But for some reason to me this is really funny...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBsxqQIu_5s
Must just be me I guess.....
Till next time,
Be mindful and awake
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
Holy Crap!
Has it been that long since an update?
Apparently it has!
So, needless to say I have been quite busy. I'll skip over the normal boring stuff about too much work blah blah blah. We all know the song and dance and I am sure we are just as sick of hearing about it.
So onto cool things:
I know how to SCUBA dive!
Yeper, done did it and me all certified and stuff. Not that I have been to any breathtaking depths (25 feet) or anything but still. There is a certain awesomeness in looking up and thinking "I have
2 stories of water over my head...Cool!!!" Part of the reasons I did this was having almost drowned as a small child I had "problems" with deep water. Weird for an ex-Navy guy hu? Anyway that and in my head this may be the closest I will ever get to a space walk in my lifetime. How could I pass that up? You do get the sensation of being in space and understand the hard to describe feelings that the astronauts use like the word 'awesome'. But somehow, it just does not fit the bill. I do not know if that is because we have worn out the awe that was once inspired by the word or if it is just that unable to describe the sensations. It comes very close to a sensory overload.
Well, with the classes out of the way perhaps I can get the writing mode a little more often.
So, till next time,
Be mindful and awake.
Apparently it has!
So, needless to say I have been quite busy. I'll skip over the normal boring stuff about too much work blah blah blah. We all know the song and dance and I am sure we are just as sick of hearing about it.
So onto cool things:
I know how to SCUBA dive!
Yeper, done did it and me all certified and stuff. Not that I have been to any breathtaking depths (25 feet) or anything but still. There is a certain awesomeness in looking up and thinking "I have
2 stories of water over my head...Cool!!!" Part of the reasons I did this was having almost drowned as a small child I had "problems" with deep water. Weird for an ex-Navy guy hu? Anyway that and in my head this may be the closest I will ever get to a space walk in my lifetime. How could I pass that up? You do get the sensation of being in space and understand the hard to describe feelings that the astronauts use like the word 'awesome'. But somehow, it just does not fit the bill. I do not know if that is because we have worn out the awe that was once inspired by the word or if it is just that unable to describe the sensations. It comes very close to a sensory overload.
Well, with the classes out of the way perhaps I can get the writing mode a little more often.
So, till next time,
Be mindful and awake.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The people who wine about gas prices
You know I am sick of hearing about "
We are not
who can get away with gouging the American public because the majority of it has the "Oh well" attitude. They say there is a war on, but it seems people forgot what they did to war profiteers
during the Second World War. Someone needs to read a book!
Buy a gun, it scares the shit out of them.
Till next time,Be mindful and awake
Monday, March 24, 2008
Yes, it has been a while since an update
There are several good reasons but most of them are not worth going into here. Let me just say that of all the things I have been writing about of late it has either been fiction or if it was a post I thought it was going to be too bitchy.
I feel that ever few posts I need to throw something bright and shiny, a unicorn moment if you will where all the shit storm if suddenly ablated by the appearance of a unicorn with rainbows and sparkles and glitter.
Too bad that shit doesn't happen all the time. Here comes another one of those bitch posts. It was triggered by something most unlikely: Pickles.
Yes, I said pickles. You see I have been of late trying to cut down on the amount of corn syrup that I have been eating. I think it causes a lot of the health problems we see now days. Our bodies cannot deal with all that much sugar and you would be surprised where you find it. Sure, I mean you can assume some carbonated drinks, candy and cereals. But it is in places you may never believe, like pickles. Yea, I was shocked too. Well, when it came to the sweet pickles I was not too shocked because they are labeled sweet. The problem was after almost 25 minutes of reading labels I only found one type of pickles that did not have corn syrup in it. What the hell! This stuff is in everything!
Check these out:
http://tinyurl.com/ajlzg
http://tinyurl.com/2dczjf
(did the tinyurl thing since they were so long)
Arrrgh, I just wanted a pickle! Bastards!
Till next time,
Be mindful and awake
I feel that ever few posts I need to throw something bright and shiny, a unicorn moment if you will where all the shit storm if suddenly ablated by the appearance of a unicorn with rainbows and sparkles and glitter.
Too bad that shit doesn't happen all the time. Here comes another one of those bitch posts. It was triggered by something most unlikely: Pickles.
Yes, I said pickles. You see I have been of late trying to cut down on the amount of corn syrup that I have been eating. I think it causes a lot of the health problems we see now days. Our bodies cannot deal with all that much sugar and you would be surprised where you find it. Sure, I mean you can assume some carbonated drinks, candy and cereals. But it is in places you may never believe, like pickles. Yea, I was shocked too. Well, when it came to the sweet pickles I was not too shocked because they are labeled sweet. The problem was after almost 25 minutes of reading labels I only found one type of pickles that did not have corn syrup in it. What the hell! This stuff is in everything!
Check these out:
http://tinyurl.com/ajlzg
http://tinyurl.com/2dczjf
(did the tinyurl thing since they were so long)
Arrrgh, I just wanted a pickle! Bastards!
Till next time,
Be mindful and awake
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Beef Recall
Yep , yet another but buried in the list is something I just had to chuckle about:
From CNN Via TinyURL:http://tinyurl.com/2ubwxg
"Various weight boxes of HALLMARK MEAT PACKING BEEF LIPS."
Beef lips...the Xmas gift that keeps on giving.
Perhaps Mother was right.
(See if you can figure that reference out. And no Judi you can't post an answer)
Till next time,
Be mindful and awake
From CNN Via TinyURL:http://tinyurl.com/2ubwxg
"Various weight boxes of HALLMARK MEAT PACKING BEEF LIPS."
Beef lips...the Xmas gift that keeps on giving.
Perhaps Mother was right.
(See if you can figure that reference out. And no Judi you can't post an answer)
Till next time,
Be mindful and awake
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Warning:Contains Vulgar Language
It is not often I give this warning but here it is. I kinda blew my top on something but I think I get my point across.
If you are offended by vulgarity then this post will really piss you off.
So I am watching this news clip about cloned vehicles.
No kidding they said cloned vehicles. Seems that smugglers have caught on to the idea of making average trucks and vans look like something else. A standard Econoline van suddenly becomes a FedEx truck with a little graphics. Say it isn't so! Not like they used milk trucks during prohibition to smuggle booze around. But wait, there is a new twist. That is right, and I quote "They could be used by terrorists in a terror attack". No shit Sherlock. Like there are a lot of Terrorist cells out delivering baked goods. I lost count how many times they said terrorist and terror in a little 3 minute segment. Talk about feeding the culture of fear.
Come on people! I remember when people stood up for themselves and were not just victims. The media always like to throw up 9/11 in our faces and talk about the terrible tragedy of the towers. Yes it was horrible. Yes it was a senseless loss of life, but let us please drop it! Can you not see that this fear mongering is what keeps people huddled in their homes afraid of a small group of people that may or may not do something?
What happened to the country that would happily run up and kick a Nazi right square in the soft bits? Where did the Cold Warriors go? We would have said "Alright Mother-fucker, bring it on!" not "Oh please Mister Bureaucrat, save me from the invisible evil that may or may not be there." Grow a pair people. We were willing to go and fight 13 million Germans in WW2. Yet we are scared to death of a few hundred terrorists? Why? Have we become so complacent in our air conditioned, germ free environments that we cannot even take a problem head on without 54 committees, 500 new laws and therapy for everyone involved? Have we lost the spirit that caused us to tame the west and go to the moon? Are we nothing more than just shells of what was once a great country of freedom loving people. We have become subjects. We are being ruled by fear and those in power who wish to keep us afraid to stay in power. We even have a secret police that answers to no one and operates on lists of people who are suspected of crimes they may or may not have comitted. Hello?? We have secret prisons, no habeas corpus any more, fewer rights and even fewer options. Is this not what we were fightin against in the whole WW2 thing?
Terrorist are nothing new, our country was founded by them. Remember that.
Sorry Mister Jefferson, I just don't think they get it anymore.
Till next time,
Be mindful and awake
If you are offended by vulgarity then this post will really piss you off.
So I am watching this news clip about cloned vehicles.
No kidding they said cloned vehicles. Seems that smugglers have caught on to the idea of making average trucks and vans look like something else. A standard Econoline van suddenly becomes a FedEx truck with a little graphics. Say it isn't so! Not like they used milk trucks during prohibition to smuggle booze around. But wait, there is a new twist. That is right, and I quote "They could be used by terrorists in a terror attack". No shit Sherlock. Like there are a lot of Terrorist cells out delivering baked goods. I lost count how many times they said terrorist and terror in a little 3 minute segment. Talk about feeding the culture of fear.
Come on people! I remember when people stood up for themselves and were not just victims. The media always like to throw up 9/11 in our faces and talk about the terrible tragedy of the towers. Yes it was horrible. Yes it was a senseless loss of life, but let us please drop it! Can you not see that this fear mongering is what keeps people huddled in their homes afraid of a small group of people that may or may not do something?
What happened to the country that would happily run up and kick a Nazi right square in the soft bits? Where did the Cold Warriors go? We would have said "Alright Mother-fucker, bring it on!" not "Oh please Mister Bureaucrat, save me from the invisible evil that may or may not be there." Grow a pair people. We were willing to go and fight 13 million Germans in WW2. Yet we are scared to death of a few hundred terrorists? Why? Have we become so complacent in our air conditioned, germ free environments that we cannot even take a problem head on without 54 committees, 500 new laws and therapy for everyone involved? Have we lost the spirit that caused us to tame the west and go to the moon? Are we nothing more than just shells of what was once a great country of freedom loving people. We have become subjects. We are being ruled by fear and those in power who wish to keep us afraid to stay in power. We even have a secret police that answers to no one and operates on lists of people who are suspected of crimes they may or may not have comitted. Hello?? We have secret prisons, no habeas corpus any more, fewer rights and even fewer options. Is this not what we were fightin against in the whole WW2 thing?
Terrorist are nothing new, our country was founded by them. Remember that.
Sorry Mister Jefferson, I just don't think they get it anymore.
Till next time,
Be mindful and awake
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