JamesSavik

I'm not sure if that dance was safe at all...

Louisville, MS

This interesting road sign was found on the Norwegian islands of Jan Mayen.

Disinterested in kiddie games. They stuff I wanted to play had nothing to do with hedgehogs or Italian plumbers. I'm more interested in the stuff below: Advanced Gaming Systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpoon_%28series%29 Shrapnel Games http://www.shrapnelgames.com Lately I've been running simulations of a new Egyptian-Israeli conflict. Egypt has been buying American weapons for 30 years and has just undergone a significant change in government. Egyptian M1A1 tanks vs Israeli Merkva tanks is a bloody, awful mess. Israel prevails in most of the sims but not without taking significant damage. Another very scary simulation is the US vs China in the Western Pacific. Our fleet is shrinking and the Chinese fleet and air force is growing exponentially. If things continue going in this direction, China will be able to dominate the region by the mid 2020s and we will be unable to protect our key allies in the region- Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and the Philippines.

I was one of the first generation of gamers. I don't play on consoles anymore- just PC but I've played a lot of games from TRS-80, Commodore 64, IBM PC, ninetindo, PS.

Parents need to be brushed off. The world does not revolve around their little brats. I'm so sick of family-friendly bullshit I could hurl. I want the family-contemptuous stuff with whips and chains and naked slave boys. I want to be hand fed grapes and jaegermeister while I take a breather from the orgy. I want to hop in a sauna with Brett Farve, a bottle of Thousand Island dressing and turn up the heat. I want to go right for the extra-salt, extra-sugar high calorie man sauce and skip the salad. I want to slap an Abercrombie & bitch model on the ass and tell him he's too damned skinny and to come back when there's some meat on his bones. I want to jump in a pool of naked people and go pearl diving. I want to do all of this stuff and so does everybody else that's honest and doesn't have a stick as big as a tree stuck up their @ss. I'll bet good money that some of the loudest voices bellowing for family-friendly horse shit are doing so because they know that they are filthy whores and don't want it to get out. [Rant /end]

Se7en is pretty creepy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_%28film%29

This explains quite a lot about the South.

Anyone can find redemption. It simply depends on whether or not they are looking for it.

Civilization V

We need somebody that Ole Miss can beat

Alabama doesn't look like graduation has slowed them down. The only SEC team that lost was Vandy and they played another SEC team.

I could think of much more interesting ways to pass the time but if he insisted...

Every kid ought to have a tiger.

I can't "like" that but I will send you *huge hugs* I was sick last week with a nasty fever and it's no fun at all.

I <3 Calvin& Hobbes

Evolution at the micro-organism level occurs at a furious rate. That's why bacteria develop immunity to antibiotics so quickly and new diseases pop up every so often. The implication is that sooner or later, one is going to pop up that is going to hurt us pretty bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcEAI5p-wUg

I used to enjoy run & lemonaide

Some people act like hunting is some pointless barbaric ritual but in some places, if the game is not thinned out, there are severe health consequences for both species. Deer aren't smart. They will breed to the point to where they can completely strip an area of all available food and become a huge nuisance to farmers. Either we thin the heard or they thin our heard.

Mysterious New 'Heartland Virus' Discovered In Missouri by Richard Knox NPR >> http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/08/29/160272241/mysterious-new-heartland-virus-discovered-in-missouri Two Missouri farmers have been infected with a brand-new tick-borne virus that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling the Heartland virus. The men recovered but suffered serious illness that required hospital care and weeks of convalescence. Symptoms included fever, severe fatigue, headache and nausea. Their platelet counts plummeted, but even though platelets are necessary for blood clotting, the men didn't suffer abnormal bleeding. A report on the new virus is in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. So far, the Missouri men are the only known cases of Heartland virus in the world. But experts are sure they'll find more.After all, the men lived 60 miles apart and got infected independently. That means there must be more of the mysterious new virus in the northwest Missouri environment. "We expect to find new cases," Dr. William Nicholson of the CDC told Shots. "We expect this thing may be wider in geographic distribution than we currently know." The virus is dubbed "Heartland" not only because that's where it was discovered, but because of who found it: an astute infectious disease doctor named Scott Folk who works at Heartland Medical Center in St. Joseph, Mo. Folk is well-known to the CDC. "Whenever he sends us a sample, we pay attention because we're likely to find something," Nicholson says. In this case, Folk sent samples from 14 patients back in 2009. Two of them puzzled the CDC experts — and then surprised them when electron microscope studies revealed a novel virus now called Heartland. The other dozen cases involved a more common tick-borne bacterial infection called ehrilichiosis. "We're pretty excited about it," Nicholson says about the Heartland virus. "It's not every day that you find something new — particularly in the world of tick-borne diseases. We often work with what might be considered antique diseases, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever" Nicholson says the new virus is in the phlebovirus family, which contains more than 70 members. And here's another twist: Heartland virus appears to be a cousin of another new human virus called severe fever with thromboctopenia syndrom virus, discovered last year in China. Another possible cousin may be Bhanja virus, a little-studied virus that has been found in some mammals, birds and reptiles in Asia, Africa and Europe. Nicholson says the CDC, working with Folk, is looking for other people with symptoms similar to the two Heartland victims to see if they're infected with the same virus. The researchers are also analyzing thousands of samples from Missouri ticks, other crawling insects, and animals wild and domestic to see if any harbor Heartland virus. ___________________________ NEJM report >>http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1203378

Haven't had a drink in 9 years. I kept waking up in jail with my ass kicked. But I used to like: Put it in the freezer and serve it cold Careful. You'll get "Clubbed" Great whiskey but dangerous. You might wake up in South America signed on with mercenaries. Dangerous stuff. I call it "liquid boxers remover".