Chris Blaisdell

Welcome Roger Christopher Blaisdell

2009-04-11T13:04:00.000-07:00

Roger Christopher Blaisdell was born on April 4, 2009, 6 pounds 9 ounces by cesarean section. He's happy and healthy and his mommy is recovering well.

Magic Overtake Boston Celtics in the East And Steal Home Court!

2009-03-25T21:16:00.000-07:00

Magic Overtake Boston Celtics in the East And Steal Home Court!

Money For Ones And Zeroes

2009-03-09T23:32:00.000-07:00

For the first time in my life, I recently broke down and payed money for ones and zeroes.

I have an app on every digital device I own that i use to play Sirius satellite radio.

Three weeks after I purchased a license, I get a message that says...

"NiceMac has decided in their best interest, to discontinue the StarPlayr project and will be issuing refunds to StarPlayr for Windows Mobile customers. To request a refund, simply copy and paste your StarPlayr for Windows Mobile PayPal receipt via our email form. Please allow 10 business days to receive your refund."

I cannot tell you how much I hate the world today.

Not only did I pay for the software, but I pay a monthly fee to listen to satellite radio. But apparently that means I've only payed to hear it in my car? And they'll require another fee to hear it in my house? And when I'm in the doctor's office, I'm just simply not legally allowed to listen?

And now when I log in to my XM radio account, it says that today is my last chance for free online listening?

Sigh.

What?!! $188 dollars a month for TV?!

2009-03-06T15:13:00.000-08:00

Are you kidding me? I've been paying $188 dollars a month for TV? Good God!

Some things on this bill I either don't remember even asking for, or were "free for 90 days" and I never bothered to check what was being automatically debited every month, and I don't think I've watched a single thing on HBO this year.

And here's the post George W version. Whew, much better. Thanks dubayah.

Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman

2009-02-12T21:59:00.000-08:00

Hands down the most brilliant Letterman appearance ever.

I've gotta know what the hell this is. There's NO WAY this is real.

Ann Coulter Under Investigation for Voter Fraud

2009-02-08T20:42:00.000-08:00

According to the New York Daily News, Cult leader and all around crazy cunt Ann Coulter under investigation for Voter Fraud.

Personally, I thought the should have locked her up after she tried to kill all those puppies.

Ticket To Anywhere But Here

2009-02-08T14:00:00.000-08:00

Hey look at this, I thought it was pretty cool.

Microsoft has a new airfare search engine that gives you the lowest fares to nowhere in particular.

Just put in where you are, and look at the cheapest way to get somewhere else.

Just what I need.

http://farecast.live.com/flexibleTravel.do

How to Upload a DVD to Youtube

2009-01-31T17:14:00.000-08:00

Use either DVD Decrypter or Mac the Ripper (thanks kdarty), to copy the title, segment, or chapter of the DVD that you're interested in in to a single file on your hard drive.

The file will have a .VOB extension.

Simply rename the file to .mpg or .mpeg and upload.

That's it.

Remember, Youtube imposes a 1 Gig, 10 minute limit on uploads. For my video, I used DVD Decrypter to split my clip in two segments. And here they are.

By the way, that's my kid! Halfway to his knee baby! Booyah!

Asking Permission To Use My Laptop

2009-01-28T19:39:00.000-08:00

Thanks for the laptop Apple.

May I now have permission to edit the VOB files from my wife's ultrasound?

What's that? They might be from a commercial DVD and you are totally in bed with the billion dollar media conglomerates?

That's fine, just completely block iMovie from editing mpeg2 files. I'll boot in to Windows where I don't need to ask permission.

Bin Laden and Rush Limbaugh Hoping For Our President to Fail

2009-01-27T19:27:00.000-08:00

Rush Limbaugh: "I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: 'Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.' Somebody's gotta say it."

Limbaugh also recently had said: "We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds... grab the ankles, bend over... because his father was black."

Hmm, whadya know. Same thing Bin Laden wants.

Orlando Magic #1 in the NBA

2009-01-17T22:00:00.000-08:00

Orlando Magic first Place in the NBA.

FYI

No, no, no. Shrink me down.

2009-01-14T20:39:00.000-08:00

No, no, no, Butthead. You're not getting it.

I'm saying SHRINK ME DOWN but leave my SCHLONG Big.

The Mute Xbox Experience

2008-12-23T19:37:00.000-08:00

So, I unpacked my new XBox 360, and went about attempting to connect it.

It only comes with one AV cable but no problem because it has an HDMI port on the back right?

Yes and no. The problem is: audio over the built in HDMI flat out won't work. I found an article that says Microsoft is attempting to fix the problem, but how am I going to hear my Xbox in the meantime?

After frustrating trips to Gamestop and Walmart to find out that Microsoft charges $50 for an xbox digital audio cable, I decided to use this article to Mutilate the excuse for a cable they include in the box so that I could jam them both in at the same time and actually see AND hear my games using the same stereo RCA connectors I used to connect my 8 track player to my grandmothers Hi Fi in 1981.

Classy Microsoft.

Thanks.

How to pull $73 directly out of your ASS.

2008-12-12T16:04:00.000-08:00

If you don't live in a cave, you've probably heard how the evil American auto workers are robbing us blind to the tune of $73 dollars an hour. The only problem is that the figure comes from a right wing blogger who pulled it directly out of his ass.

They invented the number by adding together every penny paid to every employee who has ever worked at every plant, and the cost of health care for every employee that works, and has ever worked at every plant, and divided by the number of hours the CURRENT employees work.

In other words, the figure is complete and utter BULLSHIT.

The average UAW line worker earns $26 dollars per hour.

Now, it is true that the cost of paying the health care of retired UAW employees and their families is getting expensive because .... OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER SCAM!! A system that many of the foreign car companies with whom we compete are not required to participate in because THEIR HEALTH CARE IS FREE!!

Christie's Magazine Ad

2008-11-20T18:24:00.001-08:00

Christie's Magazine Ad
Originally uploaded by christie.blaisdell

I'm really proud of Christie's new magazine ad.

Her family is asking for an extra copy of the magazine so they can see and keep it.

Can I ask your help to click here and sign up for a free subscription to Nephrology News & Issues?

Google Nerd Theme For Email

2008-11-20T10:57:00.000-08:00

Thanks Trevor, Finally Google creates an email theme for total and complete NERDS. Yay Nerds!

It's a BOY!! BOOYAHHH!!!

2008-11-18T17:33:00.001-08:00

Roger Christopher Blaisdell
Originally uploaded by christie.blaisdell

World. Get ready for Roger Christopher Blaisdell!!

Saw my kid's garbage today, and he's a BOY!!!

BooyaHHH!!
http://flickr.com/photos/christieblaisdell

OK, No. I'm just getting a new Grill.

2008-11-15T20:26:00.000-08:00

Well, not one of the best Saturday mornings I've ever had.

I still hadn't picked all the eye boogers out yet this morning when I noticed that the gas grill in my screen patio had a full on skirt of leaves around the bottom of it.

But huh? How did they make it through the screen room and then gather themselves around the bottom of my gas grill?

I opened one of the glass doors, and was hit in the face with a stench that you would not believe.

It began to sink in. Something has made its way in to my screen patio, built a nest, and promptly curled up and died! In my FFing Grill!!! Bastard!!

I slid the door closed as quickly as possible. Fuck!!. Now I have to go clean up dead varmint nest. Shit!! Not the way I wanted to spend my morning, but now the stench is leaking in to my house.

Now if only I could remember where my wife (a dialysis nurse) keeps her surgical gloves, and mask. Damn, nowhere to be found.

Holding my shirt over my nose, I got a shovel from the garage and pushed the grill back, and saw the biggest white faced opossum in the universe. How the fuck did that thing get in to my screen room!

Well, I suppose it would come in handy sooner or later, growing up on a farm in Michigan. I set out to the back yard with the shovel, searching for a proper burial site for my foul bloated rat friend. But apparently, every single inch of my back yard consists of Roots and twigs! Sigh, god this day sucks.

Back in to the kitchen, I found an entire bag of garbage bags and brought it back to the patio. God damn, sorry garbage man, but better you than me.

I wouldn't exactly call it a proper burial, but I was able (barely able) to hold breakfast down long enough to quadruple bag him, and haul him out to the garbage can where he will have to wait for garbage day ... ON TUESDAYY!! Sigh.

By the time i swept all the leaves from his death bed out in to the back yard, there were dead rodent streak marks all the way from where the grill was to the back door! God why me.

After dumping an entire bottle of dish detergent and scrubbing with a broom and washing down with the hose, oh and throwing away my Grill forever, (You're crazy if you think I am ever eating a cheeseburger out of that thing again in this lifetime.) I was able to retire back in to the house and try to think of something to tell the housekeeper about why me, and my entire house and yard, smells like a rotting corpse!

Nothing to be worried about Erica... Honest!

By the way, care for a cheeseburger?

Remember Where You Are America

2008-11-04T15:50:00.000-08:00

Remember where you are America.

Your grandchildren will want to know.

I think we just changed the world.

All Episodes of Sanford & Son Ever

2008-11-03T19:33:00.000-08:00

Ok, all episodes of Sanford & Son ever in one box. U got me. Sold.

What Will "W" Do On His Way Out?

2008-11-01T13:51:00.000-07:00

If you thought George W. Bush was scary, how about a George W. Bush on his way out the door with NOTHING TO LOOSE?!

I've been afraid of anything from the usual list of pardons, to giving a wink and a nod to Israel on the way out the door to "Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran"; but the cover of the Washington Post yesterday, has given me some completely new Halloween shivers.

According to the Post, "The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January.

The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would ease or lift constraints on private industry, including power plants, mines and farms. "

Rick Davis "Jazzed Up" about the Polls? Huh?

2008-11-01T12:11:00.000-07:00

I was just reading John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis talking about how "Jazzed Up" he is about McCain's comeback and how he's looking at "the best ten days of polling" since the convention".

At first I was terrified, until I realized that he is completely delusional and / or just simply outright lying.

So, I thought I would take a look at every an average of every recent poll taken in the battleground states at pollster.com, and Rick Davis is "Jazzed Up".

And this is the "best week since the convention"? Holy God!

By the way... Here's the kicker. If John McCain does make a comeback by Tuesday, and wins every single one of these states.

He still loses 270 to 268.

Obama Twisting His Moustache?

2008-10-30T20:27:00.000-07:00

So, the latest republican characterization of Senator Barack Obama is that of a mustache twisting villain from the 1800s?

If you are lucky enough to live in one of the battleground states of Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, or Colorado, you probably were greeted at your mailbox this week with this flier.

So, just by the looks of it, I am guessing it means Barack Obama ties baby carriages to um ... train tracks?

Swap Houses!

2008-10-23T18:56:00.000-07:00

Holy Crap, I am TOTALLY doing this!

Two families swap houses, and it's Free! You stay in mine, I stay in yours.

http://www.homeexchange.com/

And what sucks.. I had this idea a long time ago and didn't write the site! Laziness sucks.

Here's the list of homes that users would like to swap for a house in Orlando, FL.

PATAGONIA, Argentina

BEIJING, China

French Alps

Cape Town South Africa

Now THAT'S a Burger!

2008-10-23T10:42:00.000-07:00

CHILI'S JALAPEÑO SMOKEHOUSE BACON BIG MOUTH BURGER*

Extra thick-cut applewood smoked bacon topped with smoked cheddar cheese, crunchy tortilla strips, jalapeños, mayo, shredded lettuce, tomato and onion. Served with jalapeño-ranch dressing.

That is unless you can get your hands on THIS burger.