showrecentposts({"version":"1.0","encoding":"UTF-8","feed":{"xmlns":"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom","xmlns$openSearch":"http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/","xmlns$georss":"http://www.georss.org/georss","id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-11-25T13:43:23.628-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ready, Reset, Go! (2006-2008)"},"subtitle":{"type":"html","$t":"Once again, please.  With less feeling."},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default?alt\u003djson-in-script\u0026orderby\u003dpublished"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default?alt\u003djson-in-script\u0026start-index\u003d26\u0026max-results\u003d25\u0026orderby\u003dpublished"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"305"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"25"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-4172875075586913975"},"published":{"$t":"2009-02-10T16:07:00.010-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-03-13T14:36:14.325-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Oh geez, he's at it again."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Oh my god, this really is like crack, isn't it?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYeah, ok, I'm starting it up again.  Clean slate and all that.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhat will happen?  Haven't a fucking clue.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyways, here it is:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv style\u003d\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-size:180%;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"\"\u003eKeeping things Brief\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd, presumably from the title, I'm aiming for briefness.  Not about being in briefs. Probably.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e(This also probably means I might be poking my head back into your necks of the woods again.  You've been warned.)\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-4172875075586913975?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/4172875075586913975/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d4172875075586913975","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/4172875075586913975"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/4172875075586913975"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2009/02/oh-geez-hes-at-it-again.html","title":"Oh geez, he's at it again."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-8997227704398938163"},"published":{"$t":"2009-01-05T11:29:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-01-05T11:34:38.666-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"obligatory"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Um... yeah.  So I guess I stopped posting here.  \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eDon't know why, exactly.  Just stopped and didn't bother telling anyone.  I figure it's better that way then some GBCW (\"good bye cruel world\") post.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI also abruptly stopping READING all blogs (except maybe joemygod) as well.  Don't know why I did that either.   I just did.  \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMaybe I had my period or something.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyways, so that's why I don't even leave comments anywhere, either.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHeck, most of you get my stupid updates via facebook now anyways.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHope y'all are doing well.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eEvidently, I'm done here.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-8997227704398938163?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/8997227704398938163/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d8997227704398938163","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/8997227704398938163"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/8997227704398938163"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2009/01/obligatory.html","title":"obligatory"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-2942512377555503399"},"published":{"$t":"2008-10-07T14:01:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-10-07T14:10:50.768-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"humor"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"See, this way it all makes total sense."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In a fit of nostalgia, I'll stumbled on this.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI can't say I really have fond memories of the 80s, but the song and the video are a memorable moment.  Makes me remember one of the first guys I ever fell for hard.  \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSigh...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYeah, I hated the 80s.  Almost as much as the 70s and, especially, the 90s.  The 00's kinda suck too.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyways. Yeah. Memories.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut something isn't quite right about this video.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cobject width\u003d\"441\" height\u003d\"369\" classid\u003d\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www2.funnyordie.com/public/flash/fodplayer.swf\" /\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"flashvars\" value\u003d\"key\u003de062d7b4d5\" /\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"allowfullscreen\" value\u003d\"true\" /\u003e\u003cembed width\u003d\"441\" height\u003d\"361\" flashvars\u003d\"key\u003de062d7b4d5\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" quality\u003d\"high\" src\u003d\"http://www2.funnyordie.com/public/flash/fodplayer.swf\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\"\u003e\u003c/embed\u003e\u003c/object\u003e\u003cdiv style\u003d\"text-align:center;width: 464px;\"\u003eSee more \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.funnyordie.com/\"\u003efunny videos\u003c/a\u003e at Funny or Die\u003c/div\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-2942512377555503399?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/2942512377555503399/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d2942512377555503399","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/2942512377555503399"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/2942512377555503399"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/10/see-this-way-it-all-makes-total-sense.html","title":"See, this way it all makes total sense."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-5929475011640878986"},"published":{"$t":"2008-10-06T16:53:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-10-06T16:58:19.157-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Yes, do us all a favor."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Blog: Went \"private\" because I wanted to just go offline for a while but didn't actually want to delete the blog.  Still not sure what I'm doing here at the moment.  Apologies to the few who asked me what was going on and then I didn't reply.  Last week was taking my attention elsewhere.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOther stuff: I suppose I shouldn't laugh, but I have to.  Call it gallows humor:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SOp7Lo3zHsI/AAAAAAAACIo/Xofs-4oWnUA/s1600-h/jumpyoufers.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SOp7Lo3zHsI/AAAAAAAACIo/Xofs-4oWnUA/s320/jumpyoufers.jpg\" border\u003d\"0\" alt\u003d\"\"id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254147355161337538\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-5929475011640878986?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/5929475011640878986/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d5929475011640878986","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/5929475011640878986"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/5929475011640878986"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/10/yes-do-us-all-favor.html","title":"Yes, do us all a favor."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SOp7Lo3zHsI/AAAAAAAACIo/Xofs-4oWnUA/s72-c/jumpyoufers.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-8629512342335562981"},"published":{"$t":"2008-09-29T15:51:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-09-29T16:03:20.034-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"politics"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The House voted against rescuing the economy - albeit with a crappy bill.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eInterestingly, the Democrats produced more \"aye\" votes then they had promised. \u003cbr /\u003eThe GOP, against a Bush and McCain pushed bill, couldn't muster the votes.  That's leadership!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eTheir excuse?  House Speaker Pelosi made a speech critiquing the policies which got us to this point.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSo the GOP voted against a rescue.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWow.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSo, was making such a speech a mistake by Pelosi?  I guess if she knew what a bunch of thin-skinned wimps she was talking to, then maybe so.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut I think Barney Frank (LOVE him!) put it best today:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\"There's a terrible crisis affecting the American economy.  We have come together to alleviate the crisis.  \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight:bold;\"\u003eAnd because somebody hurt their feelings, they decide to punish the country.\u003c/span\u003e\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cobject width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/KLPki41U-lE\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\"\u003e\u003c/param\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"allowFullScreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u003e\u003c/param\u003e\u003cembed src\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/KLPki41U-lE\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u003e\u003c/embed\u003e\u003c/object\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\"Give me those 12 people's names [who were going to vote for the bill but then voted against it] and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them and tell them what wonderful people they are and maybe they'll now think about the country.\"\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-8629512342335562981?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/8629512342335562981/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d8629512342335562981","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/8629512342335562981"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/8629512342335562981"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/09/go-talk-uncharacteristically-nicely-to.html","title":"go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-4267736100159961536"},"published":{"$t":"2008-09-26T12:07:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-09-26T12:10:51.736-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"John McCain"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barack Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"humor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sarah palin"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"politics"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Ex-Beauty Queen Has Got a Gun"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I popped this up on Daily Kos as well...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI know this is just light fare in the face of the insanity we're all seeing.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut it's funny and damn pertinent...  and I've taken the liberty of transcribing the lyrics below the fold.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://juliebrown.com/\"\u003eJulie Brown\u003c/a\u003e just updated her song \"\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003db8hxCpAdCJI\"\u003eHomecoming Queen Has Got a Gun\u003c/a\u003e\".\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe new one is: The Ex-Beauty Queen Has Got a Gun.\u003cbr /\u003eIt's about our favorite Caribou Barbie! \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eShe premiered it on the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://stephaniemiller.com/\"\u003eStephanie Miller\u003c/a\u003e show yesterday.  \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eTake a listen, it's worth it, IMO.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cobject width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/_4Sxhfnp62Y\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\"\u003e\u003c/param\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"allowFullScreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u003e\u003c/param\u003e\u003cembed src\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/_4Sxhfnp62Y\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u003e\u003c/embed\u003e\u003c/object\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis is straight from the radio show.\u003cbr /\u003eLooks like you can buy the song from \u003ca href\u003d\"http://juliebrown.com/\"\u003eJulie Brown's site\u003c/a\u003e or from iTunes.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMy attempt at the lyrics follows:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe Ex-Beauty Queen Has Got a Gun\u003cbr /\u003eBy: Julie Brown\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eLyrics:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt was election year in the USA.\u003cbr /\u003eJohn McCain chose Sarah to save the day.\u003cbr /\u003eWe were real excited,\u003cbr /\u003ewhat a maverick choice!\u003cbr /\u003eher only flaw\u003cbr /\u003ewas that annoying voice.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cem\u003eSarah Palin (SP)\u003c/em\u003e: \"Oh Hi! I'm Sarah Pain!\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eShe looked so cool,\u003cbr /\u003ewith glasses and a gun.\u003cbr /\u003ejust like a nasty\u003cbr /\u003elibrarian.\u003cbr /\u003eshe brought her kids \u003cbr /\u003efor all of us to see.\u003cbr /\u003eThey even licked each other on TV.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt's a little gross but totally adorable!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe crowd was cheering.\u003cbr /\u003eeveryone was stoked.\u003cbr /\u003eIt was like the whole convention\u003cbr /\u003ewas totally coked!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e(except for Joe Lieberman... douche!)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut when she talked,\u003cbr /\u003eI saw the country go to Hell.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd all of a sudden\u003cbr /\u003esomebody yelled:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\"Look Out!  The girl VP's got a gun!!\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eEverybody run!\u003cbr /\u003eThe ex-beauty queen's got a gun!\u003cbr /\u003eEverybody run!\u003cbr /\u003eThe ex-beauty queen has got a gun!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\"Is this really happening??\u003cbr /\u003eI don't believe it!!\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSarah's smiling \u003cbr /\u003eand waving her gun,\u003cbr /\u003esucking in Republicans \u003cbr /\u003eone-by-one!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eDoes the GOP stand for\u003cbr /\u003egullible old party?\u003cbr /\u003eCan't they see\u003cbr /\u003eshe's just Alaskan Barbie?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd poor pregnant Bristol!\u003cbr /\u003eI think I heard her shriek,\u003cbr /\u003e\"Stop it Mom!  \u003cbr /\u003eYou're such a freak!\u003cbr /\u003eWhy do you think \u003cbr /\u003eI have a bun in the oven?\u003cbr /\u003eDo you blame me for getting some\u003cbr /\u003ehockey player lovin'?\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eEverybody run!\u003cbr /\u003eThe girl VP's got a gun!\u003cbr /\u003eEverybody run!\u003cbr /\u003eThe ex-beauty queen has got a gun!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eStop Sarah, I'm so afraid!\u003cbr /\u003eDon't turn back Roe versus Wade!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eShe always get's excited \u003cbr /\u003ewhen someone mentions drilling,\u003cbr /\u003eexcept the kind that gays do\u003cbr /\u003ethen she's really chilling.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cem\u003eSP:\u003c/em\u003e \"Sex is just for guys and gals\u003cbr /\u003ethe Bible clearly states\u003cbr /\u003eif you would just pray harder\u003cbr /\u003eGod would make you straight!\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cem\u003eSome guy:\u003c/em\u003e \"I swear I'm gonna slap that lipstick OFF that pig!\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHow could people think\u003cbr /\u003eshe's the answer to their prayers?\u003cbr /\u003eShe wants to pop a cap\u003cbr /\u003ein all the polar bears!\u003cbr /\u003eAnd what's with all this talk\u003cbr /\u003eof her shooting caribou?\u003cbr /\u003eHow could McNoBrain pick her?\u003cbr /\u003eIs he sniffing glue?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eEverybody run!\u003cbr /\u003eThe girl VP's got a gun!\u003cbr /\u003eEverybody run!\u003cbr /\u003eThe ex-beauty queen has got a gun!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYou're not that hot, I hate to be rude.\u003cbr /\u003eOK you're better than Dick Cheney nude.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eLast night I had a dream\u003cbr /\u003ethat she became Commander-in-Chief!\u003cbr /\u003eMcLame had choked to death\u003cbr /\u003eon a piece of un-chewed beef!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThen someone pissed her off.\u003cbr /\u003ewas it Iraq or maybe Spain?\u003cbr /\u003eShe said, \"let's nuke 'em all\u003cbr /\u003e'cause all ferriners are the same!\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThen she started bombing \u003cbr /\u003eFrance and Mexico and China!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOH MY GOD\u003cbr /\u003eShe's like Hitler with a vagina!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSo then they started bombing back \u003cbr /\u003eand I crawled into the oval office\u003cbr /\u003eand I found Sarah under a desk...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e(which is probably how she got the \u003cbr /\u003enomination in the first place)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e...and I whispered in her face\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\"Sarah, why'd you do it?\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eShe lifted her singed beehive\u003cbr /\u003esmiled and said, \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\"Oh gosh.  I guess I did it for the children.\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\"The children?\u003cbr /\u003eThe children?!?\u003cbr /\u003eWhat do you mean you did it for the children?  There are no children!! You killed them all, they're dead!!! You didn't do it for the children!!!!!\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThen I woke up.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd I thought, \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eoh God! This is like that story, that Christmas Carol, where the ghost of Christmas future was going to amputate Tiny Tim's leg.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut we can still vote for Barack and Joe\u003cbr /\u003eand we'll all be saved!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eUnless we elect Barbie\u003cbr /\u003eand Grampy McSame!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOH GOD No!!!\u003cbr /\u003eNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eEverybody run!\u003cbr /\u003eThe girl VP's got a gun!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eRUN!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eEverybody run!\u003cbr /\u003eThe ex-beauty queen has got a gun!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e(gunshots)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eRun, Polar Bears, Run!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e(gunshots)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eGo, Gay Guys!  \u003cbr /\u003eGet those assless chaps into gear!!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e(gunshots)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eRun knocked-up teens,\u003cbr /\u003eyou're running for two!!!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eShe's INSANE!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eRUN FOR YOU'RE LIVES!!!!!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cem\u003e(gunshots)\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cem\u003eSP:\u003c/em\u003e \"Oh I think I got one.\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cem\u003eSP:\u003c/em\u003e \"Oh look, I winged a homo.\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cem\u003e(gunshots)\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cem\u003e(gunshots)\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cem\u003eSP:\u003c/em\u003e \"Ooh, this is fun!\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cem\u003e(gunshots)\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cem\u003eSP:\u003c/em\u003e \"I got that one in the butt!\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cem\u003e(gunshots)\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cem\u003eSP:\u003c/em\u003e \"Whoo!  Ye-HAAA!  WhooHooHooHOO!!\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cem\u003e(gunshots)\u003c/em\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-4267736100159961536?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/4267736100159961536/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d4267736100159961536","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/4267736100159961536"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/4267736100159961536"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/09/ex-beauty-queen-has-got-gun.html","title":"The Ex-Beauty Queen Has Got a Gun"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-2346516560523914029"},"published":{"$t":"2008-09-21T19:33:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-09-21T19:37:50.904-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"personal"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"blank"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003cdiv xmlns\u003d\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"\u003eI know, I know. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eTalk about being disengaged with everyone, huh?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003ePretty sad, I know.   What a waste.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI've just descended into nothingness.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI know.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI'm basically lost.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI don't know what to say any more.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI'm in a bad way.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eKinda.  Sorta.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut I don't know why.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNot precisely, anyway.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYeah...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI know.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI need happy pills.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOr stability.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOne or the other.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI'd rather have stability.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI'm hurting.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNot to sound whiny... but...\u003cbr /\u003eWell, but there it is.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhiny - annoying - insufferable - whatever you want to call me.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut it's the truth.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI keep wondering who will be there, who will be the guy that will give me the excuse to finally grab my life by the reins and run with it.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI really would like that guy around.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003ebut until then...\u003cbr /\u003eor maybe instead of then...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMaybe...\u003cbr /\u003eJust maybe...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThat guy is me.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eExcept I don't know how to be that guy.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eGuess I should just learn, right?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYeah.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI know.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThere's also the no sex thing.  That doesn't help.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMaybe that's why I'm so ready to bite peoples' heads off.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOr maybe I'm just angry that I'm 40 (ish) and this is my life.  \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOf nothingness.   Of no purpose. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eKinda a waste.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSome guy in P-town, back last month, said, \"hey I've totally seen you around Boston at the bars.  You're always smiling, always so happy.   You make people smile when you're smiling.\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd all I could think was, \"Who?  Me?  Do I smile?\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI smile when I'm out, especially with people I know.   And I kinda mean it, too.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut that also explains why I'm \"out\" so little these days.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIf I can't smile, I don't walk out the door.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eUnfortunately that's most of the time these days.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd... unlike a year or two ago, where I was all calling the waaaaambulance about being all broke up and shit...   well, now I don't know- not precisely - what the problem is.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt's a lot of things.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOr maybe one grand unifying thing.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut, fuck, even physics hasn't figured out the grand unifying thing yet.  No worries that I can't do it, either, right?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eDunno.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-2346516560523914029?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/2346516560523914029/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d2346516560523914029","title":"4 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pluginspage\u003d'http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer'\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/embed\u0026gt;\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-2067839283706323942?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/2067839283706323942/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d2067839283706323942","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/2067839283706323942"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/2067839283706323942"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/09/spread-it.html","title":"I'm Tired of the Phoniness"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-6177766808051508934"},"published":{"$t":"2008-09-17T21:13:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-09-17T21:22:26.586-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"John McCain"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barack Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"politics"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"That's called a staff meeting"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003cobject width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/k7DpPGu1OSw\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\"\u003e\u003c/param\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"allowFullScreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u003e\u003c/param\u003e\u003cembed src\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/k7DpPGu1OSw\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u003e\u003c/embed\u003e\u003c/object\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSpread it.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHere be the direct video link:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003dk7DpPGu1OSw\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003dk7DpPGu1OSw\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHere be the embed code:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u0026lt;object width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;param name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/k7DpPGu1OSw\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/param\u0026gt;\u0026lt;param name\u003d\"allowFullScreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/param\u0026gt;\u0026lt;embed src\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/k7DpPGu1OSw\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/embed\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/object\u0026gt;\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFull speech \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003d6t0uEYMgFMo\"\u003eis at this link here\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-6177766808051508934?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/6177766808051508934/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d6177766808051508934","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/6177766808051508934"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/6177766808051508934"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/09/thats-called-staff-meeting.html","title":"That's called a staff meeting"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-6932057576100077273"},"published":{"$t":"2008-09-17T07:41:00.006-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-09-17T07:53:38.422-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"John McCain"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barack Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"politics"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Shared Responsibility"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I'm not sure why it's not clear.  I'm in a period of blahs, unfocusedness, unclarity, and unsettledness (four non-existent words!)and the one thing I've learned is that me talking about it here is just viewed as whining.  So I'd rather either put nothing up or at least something about which I care.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI care about this.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNo doubt some will take offense at these posts.  I'm not sure I care anymore.  I've been too polite to some.  To restricted in my public views.  No doubt I'll express them, but this blog isn't the place - no one wants that from a personal blog.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSomewhere else, perhaps...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyways...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eShared Responsibility (2 minute ad \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13529.html\"\u003eairing in battleground states\u003c/a\u003e):\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cembed src\u003d\"http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1185304443\" bgcolor\u003d\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars\u003d\"videoId\u003d1799203760\u0026playerId\u003d1185304443\u0026viewerSecureGatewayURL\u003dhttps://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway\u0026servicesURL\u003dhttp://services.brightcove.com/services\u0026cdnURL\u003dhttp://admin.brightcove.com\u0026domain\u003dembed\u0026autoStart\u003dfalse\u0026\" base\u003d\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" name\u003d\"flashObj\" width\u003d\"486\" height\u003d\"412\" seamlesstabbing\u003d\"false\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" swLiveConnect\u003d\"true\" pluginspage\u003d\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version\u003dShockwaveFlash\"\u003e\u003c/embed\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSpread it.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHere be the direct video link:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185304443/bctid1799203760\"\u003ehttp://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185304443/bctid1799203760\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHere be the embed code:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u0026lt;embed src\u003d\"http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1185304443\" bgcolor\u003d\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars\u003d\"videoId\u003d1799203760\u0026amp;playerId\u003d1185304443\u0026amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL\u003dhttps://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway\u0026amp;servicesURL\u003dhttp://services.brightcove.com/services\u0026amp;cdnURL\u003dhttp://admin.brightcove.com\u0026amp;domain\u003dembed\u0026amp;autoStart\u003dfalse\u0026amp;\" base\u003d\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" name\u003d\"flashObj\" width\u003d\"486\" height\u003d\"412\" seamlesstabbing\u003d\"false\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" swLiveConnect\u003d\"true\" pluginspage\u003d\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version\u003dShockwaveFlash\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/embed\u0026gt;\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-6932057576100077273?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/6932057576100077273/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d6932057576100077273","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/6932057576100077273"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/6932057576100077273"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/09/im-not-sure-why-its-not-clear.html","title":"Shared Responsibility"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-242624133388837308"},"published":{"$t":"2008-09-16T09:25:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-09-16T09:29:17.742-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"John McCain"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barack Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"politics"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Fundamentally wrong"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I bet you can tell I'm probably not going to be doing this blog for a whole lot longer.  There's a bunch of dumb reasons for that - I'm unsettled and unfocused in certain areas - but (for those who are interested) I can get into that at another time.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFor now, I'll just keep doing my tiny part...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFundamentally wrong: \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cobject width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/6reQLzgywzk\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\"\u003e\u003c/param\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"allowFullScreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u003e\u003c/param\u003e\u003cembed src\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/6reQLzgywzk\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u003e\u003c/embed\u003e\u003c/object\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSpread it.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHere be the direct video link:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003d6reQLzgywzk\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003d6reQLzgywzk\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHere be the embed code:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u0026lt;object width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;param name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/6reQLzgywzk\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/param\u0026gt;\u0026lt;param name\u003d\"allowFullScreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/param\u0026gt;\u0026lt;embed src\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/6reQLzgywzk\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/embed\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/object\u0026gt;\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-242624133388837308?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/242624133388837308/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d242624133388837308","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/242624133388837308"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/242624133388837308"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/09/fundamentally-wrong.html","title":"Fundamentally wrong"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-8623789402533264921"},"published":{"$t":"2008-09-15T09:30:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-09-15T09:37:08.091-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"John McCain"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barack Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"politics"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Disgraceful, Dishonorable, Disaster"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Disgraceful, Dishonorable, Disaster\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cobject width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/CK3Y1KPzW9k\u0026color1\u003d0xb1b1b1\u0026color2\u003d0xcfcfcf\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\"\u003e\u003c/param\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"allowFullScreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u003e\u003c/param\u003e\u003cembed src\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/CK3Y1KPzW9k\u0026color1\u003d0xb1b1b1\u0026color2\u003d0xcfcfcf\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u003e\u003c/embed\u003e\u003c/object\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSpread it.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHere be the direct video link:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003dCK3Y1KPzW9k\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003dCK3Y1KPzW9k\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHere be the embed code:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u0026lt;object width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;param name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/CK3Y1KPzW9k\u0026color1\u003d0xb1b1b1\u0026color2\u003d0xcfcfcf\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/param\u0026gt;\u0026lt;param name\u003d\"allowFullScreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/param\u0026gt;\u0026lt;embed src\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/CK3Y1KPzW9k\u0026color1\u003d0xb1b1b1\u0026color2\u003d0xcfcfcf\u0026hl\u003den\u0026fs\u003d1\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/embed\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/object\u0026gt;\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-8623789402533264921?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/8623789402533264921/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d8623789402533264921","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/8623789402533264921"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/8623789402533264921"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/09/disgraceful-dishonorable-disaster.html","title":"Disgraceful, Dishonorable, Disaster"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-2341572633481590188"},"published":{"$t":"2008-09-13T08:55:00.007-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-09-13T10:18:52.548-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"John McCain"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barack Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"politics"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Viral sneezes..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SMvLeWva2yI/AAAAAAAACIg/HTej1I9CYfQ/s1600-h/fouad.png\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SMvLeWva2yI/AAAAAAAACIg/HTej1I9CYfQ/s200/fouad.png\" border\u003d\"0\" alt\u003d\"\"id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245509913364060962\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eO Ho Ho Ho!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYou get the title?  \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIs double meaning because I also have head cold! \u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Fouad\"\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eO Ho Ho Ho, is so funny\u003c/a\u003e!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyways, since I'm not doing anything else of use here these days...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eA quickie: Is McCain for child predators? \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cobject height\u003d\"344\" width\u003d\"425\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/X0kiLoMY1hg\u0026amp;hl\u003den\u0026amp;fs\u003d1\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"allowFullScreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u003e\u003cembed src\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/X0kiLoMY1hg\u0026amp;hl\u003den\u0026amp;fs\u003d1\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" height\u003d\"344\" width\u003d\"425\"\u003e\u003c/embed\u003e\u003c/object\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHere be the direct video link:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003dX0kiLoMY1hg\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003dX0kiLoMY1hg\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHere be the embed code:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-size:85%;\"\u003e\u0026lt;object width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;param name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/X0kiLoMY1hg\u0026amp;hl\u003den\u0026amp;fs\u003d1\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/param\u0026gt;\u0026lt;param name\u003d\"allowFullScreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/param\u0026gt;\u0026lt;embed src\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/X0kiLoMY1hg\u0026amp;hl\u003den\u0026amp;fs\u003d1\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/embed\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/object\u0026gt;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eA 3 minute overview: Endless Lies?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cobject height\u003d\"344\" width\u003d\"425\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/IH0xzsogzAk\u0026amp;hl\u003den\u0026amp;fs\u003d1\u0026amp;color1\u003d0x2b405b\u0026amp;color2\u003d0x6b8ab6\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"allowFullScreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u003e\u003cembed src\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/IH0xzsogzAk\u0026amp;hl\u003den\u0026amp;fs\u003d1\u0026amp;color1\u003d0x2b405b\u0026amp;color2\u003d0x6b8ab6\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" height\u003d\"344\" width\u003d\"425\"\u003e\u003c/embed\u003e\u003c/object\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHere be the direct video link:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003dIH0xzsogzAk\"\u003ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v\u003dIH0xzsogzAk\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHere be the embed code:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-size:85%;\"\u003e\u0026lt;object width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;param name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/IH0xzsogzAk\u0026amp;hl\u003den\u0026amp;fs\u003d1\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/param\u0026gt;\u0026lt;param name\u003d\"allowFullScreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/param\u0026gt;\u0026lt;embed src\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/IH0xzsogzAk\u0026amp;hl\u003den\u0026amp;fs\u003d1\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/embed\u0026gt;\u0026lt;/object\u0026gt;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-2341572633481590188?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/2341572633481590188/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d2341572633481590188","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/2341572633481590188"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/2341572633481590188"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/09/viral-sneezes.html","title":"Viral sneezes..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SMvLeWva2yI/AAAAAAAACIg/HTej1I9CYfQ/s72-c/fouad.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-7827538873082940466"},"published":{"$t":"2008-09-08T15:47:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-09-08T16:36:00.187-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"politics"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"This is bad..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Yup, these days I'm more prone to not saying or writing a word. Either that, or I'd let lose some floodgates and go on for pages.  But I don't really feel like it and doubt it would be anything for me but a whine.  So, frak it...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHowever...  This...  is...  bad...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ciframe src\u003d\"http://www.cnn.com/video/savp/evp/?loc\u003ddom\u0026amp;vid\u003d/video/politics/2008/09/08/yellin.palin.faith.cnn\" allowtransparency\u003d\"true\" frameborder\u003d\"0\" height\u003d\"393\" scrolling\u003d\"no\" width\u003d\"406\"\u003e\u003c/iframe\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWe are well and truly frakked if she comes to power. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eRealize, the feelings are now high that she is connected via her church  to \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.alternet.org/story/96945/theocratic_sect_prays_for_real_armageddon/?page\u003dentire\"\u003esomething called Joel's Army, which is claimed by it's founders as\u003c/a\u003e:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003ean Armageddon-ready military force of young people with a divine mandate \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cu\u003eto physically impose Christian \"dominion\" on non-believers\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/span\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\"An end-time army has one common purpose -- \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eto aggressively take ground for the kingdom of God under the authority of Jesus Christ, \u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cu\u003ethe Dread Champion\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/span\u003e,\" [Joel's Army founder, Todd] Bentley declares on the website for his ministry school in British Columbia, Canada. \"The trumpet is sounding, calling on-fire, revolutionary believers to enlist in Joel's Army. ... Many are now ready to be mobilized to establish and advance God's kingdom on earth.\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eJoel's Army followers, many of them teenagers and young adults who believe they're members of the final generation to come of age before the end of the world, are breaking away in droves from mainline Pentecostal churches. Numbering in the tens of thousands, they base their beliefs on an esoteric reading of the second chapter of the Old Testament Book of Joel, in which an avenging swarm of locusts attacks Israel. In their view, \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cu\u003ethe locusts are a metaphor for Joel's Army\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e(emphases mine)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eY'all vote for this, and that's what you're gonna get, I'll wager.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd I'll say this.  Pretty much anyone who's eyes are reading my words will be early targets for their \"physical\" and \"aggressive\" imposition of the  selectively decided laws of a small group of elites. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYou know what bugs me the most - not what scares me, but just bugs me - these folks, I'll bet ya, have never really read much of the Bible.  Just one-liners.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAs someone who's read a chunk of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (no, not all - YOU try reading the whole dang thing!) and pretty much all of the New at one time or another, I feel it's safe to say they don't even know what the frak they're talking about.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSimplest case-in-point, one that always bugged me: anyone who thinks \"\u003ca href\u003d\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia#New_Testament\"\u003espeaking in tongues\u003c/a\u003e\" in the book of Acts means making sounds of that no one can understand, appear as if they never actually read the book.  It's a very simple concept, really: in the section of the book, the evangelizers spoke and, as the story goes, everyone else heard the words in \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003etheir own native language\u003c/span\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt's really quite simple - it's like everyone got a \u003ca href\u003d\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_fish\"\u003eBabel Fish\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut if they didn't know this, if they didn't read the book of Acts (it's, you know, kinda an important story in the New Testament), then I doubt they've read anything else, either.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut, I suppose that's a personal quibble.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBeing killed by power mad thugs however, is not.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt's frakking serious.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-7827538873082940466?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/7827538873082940466/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d7827538873082940466","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/7827538873082940466"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/7827538873082940466"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/09/this-is-bad.html","title":"This is bad..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-8227580614715926200"},"published":{"$t":"2008-08-29T11:05:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-08-29T11:18:03.829-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"provincetown"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Drag queen"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"She treats them with such care"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"This is to make up for \u003ca href\u003d\"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/08/yes-i-realize-i-am-myself-being.html\"\u003ethe ranty post\u003c/a\u003e just below.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOh geez, this is a really funny scene.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOK, background: So there's this drag queen who is often in \u003ca href\u003d\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincetown%2C_Massachusetts\" title\u003d\"Provincetown, Massachusetts\" rel\u003d\"wikipedia\" class\u003d\"zem_slink\"\u003eProvincetown\u003c/a\u003e - and I think I've also seen her in Boston.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd we can never tell if this person is doing a continuous act or if she is, in fact, truly f'd up (drugs, booze, who knows?).\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI'm actually leaning towards a really inspired constantly performed act.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis took place at the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.boatslipresort.com/teadance.htm\"\u003eBoatslip\u003c/a\u003e in Provincetown. The clip starts just after she actually took her \"breasts\" out of her dress and plopped them on the table. The breasts appeared to be potatoes stuffed inside stockings. After brushing them lovingly, she eventually flings them over her back. I don't know how much more there is to say. Just watch and decide for yourself.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cobject width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/6fmyaxM3P6Y\u0026amp;hl\u003den\u0026amp;fs\u003d1\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"allowFullScreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u003e\u003cembed src\u003d\"http://www.youtube.com/v/6fmyaxM3P6Y\u0026amp;hl\u003den\u0026amp;fs\u003d1\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\" width\u003d\"425\" height\u003d\"344\"\u003e\u003c/embed\u003e\u003c/object\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-8227580614715926200?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/8227580614715926200/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d8227580614715926200","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/8227580614715926200"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/8227580614715926200"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/08/she-treats-them-with-such-care.html","title":"She treats them with such care"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-8776064768496726268"},"published":{"$t":"2008-08-29T09:24:00.006-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-08-29T11:15:44.703-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rant"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"personal"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Yes, I realize I am, myself, being judgemental."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Hmmm...  given some folks amazing ability to know everything that has happened to me in the last two months, while I have, in fact, written almost nothing about it, I really have to say something.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThere are those out there who read some words and have long ago believed they understand who I am.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI'm going to so this for those few out there - to most others of you, this does not apply.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThere are those who think they understand my life from what little they can find here.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThey think they do.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut they do not.  And they, in particular, can not.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThey think they understand me because, when it comes to writing about personal life, I have granted a very small glimpse of myself - only from what I have allowed to be said here.  Only what I have very deliberately \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003echosen\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e to say here, for my own reasons - all honest, but only one side of me.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd using that one-sided information, declaired, many times by me, to be clearly selective and somewhat skewed, there are those who come to their absolute judgment.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut this is highly flawed reasoning - that what one sees is all and what one does not see does not exist.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis holds some water in the physical realm, though even there it is not nearly so absolute as that.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn the human realm, however, an arena of such richness of emotion and intellect, the vastness and variety of it's forms of thought and experience so stunningly documented in millennia of poetry and music, history and science, diatribes and calls to purpose, love letters and suicide notes, psychologists' notebooks and tracts of religious devotion, and songs - songs about anything anyone anywhere has ever thought... well, to make such an assumption in this realm, that what little bit you see from a person is all there is to that person, and what you don't see does not exist, is very simply the height of arrogance.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd it is just this - the inability to entertain that there is likely much more to a person than what one, with their oh-so-limited exposure, has had shown to them - which is the very reason such people can not possibly understand the inner workings of myself - or indeed others.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e---\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOK, nuff said.  I have a kind of funny video to post which will move this post down a notch, just to keep things un-serious.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-8776064768496726268?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/8776064768496726268/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d8776064768496726268","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/8776064768496726268"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/8776064768496726268"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/08/yes-i-realize-i-am-myself-being.html","title":"Yes, I realize I am, myself, being judgemental."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-6512270423812724909"},"published":{"$t":"2008-08-27T12:52:00.012-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-08-27T14:16:22.492-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"provincetown"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"travel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"friends"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"last week in provincetown, pt 1"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"To prove there have been times this summer that I have *not* been a sad sack, witness that I was in Provincetown for a full seven days last week.   If, as I now believe, I hadn't eaten that bread with five molds right when I got home, I would have viewed the week as a generally fun one.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eUnlike many other trips, I actually appear in some photographs.  So, I thought I'd share...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMy week in Provincetown began like this, with some friends, like usual these days...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWMT4YLL5I/AAAAAAAACEo/G5z_MItP65k/s1600-h/CIMG1251.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWMT4YLL5I/AAAAAAAACEo/G5z_MItP65k/s320/CIMG1251.JPG\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239248014694625170\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e(As an aside, over a year ago, being with \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eanyone\u003c/span\u003e in in Provincetown was something completely not-normal for me.  As, back then, I had few friends in Boston, I was mainly a loner in P-town.  That can work well, by the way!)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThat evening, totally \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eunlike \u003c/span\u003eusual,  this body essentially fell in my lap.   While I was in our house, waiting to go out, some guys came in.  He was one of them.  He had an interest in me. Etc, etc... It was a mild shock for me but I guess, ultimately, I'm not a dummy.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWLX5a342I/AAAAAAAACDg/lxC11dS379A/s1600-h/PTOWN+2008+118.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWLX5a342I/AAAAAAAACDg/lxC11dS379A/s200/PTOWN+2008+118.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239246984182227810\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eIn the end, I didn't need to go out that night.  As one of my friends said, \"out came in\".\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNext day at the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.boatslipresort.com/teadance.htm\"\u003eBoatslip Tea dance\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWMoT7dhCI/AAAAAAAACE4/whDqx5vkc2g/s1600-h/CIMG1255.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWMoT7dhCI/AAAAAAAACE4/whDqx5vkc2g/s400/CIMG1255.JPG\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239248365687768098\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eOr, heck, it could have been any day at Boatslip Tea, they happen every single day, and they all started to look the same after a while.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSome of my friends acting perfectly normal and uncontroversial.  And Me... no, my eyes weren't closed because I was already drunk or something... they just caught me with my eyes closed.\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWMTVsmxGI/AAAAAAAACEY/8i21BAEZRsg/s1600-h/PTOWN+2008+3+087.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWMTVsmxGI/AAAAAAAACEY/8i21BAEZRsg/s320/PTOWN+2008+3+087.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239248005385077858\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSee!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWMTxkoFFI/AAAAAAAACEw/ITFJRi6u85o/s1600-h/PTOWN+2008+2+010.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWMTxkoFFI/AAAAAAAACEw/ITFJRi6u85o/s320/PTOWN+2008+2+010.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239248012867802194\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSEE!!  (Though I seem perplexed)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWNM2cBsXI/AAAAAAAACFI/0UzxP6F5I9w/s1600-h/PTOWN+2008+3+088.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWNM2cBsXI/AAAAAAAACFI/0UzxP6F5I9w/s320/PTOWN+2008+3+088.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239248993426452850\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnother day at a friend's house...  I've got this bizarre pose going on, though... ??\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWMTHNbMFI/AAAAAAAACEQ/ItBSSBH6nsU/s1600-h/DSC_0047.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWMTHNbMFI/AAAAAAAACEQ/ItBSSBH6nsU/s320/DSC_0047.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239248001496199250\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eThere were other group pictures for which I refused to pose.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSee, I wasn't a sad sack all the time  (I think?)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWNMBMt1_I/AAAAAAAACFA/plx4-Tkz1hs/s1600-h/DSC_0057.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWNMBMt1_I/AAAAAAAACFA/plx4-Tkz1hs/s320/DSC_0057.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239248979135158258\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThough... again with the perplexed...  ???\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWNM7z8SpI/AAAAAAAACFQ/4dvcHUNGd_M/s1600-h/DSC_0016.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWNM7z8SpI/AAAAAAAACFQ/4dvcHUNGd_M/s320/DSC_0016.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239248994868939410\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eOr was I about to do some kind of monkey face?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMore friends and acquaintances...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWNNN30-OI/AAAAAAAACFY/_llvon1A4oY/s1600-h/PTOWN+2008+150.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWNNN30-OI/AAAAAAAACFY/_llvon1A4oY/s320/PTOWN+2008+150.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239248999717075170\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHmm... I've suddenly noticed that all my T shirts are exactly the same style.   I think I need to work on that.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyway, so there was a big boat dancing cruise...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWNNTwdb1I/AAAAAAAACFg/WkDmPqYNviw/s1600-h/CIMG1270.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWNNTwdb1I/AAAAAAAACFg/WkDmPqYNviw/s320/CIMG1270.JPG\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239249001296785234\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eLots of people, dancing, drinks, and rooooollllling waves...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWR9xmgRyI/AAAAAAAACGQ/W29y7s3pBJk/s1600-h/CIMG1310.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWR9xmgRyI/AAAAAAAACGQ/W29y7s3pBJk/s320/CIMG1310.JPG\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239254231988324130\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd Jebus!  There's always one of these guys... ALWAYS.\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWOhS4EN1I/AAAAAAAACFo/8aW3KbEv-Uw/s1600-h/Boat+Cruise+020.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWOhS4EN1I/AAAAAAAACFo/8aW3KbEv-Uw/s320/Boat+Cruise+020.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239250444169262930\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWOhQGztZI/AAAAAAAACFw/Jf1SIahG-vw/s1600-h/Boat+Cruise+021.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWOhQGztZI/AAAAAAAACFw/Jf1SIahG-vw/s320/Boat+Cruise+021.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239250443425789330\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eA guy who's kinda well known in some gay circles... anyone know him?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWSIrsEOYI/AAAAAAAACGY/aEHPjLmOvYA/s1600-h/CIMG1294.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWSIrsEOYI/AAAAAAAACGY/aEHPjLmOvYA/s320/CIMG1294.JPG\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239254419379599746\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eComment to me: \"All these hot guys on this boat and you're taking pictures of the SUN?!?!\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWOh_nfNBI/AAAAAAAACGA/tkQnB7e4oDs/s1600-h/CIMG1340.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWOh_nfNBI/AAAAAAAACGA/tkQnB7e4oDs/s320/CIMG1340.JPG\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239250456179323922\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMacmillan Wharf after leaving the boat cruise...\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWOiEhDMCI/AAAAAAAACGI/y-l0Dy-gOs4/s1600-h/CIMG1364.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWOiEhDMCI/AAAAAAAACGI/y-l0Dy-gOs4/s320/CIMG1364.JPG\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239250457494499362\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI got some more... later.  \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e  \u003cdiv style\u003d\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class\u003d\"zemanta-pixie\"\u003e\u003ca class\u003d\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href\u003d\"http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/be741076-c84b-4f90-b2cc-8bcb49b7b489/\" title\u003d\"Zemified by Zemanta\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" class\u003d\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src\u003d\"http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id\u003dbe741076-c84b-4f90-b2cc-8bcb49b7b489\" alt\u003d\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-6512270423812724909?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/6512270423812724909/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d6512270423812724909","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/6512270423812724909"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/6512270423812724909"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/08/last-week-in-provincetown-pt-1.html","title":"last week in provincetown, pt 1"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SLWMT4YLL5I/AAAAAAAACEo/G5z_MItP65k/s72-c/CIMG1251.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-5002359243961464908"},"published":{"$t":"2008-08-26T10:35:00.008-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-08-26T21:44:28.346-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"depression"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"health"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"No comment required.  Just thought I should say something."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"(Hmmm... UPDATE down below...)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYeah... been a while.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd, in fact, I've been so out of it, I haven't checked any blog any where for weeks.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI was hoping to say that I was under the weather for a few weeks then went to Provincetown for a week and had a very fun time and I'm all good again, ready to chat.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd all that's true, except the last bit.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI'm back to crappy again - out of the blue after having a great time last week - and I'm sad.  It's that simple.  I've just been whacked by one weird ailment after another this summer.  All kinda different, too.  All tests (many) saying I am essentially quite healty.   Wish I could believe it.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt has been brought to my attention that some over imbibing is leaving me open to this.  I look back on last summer and remember I was working out three times a week - at home with no one pushing me - and basically no drinking during the week, quite intentionally.  I seem to recall I had a better summer then, too.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFood for thought, I figure.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAt the moment, I feel firmly trapped in my depressed phase.   At times like this I know I will always be this way and will be trapped and alone with no friends and no loves and sad forever and ever and...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYeah, it's not pretty, my brain.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt's also times like this a partner who could lift me out of this would have been great.  But I think I've learned there's no one out there who could deal with me.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd for a couple of you who've tried to contact me (and thanks for that), well, you can see I don't respond.  I just cower in a corner.  Sometimes with an xbox, sometimes with a book, sometimes with a bottle.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThat I am in this phase right now will surprise some who were with me last week.  I was having - I believe - a great time, thinking I was finally getting back up to speed.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn fact, I wanted to upload a bunch of pictures from the week.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut, now... no.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMaybe I will later, if anyone's around to look.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut for now, I'm tired.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWith a few exceptions it hasn't been a great summer.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e----\u003cbr /\u003eUPDATE: Hmmm... could eating bread that turned out to have three different layers of mold, white, green, and blueish colored, result in being violently ill around 4 hours later?  Because I think that's might be what actually happened. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSo, I came home from Ptown, had a quick sandwich, swallowed a bit of it, but it tasted really, really freaky.   Four hours later, I was horribly, nasty sick.  Two days after that (today), I look at the bread and the slices all around the ones I ate are absolutely covered with thick layers of ick.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhat does anyone think?  Possible?  It'd make me feel better that at least there was a reason for this particular\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-5002359243961464908?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/5002359243961464908/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d5002359243961464908","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/5002359243961464908"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/5002359243961464908"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/08/no-comment-required-just-thought-i.html","title":"No comment required.  Just thought I should say something."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-3333729163732819313"},"published":{"$t":"2008-08-02T08:38:00.005-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-08-02T09:07:29.741-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Sitemeter takes down the internet.  Doesn't care."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"LOL!!!   Boy did Sitemeter fuck up royally.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBy the way, I know I haven't been posting.\u003cbr /\u003eNot sure who's even around any more :(\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut I saw this fiasco brewing this morning and felt like noting it.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFor one thing, it may be affecting YOUR blog, if you have one. So you might want to know about it.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.sitemeter.com/\"\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSitemeter\u003c/a\u003e, one of the two most common web traffic counters in the world,  recently made some change in their site traffic tracking code.  \u003ca href\u003d\"http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/web-sites-using.html\"\u003eAnd the result is a disaster\u003c/a\u003e...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFrom one blog that noted and \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.oneprojectcloser.com/general/sitemeter-crashing-internet-explorer-sites-august-1-2008/#comments\"\u003etracked the issue as of Friday\u003c/a\u003e:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSiteMeter is bringing down\u003c/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eevery site where its counter code is loaded when the visiting browser is Internet Explorer versions 6.0 and 7.0\u003c/strong\u003e.  \u003c/span\u003eThe error may also affect Internet Explorer 5.5. \u003cp\u003eTens of thousands of publishers use sitemeter to track their content, including thousands of bloggers.  The result: \u003cstrong\u003esitemeter takes down the internet?\u003c/strong\u003e  not quite.. but its pretty amazing.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd it is killing every major blog and top website out there - including sitemeter's own site!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut this is the funnier part (from the same blog I just quoted):\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eStatus Updates\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eUpdate @ 9:00pm EDT: No Change.\u003cbr /\u003eUpdate @ 9:30pm EDT: No Change.\u003cbr /\u003eUpdate @ 10:00pm EDT: No Change.\u003cbr /\u003eUpdate @ 10:30pm EDT: No Change.\u003cbr /\u003eUpdate @ 11:00pm EDT: No Change.\u003cbr /\u003eUpdate @ 11:30pm EDT: No Change.\u003cbr /\u003eUpdate @ 12:00am EDT: No Change.\u003cbr /\u003e(sleeping…)\u003cbr /\u003eUpdate @ 7:00am EDT: No Change.  (And even we were surprised by this…)\u003cbr /\u003eUpdate @ 8:00am EDT: No Change.\u003c/blockquote\u003eI had both sitemeter and \u003ca href\u003d\"http://statcounter.com/\"\u003eStatcounter\u003c/a\u003e on my site and, yes, it was crashing too.  And, yeah, removing the sitemeter code from the page fixes it just fine.  If you have Sitemeter on your site, remove code that is bracketed by sitemeter tags:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u0026lt;!--– Site Meter –--\u0026gt;\u003cbr /\u003e...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003efucked up code\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e...\u003cbr /\u003e\u0026lt;!--– Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter –--\u0026gt;\u003c/blockquote\u003eAs a replacement, you can sign up with \u003ca href\u003d\"http://statcounter.com/\"\u003eStatcounter\u003c/a\u003e instead and set the counter to start at whatever your current numbers are.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyway, they're making it far, far worse by (as of 8:40am the day after the fuckup) not fixing the fuckup and\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"\u003e not even talking about it\u003c/span\u003e. \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAt all.\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"\u003eAnywhere.\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eImagine being responsible for nearly every major site in the world going down on 50% of the world's computers and not saying boo for a day.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI figure sitemeter is a hobby and not a company of any sort.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNever was clear how these things made money, anyway.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyways, just thought it was funny how internet businesses work.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOr don't.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-3333729163732819313?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/3333729163732819313/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d3333729163732819313","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/3333729163732819313"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/3333729163732819313"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/08/sitemeter-takes-down-internet-doesnt.html","title":"Sitemeter takes down the internet.  Doesn't care."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-3864738401898454039"},"published":{"$t":"2008-07-28T08:41:00.005-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-07-28T12:37:50.456-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"My brain is bricked."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Any suggestions?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e(Def: \u003ca href\u003d\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_%28electronics%29\" title\u003d\"Brick (electronics)\" rel\u003d\"wikipedia\" class\u003d\"zem_slink\"\u003ebricked\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://bp2.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SI31JmmBswI/AAAAAAAACDQ/S83214Xnl6c/s1600-h/rrd.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 163px; height: 155px;\" src\u003d\"http://bp2.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SI31JmmBswI/AAAAAAAACDQ/S83214Xnl6c/s320/rrd.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228104287774683906\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e(Apologies to \u003ca href\u003d\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems\"\u003eXbox owners for the terror-pic\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003eBeing a new Xbox owner myself, I sympathize with the fear of red.)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv style\u003d\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class\u003d\"zemanta-pixie\"\u003e\u003ca class\u003d\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href\u003d\"http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/70da53ec-6ab2-4117-82d7-65f18a4ebe38/\" title\u003d\"Zemified by Zemanta\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" class\u003d\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src\u003d\"http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id\u003d70da53ec-6ab2-4117-82d7-65f18a4ebe38\" alt\u003d\"Zemanta Pixie\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-3864738401898454039?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/3864738401898454039/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d3864738401898454039","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/3864738401898454039"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/3864738401898454039"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-brain-is-bricked.html","title":"My brain is bricked."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://bp2.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SI31JmmBswI/AAAAAAAACDQ/S83214Xnl6c/s72-c/rrd.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-3793727978674692837"},"published":{"$t":"2008-07-25T12:46:00.008-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-07-26T07:24:10.532-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bloggers"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"web of trust"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I thought this a fitting time to revisit \u003ca href\u003d\"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2007/09/when-i-started-blogging-nearly-two.html\"\u003esomething I put up last year\u003c/a\u003e.  In it, I mentioned that I'd had the good fortune to actually meet quite a few bloggers out there, in person.  Some of them, I've even become quite friendly with and will come visit from time to time.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn fact, just last weekend, two of them (\u003ca href\u003d\"http://hellowaffles.blogspot.com/\"\u003eKalvin\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href\u003d\"http://gaychia.blogspot.com/\"\u003eJR\u003c/a\u003e) came to Provincetown when I decided to visit there myself.  And I'm really happy that, by this unusual mode of meeting, I've actually met people about whom I never would have even known if this was 20 years ago.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI should have expected this, but many folks took the post to be some sort of \"Hey-ay, I have a hella lotta friends!  Whoo-hoo!\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut, no.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIf you'll notice, I never mentioned \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ewhy\u003c/span\u003e I was writing about it.  I was being cautious.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWell, it's because of repeated events like what's just \u003ca href\u003d\"http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2008/07/apology-revoked-and-munchausen-by-blog.html\"\u003ebubbled up at Joe.My.God\u003c/a\u003e:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eRemember Cooper [\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eatari's ed\u003c/span\u003e: NOT \u003ca href\u003d\"http://cooperlowenthal.blogspot.com/\"\u003eCooper Lowenthal\u003c/a\u003e, btw]? The firefighter gay dad of two adopted boys who pulled his widely-loved blog after an \"attack\" of malicious comments and emails from the readers of this blog? Causing me to get extremely bent of out shape and offer Cooper a heartfelt (really) public apology? Over the last few days our little blogosphere has retched forth some unpleasant, uncomfortable revelations about Cooper.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe short version:\u003cbr /\u003eHe is not a firefighter.\u003cbr /\u003eHe is not an adoptive father.\u003cbr /\u003eHe is not gay.\u003cbr /\u003eHe is not, in fact, a he.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/blockquote\u003eRead more there.   Then read about it from the original figure-it-out-er, \u003ca href\u003d\"http://farmboyz.blogspot.com/2008/07/nicky.html\"\u003eFather Tony\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWell, I'd personally been through at least three versions of this type of thing in the past 2.5 years.  Some were bloggers, others only by email, but the bottom line was people not being who they said they were.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSo startling were the first times, due to my stunning naivete, that I have since then never fully trusted the existence of anyone until I'd at least met them.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd it occurred to me that I had read something previously which addressed this issue very clearly.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI actually got the idea from a recent scifi book that takes place only 20 or so years from now.  The world is different than now, but much is inherently similar to the internet and chats, IMs, etc...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis comment happens when a group of known net \"chatters\" get suspicious about a new anonymous chatter that gives  completely unconfirmed identity.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv style\u003d\"margin-left: 40px;\"\u003eTommie shook his head.  \"You could be almost anything.   You could be\u003cbr /\u003ea committee.  When you want to sound like a lit-lover, we get chat\u003cbr /\u003efrom a member who knows about poetry.\"  Tommie tilted back his chair.\u003cbr /\u003e\"There's an old saying: \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003ethe beginning of \u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\" name\u003d\"st\"\u003etrust\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e has to be an in-person\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003econtact\u003c/span\u003e .  I don't see any usable \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\" name\u003d\"st\"\u003echain of trust\u003c/span\u003e in your biography.\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e-Vernor \u003cspan class\u003d\"nfakPe\"\u003eVinge\u003c/span\u003e, \"\u003ca href\u003d\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End\"\u003eRainbows End\u003c/a\u003e\", paperback p.133\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eChain of Trust.  It's real simple, but solid.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYou vouch for someone who vouches for another person who vouches for another, etc etc.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe further away from a person for which you personally can vouch, the less certain you are they are legit.  A person completely separate from the chain is inherently a risk for trust.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd, in reality, it's not a chain - it's a web.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e(BTW, this is going to become very important in the business world and beyond, I'll bet.)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBack then, I first came up with a list of the bloggers that I had actually \u003cu\u003emet in person\u003c/u\u003e up until September 2007 - I need to dig out the list and update it sometime soon.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://bp0.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/RulK2v0jT8I/AAAAAAAABJQ/L9v3O10Mcm4/s1600-h/newme.bmp\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://bp0.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/RulK2v0jT8I/AAAAAAAABJQ/L9v3O10Mcm4/s320/newme.bmp\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109697556638814146\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThen, purely as an inquiry because I was kinda fascinated by webs, I suppose, I asked some other if they didn't mind sharing a list of bloggers they've actually met in person as well.  I also said I'd keep it anonymous if desired.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI didn't pursue it long, but I'd gotten 7 others to respond and got this (with all names stripped out).\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv style\u003d\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cdiv style\u003d\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://bp1.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/RulUE_0jT_I/AAAAAAAABJo/jKRvsiuctzg/s1600-h/7pers+2+nolab.gif\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://bp1.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/RulUE_0jT_I/AAAAAAAABJo/jKRvsiuctzg/s400/7pers+2+nolab.gif\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109707697056600050\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e(\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight:bold;\"\u003eAgain, this is from 2007\u003c/span\u003e)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe eight light blue nodes are me and the seven other bloggers (all of whom I knew) who responded to me.  The lines connect any of those nodes to individual bloggers whom they have met.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhat I called it in my post last year was a \"Web of Contact\". Which is accurate, as I'm basing this initial form of trust on actual real-life contact.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut what it amounts to is a \"Web of Trust\".\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI kinda feel it's going to come to this for any sense of security in bloggerville.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd when I  say \"security\", I mean some sense that the person to whom you may be investing some emotional investment, the person whom you may be offering words or long emails or phone calls of comfort for some hard time they may have fallen upon, is in fact who they say they are.  Or at least are having the problems they say they are.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBecause people don't like wasting their emotions on phantoms.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAny other ideas out there?\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-3793727978674692837?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/3793727978674692837/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d3793727978674692837","title":"11 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/3793727978674692837"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/3793727978674692837"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/07/web-of-trust.html","title":"web of trust"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://bp0.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/RulK2v0jT8I/AAAAAAAABJQ/L9v3O10Mcm4/s72-c/newme.bmp","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"11"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-1093946861222583402"},"published":{"$t":"2008-07-22T10:04:00.005-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-07-22T10:30:42.409-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"science"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"inspiration?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Y'all can see my posting has gotten non-existent.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSorry.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOne of those limbo-times again, I think.  Nothing bad at all.  Just... unclear.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI have a practical question for any and all.  The question is at the end with a BOLD heading.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyone offering any advice would be really, really appreciated.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSadly, once again, it's not a \"gay\" question, so it might not interest anyone...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eA little while back, a friend of mine mentioned that I should actually talk through my \"\u003ca href\u003d\"http://clearthemud.blogspot.com/\"\u003econcepts of science\u003c/a\u003e\" thingies, as opposed to writing.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhy I want to do it is simple.  It's frustrating to see that most of the country doesn't even understand how science works - not the details, the crazy words, the convoluted concepts... just the basic approach.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThat's sad, because many of you out there are doing bits of scientific approaches yourself and you don't even know it.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd it's this approach that has made everything you and I take for granted in this modern world possible.   And it is most likely responsible for many of us being alive.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd, most importantly, the basic concept of how science is done is really very, very simple.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eDoing it a lot and doing it well can sometimes be harder.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe details of a particular exploration may be quite bizarre and hard for most of us to even get a tiny grasp.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut understanding the basic approach...easy.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eUnfortunately, at this point, I think it's the only way I can get these thoughts out of my head.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThat is, I seem to have lost a lot of motivation to \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ewrite\u003c/span\u003e... anything, really.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd unlike maybe a quick catty commentary on some gay gossip du jour (which I obviously don't do much, unfortunately), writing some sort of meditation on a concept gets very little reinforcement by others out there - no, questions that arise, no arguments, no corrections or commentary, no \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003edialog\u003c/span\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd, as I have mentioned before, that's pretty much a death sentence for wanting to write again.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOTOH, if I was writing on demand, for a book or as a job, that would initially be a good stimulus to keep on trucking.  If I had a deadline or real expectation that I will keep on writing, I'd get right on it.  But it's just a thing on the side, right?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMy friend's suggestion - to record my thoughts in voice rather than in writing - might be easier. These days, a lot of my thoughts on these topics are constantly being formed - as whole fracking essays, paragraphs and all - in my head.  I just want to get it O-U-T in some form.  I can edit or revise after that.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI have another issue to deal with, too.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eImagine this thought: If I suddenly die (knock wood that I won't) all my wonderful, amazing and clarifying words (sarcasm) will go with me.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd when I think of *that*, I realize how silly it all is.  Of course, I tell myself, I have absolutely nothing useful to say.  Your aspirations to help explain things to others is a complete joke.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd then I lose all motivation... like, Why bother?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOn the other hand, if I at least start, I'll likely finish even if I'm not sure anyone will care.  And then at least it's done, for good or for bad.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut even there, trying to talk into a microphone, I just am not STARTING, since it's not a normal behavior for me (voice recording).\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt's kinda frustrating - maybe I just need a dedicated time where I'm just going to START.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAlternatively, perhaps recording an actual conversation - with other people - might be the only way to get this out of me.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI am really alone in this and haven't figured out the button to press yet.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-size:180%;\"\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;\" \u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSO, MY QUESTION\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-size:180%;\"\u003e:\u003c/span\u003e Do any of you have a few ideas of how to stimulate oneself for a non-work thing like this?  I just want to make it happen...\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eone day, I'd even love to\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e hone this into a craft from which I could actually make a tiny living\u003c/span\u003e - ie, science writing, etc.   Perhaps some advice would give me a starting point.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-1093946861222583402?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/1093946861222583402/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d1093946861222583402","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/1093946861222583402"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/1093946861222583402"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/07/inspiration.html","title":"inspiration?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-7256282354052658328"},"published":{"$t":"2008-07-19T09:11:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-07-19T09:41:29.959-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"men i'm into"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"scifi"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Nathan's butt is not Horrible"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://www.drhorrible.com/\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://bp3.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SIHqUw5xnkI/AAAAAAAACCo/69qxg2C6d74/s400/dr+horribles+singalong+blog.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224714685171998274\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eGo.  Watch all three webisodes of \"\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.drhorrible.com/\"\u003eDr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog\u003c/a\u003e\" - the complete saga!  \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt won't take that long, I promise.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt's totally worth it.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt's done by \u003ca href\u003d\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon\"\u003eJoss Whedon\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe music is really good, I think.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patrick_Harris\"\u003eNeil Patrick Harris\u003c/a\u003e is in it.  No he's not gay in it.  Yes, he has a very, very good singing voice.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Fillion\"\u003eNathan Fillion\u003c/a\u003e is in it.  He was in the sci-fi show, \u003ca href\u003d\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_%28TV_series%29\"\u003eFirefly\u003c/a\u003e, which I never saw but I hear was great.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eActually, he's yet another example of how every gay man on Earth should be watching lots of sci-fi.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eCase in point:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://bp0.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SIHtFRz8WpI/AAAAAAAACDA/rdD58kgcdIc/s1600-h/firefly134.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://bp0.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SIHtFRz8WpI/AAAAAAAACDA/rdD58kgcdIc/s400/firefly134.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224717717662882450\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eNice ass!  I approve.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThat's from an actual Firefly episode, by the way.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eDo you believe in Science Fiction now????\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOh, you want to see what something other than his ass looks like?  OK, that works, too:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://bp0.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SIHtFIihcTI/AAAAAAAACC4/hFPQCYAIV1A/s1600-h/firefly090.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://bp0.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SIHtFIihcTI/AAAAAAAACC4/hFPQCYAIV1A/s400/firefly090.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224717715173896498\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOK, ok, as for the confirmed gay dude, Neil, he's looking pretty good these days, too:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://bp2.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SIHtFKp7twI/AAAAAAAACCw/yXy016LZhls/s1600-h/met-mother15.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://bp2.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SIHtFKp7twI/AAAAAAAACCw/yXy016LZhls/s400/met-mother15.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224717715741849346\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e(All pictures from \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.superherofan.net\"\u003eSuperherofan.net\u003c/a\u003e.  The fucking best site for men in TV/film.)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyways, go watch the musical while it's still free.   It's great.  No one's naked in it, sadly, but oh well.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.drhorrible.com/\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"display: none;\" src\u003d\"http://www.drhorrible.com/images/banners/banner2.gif\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-7256282354052658328?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/7256282354052658328/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d7256282354052658328","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/7256282354052658328"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/7256282354052658328"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/07/nathans-butt-is-not-horrible.html","title":"Nathan's butt is not Horrible"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://bp3.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SIHqUw5xnkI/AAAAAAAACCo/69qxg2C6d74/s72-c/dr+horribles+singalong+blog.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-5569651578089528137"},"published":{"$t":"2008-07-13T23:25:00.008-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-07-16T07:57:25.865-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rant"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bloggers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"comparatively greener on this side."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Oh man, I thought I had a rough day on Sunday.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eShort story, yes, I had fun Saturday night meeting \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.durbanbud.com/blog/\"\u003eTJ and his bf\u003c/a\u003e and his friend.   We had dinner and then went out for drinks.  But then my mind is muddled because I ended up - by the late evening feeling kinda not right. Fatigue is the right word, but it doesn't create the intensity.   I was literally about to shut down.  And no, it wasn't the booze or whatnot.  I was actually fine on that score. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003ePerhaps it was TJ's personality.  How can someone so sweet voiced imply such, um,  fun?    (More later...?)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNo, in fact, this has happened before to me.  It's been happening every few months or so since last August and it always happens out of the blue.  I mention a similar time \u003ca href\u003d\"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/02/spun-for-loop-and-downloading-youtubes.html\"\u003ein this post\u003c/a\u003e.  I still don't understand it, physically. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyways, I went back to my room and immediately fell asleep and slept for 5 hours during the day.    I'm recovered somewhat quickly the next day.  Unfortunately I had to now go for the work portion of the trip and that made me drag ass for the whole time.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThough I hardly had a bad day in comparison to my coworkers.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOMG.  I can't find a goddam mention of this in the news, but I'm here to tell you that people around the country, including fellow workmates from east, west, north, and south in the US, were trapped in planes sitting in fields going nowhere for 3 hours, 4, 5.... No one could explain why.  \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI mean, fuck that.  Let people fucking OUT so they can have a drink or something.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOutfuckingrageous.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://bp0.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SHrI7E4QJkI/AAAAAAAACCg/7-KKzd-7_gA/s1600-h/Presentation1.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://bp0.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SHrI7E4QJkI/AAAAAAAACCg/7-KKzd-7_gA/s400/Presentation1.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222707635137029698\" border\u003d\"0\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003eSee all those red dots?  Those are all the major airports at 11pm Sunday night.  The dots should be green.  Red means horrific taxi-ing delays, including (so I'm hearing directly) people trapped in airplanes for over 4 hours and THEN they lifted off.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHow much you wanna bet no one was given so much as a peanut?  In some cases, they weren't even allowed to go to the fucking bathroom even though they were NOT flying yet.  I would have peed on the seat in protest.  Serves them right.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFUCK them.  I mean seriously, fuck that bullshit.  Who are these airlines to treat their paying customers like dogshit?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI dunno, it doesn't seem worth paying for a flight. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhy would I pay extra for a checked bag on such a flight.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyway, this confirms my newfound desire to never fly again.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt also teaches me that I didn't really have that bad a day on Sunday... in comparison.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-5569651578089528137?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/5569651578089528137/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d5569651578089528137","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/5569651578089528137"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/5569651578089528137"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/07/comparatively-greener-on-this-side.html","title":"comparatively greener on this side."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://bp0.blogger.com/_opQmE9u3cCY/SHrI7E4QJkI/AAAAAAAACCg/7-KKzd-7_gA/s72-c/Presentation1.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37962862.post-7332687187451425540"},"published":{"$t":"2008-07-11T10:06:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-07-11T10:27:09.483-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"just frakking BEAM me there!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I'll be zipping through DC on Saturday night.  Actually I'll be in the general area for a few days after that but not for fun.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI was hoping to meet a couple of blogger for the first time.  Sadly, I won't be getting to meet \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.jimbo.info/weblog/\"\u003eJimbo\u003c/a\u003e, as a pretty bad situation happened just a few days ago.  I hope he's doing ok and hopefully we'll meet up some other time.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWithout Jimbo, I wondered aloud \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.durbanbud.com/blog/\"\u003eto TJ\u003c/a\u003e whether it was \"problematic that I'd suggested meeting for drinks where one of us doesn't drink and the other is a low-tolerance lush (me).\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eTJ seemed to think it would be fine, if not, in fact, highly amusing - so there you go!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYou know what though - I really wish I didn't have to fly *anywhere*.  It just sounds utterly unpleasant and filled with angry commuters getting charged up the wazoo for every pound of baggage and - soon - for \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/06/03/2008-06-03_will_airlines_start_charging_passengers_.html\"\u003eevery pound they weigh\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eProbably not a surprise that people are gonna \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.news8.net/news/stories/0708/534299.html\"\u003e\"boo!\" airlines for crappy service\u003c/a\u003e after all that?   (Though it's not very wise, as that booing caused the crew to cancel the flight.  Jebus!)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHmmm... probably shouldn't talk like that when I'm about to travel, right?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn fact, just in case, I'll offer to any of the gay flight attendants that, should there be any booing going on, I'll be extra extra nice in private if you let us get where we're trying to go.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eDeal?  \u003dD\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37962862-7332687187451425540?l\u003dreadyresetgo.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/feeds/7332687187451425540/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d37962862\u0026postID\u003d7332687187451425540","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/7332687187451425540"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37962862/posts/default/7332687187451425540"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://readyresetgo.blogspot.com/2008/07/just-frakking-beam-me-there.html","title":"just frakking BEAM me there!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Atari_Age"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/01960542005639877244"},"email":{"$t":"AtariAgeGuy@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"15144625031952219791"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}}]}});