Batman this Weekend
i heard that alot of theaters are already selling out of tickets for Batman: Dark Knight this weekend -- some are already completely sold out, which is just crazy... so i stopped yesterday and picked up two tickets for tomorrow afternoon for jayden and me, just in case... been trying like hell to avoid all the damn commercials so when i finally do see it, it'll be all fresh for me... hasn't been easy though, that's for damn sure.
i'm really starting to get amped up though... so how many of you are not going to see it this weekend?
update: going to see it with my son today around 3pm... can't wait!
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New FooWatch?
since i seem to be having one of those weeks, it only makes sense that on some fluke chance i managed to break the band of my watch just by rolling out of bed... no, really... weirdest thing... literally rolled over and "damn, you're kidding me!" --- so i was just looking around for a new watch and settled pretty quick on this one, the Diesel - DZ7092:
man, is that not one of the coolest fucking watches you've ever layed eyeballs on or what?! i also got a grin over this handcuff watch -- great gift for the gurlies, wouldn't you say? heh.
p.s. jeff, if you order my watch i'm so going to paper bomb your cube dude... but thanks for mentioning it over lunch!
*** insert evil chuckle ***
The Pickens Plan
America is addicted to foreign oil... why we need the Pickens Plan!
It's an addiction that threatens our economy, our environment and our national security. It touches every part of our daily lives and ties our hands as a nation and a people.
The addiction has worsened for decades and now it's reached a point of crisis.
In 1970, we imported 24% of our oil.
Today it's nearly 70% and growing.
As imports grow and world prices rise, the amount of money we send to foreign nations every year is soaring. At current oil prices, we will send $700 billion dollars out of the country this year alone — that's four times the annual cost of the Iraq war.
Projected over the next 10 years the cost will be $10 trillion — it will be the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind.
America uses a lot of oil. Every day 85 million barrels of oil are produced around the world. And 21 million of those are used here in the United States.
That's 25% of the world's oil demand. Used by just 4% of the world's population.
Can't we just produce more oil?
World oil production peaked in 2005. Despite growing demand and an unprecedented increase in prices, oil production has fallen over the last three years. Oil is getting more expensive to produce, harder to find and there just isn't enough of it to keep up with demand.
The simple truth is that cheap and easy oil is gone.
What's the good news?The United States is the Saudi Arabia of wind power.
Studies from around the world show that the Great Plains states are home to the greatest wind energy potential in the world — by far.
The Department of Energy reports that 20% of America's electricity can come from wind. North Dakota alone has the potential to provide power for more than a quarter of the country.
Today's wind turbines stand up to 410 feet tall, with blades that stretch 148 feet in length. The blades collect the wind's kinetic energy. In one year, a 3-megawatt wind turbine produces as much energy as 12,000 barrels of imported oil.
Wind power currently accounts for 48 billion kWh of electricity a year in the United States — enough to serve more than 4.5 million households. That is still only about 1% of current demand, but the potential of wind is much greater.
A 2005 Stanford University study found that there is enough wind power worldwide to satisfy global demand 7 times over — even if only 20% of wind power could be captured.
Building wind facilities in the corridor that stretches from the Texas panhandle to North Dakota could produce 20% of the electricity for the United States at a cost of $1 trillion. It would take another $200 billion to build the capacity to transmit that energy to cities and towns.
That's a lot of money, but it's a one-time cost. And compared to the $700 billion we spend on foreign oil every year, it's a bargain.
doesn't seem so hard or difficult when layed out like that, now does it? hopefully the next president can dropkick Congress in the nuts into getting something going... if it was up to me, i'd fire every single person in congress and start over... i'd also implement only one term per senator, two for congressmen.
p.s. Sex, blood and baby names: U.S. mad for free gas
(hat tip: dad)
More Iraqi Ironies
it's been one of those weeks... flat tires, getting stuck in traffic for 4 hours on my way home the other night, getting sick with some wicked stomach virus... but hey, at least it's friday! you know what that means... More Iraqi Ironies
There is by now only one constant in the entire sad Iraqi saga since the brilliant three-week victory of 2003, and the subsequent violent reconstruction that followed. In our collective exasperation almost all the bad news from the front is due to someone else's stupidity; any good reports are always the result of one's own insight and sobriety. The result is irony, but also amnesia about what was written and said in the recent past. Consider the paradoxes we've witnessed.
We were paralyzed for a year over Ambassador Joe Wilson's carnival-like mission, in part due to the prompt of his wife at the CIA Valerie Plame, to find out whether Niger sold, or tried to sell, yellowcake to Saddam. Meanwhile unmentioned is the fact that all the time 1.2 million pounds of yellowcake continued to sit in a warehouse in pre- and postwar Iraq. We chose a special prosecutor to find the culprit who, in some sort of supposed conspiratorial retaliation to Wilson's flamboyant but erroneous claims, divulged the employment status of his wife. The result is that the special prosecutor found the culpable party, but ensured that he is free from indictment, and indicted and convicted the person who, we know, did not first divulge Ms. Plame's identity — the object of the original inquiry.
The war was initially damned as a naked effort to grab cheap, accessible Middle Eastern oil. The war is now damned as naïve and foolish in empowering our enemies to manipulate and sell high-priced Middle Eastern oil.
Iraq is considered a puppet state when its officials express a desire for a continued U.S. presence to transition it to full security; it is considered fully autonomous when one of its politicians talks of a desire for us to leave promptly.
Iraq was supposedly failing because it lacked the proper model of the truly multilateral, U.N.-fully- sanctioned, NATO-led effort in Afghanistan, where we fought al-Qaeda on the proper ground on which they had planned 9/11. And now? The failed war in Iraq has succeeded and the good war may have turned bad?
good stuff to munch on, as usual..... heh.
$1000 on Beer?
Man spent $1,000 a week on beer?
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man convicted of his seventh drink-driving charge was spending about A$1,000 ($972) a week on beer -- enough to buy more than 2,500 small bottles a month, a newspaper said Tuesday.
The heartbroken construction worker began drowning his sorrows after breaking up with his partner five years ago, the Northern Territory News said, quoting his defense lawyer as telling a court in Australia's remote, tropical north.
The magistrate declined to jail the father of four, Michael Leary, noting he had quit drinking since his latest arrest, but he banned Leary from buying or even holding a beer for 12 months.
The magistrate also poked fun at Leary's favorite beer, Melbourne Bitter, in a part of the country where drinkers can be as loyal to beer brands as they are to football teams.
holy shit man, now that is ALOT of beer!!!!!! wow, i'm totally impressed... *blink*
Stripper, 80, Still Taking Her Clothes Off
Tempest Storm is fuming. Her fingers tremble with frustration. They are aged, knotted by arthritis and speckled with purple spots under paper skin.
*shudder*
Nazi Massacre Overlooked
German probes overlooked Nazi massacre in France
MAILLE, France - For most of France, Aug. 25, 1944, was the joyous day that Allied troops liberated Paris from the Nazis. For this village in the Loire valley, it was a day of horror.
Retreating German troops massacred 124 of Maille's 500 residents then razed the town, possibly in retaliation for Resistance action in the region, according to local archives. Forty-four children were among the dead, the youngest just 4 months old.
Now a German investigator is drawing new attention to the forgotten chapter of World War II. Dortmund prosecutor Ulrich Maass began a three-day visit to Maille on Tuesday to interview survivors and dig through archives as part of his probe into the killings.
"I am ashamed about what the Germans did here, and I apologize," Maass told townspeople.
Mauricette Garnier, who was 9 at the time, recalled that when local people heard gunfire that day, many initially thought it was part of the celebrations as news traveled from Paris about the liberation.
Her mother and two brothers were among those slain in the village.
"I saw them slit the throat of my 20-month-old brother, and kill my mother at close range," she said. "I will never forgive. This inquiry comes much too late."
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.
p.s. did you know that their has been over 11,000 terrorist attacks or "incidents" since 9/11?
Strawberries and Cream
i was just playing around with the web sharing menu, or Launchpad On-Page, and thought i'd try adding it to a quick blog post with a video... even though you typically wouldn't use the On-Page sharing menu for a flash video, since you can simply wrap it and add sharing to the flash widget... alot cleaner that way, but whatever... just messing around here.
again, just playing and testing it out... probably wouldn't do it this way on a typical blog post, or share a flash video like this... but shit, it's actually first time i've tried adding it here... heh.
New Xbox Experience
now that i've seen more photos of this new xbox experience (NXE), i feel slightly torn about it... on the one hand, i actually like the "coverflow" style direction over the current "blades" interface -- but i worry that they'll end up slapping in some half-assed advertisements somewhere and just fuck it all up... looks like it still needs some polish, too... and i really couldn't give a shit about these "avatars", which suddenly seems all centric to everything. ugh.
can't wait to check it out when it's released in a couple months, though.
Wuddup Bungie???
think i first saw mention of it somewhere yesterday, but seriously.... does anybody have a clue about what's up with bungie's website?
it's got me all curious, especially with E3 going on right now... maybe it's some quirky new game they're hinting at, or just something to fuck with bungie fans heads for a bit -- the sadistic bastards.
Pot, Our Pastime
An American Pastime: Smoking Pot ....seriously, do you actually not know anybody that smokes marijuana?!?
The Netherlands, with its permissive marijuana laws, may be known as the cannabis capital of the world. But a survey published this month in PLoS Medicine, a journal of the Public Library of Science, suggests that the Dutch don't actually experiment with pot as much as one would expect. Despite tougher drug policies in this country, Americans were twice as likely to have tried marijuana than the Dutch, according to the survey. In fact, Americans were more likely to have tried marijuana or cocaine than people in any of the 16 other countries, including France, Spain, South Africa, Mexico and Colombia, that the survey covered.
Researchers found that 42% of people surveyed in the United States had tried marijuana at least once, and 16% had tried cocaine. About 20% of residents surveyed in the Netherlands, by contrast, reported having tried pot; in Asian countries, such as Japan and China, marijuana use was virtually "non-existent," the study found. New Zealand was the only other country to claim roughly the same percentage of pot smokers as the U.S., but no other nation came close to the proportion of Americans who reported trying cocaine.
Women arrested in sex competition
ATHENS (Reuters) - Nine British women were facing prostitution charges after being arrested at the weekend for taking part in an oral sex competition in the Greek holiday island of Zakynthos, police said on Monday.
awesome....... heh.
Scanimation, Cat
now this is pretty slick... how the hell somebody did this, and by that i mean had the time to chill out and do it, is almost beyond me... seriously, seems so simple, right?
p.s. 10 Great Places to Find Hilarious T Shirts
(hat tip: donrico)
Pic of the Day
was just browsing through some maxim and here's one of many photos that caught my eye... maybe it's the lighting in this one that had me leaning back for a moment, soaking it in.
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