Your father screwed a houseplant and raised a blooming idiot. - unknown

 

Thou dissembling dizzy-eyed pignut! - unknown

 

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
- Saul Bellow

 

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.- Alexander Pope

http://www.nothingtoseehere.net/2007/02/tuptim_shrine_bangkok.html 

The 15,000-mile-wide feature appears to be some sort of deep-seated standing wave, through which other things move without changing the wave pattern...  It also appears to be in sync with the planet's quick 10-and-a-half-hour rotation.

Saturn Hexagon Mystifies Scientists

Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News

March 27, 2007 — Something downright weird has been sighted twirling over the north pole of Saturn: A long-lived double hexagon formed in the clouds.

The two six-sided features — one inside the other — are in stark contrast to the hurricane-like vortex that has been observed at the ringed planet's south pole. Both poles have been imaged by NASA's orbiting Cassini spacecraft.

"We haven't seen a (geometric) feature like this anywhere else on any other planet," said Cassini scientist Kevin Baines of the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It's unbelievable."

Although experts are stumped about what's causing the colony-collapse disorder die-off in U.S. commercial beehives, there is some speculation that Arizona's famed Africanized — or "killer bee" — wild-bee population is somehow immune.

 

 

Philips Electronics is introducing a mobile phone with a built-in compartment for an ordinary AAA battery to power the device when the main battery runs low.

A list of bad boss stories.

What did you have for breakfast...A bowl of stupid? - seen on a bumper sticker

 

She has two brains... One's lost and the other's out looking for it - Uncle Renee

 

 

The Farewell Dossier - Courtesy of Damn Interesting

In 1982, operatives from the USSR's Committee for State Security– known internationally as the KGB– celebrated the procurement of a very elusive bit of Western technology. The Soviets were developing a highly lucrative pipeline to carry natural gas across the expanse of Siberia, but they lacked the software to manage the complex array of pumps, valves, turbines, and storage facilities that the system would require. The United States possessed such software, but the US government had predictably turned down their Cold War opponent's request to purchase the product.

Never ones to allow the limitations of the law to dictate their actions, the KGB officials inserted an agent to abduct the technology from a Canadian firm. Unbeknownst to the Soviet spies, the software they stole sported a little something extra: a few lines of computer code which had been inserted just for them.

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A Cowboy's Wife:

 

 In Campbell County, Wyoming a Cowboy's wife came

home  just in time to find her husband in bed with

another woman.  With super-human strength, born of

fury and cutting calves, she dragged him down the

stairs, out the back door, and into the tool shed

out back of the barn. 

 

She put his tally-whacker in a vice and then

secured it tightly and removed the handle.

 

Next she picked up an old carpenter's saw.

 

The banged up Cowboy was terrified, and hollered,

"Stop! Stop! You're not going to cut it off with

that rusty damn saw are you?"

 

The wife, with a gleam of revenge in her eye, put

the saw in her husband's hand and said, "Nope. I'm

going to set this old shed on fire, and go to town for a cold beer. You do whatever you want!

The computer-centric office has left everyone – and not just the IT crowd – lacking important interpersonal and soft skills, according to one psychologist.

Most people have a relationship with a PC when they're at work - instead of focusing on their colleagues, Moir said. And as we see an increase of technology within organisations we will see a reduction in interpersonal skills, he warned.

He added: "People who are within the IT industry have a greater need to be concentrating on their PC and therefore maybe a greater need to develop their interpersonal skill set."

BERKELEY, Calif.--Intel has come up with a form of Wi-Fi that would let a laptop in San Francisco connect to the Internet from a base station in San Jose, Calif.

And there would still be about 10 miles of wiggle room to spare.

Academics and researchers from the company's labs have created a system that lets Wi-Fi signals, which ordinarily carry a few hundred feet, to carry 100 kilometers, or more than 60 miles, said Eric Brewer, director of Intel Research Berkeley, a lab owned by the company that cooperates on research projects with UC Berkeley.

• Harold J. Story (1919 1993)
  • "Before you jump in here with me,
    make sure you bring good memories.
    For here they're all we have to trade,
    and where you are is where they're made."

She's so cold...Her period comes in cubes. - unknown

 

There was something about you that I liked, but you spent it. - unknown

 

I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.
- Groucho Marx

Pressing Business kept me away from my computer until vey late... We'll try to make up for it today. 

 It Appears That These Poor Chaps Are Paying For The Pleasure.

WARNING... Pain!...Lots of it!... Kind of Loud Too.

  Turn Down Your Sound If You're At Work.

Watch the Video called "What the F**K?!?!" on This Page 

Last Warning!!  -  Really Bad!! -

Did I Set My Sights For My Site Too High?

 

I’ve been blogging for 20 days now… I haven’t missed a day… I’m amazed at how much of a time eater this is!

 

It’s not that there isn’t enough to post… Heavens no!  There’s tons and tons of great content out there to be mined and shared… And lord knows there’s enough miscellaneous miscellany to rant and rave about… And I certainly do enjoy this… this thing of ours… I do consider this little blog a great sharing…So it’s ours …OK?

 

Anyway… Back to the thought at hand… I am particularly enamored of two specific blogs that inspired me to get this one off of the ground… The problem is… Both Corkscrew-Balloon and Goodshit are run by retired guys with time to burn.  I think that’s where my enthusiasm got the best of me. (continued)

Posted by the four eyes

 

What is a Sonic Boom? Can I See One?... This Sites Got Fourteen!

Kind of looks like he's emerging from a time warp or something ....huh?

This is Rojaks Daily...The Blog is from Malaysia... So the english is a bit different... But read on and you'll get the gist of the stories.  Comparing men & women to fruits & trees.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obama the 'Magic Negro'

An Israeli Inventor has developed a breathing apparatus that will allow breathing underwater without the assistance of compressed air tanks. This new invention will use the relatively small amounts of air that already exist in water to supply oxygen to both scuba divers and submarines. (continued)

"That boy's as sharp as a sack full of wet mice."- Foghorn Leghorn

 

"He has double chins all the way down to his stomach."- Mark Twain

 

"I'd like to leave you with one thought...but I'm not sure you have anywhere to put it!"- unknown

 

Sorry... I forgot to post this last Sunday... New PostSecret Tomorrow!

Inhofe informed Gore that scientists are “radically at odds with your claims.” Displaying a photograph of icicles in Buffalo, Inhofe demanded: “How come you guys never seem to notice it when it gets cold? . . . Where is global warming when you really need it?”

And that’s about it, folks. Because it’s cold in Buffalo during the winter, global warming can’t be real.

There are times when I think we just deserve to die off. This is one of them.

I hope that they name another ship after JFK... This one served proudly and well.  The Ship will remain in Florida for the time being... I hope it becomes a museum someplace and not be scrapped.

Why would anybody object to having porno sites be at a .xxx address... Unless one wants the kiddies to see the stuff. 

I think it revolves more around companies being able to block the entire domains so that people couldn't cruise porn sites at work. 

Personally... I do my cruising at home... Late at night... Like a normal freak.

"This is the hairdresser who was shot dead outside of my house. Her body was lying there for four hours before an American patrol came and cleaned the scene up. I couldn’t get close enough to get a clearer photo because we weren’t sure whether the body was booby trapped—or being watched by snipers." Photo by the author.

Ron Obvious

• "Here lies a knave,
  Where in the grave,
  His first good deed,
  Was feed the weed."

You're so dumb that blondes tell jokes about you - unknown

 

I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.
- Noël Coward

 

The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming.- unknown

I've Got Some Friends From The 70's That Display These Same Symptoms 

I've Always Believed That Dolphins Were As Intelligent As Humans...Some People Eat Them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An aircraft carrier gets about 6 inches per gallon of fuel.

The Chinese were using aluminum to make things as early as 300 AD... Western civilization didn't rediscover aluminum until 1827.

Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.

As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by your head.

This is a picture of a rock formation near a lake in Burma. The photo can only be taken on a specific day once a year when the sun rays touch the rocks at a certain angle.

Tilt your head to the left and then look at it again 

 

He is useless on top of the ground; he aught to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
- Mark Twain

 

If I had wanted to hear from somebody with your IQ,... I'd be at my local supermarket talking to the vegetables. - unknown

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 Former Arizona Gov. Admits UFO Sighting On Night of Phoenix Lights 10 Years Ago.

This is an issue that is close to my heart... I used to work on this ship and always loved riding them...  I also feel that the USA is actively destroying it's shipbuildng capacity... Pretty dumb for a nation that wants to remain a power on a planet that is 75% water.

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
Mark Twain

 

Anyone who told you to be yourself couldn't have given you worse advice.

Jesus Christ… Democrat or Republican ?

 

How about Libertarian?... Anarchist?

 

Apparently there's lots of people that are pretty sure he votes in their district... I just want to know if he's even registered to vote in the first place!... I'm pretty sure that he hasn't voted in the last few elections.  Maybe his absentee ballot got lost.

Cows are sacred in India… So they’re not generally eaten… Chicken figures largely in Indian cuisine…. So what do you do when your sacred cow eats your chickens?

 Vermont votes to impeach Bush!

I can't live without my TV directory... I use the one that comes with the Sunday paper, not TV Guide... But I can't live without it. If it's lost ...I'm lost. I find it helps give structure to my poor mixed up life. I don't watch a lot of TV... But I want to watch what I like and apparently I'm too stupid to take advantage of the wonders of streaming video.  I know... I know... online guides.. The directory channel... etc.... But I don't want to log in or wait for the stupid scroll to get to where I want it... I want my tv schedule NOW dammit!

 

My 18 y.o. watches hours more video than I do... And he has his favorite shows too... But the difference is that he seems to be free of the network's time schedules and I'm a dogged slave to them.  Grey's Anatomy? New episode on at 8pm on Thursday on channel 9... 7 central?... I'm there!.. And so on and so forth... Oh sure... I could tape or tivo it.. But it doesn't seem comfortable to me... I don't know why.

 

But my kid?... He doesn't have a recorder in his room... Yet he seems to be able to catch anything he wants to watch, whenever, on demand.  I mean, any tv show you can name... Any episode... Even stuff that has never aired in the U.S... 2am and he's watching Grey's (he's got a crush on Sandra Oh) or some obscure anime from Japan that's been "fansubbed".  I just found out that there's a whole cottage industry of people that translate foreign video and post them for we language impaired americans to watch... When the hell do people get the time to do this stuff?  If I map out an hour or two to blog... Something else doesn't get done.  But here's the funny part... Most of this stuff is free.  I thought that $1.99 for a show from iTunes was cool... But apparently that's dumb. There's (apparently legal) ways to get tons and tons of Video on Demand (VOD) whenever you want. And here I am paying $50 an month for expanded basic cable and all I really need is basic for local news... (not really the kid says).  But do I really want to sit in front of my computer to catch all of my tv?  Not really.  Maybe after Apple comes out with their iTv and I can stream to my big tv. But a lot of folks are saying that this looks to be the wave of the (near) future...  Check out this story from TVWeek.com.

 

I've been around the world several times and there is one constant that keeps popping up. People are the same! There are schmucks and dough-heads everywhere you go, to be sure... But by the same token... There are wonderful people.... Everywhere! It's amazing how we get pounded over the head with how dangerous and evil people are. Now, Let there be no doubt... Those nasty folks are out there... But on a relative basis... The vast , vast majority of humans wish to live and let live. Yet... lately... we live as though there's a Hannibal the Cannibal behind every outstretched hand. If this were true... The majority of our children would never reach adulthood. And most adults would never survive into their 30's.

Think about it this way... When is the last time you had a truly malevolent thought? I mean something really nasty? Something that would result in someone's death, doom or destruction? What kept you from following through? How close did you come? Did having to live with yourself play a role in your decision? More so than going to jail?

Try it another way... When was the last time you met a stranger? Did you fear for your life? I'm willing to bet... probably not. We're surrounded by strangers every-time we walk out the door... Supermarkets, Gas Stations, Wal Mart, the movies... etc. Most of us make it home safe.

But... We've got politicians and other leaders fervently telling us that we are imminently going to be blown up and that evil hordes are hiding under your car, bed, couch pillows... you name it. We're all goners if we don't hurry up and learn to hate the "others" and authorize our leadership to blow the hell out of them... NOW!

And isn't it funny that with all the traveling that Americans do around the world today... That relatively few of us return home with horror stories worse than a ripping case of diarrhea? We're not being beheaded, robbed, raped, beaten, eaten, kidnapped or molested in numbers anywhere near approaching what it would take to justify our not getting on those planes, trains and automobiles, now are we? Passport applications are actually at an all time high.

Americans wander the earth in incredible numbers... It wouldn't be hard to find one in most major cities if a person suddenly developed a hankering to do something nasty to one of us. And we can be found in bunches for anyone wanting to take us out in volume. Yet... It doesn't seem to be happening at all on the levels we're warned about are imminent. So... What gives?

So the question is... Who benefits from all of this terror! Terror! TERROR! business? I've been drunk, stupid and stoned in some pretty questionable neighborhoods in some pretty far flung places and gotten away clean. I've SEEN plenty of ugly american behavior in places all over the world where the offenders got away clean. So... If we can get away with provoking and inviting mayhem and it generally doesn't happen... Why are we being told that we and our loved ones are doomed to be blown up as early as tomorrow? Why are we authorizing our leadership to go blow up and harass a population with a hell of a lot less means to get to us than we have to them on the premise that they'll come over here and blow us up?

Seems to me that the population that we're supposed to be so afraid of went directly over to killing each other; which is exactly what should have been expected as soon as their local tyrant was removed. That was the same as taking the lid off of a pressure cooker... And any cultural anthropologist could have told you so.

Bosnians and Serbs, Jews and Palestinians, Shiites and Sunnis... Anytime you've got folks that have been at each others throats for millennia... They're always going to be more interested in killing each other than they will be to kill some newcomers on the block. Tito, Saddam, Amin, Suharto... Simply lids on the pressure cookers. They provided a threat greater than tolerable to the local combatants. Same thing happens in L.A. or any U.S. city where the cops take out the big drug king pin or gang leader... Mortality rate goes up until a new "lid" gets settled in. But it remains largely internecine warfare... Members of the general public get whacked usually as collateral damage.

Osama whacked the WTC in retaliation for U.S. attempts on his own life. He's a millionaire who could afford to set that kind of personal vendetta in place. Your average muslim extremist is much, much more interested in killing off those horribly blasphemous neighbors of his that let their women folk walk around without burquas. And when he's done doing that... He's going to be too busy fending off the counter attacks by said neighbor's clan to consider cooking up some sophisticated plan to get over here and blow up my wife and kids.

So.. back to the question of who, what, why and where. Who... have we as a nation offended so terribly that they can afford to turn their back on their own treacherous brethren to come after us? What ... evidence besides the isolated incidence of the WTC do we have that anybody gives enough of a fig about destroying us to make a real effort at it? Why... are not americans being slaughtered in significant numbers in places where we're easy to get at... Like Europe... the Caribbean? Where... did we go wrong at letting our elected leaders stampede us headlong into terror color codes, profiling, Guantanamo-ing, wiretapping, take your shoes off, no bottled water, don't question authority, Bill O'Rielly and Shawn Hannity loving, Islam hating, paranoids?

I think the answer lies with we as americans being so fat, dumb and happy that we willingly leave any mental lifting to whomever claims it. Statistically... we are unequivocally among the fattest, dumbest, and happiest of people on good old mother earth. What is it going to take for us to wake up and realize that we're victims of the old Kansas City Shuffle? Our attention is being directed one place while we're being robbed blind of our jobs (outsourcing)... security (Homeland), educations (cuts), health(genetically engineered crops) and welfare. We will wake up to discover that the American empire only lasted a little over 200 years and ended the same way the Roman Empire did. Bread and Circuses (McDonald's and American Idol) Non citizens running the empire (illegal immigration) Declination of the ruling class(see G.W. Bush) Outsourcing of vital operations to foreigners(China, India)

I may seem a bit angry and paranoid here... But show me where the USA leads the world in the production of other than Fast Food and Weapons.... We don't even make our own TV's anymore. Your average "American" branded car has over 75% foreign made parts. Do the research and find out where the majority of that most quintessential of American items (Levi's) are made. History will note that the Empire called America began to decline rapidly shortly after the entity called Wal-Mart became an important part of the culture.

And here we're directing our energy and attention towards people that if they were actually somehow able to infiltrate us in any significant numbers... Would be so overwhelmed by the amount of sheer nakedness and plenty relative to their world, that they would either rapidly assimilate or be entirely too distracted to be much danger.

Imagine being some poor kid whose only life experience has been a madrassa in upper Pakistan... turned loose anywhere near a high speed internet connection... If (big if) he gets past the porn... World of Warcraft ought to keep his attention off of that suicide bombing mission he was sent on. Picture this same kid sent to blow up a big mall on a Saturday afternoon... The mall full of scantily clad teenage girls (your Daughter... you've seen her!)... Do you think young Achmed is not going to question the wisdom of blowing up the very same 72 virgins he was promised in the first place? At any rate ...Why blow yourself up for a bit of poontang if there's plenty walking around right here?

If we could see past the BNC's (Big Nasty Corporation's) smoke screens for longer than the span of a commercial... We'd find that the answer to a lot of the pent up frustration that causes these nice folks to keep slitting each others throats is the same thing that keeps us from slitting each others throats... To wit... ENTERTAINMENT!! A steady supply of electricity and toys to run on that electricity. A slight overabundance of food. A reliable plumbing system. Porno. Toilet paper. Porno. Mind numbing TV. Porno. That about covers it... Right? Ladies... Understand that these requirements are skewed more towards the male of the species... We're the warlike ones.

Take a wild eyed Palestinian kid and stick a #2 combo meal (super-sized) in one hand and a Wii in the other... and the inclination to blow up the neighbors tends to fade. Why kill your neighbor dead when you can kick his ass every day in Unreal Tournament? ... Put on some version of Iraqi Idol and advertise a halal pizza delivery special and what do you think will happen every night at 8? It's pretty hard to think about that suicide mission planned for the next day when you're rooting for someone to be voted off the island and you want to know what happens next week. Likewise to throwing a bomb while one hand is moving your mouse over at The Hun's Yellow Pages while the other hand is ....Well... Occupied.

Back to where this rant started... People are the same where ever you go... They want to be fat, dumb and happy.