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I'm very bummed to hear this.  IE Bruin is a solid cat.

I'm very bummed to hear this.  IE Bruin is a solid cat.

I'm very bummed to hear this.  IE Bruin is a solid cat.

I'm very bummed to hear this.  IE Bruin is a solid cat.

Busy night, by DR standards:  Went down to my mom's house where I met my friend who was house and cat sitting for my mom.  He worked from there today so he was around all day.  He had a couple nice cameras out to take pictures of the out of doors. 
 
But before meeting up with him, I spent an hour on the life cycle at the gym.  Gym owner said she wanted to measure my body fat.  Hmmmmm....
 
My friend had a couple laptops going (he's a software analyst/manager or something like that for a giant company) and I immediately put him to work fixing some problems with my laptop.  Being a computer expert is a bit like having a truck when someone needs help moving.
 
While he was being a computer nerd, I messed around with said friend's cameras.  One has a brilliant lense which can get some pretty good details of places like the moon.  The other camera is a DSLR which has an amazing ability to capture several frames in quick succession and composite them to produce one brilliant photo. 
 
After some computer tap dancing, we went to dinner at the Spaghetti Bender.  Pretty good.  I ordered the soup and salad, both of which are 'bottomless' and I ate like a mofo.
 
When I got home, the cat was pretty pissed I was gone so long.  So I gave her an extra dab of tuna. 
 
Now I'm having trouble logging on to the new site with IE.  But firefox is proving more than able to handle the task, which of course is allowing me to give you all the important Friday night update. 

The awful occasion when you have to use the dumper (I-15 to Vegas) and the Del Taco toilet seat is not just covered in graffiti.  That's not enough.  It's when you see that assorted El Monte Doyyer fans have engraved whatever the f it is they engrave in vato font into the g'damn toilet seat.  Who does this!?  Who takes the time? Who wants to get that close?  You have to get on your knees to do this.  What instrument do they carry with them?  Do they have a pocket exacto knife kits on hand?  Just, WTF?!?  
Same Del Taco:  A-hole Euro or jap tourists who are more confused with the menu then Ghostface Killah is with a dentist appointment.  Yes, please ask the zit-chick behind the counter what a tostada is.  It totally translates in the french.  Or jap.
When they jack up your order, you don't think to check your bag until you're at your car or table and you go back and the line is 20 deep and you feel the eyes of hell upon you because you need to beg for your 1/2 pound red pound burrito.
Back to the bathroom.  When you just want to wash/dry your hands and get the F outta there, but old man river white man wants to shoot the feces with you.  "Hot one, huh?"  Hot?  No.  We're in Baker.  Why would it be hot?  The secret to life is no eye contact.

So once the plane landed, was he able to get off?

So once the plane landed, was he able to get off?

With the overwhelming amount of terrible awful no good writing out there (and maybe worse, a total lack of research and accessibility to the subject matter), this is a no brainer.  
 
I’m in. 
 
 

With the overwhelming amount of terrible awful no good writing out there (and maybe worse, a total lack of research and accessibility to the subject matter), this is a no brainer.  
 
I’m in. 
 
 

Like most people, I had a co-worker with this unforgivable combo:  1.  Personal Space Invader.  Talked at you with about one foot between his face and yours.  2.  Drone Story Teller.  He would talk about nothingness with little side passages offering no escape.  You couldn't get a word in to excuse yourself.   ie:  "I went to the cleaners to pick-up a shirt my mom gave me for my birthday where she served my favorite spaghetti recipe; I love spaghetti, but not with the runny sauce.  It has to be thick.  I'll make it sometime and bring some into work.  And when I got to the cleaners; it's off Laurel Canyon and I always wondered if they did a good job but I heard they were expensive but I didn't have a choice since it's close to work and I am going to my ex-girlfriend's wedding on Saturday.  The guy she's marrying is a real kook.  Talks way too much..."
 
I once had to give him a time-out signal then tell him I had to take a 3-2-1 dump.  I scurried to the restroom and didn't look back.  Washed my hands and went back to work.

Actually, the stadium and its parking lot are public property leased by the Angels, a private entity.  I'm not nit-picking but it is a significant difference.
 
The city of Anaheim went to court when the Angels changed their name to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.  I don't have the exact wording, but the city renewed its lease with the Angels on the condition that the name Anaheim remain in the team name.  But there was no wording in the contract with how the Angels could use the word Anaheim.
 
Also, you know those a-holes in the white suits that beg for money outside the gates?  For soem bogus church?  The Angels fought them on that but were limited because its public property. 

Now accepting applications for appropriate names for the Stros. 
I suggest the following:
As-terisk-stros. Really just rolls off the tongue. 
 
 

Now accepting applications for appropriate names for the Stros. 
I suggest the following:
As-terisk-stros. Really just rolls off the tongue. 
 
 

Now accepting applications for appropriate names for the Stros. 
I suggest the following:
As-terisk-stros. Really just rolls off the tongue. 
 
 

Now accepting applications for appropriate names for the Stros. 
I suggest the following:
As-terisk-stros. Really just rolls off the tongue. 
 
 

Now accepting applications for appropriate names for the Stros. 
I suggest the following:
As-terisk-stros. Really just rolls off the tongue. 
 
 

Now accepting applications for appropriate names for the Stros. 
I suggest the following:
As-terisk-stros. Really just rolls off the tongue. 
 
 

This feels like an appropiate thread to discuss Miami Vice:
 
I really like a two parter called "Golden Triangle."  I think I've mentioned it in the Weekend Shenanigans thread(s).
 
So, what starts as Crockett and Tubbs going undercover as hotel security to bust a prostitution ring actually leads to a much darker, deeper underworld, wherein a drug king pin, General Lao Li, late of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand (essentially, the Golden Triangle of the orient), has set up shop in Miami.
 
He's had his run ins with Castillo when during the Vietnam War.  Castillo was DEA trying to interrupt the Golden Triangle drug routes, but General Lao Li, working with the CIA, needed those routes open.  So, some members of the CIA exposed Castillo and had him ambushed.  Hence, a piece of his dark character is exposed.  When Castillo explains this to Crockett and Tubbs, Sonny says, "Man, that's crazy."
 
Castillo shoots him a look, pauses, and responds:  "No it's not.  It's south-east Asia."
 
This thread is sort of a Golden Triangle.

The Angels have to be weary of any future wrongful termination claims. Drug addiction can be a “disability” for purposes of a claimed medical disability. Even if the employee doesn’t inform the employer of the disability, he can claim that the Angels knew or should have known (I’d put that in all caps if I knew how) that the employee had the disability. Do you see how the employee is stating things to show the Angels “should have known” about the employee’s addiction? This is by design, amigos.
If the Angels terminate the employee they open themselves up to a wrongful termination/disability discrimination claim under California state law and federal law (ADA). California law essentially mirrors the federal law but also, California state courts are more employee-friendly then other states so the Angels have to really go by the book on this one or they risk a lawsuit.
This reminds me of the Miami Vice episode “Fruit of the Poison Tree.”
 

The Angels have to be weary of any future wrongful termination claims. Drug addiction can be a “disability” for purposes of a claimed medical disability. Even if the employee doesn’t inform the employer of the disability, he can claim that the Angels knew or should have known (I’d put that in all caps if I knew how) that the employee had the disability. Do you see how the employee is stating things to show the Angels “should have known” about the employee’s addiction? This is by design, amigos.
If the Angels terminate the employee they open themselves up to a wrongful termination/disability discrimination claim under California state law and federal law (ADA). California law essentially mirrors the federal law but also, California state courts are more employee-friendly then other states so the Angels have to really go by the book on this one or they risk a lawsuit.
This reminds me of the Miami Vice episode “Fruit of the Poison Tree.”
 

The Angels have to be weary of any future wrongful termination claims. Drug addiction can be a “disability” for purposes of a claimed medical disability. Even if the employee doesn’t inform the employer of the disability, he can claim that the Angels knew or should have known (I’d put that in all caps if I knew how) that the employee had the disability. Do you see how the employee is stating things to show the Angels “should have known” about the employee’s addiction? This is by design, amigos.
If the Angels terminate the employee they open themselves up to a wrongful termination/disability discrimination claim under California state law and federal law (ADA). California law essentially mirrors the federal law but also, California state courts are more employee-friendly then other states so the Angels have to really go by the book on this one or they risk a lawsuit.
This reminds me of the Miami Vice episode “Fruit of the Poison Tree.”
 

The Angels have to be weary of any future wrongful termination claims. Drug addiction can be a “disability” for purposes of a claimed medical disability. Even if the employee doesn’t inform the employer of the disability, he can claim that the Angels knew or should have known (I’d put that in all caps if I knew how) that the employee had the disability. Do you see how the employee is stating things to show the Angels “should have known” about the employee’s addiction? This is by design, amigos.
If the Angels terminate the employee they open themselves up to a wrongful termination/disability discrimination claim under California state law and federal law (ADA). California law essentially mirrors the federal law but also, California state courts are more employee-friendly then other states so the Angels have to really go by the book on this one or they risk a lawsuit.
This reminds me of the Miami Vice episode “Fruit of the Poison Tree.”
 

Michael Madson was in an episode of Miami Vice. I believe it was the episode entitled “Whatever Works.” I talked to him about it once. He was very proud of the fact that he did his own stunts in that episode.

This reminds me of the Miami Vice episode “Evan.” Really a great episode. Crockett and Tubbs are having a bit of a fallout because Crockett won’t tell Tubbs the full story on an undercover arms dealer (Evan) whom Crockett came up with. So Tubbs does some digging on the side and then asks Crockett about Evan and his relationship with Crockett while in the Ferrari Daytona. Crockett screeches the car to a stop on the side of the road and says, “You’re my partner, not my priest. And where the hell do you get off demanding I bare my soul to you.”
Tubbs responds, “If you wanna drop the friendship and just be partners, so be it.”  To which Crockett replies, “So be it,” before peeling out. 
Note: this is an abridged version of the conversation. But it’s a great exchange found in an excellent episode directed by Rob Cohen (Fast and the Furious).