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<rone> "If we had those 40 million (aborted) children that were killed over
the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs
that they are doing today." -- Tom DeLay, 2007/07/13

This is brilliant! What source of labor could be cheaper than the unwanted, abused, and neglected-as-children? Oh but damn, who would we hire to pick fruits and vegetables to feed them? Might have to bring in some outside help on that…

Yep, I’m moving to Ballard. I’ve decided I’m going to rent the house out for a year, and see how that goes. I think it’s a fine house, the location just doesn’t work for me any more.

The place in Ballard is about 5 miles from work. It’s freshly updated inside, and it looks like it’s in a nice suburban-type area — that is, there aren’t giant towering buildings, but there’s also a bus route right outside and businesses somewhat near by.

It’s also a good opportunity for me to get a fresh start on my “stuff” issue. The issue being that I have way too much stuff that I’ve accumulated over the years. I think I would benefit from living a much more simple life. Not to mention that all of this stuff collecting costs money, money I don’t really need to spend.

PS: I think this may be the first time someone’s said “Woo Ballard!” Woo!

Updated: Nah. I’m going to sell it. That will lead to a simpler life.

I think it’s time for the Fat Jerk to get lolcat’d. I’m afraid I’m not creative enough to pull it off myself, though. Any ideas?

…buying “Mario Bros” instead of “Super Mario Bros”. Brilliance! Oh well, it’ll be fun if a friend comes over I guess.

This system is pretty slick. I was surprised it didn’t come with an S-Video cable, although I’m sure research would have revealed this. I do like the built-in wi-fi, and that Nintendo managed to make it so this thing can speak to WPA WAPs. (Bizarrely, the DS can only speak to ancient WEP devices).

I’m waiting for some games to come in via Amazon used game merchants, but so far I really dig the sports games. Except baseball. I can’t figure out how to pitch well, or something, and I couldn’t figure out how to quit prematurely other than going back to the home menu. I’m sure this is all stuff explained in some manual somewhere, but I’m a busy man!

Of course, everyone else in the world has already reviewed the thing, so you don’t need to hear me blather on. I was shocked to see 3 Wii’s at a Target in Northgate, it was my understanding that the console was still largely unavailable, and an insider informed me that they were actually reducing production staff rather than increasing it. Also bizarre.

Anyway, after all that it turns out I really suck at Super Mario Bros. Ah well, time to practice.

I submitted this to engrish.com ages ago, but it was never picked up. So here it is.

The center tag says: ‘You can find “IT” up completely. At anytime, at
any purpose in your life style. That’s something like.’

The line at the bottom says: ‘Please make sure the size of your goods
meets the intended use of this product.’

Also: ‘This product is not perfect waterproof.’ ‘To discard this
product, consult with professionals.’

Fat Jerk