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| 07:22pm 07/11/2009 |
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Yes, Obama has banned your precious kreteks, but you can still order them legally from Indonesia! I did, it came out to about $22.25/carton (as opposed to $70-80/carton when they were legal for sale in the states). Indonesian Djarum Black is much better than the Djarum Black they used to export for the U.S. market. They even threw in free samples of several other kreteks!
Photographic evidence. This is from http://www.rokokzone.com btw. You have to use Western Union to wire them money and it seems kinda sketchy, but they are totally legit and awesome.
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| fuck you, western union |
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| 07:39pm 28/10/2009 |
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western unions website lies, they gave me a location which has not been active for months, and another which closes earlier than their site says so by the time i got there i couldnt send money- even worse is that the complaint form on their site allows no alpha-numberic characters with the exception of hyphens and commas- no periods, apostrophes or even breaks are allowed, forcing you to complain in the form of awful run-on paragraphs like this one, |
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| note to self |
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| 01:49pm 27/10/2009 |
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most of the time change only sucks because i have a tendency to revert to old, inferior patterns. make new patterns instead, it's fun. |
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| Way to balance the budget |
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| 09:41pm 21/10/2009 |
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I imagine it went something like this...
"Alright, California is going bankrupt... we need to find a way to save money. Any suggestions?"
"How about an organ harvesting program? We find the location of illegal immigr-"
"No no no. Don't get me wrong, it's a novel idea and ice IS very cheap, but we tried this last year and there was just no getting around the red tape. Any other suggestions?"
"How about the elderly and disabled?"
"I'm listening..."
"Specifically the ones who receive IHSS funding, you know... so they can afford to pay people to help them stay alive. That's a lot of money..."
"It is! But we can't just take the money... we need an excuse."
"I'VE GOT IT! We deduct the Medi-Cal share-of-cost from the IHSS checks, and leave the poor bastards to figure out where to come up with the remaining money they need to pay their caregivers!"
"BRILLIANT! So dissolvedego's client, for example, would have $551 PER MONTH taken from funds meant to pay for his assisted living. That's nearly HALF of his entire social security deposit, lol!"
"LOL indeed! But what about the programs which are in place for people who meet the federal poverty guidelines, which relieve said individuals from owing a share-of-cost in the first place?"
"NULLIFIED!"
"HA-HA! We've done it!!"
And so my client wonders what he will do next month when he doesn't have enough money to pay for the help he so desperately needs in order to survive. Will he buy less food? Will he beg family members for money? Will he hope that myself and the other caregivers are willing and can afford to help him for free? Who cares, it's win-win for the state of California... right? |
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| laser eye removal jam session |
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| 03:21am 02/10/2009 |
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i regret not setting up my gear to do a proper track... did a rough jam session tonight which turned out kind of awesome. it's rough with the drums recorded as one track... and not mixed or EQ'd properly (i won't even bother with that until i fix the acoustics in my studio and get a mixing computer). but here is an idea of the sort of creative process that will go into laser eye removal.
just imagine this track with 50x better production, eviler, with much tighter drums/guitar, and hopefully a vocalist. my album will be something like that.
http://virb.com/lasereyeremoval/audio/446667 |
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| 09:55pm 15/09/2009 |
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could this night get any shittier? we shall see... |
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| 02:23pm 31/08/2009 |
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Adapting to huge life changes... trying not to stress too much. I LOVE my new place. Friends in the bay area (or passing through) should totally visit. I now have a very cozy living room with two couches, one of which has a hide-a-bed. This is the best pic I can get with the dim lighting and my crappy cell phone camera.
I can even smoke here, though I personally am banning regular cigarettes for their stinkiness. Exceptions made for cloves and perhaps rolling tobacco. For you dirty Marlboro smokers I've got a bench and some chairs outside in the huge front yard. Come on by and I'll serve you a white mocha in a skull and crossbones mug.
The music studio still needs a lot of sound-proofing... I got a noise complaint my first night here. I'm thinking acoustic foam and some good rugs should solve that problem. |
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| This ever happened to you? |
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| 11:08pm 11/08/2009 |
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I just got a bridge toll evasion notice, $25 fine plus the $4 toll from the last time I crossed the bay bridge. They got a picture of my license plate and everything.
The problem? I PAID THE FUCKING TOLL!! I gave them $20 and got $16 change back. Motherfuckers... and I bet when I contest it saying "Actually I DID pay the toll" they will just say "Nuh-uh!" and uphold the penalty. |
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| Why private bit torrent trackers are full of FAIL... |
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| 02:17pm 09/07/2009 |
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In theory they are great- everyone has an account which is kept in good standing only if they keep a decent share ratio, and leechers are automatically banned. I was thrilled to see download speeds as high as 1.5 Mbps, more than five times faster than the fastest public tracker speed I have seen.
The problem is that seeding actually becomes competitive. EVERYONE is trying to seed as much as possible to preserve their account, and it's not uncommon to see torrents with hundreds of seeders and only a small handful of leechers. In this environment, even if you leave your torrent client running 24/7 it becomes nearly impossible to seed at all, let alone achieve a share ratio of greater than 100%.
So after the initial high of witnessing a 1.5 Mbps torrent download it was impossible to seed beyond a ratio of 0.00015%, and my account was subsequently terminated.
There has to be a better way... perhaps a system which takes into account the amount of time seeders are available and the speeds at which they upload while connected, rather than the amount of data they actually transfer? What use are fast download speeds when you can only download one or two files before being banned? |
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| Did I mention I like beer? |
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| 06:57pm 11/06/2009 |
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damn you, bevmo... with your $10 off coupon for purchases of $75 or more! ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) coyotenefarious and i have quite a collection now. the unmarked bottles are homebrew, mostly cider (which isn't carbonating correctly) and the last of the remaining black death stout. also, we're starting another batch of pale ale soon.
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| 12:49am 24/03/2009 |
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last night i dreamt i was stuck in a walgreens with hitler. apparently hitler was the manager. he was more annoying than threatening, and didn't have any real power as manager- though he tried his best. he locked the gate with all the customers still inside and wouldn't let us leave until we met his requirements and could demonstrate to his satisfaction that we had everything "in order".
his big obsession was hygiene. he made us brush our teeth, after which he would inspect our mouths to make sure we'd done it properly. at one point he searched me and found some weed so i got a big lecture and had to go to the back of the line. dammit hitler, why do you have to be such a fucking nazi?! |
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| i forget this every year |
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| 03:11pm 15/02/2009 |
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for my own future reference-
TAX RETURN FORMULA:
1. take the refund amount i expect to receive
2. add $400
3. subtract the refund amount i expect to receive
in this case i THOUGHT i was severely overpaying my taxes, and expected to get as much as $2-3k. wow, was i wrong. it seems like no matter how much i pay i will never get back more than $400 for one reason or another. =\ |
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