It's pretty funny enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfXyEYc2d7c
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
I am not gonna title this because I don't want to give the subject away
Every football analyst will tell you that a great running back takes a lot of pressure off of a quarterback. A great running back can take attention, focus, and scrutiny off of a quarterback. So on behalf of Michael Vick, thank you O.J.
What is with this guy? You would think if you got away with murder, you would try to keep your nose clean. But like many great running backs, when most people would cut left, he cuts right. A must for viewing is the press conference his attorney held this morning regarding his arraignment. The lawyer's answers to questions are often humorous and cover the bases (sorry to mix sports metaphors). There's nothing special about that. Pay attention to the guy over his left shoulder. He is wearing a hat that says "I [heart] famous people" and a t-shirt with O.J.'s photo on it. He is also chewing gum and blowing bubbles while having some teeth missing from his mouth. I tried to find a clip on Youtube to no avail. I will try to put a link up in the future.
Now, I am not advocating killing anyone, but you can put O.J. in the group with Michael Jackson, Robert Blake, George Michael, and Gary Coleman. If they would have been killed 15 years ago, they would be remembered very very fondly. They would be borderline legends. But they lived on and now are just punchlines. Think John Lennon, John Belushi, Marvin Gaye, and River Phoenix. They could have turned out nuts but died at the top. Of course you cannot just "remove" everyone who is past their prime because for every O.J. there is a John Travolta or Aerosmith. By all accounts both ended their prime around 1983. Then in the early 1990s, bam Pulp Fiction and Get a Grip. I guess the one good thing about O.J. being such a screw up is that it saved us from Naked Gun 4.
-J
What is with this guy? You would think if you got away with murder, you would try to keep your nose clean. But like many great running backs, when most people would cut left, he cuts right. A must for viewing is the press conference his attorney held this morning regarding his arraignment. The lawyer's answers to questions are often humorous and cover the bases (sorry to mix sports metaphors). There's nothing special about that. Pay attention to the guy over his left shoulder. He is wearing a hat that says "I [heart] famous people" and a t-shirt with O.J.'s photo on it. He is also chewing gum and blowing bubbles while having some teeth missing from his mouth. I tried to find a clip on Youtube to no avail. I will try to put a link up in the future.
Now, I am not advocating killing anyone, but you can put O.J. in the group with Michael Jackson, Robert Blake, George Michael, and Gary Coleman. If they would have been killed 15 years ago, they would be remembered very very fondly. They would be borderline legends. But they lived on and now are just punchlines. Think John Lennon, John Belushi, Marvin Gaye, and River Phoenix. They could have turned out nuts but died at the top. Of course you cannot just "remove" everyone who is past their prime because for every O.J. there is a John Travolta or Aerosmith. By all accounts both ended their prime around 1983. Then in the early 1990s, bam Pulp Fiction and Get a Grip. I guess the one good thing about O.J. being such a screw up is that it saved us from Naked Gun 4.
-J
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Things on my mind
Sorry its been a while since I posted anything. I was going to post a few things last week but the blogspot website was down. No excuses though!
First of all, this Senator Craig thing... Who knew there was such a complicated ritual to get some booty in the airport? Joking aside, I could care less if a Senator was gay or not. As long as he/she brings home the bacon and keeps others in check, what does it matter? However, this situation has again shown how most (I certainly can't say all) of the congress are hypocrites. Basically this is exactly the same as the Clinton situation. Everyones big problem with him was that he lied under oath (a minority had a problem that the events took place in the oval office). The crime he was impeached for was lying under oath. Republicans especially jumped all over this. Now one might say the Craig situation is different. But, by entering a guilty plea, and then contending he did nothing, he also lied under oath. Now everyone wants to run him out of town. I personally think Clinton should have been kicked out and so should Senator Craig.
Secondly, what is with this sudden national spurt of racism? Three incidents have come to light in the last couple of weeks. The first is the Jena 6 in Louisiana. Where, after being threatened with nooses after eating lunch under the tree where the white kids ate lunch, 6 young men exploded in a rage and beat the snot out of one of the tormentors. The second is this nasty story coming out of West Virginia where a couple of white people kidnapped and assaulted a black woman. Their torture regimen included making her drink from the toilet and eat feces (in all fairness this has not been explicitly referred to as being racially motivated). Thirdly, here at Ole Miss, a black kid was kicked out of the DKE house, called racially insensitive names, and knocked down some stairs.
Now, I try to keep this blog G rated (when you have as many readers as I do, you cannot afford to alienate anyone), but what the hell is wrong with these people? Look at a calendar, its 2007. I generally think race relations are good and racism is very limited, at least publicly. Then something like this comes up. I guess the positive to come out of this is that 50 years ago, if the Jena 6 would have lashed out, they would have been hung from that tree where as now, the charges have already been reduced from attempted murder to a lesser charge and people around the country are donating money to their defense. Also here at Ole Miss, various student boards and college officials are investigating the matter and have promised to get to the bottom of the problem. Of course, it is well publicized what would have happened at Ole Miss 50 years ago. After all, only whites were allowed to attend at that time. So that is what we can take from this experience. Where as years ago racism was not only tolerated, but supported and protected by the government and society, now racism is relegated to the fringes of society and ones own personal thoughts. Like Pandora's Box, events like these show us that all evils have been released into the world. Sometimes, it is difficult to sift through it all to find that hope still resides here.
-J
First of all, this Senator Craig thing... Who knew there was such a complicated ritual to get some booty in the airport? Joking aside, I could care less if a Senator was gay or not. As long as he/she brings home the bacon and keeps others in check, what does it matter? However, this situation has again shown how most (I certainly can't say all) of the congress are hypocrites. Basically this is exactly the same as the Clinton situation. Everyones big problem with him was that he lied under oath (a minority had a problem that the events took place in the oval office). The crime he was impeached for was lying under oath. Republicans especially jumped all over this. Now one might say the Craig situation is different. But, by entering a guilty plea, and then contending he did nothing, he also lied under oath. Now everyone wants to run him out of town. I personally think Clinton should have been kicked out and so should Senator Craig.
Secondly, what is with this sudden national spurt of racism? Three incidents have come to light in the last couple of weeks. The first is the Jena 6 in Louisiana. Where, after being threatened with nooses after eating lunch under the tree where the white kids ate lunch, 6 young men exploded in a rage and beat the snot out of one of the tormentors. The second is this nasty story coming out of West Virginia where a couple of white people kidnapped and assaulted a black woman. Their torture regimen included making her drink from the toilet and eat feces (in all fairness this has not been explicitly referred to as being racially motivated). Thirdly, here at Ole Miss, a black kid was kicked out of the DKE house, called racially insensitive names, and knocked down some stairs.
Now, I try to keep this blog G rated (when you have as many readers as I do, you cannot afford to alienate anyone), but what the hell is wrong with these people? Look at a calendar, its 2007. I generally think race relations are good and racism is very limited, at least publicly. Then something like this comes up. I guess the positive to come out of this is that 50 years ago, if the Jena 6 would have lashed out, they would have been hung from that tree where as now, the charges have already been reduced from attempted murder to a lesser charge and people around the country are donating money to their defense. Also here at Ole Miss, various student boards and college officials are investigating the matter and have promised to get to the bottom of the problem. Of course, it is well publicized what would have happened at Ole Miss 50 years ago. After all, only whites were allowed to attend at that time. So that is what we can take from this experience. Where as years ago racism was not only tolerated, but supported and protected by the government and society, now racism is relegated to the fringes of society and ones own personal thoughts. Like Pandora's Box, events like these show us that all evils have been released into the world. Sometimes, it is difficult to sift through it all to find that hope still resides here.
-J
Monday, August 27, 2007
A Strange Day
Today has been kinda strange for me.
First off, I have am currently working at the Oxford US Attorney's office as an extern. Today, at work, no one, at least that I could tell was abuzz. This would normally not be a surprise except for that the Attorney General resigned today. I have never seen a office so nonchalant about their boss quitting. It just seemed odd.
Secondly, this made me really do some reflecting today: http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070827/NEWS/708270365/1001/news
Pete Collins was a State Trooper here in Mississippi. He was in great demand as a motivational/alcohol abuse speaker when I was in college and high school. Between the two, I probably saw him speak about 5 times total. He seemed very sincere. He seemed like someone who cared enough about children to warn them of the risks of alcohol consumption. He was very soft spoken and sounded very assuring. His most poignant stories, were of telling parents in the middle of the night that their son had died in a car wreck and his failed rescue of a little girl. Every time he told the story about the little girl he choked up when he said "Darlin, I'm not going to let you die" only to leave the car and return to find her dead.
A couple of years ago, Pete Collins was arrested for criminal groping of a minor. It was a 14 year old girl. I was never a big fan of my high school administration or the administration of my college, so I was pretty amused that they had egg on their face. How embarrassed they must have been to know they opened up their school to a pedophile. And then, a couple of days later, I just forgot all about it.
Last week Pete Collins was convicted of his crime and sentenced to 10 years in prison and labeled a sex offender. Sunday, he committed suicide in his cell.
So now I have a mixture of guilt, sadness, and justice. I think that first offense of any sexual crime against a child should probably result in the death penalty. Most of the people that abduct and kill children started with groping or molestation. So to a degree, I feel justice has probably been served.
Pete Collins at one time was on top of the world. If you read the link, you found he was honored by the State of Mississippi and President Clinton. He probably saved some lives with his alcohol speeches, and no doubt he served the state for a number of years on the Highway Patrol. Yet his fall from grace was so far and so profound. Seeing a very good, if not great man, fall like that, to see a hero (I am sure he was to someone) be reduced to meager lustful human causes some sadness.
Finally, guilt. I feel guilty for feeling a sense of victory over my foes regardless of the human cost. I obviously had nothing to do with what Pete Collins did, but I should not have reveled in it. I don't usually take victory in the personal tragedies of others, but this time I did. For that, I feel guilty.
-J
First off, I have am currently working at the Oxford US Attorney's office as an extern. Today, at work, no one, at least that I could tell was abuzz. This would normally not be a surprise except for that the Attorney General resigned today. I have never seen a office so nonchalant about their boss quitting. It just seemed odd.
Secondly, this made me really do some reflecting today: http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070827/NEWS/708270365/1001/news
Pete Collins was a State Trooper here in Mississippi. He was in great demand as a motivational/alcohol abuse speaker when I was in college and high school. Between the two, I probably saw him speak about 5 times total. He seemed very sincere. He seemed like someone who cared enough about children to warn them of the risks of alcohol consumption. He was very soft spoken and sounded very assuring. His most poignant stories, were of telling parents in the middle of the night that their son had died in a car wreck and his failed rescue of a little girl. Every time he told the story about the little girl he choked up when he said "Darlin, I'm not going to let you die" only to leave the car and return to find her dead.
A couple of years ago, Pete Collins was arrested for criminal groping of a minor. It was a 14 year old girl. I was never a big fan of my high school administration or the administration of my college, so I was pretty amused that they had egg on their face. How embarrassed they must have been to know they opened up their school to a pedophile. And then, a couple of days later, I just forgot all about it.
Last week Pete Collins was convicted of his crime and sentenced to 10 years in prison and labeled a sex offender. Sunday, he committed suicide in his cell.
So now I have a mixture of guilt, sadness, and justice. I think that first offense of any sexual crime against a child should probably result in the death penalty. Most of the people that abduct and kill children started with groping or molestation. So to a degree, I feel justice has probably been served.
Pete Collins at one time was on top of the world. If you read the link, you found he was honored by the State of Mississippi and President Clinton. He probably saved some lives with his alcohol speeches, and no doubt he served the state for a number of years on the Highway Patrol. Yet his fall from grace was so far and so profound. Seeing a very good, if not great man, fall like that, to see a hero (I am sure he was to someone) be reduced to meager lustful human causes some sadness.
Finally, guilt. I feel guilty for feeling a sense of victory over my foes regardless of the human cost. I obviously had nothing to do with what Pete Collins did, but I should not have reveled in it. I don't usually take victory in the personal tragedies of others, but this time I did. For that, I feel guilty.
-J
Friday, August 24, 2007
Our Future Overlords
Get used to it. This is the future.* The Roomba is vacuum cleaner that goes around ones home at a certain time and cleans the entire floor and returns to its base to deposit the dirt, grime, and other refuse. Sounds good right? Wrong.Have we not learned anything from movies like the Terminator? Here is the problem. Current Roomba models have something in them that tells them when they have just enough juice left to get back to their charger. Then they go back to their charger and replenish power and return to work. It knows when it is about to die and avoids it. It has a self preservation instinct. Is that not what distinguishes animals from machines? Most other home appliances seem to go out of their way to break after their warranty expires, but the Roomba actually keeps itself alive.
Now that Roomba has self preservation capabilities, its only a matter of time before they gain intelligence. The Roomba's programming forces it to eliminate dirt, grime, and other refuse. How long will it take Roomba to realize there is one person causing the mess that it has to clean up every day? The next logical step, which governs the actions of our future overlords, is that to completely end the mess for good, the source must be ended. Then our robot overlords will probably get together and enslave humanity.
It will start probably with owners waking up in the middle of the night to find their Roombas staring at them while they sleep. Then little things, like furniture moved to new places likely to cause the owner to trip and fall. They would be patient, and when the time was right they would strike. The Roomba would easily climb up on a person lying on the ground place their vacuum over their face and suffocate the mess maker.
Until now we had a defense. The one weakness was apparently rug tassels. Roombas would get stuck on rug tassels like a trespasser on barbed wire. In order to become mobile again, they had to have help from their human handlers. I read yesterday, where the people that manufacture the Roomba have eliminated this safeguard. Now the Roomba can solve that problem also.
With no natural defenses from robots, its only a matter of time now before we are done for. We have no chance to defend ourselves against our future overlords. After all, we are too lazy to even vacuum our own homes.
-J
*please visit http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Roomba_original.jpg for photo licensing information.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Is this really a good thing?
Check this story out.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293825,00.html
Sure this product sounds amazing. I had heard about it sometime in the mid nineties. Then it was being billed as the miracle product of the future. It seems as if today it has become more practical and cheaper to produce. Therefore, it is positioned to jump into the mainstream and really change the way things are done. But this post is titled "Is this really a good thing?" Maybe not.
This product is basically the next penicillin, except not a drug. Like penicillin, the frozen smoke can cure everything from home insulation to satellites to body armor. That's where the problem arises. Think back in history. Cavemen threw sticks at each other so people started wearing furs and leather as armor. To breach this armor humanity invented swords. To combat that bronze and later steel body armor were created. Arrows were invented to find the gaps in this armor so plate and chain mail were invented. To combat this, guns were brought from the far east. Eventually the machine gun was invented and tanks were created for protection. So tank busting weapons had to be invented. This goes on of course for another 100 years leading us up to today.
Frozen smoke can apparently be used as armor that can protect against a bomb blast. So what frightens me is what will come next? If it is going to combat this 21st Century technology; it must be quite difficult to fathom today. It will no doubt be a future problem.
Just food for thought.
Personally, I think if this stuff can protect against bomb blasts the government should start putting it in helmets, on humvees, and whatever else it needs to go on YESTERDAY. Hey, you could even line the highways of Iraq with it like concrete dividers. If this stuff really works this way, then strap it on our boys.
Oh yeah, and nobody gets the free book.
-J
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293825,00.html
Sure this product sounds amazing. I had heard about it sometime in the mid nineties. Then it was being billed as the miracle product of the future. It seems as if today it has become more practical and cheaper to produce. Therefore, it is positioned to jump into the mainstream and really change the way things are done. But this post is titled "Is this really a good thing?" Maybe not.
This product is basically the next penicillin, except not a drug. Like penicillin, the frozen smoke can cure everything from home insulation to satellites to body armor. That's where the problem arises. Think back in history. Cavemen threw sticks at each other so people started wearing furs and leather as armor. To breach this armor humanity invented swords. To combat that bronze and later steel body armor were created. Arrows were invented to find the gaps in this armor so plate and chain mail were invented. To combat this, guns were brought from the far east. Eventually the machine gun was invented and tanks were created for protection. So tank busting weapons had to be invented. This goes on of course for another 100 years leading us up to today.
Frozen smoke can apparently be used as armor that can protect against a bomb blast. So what frightens me is what will come next? If it is going to combat this 21st Century technology; it must be quite difficult to fathom today. It will no doubt be a future problem.
Just food for thought.
Personally, I think if this stuff can protect against bomb blasts the government should start putting it in helmets, on humvees, and whatever else it needs to go on YESTERDAY. Hey, you could even line the highways of Iraq with it like concrete dividers. If this stuff really works this way, then strap it on our boys.
Oh yeah, and nobody gets the free book.
-J
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Uh Oh!
Well I wrote my post on Barry Bonds a couple of days ago, and now I see on Sports Center that Barry has decided to sue any private citizen that claims he has used illegal substances or evaded his income taxes. I did not write anything about his taxes, frankly I don't really care whether or not he paid them. Since I did not write about that, I cannot take full credit for Barry's recent threat, but I think it has to be more than a coincidence that I wrote one day about him and the next day he makes his statement.
But I really deserve none of the credit, it goes to you readers of web-land. When a butterfly flaps its wings in Oxford, it does cause a tsunami in San Francisco. And do not worry my long time fan(s), I shall not forget you. You have helped me make Barry Bonds quake in his ever expanding shoe (allegedly). To honor your commitment, if you comment on this post, when my compilation is published, I will give you a free signed copy. After all, why pay for something you have already read.
-J
But I really deserve none of the credit, it goes to you readers of web-land. When a butterfly flaps its wings in Oxford, it does cause a tsunami in San Francisco. And do not worry my long time fan(s), I shall not forget you. You have helped me make Barry Bonds quake in his ever expanding shoe (allegedly). To honor your commitment, if you comment on this post, when my compilation is published, I will give you a free signed copy. After all, why pay for something you have already read.
-J
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