What I Saw

This took effort.

Thoughts on my trip to PA for CKY

It was my first concert since December 28th. I was seeing my 2nd favorite band of all-time in their hometown on the last gig of their tour. Bam Margera was not there but loads of others from his crew were there. They played @ an awesome venue in an extremely busy part of town. It was so the opposite of everything that I've done with my time since moving to NC that it touched every sense receptor 1000 times over. Even sleeping in my car was good despite finding myself in the parking lot of a hotel haha.. I only slept for four hours in the trunk of my rental but I felt more invigorated @ 8a than I normally do @ 10a! I drove around West Chester, PA, for a little while before hitting the road and it was such a beautiful morning. I didn't want to leave! Bam Margera lives in a beautiful area. It was such a worthwhile trip and in retrospect, something that I desperately needed to do. I always forget how good vacation can be for the soul.

Three for Breakfast

As a child, I loved this short. Well, I still like it, though I also still have the mentality of a child. I think that it explains my affinity for IHOP and chipmunks.

Porkbarrel airplane costs $44,000 per hour to fly? Sweet.

Perhaps someday I will believe in the need for fighter jets, guns and violence, but until that day, I would rather see money spent on far more helpful things. I guess that I am just a no-good hippie.

Premier U.S. Fighter Jet Has Major Shortcomings

F-22's Maintenance Demands Growing

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 10, 2009

The United States' top fighter jet, the Lockheed Martin F-22, has recently required more than 30 hours of maintenance for every hour in the skies, pushing its hourly cost of flying to more than $44,000, a far higher figure than for the warplane it replaces, confidential Pentagon test results show.

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A Keeper is Cheaper

by: William Jeanes | from: AARP The Magazine

"I miss my car and just want to see it back sitting in my driveway," says Irv Gordon, 68, a retired schoolteacher who lives in East Patchogue, New York. The average car on the road in this country is nine years old and logs 15,000 miles a year. Gordon has driven the sporty red Volvo P1800S he bought back in 1966 a lot more than that—an astounding 2.7 million miles. Just now the car is in the shop. Gordon says he has learned to get the carburetors rebuilt every 900,000 miles, whether they need it or not.

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More good news...

It’s Time to Learn From Frogs
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: June 28, 2009

Scientists are beginning to find a connection between bizarre deformities in water animals and abnormalities in humans.

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Look Around You - Ghosts

This is absolutely ridiculous.

Look Around You - Germs

Look Around You - Water

Here is a look at the next installment of All Around You. Water.....

The 27th Annual Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl

For those of you in the Boston area looking for something fun to do this week, why not head out for some ice cream?!

The Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl is the nation's largest all-you-can-eat ice cream festival. The event, being held this Tuesday, June 9th, to Thursday, June 11th, at Boston City Hall Plaza, serves up ice cream from nine of the nation's leading ice cream companies while raising money for the Jimmy Fund, which supports cancer research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Thanks to generous support, the 2008 Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl raised more than $345,000, bringing the 26-year total to more than $2 million.

Look Around You - Maths

The next segment, which is actually the first segment, of the Look Around You series.....

Help Stop Global Warming

To control global warming pollution, we must understand its sources. But powerful polluting industries are working to weaken the EPA's proposed reporting rule. I support of a strong reporting system. Check it out:

http://action.sierraclub.org/bigpicture_reporting