Saturday some friends and I went to Barren River Lake. We rented a pontoon and a cabin and made a day out of it. It was 100 degrees with a 118 heat index. We drank a lot, had fun and made a few good stories. Here’s one: We parked the pontoon for most of the [...]
6 weeks ago I entered a pushup contest with Nick Fenton, Brandon Powers and Liz Horrall. The test was to see who could do the most in a row after 6 weeks. If anyone did 100 they won. Some used the hundred pushups phone app, some just worked out a lot, I used hundredpushups.com.(+bjj) I’m [...]
Yesterday I posted a brain teaser on twitter that boggled almost everyone who read it. Cudos to BusTechno1 and stringsn88keys for getting it right. Here is the text of the twitter: Teaser (3/5 diff) 3 coins in hat: Double sided head, dbl tail & 1 head/tail. Blind draw one, you see head. What’s % that [...]
Today is my least favorite day of the year. Most Americans don’t distinguish it from any other day. They can thank me and other high earners for that blessed ignorance. The top producers pay 35% federal income tax. (source) The top producers pay between 0 and 11% state income tax (source) The top producers pay [...]
I have never done anything for April Fool’s day and this year I decided I would. It was my first attempt (two actually), and they turned out decent. On the office: I spent a few hours after work rigging up a glitter shower above Andy, Seth and Brandon at our mytrade office. I drilled a [...]
It is a dark time for freedom lovers. Our government has decided to expand itself and its control on our lives. I have too many thoughts on this subject to pour out in a blog–it would become a novel. Instead, here are the would-be chapters: A partisan power grab against the will of the people, [...]
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From Return of the Jedi The photo doesn’t show it, but I had a sweeeet replica blaster, and she had awesome movie-matching shoes and hair down to mid back. Quite authentic. compare: Leia, Han
( self contained underwater breathing apparatus, duh!) After 4 hours of video and 250 pages of study, a 200 meter swim test, a 10min tread water test, 2 pool training sessions, four 40foot ocean dives and a 90 question exam (98% correct), I’m proud to say I’m an Open Water Certified scuba diver. This means [...]
Recently I decided to educate myself on the issue of Global Warming. I purchased Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth DVD as well as The Great Global Warming Swindle DVD and watched them back to back. 4 hours later, here are my reviews of the videos and my conclusions on global warming: Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’: (available [...]
