So I'm going to the Indy 500 this year. I'm extra- super-pumped about it. (with lisp) But seriously I am really excited to go. This will be the first *major event I'll have been to. A friend of mine Dave, that I know through JJ, was nice enough to invite me to go after one of the regular group dropped out (Jay). The story is, as I've been told, Dave's Uncle Jim has had "season" tickets to the race for the last 30 years or so. So I guess they have really good seats on turn 4, or something. We'll leave Friday and return Monday.
*National type events including but not limited to Heavyweight title fights, Superbowl, World Series, Masters, Wimbledon, Kentucky Derby, Stanley Cup, The Association Finals etc
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Rectification of the Situation
No real situation to rectify, I just wanted to see that headline in print.
Well, maybe there is. This whole "zero-tolerance" movement that has been going on lately.
I can see having "zero-tolerance" on things like rape, murder, grand theft auto, but to have "zero-tolerance" for things like a butter knife to cut a cake at school, and a teacher threatening to have a child arrested for talking on a cell phone or having a keychain that looks like a little tiny gun?
Dude.
Come on, this is just MADNESS! MADNESS, I tell you!!
But seriously, I was under the mistaken impression that teachers and school administrators had at least a miniscule amount of COMMON-FUCKING-SENSE.
The things that I am reading, that are happening in the name of "zero-tolerance" are so unbelievably absurd they border on parody. Absurd might be too soft, to borrow from an earlier post, they plumb the depths of asinineness and bring things to amazing new lows.
I hate to be cliche but we are rapidly reaching the proverbial "tipping point" we hear about so much lately. In this case I think the "tipping point" is actually an old medieval ox-cart loaded with feces that, when finally "tipped" will land squarely on the heads of the offending teachers and administrators. Or at least I hope so.
Well, maybe there is. This whole "zero-tolerance" movement that has been going on lately.
I can see having "zero-tolerance" on things like rape, murder, grand theft auto, but to have "zero-tolerance" for things like a butter knife to cut a cake at school, and a teacher threatening to have a child arrested for talking on a cell phone or having a keychain that looks like a little tiny gun?
Dude.
Come on, this is just MADNESS! MADNESS, I tell you!!
But seriously, I was under the mistaken impression that teachers and school administrators had at least a miniscule amount of COMMON-FUCKING-SENSE.
The things that I am reading, that are happening in the name of "zero-tolerance" are so unbelievably absurd they border on parody. Absurd might be too soft, to borrow from an earlier post, they plumb the depths of asinineness and bring things to amazing new lows.
I hate to be cliche but we are rapidly reaching the proverbial "tipping point" we hear about so much lately. In this case I think the "tipping point" is actually an old medieval ox-cart loaded with feces that, when finally "tipped" will land squarely on the heads of the offending teachers and administrators. Or at least I hope so.
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Driving to Vegas
Driving to Vegas sucks. No matter how you slice it or what's at the end of the line, the drive really smokes the asscrack. Its boring. The highlight of the trip is the fucking Mad Greek restaurant in Baker, with the roaches and beetles running all over.
Have you ever smelled Baker in the summer? It smells like the inside of a diseased crack addicts septic tank, who only eats chili-fries and pickled herring.
It's always very windy. The wind throws the Jeep all over the road, beacause you see, a Jeep is about as aerodynamic as the mainsail on the Pinta.
So I'll be driving to Vegas this weeknd.
Have you ever smelled Baker in the summer? It smells like the inside of a diseased crack addicts septic tank, who only eats chili-fries and pickled herring.
It's always very windy. The wind throws the Jeep all over the road, beacause you see, a Jeep is about as aerodynamic as the mainsail on the Pinta.
So I'll be driving to Vegas this weeknd.
Friday, May 13, 2005
Islam: What a Bunch of Douchebags
Islam - Fanatic-ing themselves into extinction. Good fucking riddance.
ISLAMIC BIOLOGICAL WARFARE:
It turns out there are there are Islamic "Weapons of Mass Destruction" after all. In particular, biological weapons. But these mass killers have been developed within Islamic nations, and are doing most of their damage there. The war on terror has taken many American doctors to Islamic nations, and they have discovered a heretofore hidden AIDS epidemic. . . .
But it's not just AIDS. In Nigeria, faith based paranoia on the part of Islamic clergy, and politicians, caused a polio epidemic, which is now spreading to other Islamic nations. The UN has been trying for years to wipe out polio (which has been eliminated in most Western nations). In the last few years, UN medical resources were massing to wipe polio out in one of the last places where it still thrives; northern Nigeria. But some local Islamic clergy got the idea that these foreigners and their medicine (polio vaccine) were actually out to poison young Moslem females and make them sterile. Yeah, it's nuts, but it went over big in northern Nigeria and stopped the polio eradication program cold.
Can shooting yourself in the foot be a biological weapon? Metaphorically, anyway.
from http://www.instapundit.com/
ISLAMIC BIOLOGICAL WARFARE:
It turns out there are there are Islamic "Weapons of Mass Destruction" after all. In particular, biological weapons. But these mass killers have been developed within Islamic nations, and are doing most of their damage there. The war on terror has taken many American doctors to Islamic nations, and they have discovered a heretofore hidden AIDS epidemic. . . .
But it's not just AIDS. In Nigeria, faith based paranoia on the part of Islamic clergy, and politicians, caused a polio epidemic, which is now spreading to other Islamic nations. The UN has been trying for years to wipe out polio (which has been eliminated in most Western nations). In the last few years, UN medical resources were massing to wipe polio out in one of the last places where it still thrives; northern Nigeria. But some local Islamic clergy got the idea that these foreigners and their medicine (polio vaccine) were actually out to poison young Moslem females and make them sterile. Yeah, it's nuts, but it went over big in northern Nigeria and stopped the polio eradication program cold.
Can shooting yourself in the foot be a biological weapon? Metaphorically, anyway.
from http://www.instapundit.com/
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Pulling the Trigger
So, I have finally pulled the trigger on a decision I should have made years ago.
I am going to be a doctor.
I am not sure why this was such a hard decision for me. It is clearly what I should have been working towards, rather than fucking around with the stock market all these years.
Anyway, the past is just that, past. There is a lot of work to be done in the next few years. It seems a daunting task at this point. There is some old cliche about if something is worth doing it won't be easy or something like that and whoever said it was probably right.
I am going to be a doctor.
I am not sure why this was such a hard decision for me. It is clearly what I should have been working towards, rather than fucking around with the stock market all these years.
Anyway, the past is just that, past. There is a lot of work to be done in the next few years. It seems a daunting task at this point. There is some old cliche about if something is worth doing it won't be easy or something like that and whoever said it was probably right.
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Sherry Busts Out the Profoundness On Your Punk Ass
Process should be the servant of reason. Our ability to analyze and think should never be subjugated to process. The purpose of process is efficiency – to take care of the usual & regular, so that we are freed-up to deal with situations that don't fall into that category. Process is not supposed to replace thinking.
Sherry Allen
05/05/2005
Sherry Allen
05/05/2005
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