Saturday, December 31, 2005

Who we look like.

So myheritage.com announced that it's facial recignition software will let you upload a picture and see what celebrities you look like.

So I upload Chuck, David, Peg and Myself, and got these 'matches' - seriously:

Chuck:
  George Patton
  Artie Shaw
  Shigeru Miyamoto
  Boris Becker
  Jackie Chan
  Clive Barker

David:
  Peter Gabriel
  John Cleese
  Margaret Thatcher
  John Edwards
  Dino Zoff
  Michael Crichton

Peg:
  Natalie Wood
  Max Von Sydow
  Elizabeth Taylor
  David Bowie
  Charles Dickens
  Bob Marley

Andrew:
  Benoit Mandelbrot
  Ringo Starr
  Dick Cheney
  Jack Nicholson
  Anna Lindh
  Corazon Aquino

Friday, December 30, 2005

A Life Metaphor...

Here I go again making analogies and stuff. I realized why people feel they NEED religion.

People want their life to be like Riding "Shotgun" with God. You have the most comfortable seat in the car and are in a better place than the other people in there with you, yet God is behind the wheel and doing all the driving. You get to go along for the ride. Long ago I felt it was more like people wanted to be Middle Management...in charge of a large group of people, but not totally accountable if things go wrong. I think riding "shotgun" is a bit more accurate a depiction.

Google Earth

Don't know if you play around with this thing but its loads of fun. Anyway, I have friends tell me to check out various spots and this weekend it hit me and my friend Doug, the coolest spot I could think of to check out.

Go to Tucson, AZ. Just south east of the city is Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. You can see the runway and tarmac pretty clear while zoomed out. Zoom in and you can see A-10's on the tarmac and some choppers too, but if you scroll east...This is our nations BONE YARD.

Its amazing to see all the gear out there. B-52's, F-111, F-4, even commercial airliners...some in tact, some being dismantled, some totally dismantled.

Enjoy!

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Sgt. Dudash

Pictured below, Robert Dudash is promoted to Sergeant by Mayor George A. Spadoro.

Friday, December 23, 2005

This was a study?

It boggles my mind that studies like this get done.

Apparently, the sure way to avoid a hangover is not to drink.

I'm New Jersey!



You're New Jersey!

You don't just live in the suburbs, you define the culture of all Surburbia. You drive everywhere you go, love to eat at diners, and pretend to have a garden.

Take the State Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

Christmas Card

All I have to say is wow.

Santa Claus uses handgun to protect children from terrorist on Christmas Card.

I swear, I did not make this up.

Sunday, December 18, 2005

New Year's Resolutions...

Its the time of year when people start to set goals for the next year. Goals we rarely pay much attention to or keep much longer than January. To lose weight? Yeah that lasts until Valentine's day when we gorge ourselves on candy hearts that taste like chalk or chocolate. To quit smoking? Yeah, that doesn't see Jan 2...because when you have that champagne in your hand, if you're a smoker...you probaby want a cigarette...

So I say, set yourself up for a successful year! Set goals that are easily attained OR better yet, goals you really want to keep. In the spirit of those criteria, here are my New Year's Resolutions. (And their justifications)

Thing I Won't Do This Year:

1) Not to kill anyone... (no justification needed)
2) Not to freeze to death (Its fucking COLD here)
3) Not to reanimate dead tissue (That's just unnatural)

Things I Hope to accomplish:

1) To Get Laid More...(don't deny it...that one is universal)
2) To make some new friends in Maine. (with or without teeth...but definitely with brains)
3) To break 125 for more than just a few days.

Ok, so I showed you mine...now tell me yours!

Friday, December 16, 2005

... You really know how to rock.



If you can't make it to a show, you can pre-order the album with songs like:

  • Hot Jewish Chicks
  • They Tried To Kill Us (We Survived, Let's Eat)
  • Jews For Jesus
  • A Little Off The Top
  • Jews Jews Jews
  • JDate
  • Today I Am a Man
  • I'm Better Looking (Than The Guy You're Going Out With)
  • Taller Than Jesus
  • The Porno Made Me Do It
  • Reuben The Hook-Nosed Reindeer
  • Hanukah With Monica
  • (It's Good To Be) A Jew at Christmas

This one is for Chuck....

Freeway blogger starts a blog

Here's a blog of a guy who has put over 2,500 signs against the war on the freeways of California like this:

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Religious right threatens Jewish

Sorry Chuck. US Jews feel threatened.

Of course, 60% of the Jewish population of Maine is only 5,580 people.

The Middle East - An Extended Metaphor

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers...the Cradle of Civilization...this is where it all began. Years later, the world's power base would shift...Greece, Rome, The Indus River Valley and of coarse China. In Medieval times, the way history is taught to western children...Europe is all the rage. After the Renaissance, it seems that it truly was...and in 1492 a huge period of European expansion and colonization begins...

Where am I going with this? Well...the focus shifts from not just Europe, but to its offspring; New worlds in North and South America...to finding Asian trade routes, to dividing Africa into pieces on a map and dividing it amongst European nations...followed by revolutions and colonial independence...all the while...

The MIDDLE EAST becomes a Grandparent dropped off at a Nursing home that never gets visitors! No one pays much attention to her until they want to curry favor with her.

So what does she do? She acts up! The Middle East wants attention..."I carried civilization in my womb for 9 months and this is the respect I get?"

And like good little heirs we are waiting for her to keel over so we can inherit all the oil. Some of us act more concerned than others for her well-being "you know...she just isn't in her right mind lately, we need to go and take care of her even if the rest of the global family doesn't like it. We know whats best."

I say fuck the bitch...we need to come up with better sources of energy and pull the plug on her. My only concern is how she will react.

I suppose that in these oil rich nations when we finally do move on they won't go quietly! Sure, developing nations without access to nuclear power and fuel cells and whatever technology awaits us that breaks the OPEC strangehold on our lives will probably be able to get oil CHEAP...but those countries (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE...) will atrophe economically...and I am sure the extremists there will blame it all on the West. I think thats when things will really get ugly...

So maybe we should give them the Terri Shiavo treatment instead...keep them on life support ad nauseum.

Thursday, December 08, 2005

While Shopping...


I stumbled across this product. I thought it was so poorly named I had to take a pic with my camera phone. So what exactly would posess a company to call a douche..."Sweet Love?" Did they substitute honey for vinegar? If they use both should it be called "Sweet and Sour Love?"

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Titanic

I'm not one who has many childhood memories. I'm not sure why. But one of the first ones is when the found the Titanic.

Even today, there is new news about this ship -- New evidence suggests Titanic sunk faster.

The best part about this article is the quote from Explorer Robert Ballard, who originally found the sunken ship in 1985. "It hit an iceberg and it sank. Get over it."

I guess they'll have to update the Titanic Moon Bounces for the new theory.



I'd like to note that I am quite disturbed about having kids bounce around in a replica of a ship where over 1,500 perished. I'm just waiting until there is the World Trade Center bounce before I protest -- and don't say I didn't predict it!

Fox News vs. Christmas

O'Reilly believes that progressives have an agenda against Christmas. -- he says "War" on Christmas is part of a "secular progressive agenda" that includes "legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage."

I love when people make things up. It makes the world more fun. However, it is also funny how his own Network, Fox News, isn't having a Christmas Party:



What front in the War on Christmas are they fighting on anyway?!?!?

...Read More.

Music

For couples like Peg and I:



Q-Unit: A 50 cent and Queen "mashup" album.

You guess who likes who ;-)

Saturday, December 03, 2005

Mmmm Burgers

It's all about what you pick.



Survey revealed that eating a portion of burger and chips may be healthier than a fast-food salad, it has emerged.

I know I've had success dieting at fast food places, but you have go based on the numbers, not because it SOUNDS healthy.

Wikipedia

I love WikipediA as much as the next person, especially the Wikipedia Commons for great free photos.

But for those of you (Joann) who use Wikipedia for research, remember it can be wrong.

Mr. Seigenthaler recently read about himself on Wikipedia and was shocked to learn that he "was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John and his brother Bobby."

;-)

Friday, December 02, 2005

Bobby