Man Christmas in my house was a blast this year!
I am probably the only guy on the planet who was able to give his wife geeky electronics and a household appliance and she loved both of them, even though she didn’t understand the electronics until today and the appliance was a vacuum.
It was definitely one of our better moments.
Let me explain for all of you who think I have lost my mind.
First, I also got her some diamonds.
Little diamonds, but diamonds nonetheless.
Second, I burned and turned all of her Cd’s onto her computer in mp3 format (and got her an mp3 player as well).
Then I got her a streaming media player. If you don’t know what a streaming media player is, the short version is it is a router like device that allows you to play photos, music, videos etc from your home computer wirelessly back through the player and outputs the file through our home theatre system. Poof, you can now look at all of your pictures and play all of your CD’s through the TV and surround sound. I got it working tonight and she likes it a lot. When she first opened it she kind of looked at it and with a kind of sideway look said “ Thank you honey, I love it, what is this ? What does it do”. Now she gets it and it turns out she loves it. Additional I provided her with a quality pair of headphones so she can listen to her music while she studies.
Now the vacuum.
It’s a robot.
An irobot.com “Roomba” to be exact.
Roomba link
Charge it up, let it go, feet up, eat bon bons.
That’s how you ought to do the cleaning. The appliance literally does most of the work.
Man, I am so good.
I am so slick.
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Thursday, December 28, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Thrillseeker or IDIOT ?
They say people who climb real high mountains , especially those who do it without bottled air are thrill seekers. Same goes for base jumpers, spelunkers, Para gliders, parachutists, free divers and etc. You hear the news people all the time talking about this kind of stuff being noble, heroic and assorted other adjectives and then they throw in a little "hero" action to be able to pump up the volume and make something out of it.
I am missing something here, I think.
I mean you want to risk your life climbing some impossibly high big –ass mountain and go into a zone where there is no oxygen and not take bottled air with you to breathe, fine with me. What you do is your own business I suppose. You want to explore some cave 500 feet down and twist into some impossibly small space just to say you’ve been there, OK, go for it. Same with you loony’s who want to jump off of Buildings Antennas Structures or Earth (B.A.S.E jumping) Go for it.
The thing I don’t get is why I or anyone else on the planet has to read about your exploits, rescue you when you don’t make it, hear your story on the 6 o’clock news, hear a debate about whether it is nobler to get to the summit and let you die or bring you down or any of the other invective we are subjected to because of the exploits you enjoy so much.
Personally, I don’t think any of you maniacs are someone to look up to. You are all suicidal. If you are not a soldier being ordered to do so, there is no good reason to jump out of a perfectly good airplane just to float to the ground. People who jump off of high power antennas are just stupid, not courageous. Guys who brag about climbing past other dying climbers because the other guy “Knew the risks” are just arrogant s.o.b’s who don’t deserve to breathe the same air as decent people. You can’t rescue a fellow human because that would get in your way of reaching the top ?
You are not a winner, you are not a thrill seeker, you are a loser.
I wouldn’t want to know you.
My word for you is not thrill seeker. It is idiot.
You obviously don’t understand the physics of the situation you are in and you obviously don’t understand your own physiology, no matter how much you know claim about edema and the symptoms of high altitude sickness.
Mountain climber into the no air zone? IDIOT.
Cave explorer dies in tight space 500 under the earth? IDIOT.
Base Jumper chute opens late, slams into ground? IDIOT.
You dive 350 feet down into the ocean without air, no tanks and just holding your breath?
You guessed it.
IDIOT.
You want to impress me, rescue somebody from a burning building, otherwise I don’t want to hear about it.
Why you say?
Who has the time to deal with IDIOTS?
I am missing something here, I think.
I mean you want to risk your life climbing some impossibly high big –ass mountain and go into a zone where there is no oxygen and not take bottled air with you to breathe, fine with me. What you do is your own business I suppose. You want to explore some cave 500 feet down and twist into some impossibly small space just to say you’ve been there, OK, go for it. Same with you loony’s who want to jump off of Buildings Antennas Structures or Earth (B.A.S.E jumping) Go for it.
The thing I don’t get is why I or anyone else on the planet has to read about your exploits, rescue you when you don’t make it, hear your story on the 6 o’clock news, hear a debate about whether it is nobler to get to the summit and let you die or bring you down or any of the other invective we are subjected to because of the exploits you enjoy so much.
Personally, I don’t think any of you maniacs are someone to look up to. You are all suicidal. If you are not a soldier being ordered to do so, there is no good reason to jump out of a perfectly good airplane just to float to the ground. People who jump off of high power antennas are just stupid, not courageous. Guys who brag about climbing past other dying climbers because the other guy “Knew the risks” are just arrogant s.o.b’s who don’t deserve to breathe the same air as decent people. You can’t rescue a fellow human because that would get in your way of reaching the top ?
You are not a winner, you are not a thrill seeker, you are a loser.
I wouldn’t want to know you.
My word for you is not thrill seeker. It is idiot.
You obviously don’t understand the physics of the situation you are in and you obviously don’t understand your own physiology, no matter how much you know claim about edema and the symptoms of high altitude sickness.
Mountain climber into the no air zone? IDIOT.
Cave explorer dies in tight space 500 under the earth? IDIOT.
Base Jumper chute opens late, slams into ground? IDIOT.
You dive 350 feet down into the ocean without air, no tanks and just holding your breath?
You guessed it.
IDIOT.
You want to impress me, rescue somebody from a burning building, otherwise I don’t want to hear about it.
Why you say?
Who has the time to deal with IDIOTS?
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Too bad you can't trust a cop
Too bad you can't trust a cop..... to do the right thing anymore.
I am an old fart now I guess.
I always said I didn't want to be one of those old guys who said "Back in my day..." all the time, however I am just about to become one of those guys I think.
Times are not changing so much for the better I fear. I see things around us in this day and age that I just don’t agree with. Before I go any further let me acknowledge that there have always been problems in various times in our culture and everything wasn’t always rosy like ADAM-12 and T.J. Hooker.
That being said the cops of today are just plain crazy. I see them using the maximum force possible when the minimum would have worked just as well. They shoot first now and ask questions later. Just in the past 30 days Atlanta has had a shooting of a 90 year old woman, granted she fired the first shots and injured cops, then come to find out the warrant was suspect in the first place. Apparently they lied or enhanced the circumstances in order to get a judge to sign their warrant. New York cops shot an unarmed man 50 times. One guy fired 32 rounds. He had to re-load. The guy was unarmed. It’s a damn shame.
You call them for help now and they show up like John Wayne. A couple of 22 year old square jawed iron pumper’s get out of the car all macho looking for someone’s ass to kick. You don’t just get a ticket anymore. You get as many as they can write and if you are lucky as one of my relatives were they go back to the police barracks and write a few more later on. Hands on the car turned into hands on the ground twisted behind your back until you experience pain and then they slam your head into the car and break your eardrums and your jaw. “You must have been resisting sir”. Common sense has vanished.
I had occasion to be in a county courtroom recently. It was a joke. 14 Mexicans, 3 blacks, 2 white guys. The 2 white guys had 2 charges a piece. The blacks had 3 charges a piece. The Mexicans got the dog pile. I think each one of them had 8 or 10 charges. All of these guys were charged with about the same thing. I asked a deputy later and he said essentially “ One way to keep ‘em off the streets and out of our communities”. Sad. Racist. Bigoted. True.
I asked an older sheriff about the trend I was seeing and he told me he sees it too. The young ones think it is their job to write as many tickets or citations as they possibly can. They brag about it he told me. They treat it like it is a game. He said they (young cops) know that poor people get the majority of the police calls, that they do not have any money, that the cannot afford lawyers and that the indigent public defenders won’t see them until the day of their trial if they see them then, they are assured of a conviction and it looks good on their record.
By the way, Georgia just cut the money again on what they pay public defenders.
Then the big bellied sheriff grabbed the gun and said “Son why’d you do it”.
That’s the night that the lights went out in Georgia……..
I am an old fart now I guess.
I always said I didn't want to be one of those old guys who said "Back in my day..." all the time, however I am just about to become one of those guys I think.
Times are not changing so much for the better I fear. I see things around us in this day and age that I just don’t agree with. Before I go any further let me acknowledge that there have always been problems in various times in our culture and everything wasn’t always rosy like ADAM-12 and T.J. Hooker.
That being said the cops of today are just plain crazy. I see them using the maximum force possible when the minimum would have worked just as well. They shoot first now and ask questions later. Just in the past 30 days Atlanta has had a shooting of a 90 year old woman, granted she fired the first shots and injured cops, then come to find out the warrant was suspect in the first place. Apparently they lied or enhanced the circumstances in order to get a judge to sign their warrant. New York cops shot an unarmed man 50 times. One guy fired 32 rounds. He had to re-load. The guy was unarmed. It’s a damn shame.
You call them for help now and they show up like John Wayne. A couple of 22 year old square jawed iron pumper’s get out of the car all macho looking for someone’s ass to kick. You don’t just get a ticket anymore. You get as many as they can write and if you are lucky as one of my relatives were they go back to the police barracks and write a few more later on. Hands on the car turned into hands on the ground twisted behind your back until you experience pain and then they slam your head into the car and break your eardrums and your jaw. “You must have been resisting sir”. Common sense has vanished.
I had occasion to be in a county courtroom recently. It was a joke. 14 Mexicans, 3 blacks, 2 white guys. The 2 white guys had 2 charges a piece. The blacks had 3 charges a piece. The Mexicans got the dog pile. I think each one of them had 8 or 10 charges. All of these guys were charged with about the same thing. I asked a deputy later and he said essentially “ One way to keep ‘em off the streets and out of our communities”. Sad. Racist. Bigoted. True.
I asked an older sheriff about the trend I was seeing and he told me he sees it too. The young ones think it is their job to write as many tickets or citations as they possibly can. They brag about it he told me. They treat it like it is a game. He said they (young cops) know that poor people get the majority of the police calls, that they do not have any money, that the cannot afford lawyers and that the indigent public defenders won’t see them until the day of their trial if they see them then, they are assured of a conviction and it looks good on their record.
By the way, Georgia just cut the money again on what they pay public defenders.
Then the big bellied sheriff grabbed the gun and said “Son why’d you do it”.
That’s the night that the lights went out in Georgia……..
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Soldiers coming home from war are treated like crap !
Oh man am I pissed!
Literally, I am outraged and flabbergasted and mad as hell. The movie "Network" comes to mind. At whom you may ask? Well……Lets just say the stupidity has a name but not a face this time.
Check out this link - Soldiers treated like crap , that I heard and read about on NPR, December 4th, 2006.
This is what Cindy Sheehan should be protesting.
This should not be allowed. This is criminal conduct in my mind.
This should be given the same news treatment by the liberal press that those pictures from Abu Gharib generated.
This should not be protected by top army brass. The President should appear on national television talking about this and he should be pissed off too.
Everybody involved in this mess should be booted from the military and then jailed doing hard time breaking rocks for about 20 years.
Army Officials at Fort Carson in Colorado are kicking soldiers out of the army for BS teeny tiny rule infractions instead of treating them for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). The pinheads in charge do not think it is important to follow their own rules and do not care about what they are doing to their fellow soldiers. It is way more important to worry about the training schedule and their own records than it is to have basic common concern for their fellow soldier and his mental health.
It is absolutely incredible and I am just stunned we would treat our own soldiers like this and they would think it is OK. One sergeant interviewed gave advice that was essentially to “suck it up and be a man, I went through the same thing they did and it didn't bother me”. He says they are faking. He knows more about it than the doctors. He is brilliant. He is also a criminal in my book.
This is the beginning of the article-
Soldiers Face Obstacles to Mental Health Services
by Daniel Zwerdling Morning Edition, December 4, 2006 · The military promises to help soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with emotional problems, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But an NPR investigation at one base in Colorado finds that soldiers aren't getting the services they need. (see Soldiers treated like crap )
And this is only the beginning and trust me , is not one-tenth of the eventual story.
They are denied the time to get to appointments. They are denied consults with doctors. They are denied timely care and made to wait weeks to see anyone because the facilities cannot handle all the men and women who need help. They are treated as outcasts. If they go to the doctor without some pinheads permission , even if this pinhead knows they have been diagnosed with PTSD or any one of a dozen other issues, they are declared AWOL (absent with out leave) and the military police comes to arrest them at their homes or at the doctors office. They may not see private doctors. They are ostracized. NO one talks to them, no one looks at them, they beat their wives and children, they turn to drugs and drink to make the pain go away, and NO ONE CARES! Basically their attitude is "too bad, so sad, get back in line you loser!!”
So in order to get rid of them, even if they were diagnosed with any kind of disorder, including PTSD, they are literally kicked out of the military on trumped up miniscule charges, given a dishonorable discharge and thrown out into the streets. Then because some pinhead Colonel or some self important moron ignorant General signed the papers kicking them out on an administrative discharge, they are also denied after military care, because they were “losers who couldn’t hack it”.
No treatment, no counseling, no medicine, no promotions, no care, and then a black stain on their record which denies them basic after military care at any military facility worldwide. All of this because the clinics are under funded, understaffed, and not a priority on this base and probably many others.
AAARRGGGGHHHH ! I can't believe this!!! What a load of crap. Somebody blows their own brains out right next to you and gets their brains on your face from the gunshot and you are supposed to not only not be affected, you should just say “Sucks to be you” and go to lunch.
Whistle while you work.........., BLAM, brains in your cornflakes, no problem. Happy go lucky me!
I want to see everybody in charge of this, sent to jail for criminal mistreatment of American Soldiers and American citizens. They prosecuted American soldiers for alleged mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners, these jerk offs should have the book thrown at them too for mistreating American soldiers. They should not be leading American combat soldiers into the bathroom, let alone into a war.
My wife is a nurse. If she did this, she'd be prosecuted and fined and jailed and would never be able to nurse again.
These clowns are not competent enough to train dogs to piss on my lawn!
Everybody involved in this should go to JAIL.
My opinion? Yes. Extreme. No. If it was my son and this happened to him, Jail would be a light punishment for these morons. I'd love to have 5 or 10 minutes alone with a few of these idiots.
Then they could see what PTSD was all about and they may understand it completely, because I think they may experience it first hand.
-bigmike
Literally, I am outraged and flabbergasted and mad as hell. The movie "Network" comes to mind. At whom you may ask? Well……Lets just say the stupidity has a name but not a face this time.
Check out this link - Soldiers treated like crap , that I heard and read about on NPR, December 4th, 2006.
This is what Cindy Sheehan should be protesting.
This should not be allowed. This is criminal conduct in my mind.
This should be given the same news treatment by the liberal press that those pictures from Abu Gharib generated.
This should not be protected by top army brass. The President should appear on national television talking about this and he should be pissed off too.
Everybody involved in this mess should be booted from the military and then jailed doing hard time breaking rocks for about 20 years.
Army Officials at Fort Carson in Colorado are kicking soldiers out of the army for BS teeny tiny rule infractions instead of treating them for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). The pinheads in charge do not think it is important to follow their own rules and do not care about what they are doing to their fellow soldiers. It is way more important to worry about the training schedule and their own records than it is to have basic common concern for their fellow soldier and his mental health.
It is absolutely incredible and I am just stunned we would treat our own soldiers like this and they would think it is OK. One sergeant interviewed gave advice that was essentially to “suck it up and be a man, I went through the same thing they did and it didn't bother me”. He says they are faking. He knows more about it than the doctors. He is brilliant. He is also a criminal in my book.
This is the beginning of the article-
Soldiers Face Obstacles to Mental Health Services
by Daniel Zwerdling Morning Edition, December 4, 2006 · The military promises to help soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with emotional problems, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But an NPR investigation at one base in Colorado finds that soldiers aren't getting the services they need. (see Soldiers treated like crap )
And this is only the beginning and trust me , is not one-tenth of the eventual story.
They are denied the time to get to appointments. They are denied consults with doctors. They are denied timely care and made to wait weeks to see anyone because the facilities cannot handle all the men and women who need help. They are treated as outcasts. If they go to the doctor without some pinheads permission , even if this pinhead knows they have been diagnosed with PTSD or any one of a dozen other issues, they are declared AWOL (absent with out leave) and the military police comes to arrest them at their homes or at the doctors office. They may not see private doctors. They are ostracized. NO one talks to them, no one looks at them, they beat their wives and children, they turn to drugs and drink to make the pain go away, and NO ONE CARES! Basically their attitude is "too bad, so sad, get back in line you loser!!”
So in order to get rid of them, even if they were diagnosed with any kind of disorder, including PTSD, they are literally kicked out of the military on trumped up miniscule charges, given a dishonorable discharge and thrown out into the streets. Then because some pinhead Colonel or some self important moron ignorant General signed the papers kicking them out on an administrative discharge, they are also denied after military care, because they were “losers who couldn’t hack it”.
No treatment, no counseling, no medicine, no promotions, no care, and then a black stain on their record which denies them basic after military care at any military facility worldwide. All of this because the clinics are under funded, understaffed, and not a priority on this base and probably many others.
AAARRGGGGHHHH ! I can't believe this!!! What a load of crap. Somebody blows their own brains out right next to you and gets their brains on your face from the gunshot and you are supposed to not only not be affected, you should just say “Sucks to be you” and go to lunch.
Whistle while you work.........., BLAM, brains in your cornflakes, no problem. Happy go lucky me!
I want to see everybody in charge of this, sent to jail for criminal mistreatment of American Soldiers and American citizens. They prosecuted American soldiers for alleged mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners, these jerk offs should have the book thrown at them too for mistreating American soldiers. They should not be leading American combat soldiers into the bathroom, let alone into a war.
My wife is a nurse. If she did this, she'd be prosecuted and fined and jailed and would never be able to nurse again.
These clowns are not competent enough to train dogs to piss on my lawn!
Everybody involved in this should go to JAIL.
My opinion? Yes. Extreme. No. If it was my son and this happened to him, Jail would be a light punishment for these morons. I'd love to have 5 or 10 minutes alone with a few of these idiots.
Then they could see what PTSD was all about and they may understand it completely, because I think they may experience it first hand.
-bigmike
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