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One smart goose

There's always one in every crowd that doesn't fallow the herd. Or in this case the gaggle. I'm at Lynn Lake in N Raleigh with the SO feeding geese under a bridge. Well not so much feeding them as plunking them on the head with bread crumbs. No ducks were harmed to get off my ass about plunking waterfowl with bread crumbs.

But this one had an agenda. Not only did he fly from the other shore of the lake (the other geese, well adapted to flying decided to paddle like hell). Hopped up on the pier, walked up the steps and down the bridge about 100 feet to us. I gave him the whole bun for his efforts. And took its picture for prosperity.

Meanwhile the other 50 geese and ducks brawled it out for whatever was left floating in the water.

This site just adds to my point:

The character shown ? does not mean "geisha" when it is just by itself alone.

? means "prostitute".

And your kids, and maybe yourself are eating this shit up like solid cocaine. Seriously, my ex brother-in-law had "I like pussy" (in his translation from a small city tattoo shop) in "Mandarin" on his forearm. He wore it like some badge of honor. I reminded him he was from Texas prior to relocation near where I left the exes.

I asked him how he knew the symbols were letters....err.....caracters. His response was "This one is the letter I...a space, then L, then......

I left it at that. White guys with chinese anything if they're not married to one are not cool.

No linky here. Just scroll thru the photos below of the Fark.com users party at the Ale House in Raleigh tonight. I'm kinda curious if Fark users could pull off a flash mob. Might work.

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I'll be damned, it DOES work! Mobile cam phone blogging. I knew this has been around a year or so, but I recently got a phone that supports it. Pershizzle biyotch! This should add a new twist to future events.

Heh.

....So I'm out with with my SO and several others and their SO's for sushi. Being in Raleigh, it's not hard to find sushi, but REAL sushi, being that I grew up and lived up and down the west coast and have had my fill over the years. But this place served BOTH Japanese and Thai. Not bad. Traditional too. Looking around the "southerners" (they only serve forks via request) might get the chopsticks thing someday. Eating with chopsticks isn't that hard. And NO they're not shish kebabs goddamit. You don't skewer your tuna, or your octopus with your "sticks" like a kid poking a frog. Learn to use the fucking utensils they provide. It really is that easy. And fun! And you look like you know how to handle the food at the same time.

Saki bombers work too in the initiation to the world of Japanese food with southerners.

There was a spoiler in the crowd tho.......and that one stuck in my mind. Not at the table while practicing our eating skillz with stix, but the guy that caught my eye coming into the restaurant.

Enter: Sushi Restaurant. Raleigh, NC. I don't know if this was a "redneck" move but is sure as shit was a dumbass one. Anyone remember the scene from "Clerks" where the "jock" comes in with his girlfriend to pitch a bitch about Kevin Smith's character getting reamed about selling cigarettes to a 4 yr old kid that you know who sold to earlier? Take that same guy, put some grey hair on him, and put "Duke Lacross" on it.

I shit you not. This mother fucker walks in like a jock from Flashdance with a "Duke Lacrosse" sweatshirt (with all the shit going on about Duke these days) on into a traditional (they're trying here) Japanese sushi bar. He passed by me and I never saw him again.

Draw your own conclusions.

The internet just gets more wierder or amazing all the time:

link: http://metaatem.net/words/




Apparently now using one of various "generators" (those of you familiar with them) can use images from various personal pic sites like flickr and myspace and live journal to make sentences from pictures that contain specific letters. wOOt!

And then this happened.....Which is nothing.

Specifically the "May Day Immigration" marches. Here in Raleigh, not a damn thing happened and I don't think anybody cared. There was the expected plug on the evening news but not much else. I could put 10k links to sites and blogs but it's all the same stuff getting passed around 10k times.

The only thing I know of is that many of the temp workers at the printing plant I work at didn't show up. No problemo Amigo, you no get paid today. Don't worry, we have a thousand employees than can pick up the slack. And shiat like this is probably why you'll stay a temp than the other "immigrants" who show up, properly documented, do their jobs, and in 90 days when they become "regulars" they get a pay raise really by just asking to be one, and having your paperwork handy (the temp agency that hires people for our bindery work takes $2-4 an hour of the LOWEST base wage for regulars right of the top for finding their asses jobs).

This whole "march/protest/immigration" thing I just see as an excuse to get out of work and not have to do much of anything for the day. You know, make a 3-day weekend out of it, being that it was Monday 'n all.

The "regulars" that have been around past 90 days now get full medical benefits, stock options, 401k, family leave, sick leave and all else that goes with it. Everyone of them showed up. What REALLY got me is that the "offical" protest downtown at the Capitol wasn't until 5pm (in an effort supposedly to disrupt traffic-didn't work, people just drove around). We had 30-40 people (out of 1000, yeah we can fill in from other departments) that didn't show up at 7AM. OK, just where the fuck were you the other 10 hours? You could have taken off a couple hours early (our managers are generous and would have said "Fine" so long as you don't bullshit them). But you decide to not show up ALL DAY. As today I have off, I don't know how many won't be allowed back at all.

From what I can see, this "shuttering of cities" amounted to no more than a bullshit excuse to play hookey and bitch about something. Kinda reminds me of recent happenings in France. Maybe in LA and Phoenix (can you imagine protesting in 100 degree heat? Me neither.)

Don't get me wrong, I don't care if people are climbing over themselves to get into the greatest country on Earth, just do the paperwork alright? And enough of this "New Aztlan" bullshit and taking a chunk out of the US. This time we have the guns and the people and the Alamo will look like a picnic. Besides, if you did manage to get it back, you'd be back in freaking Mehico and would lose any and all US citizen priviledges, plus the fact that we'd burn LA, San Diego, SF and Phoenix to the ground before we hand them off to another country. So there you go...........