LVTC Living Vicariously Through Corey: Amazon is giving me a heart attack at 8:00am
received an email this morning when I turned on my computer that says someone bought me a gift from Amazon. I was like “Cool…good start to my day”. I opened the email and saw it was a gift bought on my baby registry at Amazon. Let me set something straight here: We don’t have any kids and are not expecting.
Hilarious! Amazon is trying to knock up Corey’s wife! Dirty bastards.
EFF:
For more than five years, AT&T and other telephone companies broke the law and violated their customers privacy rights by sending billions of private domestic internet and telephone communications and records to the National Security Agency. For months, the Bush Administration has been pressuring Congress to grant the telecoms immunity from the law.
It will take you 30 seconds to phone your senator, click the link above to get the number, and leave a message on their issues voice mail.
uncov, uncovering web2
Oh, right. One more thing. This is the last Uncov. Ever. I have been getting tired of it, and this has been manifesting itself in my writing. After seeing the spectacle at the Crunchies, I think it’s finally time to quit.
I sincerely hope Ted is joking. Don’t get all Perry Farrell or Kurt Cobain on us. Yes, I get it, you’re punk rock. That’s why I enjoy reading uncov.
Ex-chess champ Bobby Fischer dies – Europe- msnbc.com
Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64.Fischer died Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said. There was no immediate word on the cause of death.
Wow, 64 is so young. This is sad.
“The United States is evil. There’s this axis of evil. What about the allies of evil — the United States, England, Japan, Australia? These are the evildoers,” Fischer said.
In his final years, Fischer railed against the chess establishment, alleging that the outcomes of many top-level chess matches were decided in advance.
Instead, he championed his concept of random chess.
“I don’t play the old chess,” he told reporters upon arrival in Iceland. “But obviously if I did, I would be the best.”
The guy was exceptional at what he did, principled, and unwaivering. It’s easy to like him. Bobby Fischer was punk rock coolness. RIP.
I guess gmail IMAP has taken the weekend off. This makes me 😦
Sofia mentioned this new drug yesterday. She said it sounded so cool she considered trying it. 😉 It’s called “Cheese”. Frickin’ sweet.
From Wikipedia:
Cheese is a heroin-based recreational drug that surfaced in the United States in 2005 and came to the media’s attention after a string of deaths among adolescents in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, in 2006 and 2007.
Cheese is formed by combining heroin with crushed tablets of certain over-the-counter cold medication, such as Tylenol PM. Such cold medications contain acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, and the antihistamine diphenhydramine, the active ingredient in Benadryl and a common opiate potentiator.[1] Cheese samples obtained in north Dallas contained between 2% and 8% heroin, in contrast to the 30% commonly found in black tar heroin.[2][3] Users commonly take the powder by insufflation rather than by intravenous injection.
But wait, there’s more coolness: when making “Cheese’ you take Black Tar Heroin, this is the really crappy heroin that often comes from Mexico, boil it in water, add Tylenol PM, and this is what’s commonly referred to by these zany/whacky kids as “monkey juice”. That sounds like awesome! Talk about effective marketing to children. When I was a kid the drugs were called unappealing things. Like Acid, PCP (sounded a lot like CFC or PCB neither of which had an especially fun name), Reds (sounded like communists and I knew those were bad), and Weed (reminded me of hard work in the yard). Cheese just sounds awesome. Almost as cool as “monkey juice”.
Aaron Fulkerson 