jmcgready’s misc universe

Disclaimer:
This is all me talking and not the institutions with whom I’m involved….

Wherein I recount the day and its insanities, seeking (but not finding) the next Best Thing….

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Disclaimer:
I speak for myself only,
not for any institutions with whom I’m involved
and/or for whom I work.

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Disclaimer:
all opinions expressed in this voice post are my own,
and are not those of my employer,
and/or anyone else in the known universe, for that matter…..

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this weekend has been crazy - especially labor day -
it seems no one got the memo about chilling out at the barbeque.

TONS of people today, and not ones given to much thinking at all,
let alone prethinking… I guess even the most basic answers, like “what printer do I have?”
are somehow not important enough to remember, even if your goal is to buy ink for that printer.

$50,000.00/yr for tuition, and not a dime’s left over for clues….

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This is an experiment in using GrandCentral as a voice posting client.

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My friend Bryan Glass has got a new ongoing comic series with Image Comics:

For the young mouse Karic, the Mice Templar are merely an exciting legend.

They were real, however, and a vicious civil war left them scattered
and all mouse culture in the grip of brutal rat masters.

When Karic’s family is enslaved, he realizes their only hope of freedom lies in his paws…
if he can only find the courage and strength to become one of the legendary Templar himself.

And so begins the extraordinary adventure of magic and wonder,
tragedy and hope, faith and valor, and of one small mouse
whose destiny might change the entire world.”

THE MICE TEMPLAR #1
By Bryan J.L. Glass & Michael Avon Oeming
In stores August 29, 2007

mice templar
Image Comics
Bryan J.L. Glass

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I’ll admit, this one isn’t as potentially deadly as the LSD in a pizza story,
but this story does have a few real jerkoffs (literally).

According to the New York Post, a Bronx woman is suing her former employer
for 6 million dollars, claiming that she was subjected to multiple performances a la Portnoy
in the midtown office where she worked.

If only they were masters of their domain….

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I tried to do a bit of egosurfing on my name and I realized how many other guys have my name.

I’m perpetually outranked by the instructor at Johns Hopkins, followed by this guy at Amazon, my Twitter page makes it into the top 10 though….

following that are a former chief petty officer, a guy who owned land in Cecil County Maryland in the 1800’s, and another mention of me where I’m told that I don’t know what I’m talking about.

Oh, yeah - I also share a name with a character in a 1984 German Crime TV episode played by an actor named Rainer Langhans.

doesn’t do much for one’s feeling of uniqueness….

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Was down on South Street tonight and ate at Lucky’s Mexican Spot .(CitySearch review)

Good Lord, was that some awesome Steak Nachos -
Guacamole, Sour Cream, Pico, and Lettuce over freshly made chips
topped with fresh grilled steak - yum!

I don’t what the hell the Yelp reviewer was thinking -
I mean, F ragging on the decor and the snide “it’s not really authentic” barb
take your foodie arse back to LaLupe, STFU ,
and let a brother get his mexican cooked mexican grub on

{observations, food, life}

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and I’m not referring to the Snow Patrol song, either…

my body’s in a dull, overall pain, with the right ankle leading the way.

I’m just tired of the utter arrogance, entitlement, and complete obliviousness
to all but their own petulant desires that runs rampant through the Penn kids who come to the store (and also their parents).
I have no more compassion for people who act in this manner - whatever befalls them, befalls them.

I will not overtly harm any of these people, but they can forget about any exemplary aid.

I’m just that burnt right now - it takes all I have to not thoroughly hate them.

{observations, life}

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