…and he is a fucking komodo dragon.
CHESTER, England – Scientists unveiled five squirmy black and yellow Komodo dragons Wednesday that were the product of a virgin birth, predicting that the hatchlings offered hope for breeding the endangered species.
Read more about it here.
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I slept like shit last night. Well, maybe not exactly like shit but I tossed and turned and didn’t get nearly enough sleep. The smallest one has been in bed with us the last two nights, but I am not even sure that was it as I didn’t sleep very well the night before either. I may be able to get a bit more rest later this week though as my newest manager trainee has to work the graveyard shift for me all week so I am pulling the guy that usually cooks it up on days with me. Lazy week, but those are occasionally nice.
I am finally having that legal investigation against me on Thursday morning. I probably will not post the details once it does but at least the general gist of what it was about and how it went. That’s one of the things that make my job so difficult. It’s hard enough having to let someone go that has a family to support but when they are just a sorry sack of shit that has to turn around and complain about discrimination because the only way that they can keep their job is to threaten you with that crap, it just pisses me off. Maybe he can get a job at the car wash across the street, but I doubt he will hold it long, as they expect you to work.
The doctor gave us a prescription for Zantac for the middle child yesterday and told us to keep watching her diet. Anything with acid in it we have to be careful to moderate the amounts. At least she (the doctor) didn’t say we have to completely cut it out of her diet. It’s a pain in the ass when the stuff you want to eat is only the stuff that is not good for you.
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Here we are at the doctor’s office. we were 5 mInutes late so we will probably be here for a while. all of the rooms here have carousel horses on the wall.
Guitar World Magazine has their list of 100 greatest guitar solos up over at about.com for your perusal. I don’t agree with a lot of them, and there are some great solos that have been left out or relegated to the bottom of the list and a few that are in the top ten that are not deserving. Ursi via Cityrag has linked to the top ten and has links to the youtube videos as well.
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…just for watching this video and linking to the website. I enjoyed it so much that I had to link to the Fat Hairy Bastard.
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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:
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:
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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I sort of threw a wrench in my boss (two levels up) and his plans for the next few weeks. I let him know that I was not particularly interested in the district that he wants me in, that if he had NOBODY else, I would step up to the plate, but it is only about a $5k raise for a hell of a lot more work and I can make that staying where I am answering straight to him.
There is one other guy who is up for promotion, but way down the list. I suggested that they give it to him and just leave me alone for know. Things are finally starting to look up for me at work with money and I don’t want to jeopardize that by stepping in to a situation where I would be in over my head.
I would jump on it if it were either of the other two districts out here, but this one just sucks. Two of the stores together do almost as much in sales as my single store. Three times the headaches, lots more hours, responsibility. Hell no. I may still end up with it, but I really really hope not.
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