tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17134324774955092272009-12-07T15:32:16.961-06:00No holds, no apologieswlturlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211957370413850905noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713432477495509227.post-29282861638605641032009-12-07T14:12:00.003-06:002009-12-07T14:40:19.058-06:00

I don't know why my red pencil makes me so damn happy. I really, truly enjoy editing work. Why the hell is that?Personally, I think that editing is more difficult than creating. During the creation process anyone can justify tossing just about anything on the pile because they are constructing an entirely new thing. The hard part is weeding out what doesn't quite belong - the refinement,

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Dear Assholes who want to knock Saints fans for enjoying the current season: Fuck right the fuck off. We have every right to take our team as seriously as you take yours. The number of times a team went to the playoffs in the past is not an indicator of what that team is today. You're just pissed that the geeky kid at the back of the class showed the prom king that he's not the biggest cock on

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Wicked - a synopsis: Little girl grows up weird and outcast, then finds out she may have a chance to work with "The Wizard", who seems to be like her and able to do the weird stuff she does. She meets said Wizard, finds out he's a douche, decides to take off on her own. Vilified by The Wizard to the point where all of Oz regards her as "wicked", she is forever remembered by this extremely

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Twilight Moms: Because if 40 and 50 year old men where screaming and swooning over underage girls, the police would be involved.

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The world has gone to hell. Doesn't matter who is President or where the troops go, the populace is still dumb as shit bricks. The scariest part is that most people choose to be that stupid. They choose to shun anything that might be perceived as intelligent because intelligence now carries a stigma.

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It was announced that a remake/reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was slated for production. Without Joss Whedon.Yes, I said WITHOUT Joss Whedon. This idea is, as one commenter on the story put it, Made. Of. Fail.

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Dear Cincinnati, You didn't invent "Who Dey?". "Who Dat" started in the 60s in NOLA when St. Augustine played Holy Cross.At least, that's the story I always heard. Regardless of the fact that "Who Dat" started long before the NFL, history still shows that "Who Dat" was alive and well long before the Bengals bastardized it in 1981. For more information see Wikipedia.

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Quit with the "Who Dat? We Dat!" already. The full question is "Who Dat say they gonna beat dem Saints?". When you say "We Dat", you're asking for the 'Aints to come back because the 'Aints kicked their own asses to lose games! Knock it the fuck off, I burned my paper bag last season!

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I suspect that the answer to the stupidity problem lies somewhere in those of us with intelligence no longer indulging these dumbass fuckers, but I fear that there are not enough intelligent people left to bring such a plan to fruition.

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I keep waiting to make a blog post because I feel like anything less than three paragraphs is not a post, it's a note. Well, that's led to an unused or overly forced blog. From now on, I'll be posting whatever falls out of my head, regardless of length. I also think I may skip the titles. They just aren't working for me.

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I read this post, then I wrote the post below. Make of it what you will. It's late and I hope it makes sense. Five times I've sat before my computer and tried to write a nice, neat introduction to the experience I'm about to relate, but the truth is, there isn't a nice, neat introduction. The experience simply was. I'm certain it's one that cannot be duplicated all these years later.When my

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Review of iSkoot's Notifier on the Samsung Eternity.*Note* I have no account on Falebook, so I did not make use of the Falebook portion of the application. I only briefly tried the RSS client, but was so irritated by it that I only used it twice. YMMV *From the clunky, klutzy interface to the lack of key features, this client is the worst mobile app I've ever used. Let's just get to the bullet

wlturlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211957370413850905noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713432477495509227.post-31756989276937498492009-05-26T18:19:00.028-05:002009-05-27T21:43:01.365-05:00

Is Twitter living in denial of its own arterial plaque buildup or have the developers been sniffing the Ruby dust again?Recent changes on and reports about Twitter, along with the staff's dodgy answers to the outcry generated by these changes and reports, are pointing to Twitter's demise - a situation that is quickly becoming inevitable.First came the #fixreply debacle, when thousands of users

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[Updated March 6, 2009 7:40pm CST New information in brackets.]Omission is still a lie. This evening the ABC program "Nightline" lied their collective asses off. From what I understand, FOX News, that pantheon of truth, has also picked up the story. [FOX News eventually declined to run the story. The Nightline broadcast also coincides with the introduction of an obscure piece of legislation that

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A few weeks ago, I got a wild hair to transform my front porch. Objects were cleared, shutters rehung, rails stained, new furniture bought and assembled. Two hundred and fifty six square feet of previously unused space was now reclaimed for both work and recreation, just in time for Louisiana's two days of spring.While my husband and I spent more than a few days on the comfort of our new porch, I

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This just in from BreakingNewsOn: The US will pledge $900 million of aid to the Palestinian Authority, with a third of the money earmarked for Gaza - US State Department.Um, just a second there. Last I understood it, the United States's bank account was overdrawn. I'm not sure about you, but when my account approaches zero balance, I stop writing checks! A quick summary of where the US stands

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The following is a short story I wrote for an English assignment on metafiction. It borrows the style of a piece we read in class, though I'll be damned if I can remember the name of that story now.Lookin' Up “I don't know why you even ask me about momma now. Been dead six years. Ain't no use in digging up bones.” Emily sighed and dropped the dishcloth she'd been washing with. “Even if I did

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I had put this post on hold, being unsure that anyone would be interested in anything I had to say, but after the response to the last post, I'm dragging it out and posting it. A good bit of what I have to say has already been said by a number of people in a number of other places, but that's my fault for sitting on the post rather than writing and publishing as soon as the address was made.

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The following passages are re-worked excerpts from personal journal entries. After what I've seen and heard over the last few days, I felt they were warranted.[Edited for clarification 3:00pm CST, February 26, 2009]This first entry was written following a breakdown or "freak out", as I like to call it, concerning everything I had witnessed during and after Hurricane Katrina. Being a resident of

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I'm contemplating several in-depth posts on several issues I've been thinking about lately. Really deep stuff, but I'm thinking that until I can port over to a new blog platform fairly easily it's not really worth writing them. Wordpress might be the way to go (and probably is).

wlturlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11211957370413850905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713432477495509227.post-23324355919722081552009-01-23T18:38:00.005-06:002009-03-01T13:08:23.927-06:00

I have to say, if you don't get it, you and all the IE6 users, get off my planet. Now. TYVM. Click to make bigger.PS. Smell the irony.

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So the Texans in #phpc were picking on me for living in Louisiana, and we all started picking on Houston. That lead to the discussion of why San Antonio's too lame to even pick on. Someone wanted a postcard as a souvenir. Here is the result. Clicky to make bigger.

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At least the knitters will find it funny...Take George Carlin's "On Stuff" and replace stuff with yarn.Observe:"Actually this is just a place for my yarn, ya know? That's all, a little place for my yarn. That's all I want, that's all you need in life, is a little place for your yarn, ya know? I can see it on your table, everybody's got a little place for their yarn. This is my yarn, that's your

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... and the election is over (thank $deity!). Four years of Obama. Great. I always wanted to be forced to try socialism.

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