This picture says it all…

Here is the skinny: Guy steals a laptop. As he is leaving the store, four Marines who are donating time for “Toys for Tots” stopped the man (Tyrone Jackson). Tyrone stabs one, but the other subdue him.

Cpl. Duggan was transported for treatment. However (according to the police report)…

The subject was also trasported to the local hospital with two broken arms, a broken ankle, broken leg, several missing teeth, broken ribs, contusions and lacerations, a broken nose and jaw.. injuries he sustained when he slipped and fell off the curb…”

There was no mention if the missing teeth happened that day, or if they were already missing…

I am not a viewer of the comedy show “Two and a Half Men“. Nonetheless, I know the concept: 2 men in their 40′s raise a kid. Now it’s going to be one guy in his 40′s, the other guy in his 30′s watch a kid almost in his 20′s. That should make for a great show…

Actually, if you think about it, I would guess it’s like if your father was to divorce your mother and marry someone close to your age.

Still, Ashton Kutcher is going to join the cast of Two and 2/3 men. Or is that 15/16 men now? How old is that kid?

I guess there is still more stories to get out of this show. Just like they did with Scrubs. Oh wait… Nevermind.

Maybe it’s a plan to make Ashton Kutcher the new Ted McGinley. He might just become the new patron saint of jump the shark.

Well, we’ll have to wait until September to find out. In the meantime, Charlie Sheen has been less than vocal about what he thinks about the move.

sheen responds to kutcher

Oh, wait. OK.

I want it bad… bad romance.

It’s Lady Gaga‘s hit song: Bad Romance. Except it’s not in the way you might expect. Maybe something more out of Brokeback Mountain or maybe Deliverance.

Still, it’s fun to watch. Two rednecks, four hands, one song about jilted love. Makes for a perfect YouTube video! It’s definitely a lot different than what Patrick Goble does for video – Metal and classical music.

For this video, he enlists Donovan Kirkpatrick to add the second set of hands. The result – caught in a bad romance…

As you may know, last week a hacker got in and completely wiped out Dorkazine’s database. I got the site back up using an old MySQL database I backed up from January 2010. It lost all of 2010 and 2011 posts – or at least I thought.

If you don’t know about the cache feature of Google.com, it holds old information for a while. It catalogs most page information, not only the posts, but anytime someone searches on tags, archives and more.

Since Dorkazine uses WordPress, Google caches a good deal of the website. I thought it would be an arduous task if I was to copy – paste everything back, but in all reality, it was pretty easy.

Search on date in Google

Google Search on Dorkazine

I did a simple search on Google like this: Dorkazine year/month. Google came up with the link for the month. I would choose “Cache” and Google brought up the cached version of my old page.

From there, it was just copy, paste, correct date, put in tags and post. In some cases, I looked at the post and made some updates. A new title, a correction in the post or an updated picture.

Within an hour, Dorkazine was appx 95% back. Of course, the first thing I did was back up the database…

I am going to look at the site and see where the security hole was. I think I already know the answer, but want to make sure.

At any rate, I would like to thank Google for caching the pages. I cannot believe how useful Google cache is. Just like the Way Back Machine, you can get a snapshot when a site is down or someone destroys your data.

Chuck one up for Google!

You might be wondering what happened in the last 72 hours. Apparently a hacker found a hole in Dorkazine and exploited it. They took out the database.

Completely deleted.

I thought I had a backup, which I did. But for some reason, the only one I could find was from January 2010.

We lost a good amount of posts from the last year. We’re still looking for a more current version, but to get the site back up and running.

So in the meantime, Dorkazine has a lot to catch up on. We apologize if you came here for a post that is no longer here. I hope to be able to restore a more current version and get those posts back.

ITM – please hold tight. More posts will be coming.

-Jeff

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After a great Superbowl XLV, we got to sit back and really bask in the glory. Of course, you all know I am from Wisconsin and the Packers are once again america’s team.

However, not all things went off without a hitch. Let’s take for example Christina Aguilera‘s botched National Anthem. Maybe she likes the twilight’s last gleaming? It could have been a ad placement for the next installment of the Twilight series gone awry. Who knows.

But as I think about it, the lyrics are a little confusing. Therefore, I would like to offer another version of the Star Spangled Banner. This is in honor to the Packers winning Superbowl XLV.

This is called the Star Spangled Packers.

Oh, say can you see by the green and the gold
What so proudly we hailed at the field we call Lambeau.
Whose history goes so far way past Superbowl I,
O’er the ramparts we’ve torn down as the team kept on winning
And the Fans rabid glare, the sounds of Cheers in the air
Gave proof through the night that our team was still there.
Oh, say does that Packer pride Lambeau Leap Stay
O’er the land of the free and the home of Green Bay

Do you know all the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner?

Unfortunately, most people do not know that there is more than the one verse. There are actually four verses. Here are the FULL lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner:

Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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All Fransisco Perez wanted was a Double Whopper with cheese. Instead, he got Cheesed.

After getting the Burger, onion rings and drink from a Sacramento Burger King, Perez looked at the receipt in ire as the receipt said:

F@(K YOU.

If that wasn’t bad enough, underneath the cashier Armond, the sentiment was repeated again. F – You in capitol letters. Taped to the side of the bag.

The shift manager was set back. Burger King was investigating. They were not running a Cee Lo Green contest or anything.

It’s safe to say someone is going to get canned on this one.

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Gaga Studies at USC

You might have gone through Elvis 101 and 102, Beatles 101, Michael Jackson 101, then Madonna 101 and 102, but now to finish your humanities course of kings of pop. Now you will also have to complete Gaga 101 .

The University of South Carolina is adding Gaga 101 to their course studies. Actually, the course is called:

SOCY 398D – LADY GAGA AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAME

Mathieu Deflem, Ph.D. is the professor and it does fall in the Sociology department. This is what the page cites as an outcome:

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to engage in sound and substantiated scholarly thinking about relevant aspects of popular culture, music, and fame, especially from the viewpoint of the scholarly discipline of sociology. Students should also have garnered empirical knowledge of some of the most important social dimensions of fame as exemplified by the case of Lady Gaga.

Do we really need to engage in sound and substantiated scholarly thinking in this way? Why not engaging in sound and substantiated scholarly thinking in Brett Favre or Lebron James? How about the “Pants on the Ground” guy? Michael Moore is most likely a course already.

While Gaga (who’s real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) has changed music in the last 2 years, it’s only been 2 years. Yes, I had to endure a guy dressed as Gaga at Halloween, but I think that is a conversation I should have with my psychiatrist.

I just hope it’s only a 1 credit course. By the Way, for those who want to take the class, you must complete SOCY 101 or another sociology 300-level course, or SOCY 507, or SOCY 540, or consent of the instructor.

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So over the weekend, Sony announced that they are retiring the beloved Walkman – a staple in adolescence from the 80?s. The last of the Walkmans were shipped back in April. When they are gone, they are gone.

I remember my first Walkman: It was used and the headphones were from another Walkman ripoff. My first new Walkman had a 3 band EQ on it. I listened to Aerosmith, AC/DC, Rush and Jimi Hendrix with the bass up high.

I had (and probably still do have if I look hard enough) the Sony Discman. It was only replaced by a generic rip-off that could play MP3 CD’s, but that Walkman got me through college.

So 3 decades later, 220 million units around the world, Walkman goes off into the distance. We’ll miss you ole friend.

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USB Necktie

Remember those neck fans and ice packs that wrapped around your neck to keep you cool? The theory is this: cool your neck and you can cool your whole body.

Well you might want to purchase this tie if you want to cool yourself down and do it in style. The tie pulls down to reveal a fan. The fan is charged via USB found in the skinny part of the tie (which finally gives the skinny part a full use). Hence, you can plug the fan in to charge up, but when you are on the go, the fan still keeps you cool!

Best part is you don’t need to figure out a Windsor knot. This is not like the conventional clip-on tie. An elastic band around the neck, with a latch keeps people from ripping the tie off your body.

You can find the USB Cooler Necktie at Thanko. It’s only 2980 Yen (about $35 dollars). It’s in it’s 3rd generation with this tie. No mention if this comes in other colors than the burgundy reddisplayed in the picture.

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So Apple will put together a special press event on Friday. Most people are speculating it will cover the iPhone 4 antenna issue for people holding the phone in their left hand. Some say it will be a $1.5 billion recall. However, I think they will go a different route. I’ll go old school to fix my bad cell antenna issues.

This device can be applied to the back of the phone and increase the cell reception. It’s not going to fall off like any rubber bumper. Best part is it only cost $4 to apply.

Let’s go retro and get increase our signal strength, too!

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Orville Redenbacher

Although Orville had passed away in 1995, we still enjoy his popcorn. Therefore, we give a shout out to the family and wish Orville Redenbacher a happy BIRF! He would have been 103.

Most of us grew up seeing him on many commercials. Always with a bowl of popcorn.

So grab yourself a bag and celebrate with me Orville Redenbacher and his 103rd birthday!