It's growing! Can some of you look at texasblackgold.com and if the menu does not come up will you let me know?! I've been having a problem with the script and I think I have it sorted out now. Anyway Halloween is approaching fast and it's time to start prepping for this year. Anyone have any good ideas let me know. Things I'm working on so far... More tombstones, More Jack'o'Lanterns(Funkins), A 15' tall jack headed scarecrow, a monster in the box, a crate monster, a tent to house this in (20'x40' max), and a secret suprise room that I'm not ready to tell everyone about yet. I'm sure there will be more things to add to this later but for now that is it.
Look what I won. I am going to make it into these! Yes those are the same toys, I just need to get them chromed and add some lights to them. yea Baby!
I am sick and tired of Klez if you do not run virus protection first let me say "You DUMBASS!" then click here. Do something about it and then get some virus protection!
Spent my whole day yesterday looking for a party tent... well not my whole day but anyway... If anyone knows where I can get a party tent or an Army surplus tent or something please let me know... I'm looking for something in the 20'x40' range, a little smaller might be ok too.
Vindication! Sort of... most of you who know me know I subscribe to the Atkins no carb kind of diet. This diet has given me moderate success where others have failed miserably. All along as I would do my diet I would meet nothing but resistance from most people. I would try to explain how the diet worked but they would always come back with a "yea but" and it was always something about heart healthy and this and that. Alot of the people I would tell would think it's just out and out quackery! Well this article in the the Ney York times entitled "What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?" goes into the Atkins pheonomenon.
"It used to be that even considering the possibility of the alternative hypothesis, let alone researching it, was tantamount to quackery by association. Now a small but growing minority of establishment researchers have come to take seriously what the low-carb-diet doctors have been saying all along." ... In the intervening years, the National Institute of Health spent several hundred million dollars trying to demonstrate a connection between eating fat and getting heart disease and, despite what we might think, it failed. Five major studies revealed no such link. A sixth, however, costing well over $100 million alone, concluded that reducing cholesterol by drug therapy could prevent heart disease.
Did you know that low fat diets are actually bad for your triglycerides? Now this is a long article and not for the faint of heart, there's some pretty dry stuff in there but for all of you have ever wondered about my diet when I didn't explain it well enough or maybe you just dismissed what I was saying at the time read on... and for all you Atkins people out there, we have a head start on the rest of America!
Sticking with the scientific vein... what the hell is this all about? Liquid light?
How about Liquid Metal More than twice as strong as titanium and steel, it doesn’t rust and it can be cast like plastic and honed to an edge as sharp as glass.
Looks like another sexual revolution is just around the corner. Aids vaccine should be ready in a few years.
Star Wars info! It turns out that Spielberg wanted to direct one of the Star Wars movies but George said no.
Acck! Real life monsters are invading! According to this story at Yahoo the get up to 40 inches (one meter) long, weighing up to 15 pounds (6.8 kg), with toothy jaws and snake-like scales on their heads, with their eyes in the same position as a snake's and can survive for two to three days out of water, breathing air with a primitive lung!
Wow this looooong weekend has flown by! July 4th... I worked my ass off that day! I was preparing a website I have for Camaro Concepts. They are going to put on a race in September, check it out at TexasBlackGold.com. The site is going to be a rapid developed brochure site. Five or six pages max no database stuff. I just uploaded a prototype so if you are looking at it now, it will get better. Anyway Friday night we went to see the fireworks in Baytown. Now I've been going to this thing for years and this year was the best yet... I remember when it used to be 1 firework for every 30-45 seconds now it's like 6-8 per minute... usually in clusters of 3 or 4. There was a slow breeze and that made the 3-d effect of the large blowouts more dramatic, lots of fun.
Now for those who did not go out and see fireworks... why not? I hope you did not deny your kids the opportunity. You are born with only about 60 Fourth of July Celebrations in your life the first 2 or 3 you care less about but then you have a good little span of say 8 years where they are just as magical as Christmas... and you just pissed one of them away because you didn't want to sit in 10 minutes of traffic. I hope the 10 minutes you saved in your life was worth it... what did you spend it doing... watching something crappy on TV? GET a TIVO! ... and Carpe Diem!
Friday I went to show my design to CC and they thought it was great. After that I drove over to a scuba shop and checked out a BC I've been wanting to try on... now I have a new BCD I want ... the Zeagle Ranger LTD, none of you out there want to give me one do you? I also went to see R on Friday and they are doing great, they just got back from an almost 2 week trip for a cruise and some time at Disney. Funny thing about that is another friend J and his family were at Disney at the same time! They also came back Saturday and he called and told me he had 5 hours worth of home movies and what was I doing! I was busy! :) Anyway he's giving me his old styro tombstones. Way cool!
Last night Angie and I went to dinner and to see MIB II. We have this thing now about dinner... Houston has one of the highest restaurant densities of any city in the US and we always find ourselves at the same ones so we have started to try new places every time we go out. Last night is was Saba Blue Water Cafe Downtown. Very cool place. Bar on one side and seating on the other, a big marine tank in the middle. Parking pissed me off. Valet was 6 bucks but there was no valet there so when I parked in the lot myself it was $10! Now I'm sure the valets have a deal or some other lot but $10 is ridiculous! The lot was empty I was one of 10 cars in a 200 car lot! Not worth $10 I'd say. Anyway on the inside... the food was fantastic! The portions were a little on the small side and cost a little on the high side but it tasted so good I'd say we would go back. After that it was on to the movie... when Angie and I go out on a "date" we go to the Edwards on Weslayan(sp?) by the Summit. So went there...Fandango-ed the tickets before we left so were not worried about not having any. Got there early anyway got perfect seats and the movie was great to good. They are never as good as the first but this was good enough to stand on it's own... good humor and compelling enough story that moved along with a good flow. Over before it started I thought and that is a sign of a good movie... i.e.. no boring parts. Before the movie we saw the new trailer for T3! It's coming... in a year! Also saw the trailer for LOTR Two Towers oooooooohhh... mmmm... If you want to see these trailers and have a decent connection go to Apple's trailer site. They have tons of stuff there...if you go did you know that there is a prequel to Silence of the Lambs coming out? Red Dragon with Edward Norton he's the guy who catches Lechter the first time... well I'm about to head off to Mom's house for some lunch and dip in the pool. cya
Since I missed this Friday's Friday Five here it is now... Friday Five (.org)
1. Where are you right now? Sitting at my computer at home, about to go to my Mom's for lunch and swim.
2. What have you lost recently?I lost the bottle of Kid's Off the other day but I have since found it does that count?
3. What was the first CD you ever purchased? Does that embarrass you now? "Zillionaire" by ABC and hell no I love that CD I think it defined my listening styles... that was waaaay back in 83 I think and I was working at Service Merchandise ... I didn't even have a CD player but I sold them so I got a cd just to have something to play.
4. What is your favorite kind of writing pen? I like the UniBall Roller ball pens usually a medium blue is my choice.
5. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Luche de Leches by Hagen Das... 3 kinds of caramel! mmmmmmmmmmmmmm aaaahhhhhhhhh.....
Here is a semi-interesting article about the guy who shot up an LAX airport the other day. One thing I thought was interesting about that whole deal was that the only "civilian" that stepped up and helped was a doctor from Texas. You know us Texas walking around with guns in holsters and having quick draw shootouts in the streets all the time it didn't even phase this doctor that the guy was shooting. No really... he was 60 feet away and a security guard had tried to stop the gunman who also had a knife and was now stabbing the guard so this guy got up and ran over there and helped subdue him... I say kick ass... if we all fight back when this stuff goes down the damn terrorist will lose their power to intimidate us.
Does a hot dog eating contest need a replay? It turns out some speed dog eating 113 pound dude from overseas creamed the crap out everyone by eating 50+ hot dogs with buns in 12 minutes! The bad part is he kinda spewed near the end but none of it came out... so since it was not visible he was not DQed... well this almost started a riot!
My friend W sent me this link which allows you to do cool things like renew your TDL online! Tags too! Way cool this is!
The next movie prop I want is one of these
Read about our progress here. v.cool ... if you don't know what they are see Minority Report with traitor shit ass Tom Cruise in it... I really liked him until he started saying how the US is unsafe and sucks and all...
Wings today yea! It's been awhile and I am a hungry hungry hippo right now. I sorta won in cards today I guess. P really won but there was a 2/3rds game after that and I won that one so I'm counting it.
