I have to admit that I’m rather fond of this pirate…
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So we just beat Maryland, 16-19 in overtime (sorry Grandmom) now I’m sitting on the porch with laptop and digital camera, stealing someone’s unsecured wireless connection, getting ready to watch stupid people. Since I already saw lots of pick-up trucks with beds full of drunks, it may take something special to qualify.
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Hmmm…. Urban attack vehicle with feet sticking out rear window… Only interesting because the feet signified someone lying face down in the back seat. Guess they didn’t see too much of the game. (Traffic is moving quickly for now. It may be awhile before things back up all the way to my house.)
I’m also waiting to see if my parents stop by on their way home, since they have to walk right past our house.
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Oooh! Drunks sitting on an unsecured keg in a speeding pick-up. That might qualify.
I have to way that the weather today was perfect for a football game, even if I was home listening.Considering that yesterday the remains of hurricane Ivan were blowing through, it was a pleasant surprise. Not too hot, clear once the game started. Almost made me want to be at the game.
Almost.
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But the nicest thing about this day so far, is that because of the cool weather this morning, people are dressed in jeans and t-shirts and sweatshirts. Which means that I don’t see hundreds of people with rolls of fat hanging out over the tops of the short shorts and squeezed out under their too tight cropped tops.
I’m in my life
With no control of my destiny
—Positive Bleeding Urge Overkill
What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?
(More preparation for Talk Like a Pirate Day)
If you have not already seen it, check out this animation http://nigelanimation.com/gallery/animation/animation01.html.
You must have sound, though.
(via Prometheus 6)
No, really. Watch it. You’ll like it.
(Borderline safe for work. Animated flesh in abundance.)
WWII bomber emerges from glacier
A long hot summer in Iceland has revealed previously hidden parts of a British warplane that crashed on a glacier in May 1941.
The Fairey Battle bomber has been re-emerging slowly from the ice since 1995, monitored by aviation enthusiast Hordur Geirsson.
The BBC also has links to previous stories on the glacier and on the recovery of the bodies of the airmen
This story reminds me of the unearthing of bodies buried in the permafrost in the search for clues to the pandemic of 1918.
You’re a pretty imaginative guy. What’s your view on life?
I think, on the whole, it’s infinitely better than the alternatives.
from Neil’s on-line journal.
Reagarding the assault weapons ban, I have only this to say:
“Guns don’t kill people. People don’t kill people. Bullets kill people.
But you can’t have a National Bullet Association, because the letters are already taken.”
(I leave it as an exercise to the reader to try and guess where I stand on the issue of gun control.)
LIFE IN ONE DAY
Howard Jones
The old man said to me
Said don’t always take life so seriously
Play the flute
And dance and sing your song
Try and enjoy the here and now
The future will take care of itself somehow
The grass is never greener over there
Time will wear away the stone
Gets the hereditary bone
CHORUS:
Don’t try to live your life in one day
Don’t go speed your time away
Don’t try to live your life in one day
Don’t go speed your time away
The old man said to me
Said you can’t change the world single handedly
Raise a glass enjoy the scenery
Pretend the water is champagne
And fill my glass again and again
While the wolves are gathering round your door
It’s Friday. It’s been a long week.
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Ali was telling me about this when we walked this morning, and I found the print in the Charleson Gazette:
If President Bush wins West Virginia, one of the state’s five Republican electors says he might not cast his Electoral College vote for Bush to protest the president’s economic and foreign policies.
“I think President Bush needs to get the message from people across this country, including Republicans, that his strategy in national security and his economic policies need revisited,†South Charleston Mayor Richie Robb said Wednesday.
Here’s another article from the Charleston Daily Mail.
Yeah, the Bush administration is looking out for seniors all right. That 17% hike in Medicare premiums is JUST the thing to help.
This even as there is talk of cutting social security benefits.
