The Workermonkey

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Hurricane tracking

# posted by Brancibeer @ 8/27/2008 02:07:00 PM

Hanna

Gustav

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Hey this is cool. Since I used the link (not a saved picture) for this post it automatically updates when they change the forecast. Also it looks like Hanna could possibly come your way up the coast.

By Brancibeer, at Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:58:00 AM

Nice, I hadn't even heard of Hanna as these storms never reach NW Vermont, but I like the names: Hanna(h) is a woman who got away from me up here, and Gustav is Swedish.

By Damon, at Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:07:00 PM
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Friday, August 22, 2008

Who knew shoveling and hauling sand would be such hard work?

# posted by Brancibeer @ 8/22/2008 10:34:00 AM

Faye will be coming my way today, so I thought it best to do a little preparing. The city and county is offering free sandbags (you fill em and haul em) at locations around town. I went down this morning and got me some of that. Slightly hungover I filled a good 8 bags and brought them back to the Branci-homestead. It was a typical scene of human behavior. Everybody's happy and friendly when the sand is plentiful. But when that pile started to wilt down...I had my shovel held tight and ready. That be my sand son.

This storm has been dumping buckets of rain and my property is on a slope from the road. I'll be monitoring the situation on stand-by over the weekend. These storms remind me of snow days up north. I almost got off work. People down south got two days off. Of course we are facing the brunt over the weekend...damn it.

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post up some pics. Been awhile since we've had a decent hurricane up here.

By ron, at Friday, August 22, 2008 8:16:00 PM

yeah good luck with that, tis best to swing the shovel with the blade horizontal when someone is trying to steal your sand. wait, isn't Florida nothing but sand? either way, good luck with the storm.

By Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, August 22, 2008 8:59:00 PM
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

oops, not again...

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 8/19/2008 07:22:00 PM

oh shit, it happened again. Cox turned off my internet for downloading stuff. this time, i had a much more in depth discussion about how this little legal dance works. i think he gave me too much information. basically, Cox was prompted to turn me off by a media company. Cox has nothing to do with this, they take orders from Hollywood. When i download something, no one cares, when i share something, everyone goes ape shit. its not the download that gets you, its the uploading, Hollywood monitors uploads. you can download all the shit you'd ever want as long as you don't share it. i downloaded a TV show that is not available for sale yet and they whacked me. its was the sharing going on while i was downloading that got me. so as long as i turn off sharing i can do whatever i want. plus its 3 strikes and not out but "in a one year period your account will go up for review for termination". wow, harsh.

...and the world continues its downward spiral.

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What's in the "awesomeness" folder?

By Brancibeer, at Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:19:00 AM

hehe, nice catch, its mostly websites that i've bookmarked for having something cool on them like pretty moving pictures and such. nothing that cool or important

By Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:44:00 PM

aka porn. actually, perhaps the porn is in the "useful" folder.

By josh, at Wednesday, August 20, 2008 8:50:00 PM
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Monday, August 18, 2008

olympics

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 8/18/2008 05:51:00 PM

I've been loosely paying attention to the Olympic games this year. i tend to drift in and out and leave it on TV in the background. i try to watch some different sports that i normally wouldn't' see otherwise. like soccer. i just can't do it, i keep trying to watch soccer without getting pissed or angry or just going through a thought process of interest, confusion, anger, hate and then the TV goes off. every time. i get so mad because these people are supposedto be at hte top of thier game and the whole world loves this sport, but i just can't do it. they suck. all of them. there is no strategy involved, there is noone on the field running an offense or defense or what ever the fuck they call it. they get crazy over one goal and then fight to the death to hold on to a 1-0 lead, then everyone gets awed and shocked when the other team, god forbid, ties the game. i watched two soccar games (not entirely but close) over the weekend and they were both the same. i watched the US tie a game they should have dominated and brazil dominate one they should have. why do they stop after one goal? i just don't get it. imagine if baseball were played like that and all the defencive replacements came out afterthe first run? or football, if the offense punted on first down everytime after the first fieldgoal? its horse shit.

i did see most of phelps' golds as NBC played up the crap out of him the whole time and during coverage of everything. i get it, its amazing, moving on... holy shit we needed this bastard or we'd be losing in medals and our gold count would be aweful. he's got like half of our goal total himself.

other olympic thoughts:

those chineese gymnists are all under the age of 14, i don't care what you say.

does girls beach vollyball tour?

does the World Baseball Classic really pose such a threat to olympic baseball that this is the last year?

don't mess with lady sword fighters, the US swept in fencing.

black people are fast. really fast, and all of them.

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little hint about Olympic soccer. Its a joke. Soccer fans don't even watch. Euro Cup and World Cup are bigger than the Olympics.

By ron, at Monday, August 18, 2008 9:29:00 PM

Soccer players are a bunch of whining pussies. That's why I can't watch it. Actually, its a pretty good game to watch sometimes. But the whining!

By Brancibeer, at Monday, August 18, 2008 9:42:00 PM

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By Brancibeer, at Monday, August 18, 2008 9:42:00 PM

yeah, i dislike watching soccer as well, be it olympics, world cup, whatever. i think the simpsons summed it up best with "fast kicking, low scoring, and ties!!!" soccer is fun to play, but i agree, i can't watch it either. maybe if the field was a lot smaller there would be more scoring and/or excitement.

the phelps thing is ridiculous. he's awesome, but i got kind of pissed at nbc after a while. even after relay wins, nbc would keep interviewing the teammates about how ridiculous phelps' run is. yes, it's crazy. but have some tact. after racing their best (and winning gold by the way) i dont think the 3 other guys just want to talk about phelps. nor should they.

the chinese gymnasts are definitely younger than 16. but if they win, they win i guess. i dont know much about gymnastics. we saw part of the guys on the rings last night. they're ridiculously strong.

we watched one of the baseball games today. it's ok but the real baseball games are heating up now just before the playoffs.

By josh, at Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:54:00 PM
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Made it back, no need to avenge death yet

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 8/06/2008 05:24:00 PM

so i made it back in one piece last night. ron/brians whereabouts still unknown. trip was a success. there was a ton of stuff to talk about at all the locations i hit but i'll try to summarize it.

quote of the con "G.I. Joe just grabbed my ass!" (amanda) right after this pic:
i focused a little more on the panels this year at the con so most people will have no idea what i'm talking about. the creative legends panel was awesome and grant morrison is stranger then i thought. mike mignola (hellboy) was amazing and really down to earth. Jim lee kicks ass and robert kirkman is super cool, even if no one recognises him. (this was the resaon i was able to talk to him AT the image signing table, no one knows what he looks like). this happens every year, people don't recognise famous writers and artists because they only know them from thier work, or they are there for the movie/tv people. many comic people are much more approachable then you'd think.

the Heroes panel was cool, they showed the entire first episode from next season. brendan fraiser was coked out of his gord at his panel, bug eyed , sniffeling and incoherent rambeling.

funny stuff. there was this kid at the terminator panel who asked his question in an arnold accent that made the entire place laugh and then he had his 15 minutes of fame on stage when the director brought him up and told him to keep talking like that. he made a hilarious speach and when he finally broke character it was one of the funniest things i'd ever seen.

the floor was once again so packed on saturday it was impossible to move anywhere. so we spent the whole day in hall H, the big panel room. i dragged amanda along the first day and she had so much fun she wanted to go all three days (i skip sunday, or kids day) and now wants to go back next year. anyone who thinks this thing is just for comics or nerds hasn't been there and should go at some point, even if just to experience it once.

i got to meet matt groening who was just hanging around the bongo comics booth who had simpson stuff everywhere. a ton more happened, but i dont care t o write about it, there were many other things i did on this vacation.

legoland. damn it we're not young enough to go on any of the rides. fuck.

we hit the San Diego zoo and the museum of natural history followed by drinking in the gas lamp distric and a padres game.the next day it was wine country time. good shit.oh yeah, and you might have heard, there was an earthquake while we were out there. unfortunatly we were in the car and didn't really feel it. nuts. the next day it was off to the woods for ron and I, but not before another quick trip to wine country to hit the places we missed.camped in Idyll wild at a state park in the center of "town", got drunk off margaritas and cheap tacos. after that is was the hike of a life time to the top of Mt. Jancinto, 6 miles up hill, follwed by the same 6 miles back. about 7 hours total and a mile vertically. holy ball sac was i hurt. it was high enough in elevation that we couldn't breath right at the top.
cool shit at the top, take that you fucking mountain. the next day it was a drive throuhg joshua tree national park where we could see the mountain we had just concured
then it was vegas time. a bunch of cool shit here too but i'm tired of typing. maybe ron can pick it up here as this is were brian comes into the picture a little, or a little blurry, i don't really remember seeing him. we met amanda in LV and her and I did a bunch of stuff on our own, like the hoover dam and blueman group. it was a ton of fun. a long two weeks but totally worth it. i think i'll do comicon again next year but i'll try to limit to a week at best. fuck yeah.