Happy Wednesday.
Hope everyone survived the great Festival of Drinking Yourself Drunk on Cheap, Artificially Colored Beer known as St. Patrick’s Day.
Amazing how we manage to cheapen cultures from around the world as an excuse to gorge, debauch, and intoxicate ourselves into ridiculousness at every chance we get.
I think I may be getting a touch cynical in my old age.
I was not a participant in this year’s Irish festivities, being generally too freaking tired to care. Things are a bit hectic at work, and having been at it until after midnight Monday night, there is simply no energy for revelry this week. Tonight featured training on various international accounting standards with our friends in Singapore in anticipation of this year’s upcoming audit, just what everyone wants to spend their evening doing. Asian accents are lots of fun with bad computer connections, especially discussing fair market valuations of liabilities on your financial statements. At least I think that’s what he said. He may have ordered a pizza from Kim Jong Il’s new restaurant, I really have no idea. Does Pyongyang deliver to Singapore?
Totally different topic, I get to spend my mom’s birthday this year at the NIN/JA show!!! (This year is really all about the ninjas, and what sounds they make.) Mum helped me out with those darn internet presales, with which we had NO luck last time, and got me tickets to the upcoming Nine Inch Nails/Jane’s Addiction show in May, which has just added Street Sweeper as a third act. (Apparently, Tom Morello has gotten temporarily over the whole acoustic folk Nightwatchman thing and has teamed up with The Coup’s Boots Riley for this new rapcore gig. I’m not really familiar with The Coup, and there’s no Street music available yet, but it ought to be interesting… probably a lot closer to RATM, but that’s cool. I like Rage, even if Zack was a little WHOA sometimes.) So I’ll report back, but until then, I’m guessing that Ninjas, despite what Emma thinks, do make sounds, and they sound a lot like wailing guitars, grunting 40something year old men, and something about fucking like animals. But I’m not going to tell her that.
And now, for the news….
Shower Nozzle Alert!!!! “Seriously, your honor, how can ANY woman in this day and age get by on only $53k a week? That’s just SO last century…..” (Not an actual quote, but pretty damn close.) http://www.azcentral.com/business/consumer/articles/2009/03/18/20090318biz-ExpensiveDivorce0318.html
Whoa. This would have HUGE implications for the entire industry. (For the like three of you that this means anything to.) http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2009/03/18/20090318biz-IBMSunTalks0318.html
Ew. http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/03/18/20090318dogODD-CR.html
Bullet dodged. This would have gotten REALLY freaking ugly had Obama not abandoned this idea. Honorary Shower Nozzle to Obama for having even proposed it, though. Idiot. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/03/18/20090318veterans-treatment18-ON.html
In the immortal words of Comedy Corner… “Crash, Into Trees…” When will Hollywood Celebrities learn that skiing is dangerous? It’s bad, mmmkay? Still, condolences to all 97 of her family that are still in the industry, including Mr. Jedi Master. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7949195.stm
And now, monkeys with weapons. Good thing Charleton Heston is already dead, this could have gotten very ugly. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7946614.stm
Um, yeah, please give us your money back, because we look like complete douchenozzles and the entire world hates us and we’re getting death threats and stuff. AIG, we know money. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7950452.stm
They always go after the accountant… but then, the accountant ALWAYS knows what’s going on, and don’t ever let them tell you differently. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7951005.stm
TMZ hits the Beltway. To paraphrase… Just like the Battle of Stalingrad, you kind of want them both to lose. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/18/AR2009031803001.html?hpid=topnews
Rolling Stone’s 100 Agents of Change in America. Bet you can’t guess who #1 is. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/26754176/the_rs_100_agents_of_change
This is kinda nifty. http://lifehacker.com/5174138/worldwide-telescope-puts-the-night-sky-in-your-browser
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