WHOA!

That is easily the most metal song ever...simply because it's a national anthem. ...wow.

Coming to Denver is neato. I can't recall if Bonnie will be in Santa Fe during that time or not, but I'll be around and down for anything (except Ethiopian food)

Josh: Cub fans are mostly losing their shit, especially after the Harden trade and sweeping the Brewers in 4 in Milwaukee. I bet that there are just fewer Cub fans in Oregon. As for myself...this team is maybe the best in baseball, definitely the best in the NL, so I expect them to make the playoffs. Until then, I'm keeping the emotions in check. Playoffs are a big crapshoot no matter how good you are.

Neat quote after the most recent Cubs win over the Brewers:

"No one is happy after a game like this," Brewers manager Ned Yost said. "We don't like the fact that we allowed their fans to come into our park and have a four-day party. But that's our fault."

BTW, Ned Yost is rivaled in managerial stupidity only by former Cub skipper Dusty Baker, currently at the helm for Luken's Reds.

Brutal Lyrics

So I've whited out a few of the lines that would give it away, but can any of you guess who wrote this song?

We swear by the lightning that destroys,
By the streams of generous blood being shed,
By the bright flags that wave,
Flying proudly on the high djebels,
That we are in revolt, whether to live or to die,
We are determined that Algeria should live,
So be our witness -be our witness -be our witness!


We are soldiers in revolt for truth
And we have fought for our independence.
When we spoke, nobody listened to us,
So we have taken the noise of gunpowder as our rhythm
And the sound of machine guns as our melody,
We are determined that Algeria should live,
So be our witness -be our witness -be our witness!


From our heroes we shall make an army come to being,
From our dead we shall build up a glory,
Our spirits shall ascend to immortality
And on our shoulders we shall raise the Standard.
To the nation's Liberation Front we have sworn an oath,
We are determined that Algeria should live,
So be our witness -be our witness -be our witness!


The cry of the Fatherland sounds from the battlefields.
Listen to it and answer the call!
Let it be written with the blood of martyrs
And be read to future generations.
Oh, Glory, we have held out our hand to you,
We are determined that Algeria should live,
So be our witness -be our witness -be our witness!

So get this, that is the Algerian national anthem. That is just brutal. There is no way they will ever have peace if they have national anthems like that.

Sweet

Logan: that sounds awesome!! I just quit my job today and don't have another lined up so we can job search together while you are here!!

Dustin & Ani: Great! I'm glad you'll be around and thank you so much for offering to let us stay at your place. I'll figure out for sure what we are doing pretty soon.

Kim: I want to see you and Lindy living together and also I'd like to witness Mikey too! I'm sure we'll find some time to hang out. Don't worry.

We are going to be in Estes Park for a Bremer family reunion, but you are all welcome to come and spend a day/night with us there. Let me know if you'd be interested because that would be awesome.

I'm very excited to see all of you.

Shit shit.

Mikey and I are going to Love's Labours Lost at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival on the 15th. So I hope I can hang out with you guys the 14th and meet up with you guys after the play on the 15th. Okay?

At

Holler.
I will be present, Josh and Gloria. You can witness Lindy and me living together. You may also witness Mikey if you would like. I will go where you tell me. Since you will be in Estes, we could also go hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park. I have a park pass so if we all go in my car, we can all go for free. Or I will travel to Denver or meet you in Boulder (Cosmo's Pizza and Bova's).
Oodles of Poodles,
Kim

Gloria + Josh

Sweet dudes!!

Ani and I will be around. You can stay at our place if you want to stay in Denver any nights.

What are you going to Estes Park for?

Travel

My last day of work is the 15th. We should drive back to Portland together... meaning I'll load your car up with shit and we can give each other sexy smiles through our rear-view mirrors.

We'll be in town!

Josh and I are coming to Colorado, we'll be in estes park Aug 9-13th. Then we have the 14th and 15th that we'll be in Boulder/Denver/Colorado Springs. We'd like to see everybody! What's everyone up to those days? Could we all meet somewhere?

TED Talks are amazing.

If you have not heard of TED you should indulge your intellect and peruse the site. They are free, interesting talks about a wide range of subjects.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia

Alisa Miller: Why we know less than ever about the world

And if you make it through those without getting sidetracked on the site, then you can continue your exploration with the Top 10 TED Talks.

Have a wonderful journey!

Here, here

Russia!

I will help move

Poor Mikey. That hernia was gross.

This week, Bob Novak taught us what it really means to be a compassionate conservative. I couldn't BELIEVE how well he fit his stereotype.

Moving is the worst thing ever.

That is a poor way to advertise my proposal, but if you come help me move from south Boulder to Lindy's house in central Boulder this Sunday, I will buy you pizza and alcohol, or whatever kind of take out or delivery or reasonably priced sit-down food you like.
Of course, moving is terrible, so I understand if you don't want to. Also, Mikey got a hernia and a hernia surgery as a present last time he helped me move. Then a month later he got a face surgery. Maybe you should not help me move. Except if you love Cosmo's or Khow Thai or something like that.
Help computer.

YouTube Violence

Don't watch the third one if you don't like broken and horribly contorted limbs or pro wrestlers with dumb hair.

/puke

so hot

wtf...?

huh

Ya Ya BEC...

I did not forget, but LHC is massive and a sustained temperature, and not using laser trickery.

Mikey's birthday

Hello. Tomorrow is Mikey's birthday. We're having a BBQ in his back yard. It will be fun. There will be no meat (you can bring your own), but there will be lots of veggie food and beer. Come!

Aren't you guys worried that the LHC will create a black hole that will engulf our entire galaxy?!?

P.S. I really hope they do the google earth pictures on 4/20 next year.

Um, Kevin, dude

The LHC is far, far, far from being the coldest place in the universe. Look familiar?. (Although MIT now actually holds the record for the coldest BEC. But still, 2 nano Kelvin is a factor of a billion colder than 2 Kelvin...)

If you squint really hard I think you can make out a short red head that's angry with one of his students.

But yeah, LHC is still pretty awesome.

I can't get enough!

The LHC blows my mind, daily.

Quick summary:The coldest place in the universe.

All you want to know:Scientific America Article

The countdown!

Anyone seen anything else about this?

AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Bed

It is a full size mattress with a customized bed frame..sweet dude

She can send pictures if you want.

LOST fix

Ok, I found some stuff...WARNING, THIS STUFF I'M ABOUT TO POST IS SLIGHTLY SPOILERISH, BUT I'M NOT GIVING AWAY ACTUAL EVENTS, JUST INFORMATION ABOUT A CHARACTER(S) THAT IS STILL SPECULATION BASED ON AN INTERVIEW WITH A CAST MEMBER.

The cute girl that gave Ben the dolls, Annie

An interview with someone involving a slip of the tongue.

P.S. It's a long skinny 8" with a swollen head.

I am the best birthday boy! I've done something different every day at my new job, so it'll be a while before I can explain it. I would say 1/3 lobbyist, 1/3 cog, and 1/3 speech writer.

You mean like a bed frame?

Or a mattress? What size is it? What does it look like?

A bed to lease for free

Ani has a bed she has had forever. Her dad is moving and we need to figure out what to do with it. Does anyone need a bed?

Ani says it is custom made and NICE!!!!

John, you need a bed?

Happy Birthday, John!

You are the best birthday boy ever.

huh

This is my boss: watch the video


This is what we are
researching.

and here is their corporate web-page

It's not as far along as it may seem though....

John

Please tell more about your new respectable job.

I start my new respectable job tomorrow. The first day or two will be in Denver....so if yall wanted to chill tomorrow night...

don't think so...

you coming up?

Anyone got any plans monday or sunday night in Denver?

More Important: Baby Panda/Kitten Mash-up!

Here

PS. Wesley Clark: If you're VP, you'll have to be around real black people. No more fist-pounds with Beardy McCastro while waiting for your latte.



'Kast keep it jumpin' like kangaroos.

Settle Down Now

Anyone digging achewood should check out the New Yorker interview with Chris Onstad.

As to the FISA capitulation, I am pretty annoyed that Obama didn't take a more definite stand. This is not the bill to use for centrist posturing. Here's to Wes Clark as VP so he won't have to pussyfoot around all the bullshit claims that he's weak on Foreign Policy.

FDR

That's a bold statement son. We'll see about that.

Well, it's not like I'm not going to vote for him. We'll see...I just don't want him to succumb to being just another politician like Clinton. I used to respect her.

Whiplash

It also said in the article that he introduced an amendment to the bill to get rid of the immunity clause, so it's not like he totally caved.

Besides, as Josh said, he's still mostly on the right side of most other issues. I still think he's the best thing to happen to politics here in a long long time and I think he'll do more for America and the world than any president has done since FDR. He's smart as hell and seems to really understand the intricacies of complex issues, even if he doesn't always vote the way I'd like. His fast ascent in politics and the movement he has built shows that he knows how to play the politics game better than anybody. You want that sort of guy to be president if you mostly agree with him most of the time.

On the lighter side of the presidential race: Obama prefers poker while McCain goes for craps. Do you really want somebody that believes that betting systems can let you win in craps to have half a chance to be president?

69 to 28?

I'd look into this bill a little more. That seems like a very high vote for something as shady as wiretapping. I bet its a lot more complicated than it sounds. Plus, while you may disagree, that's only one issue out of a thousand. Wait until he proposes five more years of Iraq to take off the sticker.

Yup....I'm taking my Barrack Obama sticker off my car

Voting for this is absolute
b.s.

Even Clinton voted against it.....!!!

Pwnage!

http://www.badscience.net/2008/06/all-time-classic-creationist-pwnage/

woah

I'd call that a pretty big fucking gaffe

Also, map quest is so motherfuckin' dead it's not even funny

Mapquest

Who else gets really annoyed when a website says "Map this!" and the link goes to an embedded Mapquest window and not Google Maps? Seriously Mapquest is DEAD. Compared to gmaps its not even usable.

Nice

SF

A blast from the past

President Bush Addresses the Nation
The Oval Office

March 19, 2003

10:16 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.

On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war. These are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign. More than 35 countries are giving crucial support -- from the use of naval and air bases, to help with intelligence and logistics, to the deployment of combat units. Every nation in this coalition has chosen to bear the duty and share the honor of serving in our common defense.

To all the men and women of the United States Armed Forces now in the Middle East, the peace of a troubled world and the hopes of an oppressed people now depend on you. That trust is well placed.

The enemies you confront will come to know your skill and bravery. The people you liberate will witness the honorable and decent spirit of the American military. In this conflict, America faces an enemy who has no regard for conventions of war or rules of morality. Saddam Hussein has placed Iraqi troops and equipment in civilian areas, attempting to use innocent men, women and children as shields for his own military -- a final atrocity against his people.

I want Americans and all the world to know that coalition forces will make every effort to spare innocent civilians from harm. A campaign on the harsh terrain of a nation as large as California could be longer and more difficult than some predict. And helping Iraqis achieve a united, stable and free country will require our sustained commitment.

We come to Iraq with respect for its citizens, for their great civilization and for the religious faiths they practice. We have no ambition in Iraq, except to remove a threat and restore control of that country to its own people.

I know that the families of our military are praying that all those who serve will return safely and soon. Millions of Americans are praying with you for the safety of your loved ones and for the protection of the innocent. For your sacrifice, you have the gratitude and respect of the American people. And you can know that our forces will be coming home as soon as their work is done.

Our nation enters this conflict reluctantly -- yet, our purpose is sure. The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder. We will meet that threat now, with our Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines, so that we do not have to meet it later with armies of fire fighters and police and doctors on the streets of our cities.

Now that conflict has come, the only way to limit its duration is to apply decisive force. And I assure you, this will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome but victory.

My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail.

May God bless our country and all who defend her.

Nice

I posted this a long time ago, but it was in keeping with Drew's post.

Neato

Living Graffiti

Has the time come?

California to Legalize Weed for Everyone

Driving Near the Bee Truck

When it tipped over is essentially my worst nightmare. I drive with my windows open...

The Bees!! THE BEES!!!

ahhhhhhhh!!!!