This weekend was booooorrrrring well not that boring, but I was basically waiting for Sunday to get here so Saturday was a big nothing... We did manage to watch 1,2,3 movies this weekend... which brings up a comment... WTF is up with all the nominations for Chicago? SUCKOLA! I barely made it through! Anyway we made it to Sunday and The Race was on and eh... rain delayed then shortened ... boo! Then the Simpsons deal... I was expecting a clip show and new episode, instead I got a rerun and 2 new episodes... they were ok... I was unsatisfied.
Wonder Twin powers activate... eh nevermind wrong show... In the same vein as the Justice League comes a new movie from Fox... LXG stands for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen... I don't know but the trailer looks pretty freakin good!
For those who are wondering about that space elevator thingy I posted awhile back... these guys are really serious about making it real!
For you Astroworld fans out there, SFAW is getting 2 new rides this year... Swat is like 2 giant flyswatters spinning around... and Diablo Falls a giant water coster raft ride thing?!?... Unfortunately Taz's Texas Tornado has been removed. DAMN! I never got to ride it.
Terroisn!(SJL on Chris Baker) Ok everyone is worried about this that and the other thing. THEY have already done what THEY want to instill terror! Are you scared or prepared. Be prepared and not scared. My dad is feearful of a "dirty bomb" and I was too until I read about it. As it turns out a dirty bomb is really more about fear than anything else. A dirty bomb is nothing more than a regular bomb with radioactive shit packed in there. The explosion is the same as it would be without the radioactive shit. The explosion just spreads the stuff around and makes a big mess that could take months to clean up, there probably won't even be any deaths associated with the radiation aspect of it. Anyway Time explains it better than me, or these guys. All in all it's not at all what you think it is!
OMG THIS is going to be the baddest ride on the planet! Holy crap 120 MPH in 4 seconds and a height of 420 feet! Gotta go Gotta go Gotta go Gotta go Gotta go Gotta go Gotta go!
Mind reading website! this worked for me the first time. After that no... weird though!
Goodbye lightbulb, hello LED, are the lightbulbs days numbered? YES!
I got a call from someone this morning that told me that all of the Southwest Bank Credit cards and Check cards have been compromised in a computer break in and that they reissuing all of these cards! Damn! What a pain in the ass! This is unconfirmed as of now.
Since I have been talking alot about this lately I thought I would mention it here. Our family had a small meeting this past sunday and made a plan for a meeting spot should there be a terrorist attack. In our situation some of us work on the opposite side of Houston from where we live and if a mushroom cloud were to form over Houston we would have no way of getting to our families. Think about it there is an explosion, EMP pulse knocks out all cell phones and power and the police come around advising everyone to evacuate immediatly. Where do you go? How do you find where your loved ones went? I know where my family will be heading. We have a plan now. It's simple pick a couple of places where you would meet and be able to communicate with. They should be rural. They should be place where you may end up staying... I rural hotel is a good choice a McDonalds is not. Ok on that down note... let's have a little fun!
My friend G sent me this carrot with a vagina link! WTF!
Do you need a custom candy heart... go here and create your own! Go see the other hillarious shit people put on thier hearts here. Warning some are vulgar! :)
OMG! I am so sick of this kind of crap! Two sisters were getting on a Southwest Airlines plane that was at capacity. They could not find a seat together so they continued to wander up and own the isles looking depite being asked to sit down twice... so in typical SWA fashion the attendant said a poem over the loudspeaker... "Eenie, meenie, minie, moe; pick a seat, we gotta go." Of course these ladys took it as a racial slur and are now sueing SWA. I so wish that companies could sue back for frivilous lawsuits! this one would have to win.
This is a video taken in 6000 feet of water. An undersea robot is sawing a 3mm wide slit (1/10th of an inch ... remember that width) in a pipeline. The pressure inside the pipeline is 0 psig, while the pressure outside is 2700 psi, or 1.3 tons per square inch. Then a crab comes along....
Wow did I have a great Friday! Dade and I went to the Museum of Natural Science. Cockrell butterfly exhibit was kick ass. Living roaches the size of a pack of cigarettes and a millipede that looked like a black garden hose. Awesome! We even saw a butterfly hatch from the chrysalis and stretch his wings! Then the planetarium, the museum, the dinosaurs, the mummy, the giant sloth! Wow when is the last time you went? To cool! My fav though was a living cuttlefish. Yep the kind that change colors in an instant... how cool was that!
Saturday, Angie and I went to see Biker Boyz and eat at Noche and damn that was some good grub!
Ok enough of my trival life, on to some editorial and/or links!
Since the Joe Millionaire final is tomorrow night and I can't remember if I posted this, here it is. It is a link to one of the finalist being some softpron fetish type movies. Actually the entire Smoking Gun website is riot!
For those who have tireed of regular fishing, how about trying squirrel fishing?!?
I'd like to ask for moment of silence. It seems the king is dead. If you were a kid in the arcade in the 80's you lived off of Atari. How many 2600's did they sell? A gazillion? Well the end has finally come... Atari closes the doors. I still have an I <3 Atari bumpersticker hanging in my computer room. Pong, Asteroids, Tempest, Pole Position, Centipede, the list goes on... I feel gutted.
Holy cock-a-doodle! I collect things like this but that might be out of my price range.
It looks like France don't want to play no mo'... pussies! heard on the radio this morning "Having France as an ally in a war is about is usefull as taking an acordian on a deer hunt!" Thanks to P for the 2nd link!
Next time you need to go to space, just take the elevator
Did you guys see that video today of that jet dumping "simulated anthrax"! Holy crap let's not wait for the rest of the world, get 'em right f'in now! Powell delivers the news
What if you cell phone could shock the piss out of you if you used it while driving?!?! Wild idea but something of the sort is gaining momentum.
Here is a cool little recolection about the shuttle computers.
HOLY COW this looks v.v.cool! The Animatrix is a series of episodes by directors and thier vision of The Matrix ala BMW Films... the first episode is out as well as a trailer. I saw the trailer and I can't wait to see the first episode.
No raving lunatic commentary today just the fun stuff!
Anyone remember the Atari 2600? Of course you do! Did you know there are people still making games for it! Wow! A 2 word Word document contains 5 times the amount of memory that a 2600 game had! Amazing that they could do so much with what they had!
Could this be the end of COMDEX?!?! I heard this 2 or 3 years ago... I also heard that it might move to Houston! How cool would that be!
SPEED OF LIGHT?!! Come on CNN!
In the WTF! Category! rentmychest.com ... I know I bet you thought it was going to be better than that!
How bad is the North Korean thing? About this bad... what kind of world did I leave as a legacy for my son!!!!
Should we keep the space program... should we keep having manned space flight!?!? My friend G sent me this link
The Space Shuttle Must Be Stopped. It is not an article about the SS but more about money being spent on manned space flight. Should we stop manned space flight HELL NO! The drive to go to space is was makes us great! At the time I read the article I decided to respond to it... here is that response... What a bunch of crap! I'm guessing the writer does not enjoy any of the things space flight has brought to him... like the Satellite TV or the ability to broadcast his news story around the world in seconds... BS! The shuttle may not have met expectations but it is the thing that got us there. Man space flight must happen it is the thing that make this country great... the exploration and attempts to overcome the bounds of gravity generate so much more science revelations that the cost, any cost, is almost worth it. This article is not about the shuttle but more about the need to stop manned space flight. Yes and next we'll put a wall around the US and establish a dictator to tell us what to do and how to think! This borders on traitorous tripe is you ask me... nuff said. This says exactly what I am talking about! You live because they died making your life a MUCH better place!
Ok I am not going to dwell on the SS thing but this has some very provocative things to say.
Imagine the day when you can just print yourself a new computer. It could happen very soon! I can see it now! Open source cpu prints this could be very cool!
How many of you out there have had to help a relative with a computer problem? Is it chronic? Well my friend R sent me a link that might be something you need to consider. SHOULD MY LOVED ONE BE PLACED IN AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY? It's a tough question we must all face one day!
First let me say what a tragedy. I am sympathetic so no matter what you hear in this rant don't think I'm not... Several days ago I blogged about the Challenger explosion damn I feel prophetic almost! On Saturday morning I got a call from G about 8:10am telling me that we had lost communication with the space shuttle. I flipped on the TV and immediately had a flashback to the Challenger incident. I was amazed to see the video of shuttle streaking across the sky about Dallas. With reporters wondering what if anything was wrong. I called a my friend in Dallas and told him about it and as I did the showed the video of the streak and there was decidely 2 streaks now and little puffs as well. There seemed to be no doubt what happened the shuttle had come apart. A few phone calls to family (mom and dad in Vegas!) and I was back in front of the TV watching in amazement. Soon enough reports are rolling in about debris on the ground and then there is the amazing weather radar shots of the debris! Incredible! I was supposed to be working on a web site that day but I could not work. It was like I was drunk?!?
For the first time since the invention of the internet I could not get enough data!
I wanted more more more! and I all I could get were little bits of this and that. With Challenger I got plenty because I was not jaded by the bandwidth the internet gives me. I have become acustom to finding the data I need almost instantly and as much as I want. With Challenger we saw the explosion, it was there and then it wasn't. Then there was 911 so many things were happening so fast and you saw the buildings come down. They were there then they were not. I found myself inventing fantasies about escape pods and intact crew compartments. I could not get enough data! The feeling of frustration was coursing through me and it induced drunkeness. I cannot explain it, even as I write this I feel it to a degree.
Now before you say it, every station was on and every station had the same things and every station showed the same thing over and over for way to long. I know it is a spectacular event but it was only 7 people. 10 times that many have died on our raods from drunk drivers since the incident. yet I do not see people, myself included, caring about that?!? why is that... I feel unworthy as a human.
That night I took Dade to see the Monster trucks again. I wasn't going to but they were having a very good line up and they did not dissapoint! Three rollovers and some pretty impressive crashes and near misses. Maximum Destruction was all the way 90 degrees sideways and saved it! Fun night for Dade and me. Funny thing is I felt guilty for enjoying myself after the shuttle deal. I guess that is the definition of bittersweet.
Watched Gross Pointe Blank last night... John Cusak is a very entertaining actor. Very enjoyable show to watch.
Ok only if you are freak about LOTR will you know what was supposed to be said, but this is still quite funny. Engrish TTT Captions yes Engrish!
Do you use IE? Have you recently noticed your homepage has changed and there is some new toolbar on your system? You are not alone! Wired and Slashdot point out "the most evil thing on the Internet" is the new toolbar from Xupiter. It installs itself, then resets your homepage. Then keeps itself loaded when you try to remove it! NASTY NASTY NASTY!
I don't have much more to say so I'll leave you with some cool eye candy type stuff... Crash Media site was ok mixer thingy rocked! Arnette Sunglasses
No time today... this might be a short one...
Did you know that this weekend 
