The Workermonkey

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

you know what? fuck you (i think i've used this one before) 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 8/29/2006 01:43:00 AM

no one gets ripped and writes shit anymore. so i'm taking it upon myself to drink WAY too much and write something. anythingt. i don't care. plus i'm buck naked. it's fucking sweet. ok so the state of the state. well... i've started looking for jobs. i'm convincened that i need to organize my life better. so today i made an excell spreadsheet with all the shit i need too do each day starting when i get up. i'm going to try to keep to it. i think there is a 95% chance i'll irgor it by day two. its not impossible to work out every two days, i've got no job, whats stopping me? i9 made a list of shit i have to do. i've never really made lists because i never follow them but it seems like a good idea to keep thoughts straight and keep yourself on some sort of schedual. plus its a way of keeping track of stuff, a written record of what you did or didn't do. written evidence. wow it's cold with nothing on. fuck this weather, it's like summer just took a vacation. before we know it fall will be dropping leaves on us. days fly by when you wake up at noon. i feel like i should be improving myself between jobs, not just fucking around for 10 months again like last ime. i'm not planning any crazy vacations or expecting to collect unemployment, but on the other hand i'd really like ot get it for a week otr two and i'm not exactly busting my ass to get a new job. its not like i need one right away but i feel kind of useless just sitting around not doing shit. what kills me is that i still wake up thinking about the last job and what went wrong and what i was so pissed off about. while looking for jobs today i kept thinking about what type of company i could possibly get into where this shit wouldn't happen. it doens't exist. people suck everywhere. you can't avoid it. at some level i hate you all. i'm incerdibly grateful to have as many good friends as i do but at the same time i hate people. all people. i'm terrible at dropping things. all things, i hate having to be more responsible or more humble than the other person i have a probl;em with in order to settle something. its one thing to have a person appoligise for something in which they wronged you. its another to have to be the bigger person and take that first step if your the one who was wronged. sometimes i'd rather just suck up my pride and appoligise for somethign i didn't do just to get through the problem because i'm kind of in a rush to get past it. but that doesn't help. if i was wronged, why the fuck am i trying to apoligize? isn't that the responsiblity of the person who wronged me? if that person happens to be my boss or someone i'm reporting too, how do you tell them you're pissed and you want to get by it with out being sarcastic or rude? what if they never step up and take responsiblity? maybe i'm just a jerk but i hate being told i'm not doing something i am or that i'm lying when i'm not. what kind of answer are they looking for? GIBAD GIBAD WHOOO!! Whiskey! i finished all the shit i thought i had to do today by 4 and started drinking becasue i was bored. i remember a stipud litttle pahmplet from way back in the day where they listed reasons as to why people did drugs or drank. one of them was boredome. does that make me some sort of crazy drunk/junkie? i've been trying to anylize why /how people become famous and well known, maybe there is somethign to it. maybe i'm just not trying hard enough. no. i'm not crazy enough to be famous. those people have some kind of unnatural dedication to what ever it is they want. i don't like baseball enough to eat/drink/breath drills and plays. i'm not obsessed enough with money to dedicate hours a day to looking at the stock market or the finacial news. i picked engineering because i wanted something that would let me do anything. i wasn't sure what i wanted to do so i picked one that would let me do a lot of stuff. looking for jobs its kind of depressing how specialized you need to be in some of these disiplines. i don't have 5-7 years experience in anything let alone engineering. and most of those jobs i wouldn't want becasue i just don't care about the subject to dedicate that many years of my life to it. i'm a smart kid, i care adn work hard, why does that pigone hole me into one industry because that was where my first two jobs happen to be. i can do a million things besides heat exchangers. i'm awsome at manual labor, i can punch out flashing faster than anyones ever seen. ask skip. simple tasks, i'm the man. but that doesn't pay shit. and i know why. i have the experience to know why. damn it the hicups are killing me right now.you know what thje hardest part of being fired/layed off is? telling the mrogage broker and the realestate agent that i don't have job anymore to pay for the house they want to sell me. they don't get it. that has to be the hardest part. telling everyoine you know WHY you no longer go to work everyday. peopl.e just dont 'get to understand why anyone wouldn't just shut thier mouth and thank god they have a job. i'm NEVER going to do that. keeping quiet or not sauying anything will get you in more trouble that i can explain, plus that makes me feel empty inside. NO job is that important. none. i'm not going to shut my mouth just to keep my job. if i have to do that , the job isn't worth keeping.
Baseball: i watched every pitch of the yanks/sox and now i'm burnt out on baseball. i could care less about hte angels or mariners, but the yanks fucking sucked over t hat stretch. they ended up 7-4 on the road trip after winning 5 in boston. piss poor. that kid karstens got his first win, his first start was great but the bullpen blew it on him so today was his first win. hey, detroit is starting to fall apart huh? who'd have thought? a 4.50 ERA is still a quality start. anyone clinging to the NL wild card should remember that all it takes is a 0.500 team to make it.
and girardi is manager of the year, even if he gets fired. uggla!?! no way, no way could he have been rookie of the year, no way he's even in hte running. i mean to link to a buch of my pre season predictions here but bolgger isn't woking right now (very convienient). ryan howard is the rookie of hte year. hands down, oh wait, he doesn't qualify? nuts. wow i was dead right already about hte phillies

"Philadelphia Phillies; they have some really good players here which would be a great core to a good team. Chase Utley is sweet, bobby abreau is a superstar, jimmy Rollins can hit, Ryan Howard is going to mash, pat Burrell continues to hit and mike liberthal is a solid backstop. But who the fuck lets Billy Wagner walk out of town? It must be the same lunatic who thought tom Gordon was going to be the answer. The phillies have mad some good move and some equally stupid moves. Picking up David delluici for a good young arm was bad; snagging aron rowand from the white sox was good. Getting rid of Jim thome was good, tom Gordon, bad. If they paid attention to a lousy pitching staff they might be able to mess with the Mets this year. They have some great talent to build around but they need to compliment it with good pitching and they haven’t done much to help them selves. Another year of spectacular mediocrity."

wow, i'm a genius

willy taveras either? nuts. melky should get some votes. on;y in kentucky do they wonder why a landing strip was too short. how tall can you stack the beer cans before the fans blows it over? 8, thaats how high, 8. i jate the door, so i'm going to close it. wow. blogger comment verifications are too hard when you'r loaded. i feel a 4 am star wars marathon coming on. you can do that when your unemployeed. feuled by toast!

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i always appreciate when you bring back the original ways of the workermonkey. posting naked is mint, nice work.

the list could be a good thing if you can stick with it.

i'm with you on the job thing. it's pretty customary in my field to take a job that you know will suck. well i dont want to do that. i might not even take the bar, i might use my degree for something else. i'm not overly concerned with money as long as i can get by and be happy. i have great friends, a great family, and a great girlfriend, and i'd like to see them. fuck 80 hrs/wk. take that job and shove it. cut my pay and give me time with the people i love, that's what it's about.

i'm also sort of with you on the whole people issue (but i think you knew that). i cant stand most people (the above-mentioned are exempt of course). but people really suck. they're stupid, inconsiderate, and unreliable. if you want something done right you have to do it yourself. if you NEED something done right, you sure as hell better do it yourself. of course people are inherently flawed, but i think most are more flawed than they need to be.

i'm not even going to talk baseball cuz i'm pissed about it these days, but i will say that tiger woods is fucking amazing. i'd love to see him just apply himself as best he can to see how many tournaments he can win in a row. he's at 6, and the record is 11. people like this only come around once in a long while.

oh, and kentucky is fucking retarded. but we probably already knew that anyway.

By  josh, at Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:12:00 PM  

You'll shut your mouth and keep your job when you get a morgage payment (or any big monthly bill). Until then I expect you'll be fired at least 2 more times. Next time just try to put in your 2 wks before they walk you out.

josh, matt... money is nearly everything. you need it to live, save lots of it and your life will be easier. That doesn't mean you need a 80 hr/ a week job (or 100k a year), just live within your bounds, spend wisely and don't fuck your credit.

Looks like I'm next on deck for a house after matt here struck out. I've run all the numbers and I can swing a 190k morgage if i wanted too. low 200's won't get much of a house these days besides in New Britain and Bristol so it appears that a condo is the best option. Stuff has been staying on the market longer and with the prices falling a bit, rates rising its an interesting time to buy to say the least.

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Monday, August 28, 2006

Jesse quoted in Norwich Bulletin 

# posted by DJ Booze Piñata @ 8/28/2006 01:56:00 PM

So I'm filtering through my legislators' emails, and I read the newsletter from the anti-sprawl group 1000 Friends of Connecticut. Guess who the interviewee is! No ancient literature quotes get in here, although I'm sure he tried.


http://hartford.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=hartford&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.norwichbulletin.com%2F
Utopia's upscale proposal could hurt poor, some fear By RAY HACKETT Norwich Bulletin

NORWICH -- Jesse Czaja moved to Norwich three months ago, taking a job with Mohegan Sun.
"I like it here," he said this past week while visiting City Perk coffee shop with his mother, who was visiting from Massachusetts. "And I'm looking forward to all that's planned and what might happen around here."
What's planned are two major developments that would change the face of Norwich and the surrounding community. Utopia developer Joseph Gentile has plans to construct a $1.6 billion movie studio, school, theme park and resort on the site of the former Norwich State Hospital property in Preston, with dormitories and a high-end hotel on Norwich's 63-acre adjacent property.
Gentile also has proposed a $500 million redevelopment of Norwich's harborfront that includes twin, 37-story towers at the marina, an upscale theme park on Hollyhock Island, a retail plaza above Chelsea Harbor Drive -- and 100 high-end housing units on the site now occupied by the Norwich Police Department.
"It will be a mess when it's under construction," Czaja said, "but I don't see it having any kind of adverse effect."
Not everyone is so sure. Some worry the push toward higher-end housing and huge developments could result in the gentrification of the city, converting Norwich into a more affluent middle-class area, increasing property values and displacing the poor.
"That's already happening," said longtime downtown businessman Harry Lawson. "The city already seems to be moving in that direction, so the timing of this is just right. It seems like the city wants to move people out with higher rents and higher taxes."
Lawrence Yun, a senior economist with the National Association of Realtors, said Eastern Connecticut is experiencing many of the same problems larger cities feel. What's different is huge projects such as Gentile's aren't typically proposed in rural settings. The risk, in this case, is with the developer, Yun said, because residents can exercise control over the development -- depending on how politically active they want to be.
"Take a look at a city like San Francisco, where there are lots of regulations," Yun said. "That enables the city to manage the growth, giving residents more control over the lifestyle. The idea is if you build it, they will come. And if they come, they're going to drive up the rental prices, making it difficult for low-income and some middle-income families to stay."
Norwich Human Services Director Beverly Goulet said a better example might be Atlantic City, where the waterfront was developed by casinos and the rest of the city suffered.
"What I want to see is something that benefits all of the residents," she said. "If it's done right, with all the checks and balances, everyone can be a winner. My concern is we're creating jobs that don't pay a living wage. And if the costs continue to climb, people are never going to climb up the ladder."
Norwich is considered one of the state's top 25 distressed municipalities, a distinction based on a number of statistics relating to income levels. At several city schools, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced lunches run as high as 70 percent.
"If we just allow a development like this to happen without also addressing these kinds of problems, we're going to be in trouble down the road," Goulet said. "We're not going to like where we live."
But Yun said these kinds of developments create jobs, something the Northeast has lagged well behind in compared to the rest of the nation.
"It is a double-edged sword," said economist Alissa DeJonge with the Connecticut Economic Research Center. "There definitely would be employment opportunities that would be available to residents. But, on the other hand, there's the cost issue. Land values and housing costs could be a problem."
DeJonge said those issues are as critical for the developer as for residents, a reason why the entire community needs to be involved in the discussion and planning stages.
"If the low-income and middle-income population is driven out, you lose your worker population," she said. "If there's a way to incorporate that segment of the population into the planning, you're likely to have much more success."
Heather Ford, owner of Lott Realty, said the Utopia proposals will affect property values and put more strain on those already struggling to make ends meet. But she believes the income generated from these projects would lower taxes overall for property owners, and provide more revenue to the city to address infrastructure concerns.
"This is really the only type of change that we have any control over," she said. "Right now, we're dealing with the changes brought by the casinos, with no control. I think, in the long run, there's a lot of benefits for residents that will come with these plans."
But Joe Manfredi, owner of Billy Wilson's Ageing Still on Broadway, isn't sure yet. He is concerned about what it will mean for the small businessman downtown. He said his business already is falling because of the redevelopment of the Wauregan and its impact on traffic.
"The whole scope of the (Utopia) project is too hard to comprehend," Manfredi said. "There are certain phases of the project I'm excited about. But I'm also concerned that major projects like this get pushed forward without any thought being given to what's in the best interest of people already in the downtown."

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Thanks for noticing, i forgot to tell anyone. I should have mentioned it to my dad, he normally gets the Sunday Bulletin.

I live in a small town with a newspaper, it was just a matter of time before i was in it. But sunday, front page that was cool.

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Sunday, August 27, 2006

My balls are so big........ 

# posted by ron @ 8/27/2006 10:31:00 PM

- that they are now classified as planets under the new definition.

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Indeed. unlike Pluto, your balls have cleared the neighbourhood around their orbit.

By  Brancibeer, at Sunday, August 27, 2006 10:41:00 PM  

My balls are so big I got galaxies begging me to fertilize that shit.
It's like, "BLAOW!!"

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Monday, August 28, 2006 12:25:00 PM  

wow, balls that large and that blue, there must be water. time to see if there is life on those planets

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, August 28, 2006 1:09:00 PM  

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This is a big deal 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 8/27/2006 10:29:00 PM

There has been a major breakthrough in mathmatics. In case you missed it....

"The Poincaré Conjecture was considered to be one of the most famous unresolved problems in topology and mathematics. A solution provides a better understanding of three-dimensional space, and gives insights into the shape of the Universe. It could be one of the major pillars of mathematics in the 21st century. "

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that guy certainly looks like a math prof.

By  ron, at Sunday, August 27, 2006 10:36:00 PM  

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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

one small step... 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 8/22/2006 11:42:00 AM

i applied for unemployment today and filled out all the stuff i needed to online. i don't know the companies registration number so i have to call on the automated phone system, and it has to be tomarrow. i'm not allowed to call mondays or tuesdays because my social security number ends in an 8. 0-4 on mondays, 0-7 on tuesday and the rest wednesday through friday. odd. oh well.

i'm updating my resume and was thinking it might be time for a total overhaul. anyone have any good layouts? designs? i kind of like mine because i spent some time on it but i think i could make a really classy one. nice layout, fancy writing. i've spent time looking over resumes before and it always kind of disapointing. i'm amazed at how many people simply use the basic MS office template. as someone looking at a dozen resumes or a hundred a day like big places, wouldn't this be negative points right off the bat? i know i used to think it was kind of silly because who the hell wants thier resume to blend in with all the others and not stand out? i want mine to leave an impression, even if i'm totally unqualified for a job, doesn't mean my resume has tobe forgotten. suggestions? anything stick in your mind? seen something creative on a resume? discuss!

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Print it on paper that has a huge marijuana leaf back drop. That will get you noticed.

I've had to look over multiple resumes also. The fancy ones never caught my attention. I looked for simple, well organized, not confusing, clear ones. I think the content is more important than the flash appeal. Just make it professional.

By  Brancibeer, at Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:55:00 PM  

yeah, i was gonna say, if you want to do something different that's cool, but dont do anything TOO different. the content is still really what matters, and if the setup is too confusing or busy they might just think those characteristics apply to you as well.

By  josh, at Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:25:00 PM  

Try printing landscape instead of vertical. Then increase the margins to 5". Font should be wingdings.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Tuesday, August 22, 2006 6:04:00 PM  

I used to have a slick looking one that got some comments until PSU told us we should keep them simple so companies could scan them, maybe that has something to do with getting rejected for 42 jobs. So clearly I don't have any good advice, but landscape with two or three columns would surely stick out.

By  Damon, at Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:02:00 AM  

i agree, landscape would stickout but most people are retarded with a computer and couldn't figure out how to turn the page to read it. i've had people send back resumes because i sent it in MSworks format, it opens in word you retards! AAAHHHHH!!

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:11:00 PM  

When you email it, make sure its a pdf.

use LaTEX, I've got an awesome format, for you totally classy and well spaced.

By  ron, at Friday, August 25, 2006 12:10:00 AM  

I don't think anyone would learn LaTEX just for a resume, but sending in pdf is a good idea. OpenOffice.org has a simple "Save as PDF" button, and it's free, open source, and not MS.

By  Damon, at Friday, August 25, 2006 3:10:00 AM  

not to sound totally outdated, but why dont you just mail the resumes? maybe it's standard practice in your industry to email them, in which case you should definitely do that, but i still mail mine (standard practice in mine). often people like a hard copy, especially the technologically challenged (perhaps the generation interviewing us?).

just a though, because i really dont know how the companies you'd apply to want it.

By  josh, at Saturday, August 26, 2006 1:20:00 PM  

i use PDF995 for that

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Saturday, August 26, 2006 2:31:00 PM  

yea, you all ways send a hard copy in too. LaTeX is easy to use. 90% of the time you just grab a template to cut and paste your text into.

damon, open office any good? I've been thinking about running a dual boot config om my PC, I'm getting sick of windows crapping out on me and I'm not a gamer anymore.

By  ron, at Sunday, August 27, 2006 10:44:00 PM  

Openoffice can do just about all MS Office can I think, but it's organized differently so it takes a little getting used to. It's rather big and slow to load, but other that those points it's a fully functional set of programs that I've used exclusively during on studies here and before, so I've created and traded files in the writer, spreadsheet, and presentation parts with no issues.

By  Damon, at Monday, August 28, 2006 2:30:00 AM  

what distribution do you run, I was looking at conectiva


... you any good with vi?

By  ron, at Monday, August 28, 2006 11:01:00 PM  

I run Gentoo and used to use Suse which is quicker to get going. I believe Connectiva merged with beginner distro Mandrake to become Mandriva, which may be good to start with.

I don't use vi or vim.

By  Damon, at Tuesday, August 29, 2006 4:41:00 AM  

I'm going with ubuntu

By  ron, at Tuesday, August 29, 2006 10:51:00 PM  

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Monday, August 21, 2006

real news 

# posted by josh @ 8/21/2006 04:37:00 PM

damon, did you happen to catch this?

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funny, i posted a link to this too today

oh where is that womanizing grant writing rockstar fucking biologist? i want him ... i WANT him!!!

By  sadielady, at Monday, August 21, 2006 11:42:00 PM  

I didn't see it live, but I heard about it. Porn or not, what's the point of having other channels on the in background? Wouldn't it just be distracting?

By  Damon, at Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:14:00 AM  

Apparantly she wants me. Must be all that porn on TV these days...

Can anyone find the clip? Come on the internet has to be good for something!

By  Brancibeer, at Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:07:00 AM  

I've heard they'll use it as backdrop for the next eurovision song contest...or not

*still proud to be swedish, we're cool*

By  jennstur, at Sunday, August 27, 2006 10:42:00 PM  

Dammit! Damon, you're tracking swedes. Wipe your feet before enter the blogosphere.

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Sunday, August 20, 2006

Environmentally friendly biological heat exchangers... 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 8/20/2006 01:06:00 PM

Or something like that. Lets start our own business. I was once told by a psychic i went to see (another story) that i would never be happy working for someone else. This seems to be the case for Matt also.

Ideas? Real practical ones that is.

Matt- engineering, heat xrs, ambition, high substance tolerance
Brian- biology, environment, people skills, grants, womanizing, writing
Ron- engineering, jimi-rigging, bikes
Damon- engineering, environment, renewable energy, finance
Looney- business, lack of ambition, grunt man, paperwork monkey
Josh- law, presentability, writing, sarcasm
Jesse- ability to calm people, big picture skills
Murp- unrealiabity, people skills, spontenaity, muscle

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I'm not sure how a biological heat exchanger would work, but I'm fairly sure current ones are not environmentally unfriendly.

By  Damon, at Sunday, August 20, 2006 3:03:00 PM  

The new biological ones that we are going to invent will not be environmentally friendly. That is until we invent one that is.

By  Brancibeer, at Monday, August 21, 2006 12:10:00 PM  

That didn't make a lick of sense. Now give me my adjectives you grant-writing womanizer.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Monday, August 21, 2006 5:08:00 PM  

You got it buddy.

By  Brancibeer, at Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:21:00 AM  

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Saturday, August 19, 2006

sober and nuetral 

# posted by murphy @ 8/19/2006 04:55:00 PM

for the first time in a while. Eli came back into town last week unannounced and is here until september. Good to see him and his special lady. havent been keeping in touch and i apoligize. the season for rafting is slowing down and i have some more free time, ill try to make some calls.

Saw a sweet bluegrass band last night in town, danced barefoot at the bar. the band said they had such a good time with us. there coming back monday to play for free. good times.

built a 18 hole minigolf course in our back yard, had YRC 1st annual minigolf invitational. We lost to montana whitewater. lots of fun, every beer was a stroke off you score and it got a little sloppy towards the end. Ist prize was a bottle of whiskey and we had a spare bottle as well, passed them both around and had a bonfire/dance party championship.

saw my first grizzly this summer.
perfected the front flip off the raft.
had my best boat and worst boat in consecutive days.
feelingood shoulder hurts
miss you guys

murphy

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Thursday, August 17, 2006

OK, who had 8-17-06? 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 8/17/2006 03:49:00 PM

no job, no problem.

as of 3:15 today i am no longer employed. who wins the pool? this one actually lasted three months longer then the last one. this is the first thing i'm doing after getting home. i was approached by ken and tonya this afternoon while sitting at my desk. tonya was talking in a real low voice and ken just kept his mouth shut.
"i know you havn't been too happy here and we haven't really been too happy with you either. i know things aren't working out and um.."
"yeah, i get it"
"ok, so if you could just get your things.."
"yup"

that was it. thats how getting layed off/asked nicely to leave sounds. i grabbed my three things (wow, i really don't bring things in) and walked out the front door. well at least now i can still collect unemployment again. i'll give tom a call tomarrow to see what everyone in the shop had to say to him about it. i know he's not going to be too happy, and i'm really not too sure he'd stay there without me. oh well. not much i can do about that.

humm.. feelings, well, i'm kind of disapointed because, well, i did just get canned. which is a little depressing and the fact that it just didn't work out kind of sucks. i did try, and all i got was shit on and ignored. i brought in more work then i could handle on my own and when i asked for help it just wasn't there. i'm pissed for the way i felt i was treated. i'm pissed for a bunch of stupid little things that happened and when i was ready to drop them or get past the issue, something else took its place before i could even think.

in the short term, well, i was going to hand in my two week notice and start applying for jobs. this speeds up the process. i kind of figured on getting those two more paychecks simply because i'd like to have the money, and it would have been fiscally irresponsible of me to not hord the money for an uncertain future. i'll be just fine for a while, i really don't have any bills to pay. i don't ave a car payment and once again my lease is up at the end of september so i'm not tied down to having to pay rent. after that though i'm really not sure. do i move home? do i try really hard to find another job first? should i just stick it out a few more months and bust throgh some savings to have a good time? am i really going to get the sweet jackpot that is unemployment again? do i want it? will i need it? who the fuck knows, i'll be taking at least the weekend to figure that out. for the mean time, i've got a few beers in the fridge, a fat sac on the desk and five yanks/sox games coming up. i think i'll be ok.

long term. what the hell do i know? i have no clue. maybe i am totally usless and no one will want to hire me to do anything but move boxes around a warehouse. maybe i'll get a job starting wednesday. maybe it'll be 6 months from now when i'll be in mexico, sucking back margaritas and living off of 2 grand a year. maybe i'll play third base for the yanks. i guess i'm kind of free to do anything. this was how i felt last time i got fired and i spent 6 months traveling and fooling around until i even sent out a resume. wouldn't be a bad idea again. i think i'd like to start with a few dream jobs and see if anything sticks to the wall. i hear right field in yankee stadium is nice this time of year. i don't know what else to say. end.

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i'm blown away. i had 1+ years.

By  josh, at Thursday, August 17, 2006 6:29:00 PM  

Bravo my friend, bravo. Well played Mr. Barone. What passion, what vigor, what possibility. No walls can contain you, no chain secure you, no job keep you.

These experiences are telling you something aren't they? Are you listening? I think you know what they are saying.

Fired again. Thats amazing, I envy you sir. To have the freedom to do as you wish. To be able to access your situation and decide where to next point your staff.

Fret not, you'll be fine like always. Everything always seem to work out for you. I dont see why anything would be different this time.

Does anyone know what the date on the poll was really? I think it was June 30th. And cheers to Branciteam for having his mystifying foresight of situation. I win.

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:34:00 PM  

Were you fired or laid off? You don't get unemployment if you were fired. Anyway, like you said it just speeds things up, since like you didn't seem all too happy there.

By  Damon, at Friday, August 18, 2006 2:38:00 AM  

Branci you sound like Morpheus. I'm serious just read your post in a Morpheus voice and you'll hear it.

That situation sounds like a layoff since there was no grievance they could really pin against him. Just that he didn't want to pick up others' slack. In the words of that Red Stripe commercial guy: "horray responsibility!"

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Friday, August 18, 2006 4:47:00 PM  

Holy shit! He's right. Fucking Morpheous down untill you hit the poll stuff, then it got away from me. Good fucking spot M!

By  NoBrainRequired, at Saturday, August 19, 2006 11:08:00 AM  

Hey find a Job in MA....I got a room open in September 2 acutually and then 1 more in october...Living In winchester...

Keith

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what a difference a day makes 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 8/17/2006 10:34:00 AM

i was kind of pissed yesterday. i'm guessing you noticed from my post. i still plan on putting in my two week notice next week but today has already been interesting. mike has actually showed up, and he misteriously now has the drawings i've been looking for and a new one which i did not create but has our logo on them. humm. also when he started rambeling about a thickness i was able to tell him why i didn't do something in the first place and he got frustrated and said fine, i'll get someone else to do it. but there isn't anyone else. i'm the only one here who knows how to do it. i'm guessing he went to his father but who really cares.

the best part so far is that a vendor came in today with another guy i hadn't met before. they had quoted some work for us and i told them why i wasn't going there and what for. they asked if they could see the shop, sure why not. i don't this for a lot of people, i give them the nickel tour and point out what we can and can't do. they seemed very interested because they are looking at getting into subing out different kinds of work and would like to send some our way. cool, i think i just made a nice little business partnership with them. the best part was i kind of told the guys what problems i've been having and at the end, the guy i hadn't met before shook my hand, leaned in and whispered in my ear "when you've had enough of it here, let me know and you've got a job". holy fuck wad batman!?! i didn't expect that. a nice little surprise coming from someone i've never met before. i guess i impressed them enough for it. it isn't the type of company i'd want to work for but its nice to know that other people recognize i'm not retarded.

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Hopefully the vendor who gave you the offer isn't like a rep from Applebee's or Shennanigans (<-- if you've seen the movie "Waiting...")

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:58:00 PM  

no this guy was the real deal. buisness card and everything. i haven't seen waiting, heard it was good

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:00:00 PM  

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Fuck all yall 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 8/16/2006 06:43:00 PM

I'm tired of the bullshit comments I get when i write 'different' posts. Fuck you. Why can't you handle something that expresses oneself differently? Would you rather have a drunken rant that doesnt make any sense, or some kind of witty seinfeld-esqe musing about a pointless stupid driving experience, or me whining about just how hungover i am? Do you want to hear me bitch about my job or my life, or bragging about how awesome things are?
This site is for us to keep in contact with eachothers lives. You all know i'm not some wacked out coffee shop useless philosophical piece of shit thats tries to be all intelligent by sharing the woos of the universe. But if i want to write about a dramatic experience that i feel has a deeper meaning and choose to share with you, so the fuck what? This is what i'm putting to you, my friends. You dont have to like it, you dont have to agree, you dont have to understand it, but just fucking take it because its from me. Fuck off. Shit maybe even enjoy the uniqueness of it. Maybe say...jeeze...that Brian is one fucker. Its not like i'm pumping this bullshit out all of the time for christ sakes.

On other notes, i'm fucking stressed. I'm dealing with a bunch of shit still from the city I moved from including lazy unorganized ex-roomates that can't take a piss by themselves. I've done everything for them and they treat me like i'm trying to screw them. Just get me off the fucking lease and you'll never hear from me again i promise. Shit hit the fan in the workplace i left and i'm being dragged into workplace personality conflicts. Sexual harrassment anyone? New work has got me running around doing a million things at once trying to learn new things as they are due. I've been on the job for 3 weeks and been on the road for 2. My exgirlfriend just got dumped by the dickwad that she left me for and appears to be dangerously clutching her way back into my life. My feelings are taking a beating and there's nothing i can do about it. Cheers to being in love- because you cant really get out. Oh yeah, and last night at about 11pm sitting in a stark lonely dimly lit hotel room out in the middle of 'anyplacebutfuckinghere' i found out that my dad now has cancer. Yes mom, I am sorry i haven't been calling.

So what if i decide to express myself differently, because theres no other place or stage right now for this incessent bubbling inside me to release its pressure. Save the fucking wiseass, 'your a freak/tool type' comments please. If I want to write something out of the norm, let it be.

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i'm very sorry to hear about your dad. that really sucks.


as far as the posting goes, i'm sorry, but i cannot feel any sympathy there. it is exactly the reasons you mentioned regarding our comments that caused me to start my own blog. people made it more than clear that they didnt want to read my shit anymore. but now that they're not "forced" to, some do. others dont. fine.

in an ideal world what you called for would exist, but it's not an ideal world. besides, you've grown up with us forever, you know not to take it all personally. i certainly dont mean it personally.

--philosophical piece of shit (at least according to my undergraduate degree)

By  josh, at Wednesday, August 16, 2006 7:58:00 PM  

I can't believe it. I just can't. Brian said "ya'll." The South, it becomes a part of you.

I'm so sorry about your dad. And so much other stuff going on right now too: I can feel your stress coming through this post, all that stress and pent-up emotion, needing a release. Did you know, (I don't know if you've read my blog much lately), I told off two of my closest friends recently? It seemed to them to come out of nowhere, but it just started coming out of me: I yelled at one over the phone, then I yelled at another over email. Once I got started, I couldn't stop, it seemed ... once I started yelling, I just kept yelling and yelling and yelling. But really, it wasn't them; really, I was just so stressed out, felt like I was in that trash bin that Luke and Leia and Han Solo and Chewbacca jump in and the walls all start closing in on them, and they're pushing so hard against the walls but they can't stop them, and they're panicking because they're about to get crushed to death - - that's the kind of stress I was feeling, from so many different sides, and felt like I was alone in there too - just me, Leia. No Luke or Han (heartbeat, heartbeat) or Chewie in there freaking out with me and trying to stop the walls too. And really I think I yelled at those two friends of mine because I was mad they weren't in there with me, in a way, in a way that makes no sense at all. But it helped me release some stress I think to go off on them. And because they are both good friends, they understood it was coming from the stress, and they were both there for me. I'm not saying that's what's going on here, in this post, but ... well, fuck it, yeah I think that's what's going on in this post. If you think I'm wrong then whatever, but I just think that's what's going on. You're so stressed, Brian, and I'm so sorry. But I know the feeling, so email me if you want to talk sweetness. I'll let you yell at me all you want.

Oh, and also, do I need to kick that ex-girlfriend's ass? Because I will. I don't want this lame chick moving in on my sweetness again, no sir I do not. I don't like that one bit.

By  sadielady, at Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:50:00 PM  

Sorry about your dad.

It's not what the comments say, but how many there are that matters, you're doing great!

By  Damon, at Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:33:00 AM  

that's true

By  sadielady, at Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:53:00 AM  

"Woe to you when all men speak well of you, For so did their fathers to the false prophets.
"But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
"Bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you.
"But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
"And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
"But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.
"For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
"For every tree is known by its own fruit."
Luke 6:26-28,32,33,35,43,44

By  wyldshaman, at Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:19:00 AM  

Update:

There was alot building there and i used that post to vent. Looking back on the comments from my other post i see that they really aren't that bad. I hope you realize i'm not serious either when i tell you all to fuck off. I dont take anything too personal and know that we are indeed friends (who happen to be a bunch of wiseass's).

My dad should be ok. Its prostrate cancer and very common in men his age. They caught it very very early and are taking steps to get rid of it (surgery). But its still cancer i guess, and that does suck. Its hard living far away in these times.

And i need to get laid. But apparantly this sensitive crap isn't going to reel em in, so i need to adjust my strategy (according to Dominique). I can be an arrogant asshole if i want.

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:58:00 AM  

Cancer? fuck, prostrate sucks too. when did he find out? i just saw him on saturday. aisling and i went to cockaponset and we stopped by to fill up the tubes. i talked to him for a few minutes and he seemed alright. that stuff runs in my family too, i'm starting to think maybe i should get checked every two years or so. my dad is getting them done too because he freaks out about it every now and then. not fun stuff.

i'm sure you can tell but i've been really stressed out lately too. what is it, are we all freaking out at the same time? did BushCo. put something in the water?

you've always been more touchy feely then the rest of us and you're much more open about it too. feel free to freak out on us whenever nessecary, that is the point of this blog. i think i've told you all to fuck off about once ever two weeks. and hey, that bitch left you, fuck her if she's trying to come back now after toolboy ditched her.

dude, the other one is making starwars metafores, thats hard to find.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:58:00 PM  

the arrogant asshole approach worked for josh.

By  d$, at Friday, August 18, 2006 10:42:00 AM  

Well some guys are lucky it comes naturally.

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, August 18, 2006 6:06:00 PM  

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Weekly bump 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 8/16/2006 04:49:00 PM

someone somewhere has to post at least once a week. I'll bite this bullet. its been a crazy week. tuesday and wednesday i got in multiple fights around the office. wednesday i spent 2 hours in a "meeting", which i can only assume is the closest thing to a review i'm going to get, getting yelled at because other people aren't doing thier work and i make up for it. mind boggling. they ask me where i'm having problems, i tell them and they get pissed because it involves them. fuck em. thursday i was still really pissed but by friday morning i was actually ready to jsut put this shit behind me and forget about the whole thing. then i checked my email. the following is a letter written by my boss, and sent to my inspectors boss. it was supposed to apploigise for what we know to be some of our problems and ask them to bear with us a little. instead i get this:

Dear XXXXX: I am writing to you to inform you that Matt Barone has been relieved of his Quality Control managerial duties effective immediately. Michael Routh, Jr. has been named interim Quality Control Manager until a replacement can be found or the proper level of training and a demonstrated ability to perform the function of the quality control manager has been met. Matt will still be involved in the engineering process, however, he will have no authority to manage or sign off on any quality control related document other than for engineering purposes. Furthermore he will have no authority to schedule or meet with AI’s, Supervisors, and the like from your organization or any other inspection agency. Thank you for your prompt attention to this important matter before you. We feel that this decision will strengthen our quality control system and the relationship with your organization.

bullshit. fucking bullshit. and this bitch didn't even come in on friday for me to rip her a new one. this was emailed to me after i had left on thursday. she did come in for 5 minutes on friday and talked to the other guy in the room with me, but stood far enough away from the door that i couldn't see her. something she never does but did that day to avoid me.

i basically freaked out friday night, i left work around 3 with no intention of looking back. i'm sick of this shit. saturday i had calmed down a little and went out saturday night. kind of a busy night and at the end, something really freaky happened. I think i've told a few of you what happened at Jay's place but i'd rather not go into it here. it basically scared the shit out of me and was something i really didn't need adding more stress.

monday i actually showed up to work. i showed our sweet old secretary the letter i had been given and asked her again what happened that the guy before me left. this time she was fed up too because they've been bugging her. she's fucking 70 and just wants to putter around here to keep her self sane and they still pile shit on her. well, she gave me a much better run down about why mike SR. left and it totally falls in line with what is happening to me. i grabbed one of the owners and said i needed to talk to him. i tried to explain the whole situation and i showed him a copy of the letter. he basically ignored me and started talking about something else. again, mind boggling.

the rest of this week has gone similarly as well. i'm just fucking fed up. i've tried to be the good employee, i've done everything thats asked of me and then some. and still its not enough. they want to know why material isn't ordered yet? well the guy who does that hasn't done it. so i tell them such. thier answer is why aren't i doing it. somehow other people not doing what they are supposed to is my fault. i'm to blame. there is something really wrong with this type of thinking. the passage of blame and everyone trying to pass the buck is complete bullshit. because i'm will to take responsibility, some how that means i'm responsible for everything.

this week i'll be updating my resume. next week, i'll be putting in my 2 week notice and applying for jobs. i feel bad that i'll be leaving my guy Tom here but he's seen all this shit too and this job is still better for him than the other place. plus, he's a big boy, he'll get over it. fuck em, they've had more than enough chances with me. this isn't how i wanted this to turn out, but i've really been left with no other option. its sad that the one person who shows up everyday and can be counted on is the one person they are trying to drive out.

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nice man, fuck 'em. i know they've been giving you lots of shit lately. they'll be fucked without you.

where else you lookin for jobs?

By  josh, at Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:40:00 PM  

You posted just because no one else had? Come on, this conflict in your job is 1/2 the content of the site. Anyway, that is seriously lame that you got copied in on an email of your demotion. On the other hand, signing off on stuff isn't fun. And the fact that they didn't talk to you about it, even on Friday, is really freakin weak on their part.

When they harrass you about ordering material and stuff like that, it sounds like your a project manager or engineer. If you are and they pay you like one, great, but if not, that's bullshit and they're taking advantage, but I guess it's a moot point now anyway.

Are you going to stay in hx's?

By  Damon, at Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:27:00 AM  

thanks josh, i don't really know yet, Alstom is hireing like a dozen people like me and ron said they had offered him a ob a while back too.

damon, i know, i bitch a lot and it does seem to be half the content here. i guess work consumes a large part of my life and its really all i can talk about. i need more hobbies or at least time to do them. i guess i am a project manager, but i'm totally unqualified and have been trust into it because of the incompitence of other people. i can't say i really do any engineering anymore (unless its 2D autocad drawings). i'm not sure if i could stay in HX's around CT but i'm sure i could find a decent job working with the different stuff i know about manufacturing, pipe, plate,machining, and other stuff. kind of hte same but not really. i think it might be time to hang up this mom and pop stuff and step up the big companies.

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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Soccer Mom 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 8/09/2006 08:12:00 PM

Okay. I've been going through this "stage" lately. You know what I’m talking about. A time in your life where you’re off on your own thing for a while. Growing an outward branch from your steady trunk. A time where something pushes you to change things up a bit. Whether that something is an experience, person, or yourself. It’s about experimenting. Changing. Evolving new personalities. Evolving new fears... Fuck, it’s like someone slashed down your meds, because shit just aint cutting it anymore.

Life could be defined as one stage within multiple stages happening one and in each other. Try and model that Ron.

Reflecting on personal experience, when I tend to have a stage it seems to lean toward a spiritual side. My mind grows philosophical, my senses grow perceptive. I do things like yoga and meditation. I eat healthy. I read meaningful books. I focus and analyze. I get 'in tune'. Some call it weird. I call it interesting and sometimes amazing.

Don't get me wrong now. Those are the good times; the hi-lights. There’s bad too- but that's a story for another time. Tonight I wanted to make note of an experience I’ve had in this state. I ordered one of those meaningful books the other day- a few passages were read in my yoga class and really struck a cord. Such power, such passion, such insight. After class I asked the instructor what the book was. She told me, and that night I ordered in without researching. The passage was good, the mood was right, and my mind was receptive. I'm totally buying it.

The book came last night in the mail. "Excellent" I thought, "I need a good book to read". Later that night I casually opened the package and took out the book. "Looks pretty good...uh huh....yup....hey......what's this......a bookmark......" At first I thought it was cool to be getting a free bookmark. I bought the book used off of Half.com, which means it came from any Joe or Mary out there in the USA. Cool that they would throw in a bookmark. As I actually read it, my face tweaked, my eyes squinted, and my soul shook. "What the..."

Mothers hold their children's hands for a while... their hearts forever

"Fuck. Have I... Did I.... Am I...... Fuck…". I suddenly realized that the previous owner was probably a later aged hampered mom going through some kind of mid-life crisis. I saw her holding this bookmark. I saw her eyes. Tearing at times, gazing with desperation, looking for hope. I saw into her life. Yearning for something like a Christian longs for a bible. She was in a stage too. She was struggling. I saw getting older, heartaches, regrets, kids moved and busy, stuck in a job, stuck in a life, searching, needing, health issues, problems, stress, problems, sadness, loneliness, isolation, troubles, emotions, pain. I felt it too. I felt her needing help. Needing to cope, express, and release. She was growing by resistance. Deeper. The depth that only rigid experience can hollow. This book was where she reached. Sometime during it all- she at least tried this book. I felt her searching for an answer. The same answer I was seeking.

People are the same. We are never alone and never will be. There are forces that connect time and age, feelings and mind, distance and experience, me and you.

What this means, how this is, I still do not know. But I certainly will continue to seek an answer. I only hope that this woman found hers.

I originally intended this post to be more humorous. I was going to poke fun at myself by explaining how I had just bought a book that some 45 year old soccer mom once bought for her troubled self. I was going to laugh at myself and call it pathetically funny that this soccer mom and I were feeling the same thing (being that I am a 25 year old man). I was going to muse and talk of its ridiculousness. But somewhere in its writing…things changed.

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what are you, high?

By  josh, at Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:46:00 PM  

dude, you got to switch back into the "25 y.o. bachelor looking to bang some young wet bitches" stage of life.

I know what you mean.... just don't take yourself too seriously.

By  ron, at Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:51:00 PM  

Yes, i was kind of high actually. And yes ron, i think you are right. Don't worry- everythings cool. Hey, atleast the chicks dig these moments of intense sensitivity.

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:55:00 PM  

that's deep, jiggaman.

Once,for just a few hallowed, sacred minutes....I really WAS an elderly Japanese woman. And yes, there were also other things in my system at that moment.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Saturday, August 12, 2006 12:36:00 PM  

I think we have a Freaky Friday thing going on here. You long to be a soccer mom and I long to be a 25 yr old man. what?

By  JLee, at Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:33:00 AM  

"Hey, atleast the chicks dig these moments of intense sensitivity."

yeah.... no, that's a myth.

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Bush Losing Core Supporters 

# posted by Damon @ 8/09/2006 10:02:00 AM

WASHINGTON - President Bush appears to be losing support among a key group of voters who had hitherto stood firmly with the president even as his poll numbers among other groups fell dramatically.

A new Gallup poll shows that, for the first time, Bush's approval rating has fallen below 50% among total fucking morons, and now stands at 44%. This represents a dramatic drop compared to a poll taken just last December, when 62% of total fucking morons expressed support for the president and his policies.

The current poll, conducted by phone with 1,409 total fucking morons between May 4 and May 8, reveals that only 44% of those polled believe the president is doing a good job, while 27% believe he is doing a poor job and 29% don't understand the question.

The December poll, conducted by phone with 1,530 total fucking morons, showed 62% approved of the president, 7% disapproved and 31% didn't understand the question.

Faltering approval ratings for the president among a group once thought to be a reliable source of loyal support gives Republicans one more reason to be nervous about the upcoming mid-term elections. "If we can't depend on the support of total fucking morons," says Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), "then we've got a big problem. They're a key factor in our electoral strategy, and an important part of today's Republican coalition."

"We've taken the total fucking moron vote for granted," says Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL), "and now we're paying for it. We've let the Democrats control the debate lately, and they've dragged discourse back into the realm of complex, nuanced issues. So your average total fucking moron turns on his TV and sees his Republican Congressman arguing about Constitutional law or the complexities of state formation in the Middle East, and he tunes out. He wants to hear comforting, pandering, flattering bromides and he doesn't want to hear a logical argument more complex than what you'd find on a bumper sticker."

For Feeney, the poll is a dire warning that Republicans can ignore only at their peril. "This should send a signal that we have to regain control of the debate if we want the support of our key constituencies in the coming election and beyond. We need to bring public discourse back into the realm of stupidity and vacuity. We should be talking about homosexual illegal immigrants burning flags. We should be talking about the power of pride. We should be talking about freedom fries. These are the issues that resonate with total fucking morons."

But some total fucking morons say it's too late. Bill Snarpel of Enid, Oklahoma is a total fucking moron who voted for Bush in both 2000 and 2004. But he says he won't be voting for Bush in 2008. "I don't like it that he was going to sell our ports to the Arabs. If the Arabs own the ports then that means they'll let all the Arabs in and then we'll all be riding camels and wearing towels on our heads. I don't want my children singing the Star Spangled Banner in Muslim."

Total fucking moron Kurt Meyer of Turlock, California also says his once solid support for Bush has collapsed. "He invaded Iraq and all those soldiers died, and for what? We destroyed all their WMDs, but now their new president is making fun of us and saying he's going to build nuclear bombs and that we can't stop him. Well, nuclear bombs are even worse than WMDs, so what did we accomplish?"

Laura McDonald, a total fucking moron from Chandler, Arizona, says she is disappointed that the president hasn't been a more forceful advocate of Christian values. "This country was founded on Christian values," she says, "but you'd never know it looking around and seeing all the Mexicans running around. I thought Bush was going to bring Jesus back into the government. Instead, Christians are being persecuted worse than ever before in history, because all these Mexicans come here and tell Christians that we have to respect their religious beliefs. So now it's illegal for children to pray in school. Soon it will be illegal for them to speak English."

Not all total fucking morons have turned their backs on the president. Jeb Larkin of Topeka, Kansas says he still fully supports Bush. "He is doing a great job. He is a great president. He is a great decider. I have a puppy. His tail sticks straight up and you can see his butthole."

And not all Republican lawmakers are concerned about the poll. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), for one, does not find it a cause for anxiety. While he agrees that his party should not take total fucking morons for granted, they "really don't have anywhere else to go. They're never going to be able to understand someone like Al Gore or John Kerry or anybody intelligent and articulate who wants to talk about substantive issues. Just try having a conversation with one of them about global warming. They'll say, 'Oh, but Rush says volcanoes consume more ozone than humans do.' I mean, they're morons! Total fucking morons!"

By: Bushgirlsgonewild on August 03, 2006 at 11:32am
Reprinted without permission from Huffington Post Comments via BurlingtonPol.com

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A PERSONAL VICTORY 

# posted by wyldshaman @ 8/09/2006 08:26:00 AM

Like another personal Hero of mine Eugene McCarthy who defeated President Lyndon Johnson in the '68 New Hampshire primary on an anti-Vietnam War platform, Ned Lemont has upset the status quo and ousted the Warmonger from the Democratic ticket.

What ever follows matters less, for i fully understand that this country is based on war and greed and without this we would not be the Empire we are today. But at least, in the heartland of the Blues there is some shred of morality left and when looking at the daily carnage in the Middle East, sane men and women can see and know in their hearts, "This is not Just."

PEACE FOR ALL!

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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

The more you know.... 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 8/08/2006 07:41:00 PM

It was an off hand comment by Brian today that got me thinking. I was complaining about work (as I usually do) and he said, "why don't you open your own heat exchange place?" I rattled off a few reasons about money and why people wouldn't lend a 25 year old kid with no collateral and two years experience, a few hundred thousand to start a business. I found myself with a little time to kill waiting for the inspector today and I kept wondering about it. What would it really take to start my own shop to do this stuff? I had an afternoon from hell today and yet all the while I kept thinking about it.
what would I need? I ran down a list of machines I would need to make things easier and how I'd run a shop if I could start from the ground up. I've learned a lot about how to do things and how businesses like this work. Since I've been doing basically everything at work, I now know how to do everything. I've got ideas of how I'd like to fix this place, but why the fuck should I spend them on this place? And if they are going to suck and ignore me, fuck em. I know a bunch of different places I can get all the materials and get a bunch of the work done for me. I can get baffles punched from one guy, plates burned from another, tubesheets drilled here, pipe cut to length, tube shipped in fucking mass quantities, gaskets cut to size...... hummmm....
I do know a few people I could hire too. I would think this is the hardest part, getting people you can trust. I don't know how to weld or how a lot of this machining crap works. I don't know all the tools needed to build these things, I'm constantly learning we don't have a certain tool or were missing a stupid kind of glue or something I need to run out and get it in an emergency.
but I'm learning. Maybe I can just use this place to make my mistakes and fuck a few people over before I try it myself. Let them suffer through my learning curve, its not my money. As much as I complain about work, I am learning, even if its only hard knocks. Ron puts it best when he says we're all ahead of the curve for our age and I think its proven right everytime I can tell someone twice my age what to do. Power if cool and I try to stay humble at work but its hard when a guy who's old enough to be your father fucks up and you have to be hard on them. I don't like it but that kind of how it is. I know johns drooling over me being a republican but that's not the case. I try to treat people with the same respect I receive, but if I don't receive any then don't expect it from me. My heart is black bitches. Time to go to harbor park and kick back some dollar drafts, just watch out for Matt Barone: Industrialist.

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Monday, August 07, 2006

Out of touch as the summer ends 

# posted by murphy @ 8/07/2006 03:05:00 PM

Havent posted since may 25th. Breif moments of clarity surrounded by gross neglect for my body and personal safety. I love it. Miss you guys at home in ct and elsewhere. Dont really have time to write a whole lot. Besides ive told you all before a thousand times im sure. You can connect the dots as you see fit.

Ok real quick, 2 quasi steady lady friends seeing this summer, with many others coming and going. pun intended, down to a trim 230lbs, pretty much back in rugby shape, starting for Bozeman Cutthroats in the fall, skiing next winter, rafting next summer....

Coming home in fall and again at christmas time.

see you all soon

kickin ass on the wild side

murphy

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Miss you too man. Grab some ass for me. You know which one. Do it for the team.

By  Brancibeer, at Monday, August 07, 2006 10:06:00 PM  

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Tidal Wave Generators 

# posted by wyldshaman @ 8/07/2006 07:50:00 AM

Finally the wave generators ive been talking about for years have made it into the mainstream press. The article is short on details, but basically said there are multiple ideas on how to harness the power of the sea and testing of some is underway, they are just looking for the best designs. The idea pictured to the left is different then the turbines idea that i(they) first envisioned, but with few parts and easy construction, this seems alot better.

Full New York Times Article
by Heather Timmons

Pic Address

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Interesting. Don't know why i havent seen this before (or thought of it). Kind of low energy, but constant nonetheless.

By  Brancibeer, at Monday, August 07, 2006 10:05:00 PM  

A good summary of the state of various technologies, and a lot of crying about not enough money and support can be found in this document from a conference last year:
hydropower.inel.gov/hydrokinetic_wave/pdfs/hydro_workshop_proceedings_13feb06.pdf

By  Damon, at Tuesday, August 08, 2006 3:08:00 AM  

Yeah, this article came thru the Energy & Technology Committee last month. Cool stuff! It's a shame they may only have enough energy to power the local marina.

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Sunday, August 06, 2006

Conservative Progress 

# posted by wyldshaman @ 8/06/2006 08:15:00 AM

A Vietnamese friend of mine sent me a few pictures, this was a good one.

Its funny how American Politics work... i mean in your head. Less then two years ago i swore off US Politics as unjust and immoral. Then along comes someone who gets you interested again, gives you some hope and BAM!! your back in it. It looks like ol' Ned is going to do it, taking a stand against the war and leading in the polls.

GO NED!

I dont even really like supporting the Democrats that much as they are not really a "Leftist" party they are more of a center right party, i mean only some of them advocate Universal Healthcare, around the world this is standard, here its some crazy liberal thing they do in Canada. And on war, most like it, just look at Hillary, everytime i hear her talk she is advocating some sort of violence against an enemy, maybe i just keep catching her at the wrong times. But until the Green Revolution comes and we get a true multi-party democracy here in the US of A, the DEM's are the best we got.

Sometimes the Corpocracy gets me down... but i still like to believe that this country is "Of, For, and By the People."

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true, where's my green party?

By  Damon, at Monday, August 07, 2006 2:03:00 AM  

Here is something i found out yesterday. A few days back some people came to my work place and had a petition sighning in support of Joe Lieberman. I didnt think much of it, the guy knows he's on the ropes and is pulling out all the stops to stay on the Democratic ticket. But then i ran into a buddy of mine, who also happens to be a Republican Delegate(i dont know what that means, but he has handled the campaignes for people and votes for strategy and stuff), he had questioned these people and mentioned he was a Republican, then they said "Oh we are Republicans too." He went off on them, "What are Republicans doing meddling in Democrats politics!" Well the whole thing just furthurs my belief that old Joe has turned to the dark side. And i was chatting with the one girl awhile back... if you put a black cloak on the guy and had some green lightning coming from his finger tips who would he look like? Use the Force.

By  wyldshaman, at Monday, August 07, 2006 7:47:00 AM  

interesting stuff. i just got a call from a ned lamont campaign guy. i didnt talk to him long because i'm doing work from home today. i kind of resent the whole tele-campaigning thing, but i guess when you're going against someone who's been a senator for so long you really need to get your stuff out there.

tomorrow should be interesting.

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Thursday, August 03, 2006

Drunck spelled with a c 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 8/03/2006 09:37:00 PM

Ah yes, workermonkey.

I think i'll go with ron's format of his last blog.

Job- Have I even posted since i moved? I cant even remember. Well just in case- I moved to Tallasassy about a week or 2 ago. Things are gonna change i can feel it. Slowly. I think i wanted everything to change quickly. Its going, but its going to take time. Thats ok. The new job responsibilities are ok. Theres a lot of shit i need to learn about grants and paperwork. I now have to tuck in my shirt, shave everyday and look damn near presentable. I'm in the HQ of the agency and theres all these big wigs walking around. Quite a mans man world in this place too. The building kinda sucks. Its all run down and putting off a weird depressing 'shoot me in the face' kind of vibe at times. My office space also sucks. I have to share a large busy room with another person. Its funny how all the secretaries get the nice offices and the higher up professionals get the shaft. Or maybe its just me. Got to work my way up in the place i suppose. Another thing is too-in this new job i have more power and more influence (i'm kind of a big deal..) but it feels the complete opposite. I hate being new, clueless and useless. It will come around i'm sure.

Been busy of course. Lots of meetings and lots of traveling. Just got back from a conference in WV at this place. Its nicknamed "Club Fed" cause its so nice. It was. Taking off next week again too.

Girls- Hey ladies.
Oh yeah. The branciteams on the prowl. Yes, i've been prowling. Whatever that means. Its tough meeting chicks though. I dont like to say i'm "looking". I like to say i'm "open to it". Cause if your looking, you usually dont find. But i can tell i'm definetely concentrating effort on that front.
There was free bad wine (theres good and bad, but still wine) at club fed and lots of people were hanging out. I hit it off with 2 chicks (seperate occasions) quite well. However it was later pointed out to me that they were indeed married. God damn it. I dont look for the ring...do you? I'm going to now. But anyway one of them was totally flirting with me and was somewhat inappropriate for being married. Yes we were drunk. I think she knew it the day after too because she totally avoided me. Its hard being irrestibable.

And i now can join chump and say that i have a hot boss. Thats dangerous. I like her (and believed to be somewhat mutual). But she has a boyfriend (and we work together). So that one is going to take some carefull time and planning. RPL and I were working that one out last night. Its all about mindfucking for a while. Lets just hope i dont fuck myself in the process.

New house- New roommates are cool. I moved into a big house with an older (early 30's) married couple who own the house. They do social things (like go drinking, play poker) and have a network of friends. I do my thing (work) and join them once and a while. On an interesting note-recent news has been broached tonight. I walked out on the porch somewhat unexpectedly and caught em. Smoking the doobie. They were a little nervous and chattered a bit about it. I simply smiled and said, "thats cool with met", and shared in on the experience. And it was cool. The dude was quite releived and happy about it. Apparantly "smoking is really his thing". Mmm hmm. I think we'll get along just fine mate.

Checked out a yoga class tonight and got my ass kicked. I overestimated my yoga prowless and went for the advanced class. And it was. People doing insane headstands and other skillful hard poses. It was also kind of a workout yoga. I was dripping the entire time in the unairconditioned room. Different from what i'm used too but still rewarding. I'll have to give it another shot (in the basic class).

The times they are a changin

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

-Alfred North Whitehead

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sounds like things are under conrtol eh?

By  ron, at Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:40:00 PM  

Ron what does conrtol mean? I looked it up in dictionary but didnt find it. You didn't misspell a word did you?

Sounds like things are going well Branci. Later.

By  wyldshaman, at Friday, August 04, 2006 9:09:00 AM  

Control (or conrtol) is a slippery slope. Its either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, August 04, 2006 7:57:00 PM  

thar be na typo! arrrrrrg!

By  ron, at Friday, August 04, 2006 11:59:00 PM  

Oh Branci. I don't doubt you'll do well with the ladies. Be careful with the boss, but at the same time, don't rule anything out. Wishing you a good time and lots of success. Love ya, sweetness.

By  sadielady, at Sunday, August 06, 2006 3:07:00 AM  

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a la The Daily Show 

# posted by Damon @ 8/03/2006 09:38:00 AM

WEQX news said roughly: "President Bush this morning gave his last briefing from the White House Pressroom before it closes for 9 months of renovation. The new Pressroom will be 1200 square feet larger to accommodate bigger lies."

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By  ron, at Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:29:00 PM  

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yay for beer! 

# posted by ron @ 8/03/2006 12:55:00 AM

thats whats fueling this blog post tonight


hey, don;t judge. I earned it. I replaced an axle in my car. It took a a breaker bar, 32mm, 14mm sockets, a 3/16 punch, a big fucking hammer and 6 beers but it got done. To be honest it was one of the easier things I've done on cars. Far far easier than a head gasket or a timing belt.

I had a design review last week that I thought that I was going to get bend over and made a bitch of but it went suprisingly well. I got a few "action items" but nothing to panic about. in conclusion work is good.

bike: I place 9th out of 63 last saturday in a road race and won the tues night race. It was kinda easy really. I just waited until everyone started riding hard and just pedaled harder than they could. I can probablt get away with this strategy until i'm a a cat 3 (i'm a cat 5 now).

girls: not much this wekk although sean has a friend thats going to hook me up with some athletic chic. needless to say I'm looking foreward to this.

although I must say some of the girls at harbor park the other night scared me. I thought they were 17 or something. I swear I've seen some of them on some internet porn sites. oh man, if I could only get over my complex of getting bar girls.

alright, job.... bike... girls.... that covers 99.999% of my life. pretty typcal for a 25 y/.o. guy right?

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Yay for Ron! Sounds like it's all going sweet.

By  Damon, at Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:28:00 PM  

Hooray beer!

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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

On Freecell 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 8/02/2006 11:38:00 AM

I've rediscovered the lost art of freecell recently. Basically, i've stopped doing some stuff at work and would now rather watch other people squirm when stuff isn't getting done. In the new found time where i'm simply not working, i've managed to rediscover freecell. i haven't played it in awhile, i actually noticed that i had never played it while working here so my stats on this computer are a clean slate. I'm roughly a low 90% winner, i can win close to 90% of the games. i'm currently working on my longest win streak here at 26 games. i think my record is in the 30's. When i worked at Pratt years ago ther was a guy there who was working on a 320+ game win streak. thats crazy, and takes a long time to even play that many games. Freecell is by far my basic computer card game of choice. fuck hearts and solitare. freecell is where its at.

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where oh where is that brancibeer workermonkey? i never see him here anymore.

By  sadielady, at Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:00:00 PM  

freecell is boss. I used to play so much I learned the keyboard shortcuts to move the cards. thats when you know you have a problem.

By  ron, at Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:12:00 AM  

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I still lose 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 8/02/2006 09:00:00 AM

i think we all lose on hangover wednesday. should be a good one. whats funny is i'm going to have to teach one of the idiot guys in the shop how to test a HX today. i'm not qualified to do this since i really don't know how either. plus i can't see straight or focus. someone should videotape it.

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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

I Lose! 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 8/01/2006 08:58:00 AM

i feel defeated. theres an unmarked 2001 silver dodge intrepid that hangs around I91 in the morning. i know he's there, i see him every so often, same guy, same car. its sticks in my mind because its an intrepid. I've been dodging this guy for the last year or so, well today he got me.

I was half out of it this morning due to lack of sleep and a few drinks last night, but i was crusing in the left lane as usual, doing 80 or so and basically driving like a maniac. but i wasn't really paying attention becasue i was trying to eat breafast and drink a bottle of water, thats why i didn't notice this guy was following me with his lights on. fuck. i was kind of slouched down in my front seat because i was still kind of tired and out of it so i couldn't actually see in my rear view mirror. when i sat up all i saw was the flashing lights. FUCK. i pulled over and played it perfect. iturned the radio off, turned off the car and put my keys on the dash. this guy was a total ticket machine. he came up to the passenger side window, stated very clearly and percisly what happened " i clocked you doing above the posted speed limits and following the car infront of you too closely. may i see your liscense and registration please" "yes sir" "thank you. I'll be right back." i explained that i had just gotten a renewed liscence and that flimsy piece of paper is what VT sent me, he didn't seem to care. i gave him the paper work and he ran my stuff, came back and .. "thank you sir, i'm going to give you a verbal warning about following too closely and a ticket for speeding, its due XXX, thank you and be careful pulling back into traffic". wow, almost like a robot. He got back in his car and pulled right out into traffic and pulled the first car he saw in the left lane directly over infront of me. bam bam, it was way too fast for checking any kind of speed. he's just pulling everyone over, but i can't complain. he missed the half dozen empty beer bottles on the floor behind the passenger seat, the 4 roaches in the center consol and said nothing about me having a VT drivers liscence or VT plates. He wrote 80 on the ticket when there is no way in hell he was even follwoing me that slow, its was closer to 85 but i'm sure that would have been more peperwork. i feel lucky i got away with something but that big fat 250$ ticket sucks. oh well, what i'm really pissed at is that i lost. i knew this guy was around, and i haven't had any ticket since i was 16, 16! For how i drive and for how much i drive, i always thought that was impressive. well i blew that this morning, one year shy of a decade without a ticket. fuck. this guy just got me and moved on. i had kind of felt it was a game i was playing avoiding he cops every morning, well today, i lost for the first time in 13 months. damn.

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that sucks man...i know the usual spots for the blisters on my way to work too. funny you say this, cuz i definitely passed their spot going 80 this morning but neither cop budged.

we can drown away your sorrows tonight with $1 drafts.

By  josh, at Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:24:00 AM  

Stupid cop should have ticketed you for following too close and not to speed, but it's following distance that causes accidents, not speed. Anyway, you're lucky that you're a VT driver, since the DMV up there won't know about this, and unless you tell the insurance company, I don't think they will either. I wonder how much longer it'll be until you get in trouble for having a VT registered car.

By  Damon, at Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:31:00 AM  

which is a more expensive ticket? maybe that's why he gave you speeding.

it's the cops and stupid assholes who drive slowly in the left lane that cause accidents. even people who arent speeding slam on their brakes when they see a cop on the highway.

By  josh, at Tuesday, August 01, 2006 11:22:00 AM  

fuck yeah josh, a lady pulled out in front of me yesterday while i was going 80, she was doing 65. i gave a polite honk since there was no one in front of her in either lane. she didn't respond so i went around her to the right. she gave me a dirty look for honking so i flipped her off and continued on my way doing 80. i'll never learn. never

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Tuesday, August 01, 2006 11:37:00 AM  

I've been getting pulled over lately for just being so nasty. And making murderous beats.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:32:00 PM  

I've only been pulled over twice.
72 in a 40: verbal warning (and by a female cop no less).
66 in a 55: 90$ ticket... Virginia is a terrible place.

By  d$, at Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:29:00 AM  

72 in a 40! I think you could lose your license for that. Though I've been caught on the brakes doing 66 in a 45 just coming out of a 35. In PA, my friend got pulled over for 70 in a 65, and I happened to pass him while he was sitting there on our ways back to school. Apparently, the fine for running a red light on a bike here is north of $100, but so far I have avoided it.

By  Damon, at Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:54:00 PM  

I got you all beat and barone was passenger. 95 in a 50 w/ a 30 pack in the car and a bag of... lets say ... tea. 300$ Ticket and we were on our way. nice mom cop, I think she wanted us.

By  ron, at Thursday, August 03, 2006 12:28:00 AM  

the key to that one was keeping her distracted, talk about something else. we got her going on about the yankees game and how excited we were. more flys with honey, baby.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, August 03, 2006 9:34:00 AM  

Well sounds like you respect the robotic like actions of the cop. Atleast he wasnt a dick.

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:46:00 PM  

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