One of the other things I hate about the Internet are abandoned blogs. These are blogs who’s links haven’t gone dead and don’t redirect the viewer to a new site, but they just sit there in cyberspace with barely a glance or a hope for an update. That’s one of the negatives that the increasing ease of blogging has created… blogosphere junk. For some reason, whenever I think about this issue, the image of the starship bursting through the cluttered space around earth from the movie Wall-E comes to mind. Sadly, I was one of these people over at Blogger.
When I moved over to my own domain I left a post up providing a pretty graphic hint as to where I was. Sadly, I tend to think people were not necessarily observant enough (or were too entranced by The Nick‘s breasts) to either click the picture or type in the new URL. However, there is a really simple solution to the problem. Add this code inbetween the head tags of your template:
Just replace www.yournewblog.com with your actual new URL, and after 5 seconds, the visitor to your old blog will be redirected to your new one.
Cock Blocked
When looking for apartments I depend on the listing information to filter out apartments that will not necessarily accommodate my additional “occupancy” requirements. Those “occupancy” requirements are the 3 putty-tats… Allie Cat, Cheezburger Georgie, and Princess Ripples. Needless to say, when I look at an apartment listed as “pet friendly” and Cats Ok (meow), I expect that cats will be okay. So when I’m all set to sign a lease, lay out 3 months rent, and breathe a sigh of relief… and I mention the three cats… and am then told that, “Oh no! Cats no good! I have Cocker Spaniel. It eat cat,” well then I’m going to be a little pissed. Besides the fact that if the Cocker Spaniel in question TRIED to eat one of the cats, the other two would smack the snot out of it… never mind the fact that I may go cannibal on its ass myself… this should have been stated upfront as ”No cats”.
Instead my time is wasted. My hopes are once again dashed. I once again have to drown my sorrows in an ESparks ice coffee because my pussies were Cocker Spaniel blocked. Shit ain’t right.
Half & Half
So I was in one of the closing Starbucks the other day, and it was packed. While I don’t think the increase of business will suddenly save the store from its planned demise, apathy has already set in with the staff. My proof? The half & half container at the “Fixin’s Bar” was empty. Now this in and of itself may not seem so strange… but so was every other milk carafe. So I gathered them up and was nice enough to pass them back to the staff. Now, normally someone would either refill them and bring them back out or hand them over to me to put back, because believe it or not… I’m not a total prick in the house of corporate mongering. No such thing happened. The staff just went back to what they were doing. After 5 minutes… yeah… I was done waiting.
Can I blame them? Not really… but it did pretty much piss me off.
Chemically Fried Beans
Did you catch Clearly Your Retarded last night? It was about the death penalty, which is a timely topic since Texas put Jose Ernesto Medellin to death Tuesday night. Medellin was convicted of participating in the gang rape and murder of two girls age 14 and 16. His case became the center of International attention because Medellin was in fact an illegal immigrant from Mexico, still making him a Mexican National who apparently was unable to speak to the Mexican Consulate prior to his conviction. Of course, no one mentions that he never asked for the Mexican Consulate because he barely spoke Spanish since he had been in this country for most of his life.
So the Supreme Court denied a stay of execution while Congress considers passing a law that would in fact have the US adhere to the Vienna Conventions that was placed in force back in 1980, of which the US is a signatory of. So what the hell has Congress been doing for the past 28 years? Well they certainly haven’t been passing Immigration Reform, that’s for sure. The Vienna Conventions provide for citizens of a country to speak to their Consulate when charged with a crime while in another country. Now that we’ve broken the Convention, supposedly American citizens abroad may be in danger of being denied the same access.
I think it is an atrocity in and of itself that someone here illegally, who commits rape and murder, would have a right to counsel from a country THEY LEFT ON THEIR OWN. What is Mexico really going to do? Offer to take them back? I bet they’d just drop them off at the fence again so they can be at the local Taco Bell for supper. As for American citizens abroad… well besides the fact that with rising prices MOST Americans can’t afford to travel abroad, if they are in that country illegally, then I’m absolutely okay denying them consulate access. I think the intentions of the Conventions was to provide protection for law abiding citizens… not law breaking parasites causing irreparable harm and pain to families of the country they have infiltrated.
