Author: Greg

OK, not quite, but taken from FWMJ’s “Rappers I Know Month” (as seen on YayHooray and HumHum) and mirrored before the almighty forces of Boing Boing take it out…

Kanye West’s “Gold Digger” remixed with that classic quote of his and some fresh, topical lyrics… Enjoy!

Oh, it’s almost time… Sure the collegiate season is already in gear, but the NFL season starts tonight with Monday Thursday Night Football with the defending two time (well, three time but defending the last two) Super Bowl champion New England Patriots hosting the Oakland Raiders.

The whole shebang kicks off at 8pm on ABC with an hour long build up show, and that’s where you’ll find me. Who will I be following this year? I’ve already left more than a few pointers on here in the past, though I’ll more than likely keep an eye on the Falcons too. I even tried to get tickets for a Falcons game when they went on sale a few months ago, but they sold out in like 0.5 seconds, no biggie, the prices were extortionate anyways, even for nose-bleed seats…

It does what it says on the tin, it’s a Motorola phone with iTunes built in…

Why??

“You’ve probably heard about this,” Jobs said, a reference to the speculation that has run rampant prior to today’s event.

The phone will automatically pause when you get a call, explained Jobs. Songs are transferred through a USB cable.

The Motorola ROKR can only hold about 100 songs, according to Jobs. “The way we think of this phone is, it’s really an iPod shuffle on your phone,” he explained. Both devices can shuffle, both can autofill, neither has a click wheel — but the phone has a display.

On the plus side, there is a new version of iTunes available soon-ish… iTunes 5.0 and a colour screen iPod Mini Nano!!!

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Originally uploaded by loungin.

This could also be known as “the things you find out when people get blind drunk at a ballpark”

Having sold our own tickets and another pair we aquired for todays game we found out we still had another pair of tickets, so we headed down arriving just a little bit late, and while we usually sit in line with 1st base we were now seated beside the left foul pole and surrounded by increasingly intoxicated employees from an unnamed company who taught us a new thing about Turner Field.

It has a detox room, a detox room you have to sign release papers to “escape” from…

Now, I’m all for having a few drinks at the ballpark, but when your so drunk you pass out on a bathroom floor after 2½ innings, well, thats just obscene. So we were sitting surrounded by her friends who weren’t shy in relating every last detail to everyone around them, so we were getting constant updates about how she was wheeled out the bathroom in a wheelchair, almost arrested by police, taken to detox and all that jazz. Infact it was getting so bad that we had to leave after the 7th inning of a pretty close game just because one of them deciced to sit next to us (in a seat that wasn’t for them) and proceeded to lean forward on the railing in front, pretty much blocking our view (it was a big lady), plus the smell of booze from them was pretty overpowering.

Usually the people seated around us are nice, pleasant and courteous, these people were just plain rude… I’m not complaining per se, just saying that if you want to drink that much and be obnoxious during a game, there is a place for it located in right field…

… To order a t-shirt like this???

Cause I’m tempted…

Yesterday was a nice relaxing day, around 4pm I met up with Phillip to walk around Downtown Atlanta and then head over to Turner Field for the Braves vs. the Nationals game…

It was a fun time, invariably the conversation went on to the goings on in New Orleans, and then the running joke was everything was expensive due to a shortage of whatever in Louisiana… I wish I could remember a few of the classic ones…

Example:

Get your genuine wallets from China, only $50! They’re so expensive due to them being shipped in via Louisiana…

OK, bad example, maybe it was a “you had to be there” kind of joke… We also spotted a suspicious bag left unattended right beside the State Capitol and City Hall, and being the good citizens we are, we reported it to the nearest cop. I can only assume a SWAT and Bomb Disposal team stormed the area and performed a controlled explosion, we didn’t bother to check afterwards.

Anyways, after walking around Downtown we watched a pretty abominable pitching display by the Braves bullpen as they took their sweet time in beating the Nationals 8-7 after 10 innings. Truely horrific, but a great way to end a game with Andruw Jones nailing one out the park for his 44th homer of the season.

Some scary, scary reports are coming out of the Louisiana Superdome.

A 2-year-old girl slept in a pool of urine. Crack vials littered the restroom. Blood stains the walls next to vending machines smashed by teenagers.

The Louisiana Superdome, once a mighty testament to architecture and ingenuity, became the biggest storm shelter in New Orleans the day before Katrina’s arrival Monday. About 16,000 people eventually settled in. Within two days, it had degenerated into unspeakable horror. A few hundred were evacuated from the arena yesterday, and buses will take away the remaining people today.

“We pee on the floor. We are like animals,” Taffany Smith, 25, said as she cradled her 3-week-old son, Terry. In her right hand she carried a half-full bottle of formula provided by rescuers. Baby supplies are running low; one mother said she was given two diapers and told to scrape them off when they got dirty and use them again.

At least two people, including a child, have been raped as the arena darkened at night. At least three people have died, including one man who jumped 50 feet to his death, saying he had nothing left to live for.

As if that not enough, they’ve taken to firing shots at helicopters coming to rescue them… But for truely frightening stuff, listen to the police scanners.

Thanks to humhum for the links

Metro Atlanta could be a dry city, gas wise, by Labor Day, the AJC predicts…

Metro Atlanta drivers are facing the possibility of paying considerably more than $3 a gallon for gas by Labor Day – if they can get it at all.

The metro Atlanta region generally has about a 10-day supply of gasoline in inventory, said BP spokesman Michael Kumpf. The pipelines have been down for two days.

Alpharetta-based Colonial Pipeline Co., cut off from its suppliers on the Gulf Coast, is now pumping gas from huge storage tanks, many in Powder Springs. Whether electric power can be restored to the pipeline pumps before supplies run out is “the great uncertainty … that hangs over all of us,” said Daniel Moenter, a spokesman for Marathon Ashland Petroleum, a major supplier of metro Atlanta’s fuel.

Some suppliers are rationing gasoline to retailers, so some stations may already be near empty.

With supplies uncertain, oil companies and larger wholesalers are ratcheting up prices, partly to slow demand. Some local wholesalers already are paying 65 to 80 cents per gallon more than they paid three days ago. That kind of price increase will hit the pumps within a few days.

Let the price gouging, gas hoarding and mass hysteria begin… Apparently there are already lines around blocks and prices soaring up to $3.56, as well as people being limited to sales of $10, basically 3½ gallons…