Christmas hiv hits house

We got deathly ill on Christmas Eve. The night before we ate at Red Lobster, so we naturally drew the assumption that we got attacked by a bad case of mudshrimp poisoning. But the affliction spread from person to person like a bad case of I-didn't-vote-for-it in the Senate. Therefore it could only have been one thing. Asian avian flu. I should have known it was so when we let those shady Asian bird peddlers into our house the day before. I mean they were pressing the hot sell and I admit I got caught up in the excitement of the "three dozen geese for $2" Christmas Eve special they were offering. But I missed all the warning signs, including the bleeding eyes, cough, runny nose, etc. Serves me right.

All better now, we are living large in Micahworld. Merry Christmas, mis amigos. HBD, JC.

Vegetarians will be upset.

Today, we ate much meat and meat products and meat gravy and other meat-related items.
Mmmmmm. Meat.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Attempt at a link...

Blog Spam

I have recently been spammed by apparent fellow bloggers. Check out the comments to my two most recent postings (Georgia Tech's ass whooping and flaming of BAMF)...

The format is something like this:

insert name said...

Hey, you lucky man, you have sweet blog action! I think
I am going to bookmark you! Rock on, kasbah!

I have a cool site of my own, insert hyperlink, you should check it out sometime. It's about insert random subject.

Come and check it out sometime!

That's right spammer, I'll come visit your shitty site. I'll put that right on the list of things to do, right after "wash my scrote" and before "knit some new socks for the kitties".

Frack off blog spammers. Don't bodder me.

BAMF Loves the WHEEL OF TIME

Don't be a hater, Brad.

Read it and love it. WOT rocks your face off.

Birds eat bugs

I'm watching my Yellow Jackets get their asses handed to them by the Hokies. Godamn, but I thought we had a chance against them.

I fully acknowledge that our defense won or facilitated the win for our last three games...but this shit is ridiculous.

Go Jackets.

Bugs eating my house

Got termite protection on my house today. We had let the bond lapse, and thus had to pay for new protection of the house and will have to pay for the damage the little bastards have done to my back porch.

I hate bugs. Please send me money to help out. I've already cut back eating at Krystal and the Bell to serve an example and leader in my community (see my previous post on Micahville). There's not much more I can cut back on!

BSG RMFO

Battlestar Galactica rocked my face off tonight. Frack the Pegasus, frack the Admiral, Adama is the man.

Hurricane Rita coverage

I have this belief, and call me a jackass for thinking it, but I have this belief that the scale of the media coverage of Hurricane Rita and the preparations for it is a blatant attempt by the media to get the jump on the next big disaster.

It seems to me that had Katrina not happened, or been a much lesser storm, we would have about half to one-third of the media coverage that we currently have for Rita.

Screw you, media outlets, for being self-serving ratings hounds.

Micahville #1

I took a few notes on the drive in today, when I was drinking my fake latte and pondering the fate of our fair nation. I, like many around me, see room for improvement. But I'm a pseudo-engineer (went to an engineering school, loved legos as a kid) and so the improvements I'm talking about have nothing to do with the administration or red states or blue states. I'm thinking more about infrastructure and regulations. I'm thinking about what little pieces and parts would make this city a better place to live.

Sidewalks. The Europeans have them. Downtown has them. Why don't the burbs? Or shopping centers? We need them along all roads, both sides. We need them in shopping centers to allow ingress and egress of pedestrians and handicapped folk. Currently, a person cannot simply walk from their home in Mabletucky to the local Publix without crossing a few unpaved stretches of land, some ditches, and crossing roads with no crosswalks. It's tough to do, and is typically only braved by those with the need - the poor and disadvantaged, who can't drive to the store. The rest of us drive to the store. It's like 1.25 miles away, but I still drive everytime I need some doritos. That's f'ed up.

Counterpoints - a. Europeans and downtowns have sidewalks because of the density of land use and near total urbanization, so it's not a fair comparison to say that suburbs should have sidewalks everywhere. b. The cost of paving those sidewalks has to be borne by somebody. Who would be willing to pay for sidewalks? Plus, the cost goes beyond just paving the sidewalks - it goes to purchasing land from landowners on which to build the sidewalks, get easements or leasing the land from them for the use...as well as the future cost of maintenance and demolition when roadways are expanded. It's a lot easier to tear up some unpaved grass to build that extra lane than to tear out some sidewalks, curbs, and gutters. c. Danger to pedestrians. Having all these pedestrians walking around is a risk and could lead to more accidents, as drivers aren't used to yielding to pedestrians.

Micahpoints - a. Suburbs still need them, regardless of the density of land use. To say that sidewalks are only beneficial in dense, urban settings is clearly a baseless argument. Anyone who lives in the burbs of America has seen plenty of immigrants trying to walk to stores and places of interest to know that if we gave them a sidewalk, it would make their day. Plus, by doing so we'd encourage fatass Americans to get off their keisters and shed a pound or two. b. It's called a SPLOST, like the one Georgia's Cobb County recently passed. It's estimated that the 1% sales tax increase will affect the average person in Cobb by $140 a year. That's just over $10 a month. If people could cut back on their video rentals or overage charges on the cell phone, or perhaps cut out two meals at Krystal a month, there's their tax burden balanced by some sound fiscal behavior. Besides, the work created by contracting for some massive city/county/statewide sidewalk building initiative will make more than one set of construction workers happy and that money is thrown back into the economy anyway. c. This argument is lame, and you are a dumbass for thinking it.

Look for more on this later! I can think of several more things that would make our cities SUCK LESS.

This blog ain't dead, people...

As you may know, I am devoting my time and energy to walkerb.blogspot.com. Like my son, who consumes all my free time, his blog seems to consume all my blogging creativity and energy.

So this blog isn't funny yet. But it will be. Oh, it will be.

Isn't that right, Thulsa Doom?

I just...

...was thumbing through some of the blogs hosted by blogger. What I've discovered is that most teenagers are more adept at blogging than me.

As if this should come as a suprise.

I've recently...

Begun playing Starcraft again. A classic. And ooh so much fun.

You can keep your Half-Life 2 and your World of Warcraft. Zerg, bitches! United States of SPACE!

New Kid on my Block

Welcome to the world my son. He is awesome. Just like me.

First Comment EVER

Congratulations to Slavnik from Romania, for posting the first ever comments on my blog. I don't even know if this dude is real. It's probably just a friend of mine being coy. Either way, I learned some Romanian for you, Slavnik. "La revedére, pui!"

So my good friend Swayze has helped guide me in choosing the future of this blog. I told him I had this real dilemma - do I make this blog reflect my own weird, borderline mental thoughts and dreams, or do I make this think normal-ish and PG-13? And he said "you only go around once."

And I thought, "but you see, the shit that's in my head, it's weird." Look at my first post for evidence. And I can flip on a dime from thinking about monkey beards (why don't they HAVE THEM?) to Civ2 to how good triscuits taste with cream cheese to thinking about the terrible implications of the US political forecast (most notably our reluctance to sign/honor the Kyoto accords and nuclear test ban treaties, our drift towards the Right/neo-conservatism, and our willingness to endorse unilateral military action in conflicts against non-European powers...which makes me envision a world where Asian/European economies develop cutting edge biotech research [stem cells, gene therapy] and alternative energy sources [hydrogen, fusion, pebble bed fission reactors] and then leave us in the dust [because we refuse to change, expecting our military eminance will force people to see our way], thereby forcing our [future] hands as aggressors, because by the time I retire, everyone else will be richer and cleaner than us, and probably giving us a lot of shit about it, and our future generations won't have fought in or seen wars except in games and movies [making them more likely to support military action], so they'll think that going out and kicking ass somewhere will bring back the prominence and glory of the US, but such action really just exacerbates problems and ill-will towards Americans, thereby creating a massive increase in anti-US sentiment and terrorism against US assets worldwide...and I'll be damned if I don't like going to DisneyWorld without having to worry if Donald Duck isn't actually some psycho anti-US nutjob in a ducksuit with C4 wrapped around his fat duck ass.

So anyway the crap I put in here really could scare my wife and parents. It may ruin my future attempts to run for office. Hell, it may increase my chances of getting psycho feedback.

But to Swayze's point - "you only go around once". You're right, buddy. I've decided I'm gonna put whatever I want in this badboy. It's mine. Including this picture of a mean looking Lego brick.

Thanks Swayze. You may have helped shaped the future more than you know.

The Missus and Me. Am I hot or what?

I will let my Japanese intern, Ako, post my first entry as I dictate it. I'm a busy fracker, and don't necessarily have time to do this all myself. So, accordingly I trust him to write for me when I get busy. Take it away Ako:

"Welcome to my first post ever! I love having friends and want to show them with kisses like rain! "

"Snaps! Just kidding! I love cheese, you know! How could you, crazy man!"

"My name is Micah and I have choose to join the fad of people putting blogs out for the world to see. How do I know it is being a fad? Because I am no saavy college smarty pants, and yet I have learned how to drive down the information freeway to the new millenium!"

"I hope you stay and enjoy my web, and we will become fast friends! This is my wishness!"

Good boy, Ako. You'll be getting an extra set of socks as a bonus this year. You're the best Japanese intern a boy could ever want.