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Simpsons Personality Test

2006-03-31T01:02:54Z

You Are Krusty the Clown

You were the class clown as a kid, and you still entertain people.

From faking your own death to getting a wacky boob job, you'll do anything for a laugh.

You will be remembered for: your face being everywhere, from cereal to home pregnancy tests

Your life philosophy: "I heartily endorse this event or product."

The Simpsons Personality Test

Ever wanted to see an xmas tree burn?

2006-02-16T04:58:12Z

"We Apologize."

2006-02-11T21:46:08Z

I find that fucking hilarious.

new phone day!

2006-01-28T05:23:30Z

hooooooo-ray new phone!

it charges, unlike my last one. yay.

Why do all the older women talk to me?

2006-01-23T23:17:22Z

Like, nothing against women who are 10+ years older than me, but I really don't want to date a 45 year old.

That is all.

Rite-Aid

2006-01-20T06:12:22Z

Wierdest Rite-Aid Shopping Experience On Earth Ever. I hope.

There was the requisite little asian guy running around buying all the things you don't want to see someone buy together. I saw him look at bleach, diapers, dog food, and tampons.

There was a 40 year old woman who told me her life story husband left her for a man, divorced, despirate for a young man in her life. She insisted I take her number, just in case.

Then there was the girl I talked to at the club the other night, turns out she told me her real name.

In the checkout line was another woman who told me she was ten years older than me in the first sentance she said, while trying to strike up a meaningful conversation about TV Guide. I'm sorry, I just can't flirt about TV Guide with someone born in 1970. I'm not Frank Costanza.

I think I gotta go to Ralph's from now on.

I'm Back Baby!

2006-01-10T05:25:17Z

Goddamn I needed that.

I went to the desert over the weekend with a friend who had a new bike. Here's him riding the bike.

I never got going that fast, but it was still fun. I saw a UFO.

Okay, well.

It was a model airplane. Still, fucking cool. Like the Ice Cream Truck In The Middle Of Fucking Nowhere.

So, yeah, I'm refreshed, alive, energized, running, etc. It was fun.

I Wish I'd Had My Camera

2005-12-11T22:52:08Z

Last night at the 76 near my house while walking by I noticed the amount of gas the previous customer had purchased was 31.337 gallons. I need to carry my camera with me at all times for moments like that.

Dave-O Going Offline for a Few

2005-11-30T02:06:25Z

No DSL till the 6th, we'll see when/if I have dialup.

(Get it? The "if" is a joke.)

To All of my Friends

2005-11-29T04:31:20Z

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/11/28/obituaries/feature/112705194440.txt

Agnes Diggs was one of the finest writers I've ever had the privlege of reading. In one sentance she could sum up the basis of all humanity. As an agnostic/athiest, I understand that not all of us remember death the same way. If nothing else, read some of her works and enjoy the life she led.

Thanks.

http://www.nctimes.com/news/columnists/agnes_diggs/

Okay, again, that's the link. A great writer, for free. She'll inspire you, even if you don't know it immediately.

Happy Veteran's Day!

2005-11-12T03:37:13Z

Yeehaw.

davidphogan74 @ 2005-10-16T09:44:00

2005-10-16T16:44:13Z

Dave Was Here

eBay

2005-09-23T05:30:30Z

I love you eBay.

I really do love eBay. If it had a vagina we would have the best night ever. It's made me some SaveMyAssCash this week, which I despirately needed because of people not paying their bills. (They owe 10% extra, don't cry for me California.)

But eBay has just saved my ass in a way I can't explain. I took some bad digital photos, and eliminated some of my inventory of Excess Crap which has acumulated within my rented room over the past several years.

Thank you eBay, and your little bitch Ms. PayPal. You are my Jebus.

Great Moments in NewsCasting

2005-09-20T15:57:11Z

"Hi everybody!"

"You sounded like Dr. Nick for a second there."

Wayno's Is Open For Business

2005-09-19T00:45:15Z

I wish. Wayne's just cooking some tacos, and the salsa is so hot my lips are just burning.

Fucking great food, someone needs to give this guy a restaurant. He can cook anything, and he's my roommate. Score!

I need more salsa.

That's Good To Know

2005-09-09T05:17:55Z

"Community preparedness is something that really is up to each individual." - San Diego city emergency management planner, who also said they don't generally plan for big disasters.

The more he said, the more I realized why New Orleans turned out how it did. Emergency planning is apparently best left to people who don't think. It explains why the Cedar Fire (see icon) got so bad.

Great Article About New Orleans

2005-09-09T01:11:07Z

http://www.emsnetwork.org.nyud.net:8090/artman/publish/article_18337.shtml

Two days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Walgreen's store at the corner of Royal and Iberville streets remained locked. The dairy display case was clearly visible through the widows. It was now 48 hours without electricity, running water, plumbing. The milk, yogurt, and cheeses were beginning to spoil in the 90-degree heat. The owners and managers had locked up the food, water, pampers, and prescriptions and fled the City. Outside Walgreen's windows, residents and tourists grew increasingly thirsty and hungry.

The much-promised federal, state and local aid never materialized and the windows at Walgreen's gave way to the looters. There was an alternative. The cops could have broken one small window and distributed the nuts, fruit juices, and bottle water in an organized and systematic manner. But they did not. Instead they spent hours playing cat and mouse, temporarily chasing away the looters.

We were finally airlifted out of New Orleans two days ago and arrived home yesterday (Saturday). We have yet to see any of the TV coverage or look at a newspaper. We are willing to guess that there were no video images or front-page pictures of European or affluent white tourists looting the Walgreen's in the French Quarter.

Written by two EMS workers who were in town for the storm, and their account of getting out. Very well written.

Something Or Other

2005-09-07T05:49:30Z

It's damn foggy outside. That is all.

MySpace

2005-09-06T03:39:59Z

If you use MySpace, feel free to add me.

http://www.myspace.com/davidphogan

Ummmm. Yeah.

It's Fire Season San Diego

2005-09-05T23:24:59Z

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Officials with the San Diego Fire Department say a wildfire is burning in Rancho Penasquitos and that some homes are threatened by the blaze.

The picture was taken in my backyard a few minutes ago. The tiny dot is one of the helicopters now flying over.

Car B&E

2005-09-04T19:58:40Z

So, my car was jimmied open last night. They obviously went through the car, yet they only took a 12 year old sweatshirt that I paid $7 for at KMart. (No joke, $6.99 at the Hamburg NY KMart in 1993.)

The punchline: They left 3 packs of cigarettes, my CD player (they found the faceplate, didn't take that either), 80+ CDs, and never got into the trunk which is just full-o-stuff.

Maybe they were just cold?

Holy shit!

2005-09-03T06:57:29Z

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci14181056.html

I felt that one, really strong. I thought someone drove into my house.

It's been 5 minutes since the quake and the neighborhood's dogs still won't shut up.

Wooooooo! Earthquakes!

2005-09-02T03:45:40Z

Okay, I've now felt two tonight.

LAY OFF EARTH. THERE'S ENOUGH GOING ON!

Hurricane Katrina

2005-09-02T00:22:28Z

I'm at a loss for words. At least, I have been for the past few days.

I've been through several disasters. They were all declared as disaster areas, so they must have been disasters, right? Definitely not. All disasters are not created equal. The tornado, blizzards, hail storm and wild fire that I've seen firsthand don't add up to even one Katrina.

The one thought I do keep having is an empathy for those who saw it coming, but just couldn't make themselves get out of the way. I'm not talking about the guy you saw on CNN running out of WalMart with a 60 inch TV. There's no power, what the hell does he need it for anyway?

I'm just asking people try to remember that not all the people still in the city are idiots. I remember standing on my street watching ash fall like snow trying to decide if I should be packing up all my property, or if I could ride out the fire and just watch my neighbors houses burn. I never left my house, the farthest I got was to the 7-11. I figured I might as well have a beer while SoCal burned.

For those who don't remember the size of the fires, look at my icon used on this post. The "clouds" you see are smoke rising from SoCal. Listen to Bad Religion's "Los Angeles is Burning" for the musical summary of events.

That was a tragedy to me. Almost 20 people died and hundreds lost their homes, I didn't think in the US something much worse could really happen. The tsunami destroyed Fuckit, Thailand and only killed foreigners. 9/11 was caused by humans, executed by humans, and in no way a natural disaster. To me for the past twenty-five years natural disasters only hit other countries. We had problems, storms, bad situations, and repairs to make. We never really had natural disasters.

I also keep remembering the lines on the walls of buildings in Charleston, SC after Hugo hit them. I remember noticing how things had changed since the year before, but I don't think even that will compare to Katrina.

Wow. I thought I didn't have much to say...

Cops Arrest Man in Circumstances Called "Very Bizarre"

2005-08-27T18:37:59Z

Christopher J. Hardy, 57, of Sacramento, Calif., was arrested Wednesday night by officers who found his 1991 Subaru Royale station wagon, bearing stolen Maine license plates, parked near the power lines that cross the rural and weed-lined Seven Star Road.

Strewn about the car were axes, knives, two handgun holsters, a long length of rope and a loaded .33 caliber revolver. Two of the cartridges loaded in the weapon had been discharged.

Also found were several fake license plates, which appeared to be high-quality photographs of Florida license plates pressed between two plastic sheets and placed inside a metal frame. In two bags, some $7,500 in bank checks and $2,067 in cash was found. He also had a laptop and a camera.

"It was extremely odd," said police Sgt. Jeffrey Gillen. "We've been talking about him since the other night, but I don't think we'll ever know what he is all about — just strange."

Hardy was reticent when questioned by police but did say he was in the area to research his family history, Gillen said. He explained he had the axes because his grandfather owned an axe-making company in Maine.

He was released on $3,000 cash bail and given back his money but not his belongings.

"We had to return the money to him when he made bail," Gillen said. "We are still looking into the weapons and plates though. He has no federal history to speak of, but we'll see what comes up."

"It was just really bizarre," Gillen said. "Really bizarre."

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