tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132556542024-03-07T04:08:24.040-05:00Listen 2 Uncle JayFamous the Uncle Jay will explain- no...it will take too long.
Uncle Jay will sum up all the weird shit happening around him.
Famous!The Big Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973716466048213786noreply@blogger.comBlogger3114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255654.post-81504298510192902482018-04-26T18:07:00.001-04:002018-04-26T18:07:17.430-04:00A Woman Goes to the Doctor Worried About Her Husband's Temper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Doctor: "What's the problem?<br />
The Woman: "Doctor, I don't know what to do. Every day my husband seems to lose his temper for no reason. It scares me."<br />
Doc: "I have a cure for that. When it seems that your husband is getting angry, just take a glass of water and start swishing it in your mouth. Just swish and swish but don't swallow it until he either leaves the room or calms down.”<br />
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Two weeks later the woman comes back to the doctor looking fresh and reborn.<br />
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TW: "Doctor that was a brilliant idea! Every time my husband started losing it, I swished with water. I swished and swished, and he calmed right down! How does a glass of water do that?"<br />
Doc: "The water itself does nothing. It's keeping your mouth shut that does the trick".<br />
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TBG - Exit, pursued by a angry woman with a mouthful of water.
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The Big Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973716466048213786noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255654.post-82753046036033646532017-12-15T17:09:00.000-05:002017-12-15T17:09:24.670-05:00More Annoying Shit - Semantics and Associated Items<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
More words and phrases that make me want to punch you:<br />
<br />
Impactful<br />
Synergy<br />
"Let's unpack this..."<br />
"Don't you worry about ____. I'll take care of _____."<br />
Agile<br />
"Will it scale/Is it scalable?"<br />
Proactive.<br />
"Let's not boil the ocean here..." <br />
Bandwidth<br />
Reach out<br />
Put a pin in that... <br />
Let. That. Sink. In.<br />
Optics<br />
My ask is...<br />
<br />
Using the term Porn for non-pornographic things...<br />
<ul>
<li>Food Porn</li>
<li>Nature Porn</li>
<li>Building Porn </li>
<li>Pressure Washing Porn</li>
</ul>
<br />
Been looking at too much Twitter...<br />
This is something that feels rude and annoying...<br />
<br />
People 👏that 👏add 👏clap 👏emojis 👏thinking 👏it 👏makes 👏their 👏point👏 stronger<br />
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When I see this it has the same effect as clapping their hands in my face, which would earn you the opportunity to carry your teeth in your pocket on the way to the emergency room.<br />
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TBG - - Exit, pursued by flamingos</div>
The Big Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973716466048213786noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255654.post-54759554208394790652017-11-21T08:58:00.004-05:002017-11-21T08:58:48.984-05:00Tired of It: First in a (probably long) Series<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Any of several random encounters with other employees and Tampons* ending with salutation:<br /><br />
"Thanks! Appreciate you!"<br />
<br />
Ugh.<br />
<br />
TBG - Cringing.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> *Tampons - People who live in Tampa.
</span></div>
The Big Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973716466048213786noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255654.post-26171133124506465282017-07-09T14:59:00.001-04:002017-07-09T15:00:32.029-04:00Burning the Two-Ended Candle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Long set of days here at the Arena-By-The-Bay<br />
<br />
We had Rod Stewart and Cyndi Lauper in the building last night, and today we are loading Paul McCartney's show. He's on stage tomorrow night.<br />
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Right after that we will have Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame playing on Tuesday night...<br />
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(Word is that the show, especially the 2nd half, is offensively anti-Trump.
Which ought to be interesting in a town where they booed Amy Schumer off the stage for her political screed when she played here last fall. Thinks will be interesting on Tuesday night. Film at 11, kids.)
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I have a full plate of tech upgrades, installs, and other "off season" technology tasks for Wed, Thurs & Friday, then Saturday we have (Ghod help us) New Kids on the Block, Paula Abdul and Boys II Men.<br />
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Sunday will be the stressful day, though- I have to make a little trip to Miami that morning.<br />
Back that night, but the activities will be blog-worthy I'm sure. Stay tuner for that.<br />
<br />
Current events:<br />
<br />
Riding my motorcycle in Tampa is an adventure...<br />
I have to say, there are more idiots driving and texting here than anywhere else I have seen.<br />
I cannot count the number of lights I have missed because some asshole is testing at a red light and fails to notice that the light has changed and is still nose-to-the-screen, thumbs deep in his latest tweet about the latest SJW activity or where he buys his sustainable-sourced hair product or what color his last bowel movement was...<br />
My often-heard-around-downtown admonishment "Stop texting and drive, Motherfucker!" can be heard echoing through the concrete canyons of Cigar City...<br />
He finally starts to move as the light turns yellow...<br />
<br />
I had one of the girls from our Partnership group stop me in the hallway-<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>Girl from Partnership</b>: "Uh... You have quite colorful language when you're driving, don't you?" </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>Yours Truly</b>: "You probably heard me making a friendly reminder to some asshat who doesn't understand that when you're behind the wheel of a 2000lb vehicle, you have only one job: Driving.<br />
Not texting, not talking on the phone, not eating, not reading a book, and definitely not putting on makeup."</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>GFP</b>: "Yeah, I saw you coming down Channelside the other morning and could hear you yelling at the car in front of you. Something about shoving his cell phone so far up his ass he'd have to use his appendix to type out his next Facebook update?" </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>YT</b>: "Hmmm. I remember that... Wow, you heard all that? I was a bit ticked..." </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>GFP</b>: "To say the least. </blockquote>
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<br />
Great. Getting a reputation already. Lovely.<br />
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TBG - -Exit, pursued by a <a href="http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Tampa">Tampon</a> </div>
The Big Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973716466048213786noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255654.post-62945961128281532572017-07-08T12:16:00.004-04:002017-07-08T12:16:41.557-04:00I Like My Coffee...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
...Like I like my women.<br />
<br />
I used to reply to the common waitress query "How would you like your coffee?" with the old, tired cliché "Like my women: Hot & Sweet, just like you."<br />
Such flirtation would usually ease the sting when I would falsify a complaint about her to the manager then skip out on the bill, but that's another post completely.<br />
For a bit my reply was "I like it like my ex-wife - Cold & Bitter."<br />
Good times, good times.<br />
<br />
Now days the coffee condition comparison has been pushed to an art...<br />
<br />
I like my coffee like I like my women:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Ground up and in the freezer.</li>
<li>Venezuelan and stuffed in a bag.</li>
<li>Tied up in a burlap sack and thrown over a donkey.</li>
<li>Ground up and in a burlap sack</li>
<li>Tied up and thrown into the back of a van by a Colombian</li>
<li>Cheap and found at the 7-11.</li>
<li>Hot & Bitter</li>
<li>Cold & Bitter</li>
<li>Black, bitter, and preferably free trade (Thanks Dr. Kreiger)</li>
<li>Dark and frothing with cream</li>
<li>Hot and in the kitchen</li>
<li>From the corner and less than $2.</li>
<li>Colombian and mashed into powder (no, wait... Different product*)</li>
<li>Quiet</li>
<li>WITHOUT ANOTHER MANS DICK IN THEM ANNABEL YOU FUCKING WHORE.</li>
<li>Foreign and shipped to America in crates</li>
<li>Black and without a penis</li>
<li>Black and full of whiskey</li>
<li>Warm, wet, bitter, tasty, slightly addictive, ready first thing in the morning, and free</li>
<li>No pubic hair</li>
<li>Hot, sweet and covered in whipped cream</li>
<li>Milky white, not hot anymore, and lacking enough artificial sweetness to mask the essential bitterness</li>
<li>Irish and stinking of whiskey</li>
<li>A little hot, a little gross and picked up at the gas station in the middle of the night</li>
<li>Picked prematurely, tied up, stuffed in a burlap sack and smuggled over the border at night</li>
<li>Black and rich</li>
<li>Over priced and sustainably sourced</li>
<li>Cuban and stronger than me</li>
<li>Blonde with low self esteem</li>
<li>Pale, bitter, and frigid</li>
<li>Shallow and full of cream</li>
<li>Flat white</li>
<li>Exported for an extremely low price from third world countries</li>
<li>Tossed out on the side of the freeway</li>
<li>Dark as night and sweet as sin</li>
<li>Hot, black and with a penguin</li>
<li>Surrounded by styrofoam and heated to a boil</li>
<li>Completely full and not asking "What do you want to do for dinner?"</li>
<li>Dumped out in a parking lot when it becomes cold</li>
<li>I don't care if it's black or white, as long as it's sweet enough to go down easily <br /><br />A couple winners for the commuter crowd:</li>
<li>Steaming hot and all over my lap while driving<br /><br />or it's cousin-<br /></li>
<li>Short, Columbian, and smoking hot all over my junk.<br /><br />or just-<br /></li>
<li>Down the front of my pants</li>
</ul>
<br />*Bonus comparison: I like my cocaine how I like my women. White and diced up with a razor blade.<br />
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<br />
TBG - Exit - pursued by Juan Valdez and his burro. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(You kids will have to Google that one on Bing.)</span></div>
The Big Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973716466048213786noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255654.post-5852166190464307082017-06-14T10:50:00.000-04:002017-06-14T10:50:09.699-04:00Yes, I'm Still Alive.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Busy (and about as graceful) as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest...<br />
<br />
So, a while back I was getting chastized because I hadn't updated the ol' Blog in a while, so I sat down and dashed off the following, but never got around to publishing it...<br />
After several inquiries from Constant Readers, I guess the word around the campfire is that I have shuffled off my mortal coil and joined the bleedin' choir invisible...<br />
Sorry, no.<br />
Please see the somewhat dated post below to give you a cross section of Uncle Jay in Tampa Bay...<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I know. Silence is golden.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">(Random thought: Get a
Golden Retriever and name it Silence in order to have a bad pun on hand at all
times... Probably not an original thought... Let me check... Nope.)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">So I've been a little quiet...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Basically I've been swamped with my new job that it's difficult to
dedicate the time required to put together a good blog post...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Famous the St.Ass was down here in Tampa last week; He took a few minutes out
of our visit to chastise me for my lack of posting.<br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Basically I don't have too much to complain about- (workwise, that
is-</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I could go on and on about The Aggrieved Left and their
participation trophy mentality).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I also don't spend too much time sitting in airports (one of my
go-to spots for blogging) so my usual writing location is unavailable.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">When I'm at my desk (typically 7:30a to 9:00p or as late as 11:30p
on a game/concert night) I'm heads-down on licensing, budgeting, staff
schedules, surveys, documentation, research or resource evaluation... </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Blogging? Ain't nobody got time for dat.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I do try to keep up with other blogs, (living vicariously through
Tam, OldNFO, Roberta, Borepatch, McThag, Robb, and the rest of the Usual Suspects.
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">At best I throw a pic up on
Instagram now and then... (Follow me at Gojira15 if you'd like.)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">But, so much bullshit in the last few weeks from the Political
maelstrom...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I find it so humorous that the Left has such short and selective
memories.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">For the last eight years it's been "shut up, we won, deal
with it" and Dissent is Racist, and now it's all Not My President, Dissent
is Patriotic, and Electoral College is BS- Majority Vote Rules! </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">The Democratic sure loved the Nuke option in the Senate back when
they had control...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Now, of course it's
un-American to utilize their tools against them...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">And the Trump Derangement is thick and heavy.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">So much angst from The
Aggrieved Left.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">So, a few bullet points:</span></div>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Gosh. He actually made
promises, people voted for him, and now he's keeping his promises? UnPossible.</span></li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">It's funny how most major
"news" organizations are now "opinion" organizations.</span></li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">So-called News organizations
report "facts" that are spun and written so contextually misleading
so they can be called facts, when the actual narrative is pure bullshit. </span></li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Celebrities should just shut up about politics.<br />FTMF.</span></li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">The Media (and by association the unwashed, illiterate Aggrieved
Left) will focus on one sentence that can be misinterpreted or spun as
incorrect, and thus call out *everything* Trump or his Spox says as complete
lies and falsehoods.<br />(Apparently they just
learned to read after November 9th 2016. Where the fuck was this so-called fact
checking 2008-2016?)</span></li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Does the Media (& The Aggrieved Left) understand the
difference between "Health Care" and "Health Care Insurance
Coverage"?<br />No one is taking health care
away from anyone. Stop being scare mongers. </span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">And on the same note- </span></div>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">All the Planned Parenthood
supporters that are up in arms... stop lying to yourself and others about what
goes on there and just fund that crap yourself... no one is talking about
overturning Roe vs. Wade.</span></li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">And still on the same note- no one in the Trump Admin says
"No Immigrants".<br />What they are saying is "Hold up a sec so we can get some
*effective* safety checks in place IF YOU ARE COMING FROM SPECIFIC LOCATIONS OF
PROVEN RISK.<br />Immigrants are fine IF EVERYONE PLAYS BY THE SAME RULES.<br />(By the way- Go have a peek at oh-so-enlightened Australia or even
Canada for some hugely stringent immigration rules.<br />Hint: Most asshole
celebrities who bragged about moving to Canada or elsewhere wouldn't qualify...
But Trump supporters probably would...but that's another blog post.)</span></li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Popular vote vs Electoral College and Illegal Alien voting.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> <br />The Media (and the Aggrieved Left) love to call out President
Trump and his Minions about the popular vote levels and ridicule them for
talking about vote fraud (illegals voting, dead people voting,
multi-voting...etc).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><br />Problem is that the Left is usually in charge of the voting
precincts where the fraud happens, and they'll never be straight about getting
it corrected.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> <br />Case in point- the final election results in South Florida were
held up for HOURS in order to keep Florida from being called for Trump and thus
altering the turnout in the western states as things were going south for Hillary.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><br />The Left kept point out that
with Florida still a toss up it was important to motivate every John and Jane
(or more likely Juan and Juanita) to pull the election out of the crapper for
Clinton.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> <br /></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">And they are Illegal Aliens,
not undocumented workers. If you broke immigration law coming here, you're a
criminal. Fuck you, go back and come back in through proper channels. And take
your anchor babies (regardless of age) with you. FTMF.</span></li>
</ul>
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<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Build the fucking wall.<br /></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Tampa Lefty media employs so
many strawmen in their news opinion stories that they need to be audited for
their employment practices.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">The Aggrieved Left needs to
embrace "Good for goose, good for the gander" concept, except it
would be construed as sexist, as opposed to equality-seking as the phrase was
originally intended.<br /></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Thank Ghod I don't travel
like I used to. If one of these spontaneous protests had caused me to miss a
flight, I would definitely be on the local (and perhaps national) news, and a
number of protesters would get the unique experience of riding in a ambulance
with broken bones and their teeth in their pockets.<br /></span></span></span></li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I wouldn't have Steve Spicer's job for all the tea in India.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Steve Spicer: "I love puppies and the sky is blue."</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Media/Aggrieved Left:
"Trump hates Kittens and is ignorant of atmospheric science because Spox
Spicer touts confusing narrative that defames Migrant Muslim." </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">So, moving on. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I'll try to keep the ice cream machine stocked a little more often... <br />It all depends in how much ass needs kicking around here, and how much my ass gets kicked.</span></div>
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TBG - - Livin' the dream in Tampa
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The Big Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973716466048213786noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255654.post-48395566671216286552016-12-29T01:30:00.000-05:002016-12-29T01:30:13.370-05:00TinderDog Profiles - 13<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Big Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973716466048213786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255654.post-69224599534491888782016-12-26T22:07:00.000-05:002016-12-26T22:07:05.852-05:00Shut Up. Just Shut Up. Please.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
...you're fucking up my coffee break.<br />
<br />
Sitting at the counter at my diner in Tampa, and this moron a couple stools down is going on and on to his hipster buddy about his aversion to capital punishment and how Trump is going to swing all states back to pro-death-penalty status.<br />
Not that this is a bad thing, but his explanation on WHY he is opposed to it just torqued me a bit...<br />
He cited his religious objections as grounds for opposition.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"The 10 commandments, Dude. Number 6- Thou shalt not kill. That's why it's wrong."</blockquote>
Jeebus spare me from ignorant bible thumpers...<br />
Step away from your KJV, asshat, and find a more accurate translation.<br />
Murder is the term used in the Hebrew is <em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #111c24;">lo tirtsah- </em><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #111c24; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif;">definitely murder.</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #111c24; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif;">There is no biblical prohibition on killing- as a matter of fact, the Bible, especially the old testament- that thing is just dripping with justified homicide...</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #111c24; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif;">So shut up, moron. </span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #111c24; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif;">Find a different way to justify your precious snowflake feelings that doesn't involve a poor translation of the Pentateuch...</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #111c24; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
And there is a good chance Trump is going to step on his dick, but refrain from speculating on extreme impossibilities...<br />
The universal death penalty for minor infractions, starting a global thermonuclear war, shit like that...<br />
The stuff keeping 13-year-old progressives (or the progressive parents of impressionable teenagers) up at night...<br />
Gosh, if we only had a system of checks and balances to keep a out of control despot from blowing up the Earth...<br />
Oh, wait a sec...<br />
<br />
TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
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The Big Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973716466048213786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255654.post-74198409673537557382016-12-25T10:17:00.000-05:002016-12-25T10:17:25.520-05:00Merry Christmas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
To all my Constant Readers and others,
A very merry Christmas...<br />
<br />
In the past 20 years I've spent about 2/3rds of them somewhere other than my home.<br />
<br />
Early years at IDS/SMT I was almost always at the NBA Christmas Day games...
Occasionally I would be home for Christmas eve and morning, but catching a flight to setup for other events like Winter Classic or on the way to Oz, or like the last 4 years actually IN Oz for the holidays.<br />
<br />
Now I'm in Tampa for a majority of my time, but I did make it back home for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day but I’m heading back to Cigar City on Monday...<br />
<br />
One thing about being responsible for all the IT/technical elements of the arena (as opposed to only for one event in the building) is that on most issues USED to be what we referred to (ironically) as TAMPA-
'That Ain't My Problem, Asshole'...<br />
<br />
Now, it's my building, it's *all* my problem.
<br />
TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
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The Big Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973716466048213786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255654.post-33321734315963215492016-12-20T22:49:00.000-05:002016-12-20T22:49:01.937-05:00Style. I Haz It.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
At the new job, most days the dress code is business casual.<br /><br />But -<br />
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Game night... Suits required.<br />
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Gotta make another run to Shanghai for more suits.<br />
Mine are suitable for bodyguard duty or funerals, as a rule.<br />
<br />TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
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The Big Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973716466048213786noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255654.post-20392892927541137232016-12-20T21:52:00.000-05:002017-03-23T15:07:19.592-04:00Elections... Decisions, Decisions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Over the weekend I was in a discussion regarding the election.
While I wasn't thrilled with Trump as a whole, in my book it was no contest when I entered the voting booth (figuratively speaking, of course).<br />
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We were discussing how it really was not a hard decision in the end for me to cast my vote...<br />
And in reflection, it never has been, at least for me.<br />But... Shouldn't the decision be close? <br />Shouldn't it be the best of the best of both sides?<br />
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I mean, let's look at the choices I have faced when I went to vote:<br />
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1980 Reagan / Carter - Easy decision - Carter was a horrible failure as President. FTMF<br />
1984 Reagan / Mondale - No problem - No reason to think about changing the administration.<br />
1988 Bush / Dukakis - Easy - Dukakis couldn't compete with GHWB's election machine.<br />
1992 Clinton / Bush - Never even thought about voting for Clinton.<br />
1996 Clinton / Dole - Dole was not my first choice, but he didn't make my skin crawl like it did when I heard Clinton (either one) speak.<br />
2000 Bush / Gore - Easy choice, after listening to the man-bear-pig speak.<br />
2004 Bush / Kerry - No problem pulling the lever for Bush.<br />
2008 McCain / Obama - I saw through the smoke and mirrors early. No thought of voting Obama.<br />
2012 Romney / Obama - Even more resolute about the choices.<br />
2016 Trump / Clinton - Not even a tiny thought of giving her a chance to carry out her grand plan of fucking up the country even more than Obama already has.<br />
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Seriously- shouldn't we expect better candidates? Shouldn't it be difficult to choose because both should have great potential to do good for the WHOLE country, not just special interests?</span></div>
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TBG - - ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
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The Big Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973716466048213786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255654.post-6582892762402558532016-12-12T09:55:00.000-05:002016-12-12T09:55:04.741-05:00On The Left Coast -<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
...The left coast of Florida, that is...<br />
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I've been busy as the proverbial paper hanger since I arrived here in Tampa...<br />
Folks in the arena have been very welcoming, and I'm doing my best not to scare anyone unnecessarily. At least not my co-workers. My vendors are a different story.<br />
I've had a come-to-Jeebus meeting or two with Brighthouse and another vendor who think that it's a good idea to come to the Arena on a game night under the pretense of "preventative maintenance" or to be on hand "just in case" and hang out in the suite level or the club level and watch the game.<br />
Wrong.<br />
They could get away with that shit under the previous regime- but no more.<br />
FTMF<br />
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So... Last week was the company Holiday party-<br />
The Woman Who Knows Most Things came down for the festivities- as always, she was a delight, and her very presence increased my social standing at the company through her charm and personality.<br />
Interesting to note- We were sitting with my boss & his wife, our in-house network engineer (stag), our marketing Exec VP & his wife.<br />
There were 3 or 4 empty chairs at the table when we went up to the buffet, and when we came back the CEO (Mr. Griggs) and VP of Corporate and Community Affairs - Dave Andreychuk followed us to the table and sad down with us to eat. Dave was the team captain when the Lightning won the Stanley Cup in 2004.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is Dave...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Seems he spent some time down in Marathon during the beginning of lobster season this year- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He, Mr. Griggs and I talked Keys fishing & diving, and we all talked about kids, our own and others...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />During the party I opined that in my
former position I didn't lack for fresh air and (occasionally) sunshine as many
of my events were golf or tennis tournaments, and thus outdoor work kept me in
Vitamin D and that now I would need to guard against the standard IT Manager's
pallor by making sure I got outside - preferably near the beach, as often as
our schedule would permit.<br />
<br />The day AFTER the holiday party I made the trip back to Jacksonville with The Woman to pick up my motorcycle, or as she calls it - my Japanese girlfriend,
and bring it back to Tampa.<br />
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Now, suitably equipped for getting outside and into touring mode I headed out
on Sunday morning... <br />
No sense in overdoing it, I headed just a few blocks, over to the Blind Tiger
in Ybor for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_espresso">cortadito</a> and to read the local fish wrapper.<br />
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After the tiny glass of carbon <i>con Leche</i>, I headed west eventually hitting
Clearwater Beach, then turned south.<br />
As I headed down the Beaches I made note of several likely spots that held the
promise of adult beverages, served in questionable conditions, probably by some
nefarious people, for exorbitant prices. Just my kind of places.<br />
After a long midday ride I crossed back from the Beaches into the lovely
community of Pasadena, and finally stopped at <a href="http://www.tedpetersfish.com/">Ted Peters Smoked Fish</a>
restaurant- famed in several Food TV mentions as a foodie destination.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">AND they weren't kidding- if you like smoked fish, you'd love this place...<br /><br />I had a lovely dish of smoked fish dip... Ambrosia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Folks sitting near me indulged in smoked salmon, smoked mullet, smoked mackerel,
and one </span>Airedale<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> had a tasty-looking (not smoked) burger.</span><br />
My server Chris tempted me with a taste of their hot German potato salad. I
was, however, able to maintain my will power and didn't put in for a side order
of it- trying to conserve caloric intake as much as possible. <br />
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I was back on two wheels shortly thereafter- it looked like some ominous
weather approaching from the South so I eschewed the scenic route and took
I-275 back to Downtown Tampa, arriving back a my humble abode just before the
rain began to fall...<br />
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A little 100 mile jaunt around the Tampa- Clearwater- St. Pete communities...<br />
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Not a bad way to spend a Sunday...</span><br />
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TBG - - Livin' the Dream</span></div>
The Big Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16973716466048213786noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13255654.post-41245817687598696532016-11-19T09:11:00.001-05:002016-11-19T09:39:33.465-05:00For What it's Worth - Refugees, Emigration & Immigration<p dir="ltr">Just my humble opinion on packing up and getting out...</p>
<p dir="ltr">÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷</p>
<p dir="ltr">Nope.<br>
Not doing it...</p>
<p dir="ltr">I just wrote a rambling screed about people fleeing so-called tyrrany; Moronic celebs talking big and then not following through, then countering with my oh-so-brief thoughts in 2008 of living on a sailboat off the coast of South America to escape Obama's Folly...<br>
And any discussion of refugees needs to touch on the Great Middle East Diaspora and the backdoor invasion or Europe.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The whole thing went from a 2-paragraph opinion piece to a 4 page lecture on refugees, Emigration, sleeper agents, patriotism and history if Sandbox Countries. </p>
<p dir="ltr">When my thumbs started cramming from writing I saved the draft and did a wikiwander on Syria, Lebanon and other garden spots in the ME...<br>
I came up for air 30 minutes later....<br>
Jeebus.<br>
Listen to Uncle Jay... if you haven't done any recent serious reading on the history and situations in the ME, and are relying on the Rand McNally maps from your junior high school years,  go do some research. Especially on the historical aspects... <br>
I deleted several pages of foolscap that no one (not even me) would have enjoyed reading. <br>
Instead of wasting time here, go edumacate yo'sef. <br>
Start with Wikipedia, and if you read the US news sites take them with a grain if salt.  Don't shun BBC and some of the Aussie stuff. And some of the smaller blog that try to provide "Understanding the Syrian Civil War for Dummies" actually have some interesting points to make.<br>
'Nuff said. <br>
Someday I'll write a coherent screed about it, and try to keep it under 2000 words.<br>
÷÷÷÷÷</p>
<p dir="ltr">TBG - moving <u>out</u></p>
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