I spent last weekend in Dallas, Tx, attending my sister’s wedding. I will go into more detail but first I need to vent some rage. Before I left for Dallas I had some last minute shopping to do and I ended up in Walmart. Yeah, I know! I only had 5 items in my cart and when I went to checkout, the shortest line was a 10 items or less line. Unfortunately there was an elderly lady already checking out in that line and she had to have at least 50 items in her cart. Seriously, can’t old people read? It wasn’t too bad at first, the cashier was pretty fast so I waited and then the horror really began. The old lady had a FISTFULL of freaking coupons, OMG. And of course there were problems with a few of the coupons, they wouldn’t register for some reason. This prompted a call to a manager to come over and help the cashier.

Of course it takes 5 minutes for a manager to show up to get it all straightened out. He was probably in his office tweeting photos of his penis all over the internet, which seems to be all the rage these days. When told that some of her coupons couldn’t be used she starts arguing about it, then after a few minutes finally that gets all settled. THEN she pulls out…. wait for it… a FREAKING CHECKBOOK!!!!!!!!! Ahhhh, at this point I just wanted to scream. Of course that takes another 5 minutes. Unbelievable. You ever watch an old person write a check in seeming slow motion while your life is slowly slipping away?

A few days later, I had another old person with a checkbook encounter in Dallas in a grocery store. The line was short, she only had a few items but when she tried to pay with a check it wouldn’t go through. Here we go with ANOTHER wait for a manager session to come fix the problem. Seriously, I just wanna reach over and SNATCH that damn checkbook right out of their hands, tear it in half, throw it on the floor and stomp the crap out of it and scream at them to get a damn bank card already so we can stop wasting other people’s lives.

Please old people, for the love of god or whatever the hell you believe in, if you have any shred of decency and any respect for the remaining bits of sanity of society in general, please, please, PLEASE get a bank card already.

Ok, I’m almost to the wedding part but first a warning about Mapquest. Apparently they now have some kind of helper app they want you to download to be able to use their maps more effectively. You DO NOT want this leechware on your computer. My mom got this on her pc last week. It hijacks your browser homepage and search engines to an offshoot of BING search and there is no way to uninstall it. Resetting your homepage does not work, the next time you open your browser it’s BACK. It sets everything to go through a page called Search.conduit and it’s godawful to get rid of. Even my strongest virus removal program didn’t recognize it as malware. I ended up having to go into Firefox’s configuration files and resetting everything and it was a total pain in the ass to get rid of.

Now for the wedding!! The event took place at a home owned by a relative of the groom, and they had a beautiful backyard with a large gazebo and a curved flagstone walkway leading up to it from the main house. They spent a lot of time on the decorations and lighting, the event was catered and everything went together very smoothly. She is 48 and it was her first marriage, we were beginning to think she would never find Mr Right, lol. There were about 140 guests, family and friends. In the photo below, that’s my dad walking her up the aisle. Click the photo for a larger image.

In the photo below they are saying the vows, her new husband is on her right. On her left in the burgundy dress is my sister’s best friend and maid of honor who sang a couple of songs during the ceremony. She has a beautiful voice. On the groom’s right is his brother, the best man. Again, click the photo for a larger version.

The only bad thing was that it was pretty damn hot out and we did a lot of sweating! lol. It was a pretty amazing day, I was very proud of my sister, she and her husband did most of the work setting up and planning the entire thing on their own. I know it was a helluva lot of effort but it really paid off and everyone really seemed to enjoy themselves.

That’s all I got, hope you’re all having a great weekend!!

I am really not happy about many of the shows that have been cancelled this season, you get hooked watching them then they take it all away. Bastards! Here’s a list of my favorites that got the boot.

1. Detroit 187
2. Chase
3. Chicago Code
4. Dark Blue
5. The Defenders
6. The Event
7. The Gates
8. The Good Guys
9. Human Target
10. Law & Order Los Angeles
11. Lie To Me
12. Mr. Sunshine
13. Perfect Couples
14. Terriers
15. The Paul Reiser Show
16. Off The Map
17. Traffic Light

But there is a plus side to all the cancellations, some real stinkers are getting dumped, yay!!

1. Sarah Palin’s Alaska
2. Stargate Universe
3. Skating With the Stars
4. No Ordinary Family
5. The Hasselhoffs
6. Caprica
7. Undercovers

There’s a bunch more that got cancelled but I never saw them so I won’t comment. While that doesn’t quite balance it all out, it helps lol

By the way, today is my birthday! I was gonna list some famous people that were born today, unfortunately there were none that were truly notable, damn the bad luck.



I’m meeting with my folks later this morning, they’re treating me to a birthday lunch at Copelands Restaurant, so that will be cool. Other than that today is nothing special, no party and probably no cake. But that’s fine because after you hit 30 years old, birthdays tend to suck. You really don’t need anymore. It’s sorta like your favorite TV shows getting cancelled. Yay!

I own a few websites all over the web and each of them display Blogger templates that I have designed over the years. All of the templates are free to download and use on personal blogs, that’s what they are there for. The total number of free templates is 68, spread across 4 websites. The issue is that they are constantly being stolen and displayed on other websites in spite of the fact that my Terms of Use explicitly states that the templates are NOT to be redistributed on any other website, in any way, shape or form.

They put my work on their websites and run advertising to make money from their visitors. The worse part is that usually they hotlink directly to my files and images on my Blogs Gone Wild! server so I am actually paying for the bandwidth so that these assholes can make money off of content that they stole from me. And it’s not just the images and files, they usually copy/paste my descriptions of each template right off the post and onto their websites. Word for word. Unbelievable.

Here’s a list of my websites that I’m talking about:

• Charmskins
• Free Blogger Skins
• Blogger XML Templates
• Blogger Classic Templates

Emailing them and telling them to remove my content has proven to be a total waste of time so what I have been doing is editing the names of the images and the links to the template codes so that the links end up broken and useless on their site. Most of the offenders aren’t even in the USA so I don’t have much legal recourse. Suing would cost money, money that wouldn’t be worth what I make from my own advertising on those sites. Fortunately they don’t seem to check their own websites very often so the links stay broken. But still, it’s a huge pain in the ass for me to keep looking for offenders and editing file names. I’m at the point now where when I find hotlinks to my images, I’ll be replacing the images with some very hardcore porn. That’s going to be my next step.

What prompted me to write this post was after looking through links to my different websites this morning, I came across a site that had copied the entire template code from my Charmskins site which runs on WordPress and they had pasted it in to use as all the web pages on their website. They just deleted the parts they didn’t like and put in the stuff they needed. I don’t care much about the code itself, HTML and CSS is open source and it can’t be copyrighted anyway. But in this case they didn’t bother with hosting the images for the template on their own server. They were hotlinking images on MY server to load their entire website! I was like WTF??? Seriously people? Give me a break. Needless to say, I put a stop to that. I’ll probably get an email from them bitching at me for breaking their website by moving the images they were stealing from me, lmao.

I know it probably sounds like I’m whining but this post is also a warning to anyone looking for free templates for their blog. In one case I found that a website had stolen my templates and modified them in such a way that they included malware and was redistributing them on another site. This included hidden links inside the code to online casinos, pornography and illegal medical and stolen software websites. And, they left the back links to my own website intact. That indirectly makes me look responsible!

If you are looking for a free template for your blog or website you really need to be careful where you download from because you never know what you’re going to get. If you know what you’re looking at you can inspect the template code carefully to make sure there is nothing suspicious or at least make sure you really trust the website you are downloading from. Here’s an excellent article on hidden links and malicious code if you want further reading on the subject:

WPMU – Hidden Malware Warning

Just beware out there!

I really, really, really hate to talk about anything to do with politics because just thinking about it makes me want to spew, since there’s hardly ever any meaningful political discussion, it always descends into name calling and blame hurling from both sides, but I’m going to make this exception. By law, we apparently have to have a budget for the government to operate at all but when it’s all said and done it’s a useless gesture. They know they are budgeting more than we will take in, it’s already a deficit the moment it’s passed. But I think an equally large problem is that no matter what they pass they will never stick to it anyway. They are completely incapable of running this country in a way that it could operate within it’s means or it’s budget.

And the problem isn’t just the Feds, it’s virtually every city, town, county and municipality in this entire country. They cannot operate within their means. They set budgets then fail to abide by them. And by them I mean us, ALL of us. At the very root is the average citizen who cannot live within their own personal and household means and uses credit as a way of life. As long as we’re ok with that we will never be able to hold our government to operating within it’s means. Borrowing against the future seems to be business as usual and until it stops we will always be in the hole. It’s human nature apparently and as long as most people have some sort of way to get credit and carry credit cards around it just enforces the mentality that borrowing is good and by extension it’s ok for the government to borrow money against the future as well. Eventually there will be nothing left to borrow.

/end rant

If you guys watched Jimmy Kimmel the other night you would have caught this hilarious video that he ran during his monologue. The Kelly Family in 1989 did this performance and I believe that the kid singing lead is only nine years old, and wow he really brings it home at the end of this two minute clip. What wasn’t made clear was did he or did he not pee pee his bed that night. I’m not sure I really want to know.

Over at the Fail Blog they have a huge collection of the ugliest tattoos ever to grace/desecrate human skin and here’s a couple for your amusement. There must be hundreds of them, lots of laughs!

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Funny stuff, check them out!

In case you haven’t heard, Sony is suing a guy that dared to modify his own Playstation 3 console so that he can run software of his own choosing. He then put the information of how you can modify your own PS3 on You Tube. Sony’s excuse for their ridiculous behavior is that the modification could also be used for running pirated games and software. That’s a total bullshit defense of their actions, it would be like a bank suing people for owning cars and trucks just because they might be able to be used as getaway vehicles in a bank robbery. Or outlawing bolt cutters because they can also be used to cut pad locks. At any rate, they have confiscated all of his computers and equipment and have sued him. Thankfully he’s not backing down and is going up against them in court with the support of many people that agree with him on the internet through donations for his defense.

The best part of all of this is that when the PS3 first came out it had a feature that allowed you to use other software on the system but for some reason they decided that we didn’t need it any more and removed the feature with a mandatory software update. Basically the guy modifying his PS3 is restoring a feature that was built-in when it was new. Sony did all of this is in spite of the fact that the PS3 wasactually advertised that it could be used to run other software and that many people bought their PS3 specifically for that feature. Imagine General Motors disabling the air conditioner or your radio in your car with their OnStar communication system because they didn’t think you needed it anymore lol.

And to go even further Sony demanded to know the names and addresses of any and all people that commented on the You Tube post that was put up by the guy that figured out how to do the modification. Apparently, they want to bully anyone that might have even seen the modding information regardless of whether they even used it or not. And just a few days ago they pushed the issue to the extreme by doing another police raid on a PS3 owners home in Germany and confiscated all of his computer equipment as well.

I don’t have any interest in using the mod myself but I do feel like I have the right to do whatever I please with anything and everything that I legally own. It’s MINE now and I will do whatever I feel like with it. Just as these PS3 owners do. If they use the modification for something illegal then it’s up to law enforcement to decide what should be done, NOT Sony. In case you are wondering there are many ways to use the modification that are perfectly legal. I could just imagine a car manufacturer trying to stop you from installing aftermarket parts on your car, or putting on better tires or doing any type of modifications to the engine for better performance or gas mileage. This is exactly what Sony is doing. The whole thing is just beyond silly and Sony is doing nothing but killing their reputation with their bullying tactics. I do own a PS3 and I used to have about 15 games for it, but since this has all come out I have sold off all of my games and I will not be buying anymore. Now I only use it for playing Blu-Ray dvd’s and as soon as I can I plan on selling it and getting a stand alone Blu-Ray player. Sony, consider yourself boycotted by me. You will never get another dime of my money.

A few months back I went to do some furniture shopping in a nearby town named Westwego and I ended up getting ticketed for “speeding”. I was caught by one of those hidden camera vehicles that are fully automated. It uses an aimed radar to see how fast you are going then takes a photo of your license plate. You have no idea that it happened until you get the ticket in the mail. Very sneaky.

The reason I put speeding in quotes is because I was ticketed for going 32 mph in a 25 mph zone. Going 32 miles per hour is NOT speeding, it’s more like coasting. The highway that this speed trap is on SHOULD be marked 35 mph and it is in other towns that this same highway passes through. The area is even less populated or crowded than it is in the other areas where it’s marked 35 mph and there’s also no schools in the area to justify this ridiculously low speed limit. As far as I’m concerned the whole thing is an underhanded attempt at filling the city coffers with money from the tickets. The cost of the ticket was only $40 but I intend to make sure it costs them far more than that in the long run.

What they have done is convinced me that I will never have any need to go shopping in their little town ever again. I’m taking my business elsewhere from now on. Businesses there should complain to their city hall or mayor to stop the speed trap because it’s only hurting them. If I do ever go there again it will be only to pass through to get some place else. It’s now a “no drive zone” for me lol

Hope you guys are having a great weekend!! =)

Does anyone REALLY care if Sen. Larry Craig is gay or not? Personally, I don’t and I would actually be more surprised if he wasn’t considering all the shenanigans and wacky revelations coming from members of congress in the past few years. Just so long as the man does a good job in office is what counts. What I DO care about is that how does someone so utterly frikkin’ STUPID get himself elected to office. I mean seriously, first he pleads guilty to the ridiculous charges, then changes his mind, then decides to quit his position, then changes his mind again. The guy is obviously a total DUMBASS, especially since he risked throwing away his career on something so lame.

And as far as I know propositioning someone for sex isn’t against the law, even if it’s in an airport toilet. It should only be illegal if there was money (prostitution) involved. With that in mind, why was he even arrested in the first place?? I’ve never heard any mentions of him offering to pay for sex. The whole mess is senseless and most especially the way he’s handled it. You guys have any thoughts on this?

I’ve been picking up some really screwy, oddball photos off the ‘net that I thought would be fun to share.

Check out this guys leg, MOTHAFUKKIN’ OUCH!!!!

This is too funny! Don’t let the terrorists see this one! We’ll all be screwed!

Flush 25 pounds from your COLON!! 25 POUNDS!?!?! OMFG!!! LOL

If Ronald McDonald was goth, truly weird!!

Here I am showing off my early electrical engineering skills as a child

Well, that’s all I got folks! Hope you have a great weekend!! Weee! TGIF!

I’ve been listening to all the talk (who hasn’t?) about Imus’ racist remark and it’s true, his sorry ass should be run off the radio. He is a racist prick and his feeble apology isn’t good enough to excuse what he said. I’m sure he can get a job as a radio jock for some neo-nazi, white supremacist hate group because that’s right where he belongs.

I’ve noticed though, that no one seems to have been offended by the fact that he called a group of young female college students ho’s! Black or white, this is just wrong on so many levels all by itself. Where does this bastard get off using such a derogatory term to describe young, hard working, college age athletes. These are peoples daughters, not Vegas hookers for craps sake. I can tell you this much, if I had a college aged daughter and she happened to be on the Rutgers basketball team, I would want to kick his sorry fuckin’ ass. I would like to see his reaction if his daughter had been called a “ho” by some loud mouthed racist lout on national talk radio. Bastard! Eat shit and die!

Ok, now for something fun! You guys just have to try out this hilarious Flash game, see how many tries it takes you to catch the worm. Post your scores in the comments, it only took me 5 tries. Lets see you beat that! Bet you can’t! Make sure your sound is on too!Catch a Worm Game

I don’t know why Islamic Muslims think they will be rewarded with a harem of virgins at their disposal when they die and personally I really don’t care, but this photo made me laugh out loud.

If you think your “god” will reward you for being an evil, murderous, son of a bitch, it’s time to go “god shopping” is all I can say. And have your brain removed for forensic study…

Local Council Woman May Be Delusional
Sometimes an idiot comes along that really grabs my attention, and seriously pisses me off. There’s a story in the local New Orleans newspaper today about a city council woman named Cynthia Hedge-Morrell that was stopped by a Louisiana State Trooper for traveling over 100 mph on the shoulder of the road and weaving in her city owned SUV while she had a “blue light” flashing. When he stopped her she yelled at him “Do you know who I am? . . . What the hell are you stopping me for?” Apparently this isn’t the first time she’s been stopped under similar circumstances. This womans main claim to “fame” is that she was once a school principal and is the wife of La. State Representative Arthur Morrell. It’s good to see that we have such “quality” people with “god complexes” and who think they’re above the law running this city. Her “excuse” was that she was late for a meeting. Now there’s a good reason to risk the lives of everyone else on the highway. Link to the article

Yeah, like New Orleans doesn’t have enough problems, the state police have to deal with morons like this. I’m disappointed that the police didn’t haul her sorry ass in to give her a DWI or blood sample test to see if she was drunk or on drugs! Feel free to email her here: CHMorrell@cityofno.com if you want to give her a piece of your mind.

Here’s a nice parting shot for Papa Johns, I got this in my email the other day advertising their “Easter Special” and since we all know how I feel about their lousy ass service, I thought I would put it up. Apparently they think we should associate eating pizza with the resurrection of Jesus, LOL How frikkin lame is that! “Light the candles, say the prayers and pass the pizza!”

Have a fun weekend!