Not quite a photo, photo Friday – 3/16/12

So, I know I usually put up photos here on Friday but I saw this the other day and new that I had to post .

This is not a photo, it a drawing done in graphite.  Pretty freaking amazing if you ask me.  Hope you all enjoy it.

Freckles - Elvis882

You can see how amazing it is.  To get a better understanding of the art view the full size here.

As always, I did not draw this, I am just showcasing artists who most likely don’t get enough recognition.  View all of this persons work here.

Have a great weekend all, be safe, have fun, and drink lots of Jameson for me!

Thursday’s random thoughts, Vol 14

It’s Thursday, no introduction needed.  Enjoy.

∞ Beware the Ides of March.

∞ Is basketball over yet?  Ugh, I hate all this NCAA March nonsense.

∞ Everyone should be non-monogamous, what a happy place the world would be.  This way I could just ask my extremely sexy, awesomely funny hair stylist out for some post haircut fun!  Seriously though, it would be awesome if her and her husband were in the Lifestyle.  Wonder if there is a way I can ask?

∞ I often wonder why doctors offices even give appointment times.  If they tell you to be there at 2:00, I kind of expect to see the doctor within 15 minutes.  If the doctor isn’t going to see me till 4:00, why do I have to be there for 2 hours.  I know that they are busy people and not all appointment will take the same amount of time, but really?  This is why I always like to make my appointments for first thing in the morning, if you are one of the first people there, not a whole of people before you to hold things up.  Damn, now my secrets out…

∞ It is more than apparent that I suck at chit-chat and interpersonal relationships in general.  Its a good thing I am married.  I tried t strike up a conversation the other day with a girl while waiting in line for my coffee.  She was nice and we seemed to be doing pretty good as far as conversing.  Then suddenly it went down hill, seems that I just cant hold a persons interest.  How I ended up married in the first place is a complete mystery.  That is the nice thing about swinging, my wife is good at this sort of thing, without I would probably never get naked.

∞ So our super religious neighbor was over the other night complaining about her husband and pretty much how she hates her life.  She kept making off-hand comments and then laughing them off saying it was something she could never do.  The wife and I kept looking at each other, winking, and smiling.  They were all thing we routinely do as swingers.  Silly vanillas.

∞ I’m super happy!  I just found out that both Ally McBeal and The X-Files are finally on Netflix streaming!!!  I know what I’m doing this weekend!

∞ Ladies help me out.  Something I have always wondered and never thought to ask.  When you wear skirts or dresses and have to use the restroom what do you do?  Do you life the skirt up, or pull it down?  I have to know!

∞ We should really be allowed to drink beer like we can soda at work.  It would make the day so much more interesting.

∞ Have you watched the videos from yesterday post yet?  You really should!  Go now, I’ll wait….

Well that’s all for this week, stay tuned for more mindless drivel and crap next week.

Oh and I hope you all have a great, happy, safe Drunken Irish Day!  Happy St Patrick’s all.

Happy Pi Day

I found these two videos the other day and have been meaning to post them.  I have been a little busy and just have not gotten around to it.  However, I figured that today would be a good day so I found a few minutes to write this up.

First off, Happy Pi Day everyone!  As you may have noticed I am also just geeky enough that I posted this at 1:59 PDT, yeah I am that geeky!

On to the meat of it.  I am sure that a lot of you have seen the kony video circulating the internet, don’t worry, I am not going to post it here.  I have issues with that video.  Sure the atrocities that it brings to light are horrendous, but people have been aware of him for quite some time.  This is not a new thing.  The world governments, the UN, and several others agencies have been working hard over the past decade to bring him to justice.  It is being taken care of, enough said.

The thing that bothers me about that video is how fast people took notice and turned into a cause that we all needed to follow.  I disagree, like I said it is being handled and that brings me to my point.  The videos below that I am posting are something far more serious and something that needs our full attention.  The lack of motivation, education, and common sense when it comes to science and innovation here in the US.

I am sure that most of you know that what was once the greatest space program and agency in the world is now a shadow of its former self.  What people may not realize is how much NASA did for our country.  Not only did they put a man on the moon, launch a telescope that has allowed us to see further and farther into the universe, and help establish a place for people to live in space, NASA allowed our country to prosper, to innovate, and to dream.  Dream to do things that no one had ever done before, and not only that, but dream up the ways to make the impossible possible.

I would have loved to have been alive during the years we were launching rockets into space and placing footprints on the moon.  Not only to be able to  live through a great prosperous time in our country, but to live during a time where science education was important.  A time when math and science weren’t pushed to the back to make sure that our school children know how to fill in a bubble for a standardized test.  Sure our children may be doing better on their tests, but they are losing out on what it means to dream.  It is high time that science be brought back out of the closet.  You do realize that you can teach a child how to read and teach them science at the same time right?  Teach them how to read out of the science textbook.  Like the bumper stickers say, what our schools really need is a moment of science.

We start at making science important again, at the same time we start in on our representatives in government to restore and increase NASA’s budget.  Charge NASA with doing the impossible.  This will do more than get us to Mars.  I will force our country to learn, to innovate, to design, and to produce technology.  It will increase our patriotism, it will strengthen our economy, and will once again place the US at the top of the world.  We need to dream.

Nor more than ever we need to dream.  We need to make this issue overshadow all others.  I know I don’t have a whole lot of readers, but for those of you that I do have I hope you can help me.  Below I have posted a video that contains clips of speeches and interviews by Neil DeGrasse Tyson.  Dr. Tyson has pretty much made it his charge to return innovation to our country through science and space exploration.  It is this video that needs to go viral.  It is this video that needs to be pasted all over Twitter and Facebook.  It is this video that needs to be talked about on NPR and all other media outlets.  This video proves that we have indeed stopped dreaming and it is the video that everyone needs to see so that we may all start dreaming once again.

I also wanted to post this one.  I love the way he describes this.  I was lucky enough last year to hear a lecture by Dr. Tyson.  Out of all the things he said that night, this has stuck with me, it is a beautiful idea.

I hope you all have a great Pi Day.  Lets make it a memorable one, repost, share, reblog, whatever.  Lets get this video seen, lets start dreaming.

Photo Friday – 3/9/12

Hello all, I think I have a cool photo for this week.  I love pictures that are taken at night.  It would seem that night photography and long exposure photography is starting to catch on a little more.  I found this picture and since it is also taken in one of my favorite cities I wanted to post it.  Hope you all like it.  Have a great a weekend!

Traffic - Don Hoekwater

The small size doesn’t really do it justice, check out the full photo here.

As always, credit needs to be given to the photographer.  Check out more of his work.

Thursday’s random thoughts, Vol 13

Well it’s Thursday.  I’m thinking.  It’s random.  That could only mean one thing, it’s the TRT!

And as a quick side note, this will make for post number (drum roll)…. 70!  Whoo hoo!!!  Thanks to all my readers, I do appreciate you reading this.

Enjoy.

∞ Sometimes I get tired of seeing the same old ads on my favorite webpages.  The easiest way that I have found to fix this?  Google random things.  I do this throughout the day.  I google so often, that when ever ever I need to find something, before I search what I am looking for I’ll also look up glass dildos.  After a day of doing this, all new ads!

∞ I was looking at some photos the other day and I came across a dozen or so photos of fireflies.  I have never in my life seen a firefly.  I would like to.

∞ I was watching a UFEA match the other day and they did a flyover of the stadium that they were playing at.  This soccer stadium was as big as most US football stadiums.  It is my hope that someday the soccer stadiums here in the US will look like that.

∞ Speaking of… 2 days till 2012 First Kick, the start of the MLS season!  Go Rapids!

∞ I had to laugh this morning.  When I came out of my garage there was a random truck parked in front of my driveway, running.  I looked for quite some time to figure out who it belonged to.  About 15 minutes later I see someone 6 houses up running down the street.  Turns out parking brakes really do keep your vehicle from driving away without you.  No one was hurt, nothing was damaged, said neighbor, a pretty lucky guy.

∞ I really hope that if it comes down to it, the people who think that Santorum is a good guy, well they will pull their heads out of their asses.  Politicians usually don’t scare me.  This guy does.

∞ So…  Any of you want to send me a new iPad?  I know there has to be at least one of you that does!  Email me and I’ll be more than happy to give you my mailing address, thanks!

∞ I really wish people would get educated and quit blaming the government for the price of the gas.  Not only do we still have it pretty good here in the US (last time I checked fuel in England was about double what it is here).  Sure $4 a gallon sucks, but the solution is not drilling for more oil.  Not a whole lot of people know this, but for the first time in a long time the US is actually exporting more finished gas than we import.  So you see production is clearly not the the issue.  The issue arises from asshats who speculate on how much money a barrel of oil can get them.  Add in the trouble in the middle east and throw in some European debt crisis, bingo, you pay more at the pump.

∞ Science is cool  I am sure that some of you have heard about the huge solar storm that is smacking into our happy little planet right now.  Well a coworker of mine was wondering if we would be able to see the Northern Lights here in Nevada.  I doubted that she would but I wanted to find out for sure.  After looking around for a few minutes I came across the NOAA pages for Tips on Viewing the Aurora and well as the Space Weather Prediction Center.  Turns out we are about 250-300 miles to far south, oh well maybe next time…

∞ So the other day the wife was wearing some tight workout pants.  Not only do they make her ass look amazing, sometimes, just sometimes you catch a little peak of the camel toe.  When I told her about it she asked me why some guys find camel toe sexy, she finds it rather gross.  As I explained to her, my reasoning behind it is that camel toe is like crotch cleavage.  As I have mentioned I work in a place where I get to see a lot of girls throughout the day.  I see a lot of boob cleavage.  Tits are always there out in plain view, it is just a fact of life.  However most girls I know don’t wear low fitting shorts that are low enough that you get to see the top of their girly parts.  So on that rare occasion when you do spot a camel toe in the wild, its like getting a peak of something you don’t normally get to see.

And that’s all!  Stay tuned for volume 14, same time, same place.

Photo Friday – 3/2/12

Something different for today.  I saw this picture on Reddit yesterday and knew that it was the one to post.  I really really liked it and I wanted to make sure that I gave credit where credit was due so I started to track down the source.  This wasn’t all that easy, but when I finally found it I learned something pretty cool.  The following photo was taken in 1947.  This photo right here is pretty good proof that what makes a good photographer is the person behind the lens, not the equipment they are using.

I hope you all enjoy this weeks post.

Lady in the Water - Toni Frissell

Here is a larger size of the photo.

And here is a link to the page where I found information about it.

It’s Thursday…

Well, it’s Thursday.  I don’t really have too many random thoughts for the day so I am canceling this weeks TRT.  I know, I know, I am pretty sad too.  I did however want to post something so I give you a few quotes instead.

∞ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” – Bertrand Russell

∞ “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” – Winston Churchill

∞ “Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.” – Albert Einstein

∞ “And I don’t care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow—a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.” – Neil DeGrasse Tyson

∞ “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs

∞ “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” – Sir Isaac Newton

∞ “I wish we didn’t live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.” – C. S. Lewis

∞ “Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate … Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

∞ “And I think that if God did exist, he had many children. I think Jesus proves this. Jesus must be the seventh son of God: A-sus, B-sus, C-sus, D-sus, E-sus, F-sus, G-sus. That’s just logic. That’s just mathematical.” – Eddie Izzard

∞ “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

Photo Friday – 2/24/12

Because its different, and I like different.

Unknown - Kyle Cassidy

View more of the artists work here.

Happy Friday everyone, enjoy your weekends.

Cannibalism…

I don’t usually do posts like this, but I saw this picture today and almost spit coffee all over my displays.  I had to share.

Yay for cannibal women.

Thursday’s random thoughts, Vol 12

Well it’s Thursday and that is good news on a few levels.  First, I get to write down a few random thoughts.  Second, that means that tomorrow is Friday and this week of hell will finally be over.

Not much on my mind today, but here we go!

∞ I really truly honestly despise my boss.  He is such an micromanaging idiot that I cant even bare to look at him most of the time.  When I do all I feel is hatred.  It makes me hate my job.  Without him around I would love it here.  So since I cant say this without getting fired, and I cant really get fired right now, “FUCK YOU *** ****!!!  Asshole.”

∞ A good fiend of mine recently stumbled across a pretty good definition of life, “I hate being torn between what I want and what is realistic.”

∞ All of the GOP candidates scare the crap out of me.  Most because of their social policies.  They could have the answer on how to fix the economy and in the process make me a billion dollars and I still would not vote for any of them.  I honestly do not feel that we should be electing people based on their skewed views of “family values.”  There is also the matter of separation of church and state. There is a reason we have this.  A person should not be allowed to mention their fictitious god while talking about politics, especially is they are running to be the leader of this country.

∞ Speaking of the above, I say this today on reddit, I think it sums it up quite nicely.

∞ I overheard someone say today, “I hate reading all this ‘crappy old literature’!  Chaucer, Twain, Hemingway, Dickens, they’re all boring authors.”  Really?  That right there, that is what is wrong with today’s young and stupid.

∞ I saw a great T-shirt on the web today.  It read, “Swingers: They play well with others.”  Tee hee hee…

∞ One of my greatest friends in the world told me today that him and his wife had an impromptu conversation about threesomes last night.  Turns out that before they were married they had both engaged in one.  This has got him thinking.  He wants to know what else she may be into.  He says it not because he wants to share his wife, but that he is simply curious.  He says he just wants to make sure that she knows he ins’t a prude and that if the situation ever came up, we would more than happy to participate.  Sounds like a prelude to a “hey honey, lets be swingers” conversation to me.

And that is all.  Have a good day everyone.