Showdown in Michigan!

Tomorrow’s Michigan vs. Michigan State game is HUGE!

You’re in our house this year. It’s payback time.

On the banks of the Red Cedar
Is a school that’s known to all;
Its specialty is winning,
And those Spartans play good ball;
Spartan teams are never beaten,
All through the games they fight;
Fight for the only colors,
Green and White.
Go right thru’ for MSU,
Watch the points keep growing.
Spartan teams are bound to win,
They’re fighting with a vim.
RAH! RAH! RAH!
See their team is weakening,
We’re going to win this game.
Fight! Fight! Rah! Team, Fight!
Victory for MSU.

Hey, it’s Friday and it’s Halloween! Click if you dare…

Trick? Or Treat?

I’ve seen the “soda vs. pop (and those weirdo’s who say “tonic”)” survey before but Natalie over at Pickle Juice points us to a new survey that she found via Swirlspice. Don’t miss her hilarious take on Minnesotanese.

Check out The Dialect Survey

As Arte Johnson would say “Verrrry Interesting….”

I always called cold cut sandwiches Grinders, but it seems that’s a very east coast thing. Also - no questions about pasties? C’mon! And it’s pronounced past-y not paste-y.

For $1000 Alex…

Spikey! …Woo-Hoo! (mpeg). Great Mercedes S-Class commercial.

You want fries with that?

Those crazy cats (windoze media)

Speaking of cats… apparently the missus wasn’t kidding about evac plans in her comment last night. Look what greeted me on the fridge this morning… Yes, I know she lists 9 cats. For the record we do not own 9 cats. But in the event of an emergency we would save the semi-ferals if we could. Now after seeing the words “loose in the car” I am off to PetSmart today to buy a large crate. There will be no loose animals in the Jeep thankyewverymuch.

In other fire news:
Fires now threaten the high desert. Seems that things are moving away from us for the time being. Regardless, the Fishwrap household is confirming its evacuation plans (Plan A: Hello Phoenix!) and making sure our disaster kits (house and car) are up to date. You should too.

Another gorgeous fire related sunset last night…

Someone just emailed me and asked me where Palm Springs was in relation to the wildfires. I downloaded the satellite images and pointed out a few land marks.

Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead were both evacuated last night. Big Bear is about 30 miles as the crow flies. There are also several large fires burning to the south of us moving our way that are not on Tuesdays image.

Mondays Fires

Tuesdays Fires

Wind shift brings smoke, evacuees to valley

We had the most brilliant sunset last night as the smoke began to make it’s way through the Beaumont Pass. And this morning there is a distinct haze over everything. My eyes burn a bit and my lungs can tell the air quality is rapidly declining.

While I was somewhat relieved to read the above article this morning, I have a problem with one of the quotes:

“Even if the fires came close to Palm Springs, it couldn’t make it over the mountains,” he said. “There’s nothing for it to catch on to there.”

In a word: Bullshit.

We had a major fire that ripped through the entire canyon about 3 years ago. Oh and let’s not forget that there is a FOREST at the top of the mountain. Last time I checked, pine trees were still combustible. But maybe this weatherman knows something I don’t. Check out the Tram Cam for a view of our valley obscured by smoke. Notice the trees? There’s nothing for it to catch on to there my ass..

update: check out this composite radar image. That’s all fire and smoke.

Never hire a crack whore to manage your website!

My brother has a band in FLA and I did a little website for them last year. But because I did it as a freebie, I couldn’t really maintain it for them in the timely manner that they wanted. So they hired some groupie to keep the site updated.

First thing she did was take down the entire existing site and throw up the ugliest piece of crap “Under Construction” page. And that’s the way it sat for the last 3 months.

My brother calls this afternoon and asks if I might restore the site to what it was prior to crack whore taking over. They were firing this chick and well, they could live with sporadic updates rather than no site whatsoever. Sure - no problem.

When I went into the directory, I found over 185 MB of her files. Nothing relating to the band - but entire websites for other bands, p0rn, mpegs, avi’s… tons of stuff. But I didn’t touch any of it, I just restored the bands website.

This chick flipped out. Fuh-lipped I tell you. She deleted all of the files I had just uploaded for the site and put a giant FUCK YOU on the home page.

So I deleted it. She put it back up. I deleted. And so on and so on… It was kind of fun actually. Then I started getting bored while I waited for the password to be reset… so I deleted all 180MBs of her stupid crap. Muuhhahahah…. Everything is back to normal now and she’s locked out. Fuck me?

Uh, no. Fuck YOU very much. Now go suck your pipe and shut the hell up.

“I don’t think my ex-wife was in the Black Market Beanie Trade but then again, I didn’t know she was having an affair either! ”

via Jaded Ju

I’m insane. Are you?

via the missus

To those who wait - or something like that.

Today is a great day. My good buddy and old friend Mopsa has made an incredible announcement!

She and her Lovely Partner are finally getting their kid! It’s been such a long and emotional journey for them with many highs and lows. Now what was once a hope is a reality. It’s time to reap the rewards of their strength and patience. I could not be happier for them! WooFuckingHoo!

Go congratulate them and help Mopsa decide what the kid should call her!