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Burger King for lunch- a worthwhile disaster

by Bakari on Oct.09, 2009, under Food, Life Experiences, Random, Rant

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Today I decided to go to Burger King for lunch. I wasn’t aware that it was going to turn out to be an experience.

It was lunchtime. Needless to say, it was somewhat busy, and the newbie cashier wasn’t making matters easier. A 10 minute wait in line yielded my turn to order. I proceeded to get a medium onion ring, value drink, and a whopper with no onions & extra pickle. Oh and I filled out the survey to get the whopper for free. So I was happy.

My order’s in and I’m handed my drink cup. I go the the pop machine, get ice, hit Coke for my Coke/Vault/Fanta drink and pffffff- syrupless Coke pours into my cup. I mention it to someone behind the counter and she tells me it’s out of syrup and the manager will change it and she could fill me up from the drivethru window. Sure. No dice- it was out of syrup as well. Multiple apologies were made and I went on my way, unphased, and not really concerned that I couldn’t get Coke- it’s only a pop, who cares. (continue reading…)

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BtDubZ has it’s own number!

by Bakari on Oct.09, 2009, under About, Technology

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I realize that you could have called BtDubZ before using the Google Voice widget on the right sidebar but that was linked to my personal phones. Now BtDubZ has it’s very own number which means any author who posts on BtDubZ can be reached there. Currently, I’m the only author but you gotta look to the future right?

The number is [405]4-BtDubZ or (405) 428-3829 and you can call it directly or click on the Google Voice CallMe widget on the right hand side of BtDubZ.

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Why saying ‘no homo’ makes you gay

by Bakari on Oct.06, 2009, under Random, Rant

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Recently, people have started appending things they say with ‘no homo’. It’s intended to mean that whatever they said is not meant in a homosexual context as with “Dude I like you, no homo.” It’s much like when people add ‘for real’ or ‘I promise’ to things.

Well to me when people say things like that, it means I should think they’re a liar. If you have to promise me you’ll do something, that means I shouldn’t believe you when you don’t say it. Which brings me back to saying ‘no homo.’ If you say that am I supposed to take everything you say without the ‘no homo’ modifier in a homosexual context? That’s the effect it has. It also means that on some level you feel unclear about your sexuality. If you have to say ‘no homo’ then chances are there’s something about you that says ‘I’m a homosexual’ that you’re trying to overcome. Working on that aspect of your persona would have a greater impact than saying ‘no homo’.

People should think about things they say before they say them. It’s why I don’t promise people I’ll do things. Either you believe me and it’ll happen or you don’t and it won’t. Take me at my word or get outta my face.

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A weekend of hell

by Bakari on Oct.05, 2009, under Life Experiences, Random, Rant

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    This weekend was intense, stressful, revelatory, and résumé building. I spent 26.8 hours at work managing two events. I’d provide more details about where I work and what I do but there’s someone who’ll probably end up reading this that’s just nosy for no damn reason. He thinks for some odd ass reason he’s entitled to know my every move, that I should update him 24/7/52,  and he should provide unnecessary, condescending, second-guessing commentary for every action I take.  Well you don’t, you irritate the hell out of me because you do this and think when people attempt to inform you that your overbearing ‘advice’ is unneeded and unwelcome you: a)deny it, b)get pissy, c)start being condescending if you haven’t already, d)pretend you know best and that I’ll fail from a lack of taking your shit, e)bring it up out of context whenever you get the chance, and f)act like my ideas are worthless because I thought of them without your input. But I digress and you’re no longer worth the additional thought and frustration you cause. You didn’t even deserve that paragraph but I figured I’d write it so you can realize why I don’t take any time to talk to you. (continue reading…)

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With the CW I’m obsessed

by Bakari on Oct.02, 2009, under CW, Random, Rant, TV

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I have no problem admitting that I like certain tv shows that others say I’m lame for watching. Recently, I’ve discovered that the CW has a lot of shows that I like- 90120, Melrose Place, The Beautiful Life (which had an intensely long 2 episode lifetime), Supernatural, and Smallville. If you think about it, that’s a lot of shows to watch on one network that I like to watch. Which is good for the network but uncommon. NBC has fallen off my map since they canceled the rebooted Knight Rider series. I like Heroes but I don’t actually tune in to watch. But I digress…

I’ve found myself watching the CW more and more for it’s now 4 renewing shows. There are 14 that have not been canceled that I watch and the CW has the largest share at 4, closely followed by USA (which is owned by NBC) with 3.  (90120, Aaron Stone, American Dad!, Clone Wars, Eureka, Family Guy, Heroes, Melrose Place, Psych, Royal Pains, Smallville, Supernatural, Warehouse 13, and Wizards of Waverly Place).

I’m not sure why, but it’s the CW shows I end up talking about the most. I find the drama of @9o12o interesting and along with Melrose Place, I like watching to see when the other shoe’s gonna fall on some of their schemes. I’m often left wanting more or being shocked by Supernatural because I don’t see some of those things coming. I used to like Smallville a lot after Clark stopped acting like a whimpering puppy because of Lana (old blog about it here) but the season 9 premiere has put me off. It wasn’t worthy of a season premiere and it’s making the outlook for Smallville very grim. Burning the S into stuff? How TACKY is that?! Eureka’s a good show but it’s not really something to talk about with friends as with most of the shows I watch. Family Guy’s funny (missed this season’s premiere) and I usually make references or talk in the Cleveland voice.

I think this year has the most new shows on television that I watch and coupled with reruns of my favorite shows, I could spend all day watching TV if I really wanted to. That’s all for now, I gotta get back to Melrose Place and Supernatural that I missed last week…

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Well damn- Sleep’s required

by Bakari on Oct.01, 2009, under Design, Random

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Today while I was getting some cards printed for my latest client (you can read about it here and here), I had the opportunity to learn something new but I missed it. The guy at AlphaCopies was showing me the steps to make a Step & Repeat document in Acrobat to print the cards on cardstock so they’d line up with crop marks after printing. I missed it cause I fell asleep. I spent all night working on Jake’s business cards so I guess eventually at 9 in the morning I crashed. Oh well. Next time I’ll go sleep first and then get my work printed. Hah.

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