Vr movie stars?
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Posted:Aug 31, 2021 10:00 pm
Last Updated:Sep 4, 2021 10:20 pm
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So I was watching a marvel movie recently, looking at a 40yrs younger version of Michael Douglas, and I started to wonder... when will Hollywood make entire movies like this? I've seen clips of concerts of holo Micheal Jackson (all of the great dancing, none of the problems with little kiddies) so surely we can make a whole movie this way, right? ( I am serious, and don't call me Shirley! Sorry, I couldn't help myself). What if we could do new movies with Fred Astaire break dancing.... ok that's a horrible idea, but you get the idea right? How about a remake of 'On the water front'... you know assuming we can also find away to remove the cotton balls that Brando always had in his mouth. Wouldn't that be a great way to reduce production costs? Not to mention, especially now, health and safety concerns.
Imagine some of the movies we could make.... all new John Wayne cowboy movies. Movies about the Iraq/Afghani wats starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford (yes, he's still alive but a little too old for an action role). Maybe someone could make a decent vehicle for Elvis... or (and this is the whole reason for this post) Blues Brothers 2 with John Belushi so that I can pretend that abomination with John Goodman never happened! I don't blame the cast for that tragedy, I blame the people who agreed to make it.
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Stranger in a strange land.
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Posted:Mar 4, 2017 10:19 pm
Last Updated:Aug 24, 2021 4:57 pm
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So it was not my intention to write a blog post for the V.S., I dont write a lot of posts, and when I do I prefer to write about more goofy topics or make fun of myself... or both. But earlier today I read an article over on Yippe-skippy that really cheesed me off, and several hours later as I was lying in bed I just couldn't shut my mind off and this article was running through my head on a loop.
There is a state rep from the state of Oklahoma who decided to 'protest' an annual peaceful gathering of Muslims by denying them access to his office (and thus himself) unless and until they filled out an ugly, ugly questionnaire. This questionnaire asked such questions as 'your own prophet (name redacted by me) was known to have killed Pagans, Christians, and Jews that did not agree with him, do you agree with his example?' And, then even more subtle asking weather or not they felt that sharia law should rule over non muslims.
I have never been more embarrassed to be an American then when I read that article, lets set aside for a moment that there is supposed to be a separation between church and state because pssst Mr. State Legislator, you are in the government and as such you are supposed to make yourself available to the people you supposedly represent! You don't have to like them, or agree with them, or even do whatever it is that they want you to do... but guess what buddy? YOU DO HAVE TO LISTEN TO THEM!!! That's kind of in your job description.
But set aside, for the moment, that this... gentleman.... is supposed to do this as a part and parcel of his job and lets focus on the facts here:
1) by giving this questionnaire out to every particular person you are saying that ALL muslims are terrorists. So then does this mean that every person alive in Germany in the 1930's and 40's was a nazi? Or what about the people in Russia during the last century when Stalin was going nutso? Or that every single person living in the south during colonial days was a slave owner? Or are all North Koreans responsible for the acts that their leader is perpetrating? And even if we somehow put some kind of a blanket statement out there, then what does that make what you are doing? Are you, and the rest of the United States by proxy, really no better than the North Koreans? Do you, Mr. State Representative, really want to be (credibly) compared to Kim Jun Un? Wow.
Fact 2) you are hiding in your office until those who are different than you answer questions in a way that you want them to answer. So you are admitting to all and sundry that you are afraid of Muslims! You refuse to meet with your own constituents until and unless they renounce many (if not all) of the tennants of their faith, therefore I must conclude that you are afraid of those tennants and what they represent. That is just sad.
Fact 3) by willfully committing such an open act of aggression against someone different than you are, you are discouraging that someone from the sort of open dialogue that we need in order to make this country, and by extension the world, a better place! You are not helping an already tense situation, you are making things worse! The very people that you have snubbed are now angry with you, and they have every right to be! I know this because I am angry too, I am angry at you and I am angry at this state of mis-trust that exists in our country right now that allows acts like this to go seemingly unpunished! In a just world your own constituents would be demanding that you step down from your office immediately, if not sooner. Did it ever occur to you, Mr. State Reepresentative, that by being inviting these Muslims into your office that you might have been able to actuall learn something? Or that perhaps, just perhaps, you would have encouraged an open dialouge and maybe, just maybe, you could have made things better for the people of your state? All the people of your state, and not just the ones that look like you.
Sometimes what is 'strange' can be freightening... and you know what, i sort of understand where he is coming from.... words like ISIS, and al-Queda, and Taliban frighten me too! But to dislike, or even hate, all of a people just because they are different than us is despicable and childish. We shouldn't be frightened of someone or something just because they look different than we do, thats the Klan's job. Are you really no better than the Klan Rep. John Bennett?
I know that this post is taking on soap-boxian dimensions (new words are fun) but I just couldn't let something like this pass... this was the straw that broke the camels back. Congratulations, I am now ashamed to be an American!
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Flyers rule, Red Wings drool.
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Posted:Nov 2, 2016 9:09 pm
Last Updated:Jan 12, 2021 6:35 pm
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This is a painful post for me to make. This is to pay off a bet with an acquaintance of mine, E she being half of the Rainbowsox. My hockey team lost to hers tonight (in ot no less) and so to acknowledge the loss I will 'sing' the flyers fight song. So just a quick note: I actually couldn't find a team fight song, this is the song that the Flyers used to play whenever their team scored... this will have to do instead!
so without further ado here is Bro Hymn by Pennywise
To all my friends present, past and beyond
Especially those who weren't with us too long
Life is the most precious thing you can lose
While you were here the fun was never ending
Laugh a minute was only beginning
Canton, Colvin, Nichols, this one's for you
Ever get the feeling you can't go on
Just remember whose side it is that you're on
You've got friends with you 'til the end
If you're ever in a tough situation
We'll be there with no hesitation
Brotherhood's our rule we cannot bend
When you're feeling too close to the bottom
You know who it is you can count on
Someone will pick you up again
We can conquer anything together
All of us are bonded forever
If I die, you die that's the way it is
To all my friends, present past and beyond
To all those who weren't with us too long
Life is the most precious thing you can lose
While you were here the fun was never ending
Laugh a minute was only the beginning
Canton, Colvin, Nichols, this one's for you
So why was this so painful for me you ask? well I'll tell you, and thank you for asking! Way back when, when I lived in Michigan and we had season tickets to the wings, this is way back when the team was known as the dead wings, the Flyers got this hot young goal tender named Hextall. He was really good and had this swagger about him and we could never seem to beat him... but even worse than that? My older brother loved him, and when he found out that I didn't like the Hextall move, this thing he did using his stick to slap both goal posts so he knew where he was, (which I hated solely, b/c he didn't play for my team) my brother would mimic this move Everywhere: block me in the hallway, block me from the bathroom, block me from watching tv... the fat bastard did it all the time! ugh! So while my level of sports hatred is higher for other teams, I still have plenty of angst against those Flyers!
Enjoy the spoils of your victory!
(for some weird reason) my name is plenty, and tonight I'm E's bitch!
p.s. in case you were wondering what E would have done had the wings won instead... well I don't rightly know, I seem to have forgotten to tell either of those ladies about our bet!
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My self image just got a boost!
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Posted:May 16, 2015 12:26 am
Last Updated:Oct 25, 2020 2:27 pm
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I was at work today and talking with a customer, after I was done another man walked over to me to and said he had to introduce himself b/c I was his eye candy for the day! Now I'm not attracted to men, so I didn't reciprocate, but I'm not immune to a little flattery every now and then! I'm not ashamed to admit that I talked with him a little longer than was necessary and at the end of the conversation I definitely had a smile on my face.
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R.I.P. good sir
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Posted:Dec 5, 2013 8:04 pm
Last Updated:Jun 26, 2014 9:46 pm
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today we lost a great man. Someone who truly shaped the course of history and did so within the scope of my lifetime. through out all of his trails and tribulations Nelson Mandella showed a class and poise that we can all strive to emulate. His never ceasing struggle to unite, unify, and desegregate his country is a legacy that will last forever. Always a gracious and generous man with stories of his approachability seem to be never ending. If I even achieve half of all he has in my lifetime, than I will have lived a very full life indeed. Thank you for making this world a better place than before.
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which are you? master or servant?
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Posted:Nov 17, 2013 10:12 pm
Last Updated:Feb 10, 2022 9:51 pm
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so one of my favorite time wasters at work is to watch cutesy videos (unlike 90% of the internet I am not a cat person and will not watch a cat video) anyways... I was watching a short little snippet today about why humans and dogs are "best friends". seems some research team got a nice fat government grant and this is how they use it... turns out that b/c of their large eyes, and cuteness, we are drawn to dogs in the same way that we are drawn to babies (really? I never would have guessed! great use of govt grant money) however the vid did ask 1 fun question at the end... they asked do you own your or does your own you?
now I have to be honest here.... I don't currently own a dog... and yet every single I meet (that doesn't try to eat me that is) instantly owns me! the way some women are about babies.... that's how I am about dogs. leave me along with that little guy and I guarantee you in under 5 minutes i'll be sweet talking him soo much that, if he could talk, even the would tell me to shut up!
so which one are you? do you own your dog, or does your own you? enquiring, and slightly tipsy, minds want to know!
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christmas creep
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Posted:Nov 13, 2013 9:36 pm
Last Updated:Apr 20, 2024 4:10 am
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has anyone noticed how it seems that the Christmas, or holiday for those of you pc'ers out there, decorations come out earlier and earlier every year? Now as a lazy guy I never put my own personal stuff out until December (and sometimes not til the middle of December, depending on how lazy I am) but then we started to have the black Friday deals and since these sales are all about xmas shopping well then we have to have the decorations out for that! and since we plan on being sooo super busy on that day we wont have the time to put the decorations up on that day, we MUST have them up before them! but even that could be explained.... now factor in the competitive nature of sales and now the rush is on to be the 1st ones to have decorations up (as well as the inevitable contest to see who can out decorate the other) and all of this leads to how it came to be that my local shopping mall had their decorations up today! the 13th! seriously? its still a month and a half away!!!! I don't want to think about Christmas until I've at least bought my turkey!
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another thing that frustrates me...
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Posted:Nov 7, 2013 9:21 pm
Last Updated:Oct 25, 2020 2:27 pm
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i'm sure that i'm very late to the party on this topic... but it bugs the crap out of me. so... as a guy (w/o a photo) I don't get nearly as many profile views and all of the things that go along with that... hotlists, emails, friend req etc (no this isn't what make me mad, i'm getting there)
so when I do notice that I've had some activity on my profile it always gives me a little thrill...except for when its just a spam bot. now I understand that this sort of thing is an ongoing problem, and for the most part this site does a decent job of getting rid of those when they see them... but here's what torque's me off. ok so a spam bot has hot listed me... you've removed the spam bot, why cant you remove that from my main page?
I log in and notice that I've been hot listed... click on the link, and then nothing? wth? don't get me all excited that someone out there might be interested in me only to find nothing there... or at least when I click on the link and see that there isn't anything (or anything new) remove the damn "hit". annoying!
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i get angry over the dumbest things...
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Posted:Nov 6, 2013 9:32 pm
Last Updated:Oct 25, 2020 2:23 pm
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so one of my biggest pet peeves is people who leave shopping carts in open parking spaces or "between" parking spaces... this annoys the crap out of me. when it comes to my car i'm a scratch-aphobic. so thanks to 'everyone' else I am always getting out of my car to move 2 or 3 carts out of the way so that I can then pull into the spot worry free. needless to say I always take my cart to the return bin, even in the rain.
so lately I've been going to a local supermarket, as opposed to wallyworld (as we call it down here). since it is a smaller chain they cant compete with the bigger chains on prices, they make up for it in other ways.... customer service. one of the services they perform for customers is to accompany you to your car help you load up and then take the cart back inside for you.... its win/win all around you get help with your groceries, you don't have to worry about carts in the parking lost and they have delivered excellent customer service that gets you to come back again...
... so how screwed up in the head am I that I hate it when they try to do this for me??? I'm one of the good ones, I take my cart back all on my own thank you! while for other people I see this as great customer service, when they try and do this for me I see it as condescending... as if they don't trust me to bring back the shopping cart on my own. and its not like I need help with my groceries... i'm a bachelor who never buys more than a weeks worth of food, and they don't single me out or anything.... they do this for everyone!
you know if someone wanted to commit me I probably wouldn't fight it too much
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i wonder if this makes me a buddhist.....?
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Posted:Oct 27, 2013 10:17 pm
Last Updated:Apr 20, 2024 4:10 am
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lately I have been 'fortunate' enough to be cc'd onto a rather vitriolic email chain between 2 of my best friends. the subject is a tricky one, religion, so let me state up front that I mean no offense to anyone who reads this...
see one of my friends is an atheist, and the other has recently re-discovered his faith (no, he isn't born again, he's just started observing again), and as you might expect would happen this has led to friction between the 2 of them and in the chain they have each been trying to convince the other around to his own point of view. both are convinced that the other is, not just wrong, but incredibly wrong and it has now gotten to the point where they wont speak to each other in person... and if things keep going this way then even the emails will stop soon too.
so the moment I have dreaded has finally arrived... each of them has asked me what I think. now the interesting thing here is that both know that i have gone back and forth between agnosticism (as it states in my profile) and outright atheism, and when i was younger i used to love to join in these types of arguments convinced that i wasn't just winning the argument... but crushing it. a dozen years and about twice as many friends fewer and i came to, what was for me, a startling revelation...take all of the information in a 'does god exist' and boil it down to its essence and the argument looks like this:
atheist to theist: prove to me, scientifically, that god exists. answer you cant but: prove to me scientifically that he doesn't... afterall it took mankind over 2000 yrs to prove the existence of air and yet it does exist!
atheist to theist: so how do you know god exist? i believe
theist to atheist: so how do you know god doesn't exist? i believe there is no god
see a common theme there? let an atheist say what he wants... but since the existence of god cannot be conclusively scientifically dismissed then what we believe is just that.... a belief.
so it all just comes down to what you believe, and my advice to my 2 friends was just that... believe what you do, stop fighting, and buy me a six pack of beer damn it!
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... uhhh i'm not a mechanical engineer
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Posted:Oct 24, 2013 9:54 pm
Last Updated:Apr 20, 2024 4:10 am
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so later this year and into the next the Lego co will be doing a fun exhibit in our downtown area, and to help promote this we decided to get a lego set and display it prominently in our lobby area. so we (and be we here I mean my boss) picked one out and when it came we had a good laugh b/c we didn't realize that it was 600! pieces, and then we decided that I should be the one to put it together...
now we went with the display of the white house, no not to be political, because within the last calendar year a movie was shot in the area where they basically blew up the white house (think Die hard, but at the white house)....
so i'm a grown adult, graduated college with honors, and yet...... umn yeah this thing made me feel like a 4 year old... I couldn't find the pieces that I needed and then when I did find them I had the hardest time forcing those blasted pieces into the little slots.... since when did making a lego house become so damn hard?
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here i go again..
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Posted:Oct 16, 2013 9:23 pm
Last Updated:Apr 20, 2024 4:10 am
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ok, so I don't want to keep harping on the same subject, but whatever happened to common courtesy? today I had an afternoon shift, so before going into work I went to go get some lunch at subway... cause that way I can pretend that I ate healthy even though I didn't...
when I got there, I arrived at right around the same time as another person, we both got out of our cars and walked to the door and since I got there a few steps ahead of her I opened the door to let her go ahead of me (I should point out that I would have done the same thing regardless of who it was, man/women/garden gnome you name it), she says thank you and walks up to the counter and proceeds to order for her entire office! wait just a minute... I have 1 sandwich order, and you're getting food for 12... and you wont let me go ahead of you? even worse she took advantage of my manners (I wont even say good manners since opening the door for someone behind you is so basic as to be standard) knowing full well that your decision would cost me an extra 30 minutes??? thank you for reminding me why I'm so happy being single!!!
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my halloween costume...
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Posted:Oct 11, 2013 10:20 pm
Last Updated:Apr 20, 2024 4:10 am
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so I was glancing over the blogs list earlier and I noticed someone made a blog post about what she wanted to be for Halloween and I think that's a great idea (even if it is still 2 weeks too early to be thinking about this) and so i'm going to reveal my costume idea...
i'm going dressed as a guy who's not at home! I will be locked in my apartment with all of the lights off and the door closed.
now let me tell you why...
1) i'm a single male, with no , living in an apartment complex full of
2) I don't want to go to jail by mistake
3) bah humbug (is there a Grinch version for Halloween?)
4) b/c even though I buy tons of candy each year, I have no will power and eat it all about 3 hours before sundown anyways (I don't care if i'm sick for the next 2 days, its totally worth it)
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