Happy Day of the Ninja!

"Day of the Ninja" you ask? Heck, I don't know either, but it's yet another way to whittle away the time...

I got a message on myspace.com the other day from another Butler High School '88 grad. As an aside... No, that doesn't mean I am old. I age second by second, but I have a long way to go until I am old. Anyway, she pointed me to yet another classmate tracking site. The cool thing here is that all the functionality is available without paying anything. They do suggest donations. Check it out and see if you are represented...

BTW, here's the page for Butler High School's class of 1988. For the mother unit (1 ea.), here's Western High School.....

In anticipation of the whole 20 year reunion thing, I started a group on Yahoo! for BHS '88 grads about five years ago. Check 'er out! On that note, I must bid y'all adieu...........

PEACE!

As usual, I'll be right handily pimpin' myself (well, my kitty).....

My kitty battling some girl in a bikini:

My kitty duking it out with a dog:

My kitty would LOVE your vote!

I'll end with some funny "Teletubby" videos that can be seen by clicking "read more"....


"Teletubbies wazzup"


"Teletubbies must die"


"Raving teletubbies"

Howdy folks...........

Not too much exciting in this week since Thanksgiving.....

I DID notice a bulletin on myspace.com that Information Society was going to be playing several shows in the US in the next couple of months. Check out the InSoc page at myspace.com. There's even a new album......



Plus, while looking at the bands I have listed on my MySpace profile, I noticed a great travesty. I didn't have Apoptygma Berzerk listed. I truly dig Apoptygma Berzerk. The band's player on myspace.com has an Apop song as remixed by VNV Nation. Check it out! And check out the same song set to video (from The Animatrix) from youtube.com by (as almost always) clicking "read more" at the bottom of this post.....

If yesterday was a day to engage in any of the seven deadly sins......

I (and many others I'm sure) definitely took part in gluttony. A fine feast. I probably should've stopped at the first plate of dessert. I never do, though.....

The end is drawing nigh....

I hope everyone had an excellent day. Here's to the weekend.....

Oh, by the way, I couldn't resist.....

What South Park Character Are You? (pics) Chef You're an original PIMP! You know your way with the ladies/gents and you know how to satify. Everyone likes you and you like everyone. Myspace Quizzes

Yo, folks!

Happy Thanksgiving!

OK, I hate pimpin' myself on here twice in a row, but...............(not really)

I took this picture of Mt. Rainier when I flew out to Olympia in July of '05. Again, I dressed it up recently to enter into a little contest. The effect is supposed to resemble the grade school anti-drug movie renditions of a psychedelic experience. Do you like?

I just started a new battle on myyearbook.com............

I took this picture of a praying mantis when I went to Ohio last fall and recently dressed it up to make it slightly more freaky. Obviously, I would love your vote if you are so inclined. Doing so probably requires signing up at the site, but what the heck............

Ohhhhh, the anticipation.......

It's been a nice lazy Sunday thus far and it appears as if it will remain that way. Perfect time right now for me to be building the mindset to do an hour's worth of running while listening to bouncy music.....

Rock on!

Forget voting for those screwy politicians, vote for Art........

Egyptian mythology and me.......

Which Egyptian God or Goddess do you represent? (Pictures!) Ma'at, Goddess of Order, Harmony, and Truth Ma'at was the goddess of physical and moral law in Egypt, of order and truth. She was not much of a goddess, but more of a concept. She was what was right; she was the way things should be.<p> You lead a very well-ordered life. You are just and keep things in balance. You know just how to react to things, and people like you for that. <p> Fantasy-Mythology Quizzes

I believe that I've mentioned here before that I'm a music fan.....

I suppose that my poison of choice is often electronic stuff, but I have very eclectic tastes. I was watching the Today Show yesterday morning and I saw these dudes....

Red Hot Chili Pipers


And when I first heard of Miri Ben Ari and her whole "hip hop violinist" thing, I was intrigued. See...

Miri Ben Ari at The Apollo


And then of course there's Nuttin' But Stringz as can be seen here....

Nuttin But Stringz - Thunder


Most excellent!

w00t!

I'm about to embark on the last three nights of the night shift for a little while (barring OT of course). Mind you, I enjoy the night shift, but it's not necessarily conducive to a high quality of life.

I normally have a little concern for politics and such, but the early starts of campaigns and announcements for this campaign is already wearing thin. I have, of course, contributed to it slightly by having some early on support for Ron Paul, but the constant barrage of political news and punditry promises to be tiresome by this time next year.

If you live in the southeast US and enjoy electronic music, check out Liquified and/or Evoke Productions. I intend to make it to shows from one or both in the future....

Well folks, it's time to crash. Adieu!

Follow me to perdition....

http://www.myyearbook.com/join.php?ref=4757153

And so I've been off this evening......

Nothing too exciting, just had some Chinese from the new restaurant in town and ran some errands and such.....

After watching South Park, I remembered about this nifty little "game" from southparkstudios.com. I made one a while ago, but it was time for an update (especially since I'm growing a mane right now). See....



I thought that the game had a "save" function but it didn't appear as if that was the case. At that point, I remembered that I could just use a screen capture function that's available in most graphics programs. It struck me that I hadn't put IrfanView on my new laptop. I've used IrfanView for simple computer graphics tasks for quite a while.

And now for something totally unrelated......

I've been to a few places overseas. Here I am in Alabama. I absolutely love the fact that I can go out at 2:30 in the morning and find a choice of something to eat if I am so inclined. I truly don't believe that's the case in a lot of places (especially in a town with a population of under 30,000). I love this country....

In closing, check me out at one of the latest social networking sites........

Peace, y'all!

What an absolutely gorgeous day outside......

68°, crystal clear skies, light breeze.... and I slept most of it away. Got to bring home the bacon tonight.....

Normally I would be workin' up a sweat right now, but I'm not sure what work will hold in store this evening. Besides, I've done fairly well this week. I have been a little out of touch with what's going on in the world, but a quick glance at the news appears that things in the world (at large at least) are this side or the other of the status quo....

I know that this little SNAFU led to changes at my facility. That plant in AZ was locked down for seven hours. Why would a person drive to any job with a pipe bomb in the car, much less a nuclear plant? In the past, people have forgotten guns or beer cans in their cars (also security violations), but a pipe bomb? Totally weird....

Well, it's about time to be gettin' ready, so......

Roll Tide!

Happy Halloween, y'all.............!

Not too many ghouls or goblins this year, but at least I'm off this evening......

My employer had an excellent (if you're pro-nuke) news release the other day. TVA is somewhat on the cutting edge of the nuclear industry revival. Heck, if the French can exceed 70% of their grid being nuclear, why can't we? I don't believe we'll ever see nuclear power generating anywhere near 75% much, but we can easily do more than the 20% or so that we generate now.

As always, there is ENTIRELY too much candy left around my house. I like to be prepared. That just means leftover candy to take to work tomorrow night.......

If you are inclined to see that sort of thing, be sure to check out the new episodes of South Park and The Sarah Silverman Program this evening. Preview clips from comedycentral.com are available by clicking "read more" below and probably aren't suitable for work or family purposes.........


South Park - Imaginationland Episode III Preview and Imaginationland Episode II Highlights




Sarah Silverman Program: Date With God - Preview

Ohhhhh yeah, baby..........

Amazon.com took care of the flawed CD in quick fashion. You guys rocked! I have listened to this CD to the point of Suzanne and our neighbors probably considering me obsessive. However, Little Things is pretty darn kickin'. A couple of the songs truly send that little electrified wave feeling down my spine. Weird? A video including one such song can be seen by clicking "read more" at the bottom of this post......

Now to the other customer service fiasco from a couple of weeks ago......

I was going to give these folks time, but I haven't received anything other than what looked to be a canned electronic response and that was over a week ago. OK, the Steak n Shake in front of Madison Square Mall was the source of my anger ten days ago. I hope they don't normally suck as bad as they did that night (food=OK, service=not OK) or else they will deservedly go out of business. Hope you folks get your stuff together.....

Well, I got word of some nice OT coming up for this week and probably the next as well. I love it when I can have it planned that far in advance. In fact, I'll be seeing how long I can last tonight so I can vamp out tomorrow. Heck, maybe I'll run for a while tonight after I do laundry. That might keep me more pumped up than just drinking coffee.....

I love the music this video is set to.......

Je ne sais pas - Sylver - set to Final Fantasy animation - from bacsicsAshe




Peace, y'all!

The results are very tentative and I will of course be waiting to see what the Libertarians have to offer, but....

	Ron Paul Score: 45	Agree Iraq Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Death Penalty	Disagree Immigration Social Security
-- Take the Quiz! --

Sometimes my sense gets thrown right out the window......

I did a good thing by running for close to an hour this afternoon. And then.....

I just polished off (estimate) close to 15 pieces of pizza and a little ice cream concoction at a local pizza buffet. Oh, I can't forget the bowl of cottage cheese. Tasty dinner, though....

I was slightly bummed this morning and some readers will be much more familiar with what I'm talking about. I happened to be in downtown Huntsville during the daytime for the first time in ages. I figured that I'd go check out an old weekend haunt where I went with my parents probably every Saturday morning during the early 80s. I figured that I'd get a good espresso or cappuccino. Unfortunately, the Kaffeeklatsch doesn't do that kind of thing anymore. I wonder how long it's been since they got rid of the old espresso machine. At least they're still in the roasting business.....

I don't even remember why I started looking for magazines published by the US government, but here's a good place to start finding them. Here's info right from the horse's mouth.....

Peace!

OK, perhaps a little jest in starting......

This joke is old, but it catches the mood so well.....:

A stranger was seated next to Little Johnny on the plane when the stranger turned to the Little Johnny and said, "Let's talk. I've heard that flights will go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger." Little Johnny, who had just opened his book, closed it slowly, and said to the stranger, "What would you like to discuss?" "Oh, I don't know," said the stranger. "How about nuclear power?" "OK," said Little Johnny. "That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat grass. The same stuff. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?" "Jeez," said the stranger. "I have no idea." "Well, then," said Little Johnny, "How is it that you feel qualified to discuss nuclear power when you don't know shit?"

It kind of started the other day when someone in the local forums at al.com brought up my workplace and asked a question about whether we were going to meltdown given the number of times we've dropped our recently restarted unit since June. I just had to respond......

In a similar vein, I was listening to NPR this morning and I heard that some musical artists (among other groups and organizations) are starting a new push to lobby against nuclear power and government provisions for loan guarantees to utilities who want to develop more nuclear assets. There are some good artists, but I am obviously a nuclear supporter and I think these folks are wrong on this issue (assuming that the government will continue to operate as it does). Anyway, they have placed material on YouTube talking about their stance. As always, I like to include BOTH sides of the story. There is a rebuttal to the nukefree.org video. This video is provided by the Nuclear Energy Institute. OK, the NEI video is not glitzy and chock full of celebrities, but check it out.

Well, I'd better run....

Y'all have a blast!