News flash entries have been, since 2006, my way of "announcing" celebrity deaths. Well, this week, a trifecta of big name celebrities have died, and I posted about them. However, I received word tonight that someone else died yesterday that was not necessarily a celebrity to everyone; but for those who knew him, he was.

Yesterday, Dr. Raymond Peter Srsic died. If you don't know who I am talking about, he was my doctor for over 20 years, my best friend's doctor just as long, my vocalist's kids' doctor... he was jokingly "half of Maryland's" doctor, and amazing. He will be missed by the hundreds, if not thousands of people he served (children brought their children who brought their children to see him). He was 81 years old and still practicing up until the time of his death.

Obituary, viewing and funeral information can be found at this link:
http://fhnfuneralhome.com/visitations/View.php?id=27521

Rest in peace, Dr. Srsic. We love you.

Michael Jackson is dead.

Okay, now that I've blogged it, we can all stop talking about it.

Michael Jackson might have died.

CNN doesn't know yet, but TMZ says he's dead. I believe CNN over TMZ.

Sources:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/25/michael.jackson/index.html
http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-dies-death-dead-cardiac-arrest/

Edit: He has officially died. Link.

Here's a double whammy.

Ed McMahon died Tuesday (age: 86), and Farrah Fawcett (age: 62) died today.

The following was written by Trent Reznor (from NIN fame, in case you have been living in a box and/or underground since the 80's) and posted on the NIN.com forums. I got a good laugh out of this, and am reposting it.

Looks like the Metal Sludge contingency has discover [sic] Twitter! Finally! For those of you that don't know what this is, please let me explain. Metal Sludge is the home of the absolutely worst people I've ever come across. It's populated mainly by unattractive plump females who publicly fantasize about having sex with guys in bands. Kind of like a role-playing game where people NOBODY will fuck make up stories about their incredible sexual encounters with people they WISH they could fuck. It would be kind of funny in a sad and pathetic way except the fun doesn't stop there - hate and good old-fashioned outright blatant racism are also encouraged to spice things up and remind you how truly ugly these scourges are. TRULY ugly on the inside (the outside is obvious).
Cutter's tip for my friends there: remember to cut along the length of vein, not across. Bigger payoff.

Source: http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?9,731489

I've never heard of this website before, but apparently, it somehow correlated from my blog that I am a Broadstripe customer and subsequently yanked my header image.

http://www.weblo.com/property/real_estate/Broadstripe_Media/2177032/


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For centuries, Hindu women have worn a dot on their foreheads. Most of us have naively thought this was connected with tradition or religion, but the Indian Embassy in Washington has recently revealed the true story.

When a Hindu woman gets married, she brings a dowry into the union. On her wedding night, the husband scratches off the dot to see whether he has won a convenience store, a gas station, a donut shop, a taxi cab, or a motel in the US. If nothing is there, he must remain in India to answer telephones and provide us with technical advice.

Don't go to Mexico or you'll get the Swine Flu.

That is all.

1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

* Disclaimer: This is a joke. If you take me seriously for posting this, you are an idiot.

Well, I moved back to my Gramda's yesterday and conveniently enough, the Internet went out. Well, it didn't totally go out, but my cable modem is throwing lots of errors in the log and speed is at a crawl. Googling these errors indiciates either a problem on the line or a failed modem.

I am waiting for Broadstripe to come inspect the line outside that runs directly from the pole to my modem (no splitters), though I am betting the problem lies with the 5 year old modem itself, for which I will inevitably end up buying a replacement.

An advantage of owning your own modem is that you don't have to pay an additional monthly modem rental fee. A disadvantage is that you can't get a new one from the cable company for free if it just randomly breaks, or to troubleshoot problems.

I'm posting this from my phone, as the v4 layout is somehow automagically allowing me to login, whereas v2/3 did not. Hooray.