JamesSavik

Six years clean & sober today. Sometimes you have to surrender to win. That's one a hell of a lesson for someone who was taught to never quit.

I'm packed

Great whiskey! I used to enjoy Canadian Club.

It's missing our pals the Brits.

I'm one that tends to take scientific terms at their meaning. Asexual refers to the reproductive habits of microorganisms. When they have stored enough energy to reproduce, their chromosomes undergo mitosis and the cell divides. It is simply reproduction without sex and is quite ancient. Genetic diversity is achieved by bacteria sharing snippets of DNA by passing plasmids back and forth. This is also how bacteria become anti-biotic resistant so quickly. That is the definition of Asexuality. Period. End of story. Defining "asexual" as a person who isn't interested in sex is simply assigning a name to a neurosis. Freud said that the only abnormal sexuality was to have no sex at all. The more interesting question is why would a person want to define themselves as asexual and the answers become more illuminating. Social pressure/consequences Religious conflict regarding sexual desire Family Expectations sexual dysfunction Fear of disease Fear of punishment Fear of Sexual Inadequacy Unresolved trauma from sexual abuse Fear of Loss/relationship failure sexual paraphylia (interest in sexual conduct that is either illegal or too kinky to find) physical ailment (low testosterone) sexual burn-out (tired of sex)

Happy Birthday! Stay Sweet

It has always been this way. In Europe during the Middle Ages there were the so called "Great Houses" which were simply very successful families. They kept it going by only allowing marriages into other "Great Houses". This only worked for a few centuries until they were all hopelessly inbred. Now the top of the genetic pyramid goes to the Ivy League or makes millions of dollars in the NFL or NBA.

HRC = lame They sat on their ass for a year and a half while the O'bumble administration dithered. Don't want to annoy Massa with petty complaints, naw sir.

In Mississippi if you are out at work, you are out of work.

LBJ Tricky Dick Loopy Jerry the Peanut Farmer Uncle Ronny Poppy Wild Bill Curious George Barak Hussien

Stardust I. Genesis The comet 1733/Latimer was born in an ancient supernova remnant among the rack and ruin of a star and its shattered planets. For eons the magnetic and gravitational force of the pulsar left behind acted on the gas and dust like a blender keeping it hot and ionized and blowing it farther out into the emptiness between stars. Over millions of years the gas and dust of the titanic explosion began to cool, the nebulae cloud began to contract and the comet began to grow in one of the Milky Way

Happy birthday Meeko! May you find plenty of unguarded cat food.

Enter the Dragon

Harry Potter... Bah! I'm waiting for the Ron Weasley movie! Once you go ginger, you never go back.

What is it with you British laddies! Is being uber-cute like a law or something over there?

There's a 12 step group I'd like to see. Mass murderers Anonymous. MMA. Free coffee and group therapy. NO. I'm not one of those pathetic souls on a mission from God to wipe out hookers. One at a time is for rank amateurs and under-achievers. I'm talking fifty, one hundred, a thousand or a million at a time. Why do I feel like a murderer? When I first got out of college I went to work for a defense contractor. Won't say who but if you did the math you could probably figure it out. We were given a problem: How do you go from one digital map to another and keep your position precisely given a set of variables like the curve of the earth, wind speed, wind direction, speed of advance, bearing, etc. It was quite the programming challenge. It took the team I was a part of nine months to crack it. It turned out to be a key piece of the next generation of guidance systems for the Tomahawk TLAM/C & D cruise missile. It was the Cold War. The Soviets were the bogey man. You wanted your missiles to be accurate. You didn't want to park a W-80 warhead over a school. You wanted to park it over the sub pin a few blocks over. On to the next job. Years pass. The Soviet Union crumbles. The first Gulf War breaks out. Then Operation Desert Fox. Somalia. Afghanistan. The Second Gulf War. Raytheon is cranking out Tomahawks like they're having a f**king bake sale. The cruise missile: weapon of choice for first strike. Will fly through a designated window or door and blow the living shit out of anything there with a unitary warhead, cluster munitions or a mission configurable nuke. We gave them that capability because we believed that they would use it wisely and it would save lives on both sides by taking out high value targets with pin-point accuracy. In Afghanistan they used them against mud huts. It's funny how you can be damned for doing something that you believe in. Arleigh Burke class destroyer firing a Tomahawk cruise missile.

In the movie Star Trek IV the Voyage Home (1986) the crew needed a material that could hold back tons of water and whales. Scotty's answer was a substance called transparent aluminum. Funny how the Star Trek franchise just keeps getting it right. Transparent Aluminum

I like hot fudge, caramel and strawberries on my vanilla ice cream in that order. Not all at the same time. I prefer French vanilla. It is smoother and compliments the taste of the toppings better. If you've got hot fudge, pecans are great. Strawberries are best in season. When the strawberries are fresh and just right, you can make an unforgettable Sundae!

After killing key cast members in season ending cliffhangers, CSI has finally jumped the shark. CBS is premiering this season with Justin Bieber as a bad boy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5piVFEf1QA I'm sorry. I ain't buying that cup-cake as a bad boy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm1OJ0LAgt4

My old Fiji is dead and I need a new camera. There are a ton of photography enthusiasts here so... I need your advice! First- I want to spend ~$250 US. Second- I want it to be relatively simple to operate. Third- I want jpg images Fourth- I need my camera to be able to do flash indoor photos. Fifth- My camera is primarily for work purposes so that I can document my work.

It came from a nightmare. I was watching a football game and things went blank for a few seconds. Then the Emergency Broadcast System kicked in. Houston is an obvious target: hit it and you wipe out over a third of the countries refining capacity. Los Angeles is a cultural target- eg. Hollywood. The nightmare part is what it does to the rest of the country in very short order. When a state of emergency/martial law is declared, the constitution is pretty much suspended. People don't know this stuff but if something ever does happen, we're all going to find out what a nightmare it is.

This is the Emergency Broadcast Service. Please stand by for an official statement. A National Emergency has been declared by the President of the United States. Moments ago twelve nuclear detonations have been detected in Europe and the United States. London, Madrid, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Copenhagen, Vienna, Brussels, Oslo and Warsaw have been confirmed by National Strategic Reconnaissance assets to have been hit by 500 kilo-ton nuclear devices. In the United States Los Angeles and Houston have been hit by similar devices. Stay tuned to this channel for instructions specific to your area and how to protect yourself from fallout. The President has declared martial law in the United States and all of its territories. All military and National Guard personnel are instructed to join your units immediately. A national curfew of 8pm EST has been established. Please stay off the streets or you will be arrested. All telephone and network communications are hereby designated official use only for the duration of the emergency. Only local calls will be permitted and all calls are subject to monitoring. Do not attempt to approach the Houston or Los Angeles metropolitan areas under any circumstances. It appears that the nuclear weapons deployed there were seeded with cobalt which has created a band of extraordinarily lethal radiation around those cities. Doctors, nurses and anyone with emergency, military medical or paramedic training are urged to call 888FEMADOC. Please stay calm. ______________________________________________ When I have nightmares, I go all out.