Joke-off Monday 60

This joke was sent to me by my buddy in PEE-AAY:

One sunny day in January 2009, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Bush."

The Marine looked at the man and said, "Sir, Mr. Bush is no longer President and no longer resides here."

The old man said, "Okay", and walked away.

The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with President Bush."

The Marine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Bush is no longer President and no longer resides here."

The man thanked him and again just walked away.

The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U.S. Marine, saying "I would like to go in and meet with President Bush."

The Marine, understandably perplexed at this point, looked at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row that you have asked to speak to Mr. Bush. I've told you repeatedly that Mr. Bush is no longer the President and no longer resides here. Don't you understand?"

The old man looked at the Marine and said, "Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it."

The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, "See you tomorrow, Sir".

There you are, a Joke-off Monday to get your week started. See you soon.

Christmas past

Hi! Gosh, it has been a long time since I've posted. There's been a lot of crap-ola going on. The good news is that I'm still employed. That's more than many can say, for sure.

I didn't do anything for Christmas, Justin went out of town and I stayed home. I was supposed to go visit some relatives, but I overslept. Since it's a two hour drive, I wouldn't have made it in time for Christmas dinner. So the retarded dog, the bird and I had ham sandwiches.

Over the past month or so, I built a home server out of an old computer, some spare parts and a new 500 gb hard drive. With all of this excess capacity for storage and having purchased a refurbished scanner that I use for when I work from home, I started scanning old pictures in albums that I borrowed from my mother. (Which is what I did most of the day yesterday. Remove picture from album, scan, adjust settings, replace picture in album and repeat.)

Anyway, right now I've got many pictures from the 70's scanned, not that there was any order, but most of these pictures were in albums and I started with them. Yeah, I've got a long way to go. A lot of the pictures are from Christmases years ago and I thought I'd share a handful with you.















The little blond headed guy in the pictures, is my brother. The lady with the long hair in the first picture is my mother and I'm sitting in my grandmother's lap. The other kid is a cousin. What kind of redneque child does not wear a shirt at Christmas? Um yeah, that would be my brother and me. Some of these were taken in 1976, some in 1977.

I hope you had a great Christmas. I think I might be back over here more often now that the holidays are over.

Thoughts of a terrorist

"In this time of new beginnings and rising expectations, it is even more urgent that we figure out how to become the people we have been waiting to be. "

A quote of Bill Ayers, the distinguished college professor and "terrorist".

Read more here: http://www.truthout.org/110708R

You know, I'm ready to "pal around" with this guy, myself.

Hell, I'll bet he's a beer drinker as well.

BND

Yes indeed, it is a brand new day. When Ohio went for Obama, I knew it was over. I called everyone that I knew that cared about the election.

That's really all I have to say, except for the fact that I cried.

Like a baby.

VP funnies

A couple of comments I read at reddit today:

1. Eight words that can win the debate for Biden tonight:
"Now, let me give you a direct answer."

2. Alternatively, eight words that can lose the debate for Biden:
"Bitch, you don't make any God damned sense."

Oh, I just laughed...

Another build

I built another computer that uses two internet connections from my router. This was just some cast-off parts I've accumulated, mind you. The only item I've purchased was a (sweet, cheap EVGA) graphics card. It's a 939 AMD (4000, single core, San Diego) system with an ASUS motherboard that still uses DDR (2 gigs) memory.

My total cost for the system so far: approx $50, including a rebate. The rest of the build is comprised of hand-me-downs.

My download speed can kick your download speed's ass. (Well certainly not yours, Bryan!)

Anyhoos, the Brad has been in his mad computer guy lab cooking up a new project. That's the reason why you haven't seen me so much. Or one of the reasons, maybe. So, you want pictures? Sound off in the comments and we'll see about getting some up here...

Curioser and curioser

Okay, he was going to the debate, then he wasn't going, and now... he's going?! Holy shit. I thought John Kerry was supposed to be the flip-flopper. But, whatever.

I've decided McCain is a damned lunatic.

Oh yeah, I needed to go to Oxford, Mississippi today to do a job, but I've decided to wait until Monday. I think there might be a little bit of traffic there today. Just a hunch.

Have a great weekend!