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And I’ve got another med that insurance won’t cover. Not surprising, since they refuse to cover most of them. And their resistance to covering seems directly related to cost and how badly you need it. Which is just another reminder that insurance isn’t useful when you’re actually sick.
More irony? We got notice that they’re cutting Phoenix’s insurance benefits. Since he has diabetes, we’re actually getting a tiny bit of money back from them, and that has to stop. They sent a brisk form letter telling us how unfair this was to them. WTF? Did they forget what they’re selling? It’s in case shit happens. If shit actually happens, yes you owe me money! That’s the whole point! GRRR.
That sucks MD.
Sorry Cj. As it turns out, I had to sleep in today. Really late, as it would turn out. I will try to get to the “No Pants” thing later (explanation afterward, if it happens).
Marlo, sorry to read about all the bad news. There’s a special layer of hell for insurance company policy makers and enforcers.
Insurance companies = evil
Still haven’t paid millions in claims after Katrina.
Seems if they decide not to pay … the only thing you can do is get in line to sue.
Then wait. Years.
Meanwhile as Marlo well knows … the bills STILL have to be paid.
I reapeat, Insurance companies = evil
Jack Mangan though … well, he’s the neat round spaghetti you can eat with a spoon!
*hugs* to marlo and Van.
Jack: Yay! I’m really, really happy to see the Phoenix new media crowd embracing No Pants Day. If it happens (happened), I hope you have (had) fun! :-)
Did anyone else see that tumbleweed?
Happy Saturday Night, Pan.
I’m just now home and making dinner for the crew. Then we will record LLAP. We took the rail home and it was a nightmare at 3pm – which was “no pants” time, but at a different station. I look forward to hearing about it.
And… if Jack took his pants off, I’ll be needing pictures of that, of course. ;)
But wait – there are already pictures in existence!
http://twitpic.com/img/11osd-0be255de5deec2f12d3446560a041ee8.496947c7.jpg
That picture didn’t work. Try this one: http://twitpic.com/11osd
^ FTW! Yay, Evo and Jack! :-D
I’m looking at Evo’s and Charlie’s TwitPics now. Jack is in two of the pictures. That must have been so much fun! :-)
No Pants was definitely fun. I went with the Batman boxers.
Evo and I ended up as the last 2 pantsless train passengers. . . . which. . . . suddenly changed the entire vibe. We were then just “those 2 weird guys” who’d probably lost a bet.
There was some news coverage; Evo was interviewed on camera. A good time was had by all.
http://tinyurl.com/7j4kq4
I took a percocet for my knee. It’s made me loopy. I keep seeing pictures of all these people without their pants.
I hope you feel better tomorrow, Cj.
I’m Batman.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8055600@N02/3187262268/in/set-72157612377666873/
Attack of the knobbly knees.
App awards for the iphone/ipod touch:
http://tinyurl.com/9f23d6
Might give you some ideas on what to try.
Oh and if you have an iPhone, give Shazam a try (do a search on the apps store), it’s free.
One of those programs that seem almost magical.
Are you mad when the tumbleweeds start answering back?
Wolf – Expound. What do you mean by a database that can read RSS? What do you want it to do?
EssBee – For an extremely cheap, fairly nice sounding, and quite comfortable pair of earbuds check out the skullcandy ink’d series. Depending on color and where you purchase them, they cost between 10 and 20USD. I’ve been getting mine from Target/Amazon. I also really like the Razer m|100 earbuds but I have not been able to find them consistently. I’m not sure how much the cost now.
Definitely yes, Van.
I don’t have an iPhone, but did just upgrade my phone to the LG Rumor since my current phone didn’t survive the laundry.
I think I now MUST find myself a pair of Batman boxers. It’s good to have a goal for the day, isn’t it?
No Pants Day sounds … like a bad idea. Then again, it is snowing here.
And I am wearing thermals, sweats, and a pair of pants…
Thanks, Nomad! I want a pair of JOe’s BOSE buds, but I just can’t justify spending that much when I know they won’t last me more than 3-4 months. I have dunked TWO pair of earbuds (well, just one bud on each pair) in coffee. I just don’t have a lot of luck taking care of them. I’ll try Skullcandy ink’d – Best Buy has them.
My pleasure. On the plus side, I have actually dropped the ink’d in my coffee and had them survive. I don’t know if that is a one time fluke, but… I was really happy that they continued working without a pause.
Nomad – I want to be able to organize my feeds into categories. Audio Dramas, Music, on going comics, etc. iTunes does not let me do that. Plus I am getting tired of iTunes but I have not found a better alternative yet as a feedcatcher.
Good Morning Pan. I have surprised myself. The next music show playlist is already together. I find it fun to listen to. Working on submissions now… Damn this is fun.
I have to admit that I really only put creamer and Equal in my coffee. I haven’t tried earbuds. Seems like that might leave me with a metallic taste or perhaps a little waxy residue. I think I’ll pass.
Jack’s much more hawt than Batman with no pants.
The Mrs Lady in the black jacket seems unimpressed with Jack’s hawtness.
J0e, LOL… That’s actually one of my best friends, Crystal. How funny!
LOL – perhaps she was just overwhelmed by teh Jack hawtness.
Jack definitely emanates major hawtness. He makes all the girlies swoon.
It was Batman or Duckies.
Next time: Duckies.
Pretty good Op/Ed from Bono:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11bono.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
Been a pretty busy weekend with family business and life and general good stuff. Finally caught up.
For the Iphone/Itouch crowd – one app that is out that makes the Iphone much more attractive for me is one that I’ve been a fan of on the Pockect PC platform for many years – Ewallet. Even though I stopped using my PPC several years ago (man that thing is such a brick by modern standards), I’ve kept using ewallet on my computer and carry my file on a USB drive.
While we’ve generally been fortunate in dealing with insurance, we’ve been through a fair amount of hassle with both of our kids birth’s as we went with a midwife. Insurance companies don’t like midwives and my wife really had to fight with them to get them to honor the benefits we were owed. You’d think they’d be more supportive as it cost much less overall than having a kid with a doctor in a hospital.
So, I but the Transformers Blu-Ray in our Blockbuster queue. We actually got both the movie disc and the bonus disc. I’ve saving the movie for the arrival of a new foundation cracking subwoofer. So, my wife and I watched most of the bonus “making of” features. That’s one thing we’ve missed out on since we stopped buying movies. I must confess I have a lot more respect for Michael Bay after seeing the vision and thought that went into the movie. I was an early skeptic, especially when I saw the first pics of the new Optimus Prime truck form. But, overall, it came together to make for an awesome movie and I became a believer.
Definitely looking forward to the next one.
A Deadpan listener from way back was part of the Transformers special FX team. For real.
Have I mentioned how much I love the Transformers movie. Something about that movie just makes me want to watch it over and over.
(obsess much, Cj?)
Nomad Scry: Since No Pants Day has always been in winter, I think the fact that it’s cold is part of the humor. :-)
How’s the knee, Cj?
Nomad – the “No pants in winter” thing is the opposite of an earlier, spectacularly failed attempt at this sort of thing. They tried a “Long coat and ski mask day” in August which resulted in an unfortunate number of participants being shot by nervous store clerks and an undisclosed number being whisked into unmarked vans and shipped off to GITMO by overzealous and board, Homeland Security agents.
Their next attempted at this art form was “No glasses or contact lenses day”. This proved to be only slightly less catastrophic on the communities who participated.
So I’m not a very practical person. So when the DVD recorder’s tray door jammed I started thinking of buying a new DVD recorder.
As a last resort, got the screwdriver out and opened the unit up. After messing around for 30 minutes the tray started working.
So fingers crossed the bloody thing keeps working.
Van… silly boy. Don’t you know you had a perfect excuse to go shopping? I personally never pass up shopping!
EssBee, the knee is a sad excuse for a body part. I’m taking it to the doctor who will most likely send me off on rounds to more MRI’s and X-rays which have already been done etc. I’m thinking positive though and starting with a new doctor since it’s been a few years since I’ve gone through this. Maybe there is some solution for me out there now that hopefully won’t involve surgery. There is no room in my schedule for “sitting down” right now.
Cj — The worst patient evar.
Justa j0e felt we needed a little Deadpan love during our MIA time and sent us his, Eds and errrr “Celine Dions” awesome Swedish Oh Canada segment thingy
Hugh and I have been laughing our asses off
that was fucking awesome you guys
a really good laugh in a time that we could really use a laugh
thank you j0e :) and thank you Canada for being so damn good at hockey
So we just got a mini play-by-play :)
During our recent LLAP recording session I realized that I have the answer to J0e’s question.
Is there a word (and if not … can we please create one) that means,
“I have heard what you just told me so you don’t need to say it again, it’s just that I have absolutely nothing to say about the topic and would rather not just make inane comments about it that would lead to yet another pointless conversation that would best be reserved for a Cohen Brothers film.†? — Example – You are warming up turkey left over for your relatives who are staying with you and they suddenly say “There is a new container of Kewl wHHip in the refrigerator.â€
The appropriate one-word response, in my opinion is …
“Excellent.”
Try it out on a few key sentences… it really works, I think.
I’m going to use your bathroom. “Excellent.”
There is a napkin on the counter. “Excellent.”
I’m done citing silly examples of the use of the word “excellent”.
“Excellent.”
And on that note. I clearly need to get some sleep, so I’m going to bed. LLAP #101 will be online before the morning breaks I think. Excellent.
FYI: Three of the four remaining NFL teams are birds.
Excellent idea, Cj.
“I’m looking forward to a little more in and out.”
That’s the line, isn’t it?
Well Cj, all those excellent words reminds me of the Unshow with Cheyenne Wright.
Morning Pan, soooooo a day off and nothing to do but be lazy, hmmmmm.
What’s Van going to do today, Brain? Narf!
I’m grateful that it’s only 35°F here this morning. It looks kinda cold on TV for you panites up north.
spellchecker – greatful, grateful? WTF is wrong with this language?
Good morning Deadpan.
Here, let me try Ed -
“grateful – I think I’ve had a grateful of this weather.”
^ LOL!
I get a day off next Monday.
Morning.
Grateful. ‘Cuz we all love a faceful of ash.
Posted from the dark side on my new EEE, running linux. I have no idea what I am doing.
I have no idea what I am doing either Nomad.
Welcome to the wonderful world of the Eee PC Nomad.
If you want to give a more mainstream (i.e. better supported by users) version of Linux a try, you could try installing Eeebuntu:
http://www.eeebuntu.org/
A custom version of Ubuntu.
Good morning, Deadpan. Snow and icy roads this morning in Colorado, but I’m safe and sound . . . well, I made it to Evil, Inc.
Do they still feature the penguins?
I liked the penguins.
Nomad, yes, that is the line. :D and also what made me realize it as did the Cheyenne Wright episode, Van.
My coffee is perfect this morning. I’ll be calling the Dr. in a few moments here and sadly not taking my kids to the park as is usually my morning routine.
CJ – RE: “Excellent”
Brilliant!!!!! There needs to be an award for that one. Short, positive sounding and yet … so completely the wrong response (if said with enough wild eyed enthusiasm) that it should confuse the blatherer, causing them to lose their train of thought or perhaps even startling them enough that they actually think about what they are saying.
“Excellent” – I LIKE IT!
{Mr. Burns} Excellent…{/Mr. Burns}
OK tech gadget lovers.
I have a major thing for the SONOS system
http://www.sonos.com/
but have never bought because of the price.
Now I am wondering if I can’t get the same functionality (and ease of use) with an iTouch, iTunes and a couple of “Airport Express” units.
Thoughts?
sorry about the whole BOLD thing. must have been some errant code there. :(
Never apologize for boldness, justa J0e.
Yeah Cardinals!
Why do I immediately think of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold
?
… not even if it was a poor marketing decision?
“Crest Toothpaste. Now with the Bold New Taste of Fish !!!“
Wherever I go, I like to Boldly Go — that’s just how I roll.
I’ve been diagnosed with Patellofemoral Syndrome.
http://www.nismat.org/ptcor/pfp
Exercises and Advil are my resources for cure. If 2 weeks from now I’m still complaining, I get to use the little X-ray referral he gave me. Oooh pictures of my insides, now that’s fun.
CJ,
That sounds simular to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgood-Schlatter_disease
Something I had to contend with in my youth although no longer a problem.
Yeah my Dad had that as a kid, he was hospitalized for 6 months (treatment in those days was to put the legs in plaster and keep the patient in bed).
Thankfully things have moved on.
I was never active enough at that age to get that condition.
cough
As a kid I never had any issues. I was big into roller-skating, basketball, and softball. I really enjoy roller-skating even as an adult so this knee thing needs to be corrected quickly so I can go injure myself in other fun ways!
So a Mac fundie in a forum I read made the following comment:
‘Tell a Canadian something is cheap and he won’t touch it with a bargepole because he will conclude ‘It is rubbish’.’
Comments TEB and ditto?
Sigh. Work really really really really sucks.
That is all.
Just don’t start wrestling bears Cj, that never ends well.
Jack: Looks like the Coyotes are having serious issues.
http://www.thestar.com/Sports/Hockey/article/569297
Van: It’s BS.
ditto is in a black hole :(
Yeah to fun injuries! Being on the track team is what gave me my knee condition. I did a few weight lifting exercises to strenthen my back leg muscles to take the strain off my knee. That combined with ibuprofen helped me get through.
My injuries are scotch related.
I can relate ditto. Care to join me with some truck driving opprotunities in Iraq?
… actually, I just remembered a “cringe worthy”, long jump injury. I’ll have to call it in one time as a dumb a@# memory.
Now I’m off to build a kennel.
My injuries are scotch tape related.
The environmental cost of google searches:
http://tinyurl.com/836r22
Google’s response:
http://tinyurl.com/7zmy7h
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWOsPSS7XA
My favorite dipshit quote about the Coyotes is “They shouldn’t be playing hockey in the desert”. The team has been crying poverty for years. . . . I just hope that if they ever do fold, the league recognizes that the problem is corporate mismanagement, not the area.
The knee troubles sound frustrating, Cj. . . I know how important it is for you to be active. Hope you feel better soon.
Yeah CJ, hope you feel better soon as well.
Jack, don’t you know that duck tape is usually the right tool for the job.
quack.
You know, I don’t remember what the brand was they were trying to push, but I do remember the commercials from a few years ago with a guy walking around in a black turtleneck saying he was my pain and that I should listen to him.
Guess I’m not such a good listener…
God. I so want a new, better job.
Thanks for the well wishes everyone. :) I’ll be back to my usual self by the 22nd whether my knee likes it or not.
Gosh darned it, I have Comicon to attend!
Not only that, but I have a babysitter for this Wednesday night… Hm. That’s the 14th. What is happening that night? Hm. I’ve drawn a blank.
Sigler is doing a book signing in Tempe on Wednesday night?
You mean “New York Times Best Selling Author” Scot Sigler?
CP: Miserere — Zucchero
CP: Vaseline Machine Gun – Leo Kottke
CW – 24 (Redemption)
Speaking of 24 I watched the first episode(s?) of season 7 and I’m interested in everyone’s take on it. I plan on watching the next installment tonight, but so far I would call the effort hackish. This show needs a radical departure to keep moving forward and this isn’t it.
Yeah, Sigler. That’s who I was thinking about.
I’m converting the first two new 24 episodes for my phone as I type, will try and watch them tomorrow.
The TV critics have been giving the new series a positive writeup.
Holy crap, I’d like all of my bad decisions to just go away now.
KTHXBAI.
Those damn Bad Decision jeans!
They make my ass look huge!!
And I thought it was just me!
Yes, someone grows a little bit older on the 14th. Hopefully, his local friends will take him out, embarrass the crap out of him, and post plenty of pictures.
Ed, he told me that he would not think it’s cool if I got him really drunk and wrote all over him with a black Marks-A-Lot so now I’m completely out of ideas.
Dammit.
Red ?
You crack me up, JOe.
The funniest point in the show, maybe, was “What did Wilma Flintstone use as a vibrator?”
I think the best plans involve no drama and no markers.
Thx EssBee.
:)
Tweet: Holy guacamole, I just spent almost TWO HOURS writing about my astronomy-related memories. And I’m NOT DONE. It was a lot of fun, though! :-)
Jack: Whatever you end up doing, have fun! I agree, no drama and no markers is best.
Good night, Pan!
OK, Jack. I promise that if I’m lucky enough to see you, I will not have any markers or drama on my person in any fashion.
What’s the general feeling on Llamas and Parkas ?
Llamas are larger than frogs.
CP: Bridge of Sighs – Robin Trower
Ah Robin Trower, went to a gig of his a few years back, unusually most of the crowd was older than me (beer guts and long beards ruled).
As for llamas, one UK programmer is obsessed with them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llamatron
annnnnnnnd, yes I should have gone to sleep an hour ago.
This list is hilarious:
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/multimedia/2007/11/gallery_star_trek_monsters
Be sure to read the blurbs about each creature.
Goodnight Moon Unit.
The things you find out on twitter:
http://twitter.com/bobbyllew/status/1106804217
Red Dwarf mini series…fingers crossed it’s true.
Good Morning moon.
Re:Star Trek monsters
Lore Sjöberg has one of my favorite (next to the Deadpan of course) podcasts. It is sporadically released under the “wired news” podcast feed. It’s mostly always worth the wait.
My favorite Star Trek TOS monster will always be Gorn and his microphone eyes.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovelongandprosper/2770581042/
Morning, Pan.
Grr.
Morning, EssBee.
*hug*
EssBee: In answer to your question, I don’t know but it would be rock hard. ;)
Cj: I always liked Gorn too. It ain’t easy being green. :)
Oooh, more links to check when I get off work.
Joe, I was going to suggest blue. I don’t think red would give enough contrast on the skin to show up well in pictures.
I love how CJ’s precise wording is intended to lull the victim into a false sense of security…..or maybe I’m just reading too much into it :)
What, no love for the living La Brea tarpit that took out Tasha Yar?
Right, ditto. No silicone attachments in Bedrock.
CP: Papa’s Got A Brand New Pig Bag — Pig Bag
Ed: Lot’s of love for the result! :)
Ed, I’m srsly hurt by your lack of faith in me.
or rather… “I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
*gak* *gasp*
It… wasn’t… me!
*thud*
Re: Bedrock Adult Toys
“They’re Paleo-riffic!”
Your sad devotion to that ancient film franchise has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes.
CJ, rest assured. You can have great faith in my faith in you.
“I’m feeling like a one-legged man always made to take a stand”
CP: Any Day Now — The Watchmen
CP: Bust It Big — Widespread Panic
CP: a cable company’s “On-Hold” message
justs J0e – Your call is very important to us.
CP: The Folkcast #36
CPIM: “Freeze Ray” – Dr. Horrible
that’s the plan….
….rule the world.
Gah. Some people are difficult no matter what. Talk about gratitude.
CP: Party Time — Lesbians on Ecstasy
ditto, are your previous 2 posts related?
CPIM — So What — Pink … on repeat.
Do what, now?
underthings …
… tumbling …
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