Corcoran Brothers

I’ve been double carrying cell phones for a while now, my work blackberry and my personal Razr. I liked keeping the two worlds separate and leaving the BB at home when I am not on call. However, due to my new promotion, “Operations Support Manager”, I am required to have the BB with me at all times. Also, since I carry the Razr in my back pocket, I could not hear the ring around my fat ass, and missed the last 14 calls placed to me. So I was able to cancel my personal phone, 781-724-1317. If any of you don’t have my work cell phone number and need it, shoot me an email.

Now all I need to do is find the “lotion” wav file for JDY’s ringtone.

I finally got my car back! I liked the Impala from Enterprise, but it weren’t no Jetta. I feel a happy glow.

Plus - Jenn sent me a link of a true 128 warrior, check it here.

Michelle Wie turned 18 a coupla months ago. Just sayin’…

STP80367, uploaded by kinshay. More pictures here.

I may have taken it in the rear, but I took it like a man

UPDATED:

Backstory - I was cruising into work in the normal stop and go. I got past route 1, stopped with traffic, and the F150 behind me was not paying attention. He slammed the brakes and cut right, but still clipped me something good. He drive past with the airbag in his face. I pulled off to the left (we were in the left lane), he cut across to the right shoulder on a flat front left tire. All these cars started pulling off to the left onto the grass as well, I thought it must have been an accordion effect. Nope, the dbags all decided rather than wait and stay on the road, they would cut around me on the outside, over the grass, and hop back into the open lane. Not a single asshat cutting around stopped and asked if I was ok. I wound up pulling up another 20 yards so I could get out of the car. One trucker did open his window in the slowdown, he was on the highway, and asked iof I was ok and needed it called him.

The Statey showed up inside of 5 minutes, stopped all traffic so I could cross the highway to were the other guy was, then took the info. He said it would be 10 days or so to get the report, but that it was completely the other guys fault. I was very calm, through the whole thing, literally saying accidents happen. I drive 128 every day, I knew it would happen at some point. I am glad when it did no one got hurt.

I am impressed with how well the insurance thing works. I have Arbella… I got home at 9:30 or so, had a claim number in 20 minutes, 20 minutes later was being assessed at the drive in appraiser’s in Brockton, then made an appointment, dropped off the car at the body shop, and got a rental. I expected much more pain and bureaucracy. Still a giant pain in the ass, but given the circumstances, smooth…

The new shows are starting up. I was going to do my annual spreadsheet, but there are plenty of resources out there. Nothing new really excites me, I am more in to the old shows coming back.

I did find a nice solution to last year’s running back and forth from TiVo to TiVo getting my season passes in order. I wiped out all my season passes, then used tv.yahoo.com. On Yahoo TV, you can not only set your local provider, and filter on favorite channels, they have an API into your TiVo account. Let it authenticate, you can then pick individual shows or season passes on either/all your TiVos. You can do the same from TiVo online, but the interface is much faster and easier to move around in.

All the season passes  showed up as expected on the TiVos. Can’t wait for it to start.

NOTE - not real drunken posting, but done with pharmaceutical assistance. Shay is typing and thinking in slo-mo.

So I bought Rachel a new Dell inspiron 531 minitower. It friggin rocks. Dual core 64 bit athlon, 2 Gig of RAM, Vitsa home premium. It is pretty sweet. I was going to wait to score me a new one, but having all that power in teh room made me jealous, so like a pouting child, I had to get my own. I went with the 256 graphic card, the dual core 64 athlon 5800, and Windows Vista. I skipped on the 2 gig of RAM ($100 more) and bought 2 gig from Crucial, for $100. So I has 3 gig. This shit fucking flies. (I had to build my system up  to over $999 to use a $350 coupon found online. Was worth it for sure.)

I was one of the Fuck Vista, OS X, Linux punks. I have to say, while not ready for full on work release, I am pleasantly  suprised at how much I enjoy it. The flash is not too much, enough to keep me interested. And while there is lotsa shit moved to new places, I am getting the hang of it. There is just a lot of shock when you are first setting up. While most people hate the needs permission popups, which are so prevalent the first few days, one I began thinking of them as popup “sudo” commands, they seemed easy and useful to me.

My only disappointments, I ordered 2 64 bit systems. and they come with Vista 32 bit. WTF? Also I had to open a ticket as SATA ports 2 and 3 on the motherboard don’t work, so I get either C:\ and either my CDROM or extra 500 Gig SATA drive. They’ll be shipping out a new motherboard this week. I am so using the Gparted/ImagePart rescue CD as found on Lifehacker. The 320 gig C:\ is getting chopped to 60 gig OS partition, 6 Gig swap partiton, 40 Gig linux (64 bit Feisty Fawn) with the rest as SCRATCH for video and such. All data stays on Truecrypt volumes on the 500 gig drive, with offsite backups to Mozy. I highly suggest using it for offsite backups. Moving the /users/Shay special folders (Pictures, Music, etc) to be on the second drive was way easy.

So in two days I got my system, RAM, new nic (Gige), soundcard (not pilfered from work), speakers, and on the side a woot special XM radio alarm clock. As I need to fall asleep listening to something, this beats watching the same old Forensics Files or Dirty Jobs.

We are also going to try doing a job like this one, as cable management really sucks in the office. Instead of BBQ grill we’ll use black painted pegboard cut to side.

I also went to look for the Tivo Desktop. Version 2.5 is out there, and I am installing it now. Here’s the specs:

TiVo Desktop 2.4 allows you to transfer the following types of video files to your TiVo DVR:

• Windows Media Video (.wmv)
• QuickTime Movie (.mov)
• MPEG-4/H.264 (.mp4, .m4v, .mp4v)
• MPEG-2 (.mpg, .mpeg, .mpe, .mp2, .mp2v, .mpv2)

TiVo Desktop 2.5, and later versions ,also allow the transfer of .divx and .avi files containing divx content.

I stopped using it around 2.2, so this could be badass. I always wished TiVo would switch their base encoding to Divx, it is much higher quality in a smaller package. Sure MPG2 is supposed to make it burn to DVD much quicker, but any time I tried doing it it always re-encoded the whole file anyway. Besides, whenever I try pulling or transferring shows, it is slow as dog shit. I went from trying Wireless B to Wireless G to hard wired 10/100, and my pull speed is alway 200 kps.  WTF.

Anyone using 2.5? Vista? Tips and tricks?

Preparing for school, we decided to clean out Bri’s room. I can not believe how much shit was shoved into a 10×12 bedroom. Once she brought it all out, we did the TLC Whatevah Home Improvement Show piles of Need, Want and Donate.Knowing she would have to haul everything she wanted to keep back into the room and put away helped motivate Bri to choose wisely. She retained about 15% of the stuff.

Anyone need some toys?

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Shay Corcoran wrote:

> Think about getting behind this
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> http://kiva.org/
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> Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.8/973 - Release Date: 8/25/2007 5:00 PM

On 8/26/07, Shane Corcoran <kinshane@bear411.com> wrote:

That is pretty frigging cool. How you find out about it?

On 8/26/07, Shane Corcoran <kinshane@bear411.com> wrote:

Write that shit up on CB, yo. I went through the website and I’m definitely getting involved. I think it would gain access from 5-7 more people if’n you wrote it up.

On 8/26/07, Shay Corcoran <kinshay@RealMenWearPink.com> wrote:

I subscribe to the Truemors rss feed. Dumb Little Man suggested it for socially retarded folks like myself so we can have talking points in our interactions.

I saw the link, love me some micro loans, and checked it out. Seems real legit, good write ups, good partners. I tried using a gift card for $25 I had hanging around, but Paypal took $1, then tried charging the $25. So it got rejected. And cost me a dollar. What the fuck I am supposed to do with a $24 gift card?

When I gets some time, I’ll hit up the nice Pakistani woman looking to make sausage. I love me some sausage. The whole world deserves sausage. Meat grinders for all.

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On 8/26/07, Shane Corcoran <kinshane@bear411.com> wrote:

Hi!

I just made a loan to someone in the developing world using a revolutionary new website called Kiva.

You can go to Kiva’s website and lend to someone in the developing world who needs a loan for their business - like raising goats, selling vegetables at market or making bricks. Each loan has a picture of the entrepreneur, a description of their business and how they plan to use the loan so you know exactly how your money is being spent - and you get updates letting you know how the business is going. The best part is, when the entrepreneur pays back their loan you get your money back - and Kiva’s loans are managed by microfinance institutions on the ground who have a lot of experience doing this, so you can trust that your money is being handled responsibly.

I just made a loan to an entrepreneur named Abdusamad Samadov in Tajikistan. They still need another $1,100.00 to complete their loan request of $1,200.00 (you can loan as little as $25.00!). Help me get this business off the ground by clicking on the link below to make a loan to Abdusamad Samadov too:

http://kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=15843&referralId=49190

It’s finally easy to actually do something about poverty - using Kiva I know exactly who my money is loaned to and what they’re using it for. And most of all, I know that I’m helping them build a sustainable business that will provide income to feed, clothe, house and educate their family long after my loan is paid back.

Join me in changing the world - one loan at a time.

Thanks!

Shane Corcoran

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What others are saying about www.Kiva.org:

‘Revolutionising how donors and lenders in the US are connecting with small entrepreneurs in developing countries.’

– BBC

‘If you’ve got 25 bucks, a PC and a PayPal account, you’ve now got the wherewithal to be an international financier.’

– CNN Money

‘Smaller investors can make loans of as little as $25 to specific individual entrepreneurs through a service launched last fall by Kiva.org.’

– The Wall Street Journal

‘An inexpensive feel-good investment opportunity…All loaned funds go directly to the applicants, and most loans are repaid in full.’

– Entrepreneur Magazine

I’m not talking rocking out when Toni Basil comes on the radio, what’s your internet ready guilty pleasure?

I will admit, after discussion with da kine , WWTDD is in my google reader, although that pink haired freak got to be too much.

Also, I have a strange love for LOLcats. I get my fill here. Fuck, I don’t even like cats. I try to get my dog Sly

to eat our cat Blackie (who is gray, not black, which is what you wind up with when you let a 2 year old name the animal.) WTF?

What’s your shameful internet secret pleasure? If you can’t reveal that, what’s the best lolcat caption you have for the awse picture?

Some random thoughts and questions

Firstly, having signed up via wife to the Striar JCC I must say kudos to Jake for getting back into rock climbing. While Jake is far from being a fat fuck, he wants to be in good shape, and getting back into it is so very fucking hard. As some of you followed the old (way old) diet of mine from way back when, you’ll be happy to note I ballooned up to a whopping 370 pounds, just in time for my wedding. “Holy fuck!” you say. How does one get up to 370 pounds? I would like to thank my lack of self control, McDonalds, and the awse chinese take out places who kindly brought me my deep fried goodness.

Knowing how much everyone supported me before really kept me on track. That’s why Jake deserves the shout out. We believe in you, you 200 pound skinny fuck. Knowing others will care helps, tremendously. The real question is, why come when you start packing it back on does no one comment on that? Sure, it would seem rude, but come one, I don’t look in the mirror. If I heard “man you’re looking tubby” when gaining as often as often as I heard “looking good McSkinny” when dropping, life would be different. Really not fair to blame everyone else, but what?, am I supposed to hold myself accountable. Not likely.

The wife is concerned about me dropping dead of a heart attack at age 42, so I met with Paul, my personal trainer today. The JCC has the best gym intro I have ever seen. Signing up you have Four 30 minutes sessions with a trainer to go over the equipment and your goals. My goal - not to be a sedentary lump. Paul helped me set some realistic objectives (I don’t do “goals”) I can meet to change the old lifestyle.

Anyhow, I have dropped about 45 pounds going on HMR shakes and whatnot. It helps in two ways, one I have less choice, so I do not make bad choices. 3-5 shakes + 5 fuits and veggies + whatever Kin-Wife gives me for dinner. Score, I drop pounds. Second, I have a partner. Y’all may know him as Mr Mechanic, The Fixer - Charlie. Charlie is Kin-Wife’s best friend’s husband, and all around awesome guy. We weigh in each week, and if I want to stray, I have to think he may beat me in the competition. Yes, Competition. We do 30 pound sets, first one to lose 30 has to buy dinner for both couples. It works out well. He won the first 30, but it was close, and I had already started my diet 3 weeks before hand, and did not have the bonus 7 pounds water weight you piss out.

Other thought - I have turned into a complete light weight. 6 deep into a twin 6 packs of Sam Adams Black Lager and I am tits up tipsy. Thank JoeDaYuz, not only did you kill my father, you gave me introduced me to a beer that is smoother than light beer and knocks me on my ass. No worries though, post 8/19 no drinking at all, too many empty calories. If but only we could subside on microbrew - the world would be an better place. They just go down so quickly. Ms. Caitlin said it was ok to start drinking at 15:45, so if anyone take issue, bring it up with her.

Also - God Bless firefox built in spell-checker.

Final question for the group - Is it wrong (or more properly, how wrong is it); even though it does not fit your tastes at all; to download a porno movie/scene just because the actress looks like your sister-in-law? (or cousin or co-worker, etc…) Anyone with only one sister in law (jdy) or is a botany expert is exempt from answering, plausible deny-ability is in affect.Addendum to the final question, just out of the blue, Cut Assistant in conjunction with asfbin and portable virtualdub rocks for cutting out all all the boring dialog, etc, from your home made avi and wmv files. Which would not be porn. Downloaded from the internet. Porn is bad. This is for editing home movies and whatnot. Also for cutting commercials out of tv shows you recorded on your Media Center PC and illegally uploading as torrents to Swedish servers. Oh wait, that is bad too. Don;t do that.