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Music Player stuff

Updated at 10:45pm and again at 11:15PM. I think I have done enough damage tonight, it’s time to take my happy ass to bed.

I finally got it to work. After having spent $2 on a little piece of crap flash player from Flashden that supposedly lets you load multiple instances on the same page, but won’t work at all, I came across a little javascript over at del.icio.us called playtagger that you imbed in the body of the web page using the following syntax:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://images.del.icio.us/static/js/playtagger.js”></script>

Any mp3 that you link to in the normal way, i.e.

<a href=”http://www.shadowscope.com/files/18.mp3″>Alice Cooper – 18</a> becomes a playable link that looks like this:

Metallica – Sad but True

It takes forever to load on my page because of all the crap in my sidebar I think, but just wait for the damn thing. The main reason I posted the directions was so that my wife could use it.

Originally posted at 6:03PM on 1/26/2007

Damnit. I got the flash music player code working on the first one, but it won’t show up at all on the second post I have it in. It’s pissing me off. Moveabletype doesn’t have a decent music player plugin, so no easy solution for me other than hand coding the links. I made sure to even just use copy and paste from the first one to the second, and it still won’t work.

Maybe I will test and see if it works on the second player with the song from the first. I suppose something might be wrong with the file itself.

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Nipple Covers?

Looking through my visitors and referrers today, I came across the author of this blog. The Lingerie Gals. Right away I knew it was the place for me to visit. I’ve had an extremely long day at work due to meetings and am tired as hell so I knew it would be relaxing to look at something nice for awhile since my wife had to go to the store for a few.

Looking down through the posts I came across the one for nipple covers from way back in December. What? Damn, I didn’t know they made these things. I’ve gotta get myself some of those. I hate it at work when I have my daytimer and pen in my pocket, and the shit is rubbing the hell out of my nipple. I end up being a bit nipply for hours afterward. Yeah, I know. TMI.

Anyway, I started looking at the prices and decided I don’t need them that fucking bad. I’ve got me a big ass roll of duct tape and a knife.

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I wonder if I could market this shit.

Anyway, go check out The Lingerie Gals. I’ll bet if I showed it to the dude with the cameras it might have kept his ass out of jail.


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Youtube mobile upload

This is kind of cool. Maybe it’s not a new feature, but I just discovered it. Youtube allows you to send videos from your cell phone and post them. Very cool for stealthily blogging nasty shit you don’t have time to write about. It also allows you to post to certain blogs, unfortunately movabletype is not one of them. Maybe later.

Anyway, this was taken at the oldest girls lunch last week. She was very excited that I came to eat lunch with her.


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Slow posting day

Unfortunately due to meetings I ended up working until after 9PM last night, thus the lack of anything on the blog since yesterday morning.

I was behind the eight ball the entire day it seemed. Of course I started the day short staffed, couldn’t find one of the keys I needed that opened the office, was very busy all day, and then had to go to Oxford Alabama for a meeting, my favorite thing to do. I think I got to spend all of about five minutes with my wife on her birthday, which sucked. She was watching Grey’s Anatomy when I got home so I left her alone and checked my email and surfed for awhile until it was time to pass out.

Hopefully today will run a bit more smoothly than yesterday. I have a lot I need to get done today before my weekend off.

I saw a video on CNN this morning that prompted me to do a bit of searching. Ed Brown and his wife, in New Hampshire, believe that they have the legal right NOT to pay the federal income tax. They have holed themselves up in their house, along with weapons, and are ready to defend themselves to the death if necessary to stand up for that belief. So far the government has been trying to work with them.

I happen to agree with them about taxes and the law, but I don’t believe that tax evasion is the way to get this changed. I feel like the 16th Amendment is unconstitutional. but the way to get that changed is to support a change in the law. Unless we make our lawmakers uncomfortable and vote their asses out the door, nothing is going to change and a handful of people around the country involved in tax evasion just is not going to change this.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007701100361

http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2007/01/10/tax_protester_trial_underway/

http://yannone.blogspot.com/2007/01/will-plainfield-be-another-waco.html


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An Uneventful Day…

…is a good thing around here. I had a pretty boring day at work, which is always a good thing. I had not even planned on posting anything tonight, but just changed my mind a few minutes ago and decided to get online for awhile before I hit the sack.

Supper tonight was pretty darn good if I do say so myself. The oldest had a wrestling match tonight so it was just me and the girls. I baked a couple of pork tenderloins. It was just too damn cold to grill tonight. One was just plain old pork (but still kicked butt) and the other was marinated with black pepper and mushrooms. Butter beans, corn and green beans filled out the rest, with the leftover Mac & Cheese from last night.

It isn’t snowing or anything here yet, but it looks like it could go either way tonight. Hopefully NO DAMN SNOW.

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Useless?

Not completely, but I am pretty much in a non-posting mood this morning. I stayed up too late last night. We watched the season premier for one of the few shows that I watch on TV, 24. For some reason, even though 90% of the stuff is just incredulous, I still enjoy it. Last night was no different. I did get a good laugh though, right about the time that Jack Bauer ripped into the jugular of one of his captors with his teeth to escape. All I could think of was “Lost Boys”.

After TV I read until a bit after 11PM, well after I should have been asleep which is why I am feeling crappy this morning. I should be finished with One Bullet Away this afternoon if I get a chance to read at all today.

Apparently Barzan Hassan and Awad Bandar were hanged right before I went to bed last night. Barzad was Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and the former chief of his secret police and Awad was the former chief judge.

It’s supposed to start getting back down into the 30’s here at night tomorrow. This is some weird damn weather. It’s been in the high 60’s to mid 70’s the last two afternoons. I’m ready to get winter over with but I am just waiting for the other shoe to drop. As soon as I get out and do something in the yard, we’ll get ice or snow. Just fricking weird.

Damn, gotta get me one of these for my rear view mirror.

$24.95 for the Dope on a Rope. Damn, they even have a Jesus action figure. Oh crap. I could have some fun with these guys.

There’s a big deal going on at work right now about monster.com. I have had my resume there for several years, but haven’t updated it in quite some time. Apparently one of the recruiters, or some nosy bastard at the corporate office discovered that several people in management with my company had theirs up, and they were updated and actively searching for new jobs. Apparently about half of the management team in the area a bit closer to Atlanta from me has theirs up, and the have been told that they HAVE to take them down. Damn. I don’t particularly want to get involved in this little brouhaha, but it would really piss me off if they demanded that I take my resume down. The fact is though, that even though I have been with them for twenty years, if the right job came along, with the right $$$, I would probably jump on it, but unfortunately tech jobs at my level of education pay about half what I make now, so I have no interest in looking for one, and I am not interested in working for any other restaurant. Most of them pay less, have less benefits, and are certainly not as financially stable as my company. If we shut the doors to our restaurants right now we could continue to pay everyone, including our hourly associates, for about a year.

The wife turns 40 this week. Everyone get their asses over there and wish her a happy birthday.


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It’s Friday…

…and I actually have a couple of days off thank god…and not a fucking thing to post :>

I have to take the smallest one for an ear re-check in a few minutes, so she gets to spend my day off with me, which is a treat for both of us. She is currently watching Dora as I listen to the Pixies (Wave of Mutilation).

Perhaps I am the one who needs to go back to the doctor. I have been on antibiotics for about eight days now and can’t seem to shake this crap. My ears feel as if I just got off a plane and nasty stuff flows from all of my orifices. I DO feel better than I did this time last week, but really would like this to go away.

Looks like a few folks are getting together at the Vinings Inn for supper tomorrow night. Since I am off until Sunday morning I am going to have to head in to Atlanta (traffic and all) and have a bit of fun. Unfortunately I have to be up early Sunday, so won’t have too many libations while there. Yabu is coming, so I will bring my get-out-of-jail free card just in case.

Light posting

I told myself last week I would make sure to post at least once every day. I guess I lied (only missed it by about four hours though). I ended up working until about 10pm last night. I spent most of the evening fixing little nit-picky things that are just the kinds of things that senior vice presidents notice when they are in. I’m not particularly interested in kissing their asses, but good visits are also short which is always nice.

I have to go up about 10 and let the window washer in, but other than that we are ready to go.

Although I missed posting yesterday, I will try not to be remiss later today, since some of my help is lacking brains and the rest have no sense, I feel that I am going to be spending a LOT of time at work the next two weeks.

Professional Bloggers?

I guess that today is Judgmental Wednesday or “Asshole Hump Day” although that might carry other connotations. 🙂 I am just being very judgmental today. I am pissed off about work today so it is carrying over into everything else.

I have a MySpace account. I very rarely update it, but I set it up because my 17 year old has one and I wanted to be able to visit it, and also for a couple of old friends to find me if they so need to.

I will not link to the profile, not feeling like that much of an asshole, but I came across one today and she called herself “Blogger Extraordinaire” and listed Professional Blogger in her profile. I decided to visit her site.

I have to say, I definitely consider myself an amateur. I’ve blogged for about three years or so and kept a frequently updated website, almost a blog, for six or seven years before that. Prior to that I ran my mouth on pre-www days electronic BBSes. Michelle Malkin and Instapundit, to name two, are professional bloggers. Definitely not me.

Neither is this chick. Her myspace layout is not the most irritating, but it is pretty fucking close. I decided to pay a visit to her “professional” web site. It’s at blogspot, which was first clue that she’s not a pro. The ultra ugly background on the page as well as the fact that it would not display properly in IE were a couple more. Then there is the fact that she has posted four times since August 12th. Of course, being an amateur, I can post drivel after drivel all day long. I guess the quality of her posts makes up for doing one every ten days. Not.

Maybe I just have my Andy Rooney shirt on today or something, but just because you spend 18 hours a day sitting your fat ass in front of the computer, that DOES NOT MAKE YOU A PROFESSIONAL BLOGGER.


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Why am I still awake?

Just to entertain you bastards. I just finished my 16th straight work day, got home at 9:45pm, what do I do? MAKE COFFEE. Dumbass.

Good night.


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