A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows. Read

Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal. The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site. Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.
If the bill becomes law, the website operator would have to pay if someone was allowed to post anonymously on their site. The fine would be five-hundred dollars for a first offense and one-thousand dollars for each offense after that. Read

Well scratch that idea. Now I get to figure out an easy way to delete all of these.

there’s a list of my assets with an estimated value for each and I suppose the implied threat that I stand to lose them. Which kinda scares the living shit out of me, to be honest, since they’ve got a pretty thorough list, which means they’ve been doing some research on this and the offer didn’t just come out of thin air. Their lists includes my home address, most recent assessed value of my house and all the information about my mortgage; a rental property that we own; my bank accounts and investment accounts, including the college funds for our kids, whose names are used; and our boat and two cars.

This.. well it saddens me. I really enjoy Apple’s products, but I will be damned if I use, recommend or sing praises of them on high, if they make the slightest twitch towards this guy. But who am I right? Well I’m one of a multitude of consumers that believe in Apple’s products, and if I’m pissed about this then I’m sure that the numerous gentle readers of Daniel Lyons (did I mention he’s the Senior Editor at FORBES???) will be quite… pissed about it.

Fuck Apple Legal, right in their stupid fucking faces.

Yo can read the story here, here and here. There’s also a follow up post here.

I hope he blackens a few eyes if they take him down.

It’s strange. I’ve always had the mindset of mind over matter. All I could focus on when it was happening was the pain, and not losing it in the middle of work. It felt like everything inside me was being compressed, like I was deep underwater. My temperature shot up, I started sweating profusely, and I could hear my blood pounding in my ears. It took every ounce of my will to walk.

Am I willing to go under the knife to have it removed? I don’t know. Part of me wants to be done with it. Yank out the eye that offends and all that. Another part of me wants to deal with it, attempt to rehabilitate it. I know it’ll never be how it used to be, unless I get it removed. It’s there for a reason though. It has a function. Not to mention gall stones can still form even after your gall bladder is removed. Yay.

A lot of the stress can be attributed to work, money, things like that. It just agitates me. I have a hard enough time keeping a lid on my emotions. There’s so much I could do at work if there wasn’t so much red tape.

It’s hard adjusting to corporate life.

I’m determined to make it work though. I can handle anything thrown at me. I’ve been through much worse and come out a better person. Is it worth it though? All the lessons, and management books? I’d like to think so. If I’m wrong, well I’ve learned a lot of important lessons there.

When life gives you lemons, you punch life in the face, because you’re damn tired of making lemonade.