So I don't know if anyone reads this thing, but this is a final plea. I am just $40 for meeting my Miller Lite Ride fund raising goal. The big ride is tomorrow and pledges are due by noon. If you can help, please visit http://www.firstgiving.com/mcarnold.
Thanks for your support!
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Saturday, May 3, 2008
sometimes you agree with the most random people
Like Lindsay Lohan's lawyer, who responded to an irresponsible liquor lobby ad with: "USA Today is idiotic to run such an irresponsible advertisement suggesting that drinking and driving is some kind of American 'tradition' we should protect. Not identifying that this ad was paid for by the liquor and restaurant industries is profoundly reckless."
You can see the ridiculous ad here (and below) in all its misleading glory.
Seriously liquor lobbyists, I like to drink as much as anyone, but that's entirely different than ADVOCATING DRUNK DRIVING.
As the article notes, the liquor lobbyist claims: "We needed to create the distinction for the public what someone with multiple DUIs looked like versus a low blood-alcohol-level first-time offender."
Except for it only takes one ill-fated time behind the wheel to kill a family! Sarah Longwell, I hope Satan enjoys your soul.
I don't know what decade you're living in where that's okay, but that's been a huge embarrassment to my beloved Wisconsin recently, when we were named the state with the highest admitted rate of drunk driving.
Drunk driving isn't global warming* - you can't debate whether or not it has a serious impact.
As someone who, by mere inches and the miracle of a higher power, avoided losing her life (or at least livelihood) to a drunk driver (in Connecticut, not Wisconsin), I don't think you can really err on the side of caution when preventing unnecessary loss of life.
Of course I also do my part by not having a2,000 pound weapon car in the first place, walking to the neighborhood bar, or taking a cab or the bus. Admittedly I am not an angel, I have RIDDEN with drunk drivers, however I myself have definitely never driven drunk.
On another note, please take a good look at the ad. Is it just me or does it also suggest that drinking and driving is okay for white people only? I guess interlock devices are okay for Lindsay Lohan AND minorities. Thanks for clearing that up.
*Please note tongue in cheek remark
You can see the ridiculous ad here (and below) in all its misleading glory.
Seriously liquor lobbyists, I like to drink as much as anyone, but that's entirely different than ADVOCATING DRUNK DRIVING.
As the article notes, the liquor lobbyist claims: "We needed to create the distinction for the public what someone with multiple DUIs looked like versus a low blood-alcohol-level first-time offender."
Except for it only takes one ill-fated time behind the wheel to kill a family! Sarah Longwell, I hope Satan enjoys your soul.
I don't know what decade you're living in where that's okay, but that's been a huge embarrassment to my beloved Wisconsin recently, when we were named the state with the highest admitted rate of drunk driving.
Drunk driving isn't global warming* - you can't debate whether or not it has a serious impact.
As someone who, by mere inches and the miracle of a higher power, avoided losing her life (or at least livelihood) to a drunk driver (in Connecticut, not Wisconsin), I don't think you can really err on the side of caution when preventing unnecessary loss of life.
Of course I also do my part by not having a
On another note, please take a good look at the ad. Is it just me or does it also suggest that drinking and driving is okay for white people only? I guess interlock devices are okay for Lindsay Lohan AND minorities. Thanks for clearing that up.
*Please note tongue in cheek remark
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Naughty iPod? Give it a spanking!!
Still insanely frustrated by my iPod refusal to connect to my computer and the Apple store's confirmation that there was no fix other than restoring it and losing all of my music, I decided to poke around on my newfound love, LifeHacker.com.
Browsing all posts tagged with iPod, I came across a random one from 2007 that instructed you how to do your own surgery on your pod. However, this of course would erase all your music.
I thought I'd check the comments though and Voila!
Woohoo!!!
Browsing all posts tagged with iPod, I came across a random one from 2007 that instructed you how to do your own surgery on your pod. However, this of course would erase all your music.
I thought I'd check the comments though and Voila!
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Sounds crazy, but this worked on my 4th G iPod when the HD started clicking after a drop. I'd read some articles about taking it apart, but as i started doing that i skipped to the end of the article... long story short, often the clicking is made by some little arm or spacer thats wiggled loose and is now somewhere it shouldn't be making the disk unreadable and creating the click every time the disk tries to spin
here comes the crazy - smack your iPod hard against your hand. didn't work? try it again, and again, in differnet directions, different orientations. eventually that little spacer do-hicky will pop out of the spot it was in. i've been using my iPod for well over 6 months since i did this.
and hey, if it didn't work before, what's the harm in trying this method when all else has failed?
Woohoo!!!
back to the gym
As my friend Lisa's wedding in Portland is a little over a month away, and since Oregonians don't really appreciate the random pouches added on to one's body by 10 years of cheese and beer, I returned to the Wisconsin Athletic Club in earnest after work with a resolution to go everyday until I fly home on June 4.
I was doing really well with going to the WAC, but the false Spring enticed me to start biking through Southeastern Wisconsin instead. Unfortunately with the weather back to chilly and my bike getting tweaked at Cory's, I need to get back in my routine. I cancelled my trainer in mid-April, but that doesn't mean I can't push myself.
And I actually ran three laps today! (Don't laugh, I'm a biker, not a runner).
The only event of note was some jackass lurking while I finished my lat pull. Dude, I get that you need to use this machine but don't stand six fucking inches from me while I yank these weights toward my chest. And if you were standing that close because the exercise causes my chest to stick out, well then you're not just annoying me, but you're a perv as well.
I was doing really well with going to the WAC, but the false Spring enticed me to start biking through Southeastern Wisconsin instead. Unfortunately with the weather back to chilly and my bike getting tweaked at Cory's, I need to get back in my routine. I cancelled my trainer in mid-April, but that doesn't mean I can't push myself.
And I actually ran three laps today! (Don't laugh, I'm a biker, not a runner).
The only event of note was some jackass lurking while I finished my lat pull. Dude, I get that you need to use this machine but don't stand six fucking inches from me while I yank these weights toward my chest. And if you were standing that close because the exercise causes my chest to stick out, well then you're not just annoying me, but you're a perv as well.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
iPod kaput
I meant to post this yesterday.
My iPod is officially non-connectible. I can still charge it on my dock, but it doesn't play well with computers.
Apparently Apple's only solution (I stopped into the Apple Store at Bayshore to confirm yesterday) is restoring.
That means you lose all your music.
Screw that.
I'll wait until prices drop and then just buy a new one AND keep my current tunes.
The whole thing SUCKS though.
My iPod is officially non-connectible. I can still charge it on my dock, but it doesn't play well with computers.
Apparently Apple's only solution (I stopped into the Apple Store at Bayshore to confirm yesterday) is restoring.
That means you lose all your music.
Screw that.
I'll wait until prices drop and then just buy a new one AND keep my current tunes.
The whole thing SUCKS though.
when life gives you lemons...go bowling?
Tonight was an interesting one for sure.
After work I took the Route 31 out to Tosa and met the YNPN Book Club at Firefly for a discussion of Myla Goldberg's Bee Season. Our theme for the first quarter is Education, and this was our fiction book. It's pretty cool how it's set up. We pick a quarterly theme and then read three genres -- non-fiction, fiction and memoir/biography.
Discussion was good and food was excellent. Had a chicken sandwich topped with avocado, white cheddar and gorgonzola. MMM. Picked chive mashed potatoes and crispy bok salad as my sides. Delish! A glass of wine would have been more tasty than my Coca-Cola, but I'm still refraining.
Cut out a bit early as Brooke and I had plans to go see Post-Secret at Marquette. Craig decided to come along too, which was a nice surprise.
Now, when I went to Marquette I never took advantage of the plethora of speakers, etc. that they brought to campus. I think I went to a few things, but they were never crowded. Granted, the Internet was fledgling then. There were no blogs and no Internet celebrities. There was no Facebook or MySpace to meet other nerds who may be interested in attending an event with you.
No, I didn't go to campus events. I drank. But actually, my only true friends left from college ARE my fellow nerds. Hmm.
Well, apparently campus involvement is IN and we were extremely disappointed that when we reached the Weasler Auditorium there was a sign that the event was At Capacity.
Crap.
We were stuck on a college campus with me not drinking and my newlywed friends on a tight budget.
What to do?
The neon lights from across Wells beckoned.
"Let's go bowling!" I suggested.
Well, why not?
Luckily we were there an hour before League Night began. The student workers told us we could only have one game. Fine. Whatever.
They assigned us to Lane 7, which apparently didn't work. After waiting 10 minutes for them to reset the system, it still didn't work, so they agonized a bit and moved us to Lane 9. Keep in mind the Annex, with the exception of workers, was completely empty at this time. But apparently those leagues were about to fill the place!
My goal for bowling was to beat Barack Obama, which I barely did, with a 53. I did have a rally in the last frame and got a spare. That sure made up for all my gutterballs. Brooke handily won the game with like a 84,000 or something. I forgot she was in a bowling league in Law School, so we should've allowed for a handicap. Of course she had to go off-campus for the league there though, as apparently Notre Dame has no bowling alley on campus. Which, as Craig pointed out, makes it a second-rate Catholic school.
Go Gold!
After work I took the Route 31 out to Tosa and met the YNPN Book Club at Firefly for a discussion of Myla Goldberg's Bee Season. Our theme for the first quarter is Education, and this was our fiction book. It's pretty cool how it's set up. We pick a quarterly theme and then read three genres -- non-fiction, fiction and memoir/biography.
Discussion was good and food was excellent. Had a chicken sandwich topped with avocado, white cheddar and gorgonzola. MMM. Picked chive mashed potatoes and crispy bok salad as my sides. Delish! A glass of wine would have been more tasty than my Coca-Cola, but I'm still refraining.
Cut out a bit early as Brooke and I had plans to go see Post-Secret at Marquette. Craig decided to come along too, which was a nice surprise.
Now, when I went to Marquette I never took advantage of the plethora of speakers, etc. that they brought to campus. I think I went to a few things, but they were never crowded. Granted, the Internet was fledgling then. There were no blogs and no Internet celebrities. There was no Facebook or MySpace to meet other nerds who may be interested in attending an event with you.
No, I didn't go to campus events. I drank. But actually, my only true friends left from college ARE my fellow nerds. Hmm.
Well, apparently campus involvement is IN and we were extremely disappointed that when we reached the Weasler Auditorium there was a sign that the event was At Capacity.
Crap.
We were stuck on a college campus with me not drinking and my newlywed friends on a tight budget.
What to do?
The neon lights from across Wells beckoned.
"Let's go bowling!" I suggested.
Well, why not?
Luckily we were there an hour before League Night began. The student workers told us we could only have one game. Fine. Whatever.
They assigned us to Lane 7, which apparently didn't work. After waiting 10 minutes for them to reset the system, it still didn't work, so they agonized a bit and moved us to Lane 9. Keep in mind the Annex, with the exception of workers, was completely empty at this time. But apparently those leagues were about to fill the place!
My goal for bowling was to beat Barack Obama, which I barely did, with a 53. I did have a rally in the last frame and got a spare. That sure made up for all my gutterballs. Brooke handily won the game with like a 84,000 or something. I forgot she was in a bowling league in Law School, so we should've allowed for a handicap. Of course she had to go off-campus for the league there though, as apparently Notre Dame has no bowling alley on campus. Which, as Craig pointed out, makes it a second-rate Catholic school.
Go Gold!
Sunday, April 27, 2008
tapas party
Unfortunately blogger's photo app is not cooperating with me at the moment, so I will refrain from posting more photos and describe my evening last night.
Jason and Larissa decided to co-host a Saturday night tapas party and it was delicious. I ended up going overboard with my dishes to pass and in addition to making humanitarian garlic shrimp (amazingly when you have to peel and devein shrimp yourself they cost MORE...but hey, at least getting wild Gulf of Mexico shrimp, I did not kill any Thai children), I made an egg bake, buffalo celery sticks, and goat cheese toasts with mango chutney.
There was loads of sangria at the fête courtesy of Jason and Adam, as well as an amazing chicken paella made by Jason, potatoes brava from Ben, green beans from Lars and a delicious strawberry cake that Bridgit found at Metro Market.
Jason's friends Sara(h) and Glen(n) also joined in on the fun.
It really was a fun party, and totally one of those "oh hey, I am a grown up" experiences. I drank a wee bit too much sangria and red wine though, and then thought it would be a good idea to go to Buckley's with Adam on the way home for some Trois Pistoles.
Too bad sangria doesn't magically wear off overnight though, as it was not a fun morning.
Jason and Larissa decided to co-host a Saturday night tapas party and it was delicious. I ended up going overboard with my dishes to pass and in addition to making humanitarian garlic shrimp (amazingly when you have to peel and devein shrimp yourself they cost MORE...but hey, at least getting wild Gulf of Mexico shrimp, I did not kill any Thai children), I made an egg bake, buffalo celery sticks, and goat cheese toasts with mango chutney.
There was loads of sangria at the fête courtesy of Jason and Adam, as well as an amazing chicken paella made by Jason, potatoes brava from Ben, green beans from Lars and a delicious strawberry cake that Bridgit found at Metro Market.
Jason's friends Sara(h) and Glen(n) also joined in on the fun.
It really was a fun party, and totally one of those "oh hey, I am a grown up" experiences. I drank a wee bit too much sangria and red wine though, and then thought it would be a good idea to go to Buckley's with Adam on the way home for some Trois Pistoles.
Too bad sangria doesn't magically wear off overnight though, as it was not a fun morning.
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