The Irving Daily

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2008-07-17T15:13:00.000-07:00

Working lives in San Francisco became a little easier February 5, 2007. Everyone young and old, white and blue collar, part-timer and full-timer, literally everyone working within the 49 square miles of California known as SF received Paid Sick Time as legislated by City Law. For every 30 hours on the job, one hour accrued for anyone employed within city limits, even those drivers coming in from out of town! San Franciscans have won the right to be sick, and other cities are following suit. Presumptive nominee, Senator Obama, has endorsed the concept. (See 7;45 of the video for a recent statement)
The genesis of the law is described in the video below; it shows Sarah Flocks speaking of the roots of the measure while dealing with on-the-job issues in her community. The voters in SF passed the measure with over 60% support.
Tell your boss you think a healthy workforce and a contagion free workspace is good for business, and be ahead of the healthy workplaces trend.

July 7, 2008, St. Louis: Sen. Obama (see 7:45)

May 28, 2008, Drum Major Institute, Keynote Address, Sara Flocks, pt 1

Pt. 2, Sara Flocks, May 28, 2008.

2008 Obama for Whatever He Wants

2008-05-21T00:29:00.000-07:00

new eatery

Korean il(l)'s

2008-04-28T00:01:00.000-07:00

An airbase inside a mountain is the latest sign that North Korea, whose links to Syria’s nuclear programme came to light last week, is cranking up its military machine

North Korean military engineers are completing an underground runway beneath a mountain that can protect fighter aircraft from attack until they take off at high speed through the mouth of a tunnel.

The 6,000ft runway is a few minutes’ flying time from the tense front line where the Korean People’s Army faces soldiers from the United States and South Korea.

The project was identified by an air force defector from North Korea and captured on a satellite image by Google Earth, according to reports in the South Korean press last week.

2 o'clock titty

2008-03-30T09:59:00.000-07:00

Someone told me about the 2 o'clock titty that appears on St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco. I didn't beleive them but sure enough its true!! I wonder what Jesus would say??

Fishing for autographs

2008-03-30T09:44:00.000-07:00

Boston Red Sox pitcher Hideki Okajima is asked for his autographs from the outfield fence before the Major League Baseball regular season game between the Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, March 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Damn asians are pretty smart!!

Taser Glove 1min 12 seconds. modern brass knuckles

2008-03-21T11:24:00.000-07:00

What is strange is I found this guy after seeing his very peaceful video about a Flower Mart being shut down by the Academy of Art University (big ugly busses everywhere)...
Happy Purim, jerkasses.

I <3 Interfaces, Topdesk and Piclens

2008-03-17T05:10:00.000-07:00

Topdesk: Vista is cool, but left me feeling it was lacking and was basically useless by default; then again you could say that about most stock OS's. Vista's FLIP3D function, however, is very useful in my opinion. Topdesk is a pay-for/find crack application which adds the FLIP3D "alt-tab" control to XP as shown above running close to flawlessly off a crappy Toshiba Sat with Intel chipset and half a gigabyte of memory.

Piclens: this is a relatively new but hyper-popular FireFox extension which adds a Kaleidescope-like picture browsing interface. It has a few caveats: namely you can NOT save pics from its captures, and it loses the ability to use Customize Google url spoofs which direct web images straight to jpg.

A godsend for Flickr journals with functionality in Google and Yahoo images and a bunch of other sites. Just mouse over the image, and a small button is floated over the image; press that and the application does its dirt. Feels a bit like being stuck in an Apple commercial without the trip to the Castro.

This is my crappy-lappy system running a rather large Piclens scroll of materials got from a Google image search for "bat shit crazy."

All I want for my birthday is a Heckler & Koch Automatic Grenade Launcher

2008-03-10T18:45:00.000-07:00

I've thought long and hard about this, and I have decided that barring an M1-A Tank, I shall have one of these. It's good to the tune of 150 dead Taliban per use. Also it's slightly gangster in the right hands.

The best part of this story is the quote :
"It was just a flesh wound really"

Front Fell off!!

2008-03-05T22:57:00.000-08:00

Keebler® Soft Batch® Chocolate Chip Cookies

2008-03-03T14:38:00.000-08:00

I would just like to express my feeling of hatred towards the spastic team of executive primates at Kellogg and Keebler who could not manage to stock Chocolate Chip Soft Batch cookies in more than one supermarket in all of the 415 area code:

BELL MARKETS
3950 24TH ST
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114
(415) 648-0876

That's right; it's easier to score meth-amphetamine and crack cocaine in SFC than it is to get some cookies that "taste like they're right from the oven."

Do G(spot)'s get to go to heaven?

2008-02-26T22:33:00.000-08:00

Only the Japanese know, and this NSFW link might just tell us, since they cover the first Japanese sex show.

It's a shame that there's no one I know of who would find any of this interesting. This is particularly amazing considering how diverse a social peer group I have. I must have the most puritanical friends in teh world.

Oh well...I guess I'll have to be happy with the knowledge that I am the sole person interested in all this sorted perversion and the like.

Unemployment means discovering new websites

2008-02-26T16:21:00.001-08:00

Now I know some of you have less spare time than I do (in between filling out forms for unemployment and food stamps, I have plenty of unfilled hours during my day that isn't spent searching Craigslist for jobs), so I suppose it's with that in mind that I pass along the nuggets of gold that I pan for.

Without a doubt SWPL is my new favorite blog, though I really enjoy reading Ask a Mexican as well. I think the reason I like these it mocks the omnipresent world that surrounds me of liberal white guilt and all that. Plus as I'm Jewish, I feel a bit more free to stray from the White person pack.

As a bit of a bonus I was called inept and lazy today, so I guess that must mean that I'm even further away from white-personness. On the other hand It's my fault that other people aren't happy all the time, so I must still have a white root at the bottom of my family tree.

FUNTABULOUS BONUS PICTURE:
Chris from chrispossible had this picture up on his blog, and somehow I missed it. For shame....I guess I'll never find Jesus on my own.

DOUBLE SUPER BONUS:
This is a bit late in the year for this sort of thing (or early, I'm not really sure), but I think that this would be a cool thing to have next year when the weather turns particularly nasty. I do think that the $60 price tag is a bit excessive though. How about some entrepenureal types buy one and do a bit of reverse engineering to get it right, and sell it for $10 at Walgreens? Actually they do the $9.99 thing pretty well so let's keep it at that.

Navy SEAL GeekSquad Does Internet "DeNetworking"

2008-02-26T10:40:00.000-08:00

Ever since George W. Bush (Xbox gamer tag: BiGGtEx) saw Star Wars and the “sand people” Tusken Raiders, he has had a burning desire to settle the score for even thinking about messing with Old Ben Kenobi. Then one night whilst raiding in World of Warcraft he remembered the interwebs were nothing more than a series of tubes invented by Al Gore. George, facing his huge revelation, ordered US SEAL team “RAINBOW SIX” (Las Vegas Edition) to clip said “pR0N” tubes going to the evil sand people which may be hiding in the dunes and mountains of “not the United States.” GWB was not available for direct comment, but mentioned this on his Twitter account:

Omg deez gyz mess wit mah boiz...so m3 adn popz pwned tehr reDtUbe and EbaY..LOLZ!1!!1!!!1!

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Pineapple Express - LEAKED UNCUT TRAILER

2008-02-26T07:31:00.000-08:00

Judd Apatow, the director behind Knocked Up and 40 Year Old Virgin, came up with idea for a "weed action movie." Staring Seth Rogen and James Franco, this movie is gonna be dope.

SHITS GONNA BE THE BOMB DOT COM ! ! ! ! !

Death to HDDVD... Biggie Smalls STYLE :)

2008-02-25T20:56:00.000-08:00

Anyone want a HDDVD player???20 bucks... Does not include XBOX..

Movie Review part Deux

2008-02-25T16:32:00.000-08:00

Deux: French for the number two.

So I've been nagged for about a billion and a half years to watch the movie Superbad, and I'm roughly 15 minutes into it and I've realized that I haven't laughed yet. Aren't these 40 million dollar blockbuster teenish comedy films supposed to make you laugh? I know that Seth Rogan is supposed to be this comedic genius and all but what is supposed to make this funny? OK, so the Orson Welles joke in the beginning was kind of witty, but c'mon. I'll report more as I watch more, but so far I'm dissappointed. I make dirtier jokes here at home, and no one is banging down my door to get an imaginary spec script from me. Shenannigans is what I say...

UPDATE:

Ok so I laughed about 30 seconds after I wrote the above critique. It was where Michael Cera paints the face of his home Ec bitch with flour to make him look like a cat. Then he makes the kid do the tiger roar..I thought of the "sorry roger you tiger now" comcast ad, and laughed. So maybe their humor is indirectly funny. We'll see....

DOUBLE PLUS UPDATE:

So I've decided that the reason Superbad doesn't work the way I thought it would, is that Seth Rogan can't write good teen dialogue. His best scenes are the ones that have interaction with at least 1 adult. The scenes with the teens talking to eachother just aren't very funny. Were this the O.G. Rotten Tomatoes, I would give this flick a 65%...as it is though, the RT Beta site blows goats for quarters, so I wouldn't think of posting to it.

Jessica Simpson can't hide her sweater kittens

2008-02-25T05:42:00.000-08:00

Spend a few minutes checking out this picture ... do you see anything wrong?

F**king Ben Affleck

2008-02-25T05:35:00.000-08:00

Pete the Poster

2008-02-25T05:26:00.000-08:00

If blogging was my career I would be fired often and rehired rarely (is that even possible?). See, this is exactly what I mean. I suck at blogging, that is all. No skills, gawd awful posting AND I worked on it all night!

So what happened in Jan 2006??

2008-02-24T13:22:00.000-08:00

aahahaha wow.. i wonder why???

There Will Be Blood, Modern Rosebud

2008-02-24T06:42:00.000-08:00

Well, Oscars are tonight. Who cares, but opens the questions.

So, There Will Be Blood: Movie of the year 2007??? Or the "eight dollar nap??"

I didn't get this movie at all; then I thought about it. This movie may be perfect.

Perfectly boring, perfectly right, perfectly directed...

I suggest you all see it. It's rough to get through at times, but well worth what you can take home.

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God I hate being unemployed

2008-02-21T11:02:00.000-08:00

Now everyone knows that I'm unemployed (i got fired in case you didn't hear), so I'm searching craigslist daily for work. Having said that, let me show you something.

This is the worst job listing I've ever seen.

This Week In Tech

2008-02-21T06:11:00.000-08:00

Aviary--the hot new web-application--is now sending invitations

Verizon offers flat-rate Unlimited voice and data services, rivals follow in suit

The Sharper Image files for bankruptcy

HD-DVD is dead, Blu-ray wins

Hack-a-Day: Coke Machines

Lindsay Lohan's Huge Fun Foobies

2008-02-19T05:49:00.000-08:00

It's good to have Internet today ...

Hacked * Blog for all the dirty'ness

We ate too much Pot, I think we're dying!!

2008-02-16T21:09:00.000-08:00

AHAHAHAH... amateurs!! This reminds me of a time at the Bonfiglio residence..