One More Thing!

Yeah, so I broke a toe today.

Yep.

At least I'm not inflicting my doom upon others anymore!

Imperial Fleet Week in San Francisco

And an interview with the filmaker!

Next Model Project

I'm thinking of building something fun. Something with no historical accuracy to worry about.

I'm thinking of building a Steampunk Airship.

I want an Airship Pirate Ship!



"Airship Pirates" by Abney Park

Do they still sell those glowy-plasma ball thingys?

A Test

for my blog-buddy King Tiger;

My Year so far-

I got Bell's Palsy.
My Dad get sick.
Mother in Law sick.
Dad gets sicker.
Dad getting transplant.
Dad dies.
My Mother in law unexpectedly dies.
Wife's best friend gets breast cancer.
Wife's cousin in bad car accident, may loose both legs.
Wife's friend dies.
I have a colonoscopy.


Apparently, it's not healthy to know me. Stormcrow! Pariah! Outcast! Unclean!

Soon, and DAMN!

It is my goal to attempt this blogging thing again soon. Maybe life will calm down some.

To fill in the time- the coolest submarine models I have ever seen. I may have a new hobby!

Continuting the "Can't catch a break" catagory

My mother-in-law was found dead today.

Sigh.

Fanboy!

OMG! Xavier made a comment on my blog! Woo-Hoo! I feel special!

Also, I added my buddy Tracy's blog over on the right- Researcher@Large.

Retropolis Transit Authority

HOLY CRAP!

Retropolis Transit Authority

Just about every t-shirt this guy has is really very cool. I think I may have to redo my entire wardrobe.

My father recently died, and I'm not tracking very well. So, here's a stupid quiz!

I was Righteous!
I scored 100% on the

Take the 80s quizby SheGoddess: Quick Weight Loss

From Teh Interweb

Think about it this way. You live on a nice quiet residential street with a speed limit of 30 miles per hour. All night long, gangs of kids drag race down your street at ungodly speeds. If we used the logic of gun control advocates their solution would be to lower the speed limit to 20.

Lifted from When your only tool is a Hammer.

Inspired by the König- We had blizzard conditions most of Saturday.

I had about 20" of snow when it all was said and done.

Taken late Saturday morning, right in the middle of it all.

From Teh Interweb

Cynics: Realists you don't agree with yet.

Primary Day

I proudly, with malice forethought, voted for Fred Thompson today. It felt good to vote my conscience, even though my vote was useless.

I also added Roberta X to the Daily Reads.

From the Treppenwitz Blog

Shackled to the peace process... or free to wage war

Once the seductive distraction of peace is out of the way we must begin by sending negotiating teams to meet with each of the groups who are currently in an active state of belligerence against us. Each Israeli team should bring unsigned copies of the Geneva Convention, all current agreements on prisoner treatment and protection of medical vehicles/facilities and the inviolate nature of civilian populations.

In addition, the Israeli negotiating teams should bring pictures and diagrams clearly showing all current IDF uniforms and insignias. They should provide photos of military and civilian ambulances as well as maps showing the location of vital humanitarian infrastructure facilities that provide water and electricity to civilians and hospitals.

Once all of these documents are spread out on the conference table, the Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade, PFLP, (et al) representatives will be invited to sign each and every convention, agreeing to treat POWs humanely and to allow Red Cross access to all prisoners... to outfit combatants in recognized uniforms and insignia... to exclude civilians from attacks... to refrain from placing military infrastructure in or near civilian centers... and to insure that humanitarian facilities remain outside the scope of hostilities.

If they balk at agreeing to any of these most basic terms of warfare, our negotiating teams should be instructed to gather up their papers, photos and drawings and to leave behind only Israel's unambiguous declaration of our intent to carry out unrestricted warfare until an unconditional surrender agreement is duly signed.

WOO HOO! YEAH!

1970

In 1970 (the year you were born)

Richard Nixon is president of the US A federal jury finds the "Chicago 7" innocent of conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention The lunar spacecraft Apollo 13 splashes down in the Pacific after near catastrophe The first Earth Day is marked by millions of Americans participating in anti-pollution demonstrations At Kent State University, National Guardsmen fire into a crowd killing four student antiwar demonstrators A powerful earthquake claims 50,000 lives in Peru 18 year olds are given the right to vote in federal elections Tidal wave driven by cyclone from Bay of Bengal hits East Pakistan, killing hundreds of thousands An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland Queen Latifah, Mariah Carey, Andre Agassi, Uma Thurman, Jennifer Lopez, and Matt Damon are born Baltimore Orioles win the World Series Kansas City Chiefs win Superbowl IV Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup Tearjerker Love Story is the top grossing film I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is published "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song

What Happened the Year You Were Born?

Ann Coulter?!?!?

I never thought I'd be quoting Ann Coulter, but-

... as we know from the recent unpleasantness in Florida, Republicans are unalterably stupid.

Dang.
McCain?
Damn.
From humanevents.com

From The Smallest Minority via Mostly Cajun

Although, when I first saw bumper stickers like these in the '90's- they said "Why settle for the Lesser Evil".

In other news, I'm having a bout with Bell's Palsy, which has been giving me a bunch of trouble. I do get to wear a cool eye patch though!

Damn Skippy!

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

(Stolen from The Lemon Stand)

Dang!

A little side project on the PC has turned into large, life sucking project from Hell, destined to be my death. I really do plan on blogging again... someday.