It's 1970.
Vietnam is raging.
Love is free.
And so was I.
Take a bong hit and remember.
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As I'm a well known asshole under lots of stress, I've been known to use the F-word from time to time.
I drive really slow in the ultra-fast lane, While people behind me are going insane. I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole) I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, such an asshole) I use public toilets and piss on the seat, I walk around in the summertime saying "How about this heat?" I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole) I'm an asshole (He's the world's biggest asshole)
The Cure - IV
I saw the smoke plume from miles away. When I arrived, the police and fire department had the whole block cordoned off. My Midtown apartment was obviously a total loss and they are hosing down the surrounding buildings to keep it from spreading.
A young woman wearing a New Orleans Fire Department jacket approached me and asked, "Are you Sawyer from 2C?"
"Yes Mam. What happened? Mrs. Tran kept a tight ship. Everything was up to code and inspected twice a year."
Carter Tower
Houston, Tx
Jason Carter was an empire builder. From his 25th story penthouse office window, the cities of Houston and Baytown sprawled out below him as far as a man could see. As a young man of thirty he had taken moribund drilling company and through smart moves and indescribable effort had turned it into the fourth largest oil field services company in the world. All of the big oil companies did business with Carter Consolidated.
His rigs did the drilling, his pipes did
The Cure
When I arrived home Dr. Hess's information was still downloading. I walked across the street and picked up a sandwich for supper and when I got back the download had finished at a cool 27.3 Gigabytes. When I Unzipped the file, I found that I had sixty Gbytes of data meticulously organized into folders cross referenced with scanned images of the source material in the original German and Russian.
I scanned the list of patients that Dr. Hess had given me and then ran a backup rou
The Cure
I didn't know what I expected to hear from Dr. Hess. Probably something I didn't want to hear or didn't want to know.
Sources can be like that sometimes: pure bullshit or gold. You can never really be sure until you see and hear what they've got.
Hess had been my history professor when I had been in the University. His specialty was the 20th century and he was great for background. More than once his insights had put my stories in the correct context and perspective. He
Today I got the talk from my boss. His partner left the firm and he can't afford to keep me. I join the mass ranks of the unemployed.
How can this day get any worse? Add a robbery. While I was inside a convenience store a thug helped himself to my new i-Phone, debit card and a gas card.
Now I'm afraid to leave the house.
Never ask What else could go wrong. It will.
How many times do I have to get up after being floored? Just the next time.
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I bit the bullet and joined the new millennium. I bought a smart phone.
Specifically an Apple iPhone 4. It's an impressive piece of technology.
My particular iPhone has 32 Gigabytes of memory.
It is a Kindle.
It is a web enable device.
It is an iPod.
I'm pretty sure it's got a phaser if I can just figure it out.
However- I am a grown up. You'll never catch me sexting anybody. With my luck I'll send naughty pics to a wrong number that just happens to be a
Sometimes I feel horrible. Usually it hits in the cold of winter but I've got a solid blast of pain in the heat of the summer.
The stiffness and pain aren't really so bad. As far as pains go, I've had worse. It just doesn't go away for days at a time. Today its in my ankles and knees. Other times it'll be in my neck and shoulders and it is always in my neck to some extent.
I get pain fatigue. I get tired of it. Sometimes it interferes with my sleep. I only got about 4 hours last night an
Colossus - the Forbin Project (1970)
the Andromeda Strain (1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wajIliPFHk4
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I challenge some of our younger members to watch these movies and see what your parents/grand-parents were thinking about 40 years ago. You might be surprised as some of the themes have remained the same.
Saturday I saw something that I never in my wildest dreams thought that I would see: Atlas Shrugged on the big screen- in a full theater. It was amazing. They did a very good job with it. Placing it in the near future amid soaring energy prices, a collapsing economy and clueless politicians colluding to make their friends rich and to punish anyone else made it... chilling.
Guess what? The Gulf is open for deep water drilling again. Guess who is first in line to do the drilling? An American c
This one goes out to the one I love This one goes out to the one I left behind A simple prop - to occupy my time This one goes out to the one I love Chorus: Fireaaahh (2x) This one goes out to the one I love This one goes out to the one I left behind A simple prop - to occupy my time This one goes out to the one I love Chorus (2x) This one goes out to the one I love This one goes out to the one I left behind Another prop - has occupied my time This one goes out to the one I love ___________
The walls are built up, stone by stone, the fields divided one by one. And the train conductor says "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break We've been on this shift too long" And the train conductor says "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away" I saw a treehouse on the outskirts of the farm. The power lines have floaters so the airplanes won't get snagged. Bells are ringing through the town again, Children look up, all they
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock, speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height, down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team report
The Influence of Sea Power on History 1660-1783 by Mahan is certainly one of the most influential books of modern history.
The period of time that it covers- the Napoleonic War, American Revolution showcase the rise of British seapower and its limitations.
It has been read and studied by generations of officers at military academies and has influenced military men and politicians serving under numerous flags.
The doctrine of one huge battle to own the sea lanes won the first World W
Radiohead Releasing 12" For Record Store Day
March 28, 2011 12:36 p.m. by Andrew Martin
Source Link: Prefix
I know, right? MoreRadiohead news? Well, hey, it's not our fault that the dudes put out their own freakin' newspaper and are dropping their latest album, The King of Limbs, in stores tomorrow. Apparently, they want to make 2011 "the year of Radiohead" as they're also releasing a 12" single on Record Store Day next month. It will feature two new tracks, "Supercollider" and "The Butche
X-Ray Emissions from Perseus Cluster Solve a Dark Matter Mystery
Source Link:Daily Galaxy
Galaxy clusters are millions of light-years across, and most of their normal matter comes in the form of hot X-ray-emitting gas that fills the space between the galaxies. The Japanese X-Ray space satellite Suzaku explored faint X-ray emission of hot gas across two swaths of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster and made a discovery that solved a vexing mystery.
"Understanding the content of normal, bayronic ma
