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Welcome to Mcslug's world.
Here you'll find stories on my life and general discussion topics. I'm a 25 yo Network Administrator and Web Developer and live/work near Philadelphia PA. I'm a sports nut (tennis, football, softball, bowling, etc) video gamer, snowboarder, computer person, music/movie lover and all around good guy. I have a broad range of likes/dislikes and am pretty open minded when it comes to people and things. Feel free to drop me a line, mcslug@gmail.com
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Aug. 22nd, 2006 @ 04:13 pm atlantic city, the beach, bowling
Current Music: Daniel Powder Bad day
While I'm waiting for .Net 2005 to install I figured I'd update my journal. The last couple weeks have been pretty hectic. I've travelled to the shore every weekend to see family and hang out with friends. It's been nice but very tiring. I got to see my cousins and their fiancees last weekend, both are getting married in the next year.

I got my retro-pay check from the raise I got recently. that was a big help with some recent bills. The closer and closer I think I get to paying my debt down something always happens to pop up to make it sky rocket again. This time it was nice for it to be the other way around and my pay got a little boost, WOOHOO!

In a medical update, here's what's been going on. Last week I went to the dermatologist. I hvae a small, but very annoying, breakout that happened on the back of my leg about 3 months ago and it's just kinda hung out for a while. It doesn't itch, it doesn't hurt, and it's not incredibly noticeable, but it's annoying.

So anyway I sat in the waiting room, for 45 mins, then go into the office, sat there for ANOTHER 45 minutes, I fell asleep while I was in there it was so long. So then the doctor comes in, and old guy, in his late 60s who curses up a storm. He was funny. Anyway, turns out it's a small staph infection, so he's going to prescribe for me some penicillin and a sulfa drug...........but OH WAIT, no you're not because I'm allergic to both of those things.

It's always a good sign when you hear your doctor say "that's weird, I've never encountered that, lets run a lab test and see what else we can use". Turns out a simple cleaner will get rid of it. woo hoo.

I head off to toronto this thursday for a small vacation and a bowling tournament with some friends and Paul. It should be a great time and I've really been looking forward to it. I especially can't wait to get back to the Eagle and Pegasus, my two favorite bars in the city. Plus eating at le petit lebon, the market, bavarian house, and going to babylon for some good martinis has me very excited.

I guess that's all, back to work now that .Net is done for some mindless coding. Have a great day everyone!
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Aug. 11th, 2006 @ 09:48 am joke from ebaumsworld
this is the funniest joke I've seen from ebaums in a while:

A girl came skipping home from school one day. "Mummy, Mummy," she yelled. "We were counting today, and all the other kids could only count to four, but I counted to 10. See? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10!" "Very good," said her mother. "Is it because I'm blonde, Mummy?" "Yes, it's because you're blonde," her mother replied.

The next day, the girl came skipping home from school. "Mummy, Mummy," she yelled, "we were saying the alphabet today, and all the other kids could only say it to D, but I said it to G. See? A, B, C, D, E, F, G!" "Very good," said her mother. "Is it because I'm blonde, Mummy?" Yes, pumpkin, it's because you're blonde."

The next day the girl came skipping home from school. "Mummy, Mummy," she yelled, "we were in gym class today, and when we showered, all the other girls had flat chests, but I have these!" And she lifted her tank top to reveal a pair of 36Cs. "Very good," said her embarrassed mother. "Is it because I'm blonde, Mummy?" "No... it's because you're 25."
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Aug. 10th, 2006 @ 10:05 am creations by nate
I found this really cool website by a guy named Nate True ( at least I think it's his name) He makes these pretty impressive inventions that I was fascinated by this morning. not to mention the one video is hilarious:


This next video is more amazing than it is funny. If you read the instructions on how he made it you'll be even more fascinated, it's very ingenious:

The link on how it was made and the video:
Create a Time Moving Fountain


oh and this movie looks absolutely fantastic:

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Aug. 7th, 2006 @ 07:18 pm goatee progression pics
Current Mood: happy
Current Music: beetlegeuse
before I get to the pics let me update about my weekend

Had a great weekend. Got to spend some time with a lot of friends which was nice. Fri night we went to bowl a few games and then headed home to relax. Saturday we had a pool party to go to at our friends scott and tom's which was a blast. I drank a lot, swam a lot, got way too much sun and had way too much cake. Then sat night we met up with mark and marty to play some cards. Mark and I FINALLY beat paul and marty in euchre, only to end up losing 5-4 in the end. Oh well, it was good while it lasted! Then sunday we went out on the boat with michele mare and shirley. I got to try and water ski, which was way harder than I thought. I figured since I can snowboard and ski and ice skate and skateboard and all I'd be able to do it. Boy was I wrong! But it was fun to try. Then Michele and I did some double tubing, that was a blast! We flew off way too many times and went crazy! I've got some major scars on my elbows.

Needless to say we have some amazing friends and I really enjoy spending time with them.

This week at work should be interesting. There are a lot of changes going on like my 10% raise, now a chance for a big promotion for me into a new position, and becoming a big part of a new product that could make the company, and me, some serious money. So I'm really excited about that. I'll keep updates coming on that. Hope everyone had as great a weekend as me!

Alright guys, so I'm re-growing the goatee, here's how it's coming, what do you think, keep it smooth, or keep it furry. Here are some comparison before/after pics. Let me know what you think:
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Aug. 7th, 2006 @ 09:12 am masturbate-a-thon
thanks to kat_eyz for posting this

This looks like way too much fun to NOT have here in the US, what do you say guys, who's with me!

London Masturbatory Marathon
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Aug. 4th, 2006 @ 09:18 am Oxy-Clean man
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO atl10sbum!!!

The Oxy-Clean man is so much hotter in person than he is on tv. Yesterday I had a big company meeting and after work we had a happy hour at the local sheraton hotel. Where I work is right next to the QVC headquarters where they run all of their shows. So we get a lot of infomercial people in the area. Anyway, as I'm walking into the hotel I see this hunk of a bear man, full black beard, hawaiian shirt halfway unbottoned, beefy as all heck, walking in behind me. I think to myself, hey, that's the oxy clean man! Sure enough, when he walked in he signed a couple of autographs and sat down at a table right behind where I was having my happy hour! (I'm not what's wilder, running into the oxy-clean man, or that someone asked for an autograph from someone who does infomercials?) I got to admire him for a while, which was nice, and then left. the bonus is I have a very good friend who works at qvc as a producer, and she's gay so i called her and left a message for her to get his number for me :) but anyway, if you get the chance to meet him, do it just to admire! WOOF

On another note, work was pretty good this week! I kept busy, and finally had my review (2 months late) I wound up getting a 10% raise! AWESOME. So I'm super psyched about that. It's retro so my next pay check will be a hefty one. Which I need in order to fund the toronto trip coming up and the bills home opener I'm going to.

Bowling for the summer is finally over. So it's back to the gym 5 times a week now. Hopefully I can make some good use out of that before the winter league starts.

I'm way behind in movies, I hear the descent is excellent, so I'll most likely go see that, but I still need to see Monster House! I'm such a kid at heart I don't know how I haven't seen that already. Anywho, hope everyone's week has been as good as mine and enjoy the weekend!

hugs and tugs all around

The Five Love Languages

My primary love language is probably
Quality Time
with a secondary love language being
Physical Touch.

Complete set of results

Quality Time: 10
Physical Touch: 7
Acts of Service: 6
Words of Affirmation: 5
Receiving Gifts: 2


Information

Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don't understand our partner's requirements, or even our own. We all have a "love tank" that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

Take the quiz
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Aug. 1st, 2006 @ 04:31 pm (no subject)
taken from njbigbear
Testriffic IQ test
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Jul. 31st, 2006 @ 08:33 pm hillside weekend
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: for love of the game
This weekend was a great time. Paul, myself, and our friends Mark and Marty went up to hillside to see our friend Bill Klemen in a show there. I have never been but had heard a lot of great things about it. What a great time it was. Met a lot of really great people, got to admire quite a bit of beef! and saw a great funny show. We wound up playing some euchre at the bonfire/dance and it turned into strip euchre for me and mark. We were getting our asses handed to us all night, we lost like 9 straight games it was so bad. So every time we lost, I took a piece of clothing off to try and turn our luck. I wound up being in just my shorts, same for mark, which got a bit of a gathering. we met some great people from rhode island whom I wound up changing clothes with! then when I lost for the last time and stood up my new found RI friend decided to pull down my boxers, so I gave a nice show to some people unknowingly!

I can't wait to go back. This time we stayed at a hotel near by because the campground was full, but next time I go I hope to actually camp. There's a bear and a leather weekend coming up so maybe we'll get up there for that! There's a new campground that opened just a year or so ago called the woods just outside allentown which is even closer to me than hillside is. I'll have to check that one out too.

This past week at bowling I had quite an acheivement, I had my first 700 series and my highest game ever. I shot 246, 278, and 199 for a 723 series. WAHOO. It was a great night I was on! I'm really looking forward to the toronto tournament coming up in august. If anyone's going to be in toronto from the 21st to the 26th let me know and we'll meet up for a drink. I imagine I'll spend most of my time between the eagle and Pegasus.

I guess that's all for now, hope everyone had a great weekend and hugs n tugs to you all.
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Jul. 26th, 2006 @ 09:33 pm leather pics and honing up to bets
This post will disturb you, so consider this your warning. A month ago I challenged one of my friends, Michele, to a competition in our bowling leauge. I bet her that in a two week tournament, I couuld beat her scratch. And here's what we bowled for:
The loser had to wear a pink dress to poker night the following week.

That may not sound bad for Michele, but keep in mind she's gay, and HATES wearing dresses and pink. So I thought it'd be cool to see her in a dress. Well, the first week I bowled 605 for 3 games, and she shoots a friggin 703. So right off the bat she's got me by 100 pins. So the next week I had to beat her, I had no choice. So I bowled a great 650 set, but she shot a 630 set. So, alas, I lost the bet. And now without further ado........ Doug ala Pink:
pretty in pink )
Oh and in case anyone's questioning my masculinity, here are some updated pics I took recently showing off my progress at the gym and the new leather sleeveless vest I got for those crazy nights out!
updated leather vest pics )
So despite my feminine demise in the dress, I think I hold my own in some leather eh guys!

Anyway, so yeah I figured I'd share, I deserved to wear the dress, it was put up or shut up time and I couldn't handle it. But Michele, there will be anothe rday, oh yes, there will be my sweet revenge!!!
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Jul. 24th, 2006 @ 10:51 am scenario for you to ponder
I'm not sure many people are reading my journal nowadays, but for those of you that are I have a scenario I would like to present and get some feed back on. This is purely hypothetical, just curious as to what other's would say.

Let's say you're approached by a good friend who is a woman, gay or straight doesn't matter. For this scenario let's say she's straight and married to your best friend. They are very close to you and you've known them since you can't remember.

If you find out that:
1. the wife is an HIV carrier
2. the man is unable to have children

If they asked you to father their child, through artificial insemination with one of the wife's eggs, knowing that the child may very well be born with the disease, would you do it? If not, what are your supporting points, and if so, do the likewise.

I'm not too familiar on how HIV works in terms of being a carrier versus being afflicted by the virus, or the precentages of those that contract the disease with HIV parents. So please educate me. I'm going to look things up online just to keep myself informed and understand as much as I can about it.

Not sure why I thought of this, but it seemed like an interesting scenario. So let me know what you think!
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Jul. 20th, 2006 @ 02:09 pm piano penises
Probably fake, but hilarious none the less :)
Pianist penises

And I normally don't like Ali G, but this is the funniest thing, I laughed through the entirety. Mad props to Victoria and David Bekham for doing the show for charity, and they were very good sports for doing it!
Ali G Interviews Victoria and David Bekham
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Jul. 18th, 2006 @ 09:22 am gym story and new addition
Current Mood: awake
Current Music: eve 6 think twice
Ok people, it's time for another edition of "DOUG'S EMBARRASSING STORIES"

Previously viewed stories:
the scary spider at the gym incident
the infamous fart at the gym incident
and countless others:

I now present to you, episode 12, the mysterious tear

About 4 weeks ago I started doing legs at the gym. Squats, leg lifts, extensions, ankle workouts, the whole shebang. I've been going to the gym now for about 7 months, and people would say there's a considerable difference. I like to think so, but I'm working to get bigger and lose a little more weight. So I'm feeling pretty good about where I'm at. But I digress, on to the story.

I load up the squat bar with around 90lbs plus the bar, so it's about 135. Nice and easy start. Shoulder up, get ready, down, and up...........slowly down, and up.............slow down and PRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT. What the hell was that. and no, I didn't flatulate. Apparently my squats were so stressfull to my ass area, I blew the ass right out of my pants. Oh shit, so I quick put the weight down and check in the mirror to see how obvious it is and how badly they are ripped. This was like a loud pop, so I know someone heard it. I check the back of my pants. Nothing, hmm strange. I turn around to the other side and check again, nothing. Then I noticed travelling down my leg is a black thing. Hmm, what is it you ask? Well, apparently the squatting set was so strong, that it caused a bomb in my underwear to go off, and my underpants (black with yellow bananas) EXPLODED on impact. No, I'm not exagerrating folks, I was able to pull my underwear out through the leg of my pants right then and there because it was in several pieces. So anyway, I throw away the undies, bringing up a scare from some people I'm sure, and proceed to finish my work out. Thank god I got the 135lb squats out before doing the decline leg press on 380lbs. Who knows what disaster that would have been.

This leads me to conclude one of 2 things:
1. I don't go to the gym enough
2. I go to the gym too much

Thoughts?

On another note, I won't say WHAT I got, but I added to my decor this weekend :) check the website:
Infinite Body Piercing

Inquire within.

I'll post another one entry with more about what's been going on with me lately with friends, bowling, the weekends, family, etc.
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Jul. 13th, 2006 @ 09:37 am immigration video
This is a great video, especially with all the recent news coming out of hazleton regarding illegal immigrants and denial of work/habitation. This puts some of the hypocricy right into perspective, but also hits on some points that are valid also. Keep in mind people it's a cartoon and a comedic cartoon at that, please don't be angry with me if you are offended:

The immigration debate
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Jul. 7th, 2006 @ 11:17 am funny thing from pud.com, and yes, the phelps'
for those of you that hate the Phelps' Baptist church as much as I do check this out:
Aussie Brethren hits on Phelps supporters

and on another funny of the day note:

check out http://www.pud.com this guy is hilarious, here is a snippet from one of his posts:

Dearest Pud,

My boyfriend and I have been together for 3 years. He is 40 years old (I am 25) and he has never, ever, had an orgasm with a woman. He can only get himself off by masturbating in the most bizarre way (I wont go into details, I just have never seen it done this way). His physician gave him advice to see a therapist, but there is nothing mentally wrong with him. He and I both want to help him orgasm, with me.

What should we do?

- raina
Raina,

Head on over to Craigslist, pick your city, and go to the "casual encounters" section. Post the following ad:

"25 year old female and closeted 40 year old gay man in denial seeks bisexual man with good oral skills."

You'll get about 50 replies, and you'll both have a great night!

Rock on,
Pud
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Jun. 28th, 2006 @ 10:10 am what do you know about me
Taken from STPBear

You don't know Mcslug

1. Aside from my name, what is something you know about me?
2. What is something about me you would want to know?
3. What brought you to my LJ?
4. What is something you are sure you don't know about me?
5. Tell me something you think you know about me

Copy/post this in your journal and see what others know about you!!!
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Jun. 22nd, 2006 @ 09:39 am hazleton pa to pass anti-illegal immigrant law
Current Mood: frustrated
This article is about my hometown, hazleton. I never lived in hazleton, I lived in a town just outside called sugarloaf in the valley. I'm pretty amazed at the action being taken by the mayor, but at the same time, there's a reason the word "illegal" is in front of the term illegal immigrant. So the final line saying "the mayor is confusing illegal immigrants with criminals" really doesn't have much credibility in my book, considering that they are still "illegally" here.

check the story:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200171,00.html

Oh, and this made me laugh my ass off for like 10 minutes this morning:
here kitty kitty
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Jun. 20th, 2006 @ 09:17 am Priceless
Current Mood: cheerful
512mb usb flash drive, 30 dollars
Stuffed Te Quiero teddy bear 25 dollars
merging the two and beheading the bear to scare your children....Priceless:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/18/usb-teddy-bear-holds-data-scares-children/
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Jun. 19th, 2006 @ 09:37 am nyc trip, giving, and friends
Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: sky fm on winamp
Here's a little site I found a long time ago that I found very enjoyable, and funny :)
http://www2.gamesville.lycos.com/html_poke/poke_penguin.htm

My weekend....excellent but very tiring. Friday was a lot of fun. i got my ass kicked in tennis by my friend Brad (pictures to come soon). Then went out to John Harvard's brewhouse to meet up with my friend Michele who is the GM there, but OH WAIT, she already left and stood me up. Then headed into the city, but was stuck in traffic on 476 for about 45 mins. Wow what fun. But I did meet up with friends in the city and have fun. My friend Dan from hazleton came in to town and we met up at the bikestop, stared at beef which is always fun, and had a couple drinks. Then Brad and his bf ryan came out, along with their friends Nate and Jodi, we went upstairs, did some dancing and drinking, which was fun. I also got to experience the basement which was an adventure =) needless to say I think I'll be back!

Afterwards we headed to Pure to hang out for a while, which wound up being a bust cause it was so late and most everyone had left. So dan and I just hung out, then Paul met us up and we pretty much just left the city. Got home at like 4:30, and oh yes, have to be at our friends Mark and Marty's by 9:30 to drive to nyc. Awesome.

So we get to mark and marty's and head to ny. Awesome time. (also pictures to come) We went to the observation deck of the nbc building, ground zero, the village, a couple nice restaurants and so on. I added to my collection of several things. I got a couple videos ...*eg* the latest tiesto cd, I added to my leather collection with a sleeveless zip up leather shirt and a jock. Got a t-shirt that says I love bears. just a lot of random little things. We had dinner at a very nice mexican place where I got hit on by the waiter. Always a nice thing =) Then we came home.

Sunday was a bust, Paul has a bad tooth that pretty much killed the day, he's in serious pain so hopefully he'll get to the dentist tomorrow and take care of it.

That was pretty much my weekend. It was very nice! On a philosophical note, I saw the movie last holiday with queen latifah this weekend. not a very good movie, but it makes you think. Basically it made me think about doing good for people out of the goodness of your heart and not to get something back. We always read about or hear the stories of people who do great things, and then in return end up with these super happy lives. Well what about those that sacrifice things for the good of others, but get nothing in return. I'm not necessarily referring to war heroes or anything like that. But what about the person who donates 5K to charity, then loses his job, and lives a mediocre, struggling to survive, living barely paycheck to paychek life? Or the person who is dying from a terminal illness, and uses his savings, or expertise, or something important to give back to the world. These people disappear into the timeline of life, only to never be remembered or thought of by anyone other than those directly effected.

If you ask me, I think true heart felt giving, and selflessness really only exists in those that are too humble and kind to receive gratuity from it. Isn't that sort of a double edged sword though, you do good to give others wealth and prosperity (not necessarily monetarily either mind you) but yet in return no one's giving those gifts back to you. In the buddhist mind, this is quite acceptable and worthwhile. But in some cases, you might want to think, sure I'm doing good for these people, but is it really worth it?

I think the answer to that question is absolutely yes, but the problem is, can you turn your heart into one that will accept the service of being forgotten by fellow man for a price of good works?
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Jun. 15th, 2006 @ 04:14 pm I'm a bully, pfff HA
Schoolyard Bully
You are 28% Rational, 85% Extroverted, 57% Brutal, and 14% Arrogant.
You are the Schoolyard Bully! You focus more on feelings than rationality, and thus tend to be driven by your emotions rather than by a steering wheel, because human beings don't have those. You are probably easy to anger or annoy, for instance. You are also an extrovert who wouldn't mind having a lot of attention, although you may not always get it. Another character trait you possess is your brutality, manifested by the fact that you tend to be aggressive and do not care about the well-being of others. In school, you may have been the kid who stuffed the short kid into lockers, or who distributed swirlies to anyone who scored higher than a B on the science quiz. I wouldn't be surprised if you think the word "faggot" is the greatest insult known to man. Also, you exhibit signs of humility, leading one to conlude that you are actually insecure, because very few people are truly humble AND brutal. Thus, like any schoolyard bully, you seek constant attention for yourself and have no issues with administering beatings because you are quite emotional and easy to upset. Not only that, but your insecurity may be a prime motivation for your brutality. As psychologists have noted, most schoolyard bullies only pick on others because they have a negative self-image. This could possibly be true of you. Either that or you are just really hungry and need lunch money. In short, your personality defects are your brutality, extroversion, irrationality, and your possible insecurity. Go pick on someone your own size! But not me. I'm a midget, I swear.


To put it less negatively:

1. You are more INTUITIVE than rational.

2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted.

3. You are more BRUTAL than gentle.

4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.


Compatibility:

Your exact opposite is the Haughty Intellectual. (Bullies like to beat up nerds, after all.)

Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Bitch-Slap, the Capitalist Pig, and the Class Clown.

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If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits.

The other personality types:

The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

Be sure to take my Sublime Philosophical Crap Test if you are interested in taking a slightly more intellectual test that has just as many insane ramblings as this one does!





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You scored higher than 99% on Brutality

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You scored higher than 99% on Arrogance
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Jun. 15th, 2006 @ 09:33 am you made me gay video
Yet another addicting film from youtube
You Made Me Gay
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