Getting ugly

How sad this guy doesn't have anything smart to say, and thus starts to give these un-gentlemanly comments to fill the moments of silence. Is this the quality of person New Yorkers are going to accept as their representative?

Oh, hold! Americans chose Bush, so maybe it's not that far fetched, huh?

Supernatural candidate

Today I was listening to some news program, and the anchor trying to describe the great efforts of the underdog canditate, said that he was doing supernatural stuff, rather than superhuman.  I mean, what the fuck?  Is he a ghost or something?  Why can't this journalist use plain language instead of trying to appear better educated than she really is?

Norwegian Wood

Today I was in the bookshop browsing some novels when I bumped into the title "Norwegian Wood".  For a second I thought it must be some sort of porn novel.  But no, I don't think it is.

Robin's costume

A couple of nights ago I was flipping the channels and saw that they were playing Batman.  It was the version in which George Clooney is Batman, and in that episode there's Robin and a batgirl too.

In this film the way they made Batman and Robin's costume is peculiar.  The chest part is not just fabric, it's some kind of rigid plastic, and they're shaped like a good bodybuilder's sixpack.  More over, in Robin's case, they have even taken the trouble of showing his nipples!  I'm puzzled, how come in batgirl's costume you can't see her nipples.  Is this politically correct?

Broken telephone

A couple of days ago I got an e-mail from a high school classmate X.  She was telling me that just a few minutes earlier she'd been chatting with yet another classmate, Y.  Y had given her the bad news that some guy from our class had passed away two months ago.  When I asked for details on how this guy died, X said that Y had told her this guy passed away in Los Angeles, where he had a car accident involving a fall from a bridge.  The fall left him hemiplegic, and a few weeks later he had a heart attack, which is what did him.

Then last night I was able to find online another guy, Z, from my class, and made him the comment about this death.  He said yeah, that he'd also talked in person to Y (that's X's source of information), and according to her... the dead guy had a car accident in San Francisco, involving a fall from a bridge.  This fall left him quadriplegic, and somehow led to his death.

I mean, two people claim to have talked to the same person, but they come to me with rather different stories.  What's this?

Unfit

Over the last few months I've been walking to and from office, which takes about 20 minutes each way.  I thought that was good exercise.  But this past week I happened to go to the driving range twice to meet some friends.  I don't have my golf clubs here, so I don't go to those places.  But since I was there with them, they let me make some swings, and man, the following day, after both days, I've been so tired I overslept.

At least I was able to confirm I haven't forgotten how to do my swing.

Music & flowers for Condi

I remember that before the Iraq war would start, some nut in the Bush administration was deluding that US soldiers were going to be welcomed with music and flowers.  Three and a half years later, this morning I saw in the news that Condi had arrived in Baghdad in a surprise visit.  When she got off the plane, she was wearing a bullet-proof vest.  Music and flowers?  Oh yeah, Condi, way to go!

Spam on this blog

A few days ago somebody posted a comment to this blog.  It was just advertisement for some crap I already forgot what it is.

I'm puzzled.  That's very different than sending spam e-mail.  How many minutes did that guy spend writing up that piece of shit in this page?  Cause he can't do it like with e-mail, just press one button and millions of messages are automatically generated.  And what are the chances that some annoyed reader will think:  Hold, this jerk is actually offering me some good stuff!  I'm gonna reward him with my money for having posted me that garbage!

I don't understand.  There're idiots in this world...

Google Code Search

Google Code Search

Google rocks! I think I'll be a frequent visitor to this site.

CNN vs BBC

Was that my imagination?  One hour ago I thought the BBC reported that in August and September, combined, the UN has reported an estimate of 6,600 Iraqi civilian deaths.  A couple of minutes ago, the CNN has reported that in average 1,000 Iraqi civilians die each month.

Yeah, these two statements are not strictly contradicting each other.  But you can see the slant, can't you?  Huh, this doesn't feel good.

Invasion of ants

This gives me the creeps.  I don't know how nor why it happened.

Getting ready to fix supper, I went to the toilet for a pit stop.  After flushing, I noticed a thin line of ants coming from the ceiling, heading for the lid of the tank of my toilet bowl.  I thought it was kind of good to see it cause I could see the ant nest on the ceiling, or so I thought, and therefore, I could spray directly on it, rather than just spraying the line of walking ants.

After I finished doing that, somehow I noticed that actually, although the line of ants was not very thick, there were lots and lots of ants on the sides of the lid of the toilet bowl water tank.  I didn't like that very much, but okay, I sprayed them too.  They were so many though that I can't just spray them and leave them there.  I need to wipe out the dead ants a while later.  Who would want to use a toilet covered with dead ants like that?

So a couple of minutes later, when the ants are dead, I come back to clean that up.  I raise the lid, and I find even more and more ants on the inner rim of the water tank.  I don't get it.  I spray these too.  But when I lift the lid from the sink, where I had put it for a while, I find many ants have fallen on the sink.  So I turn this lid over, and find so many ants there!

I think it must be a manufacturing error or something, but there's a hole in one corner of this ceramic lid.  The hole is so big I can almost stick in my little finger in there.  The ants seemed to be in the middle of a nest moving process.  So I spray directly into this hole, then turn over and shake.  Many more ants and some kind of ceramic dust falls.  Arrrghhh!!!

Arrrghhh!!!  Ahhh!!!

Well, better to have found them now than find ants on yourself each time you go to seat on that toilet bowl.

Potato chips

This afternoon I dropped by the convenience store.  I only went to pay some bills, but once there I noticed some new favors in the Frito Lay potato chips:  Seafood Mayonaise.  A long time ago my very favorite flavor was Tuna Mayonaise, but unfortunately that is not sold in this country.  I was really happy, and figuring it must taste similar, I bought one bag.

Big mistake.  I can't feel the mayonaise.  Actually, it's a bit sweet, rather than salty, which makes sense because believe it or not, the locals make their mayo sweet!  I don't like that.

Once home, I had to repair the damage by fixing myself a cheese sandwich.  I quirted a bit of that barbecue sauce I bought a couple of weeks ago, and it tasted very good.  It's a bit like a pizza, but unbaked and without the meat.

I think that Heinz barbecue sauce is a good replacement for Heinz ketchup.  Once I finish the bottle of ketchup I have in my fridge, I'm gonna switch completely to barbecue sauce.