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I hereby claim poor man's copyright (i.e. I thought of it first, and have demonstrable proof of such) before the Transportation Security Administration can attempt to register the following marks:
For women, DILDO: Digitally Invasive Labial Discretionary Observation (where 'digital' refers to the 'digits', or fingers, of the TSA goon; not to the technology that saves any related images forever)
For men, PENIS: Predatory and Exploitative Nationalized Intrusion of Sexuality. (No real explanation is needed here.)
As for your children, make up your own acronyms as you desire. TSA is fondling little kids, how'd you like your own children to be "patted down" by some TSA agent? |
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Hey y'all! It's been brought to my attention that after I arrived home on the 4th to find an impromptu block party going on, things went very south, very quickly. Not only did I get so drunk that I couldn't stand up anymore (I remember that part), I also said and did some pretty stupid things (I don't remember that part and, please, I prefer to keep it that way).
I want to apologize for anything I said or did that may have offended you. Whatever you may have witnessed was the result of me being more drunk than I've been in at least 12 years; the last time I was literally falling-down drunk was just after I'd moved into my first apartment back in '98. Believe me, of the things that have been recounted to me so far, I'm so embarrassed that it's taken me several days even to gather the courage to talk about it.
I don't know too many of my neighbors, and of those I do know, I only have a few of you on Facebook. So if you happen to know some of the others who were present - especially the ones whom I've not met but I _know_ I offended - please pass my apologies along. The nice, friendly guy you've met over the years, that's me. The loud-mouthed stumbling idiot you saw Sunday night was a beer and vodka fueled Mr. Hyde to whom I'm ashamed to have played Dr. Jekyll.
Good neighbors are hard to find, and I don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon, so I hope everyone's willing to write off my behavior as a drunken fit.
P.S. Whoever was setting off fireworks Tuesday night, it wasn't me. Looked like the cops showed up, but I sure as heck didn't call 'em. |
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| So it turns out that all but one of my prescriptions are $4 at Schnucks. Transfers away from evil CVS commence. :) |
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| You believed in their stories of fame, fortune, and glory / Now you're lost in a haze of alcohol soft middle age / The pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high / And you hide, hide, hide / behind [blue] and mild eyes. |
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CVS pharmacy has recently entered the Memphis market for the first time. They built a brand new pharmacy very close to my home, and I thought I'd transfer my prescriptions there for convenience, because stopping by my Rite-Aid doubles my commute time home from work. My experience shows that transferring my prescriptions to CVS was a poor decision that has had the potential to compromise my health. If you take prescription medications which are either life-sustaining or intended to maintain your physical health, and you're considering CVS as a pharmacy in the Memphis or Cordova area, please reserve a couple of minutes to read this, and don't repeat my mistake.
For the record, I take 5 prescription medications daily:
- Amlodipine Besylate 10mg (blood pressure)
- Benazepril HCl 40mg (blood pressure)
- Carvedilol 3.125mg (cardiomegaly and angina)
- Omeprazole 20mg ("Prilosec OTC", but cheaper with Rx)
- Paroxetine HCl 30mg (generic Paxil, for stress)
I've been on all of these medications for a year or so. In the past, I'd always had them filled at Rite-Aid #7191, 1770 N. Germantown Parkway, Cordova, TN, 38016. I can recite that address from rote memory because I spent five great years working in suite 3 of that very building, back when the Rite-Aid was a K&B. Most of the prescriptions I had to fill during my teenage years were cosmetic and vanity in comparison to the blood pressure and heart medications I take these days, which actually maintain my health. But my meds have been dispensed from that building since I was 14 years old. The Rite-Aid pharmacist who works weekday evenings knows me by both sight and name, greets me as such, and grabs my prescriptions from the waiting bin before I even make it all the way to the counter. Rite-Aid has always treated me well, it's just out of the way at this point.
And so began my unfortunate CVS experience. I've told you about my five prescriptions, and I tried to transfer all of them to CVS via their website on Friday, February 12th. I created an account on CVS.com, and dutifully entered all of my prescription numbers along with Rite-Aid's information. I never got any confirmation email or phone call, so on Monday, February 15th I stopped into the CVS store to inquire. To my surprise, no prescriptions were waiting for me.
Of the 5 different medications I'd tried to transfer, they only had a record of 3: carvedilol, omeprazole, paroxetine. Amlodipine and benazepril had apparently vanished into the ether. Of the 3 transfer attempts that were recognized, they showed that two of them had already been filled, picked-up, and paid for on Friday the 12th. This is not true, as I never set foot into any CVS pharmacy until the 15th. Worse, they had sent this incorrect information to Humana, who refused to allow my scripts to be (actually) filled on the 15th, because Humana's records said that CVS had already filled them, billed them, and dispensed them three days prior.
Confusing matters further, the CVS website showed that they'd transferred the paroxetine prescription twice - one of which was supposedly filled and paid for on 2/12, and again, I never stepped into CVS until 2/15 - thereby pushing my potential for a refill well into 2011 which is entirely out of line:
Sigh...
I walked out of CVS on February 15th with a fresh refill of a prescription I wasn't low on to begin with (carvedilol), and 0 pills of a prescription I was completely out of (paroxetine). To CVS' credit, the pharmacist on duty seemed just as flustered about the situation as I was. He gave me a $25 gift card for my trouble, and the paroxetine is not essential to my health.
On Monday, February 22nd, I was down to one more pill each of my two blood pressure medications, amlodipine besylate and benazepril HCl. You'll recall these are the two medications which vanished during my first attempt at Rx transfer. This time, I called CVS instead of attempting another web session. I thought I was being "smart" this second time around, I was going to do things through a human being instead of hedging my bets on the CVS.com website which had already proven futile. So I spoke to a CSR, gave her my email address to load my CVS.com account, confirmed my birthdate, and transferred those two prescriptions by reciting the current Rite-Aid pharmacy's phone number and the prescription number on each bottle. I was given a confirmation number and told they'd be ready anytime after 5PM Monday.
On Tuesday, February 23rd, I went to CVS to pick up my two medications. Once again, nothing was waiting for me. Once again, the store had no record of any transfers. Eventually, the pharmacist on duty asked for the empty Rite-Aid bottles I'd flashed. I handed them over. After a half hour wait, they claimed the mix-up was because those two prescriptions were out of refills - but they wouldn't return the Rite-Aid bottles for me to verify that claim one way or another. Anything's possible. I'll be the first to admit that I don't keep track of these things religiously. But I sincerely doubt that I tried to transfer two prescriptions with no refills left on them.
As of Tuesday night, I'm completely out of my blood pressure medications. No amlodipine besylate, no benazepril HCl. I take one of each, each morning. CVS is supposed to call my doctor tomorrow morning to get brand-new scripts, so until this matter is resolved, I'm late for work.
The first blunder I attributed to growing pains for CVS. New stores in a new market with new employees and new customers, there are kinks to work out. I can't forgive it happening a second time. If you have prescription medications, I cannot possibly recommend transferring those meds to CVS. |
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Way back in ancient times (October, 2006), shortly after my boss had introduced me to reddit, I registered the domain redidt.com. I'm no typosquatter, though if I'd had the foresight to register yuotube.com or dacebook.com, that might be a different story and I'd probably be posting this from the lanai of my secluded beach house somewhere on the north shore of Oahu. I simply made the redidt typo one day, and wondered how many others were doing the same. So I registered the domain for the hell of it, and put up a little you-goofed page, reminiscent of some Slashdot typo domain of years past. Visitors were informed, without any glitz, that "You probably made a typo. That's okay, it happens to the best of us. :)"
It wasn't too long before someone noticed, but reddit wasn't exactly a booming intertube metropolis at that point, so no one even bothered to comment. redidt.com has had exactly three incarnations over the years:
10/30/2006, the original
10/07/2007, after a post on Digg
11/15/2008, can't recall why, though it must have come up again somewhere
The fact that the cycle seems to repeat on an almost annual basis is not lost on me, though I have no explanation.
A couple of years ago, reddit's (now-retired) co-founder Alexis Ohanion messaged me out of nowhere, offering a bunch of reddit t-shirts in exchange for the domain. It was the greatest orangered of all time, and we talked back and forth a bit, but for some reason it fell through. This morning, I received another unexpected orangered from kn0thing. This time, Nasty Conde's counsel is in on the discussions, so I'm quite sure I'll be getting a box of reddit t-shirts soon enough... And that I will not own redidt.com much longer. |
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1763 1983 |
A place to stay,
Enough to eat,
Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street,
Where you can speak out loud about your doubts and fears,
And what's more,
No one ever disappears, you never hear their standard issue kicking in your door.
You can relax - on both sides of the tracks -
And maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control.
And everyone has recourse to the law.
--Roger Waters |
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Here is the State Department's Foreign Affairs Manual Volume 9, Sec. 40.37, Visas. It describes in detail the procedures for issuing VISAS VIPER (suspected terrorist) cables from CIA and diplomatic posts back to Washington, through which channels they should be routed, and how other agencies may contribute.
I'll leave VISAS DONKEY as an exercise to the reader... Hang on, there's a knock at the door, must be New Year's revelers ;) |
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Mirroring from Cryptome,
The USA Merit Systems Protection Board published an online Opinion and Order which involved a TSA employee. A footnote states:
*The original unexpurgated version of this Opinion and Order contains Sensitive Security Information (SSI) protected by 49 C.F.R. Parts 15 and 1520. Per agreement between the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the TSA has redacted all SSI protected by 49 C.F.R. Parts 15 and 1520 from this version so that it can be made available to the public.
The SSI redactions were made in an insecure manner and could be easily removed.
The document with redactions lifted and SSI highlighted: tsa-ssi-02.pdf (80KB) |
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