Sunday, 22 November 2009

Marine Life sure is More Interesting than Obama Politics Fail

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Hope you enjoy the images of deep ocean life as i do...Crassota speciesTaking a break from tracking the fastest presidential failure in American History, Muslim Terror and the host of other man-made ills that vex humanity.  I found a pleasant reminder that there are good things on this planet and the United States is leading the way in making it known.

I am totally fascinated by pictures of the unusual life found in the deep sea.  The astounding images coming out in the last 5 years are quite the delite.  So imagine my elation at having found the Census for Marine Life.

I hope you enjoy this gem of a website as much as I do.

 

 

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Wednesday, 19 August 2009

Man swims with 50 foot long Humpback Whale

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I think someday humans will live in the ocean...I know some of my friends and family really love ocean critters... I do too.  That's why I just had to push this entry out.

A playful flick of his colossal tail and the diver could be dead.

But instead this curious, intelligent humpback whale takes a shine to diver Marco Queral, and the two end up drifting through the seas together.

Check it out.  The astonishing contact between the 50ft king of the ocean and the minuscule human was captured off Hawaii in the South Pacific last week.

Amazing, simply amazing.

 

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Monday, 20 July 2009

Michael Jackson or Nikola Tesla

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Its time for another Nikola Tesla to appearWhile most of the Sheeple were busy following the drama that was Michael Jackson and paying homage to his demise and life, I was busy remembering someone else.

That person would be Nikola Tesla, whose birthday would have been July 9th.  Yes, I would rather remember a man who had the qualities I can only hope to aspire too.  If it were not for Tesla, you would not be Twittering, Googling, BlackBerrying, cell phoning, using satellites in space, flying airplanes, getting x-rays, or studying physics as we know it.

So, forget the perverted madman of music and remember a man who contributed a thousand times more to our great society.

Thank You, Nikola Tesla.  May God have great mercy on your soul.

 

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Tuesday, 9 June 2009

Be a Wimp, check out these great vids

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So much to learn, so little time...Over the last few months, I occasionally point my webtube browsing device to a site called wimp.  I don't know who manages the site, but they have a real knack for finding interesting, provocative and funny videos of every genre.  Here is a short list for my followers to check out.  

This is one cool vid.  Imagine being able to control something with the power of your mind.  Perhaps this is just the direction our species needs to go to make the next giant step in evolution.  Are your ready for the coming technological singularity?

http://wimp.com/realitycontrol/

 

Go on try watching these vids!A kitten, a kitten toy, kitten being cute with toy.

http://wimp.com/mostadorable/

 

I forget how many factoids this vid has, but they were pretty neat.

http://wimp.com/knowthings/

This one is about how earthlings all over the world are racing to learn English.  One of the amazing facts in this vid is that there are more english speakers in China than there are Americans.  So I guess that means the oxford english dictionary might some day be called the Beijing English Dictionary?

http://wimp.com/englishlanguage/

 

Remember MC Hammer's "You can't touch this"?  Well some people decided to organise a hammer time on a clothing store... pretty funny.

http://wimp.com/hammerstore/

 

Where is the center of the Universe? 

http://www.wimp.com/universecenter/

 

What happens to butter when you aim your laser at it?  Cutting butter with a laser.  Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "like a hot knife thru butter"

http://www.wimp.com/laserbutter/

 

I've been following the progress at the National Ignition Facility.  Its a project by the Depart of Energy to bring us the clean abundant energy of the sun right here on good ole planet earth.  Yep, another multi-billion dollar hot fusion experiment.  I don't have much faith in hot fusion.  I think cold fusion on a table top has a better chance of saving the race of man.

http://wimp.com/largestlaser/

 

I'm finding it hard to believe that these folks think we evolved apes are the descendants of a winged dinosaur.  If it turns out to be true, I'm gonna be so pissed, I want those wings back so I can fly.

http://www.wimp.com/wingeddinosaur/

 

The power of Shaolin Kung Fu.  Kinda sad in light of the death of David Carradine.  Rest in Peace Grasshopper.

http://www.wimp.com/buddhistmonks/

 

Most talented people on Earth.  Not sure what to say about this one.  A mashup of the wild and wonderful things people can do all over the world.

http://www.wimp.com/talentedpeople/

 

Anyone that has known me for a while knows that I'm totally fascinated by the US Airforce's SR-71 Blackbird.  Every chance I get when I'm in southern Illinois I stop by the Chanute Air Museum in Rantoul.  They were supposed to get one of the SR-71's when the were decommissioned.  Unfortunately, this has not happened... yet.  So join me in awe at the World's fastest production aircraft.  

http://www.wimp.com/fastestaircraft/

 

Fifty people answer one question.  I'll bet you think I'm gonna tell you the question.  Wrong.  Find our for yourself what they were asked. (after the vid loads, it will start to download.  hit the pause button on the player to let it download about half the vid before you play it otherwise it skips)

http://www.wimp.com/answerquestion/

 

Ya know those Brits have a weird sense of humor.  Of course who can ever forget Monty Pythons.  They also do strange things with music.  Have a go at this, Ever seen pianos do this?

http://www.wimp.com/chiorpiano/

 

Never knew this about ants.  Neither did you I'm sure, what this guy learned about ants changed the way we look at life on this planet.  Enjoy "Lord of the Ants".

http://www.wimp.com/lordants/

 

Deep Sea Giant Clams.  Now if they could just grow Oysters this big.  Imagine eating oysters on the half shelf this huge... or oyster stew!  Martha Stewart would be the first to sell bigger bowls I'm sure.  OK, I'll clam up so you can watch the darn thing already.

http://www.wimp.com/giantclams/

 

Architects decipher secrets of The Parthenon.  Amazing.  Simply Amazing

http://www.wimp.com/theparthenon/

 

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Friday, 8 May 2009

The Happy Home Maker of 1955

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Musings as a ManFound this while tube surfing.  It's a wife's guide to being... well, a good wife.  This actual article from Good Housekeeping, circa 1955, actually told women how to be better wives.  I'm sure every agent of the National Organization of Women will say, "Oh, we've come a long way baby" but I do wonder, are we better off as families with the liberation of women from the shackles of the stove?  While I find this article quite humorous, evoking even a desire within for a time gone by, I do think that the burdens placed upon women by christianity in the last 1900 years was more the work of a church attempting to silence and suppress at least half the population since any true leader knows that women can sway even the strongest of soldiers from the march... Samson anyone?
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The Good Wife's Guide, Good Housekeeping, circa 1955I can draw from my own personal experience when I was a child, watching and listening to my grandparents and parents talk about woman's lib, how they were opposed to it saying it would destroy the family and all the values and mores that accompany the christian familial unit.  My mother and her mother (my grandmother) while fully against woman's lib, both have exemplified lives of liberated women.  My grandmother with her many years of service as surgical nurse while being a mother and my mother as both a small business owner and of course being a mom.  They and the men in their lives worked hard and they had the freedom to pursue careers of choice and buy the things they wanted.  They did this while cooking and cleaning and wiping us kid's hind-ends when the diapers got dirtied.  (Mom, I sure do miss your chicken and wild rice...)


I guess what I'm trying to say is that America has emerged as a society that realized the benefits of unencumbered women not because of NOW or the woman's lib movement but because its a natural progression to a more enlightened society.  And I believe, maybe because of those extra neurochemicals women have that we men don't have, women have within them the ability to look at a situation wither it be in business, the arts or even the military with a unique and oft times fresh perspective.  While we might look upon this change as unfortunate now because of its affect on the family and our children, we must remember that it has only been 30-40 years since women broke free.  As with every change in the human dynamic we will adapt, families will re-coalesce and our children's children will be better off for it.


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But then again I'm reminded of the words of a biker friend of mine long ago... "Never trust a species that bleeds one week out of the month and still lives"

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Sunday, 22 February 2009

All your Ipod are belong to us

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All Your Base Are Belong To UsIt's 4 am, residual pain in the trapezius and infraspinatus muscles is preventing some much needed nocturnal slumber.  So I watched NatGeo's "Super Strength" documentary while listening to Jill Tarter's TED presentation entitled, "Why the search for alien intelligence matters".

After these shows I'm sitting here contemplating what I've just seen and heard and the thought occurs to me that I've just watched two guys barrel head long into several blocks of thick ice with their heads and shoulders smashing them to "Jack Daniel's" size while the lady whose life is the basis for the character Ellie Arroway played by Jodie Foster in the film version of Contact extols the virtues of looking for intelligence among the billions and billions of stars out there.

And I was struck by the epiphany that when ET gets here, it is not really gonna be interested in talking to us, it just wants an Ipod Touch.   I wonder if they will want the Cosmic blue or Aqua green skin?

How scary is that?!

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