Ohh lets do a drunken post

yeah, so wife is away for the evening and I am 7 shipyards and one double jack an dcoke into some web surfying when the great idea of making a brilliant blog post hits... so here we are.

so far I see idiots on the Nat'l geo tv. bitching about driving at high altitutued and commercials about genetial herpes :s oh the lack of o2. you fuckin' pussy.

i am wondering what the facts of terrorism are and after i google it i come up with:

- Terrorists Practice a Radical Form of Islam: Twice the murdering, half the bathing
.- They enjoy blowing themselves up, and we enjoy blowing them up. You’d think we would get along better.
- Their favorite military hero is Napoleon Blownapart.
- They will riot and kill each other over a few stupid cartoons. We should make more of those.- Terrorists want to sneak explosive liquids into airplanes. If you see any children on your flight, tackle them and confiscate their juiceboxes.
- Our latest intelligence indicates the Koran is really just a bomb-making manual.
- If a guy is being over-sensitive to racial profiling, he may be a terrorist. Strangle him with your shoelaces just in case.
- Terrorists act all hurt if you draw Mohammed, flush a Koran, or bomb Mecca. What babies.

So today was a good day. rode with bro and Dula' 21 miles....oh wifey just got home I should publish now....
latah....

A World of Hulks

Imagine a world where everyone was like the Incredible Hulk. Crazy i know. Everyone running around saying shit like;

'don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when i'm angry.'

This crazy idea popped into my head after reading a story over at the NewScientist web site about a gamma ray burst that is/was directed and coming towards Earth. Apparently on March 19 some astronomers using NASAs Swift x-ray telescope and the Optical Ultraviolet Telescope saw a record 4 bursts of gamma-rays.

'Gamma-rays bursts are thought to be caused when massive, spinning stars collapse to form black holes and spew out jets of gas at nearly the speed of light. These send gamma rays our way, along with visible light produced where the jet heats up surrounding gas.' -Rachel Courtland NS

The two NS stories are HERE and HERE. And if Marvel Comics has any this to do with it we may all be needing some purple pants and anger management classes.

Origin of the Hulk

Lance Returns

It seems that Lance Armstrong will be coming out of cycling retirement and riding again. This is very exciting.

Here are some stories about it:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/09/armstrong.returns/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=6271

http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=ap-jimlitke-090908&prov=ap&type=lgns

http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=reu-armstrongdc&prov=reuters&type=lgns

It seems his main mission is to raise HUGE cash for cancer. The second mission is to prove that at 37 he IS the fucking MAN!.

He will probably ride for Astana and with Levi and Alberto on the team, maybe Hincapie will make a jump who knows, but it is likely to be one of the strongest teams ever. Shit even if Lance were to suck ass he'd still rake in big cash for the sponser, teams, Tour and cancer. It is a no lose situation.

http://www.bicycling.com/article/0,6610,s1-3-623-17832-1,00.html

SlingShot Thought -9-8-08

So I am sleeping and I have this thought about politics and vice presidential candidates. I'm sure it's not a new idea but one to re-state anyway.

Why exactly do the Presidential candidates get to pick their own veep? The whole process of the campaign is just a big long job interview. Shouldn't the guy who comes in second become the VP?

Doesn't that make sense logically? I mean currently we have two real contenders running. Each one pretty much represents one side or the other. Collectively most of the voters will be voting for either one guy other the other.

The candidates always say they will work with the other side to get past partisan politics. I think it would be a great kick in the ass if say Obama said something like ' And if I win, I will take on John McCain as my Vice President.' or vise versa. It may really unify the government and people.

Wasn't this the way in the past? Someone with a better knowledge of US history help me out here.

****I found the answer***

The Constitution originally provided that the presidential candidate receiving the second largest number of electoral votes be declared vice-president; this method of selection was superseded by that prescribed in the 12th Amendment, ratified in 1804. The vice-president is chosen for the same term and in the same manner as the president; if, however, no candidate for the vice-presidency receives a majority of the electoral votes, the election is thrown not into the House of Representatives, as with the presidential office, but into the Senate, which then chooses by a majority vote one of the two leading candidates.

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I like the original way better.

Workin' Man

Yeah, I finally got a field day!

This past week a a co-worker and I went to a site on Cottage Street in Bar Harbor (pronounced, Bah-Ha-bah) to conduct a soil gas survey. The picture is of me using a hammer drill to make a hole through the asphalt; And that hammer drill kicks like a friggin' mule I tell ya! *side note* Once thing about B.H. is that in addition to all the tourists there are also a lot of hippie kids with fat bank accounts and rich parents who just hang out all summer and smoke pot. Annoying, at least take a shower. oh and petruli oil is fucking rank. *anyway..*

Since we were making holes so close to underground pipes we vacumed out the hole with that shopvac and pvc pipe down about four feet. Then insert the steel rods and turn on the PID to check for gasoline vapor. The whole deal worked slick as shit. A little bit physical, but it was better than doing paper work. I've got to say too, that the data was good and the methodology for the assessment of vapors solid.

So I did that at two sites last week and hopefully laid the ground work for more of these types of jobs at the company.
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While I'm here and writing; notice that I added a music download to the right side bar. Feel free to download any of the music that I put up there. It is my brothers band and the songs are from a CD they made a while back. He thought it was pretty cool that I could starting spreading his stuff via the webs. Ill have to add a link for him once he gets something up.

I also decided to add a PayPal donate button. I figure I might as well start pimpin'. Why not? Beside if you really like the music or my wittings you can throw some spare change this way.

Fishbone!

Fishbone played at the Asylum in Portland last night. Guess who went? Yep, ME!, and brother (D)and semi-brother (C). A GREAT SHOW, definately in my Top 5 Best Live Show ever! Good music. I can't really say too much. Either you know Fishbone -or you don't. Typically, music people know.

The crowd was realtivley small but full of energy. Ill talk with D&C to try and get a song list put together. I also got some short video clips, Ill attempt to get those to my youtube page later this week.

ROCK ON!

Turkeys

T-day dinner is fattening up right now.

Wife and I headed over to the Little Alasks Farm today to pick up a load of meats for the next month or so. When we arrived we noticed all the turkeys out front (pic). It turns out, as we thought, that these birds are fattening up for Thanksgiving Day meals. So, OF COURSE we put an order in for one of these fine looking birds.

The LAF is only about 20 miles from where we live and provides natural grass feed beef, chicken, pork and other items (unpasturized milk, bread, butter, eggs). The meat is some of the best I have ever had. It cooks faster and tastes better than any crap you may get at your local supermarket. It is well worth the extra cost and benefits the small farm and butcher. You should try it.

Little Alaska Farm 222 Leeds Junction Road Wales, ME 04280 (207) 933-5277 littleafarm2@juno.com

Cycling and a 'lil Geology

This morning was another beautiful day in Vacationland to ride my bicycle to work. The photo here I took on my way in this morning. It is a view looking west at the Presumpscot River, down stream of the falls.

Commuting Stats:
Distance (miles): 14.41
Time: 49 mins. 17 secs.
Average Speed: 17.5 mph

For the the the geology nerds. The geology of the area is fairly interesting. The soil are blue-gray marine clays of the Presumpscot Formation. Very typical of coastal Maine. The rocks are WAY more interesting. Silurian to Ordovician Age Hutchins Corner Formation. A flaggy blueish to purplish gray biotite quartz plagioclase granofels with greenish-gray interbeds of calc silicate. Migmatic pegmatite layers commonly interbeded with the host rock, conforming to the bedding. There are also some unmapable pelitic schist layers.

ROCK ON.

Weekend in Review

This past weekend was a good one. On Saturday I went up to the gun show in Augusta. It was pretty much the same as the ones I've been to in the past. Men, guns, ammo, knives. Maximum testosterone. After the fun was over the remainder of the day was spent with Wife taking care of the usual chores and shopping.

Sunday I got the urge to start work on repainting the house trim. It's in serious need of the work and I have been putting it off for about 2 too many seasons. I managed to get the front 25 feet or so completely scrapped down. There was a little mildew so I sprayed a ~20% bleach and water solution on it, let set for a minute and wiped clean. I also removed one small piece of 1"x3" and got about half of it painted with primer. I should be able to have the rest primed tomorrow and the whole section painted on Wednesday. After that it's off to the back side. Gotta get done by mid-September, and by the my deltoids will be RIPPED!

Party on.