Safety First....

today jay was riding his mountain bike 'peacefully on a lovely trail', when he heard automatic weapon gunfire from multiple directions. He quickly reviewed safety lessons he'd learned as a child, and decided that 'stop, drop, and roll' would not be helpful in this situation. He then quickly reviewed things he'd learned on this blog, and found them insufficient as well.

In the immortal words of Johnny Cash......

"...When I was just a baby my mama told me. Son,
Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns.
But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die
When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry....."

There ya have it.............

For butter or for worse

I got a note from Polvo that explained he has been very sick and he perfectly illustrated the green stuff you cough up when sick with a cold or pneumonia.....something we have all coughed up and never adequately named........................he called it "Lung butter" ..... Now all this time I have know that his mom and sister were great illustrators...but now I will have to put polvo in the same category when it comes to illustrating with words.


Vencedor


PS I dare anyone of yall to butter a piece of toast tomorrow (or the rest of your life) and not remember the phrase: lung butter.

Step up to the plate.

Victor and I have just returned from the multi-cultural show at his school, Rampart (the school formerly known as Pat's). We learned that we don't spend nearly as much time as we should practicing our step dancing (the hood, not the river variety). In any event, we have vowed to give more effort to our stepping and slapping, so prepare to be wowed at some point in the not-so-distant future. Anyone care to step up to a step off competition?

Posting Posting 1 - 2 - 3

And listen if any of you people want to invite someone to this blog.....just let me know and I will set you up with Administrator rights....the only requirement is the new people need to be a little whacky..like the rest of us.

Wine Wine Wine

If you leave a glass of wine on the counter top while reaching to open the cabinet above it....... and one piece of the Magic Bullet falls off the cabinet shelf and on to the glass...it will break the glass of wine, splatter the wine all over the place and make a mess in the kitchen. (This is one more reason to continue to buy box wine which is non breakable if left in the original 5 liter box.)


PS: Even when you vaccuum and sweep there will be little bitty pieces of glass on the floor waiting for you to walk barefoot on it at some time in the future.

biggest little mullet in the world.

what jay learned this week:

no matter where where you go to get a haircut in reno, nor how much you pay for said haircut, you will still end up with a mullet.

Poll

1. It is said that 27% of people don't believe that we actually landed on the moon. Your opinion?

a) Did
b) Didn't
c) Dunno
d) Debatable

2. Side note, it is also said that 24% of statistics are made up on the spot.

We did not know that....

Todd was doing a little reading today....and by little, I mean the package size...and the package read : TROJAN-mint tingle-brand latex condoms lubricated- EXP 01-2008

Did yall know that condoms have an expiration date?

Plan Ahead, my friend.

Today I learned about Vic's blog.

You can't always count on a gracious Mexican national to invite you to pitch your tent on the patch of earth next to his. Don't count on your karma kickin' in like mine did - make camping reservations ahead of time, and plan ahead, my friend!

A picture is worth 1,000 calories.

This is Victor's breakfast -as mentioned in my comment on the previous blog. (doing our part to make the earth weigh more)

breakfast Question statistic

Breakfast...

If I had eggs I could make a nice ham and egg omlet... if I had ham.

Question...
If 10,000 years ago there was say only 10,000 people on earth, and now there are around 6 billion people on earth - does the earth weigh more now then it did then?

Statistic...
Since I've done some traveling lately I've learned some interesting things. For example, while in Panama last month I learned that in Central America - 3 out of 4 people now make up 75% of the population there. I think the same might hold true for Brazil as well, but not sure.

Hind leg theory

It's been said that if you catch a bunch of crabs you can put them in a bucket and you don't have to put a lid on it - and they won't get out. They won't get out because as one crabs tries to crawl out - another will try to get out as well but end up pulling down the first crab back into the bucket in the process. Thus the more they try to leave, the more they end up pulling each other back in.

Seems there are many applications of this theory in real life as well.

Smallest Radio?

Heard on NPR Sunday that Physicists at University of California, Berkley have created a radio that is one- ten-thousandth the side of a human hair... as in stack up 10,000 of them and they'd be as wide as a human hair. No joke. Right now it is a receiver only, but it could be tweaked to be a transmitter as well. It is essentially the size of DNA and thus you could easily inject a "radio" into one of your individual blood cells. Or a transmitter. Maybe you already have some inside you now? Like any other technology it raises some big brother concerns but pretty amazing nonetheless. Need a high powered microscope to even see the thing - but it works - you can even hear it play at ....

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15868800

What I learned on Sunday

While watching a zillion dollar real estate show on a slow Sunday evening, i learned that a rich man's 'summer kitchen' is a poor man's rusted Weber grill with aluminum lawn chairs.

the taste of it all

I heard on NPR today that there were just 4 types of tastes identified for a couple of thousand years : sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Then this guy in France came up with a recipe for cooking some mixture of stuff for 24 hours and it wasn't any of those tastes...he made some sauce to put on meat.....this apparently was in the 1800's at some fancy restaurant..so now we have 5 different types of tastes.........Go listen to NPR and it will tell you the name of that 5Th taste.

Moby Dickies

Today I learned that the jeans I take into the JC Penney dressing room can be the same size and brand as the ones I wore into the store - and still be difficult to zip! I also think that the number posted as the size looks silly followed by the word "Petite". What's wrong with the word "short"?

I am the egg man

If you take a boiled egg to work, start to eat it at lunch, and determine that it would be better to warm it up in the microwave: Don't.

Even if you crack the shell and think it will be ok to warm it for 30 seconds: Dont.

It will explode all over the microwave and take you 15 minutes to clean the inside while all of your coworkers stand around making smartass comments.

What I learned today...

It really hit me today that most people do not think about the "next step"...what is going to happen when "I" do this action or say a certain thing. No one cares about the repercussions...most people are just doing their time...and this saddens me. I see it in every level of our society: the minimum wage worker to hospital therapists and all the way up to CEO's. Who are we to blame? Are the parents teaching this to their child? Do managers just let everything slide? Has every thing become all about ME,ME,ME and must have it NOW,NOW,NOW? Are video games to blame? It's all fast action, death is no big deal...we get everything we want almost instantly....I am definitely in a 'glass half full' kinda funk today....

But I have also learned a few sayings (from a great man) that help me along this road, and I just need to remember to say them more and more to myself-esp. like today:

We do the best we can with what we got, and go from there.

Do not concentrate on how far we fall but how well we rebound.

String Cheese

I found out last Sunday that string cheese actually can be pulled apart in string looking sections. I never knew that before.

Computer Stuff

Something I learned today...did you know that you can use the Ctrl+A (key at the same time) and that will highlight the entire text for you to then use Ctrl + C to copy the text and then Ctrl+V keys to paste the highlighted text.
Also the coolest feature that I use is Ctrl+F to find an exact word or number in a text. Of course, everyone knows Ctrl+P to see the print page.
Those of you a little more advanced may know this, I use it sometimes: use the Windows key +E (the one with the picture of windows) , and this will bring up an exporer window of your computer system -- not internet explorer!--