Last post
This is my last post here on Blogspot. Go to www.the-d-rules.com or click here and it will take you straight there.
Be cool and update your blogrolls, RSS, and links, please.
Thanks for reading.
And I'll see y'all there Monday.
This is my last post here on Blogspot. Go to www.the-d-rules.com or click here and it will take you straight there.
Be cool and update your blogrolls, RSS, and links, please.
Thanks for reading.
And I'll see y'all there Monday.
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff
...the Jayhawks who crushed the Missouri Tigers last night.
From File Girl. Thanks!
November is only 6 short months away. Get it here. Or find more here.
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, Cool Stuff From the Web, Kansas Basketball
Really quick before I start watching lost.
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, Celebrity Stuff, Thursday Quickie, TV
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff
I wasn't planning on talking about this, I was planning on talking about my weekend and the banquet, but this is just too big...wait for it... wait for it... THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!
Lets all give The D around of applause for his 500th post! (This being my 500th post) It's only taken him 1 year and 10 months or, as one might say, 22 months when referring to the age of a baby, and only 2 major overhauls, that he can remember. He has had 30,456 hits since he installed the Stat Counter about a month after he started blogging. Which comes out to an average of 60.9 hits per post. (Writing in 3rd person is more difficult than you think.)
Of course I'm getting the itch again to revamp the whole thing. But I'm going to try to do it right. Instead of bribing some HTML guru to help me out I think I'm actually going to find me a couple of good books on HTML and or CSS. I think I'm going to move to word press also. Yea, I know I've threated to do that before but this time I mean it. At the risk of sounding like a control freak, I want more control over the template and the overall look of the page. But I don't know when I'll have the time or learn all that stuff so it's going to be a while before it's unleashed on the public.
So does anyone know of some good HTML, CSS, or maybe word press books that I can get on the cheap from Barnes and Noble or Amazon?
Y'all have a nice week and bundle up! Its cold out there!
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, I don't know what I was thinking
My apologies to my fellow bloggers, I will not be able to make tonight’s hoe-down.
I’m in the final stages of the banquet planning for this Saturday. I have to meet with the hall banquet people and go over the final stats as far as how many people will attend (I’m still getting RSVP’s even though the cut of for RSVP’s was last Saturday.) the amount of food, where certain aspects of the ceremony will take place, table configurations, among other items. I also have to print final rosters of those attending along with 2 sets of name tags, one for existing members, and one for new members).
We should have about 150-160 total people attending.
Again, my deepest apologies to my fellow bloggers. Please feel free to discuss my awesomeness behind my back. If you were waiting to make a decision on whether or not I was going to attend, because you think I’m a complete moron, and you don’t want to be around me. Then please, do attend. If you were only going to go if I was going then I think you should attend. Most of us bloggers are good people that shower daily, and use deodorant. (Except for Emaw, he smells like feet).
Cafe al Dente, in the River Market at Fourth & Delaware, Kansas City, Mo
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, Good Times, Stalker
From Emaw I don't know wether to be proud, or ashamed that I beat his score.
| I received 75 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds Quiz How much of a Sci-Fi geek are you? | |
| Take the Sci-Fi Movie Quiz lose weight | |
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff
Appetizer
What is your middle name? Would you change any of your names if you could? If so, what would you like to be called? My middle name is my mothers maiden name. Both of my brothers and my sister don’t have first names as middle names like Christopher or Karen or whatever. We all have family names. K-dawg’s middle name is my Dads mothers maiden name. SIS has my Grandmothers maiden name, and C-boy is my Great Grandmothers (mothers side) maiden name. Would I change it? FUCK NO. It’s just one of the many reasons that make me pretty fuckin’ awesome. Plus, it’s always a good topic of conversation.
Soup
If you were a fashion designer, which fabrics, colors, and styles would you probably use the most? I have no idea, umm, canvas, burlap? Bras and panties of course.
Salad
What is your least favorite chore, and why? Cleaning that fuckin’ bathroom I have actually thought about just replacing the sink and toilet instead of cleaning them. That and cleaning is a woman job.
Main Course
What is something that really frightens you, and can you trace it back to an event in your life? I am one bad ass motherfucker! Nothing scares me. (Except the flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz. I get so freaked out that I have to turn it off. So yea, I have never seen the whole movie. Also Zombies.
Dessert
Where are you sitting right now? Name 3 things you can see at this moment. Cell phone, Decimals of a foot chart, and when I look down I see my penis, I always write post while Porky Pigin', it gets the creative “juices” flowing if ya know what I’m sayin. Plus the lady that sits across from me seems to like it.
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, I don't know what I was thinking
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, Cool Stuff From the Web, Fitness, Trash Talkin', Weight Loss
So after days of searching for my theme song for 2008 I have finally found it. But to my great disappointment it's not in Seeqpod. I looked though all 450 different songs (audio AND video) that the search gave me for the band. I can find the lyrics really easy. I guess because the song hasn't been released as a single yet, it's not in Seeqpod. Which totally killz my buzz. I can find it on Itunes and a lot of other places but I need to find a flash player (and a URL to the song) that I can embed in a post like I can with other Seeqpod songs or like a YouTube video. (They haven't yet made a video for it.) So it's not on YouTube yet either. I guess I could make my own video with the song in it but then, I'd have to come up with a video and that would take an eternity and a day!
Plus, if you look at the list of songs from the album that its on, the song I'm looking for is not even listed. I think it was a bonus track from Itunes.
WHATEVER!
It pisses me the fuck off. The song totally kicks ass.
It's pointless for me to post the lyrics for the song. You have to HEAR the song to get the full effect of it's rockin'ness.
If anyone can help me out I'd totally hook you up with my cousin. She's a great french kisser.
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, Music
I need y'alls help! I have searched and searched Seeqpod for a specific song and it's not fuckin' there!!
Does anyone know of another web site that will do the same things as Seeqpod. Mainly allow me to embed a song (a single song in this case) in to a post.
It's very important that you hear this song.
No, I'm not telling you what song.
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, Cool Stuff From the Web
Howdy! How's work going for y'all? I'm still off work. I had to take the 3 days off last week or else I would have lost them. I'm taking 3 days off this week off just because I wanted to to take it off.
Can you believe I haven't shaved my face all YEAR?! I know it's quite amazing! Especially since I really just can't stand having any facial hair whatsoever. It's just not my thing, ya know? But the good news is that I have in fact bathed a couple of times this year no matter what you heard! I just haven't shaved.
Today, I went to the bank inside the Getto-Fresh in Westpost. Flirted with the lady that was depositing my Darukah checks that I still get from Dorothy B. (grandmother.) But Savannah (I'm not kidding that was her name) was not having any of it. She must be a lesbian.
OH! Did you hear that LOST is coming back in less that 29 days! I'm so pumped I can't even tell you (I think I'll go out and get last season on DVD so I can catch back up. Its been almost a year when we last saw the Losties.
My pal Whitney tells me that, and I quote
"After one of the longest and most painful waits in television history, we can finally say that Lost returns this month with eight new episodes. A viral website launched this week at flyoceanicair.com, and it may provide a few hints about the upcoming installments. In it, a man asks for answers about a missing flight attendant.
If you haven't been watching the "Missing Pieces" webisodes at ABC.com, don't forget to catch up before the Jan. 31 premiere. Also, here's a cute video that recaps the first three seasons in 8:15 (get it?)."
I'll be watching the Webisodes later in the week. Just to see what they're all about.
Faith had an interesting piece about cooking some kind of creepy noodles today. I was going to comment on it but it just got to be too long. So I would like to respond here, if I may.
No? You don't want me to respond to her post? Well, then GET OUT!
Now, I'm just talking to myself and typing it out.
Back to what I was saying.
I can't cook. I've never been taught how too cook. When someone tells me, or the instructions on a box, tell me to boil water, I'm never sure what they mean. Do they just want a small stream of bubbles coming up, or do they want the whole thing boiling over like a mo-fo? I can never tell.
BUT! I can cook Mac and Cheese, I can bake chicken, and I can cook broccoli. (You don't even what to know how many chickens breast (hehe BREAST) I ruined before I got it right.) That right their is a whole meal folks. I like to cut the baked chicken into strips or cubes) and the broccoli in with the Mac and Cheese. Its quite tasty, but not as good as they have at McCoy's. (They put some kind of crazy ass oil in theirs, I don't do that, because of all the calories it adds.) I also like to put hot dogs in my mac and cheese. But, who doesn't do that? I have also read on a foodie blog a long time ago that someone liked to put salmon in their mac and cheese, but that seams a little over the top to me.
That's about it for me folks, talk at you manana! (Didn't know I spoke Spanish did ya?)
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, Cool Stuff From the Web, Darukah, Holidays, Random Thoughts, TV
This post was originally posted over at Smells Like Bullshit back in November of 2007. I wanted to repost it here because the links did not come through when I originally emailed it to Nightmare. The links are important because it gives you an idea of what I did while in the Marine Corps.
In a previous post on my site Nightmare asked me a very good question. As I was answering him I decided that it was just too long of an answer and decided to make it a post.
His question was "Why do you run? I have never understood the benefit of running. I lift weights, I am strong, I lift heavy things...people ask me to lift heavy things every day. I have never had anyone ask "Hey...can you start running now and I'll pick you up in 20 miles" Seems like a lot of wasted energy."
That's a really great question Night thanks for asking! It's a debate that has been going on since Moses wore shorts, and I pretty sure it was the case of the fall of the Roman Empire.
I first started running when I was in the Marine Corps back in the early 1990's while stationed at Camp Pendleton which is about an hour or so north of San Diego (you know that city named after a whales vagina.) If you've driven from San Diego to L.A. then you drive right though it. The San Onofre Nuclear power plant is right there (it looks like two really big tits) I started running then because I had to keep my weight down. But I was also in my early 20's then and I had a much faster metabolism then I do now. I would run 3 miles in the morning either in formation for our morning P.T. (Physical Training) and I would also run 3 miles at lunch. I also had to keep my time down in order to keep a perfect PFT (Physical Fitness Test) score of 300. At same time I was also lifting weights with the rest of the platoon. After liberty call we would all hit the gym and have lifting competitions. I don't think I need to tell you but I never won any of them. We'd have competitions for bench press, squats, dead lifts, and just about any other competitions that you can think of to prove who was the bigger man. The machismo was rampant! (It's funny to me now but I actually weight less now that I did back then.)
All though my 4 year service in the Marine Corps I lifted weights, when I was station aboard the U.S.S. Peleliu on our way to and from Somolia and Rwanda I was a member of what we called the 300 Club. The 300 Club was a small group of Marines in my battalion that could bench press 300 pounds at least one time. We'd have contest every Friday for any one that wanted to try to Marine UP! as we liked to say. But it's quite a different story trying to bench 300 pounds while the ship is rolling and pitching.
When I was Honorably Discharged in September 1994 I stopped lifting because the weights just go to be way to heavy.
As to why I run now, I always thought I got a better work out from running. I enjoy the time alone to think about things that may be bothering me or just to have some time alone. It also will burn more calories than lifting weights in the same amount of time. You can't burn 1000 calories in an hour lifting weights but you can running, if you run fast enough. That's is why I always thought I would get a better work out running that I did lifting. As many people know you only work a certain part of your body, wether you work just your arms, or shoulders, back, chest, or legs. Running you work your whole body.
One benefit of running is that when you and your lady are walking down the street and some coked out idiot comes and swipes her purse and keeps running. Would a person who lifts be able to run after him and catch the dude? Probably not, those coke heads are fast! Your muscles won't be used to the endurance. But a runner will catch him. But on the same thought could I crush some ones face like a piece of glass with one punch? Probably not, but a weightlifter could.
Weight training has a lot of benefits also, if you want to lose weight most trainers and those in the health field will tell you to lift weights. Now, this might seem dumb to you, but let me drop some knowledge on ya'll. The more muscle mass you have the higher your resting metabolic rate will be be which means you will burn more calories while sitting at your desk than some fatty sitting across from you. You don't have to have huge muscles to have high muscle mass. You can just have really dense, hard muscles. This is why women have a much harder time losing weight than men do. We men as a gender have larger muscle mass therefore our metabolic rate is higher.
Also a really great benefit to running is when I get drunk star talking shit, or spill a drink down your shirt. I'll be able to get up and run away before you start pummeling me.
That's it for me folks check ya on the flip side.
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, Fitness, Good Times, Marine Corps, Old School, Weight Loss
Does anyone know how to create a blog post using a cell phone?
I want to start phoning in my post. I want to be able to have a specific phone number that I can record a post to, then have it either posted with a player or converted to text and have that text automatically posted.
Something similar to my twitter updates but I have to send those in via text message, and that takes to effing long.
Any ideas on how I can get this done?
Help a bratha out will ya?
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, Cool Stuff From the Web, Random Thoughts
As I'm sitting here working in my cube a song comes on my Ipod that I remember from my youth. It's by one of the greatest guitarist of one of the greatest bands of all time. The artist Pete Townsend from The Who.
I mention this to you today because, as I was listening to the song I remember thinking to myself. Self (that how I get myselfs attention when I have something to say to myself) "Who the hell is Mylow and why does he need to open the door?" At lease, that's what I used to think the title of the song was when I was much younger, like a teenager.
Well after years past I finally got a clue and figured out that the actual name of the song is "Let MY LOVE open the door."
Here's what I'm talking about.
I tell you this today because I know ALL of you have mucked up a song title or too in your day. I want to know which song, what you thought it was and what the real name of the song was.
Cause I know we have all done it.
Post Script: Joke Thursday gets posted at lunch.
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, Celebrity Stuff, Everyday life, I don't know what I was thinking, Random Thoughts
So some dude, Dr. Robert I. Sutton (PhD) wrote a book called "The No Asshole Rule", in Chapter 4 of said stupid book there is a test to see of you are an asshole.
Now you can take this test on line.
So go take this lame ass test and come back and tell me how big of an asshole you are. So if I ever meet you then I'll know to stay the fuck away from you. Because I don't like assholes because they smell like shit.
Find out about the book here.
I found this link from Team Building is for Suckers she's hilarious, one of my fav blogs not in Kansas City.
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, Cool Stuff From the Web, Good Times
Remember last week when I told you about the Merriam-Webster Word of the year Competition?
You don't?
We'll I fucking did and here's proof, Jerkoff! (btw, you should read those comments. There're a couple of winners in there.)
Anyway, the winner had been declared, envelope please, and the Winner of the 2007 Word of the year Competition is... "w00t" - which means expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word "yay"
And before I forget, the correct spelling according to M-W IS in fact with two zeros and NOT two o's. So, if you're going to give me shit about my spelling you can go suck a fat babies dick.
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, Cool Stuff From the Web
Today Emaw is paying a his debt to me. This bet stems from a wager that we'd agreed upon back in October. I will not get into all the sordid little details of who bet what and all that jazz, because I was probably wasted at the time but I do remember that it did involve, a few nekked ladies, and some sort of measuring device, at least that is how I remember it. Either way he lost. So today I'm over there defiling his blog. So go check it out.
I have one more bet to collect and hope to have that finished my the end of the year.
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, College Football, Facebook vs Myspace
Merriam-Webster is holding it's traditional (2nd year) Word Of The Year competition. Last year, the word “truthiness” won with an astonishingly huge (no homo) margin of victory of 5 to 1. But last year it was a free for all. This year they limited your votes to only 20 candidates.
Voting closes on Friday 12-7.
Your choices are:
apathetic, babymoon, blamestorming, charlatan, conundrum, cruft, eleemosynary, facebook, hypocrite, linkability, melancholy, pecksniffian, pretentious, pugnacious, quixotic, sardoodledom, sputum, subpoena, vanity sizing, and, w00t
I’m going to vote for whom ever can make a sentence out of one of these words and make it sound dirty.
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, Cool Stuff From the Web, Random Thoughts, Wednesday Quickie
I was apparently having some formatting issues in Firefox browsers, but not in Internet Explorer, that's IE for all you techies, with the post titled Rearranging the Furniture. Which is not at all what I thought it was at first.
Sunday, I downloaded the newest version of Windows Live Writer which has some updated options in it from the last version. I wrote three of the four post in it yesterday. I use it because I like to write my post off-line without having to be on blogger for some times hours at a time. So I naturally thought it was one of those 3 post so I had to copy each one into Word before I deleted them. Then, I had too repost them one at time to figure out which one it was exactly. So using deductive reasoning, whatever the hell that is, I figured it was that post.
The crappy thing is that I lost all of the comments. I still have them on the Haloscan web site, but they're no longer attached to their respective post.
But what are ya gonna do? Can't have your cake and eat it too. I'm sure if it's still jacked up you'll let me know. Won't cha?
Sorry for the inconvenience of having them show up as new post in your reader again. But it's all fixed now. And it only took me about 20 min.
Some times I'm just too smart for my own good.
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Categories (because I'm organized and shit) Blog Stuff, WTF?