http://www.phatdoggy.com/ en ianmcpherson@gmail.com Copyright 2008 2008-05-15T17:14:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/some_people_are_to_easily_offended/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/some_people_are_to_easily_offended/#When:17:14:00Z The new starbucks logo has been a cause for great upset for some people because of a pair of cartoon breasts.Some groups are just looking for a way to be offended. I don’t think starbucks is secretly trying ruin the minds of children. or start up an adult magazine… its just a logo, a throwback to Lady Godiva. Here is a link to the article starbucks . My other question is why a religious group? If they were portraying jesus… sure. A family advocacy group or a public decency group I could understand… I think people should stay focused. Its just a cup of coffee. 2008-05-15T17:14:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/midweek_update/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/midweek_update/#When:13:26:00Z It’s tuesday!  Don’t have a lot to report, I had Saturday and Sunday off yeppie.  Mom and Dad came down for a quick visit which was nice.  Other than that I didn’t do a whole lot.  Had dinner at at East Blvd last night.  Always fun to go eat and talk to Rex and the gang.  Watched BSG and Sara Jane and Doctor Who.  So I got my sci fi fill for the week.  I’m still impressed with the BSG story line.  I need to download the podcast for BSG and get some of the inside dirt.  I’m not sure how much I like the Doctors new side kick.  She is something new and different from Rose and Martha.  (big E your thoughts ?) I guess that’s about it I should get a dr. pepper and get ready for my 10:00am meeting.  Joy. journal / Blog, Media, television, Battlestar Galactia, Doctor Who 2008-05-13T13:26:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/cool_twitter_stuff/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/cool_twitter_stuff/#When:18:24:00Z http://summize.com/ http://twistori.com/ http://twittervision.com/ http://www.tweetwheel.com/ http://www.tweetwheel.com/shoosier Media, web / internet 2008-05-08T18:24:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/barackas_brilliant/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/barackas_brilliant/#When:13:41:01Z This is brilliant !  http://www.barackas.com/ Political 2008-05-08T13:41:01-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/week_of_may/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/week_of_may/#When:12:00:00Z I think I’m falling back into in to the bad habit of not updating as regularly.  Nothing really interesting has been going on this week.  I have not even watched a lot of tv.  Group hug http://www.grouphug.us it’s a little slow but some interesting stuff.  So I’m just going to do a quick week update. Books I have been reading book: PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Livesweb: PostSecret Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas Book: Stoned, Naked, and Looking in My Neighbor’s Window: The Best Confessions from GroupHug.usweb: group hug Stuff I’m watching BSG Doctor Who Sara Jane Boston Legal I really hope they don’t cancel this. Simpsons Home Movie re-runs on DVR CouplingWe went over to Kevin’s last night to have dinner and watch the first season of Coupling.  I had seen parts of a couple of them here and there.  I totally love this show now.  We ended up watching all of the first season. The frogs are doing well I got them some different food and a snail to keep the tank clean.  I still think I need to put them on my desk at work. Rudy is not been a big fan of the heat the past couple days but I do think he has enjoyed Shelton being home 3 days in a row. That’s about it. journal / Blog, Media, television, Battlestar Galactia 2008-05-07T12:00:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/sitting_in_the_bar_by_myself_again_with_my_laptop/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/sitting_in_the_bar_by_myself_again_with_my_laptop/#When:21:54:00Z I took off work a half hour early and hopped on the light rail don’t to the bar.  Well I really didn’t leave early since I worked all last weekend and going to work all day on Saturday.  This is one of the few places I mind sitting by myself.  I just sit here answer my email and then post something to my site.  Not much to report this week has been calm.  I’m feeling really low key.  I ordered a pair of new leather Chuck Taylor All Stairs.  I really love those shoes.  I have a pair of canvas ones on right now and they are cool but I totally love the leather ones.  I guess because I have not seen anyone else with them.  The lesbians are forming a large group next to me.  They are cool.  I know I’m going to smell like smoke when I get out of here.  I am tempted to work from home tomorrow, I feel like I get so much more done when I work from home.  It’s also cool just to leave the door open let Rudy wonder in and out.  I get so much done, and I totally feel relaxed.  It’s odd, I don’t think I would like to work from home all the time but once or twice a week would be really cool.  Especially during the spring.  I so don’t have anything real to write about.  The frogs are still alive although Rupert was picking on Fuck-head last night.  They are fun to watch. journal / Blog 2008-05-01T21:54:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/thats_a_bitch_move_obama/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/thats_a_bitch_move_obama/#When:02:07:00Z I would have to agree—going on FOX really crosses that a moral line.  Liberal bloggers are expressing outrage over Barack Obama’s appearance this weekend on Fox News, accusing the Democratic presidential front-runner of kowtowing to the network’s conservative viewers, and throwing his online supporters to the wolves. “This will likely further dismay liberal bloggers who had worked very hard to get Dems to boycott Fox as a way of delegitimizing the network and who already criticized Obama for agreeing to appear in the first place,” Sargent continued. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/obama-distanc-1.html Political 2008-04-29T02:07:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/before_having_to_work_this_sunday/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/before_having_to_work_this_sunday/#When:17:29:00Z So I find that I have been working most the weekend.  Not like othe members of my team but still working.  I got to the office early today and thought I would venture down to Starbucks for a few min.  I could have written this much easier at my desk but I felt like being social or something like that.  I have discovered there is no free internet down this way.  I was considering getting a hot spot account but that seems like a lot.  It’s not like activating the sprint card which is 75 bucks a month with a two year contract.  I started reading about a few of them and I got more confused between the AT&T and te T-mobile one.  So realizing I would only be here another 30 or 40 minutes it all seemed a bit pointless.  Yes I do have a pair of African dwarf frogs.  They are pretty cool and don’t require much attention.  However I didn’t get my snail when I purchased them and somehow since their last feeding I have lost their food.  So I need frog food and snail to help balance the eco system.  I do get a kick out of them I named them Rupert and Fuck-head. This is the first time I have really used the new Micro Soft Word, normally I use google documents and or expression engine to write all my post.  The things one will do when no internet id available.  The episode of South Park about how everyone freaked the fuck out when the internet suddenly went dead was funny and hit home on a couple of the points.  I like my Twitter account a lot.  I like Facebook a lot as well but I do get a little pee shy when everyone from old X’s to workmate get alerted every time I do anything.  I guess that’s the appeal.  I may just be showing my age.  I feel guilty some times for not having a more historic facebook page.  Consider that most of the kids graduating college this year have had Facebook from day one of Freshmen year to graduation.  They have a historic living history of every friend, club, hook -up, trip and event.  That would be a fantastic treasure.  I have a box of old faded photos of people I can hardly remember names.  I think that also explains why so many old guys like me find it attractive.  We can in part go back attempt to contact and rebuild the history we lost.  The bad part is we are old, fatter, and know more discerning about what we post.  We have jobs and employers and snoopy co workers who like to gossip.  We have professional reputations to keep up.  I have often thought about writing a new blog somewhere under a different name so I could really express some of the things I hold back.  But a fake person writing about real things, hidden from the people who would best understand seem wrong.  Oh well.  I don’t even have time to do this one up right so the idea of two is just crazy. Thanks Big E for finding me that Young Avengers #1 you rock.  I got to work today so I won’t be in.  I did come and see your boss Friday night – not two bad.  Shelton picked up a new Transformer, the Optimus Primal.  Well I should walk back across the street to work and try and figure how the hell to get this on my site.  PS there are not really any attractive people in this Star Bucks, no fun.  And I like the new brown cups .  (and I just talked to a cute little dancer on the way out.  The day may have been saved.). journal / Blog, ADHA ran wild 2008-04-27T17:29:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/day_of_silence/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/day_of_silence/#When:02:18:00Z The Truth about the Day of Silence Wish we could pull this off in a corporate environment. Every year, more and more students participate in the Day of Silence, which began 12 years ago when University of Virginia students wanted to find a way to bring attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment on campus. As the day’s popularity and exposure have increased, many misperceptions have spread about what the Day of Silence is, why the day exists and what participating in it means. Here are 4 truths that address common misinformation about the Day of Silence. http://www.dayofsilence.org/content/truth.html in the Day of Silence (DOS), a national youth movement bringing attention to the silence faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their allies. My deliberate silence echoes that silence, which is caused by anti-LGBT bullying, name-calling and harassment. This year’s DOS is held in memory of Lawrence King, a 15 year-old student who was killed in school because of his sexual orientation and gender expression. I believe that ending the silence is the fi rst step toward building awareness and making a commitment to address these injustices. Think about the voices you are not hearing today. journal / Blog 2008-04-25T02:18:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/i_have_been_slack/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/i_have_been_slack/#When:15:46:01Z Hey I know I have been slack the past week.  I just have not had any time to do anything.  A few quick updates, the frogs are still alive. Still waiting on my Fed tax return major projects are slowing down the world has not crashed around me at work Well that’s about it C8H10N4O2 anyone ? journal / Blog 2008-04-24T15:46:01-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/the_little_white_box_from_the_uk/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/the_little_white_box_from_the_uk/#When:22:41:01Z A friend while traveling picked me up an addition to my collection from the men’s room of Royal Oak Pub in Aberford, Yorkshire.  Thanks Karen !  and hubby, who was a good sport and actually did the work.  Thanks condoms 2008-04-15T22:41:01-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/to_much_tv/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/to_much_tv/#When:18:00:00Z I have watched way to much tv the past little while.  I was not feeling at all well Thursday and Friday.  I so I took Friday off and I ended up spending much of that time napping in front of the tv.  I think I have watched 5 or 6 hours of CSI, everything I had DVRed upstairs.  Friday night is also turning into my favorite night to root my brain.  With BSG (Battle Star Galaticia) starting last week, Sara Jane (I think I like this not sure yet) and Doctor Who starting back next week, not to mention Saturday night is Torch Wood.  I guess I should enjoy it while it last since this is the last season of BSG and Doctor Who.  journal / Blog, Media, television, Battlestar Galactia, Torchwood 2008-04-12T18:00:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/more_things_i_hate/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/more_things_i_hate/#When:02:37:00Z getting my socks wet not being able to sleep running out of beer or water being to lazy to even think of more things I hate List, things that piss me off 2008-04-07T02:37:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/i_have_no_idea_what_i_wanted_to_do_today_and_dilworth_coffee/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/i_have_no_idea_what_i_wanted_to_do_today_and_dilworth_coffee/#When:21:47:00Z I find myself sitting at Dilworth Coffee having a nice cup of tea on this wet gray day.  I did a little work around the house but nothing major.  I have no idea what I’m going to do later on.  I thought if I came up here I might find the energy to write something for do some work on my site.  I found I played with my mouse settings.  Then I looked at few other domains I had always had hope of doing something with and never have.  So I’m sitting here writing about nothing.  Shelton is getting out of work in an hour of so and i thought I might run to Borders to pick up the DVD of This American Life.  I didn’t have any idea they were doing a tv show.  I found out by reading my email and there was a coupon for borders and a link to an interview.  So I guess that advertising worked well. Something else that struck my was a story on NPR this morning about how people who were shown the Apple logo where more creative than those who where exposed to the IBM logo.  So half testing that theory (or at very least my interpretation of it) I’m sitting here with my sexy Sony laptop.  Just looking around it kicks the shit out of any of the other laptops set up around this place.  The couple at the big table with there matching bright silver HP or Dells have split.  The chick sitting across the way from me just got a telephone call here.  Not on her cell phone, but someone called her on the store phone and they walked it out to her.  That just struck me as a little odd.  Before I get totally off on a tangent she has not even taken here laptop out of the case.  She has it half in and half out, like the laptop equivalence of taking a piss at a urinal just unzipped.  (not sure that analogy works for anyone other than me).  My laptop no ultra mobile personal computer runs rings around her HP. An older couple came in and sat next to me.  They are discussing the logistics of some type of walk or porch construction.  It’s no like I really want to sit here and ease drop on their conversation I just can’t help it. Enter another couple-- what is it the early bird special at the coffee shop.  I came to this place over the bigger more well know shops because I felt sure I could get free internet and I could find a table with a plug.  I did get both of those things.  However no one has looked my direction or said a word.  It’s quiet and smells sweet just is blahh.  The chick with the HP just snagged a juice out of the cooler.  I wonder if she is going to pay for it.  This is not the type of place where people shoplift.  The older couple after debating on who’s watch had the correct time have decided to take off.  She drapes on a green jacket.  He rather than taking the easy path around squeezes between me and the table behind me and me.  Either way he brushes by and bumps into me.  Four people in the whole place and he can’t get by without pressing up against me. I wonder if he knew I was sitting here writing about them. Oh well who knows who cares.  Quick updated—Just got a comment from Babs on an earlier post.  I love that.  You the best ! journal / Blog 2008-04-05T21:47:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/to_all_my_friends_i_must_apologize/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/to_all_my_friends_i_must_apologize/#When:23:44:00Z Hey in my rush this morning i responded to an invite to naymz (http://www.naymz.com/) and before I know it I had opened up my whole linked in network and had invited everyone.  Thanks guys for responding and I’m so sorry for the spam.  OH and don’t forget tonight is the first night of the last season of BattleStar Galactica (BDG).  And where the hell is Boston Legal.  Spud out my couch potato friends.  Spud out.  And BigE I know your watching ! journal / Blog, Media, television, Battlestar Galactia 2008-04-04T23:44:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/monday_and_the_rain/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/monday_and_the_rain/#When:13:36:01Z I think all I have done as of late is bitch about work and how bad my weeks have been.  I’m sitting here getting read to to start the week again with no hope that this one will be any better than the past couple.  We shall see.  I think I’ll go can grab a dr. pepper and figure out where to start. The weekend was cool, Sunday was nice from breakfast to the comic store, to an afternoon nap.  I hate Davidson didn’t pull it out but was fun game to watch.  Oh well off to work I go. journal / Blog 2008-03-31T13:36:01-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/takeing_the_light_rail_to_drink_beer/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/takeing_the_light_rail_to_drink_beer/#When:23:24:00Z After the week from hell, I bailed out of work 45 min early to drink beer.  For the record and according to to the stepometer in my phone the the bar is about 700 steps from the woodlawn light rail station.  I’m not sitting at the bar watching the Davidson game on my 5th Red Strip.  They are on special for three bucks tonight.  I love that.  I got to see Andrew and Amber tonight which was cool.  I miss hanging out with them.  Shelton just got here and Kevin is behind the bad and so is Ralph.  There is this really over dramatic queen sitting two people down.  I don’t know if the beer or the week I have but I really really hate him and I have no idea who he is.  Oh well i’m the geek playing with his laptop in the middle of a bar on Friday night and i have room to talk.  journal / Blog 2008-03-28T23:24:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/this_week_has_sucked/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/this_week_has_sucked/#When:02:06:00Z This week has been crazy.  All I want to do is run from work and go to bed.  Oh well.  journal / Blog 2008-03-21T02:06:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/new_season_of_torchwood/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/new_season_of_torchwood/#When:18:28:00Z I had missed the first couple episodes of TorchWood this season.  Thanks to BBC on Demand I was able to catch up.  I came across this link today while doing a bit of post lunch reading (Torchwood 2 episode 6).  Media, television, Torchwood 2008-03-04T18:28:00-05:00 http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/george_carlin_interview/ http://www.phatdoggy.com/site/george_carlin_interview/#When:21:55:00Z Check this out Curious George random 2008-02-28T21:55:00-05:00