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I have been rendered clinically retarded.

My life is rapidly spinning out of control.  Certainly out of my control.  I have huge changes to deal with at my job.  I have no less than 12 new pieces of software to explore and test. The primaries are finally catching my interest but generally feature unelectable candidates.  I am seriously looking into returning to academia, and lets not forget that it is tax season.  But none of this compares to the inanity I was recently subjected to.

 I have a friend that exhibits the characteristics of a technophile on the opposite end of the taste spectrum from me.  Everything that I think is in poor taste and generally devoid of merit of any kind I can count on being on this friends del.icio.us.  I don’t think that I have agreed with any of his recommendations.  To give you some perspective,He recently sent me a link of top 5 movies and said they all sucked.  ”Superbad” was on this list.  Obviously he has no concept of quality.

Yesterday he shared his Twitter and recommended that I follow iJustine’s posts.  Now as far as quality content goes, if you want it you should look far from anything that she is involved in.  I can grant that she is attractive, in a physical sense.  She is petite, has breasts, blonde hair and I imagine the other requisite female body part.  Everything the average American male needs to fulfill their lonely-night fantasies.  But this girl is bat-shit crazy.  Look at those eyes.  That’s right, she is that girl you woke up with after that night of Tequila shots in college.  You know, the one you found sleeping in front of your dorm room door at 3AM.  The one that your roommate caught in your room smelling your tee shirt when he came back from the shower.  The one that followed your girlfriend home.

 Well, like a driver slowing down to look at an accident, I could not help from stopping by iJustine’s site to see the horror.  Her latest disaster: appearing on the Tom Green Show via video chat and engaging guests Carson Daly and Andrew Dice Clay.  Let me repeat: she was on the Tom Green Show with Carson Daly and Andrew Dice Clay.  Leatherface, Jason, Michael Meyers and an Ape all attempt to kill each other before eventually committing hare-kari.  The horror.

(This post is devoid of links because none of these hacks and wash ups deserve any more traffic.  Save yourself from loosing precious moments of your life.)