Playing With the Big Boys

So a couple days ago I had my first experience with California and the CRV or Cash Redemption Value.  Several states has similar programs designed to encourage recycling by charging a deposit when purchasing glass or plastic bottles.

Not to waste the opportunity to recycle and make money (or really just collect my deposit back I'd already spent) I've collected all the beer, wine, pop, juice, water, whatever bottles and cans we've used over the last couple months.  Much to the chagrin of my almost wife, the volume grew to about three grocery sacks worth.  So a few days ago I decided to cash in my wares.  I loaded all the crap into a trash bag and drove it to the Berkeley recycling center. 

I realized when I pulled into the parking lot that I brought a knife to a nuclear war.  There were dudes there with bags and bags of recyclables.  Bottles and cans pouring out the back of their vehicles, or, as the standard hobo mode of hauling, bags hanging off shopping carts.  I suddenly felt waaaaaaaaayyyyy out of my league.  Like I just stepped into the majors after playing a couple seasons of Tee-ball, these guys are for real.  These are the same guys that cruise through the park and pick up anything left behind.  It's like a free, community recycling program.  More than once, I've laid an empty bottle down next to me at the park and had it disappear within five minutes.  can you imagine a bum fight over a giant pile of bottles and cans?  They play for keeps. 

But I persevered.  I popped the trunk and pulled out my measly single, half full, trash bag.  With a little direction from the recycling csar I separated all the bottles by color and plastic and aluminum.  I poured each into a big ass, metal container and the csar punched in the weight into the computer.  I then walked over to a window and picked up my check for $3.52.  Yep, three dollars and fifty-two cents, not much to get excited over for the big boys but it's laundry money now.  Ahhahaahaahhaaa.  And the next round of collecting commences with an empty fifth of tequila and a 22oz bottle of Rogue Dead Guy.  Unrabble-B

Fukashima Ghost Town

http://rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/07/10594667-one-year-after-disaster-at-fukushima-nuclear-plant-town-remains-frozen-in-time

You have to read this article and watch the video.  We modern folk are quick to forget the past, even the recent past.  How much have you heard about the Japanese quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster lately?  No much.  The town near the Fukashima nuclear plant, twelve square miles and 10,000 residents are permanently evacuated.  There's a fence and 24/7 military guard around the town.  No one goes in without military escort.  The town is stuck at the day it was evacuated.  They didn't get to gather their belongings (though later people were allowed to return and claim certain items under strict supervision, though it seems there was some looting too, which I have a problem with.  I have a problem with looting yes, but it was observed by many, even myself, that after the quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster the Japanese did not go crazy and loot.  They didn't get violent like Africans and Europeans and maybe most of all Americans, because they are an orderly society.  They just dealt with it, together.  Well, it seems that's not entirely true.  Watch the video.  And besides, the Japanese dude in it has a vicious neck beard.) they just had to leave.  It speaks to stories like I am Legend, 28 Days Later, or Kurt Vonnegut's Deadeye Dick (minus the zombies and neutron bombs and such) of cities with everything but people to occupy them.  Watch the video for just a glimpse.  It's weird.  It's crazy and it needs to be written about, read about and remembered.  Rabble-B

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March-stache

So we're five days into March and we had our fifth earthquake in the four months that we've lived in the Bay Area.  I was actually awake too, headed out of the house at 5:30am, snowboard in hand.  Luckily it only lasted about 3 seconds. 

More importantly, we're in the fifth day of Mustache March.  This, of course follows Novembeard.  It's a tough and lonesome road but I finally got some support tonight for the journey that is the month of March.  Not many folks (and by folks I mean men) seem to know about Mustache March but the dudes at Trader Joe's do.  They're sportin' some fine whiskers this month, and complimented me on mine.  So if you're still shaving knock it off dammit and grow something on your face.  Ladies are allowed to wear clip on 'staches.  Anwyay, I also like Sierra Nevada Rutheless Rye.  Unrabble-B

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Ferrari F12 Berlinetta Revealed Ahead of Geneva

Italian automaker says 730-horsepower monster is its fastest-ever road-going model.

By Joshua Condon Wed 11:03 AM

The Ferrari F12 Berlinetta has been officially unveiled ahead of the Geneva Motor Show.

The replacement for the 599 has a number of improvements over the outgoing model. Horsepower gets a massive bump, from 611 to 730; 509 lb-ft of torque is on tap, with 80 percent available at just 2,500 rpm. Curb weight drops from 3,722 pounds to 3,362 pounds, 56 percent of which rests over the rear axle. The F12 has a drag coefficient of 0.299 and stronger downforce compared with the 599, and structural rigidity improves by 20 percent. The all-new aluminum chassis was designed by Scaglietti and incorporates a dozen alloys. Basically, it's everything you want in a next-step Ferrari: stronger, stiffer, lighter and more powerful.

Also, it's gorgeous. The F12 Berlinetta, a styling collaboration between Pininfarina and Ferrari's in-house styling team, is lower and shorter compared with the 599, with a long hood, prominent headlights, the same slick grille seen on the FF and a sweeping, muscular frame.

As expected, the F12 is based on a mid-front-engine configuration with a transaxle layout. The 599's 6-speed automated manual transmission is out, replaced by an F1-style dual-clutch gearbox. The naturally aspirated 6.3-liter V12 engine -- cylinders are banked at 65 degrees -- help push the F12 to a top speed of 211 mph and can blast the car from standstill to 60 mph in just 3.1 seconds. Its time around the Fiorano circuit, at 1:23, is faster than any other Ferrari of the road-going variety.

Check out Ferrari's quick overview video, below.

And here's Alonso and Massa reacting to the car:

The vehicle's official bow will take place in Geneva next week.

Rush, for my gun

Ok, so apparently Rush Limbaugh called a lady a "slut" on air yesterday because she spoke out in support of womens' access to birth control.  And now a bunch of his sponsors are distancing themselves from him because of the bad press.

Is this the end for Rush?

Not likely.  How that dumb, ignorant motherfucker is still a public figure with a radio show I have no idea.  Nothing is going to change though.  He's still going to stay on the air spouting his baseless, ludicrous commentary just like he has for all these years and after all the gaffs, offensive remarks, racist remarks, sexist remarks, four marriages in spite of his views on the sanctity of marriage and against gay marriage,  and my personal favorite his prescription drug addiction after so many years of railing against drug users as the scum of society.

After all that and whatever else I can't think of right now, he's still on the air and he still has millions of ignorant, dumbshit listeners that hang on his every word.  So no, he's not going anywhere because he called some lady a slut.  Unfortunately, unless some tries to kill him, he's going to remain doing the saying the same shit he's said forever. Much to everyone's chagrin, he's gonna keep on keepin' on.  Rabble-B

Double Penetration 10?

So have you seen now how Dr. Pepper has created a new super sissy ass drink for total weiner ass dudes called Dr. Pepper 10.  It only has ten calories so us dudes can watch our figures.  ?!?!

Lets forget for a moment how offensive this is toward women.  I mean really it's not like they're marketing the Mach 3 razor, which obviously should only be pitched to men and the East German Olympic female gymnastic team circa 1972 (they were held in Munich, West Germany that year).  IT'S FUCKING POP people, it has no preference of the sexes.

But more importantly, Dr. Pepper, is emasculating men on an appalling scale.  The commercial features a dude trying to pour a can of DP10 into a glass of ice while blastin' through the jungle in a sick, gnarly Jeep (he doesn't get much of it into the glass).  What kind of man has to pour his can of pop into a glass full of ice to drink it?  What so it stays colder and we can't drink warm pop.  What man would ever do that?  What the fuck, it's pop just drink it out of the can!  Even the flamiest gay dudes are more masculine than that.  And even better, what pop drinking man watches his calories to the point where he feels the need to drink low cal pop?  Answer: NONE!  You know who does watch their calories like that?  Women.  You know who isn't going to be drinking DP10?  Women.  Because they're already offended by the fact that DP10 is expressly not designed for them, even though it's just pop.  And probably tastes like shit anyway.  So yeah, suck it DP10.  Rabble-B