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Music, Human Affairs, Theology (angel injection), Humor This is...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:22:31 -0500

Music, Human Affairs, Theology (angel injection), Humor

This is kindly brought from my daughter’s blog … (highly secure) … ‘cause you know those collegeers know where ‘the party’s at’, and the rainbow in the hair, golden hair like sunshine or yellow dresses or cupcakes … somethin’. BUT DO YOU HEAR ME? … YOU LEARNin’ to be knowledge and good, or fun run amook, and EVIL PRIVILEGE with Token this and that. Where’s all my money goin’? And the dance … that’s enough with the 3 minutes…. get back to the lecture notes. I’m tellin’ you, if you don’t (steal at least something worth $50 kaszillion bucks) my investment of hundreds of thousands on this edumacation is wortless … I tell ya.

Am I starting to sound evil … corrupted … oh, those yellow dresses, like my love in kindergarden on halloween wore a hula skirt … a real one with see thru strings (or between) when she moved … like only an angel in kindergarden could. (I got kicked out of kindergarden, too.) You think this could have prejudiced me into leaning toward the String Theory? OK, daughter, email me on this one.

"In a sign that the global economy could be seeing signs of improvement, the average net worth of the..."

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:59:00 -0500

“In a sign that the global economy could be seeing signs of improvement, the average net worth...

Design, Real Estate Yea, like a barn door, nice contrast, but I...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:33:54 -0500

Design, Real Estate

Yea, like a barn door, nice contrast, but I want one round and shape the opening differently. The neat trick is the bottom track … like there’s none here… wtheck.

(via sebseballade)

"According to the Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, the federal government has never mandated that..."

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:31:00 -0500

“According to the Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, the federal government has never...

History, Humor, Theology Israel in a good mock of the most...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:59:01 -0500

History, Humor, Theology

Israel in a good mock of the most mockable - Islam.

Humor, Law ‘You’re going to get a big prize when you...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:15:02 -0500

Humor, Law

‘You’re going to get a big prize when you get into New York a day early’ said the owner to the captain of the Titanic. And Pelosi owns this one.

How the Left Lies to You About ACORN, Part 1

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:33:51 -0500

How the Left Lies to You About ACORN, Part 1: History, Law, Human Affairs Now that the will of this...

Dance, Art, Design To my favorite dancer … you might want...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:07:55 -0500

Dance, Art, Design

To my favorite dancer … you might want to use this ‘TuTu Post Advertisement’ design.. Say for a coupon, autograph, slipperful of bubbly (soap might work)… reminds me of you in the tutu on the teak deck unfinished…. remind me to post it.

9gag:

Ballet Classes

"A message that North Korea had conducted a nuclear attack on the Japanese island of Okinawa turned..."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:45:07 -0500

“A message that North Korea had conducted a nuclear attack on the Japanese island of Okinawa...

Humor, History (Herstory)[see how I did that?] In honor of...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:17:38 -0500

Humor, History (Herstory)[see how I did that?]

In honor of ‘Women’s History Month’ … March … well I got this from my daughter’s blog (secret blog … even her mother (a woman) doesn’t know it … and I’ve not been told to tell) who is concerned about women’s rights (why she’s not concerned about women’s wrongs… I’ll never know). Well in an email, I was pointing out the difference of equality as in ‘Rights’ and equality in ‘condition’. It’s really hard to get equality of condiiton … and if it were right to have it, would you really want it?

For example, my son was in Austin, where he swam in the Austin Grand Prix, several hundred competing in each event. He beat his best time by 6.5 seconds in the 100 Free, ranked 250th of 379. Women who swam his time were ranked 24th of 380, and had the added privilege of admittance into the finals. Women’s overall inferior abilities were gauged within the field of women and not directly in competition with men. The clock was the only neutral arbiter of ‘condition fairness’. I think the status quo using men’s and women’s times separately provides ‘Equal Rights’ and that is great and sufficient, and the alternative, that of ‘equality of condition’ would be to only have final racing when they rose to the level of men’s times in the finals. That means there would be no women in the top 40 finalists …. they were all men. Check it out. This would seem to prove that ‘equality of condition’ is a false equality. Men and women are different, do we agree? And I say ‘viva la difference’.

Also please send me $5,000 if you disagree, or be noted as a cheap skate … which brings up a different subject where in dance, ice skating (see how I did that?), women are much closer to a ‘conditional parity’.

Note also, (that extra irritating word is dedicated to Sarah Palin) in breastfeeding, men wouldn’t even make the finals. (That reference is for dear past dad and the breast pocket calendar I gave him from Key West’s Fast Buck Freddies, and he knowing every 12 shapes in Latin … bravo, he was acknowledged in my heart and many hearts as- Men’s Breast Appreciation Finalist Champion) And the La Leche League will back that up.

For another $5,000 I will send you the transcript and movie of my father’s acceptance speech to the La Leche League as he was accepting the 4th Founders’ Award. There he detailed how he coached a young adopting mother to breastfeed the infant … for 2 years, during which her Endrometriosis symptoms disappeared (had prevented her conceiving before) and after she stopped breastfeeding, she conceived and had her natural child after which her Endrometriosis was in remission, and perhaps cured. For a straight white guy, that’s pretty bov. (that’s Indian hip talk for ‘sacred cowlike’)

History, Humor This might seem like a Day Ja Vu there at Geek...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:07:02 -0500

History, Humor

This might seem like a Day Ja Vu there at Geek Central near Kendall Square, but before you get all defensive and teary … this is kindof my image of well where nerds were 40 some years ago … ok really 20, but it reminded me.

I was in high school before the laser was invented. It was Dave Kendall who told me about it … how it was made. I later learned that one inventor, Charles H. Townes (Nobel Prize 1964) was a theist, who believed that god had shared this knowledge with him … as a gift.

Dave Dunshee was our class genius; he made his own TV from scratch. I even thought that people shouldn’t be allowed to watch TV unless they could build their own.

You’ve heard the story of Principal Myrtle Rugan, spinster who looked like Margaret Rutherford (Ms. Marple) and her Vice Principal Mr. Bodeski. I was impeached and without trial, convicted and removed from 8th grade presidency of the student council for having distributed a ‘controlled substance’ and aphrodesiac placebo … vitamin E at a party, where Mad Matt (like a granddaddy to the Pinball Wizard) and Barb Pedian kinda got a base or two on - together … busted me to the school shrink …. and the rest was a hysterical- ectomy.. on my high school future sensitivity. And my girl friend (went to a different school) moved away (her parents didn’t allow her to Gary Engberg’s basement parties, either). Bummer.

Dave Painter and a group of like minded geeks saw our first nuclear flash in a cloud chamber we constructed with dry ice in his mother’s art studio.

I used to sell a mixture of cow and horse manure (cured for over 2 years) for $10 a trailer load (a small metal thing from Sears) pulled by my 1963 MG Midget … how cool is that? Steamy!

Chipper Bell and I as preteens blasted a 3 stage rocket from a bunker we dug in the Forest Preserve pasture behind our barn. The 3rd stage had a mouse in it with a parachute, but the 2nd stage blew up, and the parachute didn’t open … and we never found the 3rd stage. Chipper’s a professor of Neuropsychology in CA, so if you find him, lead him to my blog … he’ll like it. He’s the co-inventor of our ‘off the grid’ toilet… that was at age 7 or so. We also stole eggs from the milk truck and threw them at Eccie’s house, ‘cause Eccie burned his garage, buried my brother, and was the general bully of the ‘hood with a trial lawyer dad.

As a preteen, I once threw a cherry bomb into a party of our neighbors when I was attracted to the loud music, drinking, and general bad behavior (I was in a high morality of life phase… no swearing either) … and they were just in high school. Well the guys saw me and chased me through a woods and over a creek where the trees were generally small … but no farther apart than about 3 feet…. I never touched one tree. I was one scared ‘bomb throwin’ rabbit’. I guess that’s why I read ‘Brer Rabbit’ to my kids…. although they like ‘Puppy on the Farm’ better.

Here’s to celebrating all those ‘nerd-based’ experiments, games and adventures … though they all may fail, never, never, never, never …. give up…. (Winston Churchill) or a recent nerdy movie, ‘Martian Child’, and Bobby Coleman (we’re same sign). I never lived in a box, but once made a fort in hay bales where you had to slide 20 feet in a 2x2 passage into darkness… our hay loft… the floors slick from the polishing of the hay. And I was never abandoned …

"In Pakistan, a Christian man was sentenced to life in prison after a neighbor with whom he had a..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:30:10 -0500

“In Pakistan, a Christian man was sentenced to life in prison after a neighbor with whom he...

"It doesn’t matter if he’s a terrorist or a traditional Muslim. At the end of the day a..."

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:40:09 -0500

“It doesn’t matter if he’s a terrorist or a traditional Muslim. At the end of the...

"You can only be disillusioned if you were once illusioned."

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:02:08 -0500

“You can only be disillusioned if you were once illusioned.” - History, Science, Human...

"This has been an Imelda Marcos kind of season for shoe-dropping about global warming."

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:23:32 -0500

“This has been an Imelda Marcos kind of season for shoe-dropping about global warming.”...

"it confirms for the first time that spontaneous memories arise through the activity of the very same..."

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:44:16 -0500

“it confirms for the first time that spontaneous memories arise through the activity of the...

Double positives

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:26:28 -0500

History, Human Affairs, Humor No kidding. superfluidity: The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L....

"But the theory that praise, self-esteem and accomplishment increase in tandem is false."

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:34:33 -0500

“But the theory that praise, self-esteem and accomplishment increase in tandem is...

History, Sport, Human Affairs, Design, Real Estate From the...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:20:14 -0500

History, Sport, Human Affairs, Design, Real Estate

From the tragedy to the triumph, the Olympics today benefits with the better access, camera quality and audio and clocking… The tribute to the fallen sled athlete from Georgia (the country) was adequate and sincere. Design improvements like the mandatory cushioning of uprights and higher walls if only nets could have saved him on this super fast course, including the 50 50 curve, where only half of the people made it.

There should be better standards for safety and more competition to fulfill the building contracts, even if all within one country, the host.

Love the woodwork…the tapestry of humanity at its best … yeah, and who are you to horn in on any of the wicky wickie. That’s all.

ninakix:

Vancouver 2010 winners’ podium designed by James Lee & Leo Obstbaum. The podium was constructed from donated wood and finished by new wood workers in the inner city of Vancouver. The design reflects the topography of Canada and the collective spirit of the games, as seen in the construction of multiple pieces coming together to create one form. (via Orange Element Insights)

"Our insider informs us that Baron Cohen planned to appear onstage as a blue-skinned, female Na’vi,..."

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:08:00 -0500

“Our insider informs us that Baron Cohen planned to appear onstage as a blue-skinned, female...