My eldest son attends Rogers high school here in Spokane. Yesterday, they had an issue.

Apparently, the Principle, Carole Meyer, had told the students and faculty they could no longer use the word “Hillyard” when taunting other teams because she clams it had a derogatory meaning.

Several hundred students started their day yesterday by standing outside the school in protest, waving signs that read “Hillyard Pride” and chanting the same.

The event was quite organized. The student council had even gotten a permit from the city to allow the protest. While there was a police presence, it was a very peaceful, if not loud, demonstration.

My thoughts: WHAT THE FUCK! Telling students that they can’t mention the part of town that they live in because the name is derogatory?!? Why not just tell them they live in a steaming cesspool and because of that they themselves aren’t worth shit.

Sure, Hillyard isn’t exactly the best part of town, but the majority of families that live there take pride in their neighborhood. What kind of message is Carole Meyer trying to send to the students and families who live and work here?

My son said that he overheard several members of the faculty state that they’d like to join the protest, but were afraid it would end their careers.

When the majority of the student body and the faculty agree that there’s a problem, you better believe there is.

Of course, this isn’t my only complaint against Principle Meyer. She’s done several other things since coming to the school that are questionable. She has changed student schedules, overriding the electives they are allowed to take, in order to place them in other classes to increase the schools funding (basically vetoing the decisions of the students, counselors, and parents). She’s also placed the school in lock-down after the bell rings, leaving only two doors open.

I believe that Principal Meyers owes an apology to the students and the community.

The whole concept of spoofing an email address to deliver spam is pissing me off.

Currently, I get several messages per day saying that email can’t be delivered because my email address is blocked by the recipient.  I’m not sending any mail and the only reason I can think that I’d be getting thus said messages is some piece of shit spammer is using my address in the “from” field.

One address in particular seems to get a lot of mail (as I get a lot of bounces stating that they’ve blocked my address).

So… I’m dropping my current email account and creating another (being the admin has it’s privelages).  Since I don’t publish my address anywhere (you’ll not find it on this site or any other I host), hopefully this one won’t be harvested.

For those who need my email address: I’ll let you know what it is.  For those who would like it for spamming purposes: suck my left nut.

The domain transfers from my server (woody) to Dreamhost are moving along somewhat smoothly.

Today, I was able to restore one of the sites using an e-commerce package (even though the database got fubar’d after those Brazialian fuckwads toasted the server).  This gives me hope that I’ll have the other ones resored shortly.

Oh… and if I host you and your site is a sub-domain on the pixelthugs.com domain, get ready to rumble!

I am transfering the pixelthugs.com domain on Saturday, February 18th.  All sub-domains will move at the same time.  If you have email on my server, you best think about moving it off before then (I’ll provide instructions for how to set up pop… it’s not exactly standard).

Here at wwbd, we often find that some things just annoy the holy living hell out of us.

Thing of the week that we find annoying and offensive: television commercials that take good songs, re-write the lyrics, the over-dub with them.

Exhibit A: Kraft “Crumbles”.

Kraft, in their infinite wisdom, took a perfectly good song (EMF’s “Unbelievable”) and turned it into a horrid anthem for cheese bits entitled “Crumbelievable”. Dear mother of God… make it stop! The worst part about it is, they even included closed captioning on the damn commercial, so hitting the mute button on the TV makes the damn lyrics appear.

Fuckers! Boycott this shit and send them a message!

Exhibit B: Crystal Light “On the Go”

Again, it’s the Kraft foods company to blame for this horrible diddy. They’ve taken KC and the Sunshine Band’s classic hit “Shake your booty, and modified it to “Shake your bottle”. We could create a perpetual motion machine to provide an infinite amount of energy by tapping into KC rolling in his grave right now.

For the love of all that’s good and pure… boycott this product… make the pain stop!

Hell… just boycott all of Kraft. Send them the message that destroying popular songs makes us physically ill… and people who are nauseous don’t want to eat or drink.