Thursday, February 23, 2006
I stared my blog with this post on February 17, 2005
I have come a pretty good ways for those days.
Happy one year anniversary to me ....
I'll drink to that. Here's the another year ............
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
So I was checking out my stats this morning before I had to head out towards work and I came across 2 links from a site called Aimlessly Unbalanced. I usually go and check out sites that I get traffic from to see why. Well it turns out this site is from a friend of mine named Jerry who lives in Franklin, TN and really hates comcast. I have been trying to get him to switch to Directtv for a few years but that is a whole different blog post for a later time. Any way so one of his posts he talks about me and has a pictures of me cooking at his house. I believe its form when I was making a deep fried turkey over Christmas. Pretty cool seeing pictures of me around.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
I decided to run over to Long Hunter State Park and see how some snow pictures would turn out over there. Here are a few:
There are a lot more snow pictures from Long Hunter over at my Photoblog on Buzznet.com
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
I woke up this morning to hear something on NPR I didn't expect to hear. Last night, American speed skater Joey Cheek won the gold medal in the 500 meter race. In the press conference after he announced that he was going to donate the 25,000 dollars he will get for winning to an organization called Right to Play started by Norwegian speed skater Johann Koss to direct high profile athletes to need around the world. he also asked for other Olympic sponsors to match his donations and so far Nike, Inc has responded.
I was stunned that I actually heard this on the radio. Since there is very little covered by the national media about what actually happening in Darfur. Our administration keeps telling us that we are out to "free oppressed people"in Iraq. Well, It doesn't get any worse in Darfur. So if we want to be the great humanitarians that we say we are. Shouldn't our government step in over there? Stop the violence and genocide?
In a way, I think that Joey's decision should inspire us. Why not start a "Bloggers for Darfur"? Like they did for Hurricane Katrina. Place a graphic button on you site raising awareness and asking for donations and sending them off to Right to Play. Any one want to give me a hand?
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
I hear on NPR this morning that 85 Evangelical Christians signed a letter saying that they "back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying "millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors."". This list included some major Evangelicals such as Duane Litfin, president of Wheaton College and Rick Warren, author of the best seller "The Purpose-Driven Life".
But even though these people are backing this some other Evangelical types are not. This included people like Charles W. Colson, the founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries; James C. Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family; and Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. They all signed a letter saying that "global warming is not a consensus issue. This after we had the worst hurricane season on record and reports of more frequent occurrences of thundersnow.
What is thundersnow?. Its a rare occurace (well used to be) of a thunderstorm in front of a cold front where snow is the major form of precipitation. It usually happens when "A heavy snowstorm that catches a warm draft of air which allows favorable conditions for lightning and thunder to occur" (emphasis mine). I can't find a source for its increased occurances but it is something to think about along with all these tornados we are seeing in November, December and January.
I wonder where these people get that global warming isn't a censuses issue. Ask any scientist and they will not argue that Global Warming is happening. Sort of like the Jury is out on evolution, yet every ones scared of bird flu evolving to be able to be spread for human to human.
Anyway, I'm glad that some of these evangelical are coming to there senses. It's about time.
Monday, February 06, 2006
Yea Steelers. I picked them to win.
Anyway why do most people watch the Superbowl? It isn't cause of the teams cause 95% of any NFL fans teams are not playing in the game. They are waiting for next year. Like me and my Chargers. Just imagine what if Antiono Gates wasn't suspended for the first Game the Chargers played. This Super Bowl would have been a whole lot different.
Anyway .. so why do people watch the Superbowl if there team isn't there? For the commercials. And thanks to Ifilm.com we have them here to watch for the rest of the summer. My favorites? The Budweiser streaking Goat commercial and the Ameriquest.com "that killed him" one.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
