We got 3-hit by Joel Piñeiro.
Joel. Fucking. Piñeiro.
We really don’t deserve to make the playoffs. Good luck, Phillies.
Archive for September, 2007
The Mets lose to the Cardinals after getting swept by the Nationals
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Another Theme Change
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007The previous theme didn’t work out because the sidebar was not working (super-ultra-technical reason: the theme isn’t sidebar widget ready, and the sidebar didn’t show archives by month by default.) So, after a brief stay at Default, I chose this theme called Blue Box 0.1.
There’s still a couple of things I have to do to make it look the way I want. I was able to Photoshop the blog name into the header image, but I still need to switch the splash image (which I’ve disabled for the time being.) If you were lucky enough to see it while I was working on the theme, you would’ve seen this between the header and the first post. The new splash image will reflect more on my own personality and will feature things that interest me. This does not include fly-fishing (or whatever it is that guy in the default splash picture is doing.)
I also need to make a change to the CSS stylesheet: I want to make it so that I see a quote image when I use a blockquote. I see this all the time on other sites: I just need to figure out how to emulate this. I know it can be done, I just need to sit down and actually do it.
Brett Somers: 1924 – 2007
Monday, September 17th, 2007As a fan of Match Game, this saddens me.
That’s 2 panelists this year. Richard Dawson should start getting nervous.
“Brett Somers is dead.”
HOW DEAD IS SHE?
“She is so dead, when you try to get a good response out of her, she _________.”
Jokes are my coping mechanism, apparently.
R.I.P.
Rolling Stone: The Great Iraq Swindle
Monday, September 17th, 2007http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle
Reading this made me sick.
Bullet points:
- Government contractors are ridiculously corrupt. They spend money just for the sake of it, so that the federal government can reimburse them plus pay them 3% of the spent amount (“cost-plus” contracting.)
- A contractor spent $72 million constructing a police college. The building was so poorly constructed, the ceilings were reeking of human waste, and a brown substance dripped onto the arm of an army auditor during an assessment of the site.
- Contractors will send technicians to sites and have them do things they are unqualified to do (i.e. send an air conditioning tech to fix Humvees, and later, have him fix ACs without the proper tools.)
- Waste of resources (dumping thousands of nails into the desert because “they were too short” and burning a truck because it had a flat tire and no tools in which to change the flat.)
- When a tech gets injured in the war zone, canceling his health insurance and not paying any bills whatsoever, leaving the near-crippled man with a large stack of bills and no way of earning the money to pay for pain meds or the bills.
So sick.
Wherein I Channel Brian Regan
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Here’s the tail end of a conversation between myself and someone from another department.
Joe: “I won’t be here tomorrow, but my supervisor will be.”
Other guy: “Ok, have a good day off.”
Joe: “Thanks, you too. Bye.”
*click*
And what if he doesn’t have off tomorrow? Good one, Joe.
Hey There Delilah
Monday, September 3rd, 2007While I can’t possibly call myself a master of all things music, I can definitely call myself the authoritative authority of songs I like. While my preference lies in 80’s, 90’s and old-school Nintendo game soundtracks, a few pop songs come around that strike my fancy as well. One of these songs is Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T’s.
*breathes in*
Like most top 40 radio hits, Hey There Delilah is a simple song; the lyrics are easy to understand, the rhythm is soft and uncomplicated and the singer’s voice compliments the guitar background to create a nice harmony. Despite all that, there’s a flaw in the song I only noticed recently.
*breathes in*
I don’t exactly know when I noticed it, but after I did, the repeating flaw was the only part of this otherwise good song my ear could focus on. I heard it once and now whenever the song is playing, I anticipate the flaw and point it out to anyone in earshot so they can notice it, too. Then those people can obsess about it and tell all their friends about it.
*breathes in*
Just in case you didn’t figure it out by now, the flaw in the song is that THE SINGER TAKES A HEAVY BREATH BEFORE EACH VERSE OF THE SONG.
Jesus Fuck. A perfectly good song ruined by the singer not hiding his breaths and either the band or the label not doing some post-production to take out the offending noise. The Plain White T’s should take a lesson from Tay Zonday, writer and performer of Chocolate Rain; he knows how to professionally produce songs.
By the way, I just checked their official web site to make sure the singer doesn’t have some kind of weird disability that would make me look like an asshole, but I was assaulted with the song and had to pull the plug on my computer before the singing part started. But, I’m thorough in my fact checking, and their MySpace page confirms he’s perfectly capable of singing the song the right way and just didn’t.
(Preemptive: You may say that him breathing into the mic adds to the whole “this song is really sad” vibe, but I still think it sounds stupid and distracts too much.)
Archives Difficulties
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007If any of you visitors to averagejoe.cc (all 7 of you [the number 7 is being pulled from my ass since, without a working stat counter, I could be the most popular site on the intertubes (LOLOLOL I'm so funny) and not know it]), you may have noticed the post archives not working. If you clicked it, your computer may have thought the page was a RSS feed as opposed to a HTML page. Then again, this may have been only happening to me.
But if it has happened to you, clear your browser cache and it should all be good in the hood (yo).