The Workermonkey

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

fuck that guy 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 3/26/2008 08:57:00 PM

is it just me or has driving behind someone who's backing out become standard practice? its happening on almost a daily basis now. fuck other drivers. you all suck.

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patience dude. light up another and just relax. driving sucks.

By  ron, at Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:02:00 AM  

Huh? You mean in like a parking lot or something? I hope you don't mean the highway.

Another good topic for friday.

By  Anonymous, at Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:39:00 AM  

driving does suck, unless it's on the open road

By  josh, at Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:53:00 PM  

yes, in parking lots. its become normal for me to stop and look half way out of a spot at the highland market i go to for lunch.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:22:00 PM  

F U !

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Baseball 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 3/25/2008 07:50:00 PM

its back. kicked off at 6:00 am this morning in japan. anyone else wake up for it? no i didn't either, mostly because its the red soxs. i have done this many times in years past. i remember setting my alarm in college for 3:47am one morning to witness the cubs play in japan. totally worth it. how many people here would actually say they follow baseball? i read a ton and watch as many games as i can. i've learned a lot about the statistical side of the game and what the numbers can show you. the baseballprospectus.com site i read is full of cutting edge information about baseball. thier Pecota projections are tops in the business proving to be the most accurate. i'd rather not write the massive write ups i do each year but i'm more interested in if anyone here even wants to talk baseball. a quick prediction in the AL east: sox, yanks, rays, jays, O's that order. yanks get the WC. detroit wins the central and anaheim walks comfortably in first from line to line. i just think the sox will have better pitching. the yanks young kids are just that, young. its too much to expect instant stardom from them.

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you know i love baseball as well, so i'm good with that.

i didn't wake up for the beginning of the game, but i was sure tracking it. followed the end of it at work on gamecast. good ending, would've been cool to watch.

with the ncaa tourney, opening day, and the masters in 2 weeks it's the best sports time of the year!

By  josh, at Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:51:00 PM  

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

latest match.com profile picture 

# posted by ron @ 3/23/2008 01:26:00 AM

This picture was actually approved and on my profile.

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That will surely save the ladies some time.

By  Damon, at Sunday, March 23, 2008 7:42:00 PM  

Was?

By  Brancibeer, at Sunday, March 23, 2008 9:20:00 PM  

one of the funny stories behind the newest superman movie was that the actor who played superman had to have his junk digitally DE-hanced for the film. he was too big. that would have been a better picture for ron to hack. but nice work other wise.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:05:00 PM  

mat, only you would know anything about reducing superman's junk. But doesn't it make perfect sense that such a 'super'man would have some super-sized junk? Either way I'll bet anything your mouth is watering waiting for the untouched director's cut.

By  ron, at Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:21:00 PM  

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

I LOVE RADIO 

# posted by wyldshaman @ 3/20/2008 09:52:00 PM

Of course i dig NPR and college stations, but down with that silly con-radio.

But something im into lately, or really when im chill'in at the hisou' is Pandora Radio....

Pandora Radio is something along the lines of XM, but free and plays via your computer.

Just pick an artist, group, song or genre and it will create a cool play list for you, let it know if you like or dislike a song and it will start changing the play list to conform to your taste, great for parties, cleaning, or just hearing some new shit.

PEACE, MY PEOPLE

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Have you been drinking?

By  Anonymous, at Friday, March 21, 2008 6:34:00 AM  

You can configure your computer's music player to tell last.fm what it's playing so the website can then create a custom radio station for you, and can include a customizable amount of music you don't have, but is similar to yours.

By  Damon, at Sunday, March 23, 2008 7:44:00 PM  

of course he's been drinking. he was drunk as a skunk writing that and you know it.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:06:00 PM  

Fascinating. I am intrigued by your suggestion. Perhaps we should discuss the merits skunks and alcohol on Friday?

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Are you fucking kidding me? 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 3/18/2008 08:06:00 PM

this was something i'd forgotten about from a few weeks ago. this was in reference to a Britney spears story on the front page of CNN.com. this makes me angry at the least and pissed off that this country would rather keep its head in the sand then learn the truth about anything. the fact that this is in reference ot a spoiled crazy pop star is even more insane.

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oh shit, i didn't notice the writing in the lower left corner until i posted it, "this is not a scientific poll". thank god.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:10:00 PM  

what makes it a scientific poll? i assume it was posted on a webpage for people to click on their response. seems to be somewhat legit at least. i suppose theoretically people could sit there all day and click, but that disparity was still pretty big. ridiculous.

By  josh, at Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:54:00 PM  

A scientific poll would have to have a representative sample of the population respond. Visitors to a CNN.com page over a certain time period are clearly not.

By  Damon, at Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:00:00 PM  

which is too bad because i would hope voluntary visitors to cnn.com would be slightly informed and intelligent

By  josh, at Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:28:00 PM  

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

funny 

# posted by ron @ 3/13/2008 08:17:00 PM

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is that barbara streisand on the far right??

By  Brancibeer, at Saturday, March 15, 2008 5:53:00 PM  

I think so.

By  ron, at Sunday, March 16, 2008 9:22:00 AM  

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

it's deja-vu all over again 

# posted by ron @ 3/11/2008 11:48:00 PM

And no, I'm not talking about my local bar (named Deja-Vu).

So this time I found a nice girl on match. She lived in RI, was into yoga and wicked hot. So like a typical asshole, I sabotaged it right before the racing season. This time I was pretty straight about it. I didn't string her along for any extra 'benefits' like the previous year(s) . I pretty much just dropped the 'this isn't working for me' bomb after a decent weekend. I really thought this year it would be different. That maybe I've somehow developed this power to manage my time appropriately. Nope, grand delusion. At least I can still win races...

"Hanging up the phone it hit me what a sick man I am. I just gave up a decent looking nice girl so I can spent more time humping my cannondale." 3/20/2007 (see link)

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this one leaves me speachless

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:53:00 PM  

So i guess you guys don't support me?

By  ron, at Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:33:00 AM  

Well it all depends Ron. Dump a girl for your bike? Not enough info to say good call or bad call as "into yoga and wicked hot" isn't much of a description. A girl that can not only put up with obsessive cycling, but could understand your ambition would be rare, but one I imagine you'd keep. A girl who thinks your bike is childish obviously wouldn't work. And her opinion on your bike is only one more attribute. A girl who lives a serious distance away probably wouldn't mesh with a 500 mile a week habit like yours.

By  Damon, at Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:53:00 PM  

I guess you could say you are a bicyclexual!

Atleast you'll still have your racing legs....

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, March 21, 2008 12:28:00 PM  

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mileage is getting erratic 

# posted by ron @ 3/11/2008 11:05:00 PM

Driving style to blame. or is it the o2 sensor? either way the 2007 report is as follows:

• 22606 miles driven
• 2746$ spent
• 991 gallons burned! whooo yea!
  
• 0 accidents (1 wicked close call out blowin' donuts on snowy night)
• yes there are two 18 mpg tanks in there. subaru= truck
  

Damon, how many baby ducks did I kill with my CO2 emissions?

ps. Fuck global warming. its still cold as balls in my house. I read an article about how the governing global warming equations left out some 'higher order terms' to make them more easy to solve (very likely if you know anything about diff EQ's). Anyway, it said that the HOT's (higher order terms) dominated when the temp rises and there is no 'runaway' warming effect. I've been saying it for awhile now. rest assured, mother nature will put us in our place and the world will still turn without us.

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Yeah wow that's crap mileage and lots of miles, but nice work keeping track.

I don't think ducks are going to be hurt much by climate change.

I don't know anything about the equations they use to predict climate change; the forecasts vary so much (and we are talk about predicting never-happened-before phenomena) that it is clear we don't know what exactly will happen. Two positive feedback effects that you don't need equations to understand both involve melting at the poles. Ice/snow reflect about 90% of incoming radiation, while water reflects only 10%. Also, I'm sure you've heard the tundra contains massive amounts of methane that will be released as the permafrost melts. Methane is a greenhouse gas about 20 times more effective than CO2. Of course some effects are probably negative feedback loops to prevent a runaway condition and who knows which will win out.

With 17 of the hottest years since 1880 occurring during our lives, and other known impacts like a much reduced chance of Lake Champlain freezing, again no equations are needed to know that things are changing.

By  Damon, at Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:32:00 AM  

These results undeniably suggest that you drive like an asshole.

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:48:00 AM  

I just started a great book on just that subject, world turning.

"The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman

Its great, really gets you thinking, so we fuck things up and then all die, big deal. The dino's had a good run, but their gone, or morphed to birds or whatever. Maybe if it gets too hot we will sprout wings and fly into the clouds, that would be cool!

By  Anonymous, at Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:21:00 AM  

"Damon, how many baby ducks did I kill with my CO2 emissions?"

i almost pissed myself when reading this. nice ron.

the methane being released from the arctic melt is one of the most dangerous things facing us. its a by product of global warming. i've seen reports where they claim the amount of methane trapped down there is enough to wipe out man kind because of how toxic the air will suddenly become. methane is a poison. we're fucked.

i don't understnad how people can look out hte window, see a rediculous snowfall in MARCH! and think global warming isn't happening. on of hte things it does is make more storms that are much harsher and higher powered. when was the last time we had a light snow fall that last more then ten minutes? anyone? when was the last time we got a 1/4" of snow in one snow fall? that stuff doesn't happen anymore. its all or nothing with major global warming induced weather.

how can anyone seriously look at a factory thats been pumping tons, literally tons of pounds, of gases and chemicals into the air for 50 years and not think it will have an effect? thats just irrational.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:52:00 PM  

one note about the car info, you're MPG are down in the winter because you let your car warm up in the morning. when its cold out and you let the car sit running for ten minutes you're wasting gas. your mileage is up in the summer months when you can just hop in and drive.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:56:00 PM  

Warming up a car for more than 30 seconds is unnecessary, and ineffective as it takes about 10 minutes to warm it up as much you would have in driving it for a mile or two.

Winter mileage is also lower because the air is denser and so the engine calls for more fuel. You get more power from this too.

By  Damon, at Friday, March 14, 2008 7:12:00 AM  

never thought about the air density...

i've been letting the new car warm up much more then i ever have any other car. the remote start helps in this regard as i can start it from my kitchen window, and my desk at work (its fucking cold out and i'm a total pussy, so what)

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, March 14, 2008 5:37:00 PM  

you bitches are all wrong. mpg is down because the o2 sensor is busted and the car is running in closed loop 100% of the time. Also I drive like 80mph on the highway.

By  ron, at Saturday, March 15, 2008 12:29:00 AM  

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Friday, March 07, 2008

# posted by Brancibeer @ 3/07/2008 03:14:00 PM

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hot

By  josh, at Friday, March 07, 2008 6:18:00 PM  

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Thursday, March 06, 2008

What did you expect to happen? 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 3/06/2008 09:12:00 AM

Anyone following this MI and FL delegate thing? While I am frustrated that my vote and the votes of 5 million Americans will not be counted toward deciding the primary, I agree with Dean and the DNC on this one. Its pretty simple- if you can't play by the rules...you can't play. It's our own damn fault. Stupid south.

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I agree, a re-vote would be unfair at this point. I'd like to point out that MI is not in the south. Its in the dirty midwest. But, doing business in OH, CO and MI for the last three years, I can assure you that their just as religious, uneducated, closeminded, and self-rightous as the south. The only difference I can discern is they don't actually believe the south will rise again (in fact, I'm not sure they know where "the south" is).

By  Anonymous, at Friday, March 07, 2008 7:04:00 AM  

Damn, we are elitist yankees!

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, March 07, 2008 11:23:00 AM  

Yeah, to be fair, the people I know from the midwest(or "America" as they call it) are very much like the people i know from everywhere. They have the same ratio of asshole to non-asshole as everywhere else. They feel much the same way as we do about similar things. They do tend to wax conservative compared to the east coast, but many of them are reasonable. Of course, this excludes Texas.

I will say this about the midwest as well. Many of them were not afforded the same kind of educational oppurtunity we had. And it shows. Its not that there dumb, not by any means. Many of them are quite clever, and more still are very handy and self reliant. However, I wouldn't waste my time discussing the finer points of, say, Dante's Inferno or Hobb's Leviathan. They will think your an elitist asshole. I know this because when I started in my job I used the word "sans" in a sentance. No one, and I mean no one, knew what that word meant. The woman who received the email thought I was making fun of her. They still make fun of me (irony?) for inventing words. A word I thought was common parlance created such a stir my boss asked me to only write emails in "English" (he is also from the midwest).

FYI, from now on my wife wants to call me "Mr Ima Blogger".

By  Anonymous, at Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:43:00 PM  

i have to admit, when i was down south there were definitely smart people mixed in with the general population. they even had a special word for them: yankees

By  josh, at Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:29:00 PM  

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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Bacon Wrapped Asparagus 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 3/05/2008 06:47:00 PM

mmm .... mmm... good. bacon and asparagus were both on sale this week. i had no choice. the grill pan seals the deal. this is my entire dinner.

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I've said it before and I'll say it again. You're genius and a fucking visionary. I love your pro-bacon platform. I also am glad you've chosen one of the more comical vegatables (it makes your pee smell).

I'd like to formally anounce that I'm endorsing Matt for president.

By  Anonymous, at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:40:00 PM  

hahaha that's awesome. we made bacon wrapped shrimp a couple weeks ago. delicious. bacon goes with everything.

By  josh, at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:19:00 PM  

Now there is something we can agree on. I remember we made this on the grill in Montucky with Murphy. I was skeptical at the time but haven't looked back since.

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:12:00 AM  

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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Black people love rims 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 3/04/2008 08:49:00 PM

i've been getting a lot of compliments on my new car from people of african descent and the first thing each of them has mentioned was the rims. i hadn't even looked at them until someone noticed. not a single white person has noticed or said anything about my rims.

in other news, my girl scout cookies have arrived at work. yipee!

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yay for factory rims?

also, my girl scout cookies came in today too!

By  josh, at Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:56:00 PM  

That Malibu has some hot rims. Too bad the rest is a piece of shit. Fuck your Malibu!

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:08:00 AM  

they aren't standard, they 17's! they do look nice though, no hub caps is a plus.

brian, i have no idea where your anti-malibu sentiment is coming from but i expected nothing less from after our trip to montucky.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:43:00 PM  

My anti-Malibu sentiment stems from you! Your dad used to have a Malibu for a work car. You said it was a POS. And we rented one in MT, that you complained about. I remember it clearly...the sigh of disgust when we had to choose between a Malibu and a Stratus.

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:42:00 AM  

ahhh yes, but upon driving the malibu my opinion changed to this aint half bad. the next years modle which i've driven too was even better. my dad's malibu was a pos, then it got hit by lightning.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:16:00 PM  

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Monday, March 03, 2008

For the love of Guiness 

# posted by Tino @ 3/03/2008 12:47:00 PM

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Go to http://www.proposition317.com to sign the petition

By  Anonymous, at Monday, March 03, 2008 12:52:00 PM  

Sorry this got all messed up somehow, in order to make saint patty's day an official holiday go sign this petetion, i see no reason why it shouldn't considering how many other days are national hallmark holidays.

so if you like guiness as much as me, do it!

By  Tino, at Monday, March 03, 2008 12:56:00 PM  

I honestly find it offensive when protestants celebrate St. Patty's day. I'd find even more offensive if our country made it a national holiday. It's the last thing he'd want, I bet. I urge you all not to support this. Sorry Tino.

By  Anonymous, at Monday, March 03, 2008 6:47:00 PM  

since when did religious meaning have anything to do with our excuses to celebrate? how many Americans really know that Christmas has something to do with jesus? or easter? or what the fuck rashashana is? (did i even come close to spelling that right?)we're mostly just materialistic and associate Christmas with presents.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, March 03, 2008 6:53:00 PM  

Its bad enough. Do we need to basterdize another holy day? No. St. Patrick was great man. Our country has destroyed so many good things, do we need to soil this holiday more?

Most of the people "celebrating" are just getting drunk and nothing else. I dont know where to begin with the litany of psycho-babble to which that pertains.

Then there is the protestants. Isn't one of the main tenets of protestantism that celebrating saints violates commandments 1 and 2? Someone correct me here.

I can tolerate, to a degree, other people sharing in the celebration. The non protestant, non-just drinking-myself-stupid people.

But it goes overboard. It goes beyond the point of the celebration. Its downright ignorance. Its the celebration of ignorance for most people. Its the epitome of our society, and its sad. Our culture does that and I cant cogently describe it. We are country full of ignorance and we take things and "absorb" them and make them part of our retardation.

It's the opposite of what I think St. Patrick would have wanted.

Every year I boycott this madness. I beg you all, don't sink to the level of the ignorant masses.

Just think of the things you stand for. In any of your name's, do you want people degrading themselves or society.

By  Anonymous, at Monday, March 03, 2008 8:43:00 PM  

I had no idea you felt this way Tim. it is understandable considering what goes on on this day as opposed to what saint Patrick stood for. It was not meant to offend in any way, i just love guiness as im sure you do. i do however plan on having a couple of pints irregardless of the debauchery that the day has come to mean. Cheers

By  Tino, at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:55:00 PM  

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Game Day 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 3/03/2008 11:17:00 AM

Well its all down to you Texas and Ohio. Two states I repeatedly make fun of. I've got $10 on Clinton pulling through (literally). I don't want to get into a debate here, but i've supported her since the beginning. I can and will get behind Obama if the tide turns that way, but we'll see.

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Bah, you forget the great states of Rhode Island and Vermont. Are you saying you've already bet $10 or you're asking people to wager $10 that Obama gets the nomination? If it's the latter, I'll take that.

By  Damon, at Monday, March 03, 2008 4:48:00 PM  

Everyone knows Vermont has no say in anything. Is Rhode Island even a state? I bet my friend $10 a couple weeks ago that Hilary would win the nomination of the party. The media was already saying it was impossible at that time. I think the media was blowing things out of proportion...its still closer than they make it out.

By  Brancibeer, at Monday, March 03, 2008 5:33:00 PM  

Anyone here surprised that he'd be behind a woman...
{I mean that in a dirty way}

By  Anonymous, at Monday, March 03, 2008 6:49:00 PM  

if i only listened to the media i'd have thought obama won it months ago. hilary was in the lead for a majority of their time together in the spot light but obama is the media darling. they've been pimping him hard.

i feel like branci does, i'd love to have hilary win but i'll follow the democrats like a good sheep. if only nader wasn't so passionate or poetic when he speaks... his ideals get the best of me every time.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, March 03, 2008 6:50:00 PM  

oh and yes, Vermont has no effect on anything. if new Hampshire didn't have an important primary (IE: the first) the north east wouldn't matter as a voting block. we'd all be written off as the opposite of kansas. fuck the south.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, March 03, 2008 6:55:00 PM  

Vermonters have too much influence! More Senators and Congressperson per capita than those big states! One Senator has power over the prez, but that is going kinda slow. The recently retired one scored me a job by getting the US Dept of Trans to give UVM's transportation center $16M, a level of funding reserved for a select few TC's, but UVM didn't even have one yet!

By  Damon, at Monday, March 03, 2008 8:39:00 PM  

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