July 29th, 2008 GregDDC
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I have added my predictions for the 2008 Sooner football season. Feel free to comment about it on its page. This is in response to Josh’s predictions.
I took it a bit further including the score for the Big XII Championship against Colorado and the National Championship against Clemson (you can’t avoid us, you bastards!). I also kept the Kansas game closer and the Kansas State game is total domination (instead of his 31-29 nail biter). We both agree on the Texas A&M game as well. I hope to see more of your predictions so we can compare. Get ready folks, this is going to be one hell of a year.
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08/30/2008
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Chattanooga
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W 61 - 3
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09/06/2008
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Cincinnati
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W 31 - 14
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09/13/2008
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at Washington
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W 17 - 14
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09/27/2008
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TCU
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W 49 - 17
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10/04/2008
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at Baylor
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W 60 - 17
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10/11/2008
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Texas
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W 24 - 14
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10/18/2008
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Kansas
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W 27 - 21
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10/25/2008
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Kansas State
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W 49 - 7
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11/01/2008
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Nebraska
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W 42 - 6
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11/08/2008
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at Texas A&M
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W 28 - 21
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11/22/2008
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Texas Tech
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W 41 - 13
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11/29/2008
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at Oklahoma State
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W 21 - 10
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12/06/2008
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Big XXI Championship (Colorado)
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W 34 - 24
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01/08/2009
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National Championship (Clemson)
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W 21 - 0
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July 25th, 2008 GregDDC
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I love religious tracts. They’re one of my favorite things in the world. You might know them as those short and wide pamphlets the crazies are always handing out. You know the ones! They might tell you that you’re going to hell and will get AIDS for having pre-martial sex. Maybe they’ll tell you that all homosexuals have AIDS and are going to commit blood-terrorism! Perhaps you were wondering “Who murdered Clarice?!” Liberals are turning good Christians into social pariahs for not loving teh homogays!
Don’t think that Catholics get out of the sight of the wise and knowing eye of these tracts. Did you know that Mary cries whenever someone prays to her or that Catholics aren’t even christians? It would seem that the Eucharist is a Death Cookie! Even COMPLETE LOSERS LIKE JIMMY can be redeemed. Also, don’t put your faith in Presidente Carlos for in doing so you turn your heart from the lord.
The Holocaust was a Roman Catholic Inquisition against the Jews. No true Christians would kill anyone in the name of Jesus. God commands us to love the Jewish people.
–Holocaust
Needless to say, these people are insane. But they don’t know what real horror is! I present to you the best religious tract of all time, The Cthulhu Tract. This is singlehandedly the greatest piece of literature on religion ever created. That’s not conjecture, it’s fact. Give the whole thing a read. If you do not you will not be aware of your hopeless existence of unendingly painful insanity in the face of the cosmic truths of the universe which your puny intellect can’t possibly fathom!
No merciful, paternalistic “god” looks down on you from the heavens - just an endless, frozen void that cares nothing about the fate of a collection of insignificant bipedal microbes at the hands of vastly more powerful beings whose motives their puny minds cannot even comprehend!
–Cthulhu Tract
July 24th, 2008 GregDDC
Doug sent me a messed up video about honey, give it a watch.
Isn’t that the most messed up thing you have seen in a while? I think watching cakefarts or even puddingfarts(both are not even CLOSE to SFW) is better than that. What does it feel like to be the girl who only sings backup? Did she cry herself to sleep when she didn’t get the lead role in the commerical? So I, of course, bought some Maharishi Vedic Organic Honey for Doug because I am irresponsible with money. It’s on the way buddy. Save some for me!
From the item description:
This zesty yet sweet taste will satisfy the most discriminating palette. Produced from August to October, with influences from Simha Rashi (Leo) and Kanya Rashi (Virgo). Has a nourishing effect on the:
• optic nerve and the sense of sight
• sense of taste, facial nerve and facial expressions
“Captures the lemony freshness of early fall.”
“Like a bouquet of flowers.”
July 24th, 2008 GregDDC
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I was reading an interesting article about young men getting vasectomies along with using condoms for birth control. The article puts it as a way for “men to take more responsibility for birth control”, a way of controlling the reproductive consequences of sex. It’s an interesting idea. I was immediately reminded of a funny story I read a few years back (sorry for the long quote, it’s worth it).
I’ll try to sum up a funny story that happened a few years ago: I got a vasectomy. I met a girl soon afterwards. She was nice and attractive but with a selfish streak that raised a big red flag. She was 32 at the time and I could practically HEAR her biological clock ticking. Regardless, she was a good lay, easy on the eyes, and reasonably good company.
I did NOT tell her about my vasectomy and I always used a condom with her to protect against STDs. She assumed, obviously, that the condom was only used for birth control. Silly girl.
We date for a few months. I never made any move towards commitment but she brought it up ocassionally. For me, this was a casual but pleasant relationship. For her - as I was to find out - it was part of life-changing series of events that she was planning very carefully.
Four months into dating, I get the “I’m pregnant” talk. She’s going on and on about how the condom must have broke and now we really need to think about getting married “for the baby”. She’s positively giddy. She has a baby in her and she thinks she’s gonna have a good meal ticket (me) to go along with her new 7lb annuity.
At this point, I’m just as giddy. I get to pull the reverse “oops” on her. I figured that she slept with some bad boy and got knocked up. Good thing I was using condoms! Better still that I have a serious mistrust of women who can’t think beyond their own uteri.
So I wait a couple of days to “think about all this.” I meet her again. I say I don’t want kids and that she should have an abortion. I know where this is going and sure enough it goes there. She goes completely batsh*t insane on me. There were the usual insults about my manhood. There were threats of legal action. It was all very ugly and I was loving every minute of it.
Well, I let her stew for a few days. She leaves me nasty messages on my phone. She sends awful emails. I’m laughing hysterically.
It was time to drop the hammer. While she was stewing I was busy. First I get a notarized copy from the urologist who performed the vasectomy. Next I get a notarized copy of the TWO test results indicating a “negative test result for sperm” to show I’m sterile and shooting blanks. Finally, I get a letter from a shark attorney stating he has seen the other documents and is prepared to litigate against this woman if she continues to communicate with me in such an unpleasant manner. Also, the letter states that we will insist on DNA testing to show that the baby is not mine. I’m ready.
I meet with this woman at her place. I bring flowers and a small bit of jewelry to show I am willing to reconcile and assume my responsibilities as a new father. I also have stuck in my pocket the documents I have prepared.
She’s all giddy again. Her plan is going perfectly - or so she thinks. We talk about our future. We have some pretty good sex. Then, as I am about to walk out the door, I ask her the $64,000 question. “Are you sure that this baby is mine?”
Well, she goes batsh*t insane again. Hell, she ought to. Her plan could completely unravel if there is ANY question about my paternity. Oh, she’s really screaming now. How dare I question her morals. Do I think she’s a slut. I’m just trying to weasel out of my responsibilities… blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda.
I’m not really mad. I’m kind of embarrassed for her. But since she won’t shut up and the neighbors can hear all of this, I ask her to step back inside and sit down. She sits on the sofa and calms down a bit. She is glaring at me with all the moral self-righteousness that only a woman can muster up. She thinks she has me trapped. She is 100% convinced her plan has worked. Oh, the tangled web of lies and deceit she has wrought around herself and I am about to hack through them with a few pieces of paper.
I reach into my pocket slowly. I extract the three pieces of paper and unfold them slowly and deliberately.
I tell her simply, “You’re screwed”.
Her look doesn’t change. There is no way she can fathom what I have prepared.
I continue. “I am sterile”
Her look changes just a bit. Something is beginning to sink in. Naturally, she reverts to women’s logic. “You’re full of sh*t. You’re trapped and you know it.”
I hold up the letter and the test results. “Three months before we met, I had a vasectomy. Here is a notarized letter from him stating what I had done. Here are two test results showing that I tested negative for the presence of sperm. Blanks. I am shooting blanks. That baby inside you is simply not mine.”
This woman is not to be swayed by logic and clear documentation. “Bullsh*t, those are fakes.”
I was ready for that. “No, they are real. This last piece of paper is from my attorney. It’s a simple letter to you that states if you pursue any kind of legal action against me for child support that I will insist on a DNA test to prove paternity, that is, to prove that your baby is not mine.”
I give the woman all the documents. She reads them slowly, deliberately. With each passing second she can feel in her soul that she has made a very bad mistake. With denial swept away, she started to cry. It’s a small cry at first. Then it becomes deeper and more painful. By the time she gets to the letter from the lawyer she is sobbing.
I had no sympathy for her. I turned and walked out the door. Even after I closed the door I could still hear her sobbing.
Epilogue -
I never heard directly from this woman again. I did hear through my friends that she did indeed have the baby. I also heard that the real father was some guy in a band she had met. I assumed that after 30, women stopped going after musicians, bikers, criminals, and thugs. Silly me for thinking the best of American women.
The Moral of the Story -
Get a vasectomy but keep it a secret.
Ha ha, 7lb annuity, that’s awesome.
Now this isn’t to say that all girls are biological clock watching baby mongers, far from it. The simple fact remains that if you have a child your life will change (either for the good or for the bad). These men are simply taking their reproductive future into their own hands. That can’t be that bad.
A guy can tell an angry grandfather-to-be ‘Look, here’s money to take care of this at the clinic right now instead of dealing with this mistake for 18 years. But only the woman’s opinion matters. And some guys are sick of that.
–Doug Stein, a doctor in Florida who has performed more than 17,000 vasectomies over the past 30 years
Now I’m sorry for more quotes, but there was some really interesting stuff in the comments of the main article and I want to give them voice.
Justcontent
Jul 23, 2008 11:31:15 PM
Gentlemen, notice how the harpies that have chimed in make no distinction between promiscuous sterilized men that don’t use condoms, and promiscuous sterilized men who do use condoms.
This is because the no-condom issue is a front for what is TRULY boiling their black harpy blood: Men exercising their reproductive rights WITHOUT the consent or approval of a woman!
Reproduction is central to a woman’s identity -whether they want to be a bio mother or not. As such, women -consciously or unconsciously- have a twisted sense of carte blanche about the issue; to the degree that they view a man who autonomously makes a decision about his fertility as an infringement upon their reproductive rights.
Disgusting.
The fair and just equation should read as such: HER BODY, HER CHOICE.
HIS BODY, HIS CHOICE.
But what the harpies want is an equation reads: HER BODY, HER CHOICE.
HIS BODY, HER CHOICE.
Let the harpies scream bloody murder if they will.
As long as a man takes charge of his fertility, he need not be concerned with what a woman says or thinks about reproduction. At the very least he need not worry about being oopsed. ,
By the way gentlemen, know this: of those who would have you believe that oopsing is a
rare occurrence, the majority are, and will be -women.
ack78
Jul 9, 2008 1:32:25 PM
“Why should women be in control of when—and if—they have children?”
Um, maybe because they are the ones who have to carry the kid around for 9 months and deal with the nausea, weight gain, and aches and pains, not to mention the excruciating birth, and they are the ones who will most likely have to raise the kid alone if their father decides to bail. If these guys are so “sick of it”, as your article claims, maybe they should wear a condom (which, by the way, also protects against STDs, unlike the quickie vasectomies you’re advertising as though it’s a trendy thing to do). It takes two people to make a baby, not just a woman trying to trick a man.
BittyMonkey
Jul 15, 2008 9:08:15 AM
Um, men use condoms because they would not be liking the STDs that result from unprotected sex, not because they want to ride bareback all the time. Way to make men sound like idiots.
Seems to me a guy taking control of his own fertility is being completely responsible, not irresponsible.
Oh, and newsflash, writer: Michael Scott is not real and where are your stats citing that men will “regret” it?
vciaccio
Jul 16, 2008 10:28:05 PM
I was interviewed for this article.
Safe sex is unrelated to vasectomy. I have no doubts that when a man is speaking to his doctor about the procedure, his doctor emphasizes this point. I know mine did.
Many of the commenters here seem to be thinking only of single, completely unattached men having casual sex. This completely ignores committed relationships, a situation in which safe sex becomes less of an issue (assuming monogamy) and pregnancy becomes the bigger threat.
I have known I did not want to be a father since my late teens. The prospect of accidental pregnancy was an ever-present threat, making sex far from enjoyable and by no means spontaneous. My sex life with my wife is far better than it would be if the specter of accidental pregnancy was still hanging over us.
July 23rd, 2008 GregDDC
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This is wonderful. A guy named Matt Harding has been traveling the world. When he arrives at a place he then dances with the people there, usually in front of iconic landmarks. It’s hard not to feel a little closer to everyone else in the world while watching this video. Everyone can’t dance, just like me (except those Indian Sari dancers, they know what they’re doing). I am more than a little jealous of his adventures. He even got sponsored by Stride Gum! Free travel! Maybe if I ever get to travel again I will think of something equally as clever to do.
July 21st, 2008 GregDDC
I couldn’t tell you why I wanted to listen to Kittie this morning. It’s not a very “morning friendly” music. It was Paul and a punky stripper/tattoo artist that got me listening to Kittie. It’s good stuff. Really good stuff. Give it a watch and a listen. This is proof that girls who rock are better than girls who do not rock. It’s simple math.
July 17th, 2008 GregDDC
Once a month the best-of-craigslist comes out. Usually it is just full of gay men talking about how people need to have their buttholes waxed or people complaining about how there are too many people in the personal pages that are degenerates. I have three favorites. One if from a while back and the other two are new this month.
The first one is entitled “Fingered on the RED line - Columbia University - w4m” and it is wonderful.
Fingered on the RED line - Columbia University - w4m
Date: 2008-02-07, 12:06PM EST
Hi!
We were on the RED local line, I got on at 14th Street, you were already on the train. I got off at Columbia University 116th. Around 5PM. It was very crowded and you were behind me. We talked awkwardly while you were still behind my back, pushed into each other. I told you I hate being an undergrad, we connected. You ended up fingering me while no one else was noticing. I didn’t get your full e-mail. If you see this, let me know. I hope you do! I miss you.
This second one is curt. It is also probably one of the funniest things I have ever read on craigslist. It is called “josh from the frat house on 15th - w4m”
josh from the frat house on 15th - w4m
Date: 2008-06-19, 11:24AM EDT
I’m pregnant
My favorite one is definitely not safe for work so edge in close to the screen while reading it if you need to. “Want it from behind while you play Super Mario Brothers ? - m4w”
Want it from behind while you play Super Mario Brothers ? - m4w
Date: 2008-07-02, 2:35PM EDT
Do you love to play Super Mario Brothers on the Classic Nintendo System? Do you like to get tagged from behind while you do it? This is the post for you then.
You must know your way around the game before we meet, must be open to anal sex, also able to fake an orgasm is a plus.
I will send you the address to a hotel and a room number. When you arrive the door will be open. Please come in close and lock the door and close the shades if they are still open. I will be in the bathroom and the door will be closed. Turn on the TV and the Nintendo. Remove all of your clothing. Turn off all lights in the room and kneel down on the bed so you are directly in the light of the TV. You need to be facing the TV with your butt in the air pointed toward the pillows on the bed.
Press the start button on the controller when you are ready. I will hear the sound and turn the light off in the bathroom and come out. You will not look directly at me, only look at the TV. When the first level starts I will begin to finger you and lick you. I will be using lots of lube as well.
When you reach the end of level one, make sure to trigger the fireworks. This is vital to the entire experience. I must hear the fireworks. When level 2 begins and Mario walks into the pipe, I will penetrate you. You may say things like, “MORE”, “HARDER”, “YES”, “FUCK ME”, but nothing else. I will continue having sex until the level ends. DO NOT take the secret level skip. If you die I will pull out and spank you until the level restarts.
When you reach the flag you must again trigger the fireworks, and also orgasm. I will pull out. When the 1-3 starts I will penetrate your ass. You are allowed to say something like “OH GOD”, “YES”, OR “IT HURTS” no other conversation is allowed.
When level 1-4 starts I will alternate between holes as I see fit. You may beg me to cum inside or outside of you, depending on what you want. When boss falls and you reach the princess I will pull out and blow my load where you have convinced me I want too. You may then say something like “Thanks”, “It was great”, “I loved it”, “Don’t stop”
If I am impressed you may continue playing and I will continue to pleasure you. If I am not, I will turn the Nintendo Off and return to the bathroom. At this time you may clean your self with the towel that is beside the bed. Turn the lights on, redress yourself and leave.
I may come back out and talk to you as you dress but the conversation will most likely be short and revolve around scheduling another time to get together.
I think the worst part of the last one is that it was written in the middle of the day on a Wednesday. The same day that Amelia Earhart went missing. Have a heart man!
July 16th, 2008 GregDDC
I have finished upgrading this blag to the new and totally fancy Wordpress 2.6. It was a mostly painless upgrade but it was not without its problems. The categories that I use to divvy up my posts were almost completely lost. I had to dig right into the database and repair them manually. I’m guessing that most WP users are not going to be able to do that. The basic gist is that when wordpress upgrades the database it puts everything from category tables into term_taxonomy tables. The conversion process loses the names of the categories in the changeover process. Hopefully the wordpress can fix this one issue on their otherwise wonderful install process.
July 14th, 2008 GregDDC
It’s been a while since I have been unable to decide if I liked something or truly loved it. I’m on the fence. I hope to hear what you all think about Busted Wonder. There are several other projects on this page that are really worth your attention. My favorite of the others is “Something’s Wrong” followed by “Exterminus“. All of it is hard to explain so you’ll just have to eyeball it for yourself.
I took it a bit further including the score for the Big XII Championship against Colorado and the National Championship against Clemson (you can’t avoid us, you bastards!). I also kept the Kansas game closer and the Kansas State game is total domination (instead of his 31-29 nail biter). We both agree on the Texas A&M game as well. I hope to see more of your predictions so we can compare. Get ready folks, this is going to be one hell of a year.
