from the edge of the deep green blue sea

You know how I find out if someone has done a horrible deed? They will tell you that they have found Jesus Christ and that everything is fine in their lives. Now don’t get this mixed up with people who are religious have been believing in good ol’ Jesus for as long as they can remember. This breed of individuals have never been too fond of religion and next time around you see them, well - they found Jesus - lucky bastards!

I have seen the pattern again and again. I know of people who have had a life of lies, fathering children outside of marriage and neglecting to accept these children. Suddenly, this guy gets diabetes and he can’t raise the flag anymore. Since he can’t boink anyone without some sort of enhancement , praise the lord for he has repented and found jesus - AMEN!

I could go on, but I think the integrity of some people I know who have found jesus might be compromised. I don’t think you need to believe in something in order to circumvent problems in your life, but heck - if that works for you, be my guest. What really makes me question the whole faith thing is that people who’ve lead a vicious path of betrayal, lies, murder, and whatnot - suddenly can go to heaven because they repent.

My sister once commented on the irony found in the story when JC died. When he was dying at the cross, one of the thieves that died with him at the cross repented, and BOOM, the fucker made it to heaven (”Today (Present tense) you will be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43)).

That is not respectable!!! The person who should be admired in that story is the thief of was not a hypocrite and took responsibility for his actions, he was DA MAN, not the fellow who was pretty much screwed and said “what the heck, I’ll repent, maybe if this heaven thing exists, I’ll get in!”…SIGH!

What makes me wonder is…who is a better man: the one who does not believe in god but leads a somewhat decent life, or the rapists, murderer, cheater, liar who repents seconds before dying? You be the judge.

I missed the Florence gig,
but this is not getting away!

OK, so unless something really really bad happens (knock on wood), I have all that is needed to see Muse on July 23rd:

• Gig Tickets √
• Airplane Tickets √
• Air Guitar √

The last few days, I have done nothing but to look at Muse concerts all day in youtube. I am REALLY psyched about this, within a year’s timeframe, I have managed to see Interpol, Bloc Party, and Muse (each at a different continent, how is that for bragging rights!!!) W0000000000007!!!!!!

I really hope this post does not offend anyone too much…I tried to stay below the drunk mark to talk about this. Women, please don’t hate me.

Let’s assume there exists this fictitious company somewhere in the world. This company has an HR dept. made up of 2 women, who seem to have everything under control - let’s put it this way, at least they are there when someone needs them. Let’s now assume that the actual CEO steps down from his position and a new guy gets to be CEO for whatever reason it may be. The new CEO, appoints a new HR manager to handle those two resources that were doing everything fine, and now the old HR manager has someone above her appointed by the CEO. Of course the old HR manager is going to quit - staying would condone this kind of behavior, which I do find humiliating in the very least.

At this point, everything is wrong, the second old person from HR takes off because things don’t seem quite right. And then you find out that the new appointed HR manager is really good friends of the CEO…hmmmmm…nothing is quite right. After a while of doing jack shit as an HR manager, she gets pregnant and takes off for maternity leave. Nice.

Once her maternity leave is over, she comes back and guess what happens next? Yup, she quits. While all of this is happening, another person from HR ‘gets pregnant’ after mere months of being in the company, and this one is having 3 babies, so I am guessing here, but seems like it was artificial insemination - in other words, it was not a ‘oops, I forgot to take the pill’ or ‘we got so horny in the middle of the jungle’ kind of thing. Like a bad CSI crime, this was completely pre-meditated..

So here’s what my rant is NOT about: women should not get pregnant at work. I think a woman has every right to become pregnant, it is a great thing that in most cases will bring lots of joy to a lot of people. Here is what this rant is about: don’t get fucking pregnant after starting a job position! If you do, the least that can be done to condone some sort of decency is to quit. I have talked about this with many people and here is the common denominator of rebuttal:

“why should she quit, the whole thing could have been an accident and it could not be her fault she got pregnant, times are tough and why should she let go of her monthly salary when the money might be needed more?”

I’ll tell you why. When hiring people, most people will choose a male candidate because he will not get pregnant (hopefully) - anyhow, getting pregnant mere months after someone starts just gives people who hate hiring women ammunition for stating their points - in other words, you are messing it all up for a lot of women out there who would actually like to work instead of spending their time on maternity leave. It’s not your fault you got pregnant? Well, neither is the company’s, so why should they have to deal with this crap? This kind of mentality is what is keeping our country stagnated, not being held accountable for our actions (think poor families who have 8-10 children)

Getting pregnant after months of starting a job position and staying there just seems wrong. It’s the best way to say “i have really fucked your company over, now pay me for doing jack shit while I stay home and have this baby”. If, on the other hand, you have been working with the company for some time and decide to have a baby, I think it will be completely understood. It’s just the fact of thinking about squeezing puppies right after getting your job that I deem as unethical. Perhaps this will come and bite me back in the ass in the future, but come on, let’s try and have some decency here, especially if you are from HR, a department that should set examples and standard to the rest of the company.

Just found out about this great great idea. At the Garfield Minus Garfield blog, the author takes away Garfield from the comic strips, and you end up with John - talking to himself. With Garfield, this poor bastard was sad, without Garfield anywhere on the comic, it is downright creepy. After reading 10 or so, you start wondering when this guy will slit his wrists. Take this once for example:

How sad is that?!?!? Not sad enough?

Brilliant!

No comment necessary.

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Tried ths wine (Malbec) in L’Ancora, a very good Italian restaurant in Barrio Dent. The wine has very oaky smell, and tasted VERY VERY well. Very rich in flavor and just in the right spot in terms of body. I’d be tempted to say that its one of the best wines I have ever tasted. You can find more info the Kaiken Wines web page. Oh, and it is hangover free

Continuing with the long tradition (curse) where everything that I buy turns to shit, about a month ago, a brand new spanking USB drive died on me. Now this was 1 TB of information that suddenly had gone on a way ticket to hell. Luckily, I had backups of almost everything in that drive (mostly porn and TV Shows - always backup your porn!). Anyhow, whenever I plugged the driver, it would start flashing and once it showed in the Finder, I could not access anything on it. None of my hard drive utilities did anything. So I tried the next thing anyone with serious mental disorders would try.

I downloaded MacDrive Trial and installed it on a Windows XP box I had (I was SOL at that point, so it could not get any worse). I plugged in the drive and my jaw dropped when I saw the drive show up. I thought that maybe it did show up, but maybe all files were corrupt. Once I accessed the drive through the newtork from my Powerbook, I mounted a DMG file and it mounted!!!

Needless to say, I am right now recovering all info from the drive and will reformat afterwards. Who would have thought XP, of all OSes, would be able to see and read info from a damaged disk? Unbelievable.

I should create a “mega drunk post” category for this one…had taken it offline, but what hell, here it is again:

Ya estoy hasta la mierda harto de la picha de esta pais de secuestros, robos y cuanta mierda mas ataca a aquellos que trabajamos. Estoy HARTO HARTO HARTO que este fucking pais llamado COSTA RICA se venda como la fucking SUIZA CENTROAMERICANA cuando es una timo para poder atracar a cuanto turista entra. Y saben cual es el primer lugar donde se COGEN al turista? Justo cuando esta recogiendo sus fucking maletas, en el tipo de cambio de la oficina que hosteada por la maldicion MAS FUCKING grande que le ha pasado al Santamaria que es ALTEA. Ojala le quiten el poder a este pocos de playos que lo unico que han hecho es estagnar el desarrollo de esa picha de aeropuerto.

Estoy demasiado harto de todo Costa Rica. Hoy me meti a leer la fucking nacion y lo primero que veo es un articulodo de un secuestro. Ya no fucking mas, me cago en los diputados que no hacen ni PICHA en reformar esta mierda de constitucion que lo unico que hace es darle privilegios al fucking ladron y escudarse en la mierda de derechos humanos para darle una excusa mas para no poder cortarle las manos al que roba, en quitarle la vida al que mata - FUCKING OJO POR OJO.
Como soluciona todos los problemas de este pais propongo lo siguiente:

• Si se agarra robando a algun malparido, se le corta una mano, a las 2 veces se le corta la otra
• Se secuestra a alguien y se le agarra, la persona que trato de secuestrar tiene la opcion de cerrarlo a pichazos por X cantidad de tiempo con un bate de baseball con opcion de muerte. Esto seria televisado por Teletica todos los Sabados en vez de la estupidez de bailando/cantando por un suenno
• Cada crio parido tiene que estar respaldado por mosca por los malparidos que hicieron la torta. Si despues de X cantidad de crios se demuestra que el malparido prennador no tiene para pencion, se castra al HP y si la cabra sigue pariendo como gata en celo sin tener manera de mantener a sus crios, se le cortan las trompas de falopio, o el utero o la vagina, pero algo que cierre ese chinamo

Un poquito crudo? Talvez. Pero prefiero ponerle fin a estos malparidos delincuentes antes de logren engendrase en un ser humano que logre matareme porque los malparidos tatas estaban demasiado ocupados mandando a Greivin, Maynor y Usnavy e vender crack mientras el pequenno Junior estaba aprendiendo a usar la fucking cuchiclla.

Y sorry por los errores ortograficos, esta picha de Windows 2008 no tiene spell checker en espannol…

Rare is the case, when you have a list of pristine music artists that you deem your favorite, swear that no others can even come close, and out of the blue someone, spontaneously show up and wreaks havoc on your senses. That’s the effect Matthew Good has had for almost a month now. I’ve had this guy’s songs on repeat and I have not grown even a bit tired. The music is powerful, and the lyrics are supercharged with very personal and, sometimes, political messages.

Matthew Good is a Canadian artist. He started with a band called The Matthew Good Band, which I have yet to listen. After leaving the band and starting his solo career, he has released the following albums:

• Avalanche (I am listening to it for the first time right now)
• In a Coma (greatest hits)
• Hospital Music

My favorite songs are Apparitions (acoustic version that appears In a Coma) and Weapon.

I know that saying that someone is “underrated” is quickly becoming a fucking cliché for music reviews - but trust me, this guy is really really really underrated! Here are some of his songs on YouTube:

Apparitions

Weapon (long video, great song)

Well, I finally made up my mind and got myself a dog. After debating on what breed of dog I wanted for a while, the unexpected visit by a mixed Rottweiler to my sister’s house made my decision very clear. The dog my sister saved is called Zurquí, and he was left to starve to death by the moron who took care of farm. My sister found Zurquí and his sister, but unfortunately only Zurquí made it

After looking for quite some time for a Rottweiller, I found one in the local newspaper ads. We went to visit the place where they were selling them and found 5 amazing puppies. I quickly picked up the one I wanted. Demian was very active and beat the crap out of his siblings, which I though was hellavu cool. He also had a kick ass pounce, so he quickly was the winner.

In less than a week the dog has grown quite a bit. He is extremely smart and learns everything very fast. He has very dimmed yellow eyebrows, so he looks like his moody and pissed all the time. He is not as grumpy as I would like to, but I am working on it. Check out more pics:

http://gallery.mac.com/csaborio/100147