The Workermonkey

Thursday, June 29, 2006

One drink aint enough man, you better make it three… 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 6/29/2006 06:51:00 PM

Anybody? That’s an easy one.

I attended a small professional meeting today in town. I performed the usual morning primping of myself- shave, tuck in shirt, company logo, no slouching…you know all that jazz. I realized once again (and I say that because I have realized it before) that I was the youngest person in the room by far. And by far I mean the next closest guy was probably at least 10 years older, and the next after him was at least 20 years older. I felt somewhat out of place, not only for that reason, but because the majority of the meeting had nothing to do with anything I do at all. I was asked to attend this meeting by chance that they wanted to talk about my program. But I sedated my sense of uselessness by speaking up toward the end and giving my ‘outside’ perspective on things. Which was taken positively. Yeah…good enough, I thought. At least I said something with somewhat relevancy, somewhat well.

And then we all went to lunch. Be not afraid young Brancibeer! Upon looking around the table I see that everyone is misplaced and self conscious in some respect. So why bother? I’m in everyone else’s boat. The conslutant offered me a job too. Those conslutants always seem to have jobs open. They pay good, but I suppose they should for selling your soul. Fuck off buddy.

Speaking of jobs- did you all know I’m moving into a new one? For a multitude of reasons (career, personal) I pursued an opening in Capital city here in my state. It’s a step up the corporate ladder, and hopefully a step out of this shitty hole of a town I live in now. The prospects look encouraging. Last weekend I secured (what I hope is) a cool place to live. Found the ad on craigslist.com (yay for capital city being on that site). A young married couple was looking to rent out a room in a large house they have recently purchased. I fit the recruit of “young professional or grad student” and they seem happy to have me. They seem cool and the place is really nice (screened porch, wireless internet, 3 bathrooms, rec room, large kitchen/ living room, yard, nice neighborhood, close to work, large room) everything for $500/ mo. Already I have many prospects of new friends and fun activities. The job however, will be…different. I was going to say less exciting, but I don’t want to judge yet. I’m afraid the Rockstar Fucking Biologist will be taking a back burner and making way for Rockstar Fucking Administrator. Well….i can work with that for a while. There’s lots to learn and a whole new type of skill set to master. As Murphy would say, you win some and lose some, now lets get wasted.

But oh, the fun of transitioning. I’m going to drop a lot of shit I’ve acquired over the years (almost 2). Which is fine with me. In with the new, out out out with the fucking old baby. I’m taking that fucking city by storm. I’m feeling it. Good times ahead. Good times.

Hope y’all are doing well, I miss you. I’m up to SC for this weekend for a fun visit to a friend. I’ll leave you with this:

[BB] "Dude! Like...keep you fucking eyes on the road!"
[MB] "I got it man. I'm a professional."

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have fun in sc


"i brought you some salami."
"you did? where is it?"
"i dont know, where is it?"
"wait, YOU brought it. you dont know where it is?"
"oh i know, i'm just hiding it."
"ok, but where is it?"
"i'm hiding it. see if you can find it."
"ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

By  josh, at Friday, June 30, 2006 9:24:00 AM  

i suddenly have a craving for salami. yes, yes ... have fun in sc, baby.

By  sadielady, at Friday, June 30, 2006 9:45:00 AM  

you're fucking right i'm a professional

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, June 30, 2006 10:42:00 AM  

and hey, i didn't publish your evidence.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, June 30, 2006 10:43:00 AM  

cue '70s porn music...

By  josh, at Friday, June 30, 2006 11:56:00 AM  

Evidence. I don't know what you are talking about! Your only holding a lighter!

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, June 30, 2006 12:46:00 PM  

yeah, and a small, dirty piece of burning paper.....

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, June 30, 2006 3:52:00 PM  

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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

happy hangover wednesday 

# posted by josh @ 6/28/2006 10:54:00 AM

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a moment of scilence for peter gammons 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/28/2006 08:33:00 AM

Peter gammons is the man. period. i hope he gets better. i hope he can still write. get well soon pete.

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me too...he's far and away the best out there for baseball

By  josh, at Wednesday, June 28, 2006 9:18:00 AM  

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Sunday, June 25, 2006

3rd of July Party 

# posted by wyldshaman @ 6/25/2006 09:57:00 AM

Folks, Fireworks and Foxwoods.

My place, ArtSpace Norwich apartment.

Fireworks are around 9pm, after that ill DD to Foxwoods if anyone is interested.

If you are thinking about coming please post a reply, if its only a few people ill make GardenBurgers with all the fixins, but if its more then a handfull ill just get pizza.

This is a BYOB event.

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i'll be there

By  NoBrainRequired, at Tuesday, June 27, 2006 4:58:00 PM  

count me in so far

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Tuesday, June 27, 2006 6:05:00 PM  

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Saturday, June 24, 2006

Chili and rafting 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/24/2006 01:09:00 PM

two points:

1) I'm making chili.

2) white water rafting in Maine. Greg and Megan do this every year, everyone is invited. it's the weekend of t he 21,22,23 of july. you'll need to take a friday off unless you want to drive 8 hours after work and go rafting the next day. It's 120$ for the whole thing, a campsite for the two nights, the rafting, lunch and something else. They need to know by the end of the week if anyone is interested. Call Greg: 203-868-5219 there are already 20 people going with this crew. We'll make more. should be fun. come get some chili.

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i think joe is planning his annual birthday bbq that weekend too. just fyi for people who might want to do that.

i might come get some chili.

By  josh, at Saturday, June 24, 2006 1:40:00 PM  

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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Get out and Ride 

# posted by ron @ 6/21/2006 10:55:00 PM

If you don't have a bike, go and get one. Do yourself a favor too and spend a bit of cash, 200$ won't get you something worthwhile, 500$ will. It may quite possibly be the best investment of the year.
1) it will keep you fit.
2) you will all ways have something fun to do.
3) you can ride with friends or alone depending on your mood.
4) frustrations can be taken out by a particularly demanding and tiring ride.
5) screw yoga, go take a long solo ride and think about life.
6) its exciting

In conclusion, go buy a bike if you don't have one. If you do have one... have you ridden it today?

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Yoga is free and i have much less of a chance of hurting myself.

But i should learn to ride.... i will contimplate your suggestion deeply.

By  wyldshaman, at Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:09:00 AM  

is this a huffy advertisement?

By  josh, at Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:43:00 AM  

Everyone has their relieving indulgences. Yours is clear, but may not be mine. I went for a rollerblade last night to 'my spot'. That means something to me- masterfully skating is an art.

Its like Tim Looney says, "Like...whatever gets you off...man"

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:44:00 AM  

yea well, I'm just saying if you want to try something new.....

By  ron, at Thursday, June 22, 2006 11:38:00 PM  

unfortunately ron, i don't think riding a bike is anything new to most people. you know how you don't forget it, kind of like riding a bike, you never forget how.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, June 23, 2006 8:27:00 AM  

The same kinda of thing could be said about binge drinking, or gang bangs. In any case, while biking is a lot of fun (especially when you got some place to go, or no where to go, i guess) I think that neither yoga nor biking will do it for me. I need something that requires little effort, either one set of good boobs or several sets of okay boobs (i find both have their merits) and television (BTW: Did you hear Futurama is coming back in 2008 on comedy central {hello swear words}).

Aside from that nonsense.

Thank you Brancibeer for attributing that to me, however I cannot take credit. Though I have preached that in the past, I got it from something Nancy said on "King of the Hill" . I don't think she said "..man" that just sounds like classic TL to me (could just be the whiske though).

And to conclude:

I propose we put some serious thought into thinking about starting a business that installs alternative energy sources on private homes. I've only seen do-it-yourself kits. I'm sure there are people are providing this service but the market is probably not saturated. The question is how valuable is providing the labor to such a task? What is a home owners return on investment on installing these? Is there a signifigant monetary gain? Could we get a piece of it? If people are only doing it for very minimal economic benefit only "feeling good" then we can't hope to turn profit. We need to have mass appealFeel gooders either all ready have it, will do it themselves when they have the money, the only market in feelgoods is the slow growth potential. However, money talks for a large audience. Can we prove value? Even in suboptimal conditions? Could we make whatever devices we install aesthetically pleasing? Simple? Maintanaince free, or easy to it your self? Actually, it would be so bad for the industry if parts wore out from time to time (but not to quick,either). In closing I expect some solid figures from you all. I want component costs, time of installation (assuming that the people intalling are slow witted and cant follow directions), power production, value of substituted energy, how much will the powercompany buy back the enrgy at? Use your brains my fellow monkeys, leave no stone unturned, no beer undrank and no termite uneaten!!!!!!!!!!!!

By  Anonymous, at Friday, June 23, 2006 5:54:00 PM  

We should look at making cheap solor collectors for preheating building water. industrial shops and plants have huge flat roofs just waiting for row upon row of small solar collectors. all we have to do is size the pumps to keep the water flow moving depending on the length of the chain and the height of the roof. Sell it as alternaitive energy and get idiots to fork over the dough. pumps are cheap and if it's just a reflective material focusing in on a pipe it can be constructed simply and cheaply. higher profits. fuck yeah.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, June 23, 2006 10:30:00 PM  

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/21/2006 10:38:00 AM

way too busy, and now this stupid customer want a conference call this morning to discuss "discrepencies". i missed a few little things on one of the spec sheets isent them and now they are all in a fuss, what really gets me is that these things make no difference in the design or construction of anything and should be minor things hammered out with a 30 second email, instead its been dozens of emails and now phone calls, i hate idiots. my head may explode today. fuck work, i wish i was on vacation again.

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and today is wednesday to boot, harbor park hangover is not welcomed in the presence of idiots

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:05:00 AM  

surprisingly, i'm not hungover. must've been all the beer and cigar. or maybe it was the advil.

kolpak called me twice to make sure i brought the clubs, and then he left without getting them. i'll have to drop them by your place or something.

By  josh, at Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:20:00 AM  

deal, what time do you get home from work?

anyone read the seven habits of highly effective people? i'm curious about what it says reguarding "time wasting people".

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:13:00 PM  

i usually get home between 530-6. i dont know that i'll bring them up tonight, i just meant in general. i'm in no real rush. he wants them more than i want to get rid of them.

By  josh, at Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:41:00 PM  

i was just curious, i've got kind of a free afternoon today (assuming i don't just stay at work)and i think i might do some driving around looking at house, maybe i'll just stop by.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, June 21, 2006 3:24:00 PM  

There's a lil' seminar coming up at work about those 7 habits, hosted by the author. I'll let you know next month.
I struggled and conquered: no major errors on a hangover day. At this time last year I was unemployed so Harbor Park nights wouldn't matter.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Wednesday, June 21, 2006 8:11:00 PM  

I have had nothing productive come from conference calls. No one takes them seriously.

By  ron, at Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:07:00 PM  

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Saturday, June 17, 2006

one hell of a summer.... 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/17/2006 11:19:00 AM

this post is not intended to spur discussion, only as a place holder in what i'd liketo think of as the journal this blog represents. Its a mental note about something i don't think i could explain if asked, but i must end it with this: "i'm a fucking genius" and " i was right about both of them". I may have mentioned that this was going to be one hell of a summer, well, it already is.

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Someone got laid this morning

By  Brancibeer, at Saturday, June 17, 2006 2:03:00 PM  

bwahaha

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Sunday, June 18, 2006 9:08:00 PM  

although that might be part of it i'm not refering to it. Infact most of the stuff i'm thinking of happened before i started seeing azling. Some of it was offhand comments made by people i work with who still envy my youth. I'd be lying if i said having all my hair and letting it grow out a little wasn't upsetting the balding types around here. some of this is just the fact that i got out of the funk and am now experiencing the peak to its vally.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, June 19, 2006 8:28:00 AM  

nice...that's what i like to hear buddy

we'll celebrate on tuesday. there may or may not be cigars involved.

By  josh, at Monday, June 19, 2006 9:25:00 AM  

Are you spelling her name right? I would check in on that.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Wednesday, June 21, 2006 8:13:00 PM  

quite you, i've fixed that one already, aisling, bad habit.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, June 22, 2006 4:01:00 PM  

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Friday, June 16, 2006

Imagine 

# posted by wyldshaman @ 6/16/2006 02:04:00 PM

So... i moved to the far east and was a little worried about not getting WESU out of Middletown. But with an open mind and heart i made a leap of faith to WHUS... "Radio for the People." I just wanted to say im very impressed with it. Its alot more multi-cultural, then WESU and i dig that. So anyway to the point here.

So im "re-potting" my plants... no really and grooving to some music and i hear Lennon's Imagine.... except it aint Lennon, its good old George W. Its GREAT!

The Track

Its nice to hear him say some good uplifting stuff.

"Uhhh... PEACE!"

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Moved to a new place, eh? When is the party?

By  ron, at Friday, June 16, 2006 7:10:00 PM  

hilarious ... man

By  NoBrainRequired, at Friday, June 16, 2006 8:58:00 PM  

Ron the party is 3rd of July, there will be fireworks here in Norwich. In a few days ill make an "official" post.

By  wyldshaman, at Saturday, June 17, 2006 7:46:00 AM  

WHUS is probably the best station in Connecticut. I've always been impressd with it.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Sunday, June 18, 2006 9:07:00 PM  

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Thursday, June 15, 2006

Some Mo' 

# posted by DJ Booze Piñata @ 6/15/2006 08:31:00 PM

I got crabs. (left)



Seal Beach (above)
Encinidas area, en route t0 wine county (left)

The First Church of Latter-Day Saints, a Mormon joint. Although we were curious, they wouldn't let us in.













Well by highlighting an empty space then pressing control+C, I can paste in my spaces that my now-defunct spacebar used to put in. So this won't be long becauseit's really annoying. Anyways here's a few more San Diego pics until I get the main batch from Corinne. Look out for Joe Leonard below

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now that's a nice-looking tongue... long, and strong ... hmm...

By  sadielady, at Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:03:00 PM  

A taker for the Gene Simmons fan club, I see?

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NOT ass raped 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/15/2006 01:33:00 PM

i left for my little home training session in VA tuesday afternoon after running around like a chicken with my head cut off until i was finally able to pull myself away from work. I drove very fast back to my apartment to pick up my stuff and then grabbed a quick sandwich from Mills (ask him, i was buzzing). I made it to the airport on time and got to richmond with no problem. i picked up my rental car which happened to be a plymouth seabring convertable, sweet. rocked the top down to the hotel which i got to at about 8. My room was fucking sweet, i had a massive kingsized bed and like a little living room. checked in, grabbed a pizza and a few beers and just chilled until i passed out to Baseball Tonight. woke up and went to the guys house. Totally not what i expected. I had only talked to this guy over the phone twice and had expected a half decrepid old man who had lured me to his house. instead i found an energetic guy in his early 50's who turned out to be pretty cool. I spent the day in his office in the upstairs of his house where he lectured me for about an hour in some of the stuff this program does and then we did problems for the rest of the day. It was kind of cool, i definatly envy him being able to work out of his house like that. I played with his little dog for a while and then we went to lunch down the street. i left his house around 4 and headed back to the airport. i got there with plenty of time but once iboarded they decided to inform us that there was a delay in Philly where my connector was due to the weather. so we sat on the runway for about 45 minutes until it was good to go. of course this killed my 45 minute layover. I had to run from one plane to the next when i landed where they were kind enough to wait for me (i've been stuck in philly before because they had sent the flight off early, i can't explain how pissed i was at that one). Got on the plane only to find we were now 24th in line to take off because of the weather. fuck, sat another hour plus on the runway waiting. i got off in bradly at around 10:45 and went home where i enjoyed a nice glass of scotch and a few bingers until i couldn't keep my eyes open any more. then it was time for work again. once again when i got in this morning there was stuff piled up on my desk that hadn't been shipped or was supposed to be shipped while i was gone (again). i'm so pissed. but the moral of this story is that i was not ass raped by some dirty southerner. mission accomplished.

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Nice work man. I just hope that you find some enjoyment in there and don't get burned out. What was that guy telling you about that you had to fly down there to see it in person. It sounds like it's both sweet and awful to be the man at work.

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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

We're All Saved 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/13/2006 12:05:00 PM

COFFEE will save us.

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Here here! This spurred me to grab a cup this afternoon. Oh, sweet sweet coffee goodness.....

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Monday, June 12, 2006

photo dump III 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/12/2006 08:26:00 PM

This was the end of the week. Saturday was sweet, we started with a big old breakfast in town and followed it up with a little rafting through town. Good stuff. All the rafting companies in town were getting togeather to have a guide company rafting race. Brian, this girl emily and I followed them down the river in the car, making frequent stops. Basically it was chaos for all the drivers as dozens of people got in and out of thier cars for a few miles. It was a long stretch of river. Yellowstone Raft Co. (murphy's) came in third, but it wasn't for lack of him trying. these photos show it all, the glory pose and the throwing up afterword. After the race, one of the locals threw a huge party with all companies invited. it was a great party, booze, food, beer and all right on the river. the first pic is from that night.

In the previous pics, there are mostly landscapes from Glacier National Park and Yellowstone NP. they came out sweet on my new camera, i was impressed. I also took a few short movies with it that came out great. Ask me to show them to you if come around. I ended up taking about 220 pics over the course of the week. it was cool. i suggest you set the glory pose of brancifort as your desktop.

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photo dump II 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/12/2006 08:21:00 PM

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Photo dump 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/12/2006 08:03:00 PM

Massive photo dump. Most of these are great landscape pics of montana. there are some sweet photos in here thanks to my new little camera.

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Ha! I am VICTORIOUS!! That one of you in with the canyon river is sweet. I like my peace pic too. Damn hippies! All these pics make me want to go back.

By  Brancibeer, at Monday, June 12, 2006 9:50:00 PM  

Beautiful

By  Damon, at Tuesday, June 13, 2006 6:12:00 AM  

great pics man!

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An effort of MAMMOTH proportion 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 6/12/2006 12:25:00 PM

Was for me to wake up this morning. Good god it was hard. Apparently a week and a half vacation with 2 buddies is NOT good for professional motivation. Who would have thought...

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i bet your work wasn't as big a mess as mine was this morning. and i got in later then you did. When i got here this morning, there was lterally a pile of stuff on my desk. Nothing got shipped last week because i wasn't here so everyone just dumped the paper work on my desk and waited for me to show up. Also, the one project i left in the hands a other people (i made sure to cover my ass and get more than one person to do this stuff) still got fucked up. I now have two tubesheets with one giant hole instead of 34 little ones. they are very shinny paperweights now, which are now two weeks late. fucking fantastic. Plus, other people have been making promises of work they think i have time to do, so now i'm screwed because there are a bunch of things that have to get done before i leave again tomarrow. tuesday afternoon i leave to go down to virgina for a day and a half to learn a piece of software from some guy in his house. when i tell the whole story it sounds like i'm going to go get ass raped by some dirty southerner. it never ends does it.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, June 12, 2006 1:31:00 PM  

I think i see someone's first mental breakdown coming! Wait for it...wait for it....

Ah, i remember my first....

By  Brancibeer, at Monday, June 12, 2006 1:54:00 PM  

oh man, you're totally gonna get ass raped matt. beware the dirty southerners! also, i take it this means no hp on tues night.

matt, we gotta golf soon

By  josh, at Monday, June 12, 2006 3:19:00 PM  

yes, yes and yes.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, June 12, 2006 3:40:00 PM  

Guesswho'sgettinggolfclubsandlessonsforhisbirthday....
Also,guesswho'sspacebarbrokeonhisgoddamnedkeyboard.That'srightit'smine.ShouldIgobluetoothforthenewone?
IwouldbeannoyedwiththisifIhadtoreadit.Granted,youdon't.

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Saturday, June 10, 2006

On Prayer 

# posted by wyldshaman @ 6/10/2006 08:49:00 AM

In my distress I cried to the Lord, and He heard me.
Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.
What shall be given to you, or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?
Sharp arrows of the warrior, with coals of the broom tree!
Woe is me, that I dwell in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kadar!
My soul has dwelt too long with one who hates peace.
I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
-The Book of Psalms:120

Prayer is not a universal religious practice. In fact the Buddha spoke against it, in the Anguttara Nikaya. Also there is a school of thought about self-actualization prayer. Similar to a personal mantra, where you speak your plans or actions to be accomplished, thus creating in your mind/subconscious the will to act these things out. I think this is used by many sports players to visualize their personal victories whatever they may be and I think this can be successfully used in daily life.

This was part of a larger post in response to Damon’s anti-prayer rant. With all the problems in the world why even discuss the “Prayer Problem,” meaningless or not, im sure that it doesn’t hurt anyone. And if makes someone feel good about themselves or helps them to live a more compassionate life, why shoot it down?

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Please remind when and where my anti prayer rant is. Though I am not religious and think that religion sometimes causes trouble, I know that it helps some people, and think anyone is free to practice whatever they would like so long as it's not hurting others.

By  Damon, at Saturday, June 10, 2006 10:30:00 AM  

its not that i hate prayer (which i do) i'd just rather have people waste thier time for a good purpose, why aren't people praying to scientists or having faith in technology. wouldn't it be more productive if we all took a minute to bow our heads before microsoft? most of hte people who pray every day just need to feel something, why does it have to be religion? if they need to feel a part of a group, or that they belong, fuck, get involved and do something.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Sunday, June 11, 2006 10:46:00 AM  

To Matt:
To answer your first question i think its call Scientology.
2nd answer is Communism.

To Damon:
Not sure, it was about 2 months ago, you commented on an article about prayer being scientifically disproven, if it wasent you im sorry, it was one of you other HERETICS!

By  wyldshaman, at Sunday, June 11, 2006 12:07:00 PM  

Ok yes I remember that article. I think it was just a big waste to study prayer, because like you say the benefit is just like the visualization technique athletes use. Praying can help to calm, inspire, and energize those doing it, but of course nothing connects that person to a patient in a hospital suffering from a heart condition or whatever the study was looking at.

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By  wyldshaman, at Monday, June 12, 2006 7:52:00 AM  

Well... actually it does, we are all connected, if you look into Physics and what Einstein and others talk about. Being made up of atoms/molecules/whatever, the difference between a solid object and air is really not that much. There are vast spaces between even the most dense objects when looked at closely. Anyway, i dont understand all this, but what im getting at is if we are all just balls of energy floating in energy, why cant my energy have some effect upon your energy? I mean it must, right, being connected as such, how can it not? But to study this... well i think its near impossible at this time, but certainly not worthless.

By  wyldshaman, at Monday, June 12, 2006 7:55:00 AM  

Yes people, air, and solids are all made up of very similiar atoms. An alternative form of matter is energy, and these things can interact over distance through magnetic or electric fields, and electromagnetic waves. The reason people aren't connected or affecting each other through these means is that there are trillions of other equally energetic atoms in the way and the strength of fields drops off exponetially with distance. So pray for someone with this physical explantion or put a drop of water in the Thames River and think that I'll feel the resulting wave in the Baltic Sea.

By  Damon, at Monday, June 12, 2006 9:55:00 AM  

I like to discuss the "connectedness" issue. (In fact, i've considered devoting my life to it.) It incorporates science, religion, theory, philosophy, personal beliefes, the unknown. Damon your points are all coming from the science perspective. Which is good and neccessary. Jesse's points are coming from the personal beliefs and feelings. Which is just as good and neccessary. Now, beleive me, i am a man of science. There are certainly things we do not yet know or understand. And there may be things we will never understand. Right now there is more we can discover. There is. A new branch of science i think. It will be scoffed, it will be criticized, but it will prevail. Because we are all seeking the same thing afterall. Truth?

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By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Monday, June 12, 2006 6:45:00 PM  

damn it macunas, you fucked up the whole thing. its just one long word so the site won't break it up. fuck. we're stuck with it like that for like a month.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, June 12, 2006 8:54:00 PM  

This is what macunas said:

Transpersonal psychology is certainly a field I'm excited about,which hopefully will get some attention during our lifetimes. I'm with you Brian. It's very difficult to do any sort of empirical testing on such things right now, making them elusive.
Andyesmyspacebar'sbusted.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, June 12, 2006 8:57:00 PM  

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Friday, June 09, 2006

Memories can be like a kick in the nuts 

# posted by Damon @ 6/09/2006 08:54:00 AM

I'm sitting here applying the school's anal formatting rules to a template for my paper, but it's gorgeous outside so when I glance at the clock and it's almost 3, I think "well that's enough, why don't I find Chris and Jay and see if we can get a spot outside at Sports Cafe?" Of course, then it hits me; because that's 5000 miles and 3 years away.

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i do the same thing when i'm at school. i figure i can go to the next room and get scott, but nope. but at least the next room is empty. if it actualyl contained any of my classmates i would have to drive my screwdriver thru my face.

By  josh, at Friday, June 09, 2006 10:46:00 AM  

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Thursday, June 08, 2006

hp 

# posted by josh @ 6/08/2006 03:23:00 PM

what, so matt goes on vacation and no one goes to harbor park? shawn and i went. the music was marginally better cuz the lead singer from last summer was back. maybe it was the alcohol, but they were kinda funny too. also, joe and amanda made an appearance. good times. well, i'm guessing matt will be back next week, so maybe we'll see everyone there then.

hey matt, thanks for being the glue.

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I got my ass kicked at my race. I just went home in shame.

By  ron, at Friday, June 09, 2006 8:33:00 PM  

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Monday, June 05, 2006

What I Did In San Diego & The Surrounding Areas 

# posted by DJ Booze Piñata @ 6/05/2006 02:52:00 PM

Hello all! I'm back - my body's not totally shot but it'll take a few days to recoup some mental acuity.

So 9 days of good people and good times. I went to San Diego back last Saturday with the lovely Corinne - old college buddy most of y'all prolly met by this point. I didn't intend to be in the doghouse with Kristen over this so I made sure to pick her up some expensive shit for her birthday June 11. Crisis averted.

We stayed out there with Sean Flores and Joe Leonard, who just moved into a new place this month. Dual-futon action ruled the week. I woke pretty early each day however because of the bus stop ten feet away from where I slept. There was actually a 25,000-person marathon Sunday morning around 7am which passed by. Yeah I slept real great! I wish I could wake up to the sound of airhorns just outside my window every day of the week.

Everything (booze) was within walking distance. It was almost too good. So we rented a drop-top Sebring and travelled.

This is outside the Officer's Club at a Marine Corps base. They had a driving range there and the booth guard hooked us up with some entry-action because I had some all-American birthday charisma. The whole military presence there is just ridiculously different. Camp Pendleton is just outside San Diego so the Air Force was always visible practicing maneuvers, just in case Mexico decided to take back their land or something. Every day we'd see really low-flying helicopter squads or harrier jets just screaming over Sunset Cliffs. It was incredible. For posterity here's a shot of Corinne actually doing something physical.

Later that night I did Will Smith's "Miami" at a karoke bar. Then street-rode a shopping cart. Most of our pics are on Corinne's camera so once I get them I'll post some more. Of course most landscape shots just don't come across as impressively on camera as they do in real life, but I know we got some great ones.

We also went up around LA for a couple days, near Rodondo. Venice Beach = awesome. I kind of wanted to see Compton. Compton and Long Beach together, man - you know that spells trouble.

This dude Mikey (lived near Sean and I at Cedar Ridge) moved out to San Diego last year and was throwing an absolutely huge house party on our first night there. I didn't even know this guy was out there. Hundreds of people, a pool, fantastic reggae bands (they did a fucking Steel Pulse cover!), and of course a black cadallac parked at the front door. Yes folks, it actually can be like you see on TV.

On the last day we took a tour of wine county and got predictably soused. Corinne's mom's friend (or something) came with and was part of the Wine Taster's Club so we got a private tour from a really funny Austrian, got to drink straight from the storage tanks, etc. Anyways, it's good to be back. Now I'm 25.

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2 guys in a drop top? sounds... eh ..fun, yea. Pick up any hot guys at the beach? ha ha ha ha hah


looks like you had good time, rock on!

By  ron, at Monday, June 05, 2006 9:35:00 PM  

sweet

that's a great sign behind the car

By  Damon, at Tuesday, June 06, 2006 1:24:00 AM  

Yeah Ron I picked up a bunch of guys. My traveling partner was a GIRL you idiot. Oh, and I met the girl(s) you were talking about Murph - the Wolf made it with the hippie one, eh? ATTA BOY.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:36:00 PM  

Just as I though a gay roadtrip

By  ron, at Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:23:00 PM  

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Sunday, June 04, 2006

Happy days 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/04/2006 04:22:00 PM

good times, great oldies. Ok i know we all love to complain a lot on this thing but here goes a positive note. Things are going sweet. i'm in montana which is fucking beautiful. those mountains are amazing and i'm hanging out with a few old friends i haven't seen in awhile. Branciteam and the Murphy-nation are doing well. I've got a new girl who is sweet, i'm employed at a place where i'm kind of a big deal and which i'm a million miles from. i've got a couple of bucks, a roof over my head and i'm surrounded by a bunch of good friends. This website makes is possible for many of us to stay in contact easily. summer is here, it's warm and sunny. my decent job makes it possible for me to do this cool stuff and i'm having a lot of fun everywhere i go. the rumbler is offcially a national phenomenon enjoyed by dozens. fuck you guys, i'm awesome.

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amen matt!

By  josh, at Sunday, June 04, 2006 6:56:00 PM  

ha! great

By  Damon, at Monday, June 05, 2006 1:58:00 AM  

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Saturday, June 03, 2006

I got rumbled in Bozeman, MT 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 6/03/2006 08:10:00 PM

Wait...was that already used?

What, who's talking...


What was I going to do again...

Murph and I picked up Matt today. Going to hang out in Booze town for a few days. Branciteams been busy exploring and doing. Beautiful country. Here's a few pix from the first leg of the trip:

Me and Murphy after kayaking 'thru town'. (Yes, i'm wearing a wetsuit, that water is goddamn cold! And yes, Murphy is still that big)


A geyser portion of Yellowstone NP


Self-timer pic of a hike I went on in Yellowstone


Landscape shot of same hike

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Looks awsome

By  Damon, at Sunday, June 04, 2006 4:50:00 AM  

damn murph, what are they feeding you out there?

nice pics!

By  ron, at Sunday, June 04, 2006 3:08:00 PM  

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Friday, June 02, 2006

FUCKED 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/02/2006 04:42:00 PM

.. in every sense of the word. it's 4:45 right now on a friday afternoon before my vacation starts and i'm not even close to ready to get out of here. I'm fucked with a customer who finally gave us an order because thier tubesheets sat in a corner for two weeks before anyone told us there were here and now they are going to take 2 more weeks at the machine shop where they need to get drilled, and our customer just told me there is no room for delay on this, so i have to trust someone (i don't know who) to handle it while i'm gone. i can tell you right now it isn't going to happen. this poor guy doesn't stand a chance. plus, the inspector has decided to pick a bone with me now, i don't know why, i haven't ever done anything to him that i know of. i'm the only one here that has any clue what is going on with a heat exchanger so my absense means if a problem pops up in the shop while they are working on it, everything stops. it's due one week from today while i'm in montana.

I had a meeting today with the Cool Owner, Hot Boss, and Son Of Guy i replaced. it went well and i think we finally got a few points across as to why we suck at stuff. things are going to change here for the better but its going to take time and i have to focus on one thing at a time to actually get moving in the right direction. of course, while we were in that meeting things obviously went wrong outside and i'm accumulated multiple messages on my phone which require my attention this afternoon.

i had a nice little fight with Retarded Ex-Family Member, who everyone hates anyway, so it was only due. it feels strange argueing with someone twice your age, and swearing at him to do thier job and cram it. this was at 6 last night when everyone else had already left so i felt ok ripping into him. it was worth it, he hasn't siad two words to me today. Apparently after i left last night he called both Cool Owner and Hot Boss to tell them about what happened and they both said to me today to not worry about it because they know what a pain in the ass he is. sweet.

but basically, i'm fucked. Tonight is going to be a mello one because i have to get up and go to montana early tomarrow. Brian, i'm going to get you drunk. you can't stop it. and once i'm a little tipsy, i won't let it drop. now you're fucked too.

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Yes indeed you are. Too bad none of you other mechanical engineers decided to join the sustainable energy program in Sweden, where I am just back from drinking with the fresh group of young Finnish girls who are filling up the student housing, just after winning a poker game with the new Finnish guys (who are a tiny minority, maybe it's 80% female.) And now sitting at home going over streamflow rates I find a dam I was eying is good for over 6 MW, which is at least $1 M a year in profit. Further, you guys also used to play football, and tomorrow I start at free safety for the a-team, which is my other diversion when not working at my $20/hr part time work-at-home job. Sorry for the return to selfish talk, but my my don't I live the charmed life, and comment on how sweet it is, whilst you guys often complain about how bad it is. Skål (Skole!) is Swedish for Cheers and here's to hoping you all can experience the charmed life in some way or another.

By  Damon, at Friday, June 02, 2006 8:11:00 PM  

But I am sure Montana will give you a taste of it.

By  Damon, at Friday, June 02, 2006 8:11:00 PM  

when i get back, i'm going to cut you.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, June 02, 2006 8:58:00 PM  

umm.... things are great here.

By  wyldshaman, at Saturday, June 03, 2006 8:31:00 AM  

yeah i dont really have any complaints either. i mean, i dont really like my school, but its fine, only 1 year left. next may will be fantastic.

By  josh, at Saturday, June 03, 2006 12:03:00 PM  

I'm sooo great. I'm soo much better than you idiots because I'm going to saved the planet and get rich. I hang out with hot swedish chicks and get paid mega-bucks for reading books into a microphone.

I guess it is too bad I didn't join the sustainable energy program. I'm missing all the poker parties and chicks.

oooh steam flow rates, tricky tricky stuff. Have you learned a lick of math over there? I took a look at your program awhile back. It's nothing more than a glorified undergrad program with a fancy name.

All things aside, I wish you the best in your life path, but please realize that not everyone lives according to damon.

By  ron, at Saturday, June 03, 2006 5:38:00 PM  

Ya damon, i'm going to have to call you on that one. WTF? What kind of a comment is that? Put it in a post- it has nothing to do with MATT'S blog.

Bitching in the blogs is one of its uses. If we all pranced about how awesome our lives were all the time we would sound like a bunch of self-absorbed pricks.

By  Brancibeer, at Saturday, June 03, 2006 8:35:00 PM  

Matt said he's fucked in every sense of the word. I said I have it good in several senses of the word. That's what it has to do with it.

I'm not going to save the planet, and will probably not get rich as the plant to make that $1M cost somewhere over $12M.

Yes my job is easy, yes my program is easy; it does not equate to a US Masters program, but it translates as that so I have to write "Swedish MSc" then explain that it's shorter and doesn't involve the same kind of research.

Did I claim that I was really smart for looking up streamflow rates? No, why do you take it that way? Nothing I am doing is difficult.

But I am a self absorbed prick, and you already knew that, so why act like it's news? I just prefer to look at my situation is a positive light and save my bitching for politics.

By  Damon, at Sunday, June 04, 2006 3:11:00 AM  

ok deal. As long as we can call you on it. You prick! Ha ha.

By  Brancibeer, at Sunday, June 04, 2006 6:04:00 AM  

Wow you're up early on vacation

By  Damon, at Sunday, June 04, 2006 6:08:00 AM  

Or late? in the West, I don't know it's lunchtime here.

By  Damon, at Sunday, June 04, 2006 6:08:00 AM  

This blog was founded on the drunken rants or a workermonkey. It's not a place to brag. Call your mom or something, I'm sure she would love to hear how awesome you are.

By  ron, at Sunday, June 04, 2006 3:07:00 PM  

I didn't mean to brag, though I am arrogant. But if people are talking about how bad their situation is, we don't read that as "I suck," but when I mention how great my situation is, which is due to luck, not due to my ability, y'all read it as "I'm better than you." That is not what was meant, but I am consistantly accused of it, so perception is reality. I was checking earlier today to see if I posted in spring/summer '04 when I was depressed and no I did not. There would have been many more self absorbed posts but on the other end of the spectrum.

But let's see can I find something to complain about? My flat is 287 sq ft (I could complain about converting that into stupid American units too) and I pay just over $900/month for it. That sucks eh? And after months of effort and secluded days in the arctic my Canadian friend is decidely not hooking up with me is apparently seeing this Spanish guy, who I must say myself is quite smooth. Anything else crappy going on? Yeah, tons of people are going home now that classes are over and I'm bored, which probably is why I write comments here when I really have nothing useful to contribute. Oh yeah, and why did I come to Sweden in the first place? Because I applied for over 35 jobs and got zero offers (those requiring not more than high school, of which I took two offers, not included.) So far, with this degree on the resume, I am 0 for 2.

By  Damon, at Sunday, June 04, 2006 3:29:00 PM  

wow, all i did was have a long day at work that kind of sucked. i guess we should all start writing more happy posts. of course these are still tame considering what i used to write in the drunken emails, anyone still have any of those?

i don't think any of us are really doing any better or worse then the others. we're all doing something different and its hard to compare any of it.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Sunday, June 04, 2006 4:17:00 PM  

We all are doing different things and will continue that way. There is no way or need to compare to each other, just compare what you are doing to what you want to be.

I am happy that I spur lots of discussion here. And maybe if I continue to draw criticism so often you can take me down a few pegs.

By  Damon, at Monday, June 05, 2006 5:12:00 AM  

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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Tour de East Hartford 

# posted by ron @ 6/01/2006 11:58:00 PM

just look at that game face.

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yeah but the legs prove you're no serious roadie

By  Damon, at Friday, June 02, 2006 12:26:00 PM  

I'm dead serious.

By  ron, at Saturday, June 03, 2006 5:26:00 PM  

How many bikes do you have now? How long was that ride and how did you do? Is downhill still your favorite, or is the road calling you?

By  Damon, at Sunday, June 04, 2006 4:49:00 AM  

Thats from a crit race, about 17 miles average speed up around 28. I was in the sprint at the finish and faded to about 5th. Last race I flatted with 1 to go but I was sitting 3rd.

I own 5 bikes and ride around 40 miles a week (on and off road). I haven't been downhilling yet this year because I keep delaying buying some new leg armor.

By  ron, at Sunday, June 04, 2006 2:59:00 PM  

Ron: November 22, 2004: "damon, your an old man and you road bike tells the story."

By  Damon, at Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:02:00 AM  

damn, aren't you bored?

besides, I don't ride road bikes, I race them.

By  ron, at Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:28:00 PM  

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