The Workermonkey

Sunday, June 29, 2008

FIREWORKABRATION Saturday! 

# posted by wyldshaman @ 6/29/2008 10:28:00 AM

Come to my place at 35 Chestnut Street, Norwich, anytime after 5pm. Call me and i will come down and get you.

Beer, special burgers and snacks will be supplied, and my wife is planning to make sushi, not exactly All American, but who doesn't like sushi?

Please arrive before 8pm as we plan to leave around then for the fireworks at the Marina.

And bring a $20 spot for the afterhours poker game.

Also keep the 19th free for Tim and Mo's BBQ!

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The Downfall of Matt Barone: Civ Mobil 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/25/2008 09:23:00 PM

heh heh heh..... its all over folks. i bet i can play while driving. this game will be directly responsible for killing people. civilization has been the driving force behind all my technology upgrades in life. the last two computers i've bought coincide with the launch of the last two civ games. this time around i already own a DS so i'll be slighting delaying the purchase of a PS3 to play it at home. its been ordered and set for next day delivery upon release. i want it. now.

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Mmmm, i have Age of Empires for DS and like it. Maybe I'll give civ a shot...

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, June 27, 2008 4:13:00 PM  

you won't think its such a good idea at 4am on a Tuesday when you realize the sun's coming up and you have to be at work in a few hours but you're drunk and desperate for "just one more turn".

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Monday, June 23, 2008

Home 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 6/23/2008 07:13:00 PM

The good news: I'll be home starting tomorrow Tuesday the 24th - 29.
The bad news: I'm there because my remaining grandmother died this weekend.

I took a little more time to spend with fam and to hopefully see some friends. Give me a call!

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How about a home cumming celebration!
We can use my place.

As long as no one puts anymore embarresing labels on the ceiling where I cant reach them.

By  Anonymous, at Monday, June 23, 2008 7:22:00 PM  

Oh how tasteless, I missed the line about your grandmother. My sincere condolences. I know how it is to lose a grandparent, and its never easy.

Well, to make it up to you, my offer stands. You can even have the guest room.

By  Anonymous, at Monday, June 23, 2008 7:28:00 PM  

No prob, Timmo. I would like to visit. I'll prob be available starting Friday and the weekend. Maybe Thursday night too.

By  Brancibeer, at Monday, June 23, 2008 10:31:00 PM  

sorry to hear dude. I was thinking about having a campfire Saturday at my parents place.

By  ron, at Tuesday, June 24, 2008 7:13:00 AM  

Sorry about Grams. It seems you wont be around on the 5th for my fireworkabration, so me and my wife hope to see you this friday.

PEACE!

By  Anonymous, at Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:40:00 AM  

Friday at my place is totally fine by me (in fact I insist).

By  Anonymous, at Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:36:00 PM  

Sold

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:40:00 PM  

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these things happen in threes 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/23/2008 06:21:00 PM

RIP: George Carlin

we lost another great person in george carlin. he was a terrific comedian. i enjoyed his standup the most and when he'd have a nice cameo in a good movie. he never worked well as the star on TV but he was always funny.

i'm not going to say he's as big as the other names but its my third, Stan Winston died last week and hardly a mention was made. i can honestly say that his creations have influenced my life more then i can imagine.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Finished! 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/18/2008 07:33:00 PM

finally, i've finished playing Xmen legends 2. it wasn't a bad game, just long and it was getting tedious. i thought i was done and then it sprang another chapter on me. nuts. but its over now and i can move on to bigger and better things. like the xbox i picked up on craigslist for 40$. the kid gave me two light guns and a racing wheel plus 4 controlers and 10 good games. i'd consider it a steal. x men was my last game to finish for the wonderful box that is the gamecube. its now time for its controllers to be removed and played on a more advanced system, the Wii (when tim and moe buy one). i've started playing the first Halo already. it's always bugged me i've never completed that so now i'm going to try. i've also got a solid game of Final Fantasy 1 going at senior kolpaks.

what are you playing?

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I'm playing being social and trying to have sex with girls.

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:49:00 PM  

Really... With "girls"... Didn't you recently post a video of your pussy then some dudes ass. I didnt realize you became a lesbian, maybe you should stop hanging out with those roller-dykes.

By  Anonymous, at Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:29:00 PM  

Hey, Rollerdykes are good times and I won't give them up just yet. You anonymous coward!

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:03:00 PM  

If you bothered to come over and visit Casa del Loon once and awhile, you know the identity of the mysterious man downstairs. It is I, Professor Spunkmeyer.

P.S. I don't want hear any of your excuses about how we're in different time zones.

By  Anonymous, at Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:30:00 PM  

i have an xbox as well, but i rarely play it. i play it more in the winter when it's just miserable here. i have a tiger woods game for it that i absolutely love. but in the summer, i play my own golf.

By  josh, at Saturday, June 21, 2008 4:03:00 PM  

ok, update. we just got a wii today.

By  josh, at Sunday, June 22, 2008 5:25:00 PM  

sweet, find yourself some old gamecube controllers and a copy of super smash brothers brawl and enjoy. its sad, but the best game on the system has absolutely nothing to do with the motion controls.

brian, fuck off

tim, stop causing trouble under different user names, we've had this conversation before.

Josh, i never understood sports games, especially golf. half the point of golf is to get out of the house and get outside on a nice day. videogames are the complete opposite of that, thus what does a golf videogame have to offer? (tim, i'm totally expecting some sort of nerd games outside thing here)

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, June 23, 2008 5:51:00 PM  

Oh where to begin...

1) Go fuck yourself (thats the tequila)
2) Go fuck yourself (still the tequila)
3) I usually own up to my drunken rants
4) I happen to find my (love)handles funny. If you don't like them, go fuck yourself.
5) I had fun this weekend, we should do it again sometime.
6) Go fuck yourself (Tequila)
7) I can't find the thingy to the camera to upload the pictures
8) I can count to ate.
9) Now come'on thats funny
And 10) I'd say go fuck yourself, but thats a tired point and you are the only ally I have in the campaign against those infernal rats, so I'll give you some advice. Wait until before I've drank alot of tequila until you tell me what to do, or I'll hunt you down and aand feed you to my tequila.

Thats is all.

Peace.

By  Anonymous, at Monday, June 23, 2008 7:19:00 PM  

i bought you that tequila duschebag.

yes, more nerd games in the yard. does that count as social?

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, June 23, 2008 8:00:00 PM  

ahhhh, but you only read half of what i wrote...or maybe a third.

i mainly (only) play xbox in the winter and when it's shitty out here. in the summer i play my own golf.

with team sports games video games can make sense when no one else is around.

the other purpose for sports games (or maybe the main one) is that they can be for people who like sports but aren't very athletic. those who are good at video games can still enjoy the sports that way.

By  josh, at Monday, June 23, 2008 8:27:00 PM  

Oh Matty...

I haven't even gotten to your tequila yet. It's margeritta monday at the local establishment.

But yes, games in the yard was fun!

To wit, I'm now drinking the warm left over beer in cooler outside. The water in it smells funny, so i rinsed off the can. I would have drank your tequila but a certain buzzkiller (ahem, Mo we're looking at you) took away and hid it Friday niht. Now's she passed out and when I ask her where it is she just mumbles at me.

(Yes, the time stamp is correct, its 8:40)

By  Anonymous, at Monday, June 23, 2008 8:40:00 PM  

I just bought Bocce as an impulse buy. It was 30% off. I also have Croquette. I'm in search of Jarts.

By  Brancibeer, at Monday, June 23, 2008 10:29:00 PM  

they don't make jarts any more, too many people got killed.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, June 30, 2008 5:50:00 PM  

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

R.I.P. Tim Russert 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/17/2008 08:06:00 PM

i'm going to miss this guy. i really ddi enjoy meet the press and it was part of my sunday morning routine. russert was kind and always professional. if anything i gave him shit for being too lenient on certain people, republicans if you must, but it was the responsible way to approach every guest that i respected about him. most journalism is total crap and the rest is biased one way or the other. Tim Russert was the type of journalist who was not biased to any side. I'm going to quote a peter gammons article remembering big russ:

" Russert was a study for all of us who dabble in journalism, and I think it was Pat Buchanan who paid him the supreme compliment by saying that he never really knew Russert's political beliefs. Russert loved what he covered, and he loved people, and for those of us who believe that we have the right to like our subjects but do not have the right to dislike any of them, he defined fairness. He didn't scream. He didn't interrupt. He allowed those people he interviewed to speak their minds, and then he asked the appropriate questions, and he did so with respect and dignity, and knew too much to argue or to judge. Somehow he let his subjects know that this was all professional, neither personal nor agenda driven."

Peter Gammons is another person i respect in this way and it was awfully nice to see such a story written by one about the other. i'm generally more worried that gammons will drop at any minute but this week we lost a journalist of a different sport instead.

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yeah, this was a sad one. and it also goes a bit to your last post too, as russert was only 58.

very glad to hear that your dad is ok.

By  josh, at Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:17:00 PM  

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Monday, June 16, 2008

Parents 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/16/2008 06:12:00 PM

today's topic of choice: parents. Friday i got a call that everyone dreads, that someone has been hurt or a close one lost. or at least the way Amanda answers the phone. "OHMYGOD, Dad's in the hospital!"

WHAT! WHY WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?! he was working at camp, and dropped a pvc pipe on his eye. the piece of pipe happened to have glue on it and the glue got in his eye. it didn't hit him in the head, the end he was gluing to another end fell end first and hit him square in the eye. luckily my mom was with him and immediately took him and the bottle of glue (i never would have expected them to remember this part, i'd have bet the farm on them not thinking of it) to the ER. they flushed his eye for an hour and were able to use stuff to get the glue out because they knew what it was thanks to the bottle. they kept him for a few hours to make sure he wasn't loosing his sight or anything like gluing his eye shut forever. he's ok for now, they sent my dad home with some antibiotics for the glue and his eye is swollen with a bruise on the white part of his eye. he says he can see just fine and he's going back to the Dr today so we'll see. he now has to wear safety glasses while working at camp, my mom also is required to wear a hardhat while working at camp from her hitting her head a while back.

these two incidents are what i was meaning to talk about here. parents, they are getting old. i feel more and more like i should be keeping an eye on them instead of them looking after me all the time. they are more likely to be getting into real trouble most of the time. they're old, senile and still think they can do all the stuff they used to. plus my dad is thickheaded and i'll never be able to convince him of anything so he'll do what ever he wants when ever he wants no matter what i say. and they hide stuff from me. they know i'm a smart bastard and i can put two and two together, so they don't tell me about the first two. the first one was a year or two ago when my dad drove into a ditch because he fell asleep at the wheel around the corner from the house, luckily he was going slow enough cause he was almost home but they didn't tell me for months until i found the dent on the car. parents are sneaky.

i'm sure i'm not the only one who thinks like this and i'm sure my parents aren't the only ones getting themselves hurt.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

30 minutes, 200 dollars and 8000 BTU's later... 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/10/2008 07:17:00 PM

i once again am acting like a neanderthal and forcing mother nature to conform to my life instead of the other way around. plus i specifically bought the non energy star rated unit, so take that planet earth. even with a 50$ rebate for turning in an old inefficient unit it was still cheaper to buy a larger less efficient unit. now i just have to dump the old unit on the side of the highway and my day is complete. fuck you heat. technology wins.


on a separate rant, damon, maybe this one's for you, but does all of our air "conditioning", heating cooling and going against the way mother natures wants our living rooms, are we fucking up the earth's temperature? do 200 million AC's cranking away during the summer, pumping out cold air, fuck up the giant slug of warm air dominating our weather? not from a energy usage standpoint or global warming or CO2 emissions, but from the fact that we are trying to force summer to be cooler and winter to be hotter. this one bugs me.

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You're a god damn hypocrite. Spend the extra money and get the energy efficient appliances. You should be leading by example and you can afford it. They save you money long term anyway jacksass. You're an idiot.

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:21:00 PM  

you sir, are correct. sort of. i don't plan on using this thing long term. i'd be surprised if i used it past this summer. i hope to move out into my own place, that i own, at some point soon. i have been saying that for a while but its getting closer. i swear. so the long term effects for me are minimal. i had a basic principle going into this purchase. the most BTU's for the buck. period. and quickly. time was of the essence because of the current weather in CT. so i did minimal searching online, found a decent model, went, picked it up and had it in the window in about 40 minutes. it was amazing. plus i only really use the AC 5 nights a week or less so its not a full time run. i believe i made the correct decision here, i certainly understand your point and did take it into consideration when making my purchase but went in a different direction.

i argument i'm expecting that i don't really have any defense for other then the timeing need, is why didn't i just buy a cheap one on craigslist or in the paper, etc. i don't know what to say to this one. oops?

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:47:00 PM  

AC shouldn't be necessary in New England, but because of the stupid designs of the past 100 years we invite excess heat into our homes, confident we have excess fossil fuels to push it out.

Is this unit oversized? You should know that oversizing it would lead to running too short on the cooling cycle to circulate the oil, leading to short life. I guess you don't care about this though., and maybe it's sized right anyway.

Full disclosure: AC is my guilty pleasure. Though I can't control it at work, my office is cold. I can control it at home and my apartment is cool. But at home our East facing windows only get about 30 minutes of sun a day, and our 2nd of 8 floors location gets little other heat gain. Our AC is a water source heat pump so it uses hardly any energy to push our 75F air's heat into the 55F water. My final justification is that outside the windows of my cheap apartment is an alley with trash and recycling from several restaurants and bars that attracts flies and is loud as they dump bottles in, and the compressor for my 91 unit building that cycles loudly a few time an hour.

Coming soon: buying a house for gradual renovation to passive heating/cooling.

By  Damon, at Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:00:00 PM  

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Monday, June 09, 2008

Man vs. Heat, i give up, Heat wins, i'm a pussy 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/09/2008 06:55:00 PM

AAHHH!!! its HOT out. this damn heat is oppressive. its like the planet is fucking with me as well, i think i might kill someone if i don't feel a breeze soon. the air has been dead still up here and its making a minor heat wave simply unbearable, and the humidity is just a slap in the face to boot. a kick in the balls on the way down, don't mind if i do! i don't have AC in this place so i'm going to complain about it. there is an air conditioner here, but it felt like pumping out heat instead of cool air. i talked to my landlord today at work and he's "going to rummage one up" for me, but i'm not sure i can wait. like i mentioned above, i'm a pussy and its hot out. i'm going to go see a movie instead. they have AC. and then a bar. thats AC'd too, and last i checked, i like beer.

any other suggestions for beating the heat?

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You fool! Heat will always win. Don't worry though, it only took 2 years for my body to adjust to the warmer weather in FL.

By  Brancibeer, at Tuesday, June 10, 2008 8:51:00 AM  

yeah, we dont have AC here either but last night dominique went into the basement and rummaged up an old window unit from some long lost tenant here. it took some of the humidity out of the apt, but it really cooled the bedroom down at night since it's smaller and we shut the door. plus it was really smooth of me when i moved it from the living room to the bedroom and spilled water all over the floor.

can't wait to get into the new place in a few weeks. no more forced interaction with neighbors, and there are several AC units built in.

By  josh, at Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:25:00 PM  

cold showers work well.

I cracked and turned on the ac too. This place leaks like a siv so I've got all vents plugged except the bedrooms which are on the upper level and the hottest.

By  ron, at Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:57:00 PM  

Basements and waterfronts. Burlington has an unusually chilly place: the causeway goes 4 miles out into the lake, so the end of that is always 60 or whatever the lake is that day, regardless of the 90+ temps in town. Caves? Mountain tops? Except for the heat on the way up I guess.

By  Damon, at Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:03:00 PM  

A ceiling fan is nice, especially in conjunction with central air. =)

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Sunday, June 08, 2008

Obama wins, for now... 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/08/2008 02:57:00 PM

so Obama is going to be the democratic nominee. congratulations to him. i'd have preferred Hilary. at this point its no big deal between them though. i just hope the dems win. i can't see how mccain is anything but a step towards a bleak totalitarian future. bigger guns and more wars, thats the republican way right about now.

as relieved as i was that the battle between hilary and obama is over, i can't help but think maybe it ended too soon. they really were dominating the headlines for a long time now and it did keep mccain out of them. we haven't heard a peep out of him yet. and its going to get ugly. i don't think we can avoid someone playing the race card here. even if its not mccain directly there are plenty of other republican wonk's running around that will. and we're going to hear over and over again how a vote for mccain is a vote for more bush. it'll be interesting to see how GW handels this, he may just disapear from the race altogether except for the big stuff like conventions. that would be good for the republicans, let them drive bush around on this "what will history remember me as" tour they have him on and keep trying to improve his legacy by handing out candy bars in africa.

the next big news flash will be the choices for VP. i think gore is out and i'm not sure if we'll actually see and obama/hilary ticket. we might see and obama/bill clinton ticket first. think about it. slick willy back in the white house at any cost, that should have been the motto for hilary's campain. watch out for bill richardson from NM. he's a solid canidate.

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Thursday, June 05, 2008

PARTY TIME! 

# posted by wyldshaman @ 6/05/2008 10:00:00 AM

Hey All,

Id like to invite everyone to two get togethers in July.

5th of July Fireworks - Come to my place in Norwich for Garden Burgers with all the fixin's, Chips and Sam Adams. Around 8 or so we will go check out the fireworks in the harbor and after we can do some bar hopping or get in a friendly game of Poker.

19th of July Outdoor BBQ Spectacular - An all day shin-dig at Tim and Mo's place, in celebration of me and Le's wedding. A multitude of animals will be killed and eaten to celebrate this event(funny that Vietnamese and Looney traditions are so similar). Besides eating and drinking heavily, there will also be no lack of shenanigans.

Hope to see you all there!

PEACE

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it's not a party until something gets killed. i'm not sure how you kill a garden burger though...

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:33:00 PM  

Oh there are ways, believe me, you don't want to know about them but there are ways.

But I digress. Yes, we are working the particulars but I can promise that at least deer and one pig will not have died in vain. Rain or shine because I will set up a tent and my beer pong table is already covered.

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