April 2006 - Posts
April 26, 2006
A SYDNEY man has been charged with assault after an alleged intruder was bashed repeatedly with a baseball bat.
STORY IS HERE
While it is important to protect yourself and your family from intruders – THIS, my friends, is why you should never engage in hand to hand exchanges with scum bags that break in to your house. You should SHOOT THEM IN THE CHEST and drop them where they stand.
(Remember kids – other than at a firing range – NEVER pull a gun unless you intend to use it. Also, remember, point the weapon only at your intended target, double tap the trigger and always always always group your shots for good measure)
It's been a while since I've posted any sort of "technical" information. But, this was too good a find to not post and let the few people that read my BLOG know about it.
I normally stay away from Freeware and Shareware for the lack (or non-existence) of Tech Support etc.
If there’s a utility you’re looking for and you don’t want to pay for it (Freeware) chances are – you’ll find what you’re looking for right HERE.
Who doesn’t like FREE?
There are a few rumors about this clip floating around the web.
1. This is outside a court room after a murder trial. The woman speaking is a relative of the defendant. IN an attempt to vilify the person murdered she is telling the young lady, a friend of “Terri’s”, that Terri had THC in her system. That remark is obviously an attempt to make Terri (whoever she is) look not so goody-two-shoes. It was also, obviously, not a very smart thing to say in front of the woman to the girl’s left.
2. This is outside of some school meeting about some trouble that a group of kids got into and one girl (the daughter of the punchee) took the brunt of the blame when some girl named Terri got off scott-free.
Either way the woman with the irregular right hook thinks she’s “Pure trash” and puts a stamp of emphasis on it.
Click the picture to launch the video.
Just look at these two elderly women
Now look at them again
This was just one of the many pieces on display a few months ago at The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris, France.
From what I understand this guy’s (Ron Mueck) work was on display in Washington, DC. A little while ago – I’d like to see his work up close.
Apparently he calls it “hyper realistic”. It apparently best viewed from a distance or with no outside interference/frame of reference.
I’m no art critic but I can tell you these pictures make the work look fantastic – so I can only imagine what it looks like in person.
It amazes me what some people can do with their artistic talent.
It also amazes me that often times there are families filled with artists and then there’s one (or two) person in that family that couldn’t draw a happy face if you put a gun to their head.
Take my family for instance. My father (an engraver by trade) is very much artistically inclined. He passed this gift down to my brother and sister.
My sister (the oldest of 3) is a very creative woman and since an early age has had a knack for drawing and so forth. My brother (the middle child) is a graphic artist by trade/education and is a tattoo artist. He may be one of the most artistically gifted people I know. Not only are his drawings and the like VERY detailed but the work he does on people’s skin is really something to see.
Then you have me – sure, I have gifts ( I can do lots of stuff with this goofy machine I’m using right now) but I would barely be able to draw a stick figure that didn’t look like my 5 year old son did it if you put a gun to my head.
Funny thing genetics – some folks get the interesting stuff and others bug liberals with their political beliefs (that would be me . . . . hahaha)
Some more of Mueck’s work
'We are not criminals'
That was the underlying message of yesterdays “National Day of Action for Immigration Justice". Well, I’m here to tell you - - don’t put any money on that.
If you have come into this country by any means other than legally – you are in fact a CRIMINAL Alien.
If you obey the law, show no allegiance to any other country over the United States of America and become a LEGAL citizen of this country – I will welcome you with open arms.
But if you cross a border in the dead of night – or swim ashore from some half sunken raft – or ride across the border in some van buried beneath a load of produce (or whatever) don’t waste your breath spouting one syllable about how you have rights here. You do NOT have rights here.
You are a CRIMINAL just as someone breaking into a jewelry store in the middle of the night to steal a gold watch is a criminal.
It doesn’t help your case when you get sick and clog up emergency rooms of local hospitals using them as your doctor’s office because you don’t have money or health insurance and you keep other law abiding, tax paying American citizens (born here or naturalized) from receiving proper medical care ( that they can provide and insurance card or payment for).
Don’t tell me (save your breath) – “If we got paid better for the work we do, we could afford insurance or could afford to pay for the care we receive”. No one told you to enter this country illegally and take some $2.50 an hour ditch digging job. Follow the laws of this country, enter legally, get educated and get a real job.
A dog that will not hunt for me are the sad songs sung about - “They came to this country to flee persecution” or “They came to this country to give their family a chance at a better life” or “If you could only see the living conditions in their home country” .
I am a father – I can understand wanting to provide for your family. I can understand wanting your children to have EVERY chance in this world to succeed and be taken care of properly (education, health care, FOOD et al). But I would never pack my family into a truck and sneak across the borders of some foreign land in the middle of the night and try to start a home and a life while living with 30 other people in some shanty town. I would never have my children just roaming around (not in school, unwashed and unfed) for days on end while I hung out at a Home Depot parking lot hoping to get on board with some day job making $50.00 for the day with the threat of being caught ( as a CRIMINAL) and being deported from the country with no chance to first retrieve my family – just pushed out and not my wife and children are in a foreign land with out me, with out (what little I made) money – and no way for me to get back with them but to RE-enter the same country illegally (again).
I was in the Army – I’ve been to other countries. I’ve seen the pitiful living conditions people refer to. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. That’s admirable that you don’t want your family to live like that - -but don’t creep into this country under dark skies with no aim, no legal means of employment, no plans of house or home and expect me and every other law abiding LEGAL American citizen to just foot the bill for you.
You can also save your breath (since you’ll need it on your death bed someday) if you’re going to reply “They don’t want anyone to foot the bill for them – they just want a chance to make it” Since the “chance to make it” BEGINS with becoming a LEGAL citizen of this country and NOT living the life of a CRIMINAL ALIEN
I BEG TO DIFFER
All my life – I’ve taken crap for not being able to see or distinguish between certain colors (mostly Reds/Greens and Browns)
I can tell the difference between those colors if they are BRILLIANT (candy apple red or British Racing green for example) but any variant from a brilliant color I am lost.
A perfect example is – my boss drives a (what I now know to be) green Cadillac DeVille – for the first year he had it I thought it was black. While out with someone in my office we thought we saw him (my boss) and the person I was with said “Dude, how many GREEN DeVilles are there with a license plate that starts with the letters NS on a Massachusetts plate?” To wit I responded “His car is GREEN? I thought it was BLACK”
He laughed and asked me if I was serious – as most people have all my life. I think at one point my parents may have actually thought I was just being lazy and not saying what the true colors of things were when I was a kid - since I was not “officially” diagnosed until I took the battery of tests required before entering the Army.
Color blindness, also known as Daltonism, is a deficiency in the view of certain colors.
Red/green color distortion is the most common type of color vision impairment (one of the many afflictions from which I suffer – most of the others are of a mental origin).
In a few very rare cases, some people can only see in black and white shades. Color blindness is almost always an inherited condition although males are more likely than females to get it. Symptoms are inability to distinguish colors (usually red/green and sometimes yellow/blue).
Look at the picture below. If you see numbers inside the circles (results are written next to teach circle) you’re Daltonism free. If you can only see numbers in the top left circle – WELCOME to my world.
