors on my table saw, I wear a surgical mask and a face sheild, and of course a vacuum system is a must.
Outdoors I have several streamers hanging around the job site which I check just before cutting so I know where the sawdust is going. If the air is stagnant, I put on a mask, otherwise I don't use one outside.
I lost a friend to COPD a few years back. In his youth he purchased and renovated old buildings and never wore protection for the dusts he encountered. Not knowing will not remove the danger. I would consider it hazardous, because it is impossible to know in the short term what the effects will be 40 years later.


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The hotel is new, rooms are wide, clean, with nice furnitures, a big flat tv, large bathroom, a kitchen and a fridge. Position is ok, 2 blocks from south beach and just 1 from Licoln road. Friendly staff. Free towels and chairs for the beach, water is complimentary. - Anonymous
One of the best think ive ever booked on booking. Amazing location great studio clean lot of Space near Ocean drive. Pedro the owner was on holiday but he make everything really easy for me to enter in the studio. I recommend that address to every people who like great location comfort and great money value. - Anonymous
As a travel warrior, truly enjoyable staying at this apartment at
roughly $100/night in South Miami Beach area (which is downright
cheap). Bedroom, Bathroom, Kitchen, living room, washer/dryer,
dinning table on the side and at kitchen counter. South Beach is only
200m away. Loved the place, will stay here again and again. - Anonymous


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TRAI recommends that reserve price for FM radio channels in a new city should be set equal to 0.8 times the valuation of FM radio channels in that city
People have forgotten that radio is actually the first social media. Everywhere in the world the best interactions before digital came because radio was live. It is digital which has learned from radio and not the other way ...
Wednesday Mar 04, 2015
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has released a Notice Inviting Application (NIA) for the e-auction of the first batch of Phase III frequencies
Tuesday Mar 03, 2015
Big FM maintains its number one position in Mumbai. Fever FM is number one in Delhi while Radio Mirchi and Radio City continue their lead in Kolkata and Bangalore respectively
Friday Feb 27, 2015
Chief among the radio industry's requirements are uniformity and relief from taxation as well as a resolution to the FDI issue, which operators have long wanted to be increased to 49%
Wednesday Feb 25, 2015
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has announced the format of the Phase III migration for current license holders. Operators wanting to move to Phase III need to submit their application by March 9 and before March 23, said the Ministry
Friday Feb 20, 2015
The 3-year lock-in period prescribed under the FM Phase III policy could adversely affect M&A in radio sector