Plan B…

Well, the jackass of a plan to bailout major corporations from their financial crisis was not passed.  It was officially rejected with a  228-205 vote.

Good.  I wasn’t a fan of bailing out these companies because they made bad decisions.  In the words of Bloodhound Gang: Burn motherf***er, burn!

I think now it is time to push the idea that was posed by T. J. Birkenmeier, self-proclaimed “Creative Guy & Citizen of the Republic”.  His idea, quite honestly the SMARTEST thing I have ever heard, was posted on The Cranky Monkey.

Seriously, why bail out companies that has made it a point to make money by screwing the citizens of the United States when we could bail out the citizens that were screwed in the first place.

Gotta love Kentucky

Why dogs are better than humans

I’ve heard a lot of stories in the past few years where people, seeing other people in dangerous situations – whether it be a medical issue, being attacked, whatever – and the witness turns a blind eye to it by either walking the other way, staring dumbly, or closing their curtains just to ignore what’s going on.

Not this guy.  Uh… Dog.

Buddy the German Shephard is a modern day Lassie.  Except it’s not an ugly pipe-nosed dog.

Buddy is a trained service dog that can recognize when his best friend has a seizure.

Buddy knocked the phone off the receiver and ACTUALLY DIALED 911.

The 911 operator, only hearing the dark barking and no human response, sent help to find the man needing medical attention.

Good dog.

Source: http://www.currentargus.com/ci_10465131

Trojans and Viruses

i·ro·ny1 [ahy-ruh-nee, ahy-er-]  a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., esp. as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.

I got a pretty bad virus on my work computer yesterday.  In fact, I’m pretty good at handling this stuff, but this one ended being beyond me, and quite possibly my IT guy as well.  He’s been trying to fix it since 8:00 AM this morning.  It is now 1:00 PM. 

This virus hit, and very quickly found that my entire computer was hijacked: My control panel disabled, All Programs folder gone, disabled task manager, desktop taken over by Active Desktop that covered my whole screen as a link to a malicious site, and endless fake security warnings that were trying to “scan” my computer – which, after searching Google, I found that it is scanning for passwords and financial information to pass over to Mr. Hacker.

Awesome!

So, I disabled all internet connection immediately, rebooted in SAFE mode, and ran a full system scan with Spybot Search & Destroy.  Spybot found 15 trojans.  The viruses caused by these trojans were too powerful and deep in the system for Spybot to kill them. 

This leaves me now waiting on tech support, who is starting to get grimmer about the results.  We may need to completely re-image the laptop.  Even more AWESOME!

Now you are probably wondering why I wrote the definition of irony at the top of this post.  You are probably thinking to yourself “this has nothing to do with irony!”.  Well, yes it does.

This whole situation has got me thinking about real world versus computer world scenarios:

• In computer world, trojans cause viruses. 
• In the real world, trojans prevent viruses.

That gets me thinking… someone is really misusing the term “trojan” here, and by definition, I don’t think it’s the computer world…

Crab Attack

Ever had an ex you despise?  Are you on the verge of a mental illness?  Does this illness make you wish you can take revenge on your ex?  Are you in a conundrum of how to take this revenge without going to jail?

I have a solution for you!  My wife sent me this page – we are both flabberghasted at it.  Yes, FLABBERGHASTED!

The short of it is that you can order crabs.  Not dungeness, not king, nothing edible (well, that’s negotiable in this situation).  I am talking about non-other then that which is considered a sexually transmitted disease (curable of course).

This company ships you these crabs and it is your responsibility to dump these crabs where you see fit (actually, I don’t care what the article says – taking this action is probably going to result in jail time if you get caught).

You can read all the details here.  Of course, I also have to provide a pic that outlines the grand result of taking this revenge: