| Dog Repellent |
[Sep. 17th, 2009|11:33 pm] |
Today as we were walking Balou and Trillian after work the people 2 houses up came outside and gave us what for. Apparently Balou peeing on their bushes is Not OK. Despite the fact that their bushes are perfectly green they are displeased about him doing that. In fact they are so displeased that they have had to put out "Dog Repellent." And could we walk the dogs on the other side of the street so their bushes don't get damaged.
This is all a load of crap. Their bushes are fine. We have been walking various dops past their house for years at this point and their bushes look just the same as they always have. The real issue is that the woman who lives there is afraid of dogs. Hence the asking for us to not walk in front of their house.
So now I have done some research on the dog repellent. I'm seeing wet piles of little green granules by their bushes. I think it looks like this product. The active ingredient here is methyl nonylketone, which according to this site isn't harmful to humans. It's a commonly used anti-dog chemical. However I'm not actually seeing any info on its effects on dogs. Hopefully it's not actually harmful to dogs and cats, but given the crap that happened with cat food I have no guarantees of that.
Honestly I'd like to take Balou to leave a giant crap on their lawn every morning. Then they'd understand that really their bushes were fine before. |
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| WTF |
[Jun. 12th, 2009|03:22 pm] |
I just got a call from the Club of Mountain View. Apparently I am "past due" with them. They suck. I canceled my membership with them in JANUARY. It would have been earlier but they take extra time after they receive the letter and access card to wind everything up. Now it seems as though the only reason they stopped charging me was because the card I had paid them with expired and they didn't have the new information.
What the fuck? No really. What the FUCK?!?! I wasn't all that pleased with them to start with. Their gym is small and didn't seem that clean. The only reason I ever went there to start with was they have a very good martial arts teacher. And once I stopped going it was a horrible horrible pain to get out of their contract. They required a registered mail with the cancellation letter and your access card. After they get the letter they still charge you an extra month of access fees even though without the card there is no way you could use the gym. Now it appears that that they don't even respect the cancellation letter.
Seriously I have only very very rarely had a worse customer service experience. The Club of Mountain View is a terrible place. They can lick my dog's balls, and I hope they CHOKE. |
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| Star Trek character quiz |
[May. 28th, 2009|12:29 pm] |
From ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bettyscout:
Your results:
You are Jean-Luc Picard
| Jean-Luc Picard |
| 70% |
| Uhura |
| 60% |
| Spock |
| 57% |
| Chekov |
| 55% |
| Beverly Crusher |
| 55% |
| Will Riker |
| 55% |
| An Expendable Character (Redshirt) |
| 55% |
| Mr. Sulu |
| 50% |
| Geordi LaForge |
| 50% |
| Worf |
| 50% |
| Deanna Troi |
| 50% |
| James T. Kirk (Captain) |
| 45% |
| Data |
| 39% |
| Leonard McCoy (Bones) |
| 30% |
| Mr. Scott |
| 25% |
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A lover of Shakespeare and other
fine literature. You have a decisive mind
and a firm hand in dealing with others.
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Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Test
Heh, I still call him Picard when I see him in other movies. |
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| LOL |
[May. 22nd, 2009|05:14 pm] |
I actually laughed out loud when I saw this.
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| 3 wolf shirt |
[May. 21st, 2009|01:11 pm] |
Behold the awesomeness of the 3 Wolf T-shirt.
Make sure to read what everyone else is saying about it! |
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| Phantom of the Opera |
[May. 7th, 2009|05:46 pm] |
A couple of evenings ago my ESO put the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack on the stereo. I've never seen it, and have only heard bits and pieces of the music at random times. I really liked listening to it, and hope that at somepoint in the future we get a chance to go see it.
Now the music is stuck in my head. Which is oddly appropriate when the line is: "The phantom of the Opera is here, inside my mind." |
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| On Foolishness |
[Apr. 28th, 2009|12:14 pm] |
The outcome of a discussion while driving to work:
1 - Fool me once, shame on you.
2 - Fool me twice, shame on me.
3 - Fool me thrice, I'm a shameful fool.
4 - ????????
5 - Profit! (For the other person.) |
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| Guilty Pleasures |
[Apr. 10th, 2009|05:11 pm] |
It started with the online comics Penny Arcade and PvPonline. Then the creators of both comics got involved in playing Dungeons and Dragons and I listened to both sessions of their podcasts. The second session of their podcasts added Wil Wheaton to their party. And Wil posted the following on his blog:
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| I just *love* telemarketers |
[Mar. 25th, 2009|06:36 pm] |
*ring* *ring* on my work phone
me: /picks up phone
recorded voice: blah blah warranty on your vehicle blah blah final call blah blah blah
me: /presses button to talk to person
person: can I ask you a few questions about your vehicle so I connect you to the proper extension
me: no. I want to ask you what vehicle you're calling about.
person: /hangs up
Apparently asking them questions is not allowed? Or perhaps by asking them what vehicle they have called about I have called their bluff that have any prior business relationship with me. |
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| Shepherding |
[Mar. 17th, 2009|11:15 am] |
This is what Trillian dreams about doing:
Also that is awesome! |
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| email address request |
[Mar. 15th, 2009|08:42 pm] |
So I just ordered stuff online. And they insisted that I give them an email address. I don't want to give them my email address especially as part of the reason I am doing the ordering and not my ESO is that she "doesn't want to reinforce all the spam." So I put my standard email address when I don't want to deal: fuckoff@fuckoff.com. I've never had spam at that address! Mostly because it's not my address. :D
I wonder if someone at fuckoff.com is getting all my random spam and saying "WTF?" I also freely admit that I am not brave enought to actually try putting fuckoff.com into my browser. I'm sure that not only would my poor innocent eyes get assaulted with porn, but my poor innocent computer would also get assaulted with viruses. |
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| heh |
[Mar. 11th, 2009|01:30 pm] |
I am a bad person. I just got way waaaay too much enjoyment out of reading (rumours and hearsay) about how Bristol Palin isn't going to marry her son's father.
I find it utterly hilarious that the Repubs are still trying to tell everyone that abstinence education is the way to go. Their own VP candidate couldn't keep her daughter on that plan. It is so much bullshit. And now, I wish, really wish, that when Bristol says abstinence education doesn't work people would listen to her. Or maybe, just maybe, her own mother would listen to her. |
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| Rock-Paper-Scissors |
[Feb. 19th, 2009|06:04 pm] |
Random discussion with a cube mate about the game of rock-paper-scissors alerted me to the fact that some people play it with variations. I'd never done so, since I considered that all variations are dumb. Our discussion prompted me to read about the game.
Wikipedia Entry on Rock-paper-scissors
This confirmed that variations on the original 3 symbol game are silly. (Lizard? Spock? Are you kidding me?) But alerted me to cases of rock-paper-scissors being used to decide things of quite serious importance.
"When Takashi Hashiyama, CEO of a Japanese television equipment manufacturer, decided to auction off the collection of Impressionist paintings owned by his corporation, including works by Cézanne, Picasso and van Gogh, he contacted two leading U.S. auction houses, Christie's International and Sotheby's Holdings, seeking their proposals on how they would bring the collection to the market as well as how they would maximize the profits from the sale. Both firms made elaborate proposals, but neither was persuasive enough to get Hashiyama’s business. Unwilling to split up the collection into separate auctions, Hashiyama asked the firms to decide between themselves who would hold the auction, which included Cézanne's "Large Trees Under the Jas de Bouffan", worth $12-16 million.
The houses were unable to reach a decision. Hashiyama told the two firms to play RPS, to decide who would get the rights to the auction, explaining that "it probably looks strange to others, but I believe this is the best way to decide between two things which are equally good".
The auction houses had a weekend to come up with a choice of move. Christie's went to the 11-year-old twin daughters of an employee, who suggested "scissors" because "Everybody expects you to choose 'rock'." Sotheby's said that they treated it as a game of chance and had no particular strategy for the game, but went with "paper".
Christie's won the match, with millions of dollars of commission for the auction house."
That employee, and his or her daughters, should get at least some of that commission. |
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| Augh! |
[Jan. 27th, 2009|02:53 pm] |
Who? WHO makes a phone call from the toilet?!?!
Background: I am in my work's bathroom. I hear someone say "Hello" a couple of times and then pause. I almost start replying, when the other woman replies to her phone and starts a conversation, only half of which I hear.
That is so weird! I would never do that, especially from a public bathroom. And how would you deal with being on the other end of that call? Is there an awkward silence while you wait for the toilet to finish flushing?
Augh! |
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| Obama Action Figure |
[Jan. 21st, 2009|12:58 pm] |
There is an Obama action figure. I'm not sure if it is actually for sale, since I am unable to read read the characters, but just keep scrolling.
No Seriously, just keep scrolling.
I wish that the pic with Vader they had a follow on pic with Bush as the unmasked Vader. Except then that would mean Bush is Obama's father, and that's just weird. |
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