these are people i have confused

i thought this guy was that guy or the other guy was this guy.




and these two guys as well







also when i was a kid, i thought han solo and indiana jones were the same guy.
not the same actor, the same guy. acting makes no sense to a five year old.

Witch is better? Get it?

Which is better?

Hint: Who's the magnificent?

which is better?

i prefer cholula, because the wood cap helps age the sauce.

Beyond the Road Warrior

I was just watching Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome the other day and began to thing about the trilogy.
Mad Max - lawlessness is breaking out in a formally civil society and Max, part of the new highway law, is dealing with the bands of transient gangs and loses his family. Fuel is very important for these gangs to carry out their transient thievery.
The Road Warrior - Max, assuming years and miles removed from the original, stumbles upon a holdout of civilization against the now well-developed lawless gangs. The gangs covet the oil rig and refined fuel of the island of civilization.
Thunderdome - Max, again farther removed, stumbles upon the beginnings of new trade and civilization. Energy is of utmost importance for the economic development of any society, so the issues with MasterBlaster and Tina.
My issue is with the Road Warrior. The running themes are supposed to be the threat of lawlessenss and scarcity of energy. However, the whole energy does not make sense in the second installment. Yes, the civilized peeps need it to eventually caravan to what may be a better location. Why, though, do the lawless hordes want the fuel? They don't seem to have aspirations to move, in fact, they seem to be getting along quite fine in the desert. Further, with all the fuel they burn circling and antagonizing the civilized peeps, they could have been long gone. There is just no need for that fuel in this installment.

the electronic mail

More people should post comments. or write to me. using e-lec-tronical mail.
Seriously, I need encouragement or I'll only post pictures.

Hot Topic

How come 95% of the women in America between the ages of 14 and 40 would like to hook up with Orlando Bloom, when about 59% could hook up with JD instead?

Finish Strong

Just so we make sure Bruce Lee isn't destroying his liver for no reason, we'll up the ante a little.
Download the Professional Quality scorecard above, and use MSPaint or photoshop or whatever to fill in the squares. The number is the calendar day, the color is the type of drink, the "x" is in case you went over your daily allotment on any given day, you can put your extras there. If you go over your allotment in the "x" column, then you are a mess.

Email me your scorecard the first week of November, and I'll put them up for everyone to see.
Winner will get a prize from me. It will be alcohol related, and I will mail it if you live out of town.

How can I get out of President Duty?

Should our mechanism for political representation be more like jury duty? After mulling it over, political positions in an egalitarian democracy should be random and compulsory, just like jury duty. First there is some stigma that someone's intellect in one are would not transfer to running a country is bullshit. In our current education system, this has some truth. They way I see it, this would ensure much better education because people would be afraid of a dumbshit getting elected president. Also, this would strengthen the political system itself because there would definitely need to be knowledgable and reliable people hired into government agencies so that the individual characteristics of the "candidates" would not hinder the running of the country. Political parties would still function, but never absolutely have control over various branches and agencies of the government. finally, this would rid the immense amounts of money that go into funding our current systems candidates in which they become beholded to those money givers. A great system!

Cut the red wire....no the blue....damn these French schematics!

This is my brain fart from this morning's shower; I guest this would be a shower fart.
The current administration and even our political process in general have created a new and valuable human attributes; rash decision making with limited information. First rash and uninformed decision making is not a human quality (at least it should not be), it is an individual circumstance. We all do it to some degree; maybe we forgot about a deadline and therefore cannot apply the appropriate time and effort or it just is not in our interest to gather all the detailed information when purchasing that toaster. However, current politics continues to present this situation as valuable personal attributes. How many questions in these early presidential debate revlove around some type of Jack Bauer 24 scenario of terrorism? "Mr. Candidate, what would you do if you had 10 minutes to stop a nuclear bomb detination in and Amarican city and had a prisioner that you knew had the information to stop it?" Hmmm, largely populated city or the rights and life of a dispicable human being as described by the scenario...we end in justifiable torture. Just like the rouge cop who breaks all the rules to catch and kill the serial, mass murdering, baby molesting, cop killing litterer in the movies.
These situations aside, it seems even more entrenched; people I speak to in everyday life demand that you have a position on an issue even though you have little or no knowledge of the subject. I got into an argument about the fact that I would not give an opinion on some far removed issue because I admitted I did not have any amount of pertinent information to do so. "You must have a postition, eveyone has a position." They are proud that they have come to some erroneous conclusion without the aid of information or those "informed elitists." Thoughtful and deliberative,once positive human characteristics, now equal inactive and weak, wishy washy without convictions.

Who eats at strip clubs?

Yesterday I was driving up Powell and the sign outside of Safari's caught my eye.

BREAKFAST 2.50

What kind of person eats at a strip club? I mean, who eats more than one meal there in their entire life. I can see a person eating there once, as a lark. But I'm willing to bet that the bell curve of meals eaten at strip clubs would be 90% of the people that eat at strip clubs have eaten there once. And the remaining 10% of people eat at least 4 of their meals at the strip club a week.
There would be no one in between.

more illusions

story about your brain

Trivial

Most of you know how much I love little factoids, and telling people little interesting notes about things. Here's some of that info I found out about everyday things we take for granted. Talk this up at your next cocktail party. It'll make you belle of the ball.

Xerox-
Xerxes, the warrior king of the late Persian Empire was known to be nearly impossible to track down, because he frequently kept “identical” twins with him at all times. The Xerox company chose the Latin version of his name to adorn their most profitable invention, the Copying Machine.


Jacuzzi-
This word comes from the French. French immigrants on the island of Bali quickly bought into the Pacific Island traditional use of hot sulfur baths to relax. The French did not follow the local custom of the separation of sexes while in these hot baths, and often engaged in sexual trysts. When an opposing partner smelled the sulfur on their partner’s skin, but hadn’t been aware of a planned trip to the baths, they often shouted out “J’accuse!” (I accuse you!).

When the French created the use of man made hot baths to the European mainland, the name stuck.

these two men are not worth it

We got this email in the office since we have Blazer's season tickets at the Rose Garden.

Event Info:

When: Saturday, December 1, 2007
Time: 8:00 PM
Where: Rose Garden
Stage: North End Stage

In what promises to be the most exciting live tour this year, Van Halen is embarking on a national concert tour throughout the U.S. and Canada with its original lead singer David Lee Roth for the first time in 22 years. Considered by fans and media alike as one of the most highly anticipated tours in rock and roll history, Roth, guitarist Eddie Van Halen and drummer Alex Van Halen will perform with Eddie’s son, Wolfgang, who joins the line-up as the band’s bass player. Van Halen and Roth have not performed or recorded together since 1984’s classic multi-platinum album “1984” and subsequent tour, making this tour truly a historic event.

Van Halen remains one of the most important and influential bands of all time. Formed in Los Angeles in 1974, the band quickly won a loyal hometown fan base with their electrifying live shows. From the moment they released their self-titled 1978 debut album, Van Halen shook the foundations of rock, thanks largely to Roth’s peerless showmanship, Eddie Van Halen’s revolutionary guitar virtuosity and their songwriting abilities. It changed rock music forever.


To purchase tickets to Van Halen, please visit your Account Manager site.

All Premium Courtside, Lexus Club Level and Suite ticket holders, please fax your order to 503.xxx.2192.



Ticket Prices: $141.50 includes applicable service charges, limit 4 per account.
Parking: $13.00.
Order Deadline: Friday, September 21, 2007 at NOON.

Theme Music

What is your theme music?

Arrrhtoberfest

In this southeastern area of Georgia, I don't see any advertisements for Octoberfest celebrations. There was a small town peanut fest that was just awful. However, this weekend is the Tybee Island Pirate Fest. This must be due to the lack of German brewing ancestry and the celebration of the large Pirate ancestry. Or is the common denomenator NOT celebration of culture, but an excuse for grown folk to pretend to be something they are not while getting sloppy drunk? Probably the latter.
And could somebody please buy my Pirate Grandpa...he's been on the market way to long.

I'm Kurt, but MacReady for action!

The three of you that read this BLOG won't care about this, but it makes me feel special to post. My department hung a poster that list the faculty and has a pic of a famous person instead of their own. Whomever the creater was chose Kurt Russell from The Thing for me. Friggin awesome. Early eighties Kurt and I are now forever linked as kindred spirits in this everexpanding universe because somebody else created a completely meaningless connection.

THE POST OF OKTOBER

I know what we need more of: class participation.
This post will stay up top for all of October, because it's important to keep it fresh in your mind.
What we're going to do here is keep track of all of our alcoholic drinks for the month. Just print out the handy dandy scorecard below and put it in your wallet. Then, whenever you take a drink, mark it with a big x. At the end of the month, post your scores in the comments and we can get a good base reading of the people that read this.
I really would like everyone to post by November first. I don't ask for much, I just ask for a detailed summary of our collective drinking problems.