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Coming to store shelves near you: Steven Colbert's AmeriCone Dream by Ben and Jerry's. It's vanilla ice cream with fudge-covered waffle cone pieces and caramel. Yum!

Ben & Jerry's called it: "The sweet taste of liberty in your mouth."

Mmmm...Liberty.

Truthiness

Steven Colbert interviewing Anderson Cooper. Two of my favorite men.

Bainshee rants like a...banshee!

Bah, I should be in bed. I just got home and I'm pretty tired. I'd much rather sleep on the couch tonight, but I'd just be woke up by the roommate in the morning. Have I mentioned lately how much I hate having a roommate?

Oh, here's something else which is annoying: Talking to someone who has a certain mannerism that an ex does. I mean mannerisms which you found endearing. In this case it was a smile - So now, everytime I talk to this person I am going to be noticing that smile. Yay.

Anyway, it's not a bad thing, it's not a good thing. It just is.

I know I post Colbert clips on here a lot, but a skit from this week I thought was just wonderful. Absolutely brilliant.

Let me just say, YouTube sucks for imbedding videos on Blogger. I can use the imbed option and possibly wait 4 days like last time - Or I can copy/paste... Oh wait, no I can't. Blogger only copies the first line of the code and has trouble pasting the other lines if I try to do it individually.

Look at the trouble I go through to keep my millions of readers informed.

I guess this is the "Bainshee is annoyed" blog entry. Here's something else! I heard on the radio the other day that there's some recall of Ford vehicles. I did not hear 2005 Mustangs listed - But apparently there is some recall because I got a card in the mail.

So I'm supposed to call this number and talk to someone. Okay, there had been a recall on my Geo in the past and they sent me a letter telling me what the problem was. This damn generic card doesn't do shit for me. And it says "FINAL NOTICE". That's nice, I guess first notice is: aka final notice.

But really, I don't have much to complain about in my life - Little nuisances aren't anything to blink at as far as I am concerned. I swear, I feel sorry for some of the women on AfterEllen who post a rant every other day. Good God, it gets quite ridiculous.

Wooot! Bears on Monday Night Football incoming!

Colbert Invades My Blog!

Ah, I love me some Colbert. Entertaining? Of course. Intuitive? I suppose that depends which side of the fence you are on.

Whistleblower to halt Iran war plans?


And just for fun.

Wheeeee!

What an eventful month it has been! Birthday, vacation, rekindling old ties, promotion. I'm tired. Actually, I'm just kinda bored now being at home after so much being the social butterfly these last few weeks.

My last day at my old position was not as difficult as I thought it could be. However, I have always been the type to dread something to death long before it happens. I did get a little teary, but not really. I did not get one cake, but two! Neither of which I had a piece of. Oops. Well, I am not really a sweets eater. Anyway, the hardest part of that night was writing my farewell letter to everyone. It really wasn't so difficult leaving though, things have changed so much there - And not for the better.

I still have not been really able to jump into the development position yet. There is just so much to learn. It's been slow now, but we're waiting on artwork so I have not had very much hands on training yet. So I've moved some things around, fixed a few bugs and learned a bit of the programming I will need to know.
But today we did go to a Japanese steakhouse for lunch as a "welcome to the team" thing. That was great. When is free food not, though? ;)

[scowls] I had to spend an hour and a half at the DMV today to get my license renewed. Sheesh. Well, I won't have to do that again until 2011 now. God, that's scary - I'll be 35 then. Ungh.
Well, maybe my license picture will look better. I look like a sunburned fat boy in my current one. [laughs] Okay, no, I don't look like a boy - But my hairdresser did cut my hair pretty short this time... Anyway, I know I've gained some weight, but I certainly do not look like I weigh 115 in the picture. I think cameras add 10 pounds in the shoulders. :-P

Anyway, this is long. I do have a site or two to include though. I think the voting for the bridge name has ended though, I cannot find a link on the Colbert website. I found the Hungarian website; but I, of course, cannot read it.

The Colbert Report - Bridge Name Update [8-16-06]


So, feel free to also vote for your favorite "Kitler" on Cats That Look Like Hitler I know one should not liken anyone or anything to Hitler, but this is just too funny. Kitlers. Hah!
If you think about it though, we do have Hitler to thank for the fact no one will ever have a mustache like him ever again. Charlie Chaplan, before Hitler's time, is the only other I can think of who wore one.

Stephen Colbert @ The White House Correspondents Dinner

This is priceless. Stephen Colbert of the Daily Show was invited (from what I understand) to the White House Correspondents Dinner this past Sunday by an outgoing coordinator. (If you can correct me, please do) And he made a complete fool of Bush and the entire Bush Administration. It's about 25 minutes long, but well worth the watch.
Apparently Laura Bush refused to shake his hand at the conclusion of his speech and presentation.

The first link is the entire presentation and the second picks up in the middle. Watch it ALL though! His skit as 'White House Press Secretary' is a little too long, imo, but the funniest part of it is at the end, IMO.

Link To CSPAN Coverage

I think Stephen Colbert manages to offend nearly everyone in the room and many foreign nationals as well. I don't necessarily approve of all of that, but his assessments of the Bush Administration is dead on.

He's got a lot of guts to give a speech like this right to the President's face.