Meh.

In a year of slow celebrity deaths, this obit is mildly interesting, if only for the cause of death (suicide by cutting your own throat? Arent wrists easier?) and the Gilbert Gottfried reference. I dont actually know who the guy was.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/20/arts/20rocket.html

Also, I would like to stop receiving mail. After not getting my mail for two weeks, I opened the box to find a zillion catalogs, circulars, a valu-pak (cute spelling, non?), about twenty or so credit card offers, some Macy's discount, and something about a college reunion. The US mail is obsolete. I can get my bills done electronically. my invites from Evite and my Festivus cards and formal invites at the office. How do I sign off from receiving mail?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ironweed
2. BTW, it sounds like the bloom is off the rose a bit with the new guy, so Not Bob might have his chance sooner rather than later.

He is still blooming.

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Are you retarded? There is nothing wrong with my math. If you ever competed in any athletic event you might be able to fathom that victory or defeat is not predicated on some rational analysis of what times should be. I had someone, who shall remain nameless, who posts on this board, admit to me, off board today, that I could probably have spotted them 400 metres on that same day and taken them down. another 400 metres ain't that much. I hate a lethal kick, something you probably don't understand.

I can cite instances where I have made up 20 plus minutes over ten miles on someone in a 13 mile run. On 99 out of 100 days that never would have happened because I am not normally 2 minutes a mile faster than this person, but shit happens in the heat of competition.

I will just keep responding to this so that you have a chance to brag about what a big fucking running stud you are on the internet, but you're still full of shit. You're suggesting that a person who can run a certain speed over three miles can't run a little faster over much shorter distances. Look at your (imaginary) times for the (imaginary) races you've run in. You can maintain a faster pace over a shorter distance if you must. That's how the human body works, even when it's some imaginary human body or the imaginary ex-wife of that imaginary person on the internet.

Any person who can run a 26:00 or so 5K can run a 4:00 half mile. No exceptions. People don't have some maximum speed that they can't exceed, but which they can maintain for 25 minutes.

You would know this if you were actually a runner and not just making up times from stuff that you have read on the internet.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
In a year of slow celebrity deaths, this obit is mildly interesting, if only for the cause of death (suicide by cutting your own throat? Arent wrists easier?) and the Gilbert Gottfried reference. I dont actually know who the guy was.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/20/arts/20rocket.html

Also, I would like to stop receiving mail. After not getting my mail for two weeks, I opened the box to find a zillion catalogs, circulars, a valu-pak (cute spelling, non?), about twenty or so credit card offers, some Macy's discount, and something about a college reunion. The US mail is obsolete. I can get my bills done electronically. my invites from Evite and my Festivus cards and formal invites at the office. How do I sign off from receiving mail?

Postmaster General: "Paigow, I've been, uh, reading some of your material here. I gotta be honest with you: you make a pretty strong case. I mean, just imagine. An army of men in wool pants running through the neighborhood handing out pottery catalogs, door to door."

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Postmaster General: "Paigow, I've been, uh, reading some of your material here. I gotta be honest with you: you make a pretty strong case. I mean, just imagine. An army of men in wool pants running through the neighborhood handing out pottery catalogs, door to door."

It is a serious query, Hank-o. Should I just put a brick in the mailbox with a piece of paper that says "Thank you, I don't want any". Should I just let it get so full of crap that the mailperson wont be able to stuff any more dead trees in there?

Originally posted by paigowprincess
It is a serious query, Hank-o. Should I just put a brick in the mailbox with a piece of paper that says "Thank you, I don't want any". Should I just let it get so full of crap that the mailperson wont be able to stuff any more dead trees in there?

I tried to send a demand letter to a house with no mailbox. I knew it was a good address, but they did not deliver the mail, so if you have a freestanding mailbox, that is an option.

On a less radical note, there is a place you can call to cut down on all the junk mail - Direct Marketing Assn. or something like that.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
It is a serious query, Hank-o. Should I just put a brick in the mailbox with a piece of paper that says "Thank you, I don't want any". Should I just let it get so full of crap that the mailperson wont be able to stuff any more dead trees in there?

In Goodfellas they beat fuck out of the mailman for delivering little Henry's failing report card. He stopped delivering mail from the school. I don't see why it wouldn't work for stopping all mail.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
It's a half hour show. You're just talking about the first 2 or 3 minutes.

After 3 minutes, I'm usually watching ESPN or Oprah.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Gattigap
re Fred Kaufmann article on "food porn"

Does he give credit where due? Pat Cadigan, in her book "Synners" in 1991 described the not really future:

"Valjean had a screen for every porn channel, jammed together in the wall so that food porn overlapped med porn overlapped war porn overlapped sex porn overlapped news porn overlapped disaster porn overlapped tech-fantasy porn overlapped porn she had no idea how to identify. Maybe nobody did, maybe it just bypassed the stage where it would have been anything other than porn. Meta-porn, porn porn?"

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
It is a serious query, Hank-o. Should I just put a brick in the mailbox with a piece of paper that says "Thank you, I don't want any". Should I just let it get so full of crap that the mailperson wont be able to stuff any more dead trees in there?

You can stop mail delivery through your post office. I would guess there is some form to fill out. My mom did this when I was in high school (but she replaced our home address with a PO Box; I would think you can just stop it entirely) because she was certain (certain!) that my dad was swinging by and tampering with our mail. I'm not kidding here.

I have either online-bill-pay or e-mail notifications (or both) set up for all of my monthly bills right now*. You basically have to go through the process of each company to set it up (or, I guess, pay one of those online services to pay all your bills electronically). The only check I write each month is rent (I could have this autodebited from a credit card too, but never set that up).

So yes, paigow, your goal seems achievable to me. Bon chance!



*huge hassle to change your bank account once all of this is in place, however. I am still transitioning to a new account with respect to some of my auto-pays 2 months after setting up the new account.

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
You can stop mail delivery through your post office. I would guess there is some form to fill out. My mom did this when I was in high school (but she replaced our home address with a PO Box; I would think you can just stop it entirely) because she was certain (certain!) that my dad was swinging by and tampering with our mail. I'm not kidding here.

I have either online-bill-pay or e-mail notifications (or both) set up for all of my monthly bills right now*. You basically have to go through the process of each company to set it up (or, I guess, pay one of those online services to pay all your bills electronically). The only check I write each month is rent (I could have this autodebited from a credit card too, but never set that up).

So yes, paigow, your goal seems achievable to me. Bon chance!



*huge hassle to change your bank account once all of this is in place, however. I am still transitioning to a new account with respect to some of my auto-pays 2 months after setting up the new account.

Of course my goal is acheivable. I am querying the means to the end, not whether the end can be done. I think I Might just go the route of not getting my mail anymore. Awhile back, I didnt get my mail for like three weeks and there was a note on the mailbox saying that no mail would be delivered til I emptied the box. Let's see how that goes.

I forgot to add that I am now on the mailing list of every fucking charity thanks to my UBER generosity during Katrina (hi slave!).

[SlaveNoMore]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
In Goodfellas they beat fuck out of the mailman for delivering little Henry's failing report card. He stopped delivering mail from the school. I don't see why it wouldn't work for stopping all mail.

If you look closely, its a younger Paulie Walnuts shoving his head in the oven

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Arrested putz with a bad dye job?
I don't think I'm going to like that one either.

BTW, here is a fun photoblog of DeLay's perp walk.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I forgot to add that I am now on the mailing list of every fucking charity thanks to my UBER generosity during Katrina (hi slave!).

That level of generosity requires nothing less than umlauts.

So here you go.

Ü

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Halle Berry's stock has dropped precipitously with me.

I don't like feet in general. But I especially don't like feet with extra toes. [[shudder.]]

http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/six_toes.jpg

TM