Ben @ MindSay

for those of you who do not work third shift, prepare for a lesson. for anyone that does or has worked third shift prepare to read a whole bunch of stuff you already knew. Sundays suck horribly for working third shift. Knowing that you have to go into work that night, after adjusting to sleeping like a normal person all weekend, just makes you jealous of people that work a normal shift. You try to sleep sunday evening, it doesn't work, so you go to work sunday nite and deal with coworkers who also slept like shit and they're all in wonderful moods. Plus, the steelers played horribly against the eagles. They need to go out and buy an offensive line, you paid ben 102million dollars to play quarterback, how about quit being cheap assholes and open up that crusty old wallet to protect your biggest investment since you put giant fucking ketchup bottles on top of the scoreboard.

plus i pulled a muscle in my back. boo life. hooray beer

This past weekend was a very good one for my own personal football - fandom. The Steelers destroyed the Houston Texans, to the point that big ben was all but drinking a margarita by the end of the game. Joe Pa got his 374th career victory this saturday as Penn State destroyed Oregon State. That makes me happy. And on a side note, i hope that joe paterno never retires, he is an absolute legend. granted he doesn't do any play calling, but isn't that what offensive and defensive coordinators are for? A head coach should be the one motivating the team, and he does. He is the face of happy valley.

Work has been quite hectic as of late. Jobs in my department aren't done because i had to work in a different department for a week and the other person who works in my department took a week off of work. So I am the lucky one that is getting guilt tripped into working a butt-ton of overtime while everyone else doesn't have to do any more work whatsoever. Don't get me wrong, i like money, and i need it, alot. but i think it's bullshit for them to pull my chain around like that and just assume that i'll do all the extra work just because they said "it'd be greatly appreciated." bullshit. you need me to do more work so you don't get bitched at because you couldn't manage your way clear of a wet fart.

okay, done being upset. football wings and beer all weekend long, go psu and pgh.

Death Cab For Cutie's "I Will Possess Your Heart". - Who would have thought that an eight and a half minute song could be so enthralling, particularly when the lyrics don't even begin until after halfway through the song? Apparently Death cab For Cutie did, and personally, I think they got this one just right. It's hard to imagine this song without the beginning being so drawn out and sprawling; I'd call it an intro but it's so much more than that. It's the steady climb of levels and sliders and slightly out of focus riffs until it builds and then tapers off into the perfect volume for Ben Gibbard's deliciously mellow voice as he strikes the same bargain that I often strike with women: Just give him a chance. Some have called this single 'creepy' or 'desperate'. I call it honest and sincere and really, it just hits the spot on all of the things I've wished I could have in a song.

"How I wish you could see the potential, the potential of you and me..." Give adorable Mr. Gibbard a chance - listen to his new single. I promise you won't be disappointed.

[Edit!]: Just got my hands on the radio edit of their single and oh, Mr. Gibbard -- why would you let them get rid of that delicious sprawling that gave this single so much volume and strength? Rather than the climactic buildup we are simply launched into a song that just seems... empty and flat-line without the introduction. *Sighs* Such is the way with radio sometimes. I'm really grateful that we're moving towards music becoming entirely online -- it means we have to destroy beautiful songs less.[/Edit!]

How shameful. 

But how can you fault a foolish christian for believing it.

I wish I could pretend that my life was important and special to a supreme being.

It would be nice.

It would be... magical.

But unfortunately, nothing is special.

We aren't any more special that a sponge.

Or a hydrogen atom.

Or a meteor collision with titan.

Or the crab nebulae.

Or a cubic foot of material 7,462 meters below a spot about a mile southwest of mount hood.

Everything is just baryons, and hadrons, and gluons (maybe), and the rest of that big family of very tiny bosons.

Big deal.

But if you want your life to be special, believe that there is something real that has ultimate authority and makes it special.

But that's stupid the same way that some people (still) believed that the world was flat objectively.

Stupid fuckers.

March 12 2008 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's latest attempt to alleviate seized-up credit markets marks his most direct effort yet to repair the mortgage meltdown that poses the biggest threat to the economy

The Fed pledged yesterday to lend, in return for mortgage debt, $200 billion of Treasuries to the securities firms that trade directly with the central bank. Officials told reporters later that the program may escalate from there as the central bank seeks to break the logjam in the home-loan market.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a6aFI7RKVhEA&refer=news

 

The Fed said it would lend up to 200 bln usd in Treasuries for up to 28 days against a wide range of collateral, including asset-backed securities that private lenders have been shunning recently.

http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/03/12/afx4761665.html

 

 

Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke

 

12/3/2008    12 Mar at 12:29 GMT       ooia time 9:13pm

Fed Hopes to Ease Strain on Economic Activity
New York Times - 49 minutes ago
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS WASHINGTON - Impelled to take extraordinary measures for the second time in less than a week, the Federal Reserve moved on Tuesday to subdue the deepening crisis in credit markets by stepping up as lender of last resort.
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ooia @ pg 12/3/2008 tuesday 9:13pm