April 2004 Archives

What is «A HREF="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/27/60II/main614063.shtml"»this?«/A» WHAT THE HELL «A HREF="http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/2541484"»IS THIS?«/A»

I am ashamed. There is an inhuman stain upon everyone who wears the US military uniform now, and it's the fault of just a handful of fuckheaded assholes who had no self respect or discipline.

Was this Staff Sergent Bumblefuck brain damaged? Drunk? Ignorant? High?«BLOCKQUOTE»"We had no support, no training whatsoever. And I kept asking my chain of command for certain things...like rules and regulations," says Frederick. "And it just wasn't happening."«/BLOCKQUOTE»The fuckpuddle contiues to dig his hole deeper by claiming to be ignorant of the Geneva Conventions as well. So like, what, they didn't teach you simple rules of behavior at BNOC?

All of these fucks, I want out of my Army, right now. I want them in chains, I want them to be serving hard labor at Levenworth right now, regimented every day for the east of their natural born lives for this atrocity. We went to Iraq to put a stop to this, NOT FUCKING PERPETUATE IT. Now we have to work that much harder, and we have been set back in our mission and caused incalculable damage to our national image around the world.

It disgusts me. This is the first time I've ever seen or heard of a non commissioned officer, reservist or regular Army, whine that there was no officer around to tell him what to do. And the general in charge of multiple prisons? Yank her ass out and strip her of rank and responsibility.

Incompetent fools. We can do this mission, all of it, securing Iraq and killing bastards who would kill us, if we focus and have the discipline to carry ut the mission regardless of the political obstacles and logistical hurdles. We're the fucking United States Army, not a gang of thugs. These wankers wearing a uniform are not members of my Army. They are not soldiers. I am ashamed of their conduct, and it reflects badly upon us all.

Every time I sit at this blasted electronic apparatus, this is what I see when I look up:

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Here's the rest of the mighty workstation:

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Women of childbearing age, take note: I can corrupt your children in less than two hours. The evidence?

This is a test post of the emergency blog system. Had this been an actual emergency, you would be screaming in pain and terror as the flesh was ripped off your bones and consumed in a blaze of radioactivity, followed by news and updates from youe civil defense coordinator. This was only a test.

«A HREF="http://www.blackfive.net/main/2004/04/taking_chance.html"»This«/A» is honor.

Rest easy, Corporal Phelps.

«BLOCKQUOTE»[11:32:13] Jason M : There's a tech working the ticket right now
[11:32:50] CF in : Great, rdryan is our Pastor and email is critical for him.
[11:32:58] CF in : I appreciate your help.
[11:33:11] Jason M : Uhm
[11:32:18] Jason M : We may have a problem with that
[11:32:28] CF in : What problem is that?
[11:32:53] Jason M : Well, the guy working the ticket is our resident Muslim.
[11:33:08] CF in : I see.
[11:33:23] Jason M : He sits right next to the Jew. Is this okay?
[11:33:41] CF in : No, it's not okay. Don't you have any Baptists?
[11:33:59] Jason M : Don't think so. Will a Catholic do?
[11:34:22] CF in : NO
[11:34:37] Jason M : Pagan? Got several in the dial up pool we can draw from.
Your party has left the session«/BLOCKQUOTE»

Maybe I'm just a cornball, but there are people in this world who feel so strongly about their actions that they are willing to risk the lives of women and children, firing behind a wall of innocents to save their own skins and maybe hit an American or two.

Aren't people who are willing to do that just need killin'?

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These are all parts to a larger scene that I'm building, and I wanted to make sure I got the textures correct, which they are, and will now be shuffled off to the larger file for future placement and referencing. The test render turned out to be sufficiently nifty that I went ahead and cranked up the raytracing for a larger image, and here it is.

I know there's some blogger out there with a gun and martini meme, but I cannot recall who it is and I am tired. If said blogger would like a copy or would like a more customized version of this image, lemme know.

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{Guest blogging by NotDeskmerc}

Welcome boys and girls, to Election Year Bedtime Story Hour. Today, we're going to tell a frightening story, but remember: it's only pretend; there's no reason to be afraid.

Let us consider a hypothetical circumstance.

Let us consider the remote and altogether unreasonable possibility that there could be a person who, at one point, sought out… shall we say… professional female companionship of the extremely unconventional sort. By unconventional, we do not mean politically incorrect, but something much more fitting for whimsical creative writing… oh… let’s just say that, for argument’s sake, it’s a «i»death fetish«/i», and leave it at that.

(Now, now... don't ask us how we thought of something that twisted, Billy. We didn't.)

Let us also consider the equally fascinating, but thoroughly impossible idea that this individual was a rather prominent member of a certain major metropolitan legal community.

This would be, of course, ridiculous to consider – the very «i»idea!«/i» – but this is merely a thought exercise, so bear with me.

Now, as we peer into the kaleidoscope of the preposterous, let us imagine that this individual’s reputation in both matters ran toward the… notorious? Is that too strong a word? Flagrant, maybe? But this fictional character in our imaginary world was quite fastidious at keeping both realms of notoriety separated from one another…

And then, just for fun, let’s interject campaign finance reform, requiring that all contributions be publicly published. On the Internet.

The two worlds were bound to collide.

Now that we have set this fanciful stage for you, and we watch our little play carried out to its most outlandish ends.... we would find ourselves faced with the surprising correlation between this (completely fictional) debased, perverse necrosexual lawyer, and funding for a certain presidential candidate whose name sounds like Prawn Fairy.

However, what would really bake your noodle – as all good fiction ought to – we come upon a surprise twist ending wherein we discover that he paid more for one night of fetish indulgence than his entire legally maximum Fairy campaign contribution. That would be a great story, wouldn’t it?

But this is mere fable, and should not be dwelled upon, nor should it influence your opinion of John Kerry as a presidential candidate, to whom this story is not related in any way.

The End.

All characters in this story our fictional. Any similarity to real persons living or, uh … dead, is purely…(ahem)… coincidental.

This story has been brought to you by the letter D, and the number 3.

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Of course I have to add old content. Why not start it off with my favorite slogan?

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And DTFusion. Note the electromagnetic force is unable to overcome the binding force of the soon to be helium nucleus.

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One of my more popular images. Some people just like Excelsior class starships. Mine is not to reason why.

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And this pic (and the entire Judge Moore for Cthulhu flap) got me more hits than any other posting I'd ever made.

More later, but they willbe NEW ones!

Okay, so here goes:

Do this:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Okay, hang on...«BLOCKQUOTE»Figure 3-7. T Waves (A) Normal T waves (B) Tall T wave of myocardial ischemia in a patient with angina but without infarction (C) Deeply inverted symmetrical T wave of anterior infaction (D) Tall upright symmetrical T wave of inferior infarction.«/BLOCKQUOTE»Practical Electrocardiography, Seventh Edition.

I was trying to read my own EKG, thank you very much. Got a problem with that?

Watch me rebuild!

UPDATE:

JEEBUS! THAT was a big fat pain, and I ain't even done yet. Ive managed to save a partial SQL dump of everything I needed template wise, and this blog configuration is using File::DB...and raq SQL has little characters and escape sequences, all of which means I have to scan lines and lines of HTML for that one errant backslash.

Fortunately I found a better way. Whew.