JB, VM thanks for the tips - that cold heat item looked attractive (solder then put it in your pocket?!) I will stay away from them.
My most recent victory is getting a bookshelf out of my library! The rule was no unsightly stacks; I had to go through my library and decide what books to part with. I am a hoarder and I used to work for Oxford University Press so I have a lot of books that I will probably never read but look interesting, look useful, look good, or I just want to OWN. Like an 1800 page book on the Dutch Republic or a 3 foot tall, 2 foot wide book containing 300 vector maps showing the economics of China for 1992.
Okay, okay. actually - I am losing this one. the bookshelf is almost empty and I have bags of books, stacks of books, everywhere but I did start the task. I could be moving books right now (I had to move a couple stacks to even get to this computer) - I am sure I will get to it by the weekend.
That sort of reminds me of last summer when I was visiting my family in MT - they had cable so we were watching FOX (don't ask - mom is a dyed in the wool conservative and FOX was better than Rush) and guess what kind of commercials they were running? Enhancers, enlargers, and all the spam that hit our email. We are so happy to not have cable at home!
Gasoline pricing has so many variables that I am surprised that it tracks with crude so closely. The whole chain from well to pump is fraught with so many perils and 'Murphy' points it is unbelievable. The Madness of Crowds is pretty important - generally, there is enough gas available to keep the average tank half full; like a run on a bank, if the people think there might be a problem with supply and everyone wants to keep their tank full all the time (just in case) - well, that will tax the entire system from refinery to pump. This is what happened during the early 70s gas shortage - nobody wanted to take the chance to run out, so they topped their tank every chance they got, and the stations began limiting how much you could buy at a time, the hours they were open, etc and it cycled out of control (let us not even think about the oil companies and their profits).
You just click the BLUE link on the page,its just an MP4 file my friend.....
I do not download stuff from strange sites. I especially do not work at anything in a thread labeled "Obama Cult of Personality Vid". If you want to be a hater, go ahead. What Doesn't Kill The Far-Right Only Makes Them Crazier
"Seven years before Barack Obama's "spread the wealth" comment to Joe the Plumber became a GOP campaign theme, the Democratic presidential candidate said in a radio interview the U.S. has suffered from a fundamentally flawed Constitution that does not mandate or allow for redistribution of wealth." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=79225
I don't see that any of his proposals have anything to do with what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
Yeah, yeah! It is called progressive income tax - not new, not anti-constitution.
Heh, heh - Isn’t it amazing that The Amazing Kreskin is able to read your mind at dinner theater? How about that? We are so impressed with these doom-sayers.
“The Industrial Age is ending. All the systems are breaking down and that means disappointment and disillusionment for the people who grew up in the ’50’s.” Celente elaborated, “These people believed in the Ozzie and Harriet way of life. That concept is dead. So is the concept of retiring at 65.” These were hardly prescient or specific thoughts, but they were certainly dramatic enough to make it into an Orange County newspaper in 1993!
“Americans will be spending more time at home than ever before both for pleasure and business.” Imagine that. You grow old, retire, and then you suddenly have more time. How the hell did Celente know way back 1998.
He is as accurate as Nostradamus without any of the gravitas.
What a load of crap! Someone comes along who does not try to lead by fear but by a vision of what this country was founded on and the wingnuts go wild.
Fear and Fascism lost the election, get over it and get behind our president.
I would like any of these - I would prefer the full scale but the mini pieces would do. I saw this guy's stuff in Scientific American about 30 years ago (when I subscribed). The really amazing thing is that these sculptures disassemble and can be re-assembled as something different - they came in scale from hanging pendants up to full scale, sigh! Late at night, I drool over beautiful things.
Also try those large blue balls (heh,heh I said blueballs) - they are really good for your core strength and will change your posture. Just keep one around (if you have the room) and use it once or twice a day.
I took the NRA class too (well, I think I did - it was about 50 years ago and in Montana so I am sure it was taught by an NRA member); using an M14, I could put 5 rounds in the bulls-eye and 5 just below (it was a tight spread, I just somehow shot low and right - maybe my sling loosened at the end there??!!)
I forgot to mention that this was at 1000 meters - at all the other distances, really tight groupings in the bullseye.
All humans probably have a common human ansistor too, but that doesn't prove or disprove the theory of evolution. Human life probably started somewhere in Africa and spread around the globe from there. Same thing happened to those octopuses. Now, if scientists could some how PROVE that the original octopuse evolved from something else, then that would be an earth-shattering story.
But that ancestor to humans was the ancestor to the great apes and other primates so wouldn't that point to evolution?
The Turing Train is really, really kool! I ended my thought with a pun but I actually am thinking about using the 'O' scale Lionel. I got the idea from seeing some track lighting with the track made of what looked like welding rod attached to a transformer with the light hanging from a rod between the 2 tracks.
I took the NRA class too (well, I think I did - it was about 50 years ago and in Montana so I am sure it was taught by an NRA member); using an M14, I could put 5 rounds in the bulls-eye and 5 just below (it was a tight spread, I just somehow shot low and right - maybe my sling loosened at the end there??!!)
We covered this here. I still kinda think it is an art installation rather than actual living conditions - but I am an optimist (besides, there were no paths - how could anyone move through that w/o making a path?).
Interesting read? Well, yes if you want to see a well-polished list of errors in logic and/or reasoning (look here). Do you think you could find anyone who would write such a paean to Bush within the last 2 years? We all love our country! I love my country and am very optimistic about our country's future. We have lived in fear for the last 5 years, it is time to work together for a brighter future.
There is/was a lot of pent up emotion behind Google - they were the wunderkind for so long, when they matured as a major corp. suddenly they were everywhere in your life. It did not help that we discovered that they kept all our search data stored somewhere forever about the same time we discovered our government had set CARNIVORE loose on the internets snooping for our hidden secrets.
Model train club? You know, I have this really bizarre idea about using Lionel-type train set (I forget the gauge, the only scale I remember is HO) suspended from the ceiling as a form of, er, track-lighting.
Did you look at any of the other links on that page?
"Fighting broke out between Bolivia's congressmen over plans to put four judges on trial for corruption. Russell Trott reports." "A fight broke out in South Korea's parliament over the decision to launch a fraud investigation into presidential candidate Lee Myung-bak. "
Your ideas about how to handle violence seem a little violent; your language is pretty 'low standard' with very little logic to support any of your ideas. Your whole post is rife with condescension and a lack of understanding.
