rev_bluejeans

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/11/sezmi-cable-tv-competitor.html

also

http://www.sezmi.com/

Television is changing again...

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A married couple in their early 60s were out celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant.

Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table and said, "For being such an exemplary married couple and for being faithful to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish. "Ooh, I want to travel around the world with my darling husband." said the wife.

The fairy moved her magic stick and - abracadabra! - two tickets for the new QM2 luxury liner appeared in her hands.

Now it was the husbands turn. He thought for a moment and said: "Well this is all very romantic, but an opportunity like this only occurs once in a lifetime, so, I'm sorry my love, but my wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than me."

The wife, and the fairy, were deeply disappointed, but a wish is a wish... So the fairy made a circle with her magic stick and -abracadabra! - the husband became 92 years old.

The moral of this story: "Fairies are female."

***

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.
- Edmund Burke

Current Mood: dorky

Also, places not to live:

http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/collections/gallery/2191/top-disaster-cities/fp#photo0

And a little known law - you can contribute to reduce the national debt and it's tax deductable!

http://finance.yahoo.com/taxes/article/108141/donating-this-year-uncle-sam-needs-your-help?mod=taxes-advice_strategy

We're at 10% unemployment - and it's getting worse.
http://tinyurl.com/y8a564u

Yet our government is out there, screaming it's head off going "things are getting better!"

Bullpucky. Our favorite gas station went out of business. Two more storefronts are up for "Lease" on our drive - and that's without looking. Seriously, the government could have thrown that $800 billion from the bailout to the PEOPLE and we would have spent our way into hog heaven, paying bills and getting things done.

Nope, they paid the banks... who paid other banks... who closed people's credit accounts, foreclosed on houses, and otherwise just made a mess out of things.

There's a simple fact in economics - the money spent by consumers is at least nine times more helpful than the money spent by government or commerce. Period.

Instead of following basic economics, they throw money at corporations who move it outside the country and help nothing.

Oh, and if you're painting, you might consider anti-WiFi paint to keep others from leeching off you: http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/151779

Our leaders are morons.

Current Mood: cranky

More proof of Evolution
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091001/ap_on_sc/us_sci_before_lucy

T-Rex vs parasite. Guess who won?
http://tinyurl.com/yddu4bo

"Don't worry! Things are getting better! Why are you in the lifeboat?"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wall_street

Oscar Mayer died - 21 hot dog salute!
http://tinyurl.com/n7txqc

Things to make Zhy throw up
http://tinyurl.com/b8cyoa

Would * do this? I dare her...
http://tinyurl.com/yu7qb4

We put the "FUN" in "funeral"...
http://www.gadzillionthings.net/Think83.html

Current Mood: creative

http://raptorclause.blogspot.com/

Someone who shares your pain.

Guaranteed to put you off your sushi.
http://skippyslist.com/2009/09/15/

Current Mood: creative

I spend 16 hours doing my labs. Two work, one doesn't.
I spend another four hours trying to fix it. Still doesn't work.
I spend three and a half hours trying to fix it. STILL doesn't work.

Class, prof comes over, changes one sign, and it works perfectly....

I never have problems of earth shaking proportions. It's always room shaking proportions. Devil is in the details.

So long as we're all writers:

Writers have FOUR patron saints: St Lucy, St Frances de Sales, John the Apostle, and Paul the Apostle (but not Apostles Ringo and George). There are also:

St Isadore of Seville, patron saint of computer users
St Eugene de Mazenod, patron saint of dysfunctional families (ZHY!)
St Maximillian Kolbe, patron saint of substance abusers (ZHY!)
St Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of desperate and impossible situations (all together now!)
St Agostina Pietrantoni, patron saint protector against sinking into poverty (ibid)
St Catherine of Alexandria, patron saint of libraries
St Christina the Astonishing, patron saint protector against insanity (too late)
St Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne, patron saint of stiff necks (ZHY!)
St Amalburga, patron saint protector against carpal tunnel syndrome (STITCH!)
St Expiditus, patron saint protector against procrastination
St Quirinus, patron saint of the obsessed

And I think Arkine was Voltaire in a former life - he drank 70 cups of coffee each day.

Quotes on writers:
"Writers aren't exactly people. They're a whole lot of people trying to be one person." (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
(Groucho Marx)

I'm feeling white and nerdy today, what can I say.

Oh, and I found cheap wedding dresses. They're made of toilet paper.
http://english.pravda.ru/photo/report/fashion-830

Current Mood: dorky

From: http://tinyurl.com/oadeku and http://tinyurl.com/okee9u

"Wall Street economists forecast that first-time claims for unemployment insurance rose to a seasonally-adjusted 555,000 last week from 550,000 the previous week, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters. The number of people remaining on the jobless benefit rolls also is expected to increase slightly, to 6.1 million from 6.09 million."

and

"Most economists expect the jobless rate to top 10 percent next year, up from its current 9.7 percent."

(I'll note here - the jobless rate in the Great Depression was 25%, so we're nowhere near that point)

WHO THE HELL BELIEVES THAT THIS IS A "RECOVERY"?

If you really, REALLY want to get pissed off at Washington, read Greg Palast's stuff. (http://www.gregpalast.com/)

***
About healthcare... if you think the Obama bill is a wonderful idea...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20090916/cm_huffpost/289064

"The Baucus Plan also discriminates against low-income Americans. In one of the most awful provisions of the plan, the "free rider" provision, Baucus taxes business $400 for each hiree who qualifies for subsidies. So this tax incentivizes businesses to not hire poor or disadvantaged workers. By the way, $400 doesn't seem like a lot until you read that it's actually "$400 multiplied by the total number of employees at the firm."

AAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!

Current Mood: cranky

Want Free Headphones?
http://www.ladygaga.com/heartbeats/
Eh, you could win...

***

http://benjaminfulford.typepad.com/
(scroll down for an english translation)

also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftAKS7XQ88U

Another "makes me wonder" sort of day...

UPDATE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQC-DkuiNes&NR=1
Ahhhhh... riiiiiggghhhtttt.... *backs away slowly*
Watch it if you dare.
Comment afterwards.

Current Mood: contemplative

Short form, there's likely going to be an Indy part 5.
Here's some titles I thought of.
Add your own.

"Indiana Jones and the Search for More Money"

"Indiana Jones and the Titanium Hip"

"Indiana Jones and the Lost Weekend in Vegas"

"Indiana Jones and the Walker of Death" (Anya's suggestion)

"Indiana Jones and the Missing Eyeglasses"

"Indiana Jones and the Blue Pill of Happiness"

"Indiana Jones and the Silence of the Lucas"

"Indiana Jones and the Lost Blankie"

"Raiders of the Old Folks Home"

"Indiana Jones and the Passing of the Hat"

"Indiana Jones and the Spanked Monkey"

Current Mood: creative

Not only have game consoles taken over our homes and our lives - now they want our brains too!

http://www.neurosky.com/

This... I have issues with this... if you can READ them it's only a short step towards WRITE/ERASE/"CORRECT"... I don't like the idea of a website being able to rewire my brain just because I looked at it... sure, that's "out there", but I could see it being done...

"Only $199!"... so far...

brrrrrrrrrr......

***

Oh, and Christianity had it's rebels who didn't want to convert from paganism...
http://tinyurl.com/q9rdcx

Current Mood: nerdy

Alright, we've all heard about how honeybees are dying off (http://www.helpthehoneybees.com/ is kind of a cute site if you want some information, and there's http://www.thebeeproject.org/ if you want something with more bite to it).
However, when I watched a special on beekeepers I noticed something -

If the culprit is a virus, they are doing NOTHING to prevent it's spread. Heck, they reuse the same hive for a new flock of bees! If it was a virus, it's still there dumbass!

This guy (http://www.evbooks.net/earth_vision_021.htm) predicted bees would be dying out in eighty years if we kept on domesticating them. Not really shocking until you realize he said it in 1923 - and it's been about 80 years.

Overall, my opinion is - free the bees to their natural habitat, work on gene splicing to make virus-resistant bees, and find the virus and wipe its ass out. Simple.

***

You might also go to: http://www.doyletics.com/mrules.shtml#MR16 for Mathern's Laws. Not a bad read, though it has nothing to do with bees.

Current Mood: nerdy

What the hell is "offensive touching and aggravated menacing"???
http://tinyurl.com/o2sbbb

Someone has Zhy beat down cold...
http://tinyurl.com/qgw58w

*looks at Arkine and shakes his head*
http://tinyurl.com/qzbh87

Its a twofer!
http://tinyurl.com/p92ezj

Kevin and Arkine should be proud...
http://tinyurl.com/lc2qwq

Babboons can count?
http://tinyurl.com/ry6esb

"It's not illegal if I'm a dumbass!"
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/pimp_hooker_catch_klyn_staff_Js4YPEcsCcxLZhAEehLhmL/1

Things I didn't want to know.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090914/lf_nm_life/us_books_work_inhumanresources/print

Current Mood: contemplative

http://preview.tinyurl.com/mu7k8w

You might change your mind when you see this.

Current Mood: bitchy

This one goes into my "Frickin' Idiot" file.
http://www.lotterypost.com/news/199858/1394206

You wanted to know about ghosts...
http://tinyurl.com/mm6p5b

Business as usual at Windows...
http://tinyurl.com/mtu58t

Weird places
http://www.pulpnoir.com/
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=469937

From http://skippyslist.com/2009/02/26/the-origins-of-biofuels/#more-1062

Since energy independence is a current in topic, and since I am all about leaping onto the bandwagon, I decided to do some poking around into biofuels. I wanted to see if I could run my car on them, if they were really as environmentally friendly as suggested, and even if they would be available in my area.

So while I was poking around I discovered that biofuels had actually been around a lot longer than I suspected. It turns out that like many innovations, several of which we take for granted nowadays, the modern concept of biofuels originated with the axis powers just before WWII. Which makes sense, I guess, because in America the first time somebody said “I want you to grow gasoline!” he got laughed at. But when a murderous dictator tells you the same thing, you’re probably going to give it the old college try.

Since Italy contained very few strategic resources during the lead-up to the War, Mussolini was worried about being able to maintain sufficient fuel supplies to keep the infrastructure functioning. Especially since his larger and more aggressive allies might not be willing to share their stockpiles if they became scarce.


And so he instructed several of the leading minds in his country to come up with alternative fuel sources, preferably ones that could be maintained indefinitely through domestic production. And so scientists got to work on the problem. In the end, it was determined that the only even remotely practical solution was to try to produce different kinds of vegetable oil, and see if any could be made to work in a modified engine.

These experiments continued once the war broke out, and for the most part, they didn’t turn up much that was useful. The closest they ever got to a functional engine was a stripped down locomotive that went about 100 yards, off of a fake diesel variant, made out of a bunch of locally grown herbs. They could actually burn it hot enough to power a small steam turbine, but not particularly well. The extraction process was prohibitively expensive, and produced a liquid that was inferior in every way to just burning coal or wood. With the added bonus of being extremely volatile.

The “spice engine” though technically a success, was a colossal waste of resources that could be ill-afforded by a country worried about impending invasion and it’s very survival. Some people believe that insane directives like this, might have helped foster the resentment, which led to his being deposed.

And in the end he was left with the epitaph of many dictators. He was a bloodthirsty psychopath. But at least he made the trains run on thyme.

Current Mood: dorky

Mexico capitulates to the drug lords
http://tinyurl.com/kw26hu

Current Mood: contemplative

HEY ARKINE! FOUND A DATING SITE FOR YOU!
http://tinyurl.com/686q66

Artisan Trap
http://fantasticcontraption.com/

Not a crack house, I swear!
http://www.houston-imports.com/dirty/dirty.html

Why you always read the fine print.
http://tinyurl.com/n6gl6b

Time to impeach Obama.
http://tinyurl.com/o7cfst

Reason #938 I like Skippy
http://skippyslist.com/2008/02/06/suprise/
http://skippyslist.com/2008/07/24/how-you-doin/
http://skippyslist.com/2008/10/22/rule-18/

Proper way to f*ck with people
http://tinyurl.com/ktqg4k

It's the End of the World... again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_anaVcCXg

Yes, it's technically an instrument...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAg5KjnAhuU

Shrew tops Rat.
http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?t=44498

"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
George Bernard Shaw

Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi.
(Excuse me. I need to see a man about a dog.)

Current Mood: contemplative

... that it's not only American Politicians who are wildly out of touch with their constituents...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090819/od_nm/us_russia_bed

I nearly fell off the chair reading this one.

****HEY ARKINE AND STITCHWITCH!****

Read this, thought of you... ;)

http://tinyurl.com/ks4hrj

Current Mood: mischievous