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Enter the Dinosaur

December 5th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in cool science

Now this is just fucking cool

 WASHINGTON  —  One of the most complete dinosaur mummies ever found is revealing secrets locked away for millions of years, bringing researchers as close as they will ever get to touching a live dino.

The fossilized duckbilled hadrosaur is so well preserved that scientists have been able to calculate its muscle mass and learn that it was more muscular than thought, probably giving it the ability to outrun predators such as Tyrannosaurus rex.

There’s more.  You go read now.

No retirement here

December 2nd, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in ramblings, webstuff

Saw this over on Dr Sanity’s site once and decided to see how much this little do-dad says my blog is worth.

Guess I can’t sell it and retire off of the earnings…  *sigh* 


My blog is worth $564.54.
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Wastes of Human Flesh

December 2nd, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in People are Stupid

Sean Taylor, the Washington Redskins player, was shot and killed when four people broke into his house to burglarize his place.  According to the cops they didn’t think anyone was home and when he surprised them they shot him.

“They were expecting a residence that was not occupied,” Miami-Dade County police Director Robert Parker said. “So murder or shooting someone was not their initial motive.”

Money, police said, was.

 Really?  If they had no plans on killing someone then why did they have a gun?

When I was a kid my dad taught me to shoot and the first rule went like this:  Don’t draw your gun unless you intend to shoot and don’t shoot unless you intend to kill.

It’s very simple, they knew what a gun was for and they took it with them.  To me that means that they intended to use it if someone got in their way.  Money may have been the initial motive, but they sure as hell weren’t going to let someone get in the way of their actions which is why the had the gun – and they used it and now a man who actually DID something with his life (unlike these turds) is dead.

Course, one of the punks lawyers is trying to stir up sympathy for his client with statements like this

“They’re terrified,” said Sawyer Smith, who along with his father, Wilbur, represent Rivera and Mitchell. “These are young boys who are absolutely terrified about the position in which they find themselves.”

Gee, are they as terrified as Sean Taylor was when the bullet hit him and he was bleeding to death?  Well, I sure as hell hope they are, and when they go to the State ”Fuck-me-in-the-ass” penitentiary I hope they are scared even more because I don’t believe that they were startled and it wasn’t intended.  I think it went down just like the news reported it

Early Monday, Taylor and his longtime girlfriend, Jackie Garcia, were awakened by loud noises at his home. He grabbed a machete for protection, but within moments, someone broke through the bedroom door and fired two shots, one hitting Taylor in the upper leg.

Neither the couple’s 18-month-old daughter, also named Jackie, nor Garcia were injured.

The bullet damaged the femoral artery in Taylor’s leg, causing significant blood loss. He never regained consciousness and died early Tuesday.

If they really didn’t intend to hurt anyone, they would have run like hell when they found out that they were not alone, but they didn’t.  Instead one of them shot the guy. 

Yep, I hope they are scared and I hope they stay scared.  I hope they get to prison and cower inside their cells for a good long time because these are the kind of fucktards that drag our society down.  They contribute nothing, take from whoever they can and generally just make a fucking mess that everyone else has to deal with.

Instinct McCloud of the Clan McCloud

December 1st, 2007 | 5 Comments | Posted in ramblings

The wife and I both have our cheesy shows that we like.  She loves Forever Knight, the one about the vampire cop, and I like the Highlander series - it’s much better than the movies (OK all fanatics, hold the hate mail).  Which gets us onto discussions that go something like this:

Me: If we end up living in the city, should we get a loft place like in Highlander?

Wife: No, we should have one like the one in Forever Knight.

Me: But the one in the Highlander series had a much nicer kitchen.

Wife:  Well, duh.  Nick Knight doesn’t need a kitchen, he’s a vampire.

Me: So what, Duncan McCloud would still kick his butt.

Wife: Bullshit, he’s immortal.

Me: So is McCloud and besides, McCloud is a lot more bloodthirsty than Knight.

Wife: He kills people. He just doesn’t chop them up like your guy does.

Me: That’s what I mean.  Sometimes he kills people, but on Highlander it’s like the French Revolution.  There’s a beheading every week.

Wife: Well, you do have a point there.