The Craptank

More random Thoughts:

Public Service Announcement: Go read www.27bslash6.com.

Is it considered bad taste to give someone with terminal cancer a 'get well soon' card?

To be insightful or to be inciteful. That is the question..

Possible worst job in the world: Sales clerk at the alarm clock emporium.

Great Idea: Buy new set of clothes each day. Exchange for different set at end of day. Never do laundry again.

With the news being dominated by the massive oil spill in the Gulf, I feel I should rant about something. During the onset of this disaster, Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show "this oil spil isn't as big of a deal as the environmental groups are making it. The sea can absorb the oil and everything will be fine." (I paraphrased the comment, but that's the jist of it.)

Um, Rush...did you fail 4th grade science? I pretty sure that there aren't many elementary school students that don't know that oil and water don't mix. Do you really think your listeners are that stupid to believe that the oil will just mix in with the sea water? Do you not see the oil coming ashore? Maybe your vision got blurred from the prescription pain killer addicition you had, or maybe to quote a cartoon from Newgrounds.com...

"Rush Limbaugh, you are a fucking moron!"

I don't know what caused me to vent about this, but maybe it's the fact I haven't spouted off about anything in a while. Has my anger subsided? Heavens no! Laziness has just gotten the better of me. Anyway, back to the point I want to make.

I work in an office with a few women. What pisses me off is how they can get away with wearing flip flops and still be considered "dressed professionally." And don't even get me started on the skort or coulottes (or how ever the hell it's spelled!) One of the most irritating sounds of my day is the sound of foam slapping feet. Just because I was born with a dong and nuts, I'm forced to wear dress shoes and pants to work everyday? My ass would be canned in a heart beat if I wore a kilt to work. Would I be allowed to wear flip flops if I bedazzled the shit out of mine? Equal workplace my ass!

Ok, So I've decided to keep this thing around, with new content promised so here goes.

First a little background.

I work at Boeing, and we have an internal company instant message system (Microsoft communicator). One of the features is the ability to put up a note for others to see. At one point in time, for my own amusement, I started putting up a new thought each day.. Most of them are one-liners or things along the lines of Jack Handey's "Deep Thoughts". Most of the stuff is crap that I think of while on the can, or in the shower, or on the drive to work.

Sooner or later I started getting messages from people at random commenting on my "note of the day". At one point along the line I started saving the notes.

I might start posting them here on a regular basis.. Anyway, here's the first 5:

I like to think that every time I swear over the boeing IM, a big red light flashes in a little room somewhere.

Violence is in fact the answer. You're probably just not asking the right question.

So they've found water on the moon and on mars. Big deal. Let me know when they find grain and hops.

I'd like to know why exactly you can't put the cart before the horse. Can't horses be trained to push?

Did the ancient chinese talk about 'ancient chinese proverbs' back when they were still brand new?

If you can't do something right, don't do it at all.

So on that note, I think I'm going to take down the current version of the craptank for the foreseeable future.

It was fun while it lasted, and I learned a hell of a lot putting this together, however, as I once again fell back into never updating.

The good news is that I will be keeping the domain around and will probably use it to post personal projects and so-forth in the future.

Till next time,
j