Daily Minutia At Its Finest
Posted by beehive on 24 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Current bobblehead Kelly Osbourne was called 2 hot 2 handle by OMG for this here photo…
And I personally can’t help but find her to be doing one hell of a Quagmire impersonation.
Giggity Giggity Goo!
Kelly, please get off that unhealthy looking diet of yours and bring back your curves while keeping up this whole classier wardrobe about you, thanks.
Posted by beehive on 24 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
The Aramark cafeteria of my office building has something called a “Cobb Burger” as a special of the week.
It looked too delicious to pass up and it was actually quite enjoyable with the burger being of better quality than what they usually serve.
While eating this I figured it was basically a cobb salad and burger combo since the dressings looked exactly like what I usually get with a the cobb salad down there.
Then I looked up what a cobb salad is according to wiki, and since I don’t really know if what goes into a cobb salad I’ll assume that wiki is correct, and well…I’ve apparently been lied to repeatedly by my Aramark cafeteria as to what a cobb salad is supposed to be.
Not only that, but I’ve also apparently never even had a real cobb salad, and it is supposed to have bacon and avocado in it - I love bacon and avocado!
So yeah, I’m a native New Yorker who has never been to Florida and has never had a cobb salad so I guess that this all makes me just about the weirdest and lamest person about the city.
Posted by beehive on 23 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Seeing as Heath Ledger is thought to have died at the hands of Scientologists, the role of Joker remains open for future Batman movies.
My top pick to be the next person to portray Joker is the one and only, Lee Mazzilli!
Hear me through on this one…
He has acting experience, having starred in an Off Broadway hit after he retired from MLB baseball - Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding - and he really looks as though he has the perfect face and upper body to portray the role even darker (if need be) than Ledger’s version of Joker.
WE WANT LEE!
WE WANT LEE!
WE WANT LEE!
Posted by beehive on 23 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
No, not nearly as bad as Val Kilmer or George Clooney, but if I had to make me a Batman list I’d have to go with the following order.
I don’t get why so many people are all up on thinking Christian Bale is such a great Batman, particularly when each and every time he speaks as Batman he sounds like he is three hours in on a ten hour trip to the bathroom while being extremely constipated.
Seriously, what is up with that over the top raspy voice of “I’m pooping my pants while fondling myself and watching an old John Holmes porn”?
Posted by beehive on 22 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
The sweet little bungalow that my grandfather built by hand is up for sale.
I spent my first bunch of summers here, although it didn’t look exactly like this when I was there.
For one thing it was mostly a green shingled home. The “front door” that is there now wasn’t there, nor was that tallest extension in the back. The front door was at the original building, which is shown here as being the portion on the far right.
That deck wasn’t there either, and neither was it all grassy like that. Sure, it was grassy, but the driveway extended to the back of the house for parking - there’s a six car garage on the property now - right where my pumpkin patch used to be!
My grandparents summer getaway spot sure has come a long way and I’m glad that the people who have owned it since them have always kept his original building and expansions by adding onto them.
Funny little factoid about the place is that the bedroom that I shared with my sister is now the walk in closet of the master bedroom.
In any event, the place is up for sale and it sits on top of some 19 acres of the purest and most quiet peaceful land.
Wish me luck to win the $125,000,000.00 Mega Millions jackpot tonight. I’d so buy this one in a heartbeat.
Posted by beehive on 22 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
This video was apparently some big internet video clip last year, but I had never heard of it until yesterday, and it was spectacular to watch!
In Brief: So there are some water buffalo with a baby, and they walk into a bunch of lions. The lions catch the baby water buffalo, then two crocodiles grab the baby water buffalo and attempt to steal it from the lions. The lions win out over the crocs and then a huge heard of water buffalo beat the crap out of the lions and save the baby water buffalo from being a meal for either of them.
If we were to do a side by side evaluation between this eight minute and change video and The Dark Knight, you’ll find that this eight minute video packs more thrills and action than The Dark Knight does on a per second percentage.
Posted by beehive on 22 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
I want to get a new 3G iPhone.
In order to get one I will need to cancel my current contract with Verizon Wireless - one year early. By ending the two year contract early I will end up having to pay a cancellation charge of up to $179.
While I normally would want to take such a penalty charge, the iPhone is a phone that will actually allow me to be on the REAL internet (something that my current Treo doesn’t do) and the plan is a full $30 cheaper per month with the standard plan that I currently pay with Verizon Wireless.
I’ll actually end up saving $360 by switching from the overpriced Verizon Wireless plan to the AT&T Wireless plan. Given this I don’t mind the cancellation fee and the $199 3G iPhone cost.
I called up Verizon Wireless last week to find out if since I was halfway into my contract I would end up having to pay the full $179 or hopefully less. For those of you with a poor sense of memory or are new here, I’ve had a bad past with Verizon Wireless customer service reps - which you can read up on here and here…
Last week a gal by the name of Rene picked up on the Verizon Wireless end and upon hearing that I wanted to learn about cancelling my contract early so that I could get the iPhone she immediately became the worst iPhone/AT&T service rep - she also became a classless tool of Verizon Wireless.
Rene blasted the iPhone saying that the data is only available at hotspots - despite AT&T reps assuring me that data is available anywhere that the phone has reception as well as the fact that I’ve seen people use the iPhone data service when not in a hot spot.
After Rene’s extremely poor customer service by way of tacky competitor bashing she hung up on me.
I kid you not, she hung up on me. I can speak to my sister for an hour on my cell phone at work and not have it drop at all, but when on the phone with Verizon Wireless it miraculously “cut out”.
iPhone, hear I come. Verizon Wireless, prepare to be banished into the land of unneeded, untrustworthy, and shady businesses in my mind - you’ll spend an eternity living with Time Warner Cable.
Posted by beehive on 22 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Crazy Super Signs
As the summer heats up it can sometimes drive people insane - and it appears to drive one particular man insane every year.
That’s right, our favorite crazy super signs author is back up and running!
He teased us all last week to let us know that the building has a new key to it, and last night he posted some new craziness!
He has the above sign posted on the front of the building and is expecting it to do good, or hold any sort of legality since it is all public property out in front of it.
As crazy as the sign is it actually comes from a good and non lazy place. People are hanging out in front of the building all day and night -and by people I mean teenagers who just want to sneak some 40s in and middle aged men and women who need a place to sit while strung out sometimes.
They don’t live there or even on the block, they are just there because of the quiet nature of the block as well as the dumbest placement of a public bench.
That’s right, the city bolted that retarded bench to the pavement even though it is a residential block - with exception to a small architect office and an even smaller tailor shop off the corner underneath the crazy super building.
There are scores of these benches throughout Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton and while it sometimes provides a place to sit for the elderly, it more often than not only helps facilitate the loitering of drunks, junkies and skells all the same.
Posted by beehive on 21 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Call me crazy here, but I’d really like to see hear some girl on girl action between the voice of “Please Silence Your Cell Phones” from the movie theater and the NYC subway robot voice - “Next stop, Times Square”
I imagine the whole thing would sound like this…
“Next stop, Clark Street…”
“Please silence your cell phones…”
“Next stop, Nevins Street…”
“Please silence your cell phones…”
“Next stop, Atlantic Avenue…”
“Please silence your cell phones…”
Isn’t THAT hot?!?!?!
Posted by beehive on 21 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
I found a beehive yesterday evening!
I was minding my own business at the end of my gardening by watering the couple of potted plants that were in dire need of water in the backyard. I nudged a pot of bluegrass with my foot to see how light it was so I would know how much water to give it when I noticed well over a hundred angry looking bees flying all around my legs and potted plants.
The pot was light with a bunch of dead strands of bluegrass around the bottom so it obviously needed to get a lot of water.
Needless to say, I dropped the running hose, and ran to the basement door screaming like a little girl in the blink of an eye.
Having not been followed into the basement I figured that they weren’t too dangerous or angry at me, however, I needed to find out where they were coming from so I could figure out what to do with them.
Turns out they built themselves a hive inside of my poorly kept container of bluegrass that I started from seed in 2004.
I ran in and picked up my new much higher powered camera with a much better zoom and took some photos. In those five or so minutes most of the bees (technically yellowjackets) went back inside of the hive to chill out.
I’m fascinated by their hive construction. They managed to cut off about an inch and a half section of dead bluegrass strands and made themselves a burrow home.
It’s not too big of a section to allow birds and animals to get in, but it’s plenty big enough to allow well over a hundred of yellowjackets to pour out in angry defense in a very fair and orderly fashion. Watching them come out was cartoonish.
Their hive is a good sign that I have a healthy garden and I love having bees in my garden - not so much the actual hive at ground level - meaning, the bumblebee hive inside the telephone pole some ten feet up is perfect.
From what I’ve read, yellowjacket colonies grow very fast to be about 3,000 to 5,000 in size and swarm and keep on stinging and biting out of defense when the nest is disturbed.
Due to the location of the hive it is not a good spot as it will get moved and bumped around - I don’t need several dozen stings and bites from them - I’ll need to find someone to remove the whole thing so that they don’t make a different new nest in an even worse location next year.
So yeah, if anyone knows of someone who removes yellowjackets for free, please let me know. I’m not for pesticides and the collected yellowjackets can go to good use in the form of making anti-venom for those who are allergic.
Posted by beehive on 21 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
I saw The Dark Knight on Saturday night at the theater on Court Street.
My highlights of the experience that has nothing to do with the plot of the film itself…
Now for my feeling on the actual film…SEMI SPOILER ALERT!!!
The opening sequence of the bank robbery, the armor truck sequence, and the hospital sequences were all flippin’ amazing! Heath Ledger as Joker made me want to see the movie and it had nothing to do with the fact that he died - I was never a fan of his before The Dark Knight trailor and I have yet to see Selena.
The last 40 or so minutes after the hospital scene where Two Face comes to life were really unnecessary to have The Dark Knight be a good movie.
There was that false wrap up ending when it was revealed that Commissioner Gordon was alive that could have ended The Dark Knight nicely and then with the Two Face storyline being tagged on at the end like it was, it made the movie extraordinary long to the point that the movie as a whole also became too complicated to be meaningful - thereby detracting from an amazing hour and fifty minutes of terrific movie.
Posted by beehive on 21 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
And fill up many a belly at work. It’s simple, just break out your stash of girl scout cookies for any and all to enjoy.
Now if only all of life was this simple.
Posted by beehive on 20 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Last week I heard of some Texas oil billionaire named T. Boone Pickens for the first time and it was in regards to switching much of the American power supply to renewable solar and wind energy - WAY COOL!
Then I saw this commercial today…
I love the whole idea of switching power supply to clean and renewable energy sources.
Based on his accent I imagine that he speaks to the creepy middle folk who will never hear an outsider point of view and take it as anything more than foolishness. I could give this man a hug for what he’s doing now.
Check out his website too, it’s PickensPlan.com.
Posted by beehive on 19 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
So as it turned out I counted my eggs before they hatched. I thought that my notebook was fixed and looking like this…
As it turned out my notebook has looked like this on and off again ever since I got it back from the tech guys…
I think my Smith & Wesson might be the best fix for it the next time it decides to be a lame horse.
So yeah, I’ve now had to back date some more posts to fix this all and keep up my blogging every day for a year - I still have two more that I need to upload and fix before posting, so hold all your oxygen until you pass out.
