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N.A.A.F.A.(t)
I about lost it while watching a rerun of Penn & Teller’s: Bullshit!, Obseity episode, tonight.
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
And to quote the show,
“Man, even their acronym is fat.“
Oh and before you think this is an attack on obese people, maybe you should hear their take on the subject…
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Tags: bullshit, comedy, diet, diets, fat, funny, haha, health, Humor, losing weight, naafa, obese, obesity, penn & teller, penn & tellers bullshit, penn and teller, People, society, television, TV, Video, videos
aa, ii
I went to my second meeting tonight and dammit to hell if I’m not on the brink of crying each time. A guy, tattooed to the neck, rough all around, spoke like some sort of vagabondic vangelist. To be surprised like that really changes how you look at people. It’s like being blindsided on some random Tuesday and enjoying the pain.
I’d challenge anyone to find a group of people more humbled than those at these meetings. Anyway, here are some quotes that stuck with me tonight from various members at the meeting.
Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.
I have a card on my nightstand that reads, “God treat me tomorrow how I treat people today.”
Selflessness is thinking less of myself, not less about myself.
Church is for those trying to avoid hell, while AA is for those who have been through it.
We never know when our time will come, but when it does, I don’t want my last impression on people to be tainted with the stench & stupor of alcohol.
The liquid courage gave me the balls to do the stupidest of things.
I use to keep an AA obituary box on my dresser, with newspaper clippings, until it got too full.
I might just keep going even after all is said and done.
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Tags: aa, addiction, addictions, alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholics, alcoholics anonymous, alcoholism, drinking, life, Me, my life, People, quote, Quotes
The Birds & The Babies
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Tags: babies, birds and bees, cmx, comedy, comic, Comics, cyanide & happiness, cyanide and happiness, funny, haha, Humor, LOL, Sex, the birds and the bees
Twitter World
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Tags: 3D, cool, Geek, globe, map, maps, neat, Pop Culture, social networks, Tech, technology, tweets, twitter, twittervision, world
Haiku Compliant
The geeky poet in me couldn’t stop laughing at the Haiku Compliant part.
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Tags: cmx, comedy, comic, Comics, funny, Geek, haiku, Humor, poem, poems, poetry, xkcd
A Fish in a Bulb
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Tags: Animals, Art, artwork, creativity, Cute, fish, gold fish, goldfish, light bulb, neat
aa
I went to my first AA meeting tonight. It wasn’t court ordered or anything, I guess I was just curious and wanted to add more action to the changes I’ve made.
After going, I really got how true the narrator’s voice in Fight Club was. The honesty, the listening, the therapeutic affects of sharing in groups like that, etc… it’s something that isn’t common in the everyday interaction with people.
As for me, I couldn’t bring myself to share tonight. I worded it in my head, several times over, but wasn’t comfortable speaking. If I could have, I would have said the following.
The thing about alcohol is that it made me not care, which seemed fine as a solution to the depression I was experiencing. I saw it as a short term solution, until I finally accepted that my situation, nor life, is short term. I need to care. I need to care about the bad things in life so I can address and correct them. I need to care about the good things in life so I can truly enjoy them.
I’ll go again to be a part of the discussion and hopefully share things that make them feel how they made me feel tonight.
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Tags: aa, addiction, addictions, alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholics, alcoholics anonymous, alcoholism, change, changes, drinking, life, Me, my life, People
God Hates Figs!
I must say, it is a step up from the backwards-”Christian” rhetoric that Westboro Baptist Church usually spews.
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Tags: christian, Christianity, christians, comedy, funny, god, haha, Humor, jesus, LOL, omg, religion, religious, spiritual, Spirituality, stupid, wbc, westboro baptist church, wtf
Strawberry Hearts
“Oddities are harvested with a timely hand & tasted with a tongue that understands.“
-M. Wade Nichols
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Tags: friend, Friends, friendship, friendships, hearts, love, my writing, My Writings, oddities, poem, poems, poetry, prose, quote, Quotes, relationship, Relationships, strawberries, strawberry, writing, writings
Forced Esteem
I came across an old e-mail from a girl friend of mine and sent her the following message.
So I did a search for “puppies” in my email to find photos of my mom’s new dogs and I came across this email (with photos) from you.
Just thought I’d let you know, you’re beautiful. Don’t let anyone else (including yourself) tell you otherwise
Later that day, she replied with the following.
Aww, that was very sweet. I was just having an issue with my bf about my need for reassurance. Maybe your daily affirmations on myspace filled my need to hear positive things! Who knew you were such a psychologist!
We continued to discuss the affirmations & reassurance in greater detail. She’s a very strong-willed, independent woman, which you wouldn’t normally associate a need of such things- but as The Smiths would say, “She is human and she needs to be loved, just like everybody else does…” Sometimes we, as guys, forget that. We see our women through our own perception and forget that they have a perception of their own. A perception that doesn’t always align with our, often, more positive view.
With that on my mind this week, it caused me to be a bit more aggressively outspoken with Jules. Instead of saying something like, “Be quiet, you’re pretty” I upped it to, “I refuse to gangbang your body with hate speech” and variations thereof. It wasn’t until I straddled her on the bed and took pictures, while she yelled “No, not that angle, my chub!,” for her to see what I see.
Her reply, “Oh, okay… that one isn’t so bad.“
No more wrongful conjures in her head, just 320 x 240 vivid pixels from my phone that do not lie.
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Tags: Conversations, emotions, life, love, low self esteem, marriage, Me, men, my life, People, Relationships, self esteem, wives, women
Cut by Jesse Gimbel
My friend is the girl in her boyfriend’s music video, “Cut.” It’s from a 7-song EP he just released (Listen @ CDBaby or iTunes). This song reminds me of the mood that Gary Jules’, “Mad World” sets when I hear it- both are wonderfully bittersweet to me.
The video was made by stop-motion, using 1535 photos taken by a Nikon D70s.
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Tags: cut, cutting, depression, hate, jesse gimbel, life, love, low self esteem, Music, music video, music videos, Relationships, self esteem, stop motion, suicide, Video, videos, youtube
You’ve Got to be Twittin’ Me
Is it that late and I just lost it or is this really that funny?
Patient says, “Doctor, it hurts when I do this.” Doctor says, “Then don’t do that. Just kidding. You have lymphatic cancer.”
I was compiling a list of Twitter accounts worth following and I stumbled upon this. The stream is JokeFactory. Feel free to follow if you like off-color humor and can laugh at things none of us have control over.
Another new favorite of mine is CookBook. Somehow she manages to get a full recipe within the 140 character limit. Amazing, even if the food isn’t, but it is
Sample tweet:
Saffron Asparagus Orzo: brwn c orzo/T butter/garlic; +.25t saffron&s+p/2.5c broth. Cvr@low9m; +2c asparagus3m. Fold+8T parmesan. Srv w parm.
Of course there’s the woot and wootoff streams to follow. God knows you need to be notified as soon as possible if you’re ever going to able to buy anything from them, much less have a chance at a coveted Bag of Crap.
As for what satisfies my voyeuristic tendencies, SecretTweet succeeds where the PostSecret stream fails. If you like Post Secret, stick to their webpage.
Lastly, if you’re new to Twitter or not an employee of theirs (which is the world population, minus 27 people) then the Twitter_Tips stream offers a plethora of how-to and what’s what tweets.
Enjoy.
Filed under: Geek, Humor, People, Pop Culture, Shopping | 1 Comment
Tags: bag of crap, comedy, cook book, cooking, funny, Geek, haha, Humor, joke, jokes, LOL, People, Pop Culture, recipes, Shopping, social networking, social networks, tweet, tweets, twitter, twitter stream, twitter streams, woot, woot off
Wii Head Tracking
This is rather old, but I keep finding out that people I know have never seen it, so…
It really is good. 6.8 million viewers, much less me, can’t be wrong
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Tags: cool, DIY, do it yourself, Games, Geek, hack, hacking, head tracking, interesting, johnny chung lee, neat, nintendo, nintendo wii, science, Tech, technology, Video, video game, video games, videos, virtual reality, vr, wii, wii remote, wow, wtf, youtube
Snowdate: 03.13.09
Our Backyard.
I should have taken a photo of it this morning, before it melted.
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Tags: home, images, kentucky, life, Me, my life, Nature, Photography, photos, pictures, snow, winter
Studying My Statistics
I was talking to a new acquaintance this week about blog stats, so I thought I’d take a sampling of how people got here from Google this month.
(Image results only, with SafeSearch off. Search term first, then ranking)
Wood House – 1st out of 26,100,000
Biggest Pool in the World – 1st out of 8,420,000
Inner Feminist – 1st out of 216,000
Eyes Wide Open – 2nd out of 10,700,000
American Beauty – 2nd out of 47,900,000
Common Sense Superpower – 2nd out of 207,000
Newfoundland Dog – 2nd out of 464,000
Love Comics – 3rd out of 13,500,000
Parallelogram – 5th out of 69,900
Funny Duck – 6th out of 2,850,000
Sad Photography – 6th out of 6,420,000
Early Earth – 6th out of 38,700,000
18 and Counting – 13th out of 10,900,000
Fiber Optic – 14th out of 1,720,000
This means that I average about 4.56th place out of 12,011,921 results for those terms.
And despite my presence & ranking for all things not me, the one area I have a hard time locking down are the image results for my name M. Wade Nichols.
The dead porn star, Dennis Parker, takes that honor, while I sweep the web results. Go figure.
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Tags: blog, blog stats, Blogs, data, Geek, google, google images, images, info, Me, my blog, my weblog, photos, pictures, statistics, stats, weblog, weblog stats, weblogs
A Panda Joke
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Tags: bear, bears, cmx, comedy, comic, Comics, funny, haha, Humor, joke, jokes, LOL, panda bear, panda bears, pandas, Sex, the water cooler, the watercooler
Busted
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Tags: butter safe, buttersafe.com, cmx, comedy, comic, Comics, Cute, fire, funny, Geek, haha, Humor, LOL, water
29,000 Counts of Murder
Wow. Seriously? 66 years later. Isn’t there some sort of statute of limitations? Don’t get me wrong, morally I’m for it, but I thought the legal system wouldn’t allow such a thing.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hIH0N3mJ1HhKJrBMWn3uUa8WpghAD96RSL300
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Tags: hitler, holocaust, jewish, jews, murder, nazi, nazis, News
Peanut City
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Tags: animation, Art, artwork, charlie brown, cmx, comic, Comics, cool, frank miller, Geek, neat, peanuts, sin city
Sup’ Pups
My mother’s Yorkie, Root Beer, had puppies. It’s ironic how they look like Rottweilers when they’re young, only to go up to be one of the pansiests dogs I know. They’re like Chihuahuas without the street cred
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Tags: adorable, Animals, chihuahua, chihuahuas, Cute, dog, dogs, images, pet, pets, photos, pictures, puppies, puppy, yorkie, yorkies
Pikachu, Please
This made me smile.
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Tags: alcohol, comedy, drink, drinking, drinks, funny, haha, Humor, LOL, parties, party, partying, pikachu, pokemon, stupid, wtf
The Socialist’s Browser
Facebook, MySpace, AIM, Twitter, gChat, etc… This little add-on for Firefox allows you to organize & monitor all of the social networks you’re a part of, in one sleek & efficient design. Download & install it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1833
Or watch a quick tutorial about it first.
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Tags: add on, add ons, aim, facebook, firefox, friend, Friends, gchat, Geek, instant messenger, instant messengers, internet, myspace, People, Pop Culture, social, social networking, socialize, socializing, the internet, the web, twitter, web, yoono
Teh Geek
Rarely am I tagged on the social networks, so when I am, I go and see. Low and behold I found out that in a friend of mine’s Mr. & Mrs. world, I am “The Geek.”
Awe, come on Terri. The Geek? Just because I blog and can speak in binary does not make me a geek. Just like when you got drunk that one night and grabbed my ass, it does not make you a whoare 
Unless, of course, you were trying to pick the smartest Mr. in the limited list of options (ie: No Mr. Renaissance), in which case, I understand.
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Tags: Friends, friendship, friendships, Geek, Me, stupid
Thugged Out, Proper
Even if it were 1982 B.P. (Before Photoshop), I would have thought this was Photoshopped. Oddly enough, it wasn’t. She even blogged about it.
Here I am having Lunch yesterday with Ludacris (Chris Bridges). We had a nice salad, paella, and chocolate cake for dessert. He is a nice young man and very, very busy. He is extremely excited about his new flick and new album. Ludacris also really liked the chocolate cake!
I can’t help but laugh. My first thought was, “Ah, hell, Luda what are you doing with that bitch?” and then realized a rapper from the ghetto should be the one that detracts from the Susie home-maker image that her multi-billion dollar empire is built on. It’s a strange, strange world.
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Tags: Celebrities, ludacris, martha stewart, photos, pictures, Pop Culture, strange, weird, wtf
What the Majik?
Our cat Majik does this all the time. I can move him, call his name, etc… but nothing seems to stop him until he’s good and ready to stop. Anyone elses cat do this and any idea why they do it?
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Tags: animal video, animal videos, Animals, cat, cats, Cute, Humor, pet, pets, strange, Video, videos, weird, wtf, youtube
The Help that Hurts
“I’m the one who died from the safety net and the one who never wanted it.“
-M. Wade Nichols
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Tags: death, emotions, Family, Friends, friendships, help, hurt, life, my writing, My Writings, philosophy, poem, poems, poetry, prose, quote, Quotes, Relationships, support, writing, writings
Chance
“The lack of, or effort toward action, is but a fraction of what happens.“
-M. Wade Nichols
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Tags: chance, film, films, life, magnolia, movie, Movies, my writing, My Writings, philosophy, poem, poems, poetry, prose, quote, Quotes, writing, writings
3.5lbs in 4 seconds
I’m not sure which is worse, needing a toilet like this or watching 2.5 minutes of things being flushed down a toilet. Enjoy.
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Tags: funny, Geek, haha, Humor, LOL, toilet, toilets, Video, videos, weird, wtf
My Coffetic God
“I choose coffee over tea, because without a vice, there is nothing wrong with me.“
-M. Wade Nichols
Filed under: My Writings, Photography, Quotes | 3 Comments
Tags: arrogance, coffee, confidence, life, lifestyle, my writing, My Writings, philosophy, Photography, poem, poems, poetry, prose, quote, Quotes, self esteem, tea, writing, writings
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