tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49156112181121744492011-11-27T19:04:55.480-06:00Commentary on life and the world. Written with the hope that there will be a world left after those in power today have gone.Alienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03531941446653712008noreply@blogger.comBlogger2571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915611218112174449.post-69537184065229091492011-04-19T00:40:00.001-05:002011-04-19T00:40:12.143-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Atlas Shrugged, originally uploaded by tioguerra. banana fanna

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Okay.Here's what we're going to do.Starting Monday 7 Jan. 2008, we're going to buy up all the grocery store tabloid companies. Then we're going to have the staffs of those books pore over the internet and take all the copy of stuff said about Sen. Obama and edit each item into its own news story and just print that from now on.I guarantee you there is enough misinformation out there about Barack

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I had a friend in high school who had a problem with my choice of music. My music choices were never "black enough" for him. He called me a traitor for attending a John Denver or Hall & Oates concert. So we reached a point where I just didn't tell him what I was doing. So I guess it was some time during our senior year I was in a record store and a girl we both knew saw whatever record it was

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For a while now I had been using a pair of Sony clip style headphones...the kind with the little colored face plates. Well interchangeable face plates are out of style these days. So I was in the headphone section and I saw these Panasonic RP-HV21Portable EarDrops Earbud Headphones (Black) and noticed from the packaging that they had a better range for frequency response (10hz - 25,000hz) than

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Pink and Healthier, originally uploaded by ShutterCat7. My attempt at making pink lemonade with the new Emergen-C Pink Lemonade flavored supplement. I used about a tablespoon, maybe a little more, of agave nectar because

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It's a compound type of pressure. It is more than peer pressure. The person is not married and not involved romantically with anyone. Then the phone rings and during the course of the conversation, the person on the other end asks how their love life is. When the response is, "I'm not seeing anyone right now," then the concerned person begins to voice the concern.If it's not a phone call it's

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“...that's what you get for not having an education. -- William Atherton, Real Genius, 1985” “...You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq -- John Kerry, 2006” As of December 20th, 2006 I have been a college grad. for 20 years. Time flies

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A while back I ran across a woman who actually thinks that the United States should hold off on space exploration until the lions' share of Federal funding goes to feed and take care of all the disadvantaged folks in the country. As I tried to deboggle my brain I thought she said that we should dismantle NASA, and JPL and move the pipe filling those coffers over to some social programs...that we

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The Parrot A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to "clean up" the bird's vocabulary. Finally,

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I am talking here about categories of crime that have emerged in the past 40 years or so due to the exploitation of honorable acts. There are certain motions and actions that people used to go through as a matter of habit because they were told it was the right thing to do. I don't know if it's just the increase in population has given us more people thinking up ways to do evil, but now you have

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The Other Jack Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.Continuing my ice-agedly slow progress through this bottle. I was having a Canadian moment.

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Rajma with Naan Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.My solution for workplace food thievery is only leaving "foreign" frozen entrees in the freezer. I figure anyone trying to snatch people's lunches won't grab anything he or she can't recognize or pronounce and won't take the time to read the ingredients on the back.It's worked so far.

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Okay in broad strokes, Adam issues a fool's directive telling Lilith that he's going to be on top. She says screw that and books.So we're all on the "same page," Adam is an idiot.If I had been there it would have been Ride'em CowgirlReverse CowgirlWhat's the point of dictating shit when all it's going to do is end up with you having blue balls?History (the myth) also tells us that she walked out

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If an hour has passed and you still cannot smell anything but your cologne or perfume, you are probably using too much.

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Consulting the Book Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.We did an Egyptian theme for this year. So I bought a mask and some gold cloth and had the headdress put together (Mom does a better job with ye olde sewing machine than I ever have been able to) and used the same robe/gown from last year. I believe we won again this year. Next year I have to come up with something less warm. It was HOT in

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The restroom is not the arena for male bonding. Since you are obviously not bleeding or otherwise in need of immediate medical attention, please SHUT UP! FINISH YOUR BUSINESS! AND LEAVE!

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Six Eyes Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.I got contacts a couple of weeks ago. The doctor informed me that given my eyesight and age they are able to correct for distance but not reading.So I had been walking around with six eyes for a while, struggling with the reading glasses and being annoyed at the way I was having to interact with the screen and page. Well now it looks like I am going to

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I have decided that what I need is to be divorced. It appears that you get more respect after 40 being divorced vs. being single. No one asks if you're still divorced. But people can't help tacking the word still in front of single.So will all interested ladies please respond in the comment area with a resume and photo.

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I was watching the Ghost Whisperer episode "No Safe Place" which aired on Friday 10/19. Melinda tries to help a ghost who was a stalking victim and ends up being the target of the stalker. So after she exposes the stalker, with the help of the ghost, he commits suicide and comes after her. As he's about to reach out to grab her a pair of woman's arms reaches and grabs him and drags him down into

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After being married for 44 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said, "Honey, 44 years ago we had a cheap apartment, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 25-year-old gal.Now I have a $500,000 house, $45,000 car, nice big bed and plasma screen TV, but I'm sleeping with a 65-year-old woman. It seems to me

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Am I the only one who has gotten tired of watching Cuba Gooding Jr. in Michael Jordan's underwear? This retarded advertising gimmick was obviously the little darling of someone. It was old when it first hit the airwaves. It's annoying. It's time to move on.

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You unscrew the cap off the bottle. Shake out two or three capsules. Re-cap the bottle. Take a glass of water in one hand. Bring the other hand with the Valerian Root capsules in it up to your mouth. Slip into a coma from the stench.

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Anyone want to loan me $1.5Million for this?

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For those of you unwashed of palate, this is a Gyro. When you go to a Mediterranean deli you'll see an upright rotisserie broiler with a spinning cone of meat and someone holds a half-moon shaped pan up to it and slices off some of what they're cooking and that gets put onto a pita, slathered with a cucumber/yogurt sauce called Tzadziki, then garnished with onions, tomatoes and a little parsley.

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I'm watching Ghost Whisperer and Professor Payne, played by comedian Jay Mohr, and Melinda are walking towards an elevator. A security guard tells them that the elevator is being inspected by campus security. Payne pulls out his wallet, opens it up like one of those police ID/Badge wallets says "It's okay, I'm Rick Payne Anthropology of the Occult. I'll take it from here."

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I served Gyros at the Mediterranean Festival this weekend. I don't think I have heard a single word pronounced in so many different ways by so many different people in such a short period of time:Eero (actual Greek pronunciation)HeroGeroJyroHyroGyroThere were even arguments between people when both had it wrong.

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I got contact lenses today. I haven't worn contacts since 1981. This is an attempt to save money since I won't be having to pay an obscene amount of money for frames since I wear eyeglass frames in the 50s and the cheap ones are usually too small or look too prophylactic. So this should shave about $100 a year off the cost of eyewear.I remember when I was a teenager and had them before my mom

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I was watching Bill Maher this weekend and he was talking about howeverything has gotten down to taking pills to fix health issues. He quoted a study that said that exercise was just as effective for depression as Paxil and Xanax. Then he said, in the tone of one of those drug announcers, "Ask your doctor if getting off your ass is right for you."

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Cost Cutting Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.I paid $1.49 for 100 5"x8" standard rule index cards. The goal here is to produce a 3"x5" card ruled portrait for hPDA use. The specialty 3"x5" cards run around $3 for a pack of 100. By cutting these down I was able to make 200 of what I needed for half the cost. To top it off it seems extremely difficult to find the portrait ruled cards at the

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There was talk on the Science channel about people being able to have a machine in their homes that manufactures objects based on some kind of description file and that people could email each other files to build things. I wonder how long after we have that in place that people are going to start emailing the finger to folks that piss them off or that they don't like.

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Eastpak is running a campaign on their website featuring zombies posing with their bags.http://www.e-eastpak.com/site/eastpak.php

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How to make a girl feel special: "...well she's not a Borg, she's not a hologram, and she's not dead. I think you may have found the perfect woman."

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Okay the One-Sentence Blurb:Wes Craven does Office Space!Gruesome!Hilarious!Unpredictable!I just finished watching The Janitor. I laughed all the way through this movie! It is non-stop outrageous horror comedy and doesn't follow "the formula" of horror movies. The story will go in directions you are not going to expect. I think the production would work equally well as a play in front of a live

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I don't think she's fat. I just think that if she's going to go out buck ass nekkid from the waist down she should use the same makeup on both ends of herself.

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A restaurant worker was caught stomping garlic.This is by no means the first nor the most outrageous food worker abuse of decency that has occurred. Makes you wonder what the food went through to get to your plate when they set it in front of you.There was a reality tv/exposé show on a few years ago that showed such offending behavior such as a cook wringing the soup out of his unclubbed Samson's

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When you're at the checkout buying your new SDHC flash memory card and the clerk says, "8 giga bites. That's rediculous." (deliberately misspelled for accent and effect.)I figured Fry's Electronics is a step up from working at a convenience store. So I didn't want to rain on his new-found affluence.Silence is sometimes a better course of action than opinion when serving customers.

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A common problem solvedAdd to My Profile | More Videos

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Case for your banana.What if it's too big?

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Chapter 4: Taxicab ConfessionsSo we're on the couch and I'm holding her and The Ex asks me my opinion on when foreplay crosses the line into fornication. Now she had this way of looking at the bedroom where she wanted to do heavy petting/foreplay right up to the point where it's time to make things, er, more deeply gratifying. Then she expected me to snatch us away from the flames, literally to "

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If only I had known it would be this easy.hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It will reduce the volume of spam by 30-50% .In return Id like to ask you to put a link to my site on the index page of your site. The link will be small and your visitors will

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I have to say this is the first time in years that the Sci-Fi Channel has impressed me with one of their made-for-TV movies. The Black Hole (2006) stars Kristy Swanson (BtVS Movie; The Chase) and Judd Nelson (St. Elmo's Fire; New Jack City) and is a gripping and entertaining tale about a high energy physics experiment gone awry.All of the stuff that makes their movies usually suck was absent. The

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It probably does mean more to women than men on the whole.Most guys are losers. They're so busy chasing sex and have no clue how to appreciate what they have. That is until maybe they've been left alone several times over.When I kiss a woman I want to take her to the point where we forget where we are and lose track of time. I see it as a form of intimacy as important as all the others. When I'm

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This is further proof why the United States is further becoming a nation of pussies. We're obviously breeding them. I thought this a couple of years ago when the kid didn't want me to pull a couple of briers out of his foot. But wanted mommy to anesthetize it first.God help us when the little boys get a bit older and someone questions the size of their wee-wees.From the poll it looks like we're

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Am I the only one who feels a draft? H/T: Stranger

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In Genesis the original "Great Commission" was Be fruitful, multiply, fill the Earth and subdue it.Instead what we humans seem to have done is multiply our possessions, overfill the Earth and subdue one another.

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Chapter 3: Slip of the TongueSo I had been dating The Ex about 2 months and I had set a lunch appt./lunch date/whatever with a woman friend for the next day. So I told her about it and she seemed okay with it. I mean she didn’t ask me a boatload of questions about my friend. So I kissed her goodnight and was walking across the parking lot to my car and she calls after me: “Remember. No tongue.”

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When the Cold War "ended" the situation in Russia was pretty bad. People tried to wax philosophically that it was the burden of capitalism that was too much for them or some such nonsense. Since that time we seem to have both dismantled some of our arsenal, knowing that without all the Iranian hoopla we could always make more. So things moved along through the years and now we are getting news

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A fat person riding a Segway.Not even someone my size, but close.Get off and walk!

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Still for a moment Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.Found this guy sitting on an oak leaf. He was about the same color as the background so I grayed out the background in Photoshop.

Alienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03531941446653712008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915611218112174449.post-22701392693915429902007-08-20T04:26:00.000-05:002007-08-20T04:42:14.206-05:00

In a recent Democratic candidate debate, Sen. John Edwards said, "Any Democratic President will end this war. That's what we know."When you participate in these all-candidate debates, and you get on the "If elected..." statements, try starting with something you can do in the first 90 days without anyone's approval.The same legislative juggernaut that brought us the troop reduction bills is the

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It doesn't get any better than this.

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The Devil's Confection I Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.Motivated by the need for a healthier snack.No Polyandrogynated Transblubber, High F'ed-Tose Corn Syrup or other multi-syllabic crap in this. P1020532PS: Mrelia said I'm evil for thinking this up so hence the name.

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Four jobs I have had in my life:1. Ad/Graphics Specialist2. Typist3. Computer Operator4. Mail ClerkFour Movies you could watch over and over:1. The Chronicles of Riddick2. Dune (Extended)3. This Island Earth4. The Day the Earth Stood StillFour Places you have lived:1. Austin, TX2. Van Nuys, CA3. Glendale, CA4. Fallbrook, CAFour of my favorite foods:1. Pad Thai2. Pizza3. Bulgoki4. Gyro

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Would you kiss the last person you kissed... again?YesHow many girlfriends/ boyfriends have told you they loved you?A coupleHave you ever thought that you were going to marry a person?Got close to that thought then broke up.Do you hate your last boyfriend/girlfriend?I'll let you know as soon as the effigy burns out and I finish my hot dog and the s'mores.Have you ever liked someone so much that

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One night, after the couple had retired for the night, the woman became aware that her husband was touching her in a most unusual manner. He started by running his hand across her shoulders and the small of her back.He ran his hand over her touching everything very lightly. Then, he proceeded to run his hand gently down her side, sliding his hand over her stomach, and then down the other side to

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So Rove resigns.Is that a good thing?Should we worry? Is there something worse already loaded in the magazine?Hopefully the next one won't look like the unboiled end of a Kielbasa emerging from a button-down collar.

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Cheesy Sci-Fluff Perpetual Chase Show.Unless they do something with it. It’s a tricked out copy of an old theme. It’s like a bad Sliders/Buck Rogers crossover. HS romance intruding on present day with one of the parties engaged to someone else. Third nerd mad scientist sidekick. I am almost of the opinion that Stephen Baldwin’s Harpies was better. But this show is on the level with that.I’ll

Alienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03531941446653712008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915611218112174449.post-14108977686672565872007-08-11T22:05:00.000-05:002007-08-11T22:06:31.138-05:00

Am I the only person tired of watching the ED commercials. Okay, Diabetes, Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia are screwing up your love life...your wife sits in breathless anticipation of your improved blood flow...but then the kids come over with the grandkids and all bets are off until you get these people out of your house! WE GET IT...or at least we understand. Now go away.Maybe if they'd change

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St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Church, Austin, Texas (Fresco Filter Used)

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Did anyone let the people doing the war know? Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.I would like to be there to watch this, but I am supposed to be at work then. Hopefully something will come out of it that will be useful.

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Egged By Birds WTF??? Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.Actually I think this happened at work. I think I noticed it when I went out to my truck after getting off. I didn't realize what it was. I saw these translucent white streaks running down the driver side windshield and since I had a lot of bird poop all over the truck anyway, I just thought there was more. So Thursday afternoon I looked at

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This easing of requirements for enlistment could not have been devised by anyone but a government bureaucrat.To get more people to enlist:The enlistment age has been raised from 35 to 42.Enlisting recruits who do not meet weeight standards can get in if they trim down their first year.Giving a $20,000 bonus for joining by Sept. 30 and going to boot camp within 1 month.Increasing the number of

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Some bloggers have apparently broken into an evidence locker and stolen a large quantity of crack. They immediately had a party and have issued the following idea:A labor union for bloggers.WTF?

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One of the things you don't know about me is that from time to time I do some informal seance work with some friends. Now we get together to contact some departed folks for whom history's notes are either confused, vague, or just plain wrong.So last week we were able to contact the spirit of the Biblical man Nimrod. He appears in Genesis around the time of the tower of Babel and the text makes

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I just told a friend that she should not engage in a certain criminal act because she's pretty and the mugshot wouldn't do her justice.

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Stuff In My Mug Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.If you've seen construction workers with a cloth contraption wrapped around a utility bucket with tools hanging out in all sorts of directions, that is called a Bucket Boss. Now I am sure it has a proper name. BucketBoss is a brand. This is the micro version of that called the "MugBoss." I got it off think geek dot com I think I have just about

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I use sunblock to do what sunblock's supposed to do because I am black and cannot afford to operate under the misguided assumption that having a quicker melanin response to the sun than people of lighter complexion means I am immune to its effects.Growing up, no one ever said to me that I had any kind of immunity to the effects of the sun. However I do not recall any talk in the house about

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Doug Mataconis, who blogs over at Below the Beltway has turned 39 today. He and I go all the way back to 1993 when he passed the bar. He was at the time on his way to the Lizard Lounge a couple doors down. insert slapstick drum and cymbal here Had it not been for the internet someone else would have had the privilege of standing with him when he married Kellie. And for me, having the dominoes

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Why is it that some of the most wonderful ladies I know end up with the most egregious assholes on the planet?

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By all rights, preachers who tell their parishoners that they have to stay with abusive spouses unless they're killed ought to have to take the punishment themselves. So they do the dying, the wife-beater husband goes to jail and the wife is set free.It's not exactly what Jesus did on the cross. But then we're not exactly God.

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A funny thing happened on the way to the coffee shop.It happens in most large cities and less in small towns around the country. You're standing in line at the movie theater, sitting in a booth at a restaurant, walking down an aisle at a grocery store...pretty much anywhere. You see them. They're walking side by side. Sometimes they're holding hands. It's usually clear they like each other and

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There is some sort of allergen shit that is in the air right now. Symptoms are a mild dry cough, a throat feeling that is not exactly sore but feels knocked around a little.I have started sucking down Theraflu to see if that helps. Next I'll start firing garlic tabs and Emergen-C at it.It doesn't feel like a cold. Just a bit uncomfortable.

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A new habit I am trying to get in is laying out my clothes for the next day before going to bed. I am not having trouble making a decision when getting ready to go to work as to what to wear. It is more of a problem of value. Deciding what to wear, attaching suspenders to pants and stringing my belt through the belt loops and all of that is not a good use of my time right as I need to be leaving.

Alienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03531941446653712008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915611218112174449.post-66673183827098322492007-07-30T13:32:00.000-05:002007-07-30T13:33:07.211-05:00

What I guess I have not posted here is that for the last week I have been dealing with a squeak. A short-burst high pitched sound that could either be a mouse or some low-battery chirp in some electronic device I have yet to uncover. The problem is that it is infrequent and I cannot figure out which thing is making the noise. So I spent Saturday cleaning, since we were under rains again, and I

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So I leave the house to go walking. That usually means driving about 20 min. to Town Lake to walk around the trail. Now we appear to be an extension of the state of Florida weather-wise, these days, so a thunderstorm quickie may happen at any moment. I forgot my umbrella and didn't realize it until I was already on the south end of town. I decided I would just pop over to Target and pick up

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High Water Warning Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.This is a warning next to a pedestrian bridge on the hike and bike trail. The problem I have with it is that the bridge is a good 20 feet above the water. So in order for the water to get this high we would have flood conditions we haven't seen in 20 years and NOBODY should be on the trail at that time.

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I really would appreciate it if you would encourage your people to find work and stop sending them into neighborhoods to sell shit at prices higher than we pay at the store or just to beg for money.The sign out front says "NO SOLICITING" for a reason.

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West - Straight lines and rigid dualities.East - Not so one-directional or bi-numerated.You can see it in the fighting styles.

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Five girls were killed in a head-on collision with a truck and text messages were being sent and received from the driver's mobile phone.And you thought talking was dangerous.The title of this post is, "Saint Peter, This Is Not Fair!"

Alienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03531941446653712008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915611218112174449.post-82988551863119161142007-07-28T00:09:00.001-05:002007-07-28T00:10:16.932-05:00

Evidently a mule has given birth in a Colorado town.

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I was on the way to Wal-Mart for one of my 2am peregrinations (walking around the store and shopping). I had turned on CoastToCoastAm and tonight was the ouija board show. I listen to Coast on the way home every night. They were about 25min from pulling out the board and doing whatever when I started feeling nausea. Now occasionally I'll have nausea from eating something too fast or too much of a

Alienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03531941446653712008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915611218112174449.post-5689740678035709962007-07-25T00:07:00.001-05:002007-07-25T00:07:59.531-05:00

Evidently the US Guv is working on an explosive-sniffing breed of bees.Does that mean C4 Honey will explode? Gotta contact Jack Bauer.The world is a little more connected than some would like to admit and when you start screwing with our pollenators you may end up creating a mutation that will spread to non-tactical hives.Once again the immortal words of Dr. Ian Malcom come to mind: "...we were

Alienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03531941446653712008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915611218112174449.post-9775435770377339072007-07-24T22:44:00.000-05:002007-07-24T22:45:14.390-05:00

I have a lot of dreams where something is always unresolved and I am trying to fix whatever it is and nothing seems to work. Every time I come around to the same point I get bumped back to something like a beginning but it is always a little different. Sometimes it seems like a broken record and then after so much of this I wake up.So Sunday morning I had one of these. It was yet another

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I was driving home this afternoon and missed my turn. Mind on several things...zoned out. Anyway I noticed a motorcycle about 20 feet ahead and in the far right lane. I was in the left lane. We kept the same speed for several miles and every so often the cycle kept backfiring. And each time this happened I could feel it in my truck. The vibration and sound level made me think for a while that it

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I've only lived in two states, Texas and California.I have a rather OCD-ish memory and remember too many random bits of information. Because of that, I am mostly able to impress people who look at the world in a similar fashion.I wasn't raised in church. I spent most of my teenage years involved in some Eastern mystic pursuits. I converted to Christianity when I was 20 and have bounced and

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For Calicogem Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.I used the flash and got redeye on this squirrel.

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You have been Swan Mooned Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.Cygnets diving

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I am not undressing you with my eyes.I am giving you a foot-rub with them.

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I do solemly swear that I will defend my people against all idiots, foreign and domestic.This mainly has to do with dealing with people who make condescending compliment-ey sounding statements which are nothing but racist remarks soaked in High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Alienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03531941446653712008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915611218112174449.post-30020342582813874632007-07-18T01:08:00.001-05:002007-07-18T01:08:57.421-05:00

A coworker got pissed at something and started singing that damn little teapot song rewritten for mushrooms and I cannot get it out of my head.

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Why does the thunderstorm always seem to start right above my house?

Alienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03531941446653712008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915611218112174449.post-57188046430095651412007-07-16T11:28:00.000-05:002007-07-16T11:29:00.667-05:00

I had a dream a little while ago where I was driving my Mom's Cadillac DeVille (Mom doesn't own a Caddy). This was on a section of highway through some hills out west. The road looked like IH 17 in Arizona between Flagstaff and Phoenix. The problem was the car was constantly accelerating. At one point it jumped from 85-90mph. I wouldn't have gotten worried except this is a large car which doesn't

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When you have been exposed to the sinister energy source and are now imbued with unlimited power, do not say, "I am a God." Real Gods, AKA screenwriters, will see to it that you do not make it to the credits.When fighting anything that lays eggs: after you have slain the beast and are gathered on the beach or rooftop or wherever with the rest of the survivors awaiting rescue, if anyone says, "I

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Chillin' Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.I spotted this bird from the trail watching for something to eat to get close to the surface. Its relaxed steely-eyed sentinel moment was interrupted by somebody's dog. P1020501

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I just went through and wiped out all but two of my contacts on eHarmony. I had indicated in my profile settings that I was willing to relocate to find a “mate.” Maybe I would be some day. But right now I have too much going on to consider anything in another state. There ought to be enough women here in Austin to provide a sufficient group to “date from.” I am not saying long distance

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Swans Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.I noticed these swans on the trail. This was the first time I have seen these birds on dry land. The water is a bit rough due to the recent flooding so they may have come on land to feed. I was trying to take this picture and a boy on a bike rode between us and when he got next to the birds he said, "HA!"I might have been on the bike when I was a kid and

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Snail Down Under 02 P1020371 Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.He's rounded the Cape of Good Hope and is headed up to meet with his many brethren.One of many snails that has come out because of our incessant rains here in Central Texas.

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