The Mute Xbox Experience

So, I unpacked my new XBox 360, and went about attempting to connect it.

It only comes with one AV cable but no problem because it has an HDMI port on the back right?

Yes and no. The problem is: audio over the built in HDMI flat out won't work. I found an article that says Microsoft is attempting to fix the problem, but how am I going to hear my Xbox in the meantime?

After frustrating trips to Gamestop and Walmart to find out that Microsoft charges $50 for an xbox digital audio cable, I decided to use this article to Mutilate the excuse for a cable they include in the box so that I could jam them both in at the same time and actually see AND hear my games using the same stereo RCA connectors I used to connect my 8 track player to my grandmothers Hi Fi in 1981.

Classy Microsoft.



Thanks.

How to pull $73 directly out of your ASS.

If you don't live in a cave, you've probably heard how the evil American auto workers are robbing us blind to the tune of $73 dollars an hour. The only problem is that the figure comes from a right wing blogger who pulled it directly out of his ass.

They invented the number by adding together every penny paid to every employee who has ever worked at every plant, and the cost of health care for every employee that works, and has ever worked at every plant, and divided by the number of hours the CURRENT employees work.

In other words, the figure is complete and utter BULLSHIT.

The average UAW line worker earns $26 dollars per hour.

Now, it is true that the cost of paying the health care of retired UAW employees and their families is getting expensive because .... OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER SCAM!! A system that many of the foreign car companies with whom we compete are not required to participate in because THEIR HEALTH CARE IS FREE!!

Christie's Magazine Ad

Christie's Magazine Ad
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I'm really proud of Christie's new magazine ad.

Her family is asking for an extra copy of the magazine so they can see and keep it.

Can I ask your help to click here and sign up for a free subscription to Nephrology News & Issues?

Google Nerd Theme For Email

Thanks Trevor, Finally Google creates an email theme for total and complete NERDS. Yay Nerds!

It's a BOY!! BOOYAHHH!!!

Roger Christopher Blaisdell
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World. Get ready for Roger Christopher Blaisdell!!

Saw my kid's garbage today, and he's a BOY!!!

BooyaHHH!!
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OK, No. I'm just getting a new Grill.

Well, not one of the best Saturday mornings I've ever had.

I still hadn't picked all the eye boogers out yet this morning when I noticed that the gas grill in my screen patio had a full on skirt of leaves around the bottom of it.

But huh? How did they make it through the screen room and then gather themselves around the bottom of my gas grill?

I opened one of the glass doors, and was hit in the face with a stench that you would not believe.

It began to sink in. Something has made its way in to my screen patio, built a nest, and promptly curled up and died! In my FFing Grill!!! Bastard!!

I slid the door closed as quickly as possible. Fuck!!. Now I have to go clean up dead varmint nest. Shit!! Not the way I wanted to spend my morning, but now the stench is leaking in to my house.

Now if only I could remember where my wife (a dialysis nurse) keeps her surgical gloves, and mask. Damn, nowhere to be found.

Holding my shirt over my nose, I got a shovel from the garage and pushed the grill back, and saw the biggest white faced opossum in the universe. How the fuck did that thing get in to my screen room!

Well, I suppose it would come in handy sooner or later, growing up on a farm in Michigan. I set out to the back yard with the shovel, searching for a proper burial site for my foul bloated rat friend. But apparently, every single inch of my back yard consists of Roots and twigs! Sigh, god this day sucks.

Back in to the kitchen, I found an entire bag of garbage bags and brought it back to the patio. God damn, sorry garbage man, but better you than me.

I wouldn't exactly call it a proper burial, but I was able (barely able) to hold breakfast down long enough to quadruple bag him, and haul him out to the garbage can where he will have to wait for garbage day ... ON TUESDAYY!! Sigh.

By the time i swept all the leaves from his death bed out in to the back yard, there were dead rodent streak marks all the way from where the grill was to the back door! God why me.

After dumping an entire bottle of dish detergent and scrubbing with a broom and washing down with the hose, oh and throwing away my Grill forever, (You're crazy if you think I am ever eating a cheeseburger out of that thing again in this lifetime.) I was able to retire back in to the house and try to think of something to tell the housekeeper about why me, and my entire house and yard, smells like a rotting corpse!

Nothing to be worried about Erica... Honest!

By the way, care for a cheeseburger?

Remember Where You Are America

Remember where you are America.

Your grandchildren will want to know.

I think we just changed the world.