Klepzig’s Fortune

Idiocracy is a movie which says in the future, the human race will just get dumber and dumber.  Here's the explanation through a case study, but be aware, there is some foul language:

Dumb title...nothing new.  This clip is from The Heartbreak Kid.  It is pretty funny, but this clip keeps coming to mind, so I thought I would put it on here.  It's another one you can play over and over and it gets better and better...at least in my mind.

RL is real life.  I blame my over-a-month-long hiatus on real life.  Like the insurance company says, real life comes at you fast.  Oh well, no big deal.  What did I do?  I was on a U.S. Navy ship for a joint military exercise.  Here's a link to a video of what it's like to walk down the halls at night.  Here's a picture of the ship leaving the port:

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Feel free to check out the rest of the pictures on my Flickr site.

Also, in RL, Natalya & I went to Barcelona for her birthday & the long weekend.  It was a great trip, but it wasn't as warm or as dry as we would have liked.  I still haven't uploaded any pictures of that trip.  Will do so soon.

And this weekend, we had a party to honor Natalya's birthday, since were out of town the previous weekend.  I haven't got any pics of that online yet, either.  Sorry.

Happy Birthday, Natalya!!!

Those are the highlights.  I'm sure other cool stuff happened, too, but my memory is a sieve.  Just last night we went and saw the latest Indiana Jones movie.  We liked it.  I thought it was over-the-top but in keeping with the feel of the series. 

Hopefully, this breaks my hesitation to post and I get stuff on here on a regular basis from now on.  Have a great day, everyone!

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Flickr just upgraded their "Pro" service to let you include videos!!!  I have been thinking about upgrading my Flickr account to Pro (~$25 a year), but the deciding factor was that they wouldn't let you upload videos.  I think most of my videos are less than 30 seconds, and their limit is 90 seconds!  There is no limit on the NUMBER of videos, so there ya go!  Totally worth it.  Plus, I can finally put all my pics online, my family and friends can have TOTAL access to all of it, and it's linked to VOX.  I'm a fan.

The picture to the side was when Steph (the girl on the right)'s mom was in town visiting and we were in a local old (probably older than the U.S.) Heidelberg bar (Zum Zeppl, mabye?) and we got a picture with the piano man.  The rest of the pictures from that night are here, so click and see more pictures of Das Boot (not a direct translation).  There are pictures of us sharing a drink, literally, even though Steph's mom only pretended to partake. 

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I like the picture of Bill with the beer--it looks like he's posing with his closest friend...or with a prospective girlfriend.

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I like this picture, too, because you can see Steph's teeth.  I'm not sure if she was smiling or if she always drinks like this, but I'm pretty sure she wasn't laughing.  I'm not making fun of her, it's just a funny picture.

This clip is from Eastern Promises, which I finally saw.  It's a great film about the Russian mob in London, it stars Viggo Mortenson, and it's from the same director that did A History of Violence.  If one of those things sparks your interest, watch the movie.  The clip is the funniest part of the movie, so if you haven't seen it, maybe you should watch the movie first.  If the movie doesn't interest you in the slightest, or you don't care about ruining the funniest scene before you watch it, enjoy the clip!

This photo was sent to me from a colleague and it is simply brilliant!  I thought it was just McCain at first.  I don't know the source of the image (besides my colleague) and he only knows where he got it from, so if someone wants me to either take it down or point me to it's source, I'll either take it down or reference the source---until then, enjoy!

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The offices in my section of the building share one Xerox printer/copier that prints cover sheets for each job which has the printer's name on it.  One of my colleagues has been complaining recently that people will pick up their print jobs, but leave the cover sheets.  I told her sometimes we're on the way to brief someone and leave it there temporarily.  That's mostly true.  Anyway, I had been saving our cover sheets for a few weeks.  Last night I came back in and used about an hour of my time, less than one "roll" of tape (what do you call those little disposable Scotch(R) tape dispensers?), and the now obsolete cover sheets, and covered her desk with them. 

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Oh, and I also used short pieces of electrical tape on the bottom of all the mice in that office, as well as to hold down the hooks on the telephones so when you pick up, it keeps ringing.  If you're reading this in the states, you may still have time to put a few pieces of tape strategically around the office.

The cover sheet joke took about 5 minutes to totally deconstruct, including shredding (the sheets just rolled into the shredder) and the colleague was smiling and was amused.  Same with the phones and mice -- all taken in good fun, but, of course, with threats of retribution.  No feelings hurt, no overreactions, no fraud, waste, or abuse, and no messy clean up.  Mission success!!!

What do you most hate sharing with other people?

The last of some snack. 

If it's a meal, then I'm probably full, hence, no prob - take what you want.  If it's a big bag of peanut M&Ms, and I'm on my last handful, then, yeah, I'll share, but I'll secretly hate you for it...for a little while at least.

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The worst is when (1) I'm enjoying something really tasty, (2) I already know there isn't going to be enough to satisfy me, and I'd be reluctant to share some when it's all there, (3) the person who finally asks for some has been sitting there since I started, (4) and only asks when I'm my last bite or two.

This is a reflection of the fact that most people's biggest fear is that they won't have enough.

I think The Soup is my new favorite show.  I love the humor and you get to see the best of all the garbage that is on TV.  Amazing.  This particular clip deals with the NY Governor scandal and the media's exploitation of it.  Bill O'Reilly seems to run an amazingly high number of stories on women all somehow for the greater good, of course, but this is ridiculous and is laid out as plain as day in this clip.  Enjoy.

I saw this clip on The Soup first and then I went and watched my American Idol files that I had taped and cut it to make the following clip.  It is more entertaining the more you play it.  I think it was much more entertaining than the song that he sang.  This is Danny Noriega with Some people weren't likin' it!