An afternoon with Mikey

Mikey's back, back again. Mikey's who's back, tell a friend.

Yes thank you, thank you. I know you've all missed my sometimes zany sometimes blog provoking posts. I've missed you all as well. Now that Latroy Hawkins has started sucking less, my powers have been restored. Onto my post...

...Everyone once in a while when I have nothing to do on a Saturday afternoon and pull out my 1 ft tobacco pipe, pack it full with some of that stickky ikkky tobacco and let it rip. Then I find some reason why I have to walk into town. I mean, who wants to sit inside when its so beautiful out??? So today I had to run (walk) to the bank and CVS, So on I went...

...After walking about a mile I arrived at the bank with my mission. Deposit 4 checks into someone else's account. Surprising the mission went extremely successful. But then a snag. I reach into my wallet and ask her for 20 singles for a $20.

Now have a magic dragon moment with me here and completely change subject. This poor little 18 year old teller thinks some creepy older guy is getting 20 singles to go to the strip club. But in actuality I am going to Lebanon Valley tonight and they only take singles for food and drinks.

So after the weird look she gives me my change and as I turn around their is my aunt! And I hate my aunt! So I just walked right by her and left. That's when I remembered I don't live in Albany anymore. I live near my family. Gotta be more careful. I ran into my grandparents at A&P one afternoon. Not in the best mental frame, but they are 86 and don't notice anyway. I love my grandparents, they rock!

Next I went to CVS to get Nicorette since I am quitting smoking (7 days and going strong) and the girl goes to grab it and she's on crutches. The package falls on the floor and she has to balance her 1 cruth and try to pick it up without falling over. I felt so horrible. But finally I am home and safe.

Next week I am going to a high school graduation party for 2 of my friends sisters followed by a night out in Poughkeepsie for real women's roller derby. Vote for Mikey to read more adventures next week.

BG

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I will be the first

I will be the first poster in this sad little contest. I am first, as I deserve to be. Now, where do I start? As you have likely deduced from my name, I am in fact the mummified remains of The Fuhrer. You see, when the damned Russians were closing in on me at the end of the war I took a secret tunnel out of the city and escaped to Egypt. Unfortunately during the trip I was mortally wounded in a horrible tea party accident. By the time I got to the infernal deserts of the Middle East, I was near death. My doctor only gave me days to live, but a strange indigenous man came to me with the offer of immortality. He would make me a mummy and I would be sealed in a tomb, only to rise again and rejoin the living for eternity! So, here I am. It's been about 60 years since I last walked the Earth and I find things to be very strange.

If you allow me to, I would like to share the everyday experiences of a former great dictator as he tries to acclimate himself into a society from which he has been absent for more than a half century. Now, I know you all may be wary to let someone who is responsible for the extermination of millions of innocent men women and children post on your precious blog, but don't we all have some skeletons in our closet? None of us are perfect. I am trying to better myself. I am seeing a psychiatrist regularly and am working through some of my issues. His name is Dr. Feingold. That's right, he's a Jew, and I haven't even tried to have him killed yet! I am growing! Sure, I still am struck by the occasional murderous rage, but I'm a mummy! It's normal! Also, I am filled with hate for everything around me but I'm Hitler! You can't expect me to change overnight, can you? Besides, there is so much to hate in this world, all I ask is for you to let me share it with you. Well, I will stop taking up your time. Just please vote for me so that I may continue to post in the future. And if you don't, I will find you and I will crush you in my heavily bandaged hands! I will spill your blood upon your just cleaned carpet and shit on your bed! You are all dirty, filthy vermin which I will exterminate if you cross me! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

I kid! I kid! Really, I'm over that kind of irrational hatred.

Just don't push me...

Best Cities

Ok, this IS NOT my post for the contest, but something I saw today that looked interesting. Check out the two best cities for work and play:

http://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/article/105190/Best-Cities-to-Live,-Work-and-Play

I'm still waiting for Poughkeepsie to join the list as well

Happy Birthday!!!!

I just wanted to wish a frequent reader/commenter a Happy Birthday today. Her name is Kris and she likes to drink so-da. Other notables born on this day: Quentin Jammer, Dirk Nowitzki, Zoe Saldana ("Drumline" hottie), Doug Mientkiewicz, Poppy Montgomery, Mia Sara ("Ferris Bueller's..."), Kathleen Turner, Phylicia Rashad, Andre the Giant, Gena Rowlands, Lou Gherig, and I should have guessed....Paula Abdul! Oh, and happy anniversary to Tony Dungy and George Siefert.

Video software

Obviously, I'm too important to be a part of your little contest, but I still have a post to make.

Did you ever get anywhere in looking at video editing software? My department is forcing all the faculty to record and post on the University website videos talking about our research and teaching. They are filmed by the department IT guy, and they are universally awful. Just horrific. People reading off cue cards without looking at the camera. Or else babbling on for several minutes about shit nobody else in the world cares about. Ugh. So, I've decided to film and edit my own and give it to them.
But I need editing software. Just something simple to help me cut up WMVs or AVIs, and maybe layer on some text and an audio track. Any good suggestions? Free is great, but I'm not above piracy to try out an expensive package.

Let's get this bitch rolling!

The rules are: there are no rules. Well, almost no rules. Everyone who is involved in this contest just make one post between now and Monday. On Monday a poll will be put up on the front page of the blog and the poster to get the least number of votes will be booted. This will repeat until we have one person left. Four posters enter, one poster leaves! Good luck all! Feel free to post on anything you want, just remember this is a popularity contest, so if you want to win, I wouldn't post about something lame like kickball or riding bikes. I'm just saying!

Top Poster!

Ok everyone, I'm worried that we are watering down the pool of posters here. I think it'd be a good idea to have just 4 posters at one time, and since there is interest from more than that, I have learned from reality tv that a competition must be held! So, if you're interested in being a poster on this blog, please comment below. This is how we'll do it. Starting next week, each prospective poster will be assigned a day where they can post anything of their choosing. Any posts not on that day will be deleted by me. Once everyone has posted once, I will put a poll on the front page so everyone can vote for their favorite poster. The losers will lose their posting privileges. The only people exempt from this contest are the 3 original posters of this blog: Me, phishbone and DrX, and the three of us are super-delegates who have the right to overturn the will of the people as we see fit. So, I imagine our contestants as it stands right now are Kris and Mikey. BG, you want in on this? Anyone else is welcomed. I know we have some regular lurkers on this blog, so feel free to let yourself be known and take part. All are welcome! Even Ben Stein.

Ok Kev, here is a post for you.

For those of you who don't spend hours of your day checking the latest cycling news websites, Tom Boonen (generally kick ass cyclist, who ass may be seen here) tested positive for cocaine in an out of competition drug test on June 10th. He has since been disinvited from the Tour de France (TdF), but that was a decision by the governing body of the TdF (the ASO). However his current team continues to stand by him (although the team he was in negotiations with has discontinued them) and is trying very hard to get the TdF organizers to relent.

What I find amusing is that the UCI (the cyclist union) will likely do nothing about this incident because:

anti-doping officials say the rider will not face suspension since use of the drug is not specifically banned except in competition.

The reason why this is so amusing is because at the same time Boonen takes only a slap on the wrist (and not even from the UCI) the UCI has instated a rule that any rider whose biological tests return even slightly questionable values will not be allowed to start a race:

“Under the new “no start” rule, riders may be prevented from starting a race for a period of 15 days if blood test results show an anomaly compared with values recorded previously in the biological passport.”

In some ways this all makes perfect sense, but it is still kind of amusing that you can have your career taken away from you for getting a blood transfusion (2 year suspension for doping), or better yet be fired from your team and pulled from the yellow jersey (first place) in the TdF for failing to tell someone where you are at all times, but have very little punishment (even from the law) for using an illegal drug out of competition. I’m not saying I disagree with how things turned out. I don’t want cycling full of doping and I don’t really care what the people do in their spare time, but I just find it interesting that people are trying to clean up the image of cycling and don’t take a stand on out of competition drug use.

Our new poster sucks

So, someone begs me to have posting privileges, and I have a busy week where I'm not going to be able to post much, so I give said person posting privileges, and what happens? They don't post anything! Come on people! I'm giving Mikey his privileges back. Posts about kickball is better than nothing.