Orlando Weather “People” are a freaking joke
August 29, 2008
The biggest bullshit job in America has to be a weatherman for Florida. They are no more than Speculative Cloud Paparazzi who like to take their 10 minutes of fame and over dramatize events. Two weeks ago in we were in the line of fire for “Hurricane” Fay — During this time was the Olympics, so I spent a lot of time watching NBC instead of my typical “Dicovery, NatGeo, History, etc..”. You know — Networks that actually separate facts, theories, and speculation into their proper groups so viewers actually benefit from the broadcasts. Anyways, for a week or so, the weather was a pretty important topic here — so they did channel break ins every 30mins to an hour.. These were.. Absolutely Absurd… And the local affiliates should be ashamed…
Here is the shit we have to deal with:
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Orlando Local news weather man (Abridged and Colored up a tad to enhance the absurdness):
Day 1 (storm 2-3 days out): “Ladies and gentleman, it’s coming. This could is the big one. The National Hurricane center doesn’t expect it to strengthen, but The 5 day forecast models show the track of this storm taking a direct hit on Florida sometime in the next week or so. We could all possibly die. Kiss your families tonight. Hugs your pets.. This is
Day 2 (Storm 1-2 days out): “We survived last night. But FEEDER BANDS ARE POUNDING Florida, Tornado risk is now an 11 out of 10.
Day 3: (Storm Here): “Its good to be alive. This storm has done ‘Exactly What I told you it was going to do‘ — And because of listening to me, is the only reason you’re still alive. We here at
Day 4: (Storm Still here): “Good evening folks… This storm has done ‘Exactly What I told you it was going to do‘ — Seriously, I nailed it.. See yesterday I said ‘100% chance of rain’ … And Boy o’ Boy did it rain… Damn I’m good… Sure, this is leading to flooding, But flooding is such B-List news, I’ll let some slack ass news anchor take care of that… In the mean time, Storm should start to leave tomorrow… Either way, you’re still probably going to die… ”
Day 5: (Storm still here): “Good evening folks… This storm has done ‘Exactly What I told you it was going to do‘ See yesterday, that icon on the screen — the cloud face making wind with rain and a lightning bolt coming out of it’s ass.. Yup, exactly, Just like I said.. Still windy and rainy.. Don’t take you family and pets out of the safe room yet… Because if you’re not dead yet? You’re one of the lucky ones, and you will probably be dead very soon… Still got them FEEDER BANDS! to deal with… ”
Day 6: (Storm Finally Starts to Leave): [No more weatherman break ins, but the News has a new promo…] “During Hurricane Fay — Who was your Number one source for up to the minute news?
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Yes. I know that hurricanes and tornado threats are nothing to take lightly. But, it would be nice to have speculation reported AS speculation, your warnings reported as warnings, and facts reported as facts. Take the drama out of the equation and help people prepare and make calm informed decisions.
During all of this, the weather man reported “Floridians aren’t prepared since we haven’t had a major storm in 3-4 years…“. The truth is, the drama that the media has intertwined with these broadcasts and events has desensitized the community from the threats, not the lack of the threats. Y’all should be ashamed.
Posted by mrhing at 12:41pm
I picked the wrong year to grow up…
July 28, 2008
I have been joking about this for a while now… I keep telling people “I Have picked the wrong year to grow up…” — So much in my life is going on, that I have no idea where to start talking about it.. (Which might be why I haven’t been blogging much lately..) So, for those of you that have been asking me lately whats been going on.. Here’s an abridged version of what my last 10 posts would of been had I of blogged more:
1. Sorry Ladies, it’s true. I’m sorta getting married… And, Mad props to Chris Cragie for coming up with the domain name for the wedding website. I swear I thought of it, but alas cannot prove it, so I wanna give credit where credit is due..
2. I turned 29 recently.. I was pretty convinced that I was turning 30 until about 3-4 days before. It’s a major relief, because there are three things left on my list to achieve before I am 30. Well, that and the fact that I’m not 30… Suckers…
3. Jaime and I are building our first house… Which as of today, will be completed right around our wedding day. Scary? Yes. But, Jaime and I have worked so hard for the last few years, and she really deserves it. ( I mean common, she has to put up with my shit on a daily basis…)
4. Work has been killing me the last few weeks. But it’s sorta a good thing. I like being creative, I need to keep busy, and its good mental stimulus for me. I realized that I’m fortunate to be working for, and with, so many great/interesting people — Including a few new people… (Hat tip to the Princess…)
5. Pandora is the coolest app to hit the internet in a while. Just odd that it keeps thinking my taste in music is Depressed Lesbian Grunge Rock. Because at the end of the day — it’s so right…
6. Best Place to get a Fish Dinner in Orlando? Fish on Fire….
7. I now understand what all the hullabaloo about Motorcycles are. I’m hooked… I love to ride, and I love the people who ride.. I have been riding for 3-4 months now, and it pains me any day that I don’t get to go out.
8. Jaime: I swear — Soy products promote kidney stones…
9. I went from my third Blackberry to an iPhone 3G. The iPhone can not replace a blackberry for business use. But it sure is a hell of a lot cooler of a toy…
10. My new favorite ironic thing? Touch Sensitive Stoves. Am I the only person that sees a problem with this? Are knobs that much of an eyesore?
Posted by mrhing at 11:11pm
Been 2 months…
June 16, 2008
“… The more interesting your life is, the less likely you’ll have time to document it… ”
By Mike Propst.
Amen Brother… Amen…
I’ll post some updates about everything going on this week. I Promise.
Posted by mrhing at 9:49pm
Stop Firefox Flash abuse with one plug-in..
April 08, 2008
I’m was really getting sick of Firefox constantly coming to a screeching hault for what seems to be no reason… I would just be sitting there and hear the fans on my computer rev up like jet turbines, while my CPU cooked at 99% — all for no reason.. I literally run 5 programs on my computer. SSH, Winamp, Photoshop, AIM, and Firefox. That’s it. I don’t need some Eleventy Core Krytonite Encased processor — because when everything is working fine my machine just sits there practically sleeping…
So, for the last year, my machine would just come to a screeching halt, until I killed FireFox, and restarted it… Loosing whatever I was working on. Every time FF would come out with a new version, I would say “This is the one!! This will fix all my troubles!!” But it only seemed to get worse.. And I didn’t want to blame FireFox, because the issue started to seem to have a pattern — It seemed to only happen when I was working on Certain sites… So I started watch closely at when it happened, and what I was doing..
Finally, after 2-3 weeks.. I noticed that every time this happened.. I was looking at something that had like 10 Flash ads/apps going crazy.. (And sadly, most of these were sites that I work on) So I decided to install a FlashBlock Plugin for FireFox..
Wow. It is unreal the difference.. FireFox is now back to the glory days of being rock solid.. Pages load faster than ever, and are 1000% less obnoxious… And if you wanna see something that is in flash — it’s only 1 click away…
I seriously recommend anyone here that uses FireFox — try FlashBlock for 1 week. Flash is the new Web Pollution.. It’s very cool — but needs to be used responsibly… I have now been running the same FireFox Process for 10 days without any crashes or lockups… Seriously, it can’t hurt to try it..
Posted by mrhing at 11:34am
UCF On the today show…
April 04, 2008
I love when I catch crap like this… This is a crowd show from the April 3rd, 2008 Today Show with George Clooney…
Just Saying.. She’s doing a good job representing UCF… Might Be perfect for Stone… (Sorry Jon, she has gloves on, can’t tell if she is single… But has that ever stopped you before? ;) )
Posted by mrhing at 3:15pm
Seriously, Who is this “Celly”…
April 01, 2008
It’s no secret that I have a nickname… And that nickname is simply “Celly”. No matter what I do, I can not kill it… The worst part is, It’s really a stupid nick name… It doesn’t come from anything ironic physical attribute (calling a big guy tiny), or something I did (Shout out to Limpy), or even a pun on my name (No, my last name is not Sullivan) …
It comes from the fact that my first week at College, there were way too many “Michael’s” in the group I hung out with. So, they informed me that One night I would get drunk, do something stupid, and earn my nickname.. Problem was, I didn’t drink (Yet… Big huge yet…) Which they loved, because I was their new Designated Driver.. Everywhere… So, One day, as 3 drunk people stumble out of my car, one looks at the back of it where there is a sticker that says “Celly”… He says “Whats ‘Celly’?” — I replied — “That’s my cars name…” — He looks at me, smiles, and says “That’s so ****ing stupid… That’s now your new nick name…”
11 Years later.. I have yet to live it down.
So, in honor of the Joke, as I get new Cars, each one earns a “Celly” Name… In fact, when I talk about getting new cars, people care more about the new name than the car itself.. The names have become a rather humorous yet, big deal.. So, I play along..
87 Toyota Celica was my first car. Infact the first ‘Celly’.. But not the ‘Celly’ That gave me my name…
94 Toyota Celica… This was the car that started it all…
2002 Mazda Protege 5. This Is how the “naming” started. When I was selling my celica, everyone joked “What are we going to call you now..” — Jon Stone kept saying “Still Celly” — So it stuck.
2004 Subaru WRX. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t miss this car. This was probably the best car I ever owned — And Still to this day, WRX/STI are the most bang for the buck you’ll find. With one of the best communities you can find… Shout out to NASIOC..
2006 Toyota Tundra XSP.. I love this truck.. Everyone loves this truck… Just one rule… I’ll Haul anything.. Move Nothing…
So, there you have it… The History of ‘Celly’… Very Unexciting… And I think it makes me just a lil more creepy now.. huh?
Oh Crap.. I forgot… There is one more… (Click on ‘There’s More to this >>’ below..) there’s more to this »
Posted by mrhing at 11:40am
Well, isn’t that just a damn good idea…
March 24, 2008
Every once in a while I see something so simple, yet it’s such a great idea, it just makes me scratch my head and think “Why the hell didn’t I think of that?”..
Evolve shower heads have come out with a line of shower heads that turn off when the water reaches temperature. So, You turn on the water, wait to hear it run to a trickle. And jump on it. Not only does this save water and electricity, but it also tells you when your shower is ready… No More jumping in and freezing your butt off…
So simple… Yet so brilliant.. I do like how the latest green fad is actually innovating simple household objects not only to make them ‘greener’ but also more useful…
Hat tip: Green Daily
Posted by mrhing at 10:53am
SXSW: i can haz the internetz flu
March 20, 2008
So after feeling under the weather for the few days or so, I heard that there is a nasty post SXSW virus going around. It has to be nasty, I haven’t been sick in 2 years, because it usually takes some sort of über bug to knock me on my ass. Then again, I guess I’m not all that surprised and should of saw it coming.
So, seeing that 90% of the people @ SXSW were using Mac’s — I guess they figured since they can’t pass any good Internet viruses around, they might as well try the flu. F’n mac fanboys, they’ll do anything to try and get noticed.
Posted by mrhing at 12:10pm
Off to Austin TX for SXSW 2008!
March 06, 2008
I’m off to Texas for a few days for SXSW 2008. I might just break down and get a new Twitter Account.. because my current one tends to scream in Japanese at people… Go figure… In the mean time, you can try this link instead… God bless case sensitivity…
Posted by mrhing at 1:50pm
I for one welcome our new dragonfly overlords…
March 03, 2008
I caught this guy hanging out on my pomegranate bush this morning. It’s times like this I wish I still had my SLR, but my lil’ Fuji Finepix did a decent job of grabbing a picture of this guy.
Posted by mrhing at 11:45am
