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Poem: For an Immoral Bottom Dwellor

Published by NiteMayr on September 12, 2008

I am now totally going out on the streets with a BAN DUFFY NOW placard. I would *love* to have a poem written because of me. What a memorial!
posted by low_horrible_immoral at 9:38 AM on September 12

oh what a beastie is this, when winds are blown from o’er it’s rump?

For it sighs in repose and calls for censure and retort from no cause and no strong tort.

For when can a beast from the bottom say when the sun should shine, for it’s own jealous eye can see no light.

Twitter Updates for 2008-09-11

Published by NiteMayr on September 11, 2008
  • I spent a bit of time last night setting some RNC protest videos to some Nine Inch Nails music (cliche, boo) Maybe Atari Teenage Riot? #
  • Still looking for your “My First Gun” or “My first Drug” stories. email them to “stories@nitemayr.com” thanks. #

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Bishop Returns Order of Canada – Keeps on Supporting Child Abuse

Published by NiteMayr on September 11, 2008

From 1999:

Canadian cardinal defends seven accused orders

Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte of Montreal defended seven religious orders implicated in a child abuse scandal involving Catholic-run institutions in Quebec.

“I wholeheartedly defend the devoted religious women who gave 40 to 50 years of their lives working in the institutions. They shouldn’t have to make apologies,” the cardinal said in mid-February.

He spoke after about 150 former residents of the institutions demanded public apologies from the government, religious orders and the medical profession and compensation for lives they say were ruined by a system that falsely labeled them mentally ill.

And more:

The Catholic church and the religious orders that ran the institutions have never agreed to discuss the issue with orphan groups, and has remained reluctant to comment. After several requests for an interview over more than a week, a spokesman for Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, the archbishop of Montreal, said she could not find anyone who was available.

This was from back before he got his promotion, probably for his amazing closing of ranks around the church.  The Church has been complicit in a number of serious crimes in Canadian History, population control for the greater good has never been one of them.

I guess what we should be saying is “Oh Wow, he gave back his Order of Canada I think he’s just trying to maintain the herd on principle.”

Reality is not Subjective, but don't let that stop you

Published by NiteMayr on September 10, 2008

If the “Near Dead Heat” election in the US can teach Non-Tory politicians anything, it’s that the facts don’t really matter to the electorate.  Anyone with a bit of sense can look at John McCain and say “cor, he looks old and he sounds a whole hell of a lot like Pres. Bush, I hate that guy!”

Let me elucidate, I know at least one HARD CORE Bush lover, by hard core, I mean he chose his friends using Love of Bush as a measure.  He HATED John McCain until about 2007,  when he suddenly gave up on his Bush Bro-mance and took on McCainiacism.  The justification being that he finally noticed how awesome John McCain was.

John McCain has always been John McCain, he’s only more OBVIOUSLY John McCain these days and that seems to translate into “Totally Awesome” in the mind of many of the electorate.  I do suspect that there is a good 15-20 percent “I’m not voting for a black guy” thing going on, which may have jumped to 25% after Palin was disgorged from the womb of Alaska, but a race this close doesn’t really make any sense.

Pres. Bush is polling somewhere in Reformed Child Molestor range; McCain is pretty much the Daddy of the party that birthed Bush, why do people believe that “more of the same” is really “change”?  Because the McCain camp simply says it is so.  Whatever the McCain camp says, they say it over and over and never waver, true or not.

That is the lesson the Non-Tory parties need to take; go hard, go again, and again and again.  Keep it simple like “Free Health Care and Education” and “Even Lower Taxes”  and so on.

Don’t bother with nuance or long term care, the majority of the electorate doesn’t look anywhere beyond Christmas in planning, why should the Election be about the future when all that matters to the electorate is how they are going to feed and clothe themselves next week.

Twitter Updates for 2008-09-09

Published by NiteMayr on September 9, 2008
  • Busy. Three things on the go… mounting a “dead” windows drive in linux to copy files to a windows share. #
  • 18 gigs to go… 30 minutes… ouch #
  • Dear Liberal Party, no one who votes (in numbers) cares about the internt. Get your “scandals” on the front page. #
  • And they don’t care about the internet either #
  • Some changes coming down on “Local Blogger” planning move personal twitter/flickr to “author page” and focus site on “blog” rather than “Me” #
  • 21 seconds left in backup #
  • Best command: mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/mount -o force #
  • I think tonight I am going to rain extinction down on some warlike species and nurture some rat-people. How is your Spore game going? #
  • Not updating to iTunes 8 until I am sure that podplayer will play nice with it. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-08

Published by NiteMayr on September 8, 2008
  • Busy day ahead, opened up with an emergency. #
  • Proceeding with Laptop Builds #
  • Recovery isn’t jsut a 12 step process #
  • Listening to a ton of the old Chris Sheppard Compilations and feeling younger for it. #
  • If you are too cheap to tip for good service, please eat at home and save even more money. The waitstaff ware paid either way in your case. #
  • Being Lazy….. Gotta get that author page together. #
  • Okay, tweaks in place. When you click on my stories now, you get a bit about me. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-04

Published by NiteMayr on September 7, 2008
  • Dear Liberals; Call it the “Inheritance Tax”, since that is what it IS. That doesn’t depend on your definition of IS at all. #
  • I forsee a dollar store visit this afternoon http://tinyurl.com/5ujahd #
  • Watched “No Country for Old Men” again, totally buy the mythology now. The ending makes WAY more sense when you realize that… #
  • Wasting time, but cannot proceed with image with OLD image and can’t image from ‘net #
  • I’m going to have to start carting apps around to work to fix these problems. #
  • 20 minutes until this disk is done burning #
  • Tried out Chrome, Meh. #
  • Oh, and I stand by the “Brownshirts” comment, the whole Ron Paul movement has “Beer Hall Putsch” written all over it, minus the effectivenes #
  • On an unrelated note: How was the Meetup in London? I’m almost resigned to the fact that I’m never gonna get out to one. #
  • Wednesdays & Thursdays are best over here, Thursdays are probably better. #
  • Mefi: I once worked with someone who made a big thing out of not owning a tv… and he was one of the most boring individuals I’ve ever met. #
  • I passed out an award to someone for being so normal… handmade a golden loaf of white bread #
  • I REALLY did give that award out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nitemayr/1040968232/ | He doesn’t watch TV. (He’s not really boring either) #

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The "Somewhat Disdainfull" Mythbusters Drinking Game

Published by NiteMayr on September 6, 2008

I’m a massive Mythbusters Fan; but I’m also enough of a Nerd to spend some of time I should be just being entertained yelling at the screen; anger turned to remorse and in my remorse, I turned to drink.  I’m sure some of the fan base out there is already drinking while watching; I present the rules for the “Somewhat Disdainful” Mythbusters drinking Game.

The Rules

  1. Chug every time the “Build Team” refer to remotely controlled arm  or other simple mechanism as a “robot”.  Finish your Beer if Grant suggests a “Robot” and instead comes up with a “McGuffin”
  2. Chug when a cast member is injured (and the stop filming to deal with it) finish your beer if they replay the injury in slow motion.  If playing in a group you must RACE to finish your beer and place it on your head.  Last one to finish must finish a second beer.
  3. Finish your beer if Grant makes a mistake in his math leading to an explosion. If playing in a group you must RACE to finish your beer and place it on your head then yell “Nice one Grant”.  Last one to finish must finish a second beer.
  4. Drink half your Beer if there is a minor injury that does not merit an instant replay.  Finish your beer in celebration if it is a member of the Build Team that you dislike.
  5. Finish your beer for every plane trip required to study a myth
  6. Finish your beer every time they say the world Alemeda.

Extended or Hard Liquor Rules

  • Substitute a depth Charge for every Chug
  • Substitute a shot of your favorite booze for every chug

NOTE: You can’t do this with wine, if you can’t drink “real” booze then Drinking Games aren’t for you.

Winning the Game

The Player who finishes the most beer/booze (by volume or alcohol content) that is still sober, as determined by standard sobriety test, is the winner.

Challenge Episodes

Stay sober during any Myth where a “Robot” is used (The Samurai Sword Myths, The Hammer Myths, The Marching Boots myth)

Stay Sober during a Bloopers Episode

Stay Sober during any Tori Heavy episode, he’s very clumsy and adventurous