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07/11/2008 16:26 #44932

Here on the crapper...
Category: stuff
So my phone starts yelling at me he second I sit down to issue my contribution to the local land fll in the form of long tues of nitrates an low and behold I've been recording audio for like 20 minutes. I don't know what's in the recrding, but I have to delete it since its a wav file and is using up my whole device drive. But, before I do I thought I might just upload this static and pocket noise to pauls server so that the world would never have to forget what being in my pocket was like in 2008
tinypliny - 07/11/08 18:59
The question is, where is the file?

Oh, and loving the new Burrito avatar. Megan is awesome! :)
paul - 07/11/08 18:52
I bet the file was too big if it filled up your phone entire drive.

07/10/2008 11:42 #44918

My New Picture
Category: family
Ok, I can be really pushy.... er, am.

I've been trying to get meg to use Photoshop to touch up her digital images, but I think my zeal has turned her off to using it, but the ohter day she sent me the image that is my pic that she made with Image Ready.

I love burritos... yeah.
imk2 - 08/26/08 15:13
yeah, this journal totally doesn't make sense anymore. you suck tony.
paul - 07/10/08 11:57
You should add the picture to this journal entry because when people look back you may have changed your avatar and it won't make sense.

06/11/2008 09:35 #44612

RISK! Band
Category: nerd
I'd like to have a game of RISK! tonight at my house (GOOGLE - 244 Sanders Road, Buffalo, New York 14216) The game will start at 8:00 to allow the babies a chance to fall asleep, there will be beers, chips and well.. RISK! There will/should/can be some Rockband between turns for the ADD kid in you too!


I know this is a little impromptu but really how much preparation does beer and your RISK! 'A' game take to get ready?

There's only 4 extra slots, and I'll only go forward with it if at least 2 of you peeps sign up by 6:00pm. If RISK! is a bust I guess I'll be resigned to XBOX Live Wednesday.

I'm calling the blue pieces. Uh, sign up by replying to this post (Meggy you have to sign up too since other will be calling their armies colors by posting replies and it's only fair).

WARNING: I uh, get a lil silly when I play the RISK! Tonight I'll be donning the personage of the Baron, should the RISK! commence.

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I'll leave you with a quote from his lordship:

"The armies of Anthonia will march on this eve, and the blood of her foes will flow in rivulets down the plastic faces of those who dare appose her. Avast! yon heritic! May Anthoinain steel hurry you to a meeting with your heathen maker!"

--Baron Clubfoot Von Bictchburg Master Sargent Domo Lord and Vassel of Our Lords Lands of the Raging Blue Solider, Her Majesty's Anthonia
enknot - 06/11/08 18:55
Oooh, something came up and it looks like this battle will have to be postponed. It is not cancelled! I'll repost this request at a later date (I'm going out of town for a week come Monday, so it'll be for at least a week). I'm sorry to let you down estrip. I promise it'll be better next time.
enknot - 06/11/08 17:05
JK saved the day. Meggie's out!? (I know!) I guess she's been having a rough day, but game is still on!
I'll see you guys, and who ever else decides to jump in at 8:00.
drew - 06/11/08 16:52
So is the game on or off? If it's on, I call yellow.

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier."

- Kiplings the Young British Soldier
jon - 06/11/08 16:31
I call BLACK!

Also, when I win, I would like some form of official (e:strip) acknowledgment. =P
enknot - 06/11/08 15:16
Maybe I'm just loosing faith, but it's lookin' kinda grim at 3:16pm... I guess I'll have to save my world conquest for another day.
janelle - 06/11/08 13:49
I am signing (e:Drew) up to play with you all. He's on the road driving home from NJ, but I called him b/c I knew he would love to play. He said he's definitely going over to your place tonight to dominate!

Not me. I can't stand the nastiness that seems inevitable in this game. Have fun backstabbing one another ;)
fing - 06/11/08 13:06
Call me crazy but I have never played RISK. Tonight is not the night to start though for me.

04/28/2008 09:48 #44166

Controversy is sure to follow...
Category: humanist
Ok...

I know that my writing often strays off topic during it's course to finish line, but ultimately I hope at least that it gets there.

Might I point out the category of this posting. I know the postings I have under that banner are typically a bit numbing, I hope that this posting will enliven you all to the point of frantic scandal.

As quickly as I can.. the anecdote:

I was coming home from a busted bachelor party and had on NPR in a rare state of podlessness when I caught the headlines to what will describe this next image. Please allow your mind to wonder what this image could be of weather it exists, and what it means to you even if it does

What is that thang?
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I'll tell you shortly, but first, answer this question in your head before proceeding. No, really answer it. Write it down in a notepad window or on paper (if you're feeling like a Flintstone, PS. The quickest way to boot notepad without touching the mouse is to hit window key + r, then type notepad and hit enter).

Think of the top 5 problems the world faces today. I'll give you some space so that my answers to this question don't spoil what you're coming up with...



















Ok here are my answers to that.

1. Overpopulation : I know, I know. Until recently you all have been only ever greeted by the mug of my drooler since she popped out seven months ago since last week, so I'm guilty of the worst crime, but the absolute worse thing you can do for the planet is make a new human for the world to have to support. It's hard fact to face as a human, but it's true. I won't get into why I decided to reproduce, maybe we can talk about that in a different post or in a response, but do some research. Nothing costs the world more resources than it's smartest creature reproducing. All this creature really has to offer is it's thoughts and those have just as much of a habit of screwing things up as the do for fixing things. In a nut shell, more humans means the world needs to produce more food, shelter (not much of a problem there's tons of space.. for now) water for it's life forms. Not just any water, but clean water that we can drink (try drinking salt water when you're thirsty young Skywalker... you will die). Which brings me to the next problem.

2. Clean Water: We've heard about this for along assed time too, and though most of our planet is covered in it, there's not enough of it to satisfy the needs of humanities needs. We don't just use it to drink, we use it for every thing. None the least is growing crops to eat (and I know I'm speeding along here, but) that brings us to the next one.

3. Food: How do we currently feed 6 billion peoples every friggin day? The answer is that we don't. This is why chubby assed Sally Struthers can cry in between shots of a kid that would be much better off it the camera man would just share a bite of the sandwich you know he had that day, but food is really hard to come by for most of the worlds population. This and most of these problems really don't effect us as humans since we're Americans, and we don't have to deal with the very poor class of person who cannot even afford homes and live in the streets to be squished by the reckless rich in their sleep (thanks (e:tinypliny) for that story, which btw ends with that rich dude never even being prosecuted, but I digress), though this next issue is one that no on on the planet is free from or can disagree with (I hope, at this point) and that is ...

4. The energy crisis : Ok, fossil fuel is expensive, finite, and corrosive to the limited amount of space that we have to live in (limited in comparison to the amount of reality there is, space, infinity etc, and how much of it we can occupy without dying or bringing something that can sustain us, a space ship for instance... don't let that last bit scare you off yet though, it's going to get really good soon). However, it's uses out strip the possibility of omitting it from our lives out right. We desperately need a new way of collecting/controlling energy that's not finite or destructive and one should exist since we understand that energy and matter cannot be created or destroyed it can only change forms. We just need a form that's not worsening the next issue.


5. The Carbon debt : I know you've heard it all before, but I'll explain it quickly and shortly. A byproduct of energy is carbon which traps the suns rays and is raising the temperature of world overall by a few degrees, which to the common man means nothing until you watch this youtube video that will probably be the subject of summer blockbusters after we run out of superheros and Saturday morning cartoons. Just check out the video I've babbled enough here:

[b]Part One of Five[b/


Ok, we're finally here. Every phase of humanities existence is marked by some technological age that pushes the capiblites of humanity to change in ways that makes all other way until that point pale in comparison, we mark them in ages(Stone Age, Bronze Age, ...Industrial Age, Information Age ). Currently we are in the information age and it's coming swiftly to a close, but not without leaving behind a world in many ways better, and quite a few more worse...

Ok go read this and come back amazed. I won't pretend I can do as good a job reporting as an NPR writer:

Spain Runs Europe's First Commercial Solar Plant

Yeah, It is a solar power plant, and it's real and capable of not only producing enough energy from solar power, but a byproduct of the energy's production is clean water, which can bring water to areas of the world that were until now to expensive to aerate, which could stem world hunger or at least this corn/rice/wheat crisis that's coming from the ethanol semi solution.

II think that as this technology spreads we'll be entering the Solar Age, and possibly a second Renaissance, but I'm getting all romantic. I really want to know what you peeps think...

Well, at any rate... happy grand theft auto 4 day, and may this uncontrollable source of free energy make fighting for finite resources I mean crime, I mean a war on terror a thing of the past...




fellyconnelly - 04/29/08 08:55
first of all, i would like to thank you for the windows + r + notepad thingie. awesome.
secondly - humans suck and we are ruining everything, but go spain!
metalpeter - 04/28/08 18:03
Humans are the worst thing that ever happened to this planet. The thing that I find interesting is that as us humans pump all the bad stuff into the air, I think that it enhances the global warming that would happen on its own. It is very possible that Fl, LA, TX, and some of CA get flooded off the map and the ocean moves to Buffalo as an example will kill off a lot of people. If some farms turn into desserts more mass deaths. But see all these people dying is good for the earth cause there will be less poultion. At some time the earth will become healthy it is just a matter of if there will be humans left I think there will be. There is a balance in nature. It gets hotter so when a huricaine happens it gets stronger and it can kill more people. Off course there is a randomness to it all and maybe the places that are overcrowed won't get wipped out. The thing that is stupid is that we sell cars to china. That was a bad idea they all rode bikes if they all drive a car I can't imagine what it would do to the earth, I really can't. I'm not sure when I first heard of solar power but it was a long time ago and it is so underused. When I first heard about it there where panels that could collect ultravilot light meaning that when it was overcast and cloudy you still got the light that we can't see and gain power. I heard someone on the radio suggest why not set up pannels in the the desert, that is a good idea. Oh by the way great post by the way.
drew - 04/28/08 12:38
Sorry, no controversy: I agree with you. I even knew what the tower was before I scrolled down. My only disagreement is with your "second renaossamce" line. I think at best, this technology will only keep things from getting worse.

For a interesting take on these big problems and how Christians are called to respond to them, read Everything Must Change.
:::link:::

02/19/2008 14:20 #43393

What the cow!
Category: nerd
Ok that could have been, Holy Cow, but I think I'm going to coin a new exploitive. I'm at work looking for some you tube videos to finish up a project and I came across this.

(e:terry) and I were talking about this stuff just the other day. We made wolves in to puppies and look at what we're doing to the friggin' cows

buff assed cow


yummy.
megan - 02/20/08 11:49
man. those cows are tough. i wonder if they finish off a nice romantic buff cow evening with a tall glass of blood milk...
jenks - 02/20/08 09:49
:( :(
metalpeter - 02/19/08 19:17
First of all that is pretty interesting. What I want to know is when will they start doing this with humans to create "Super Armies". This is the real science you see used in so many movies and even some video games. Why not use this on some other animal and then drop those animals off in a country you don't like and let them attack all the people (like with tigers or Elephants or some all ready powerful animal that just needs some pushing). It is really amazing what they can do, to bad it is just so we can have better meat instead of something more worthy.
fing - 02/19/08 15:25
I guess my job is alright after all.
james - 02/19/08 15:12
I was just reading about this.
Check out pictures of Whippet dogs with an induced myostatin deficiency

:::link:::

and one comparing different study groups of whippets

:::link:::
mrmike - 02/19/08 14:27
Nothing like a good piece of tail.