Star Trek vs. Simpsons.... Boyyeeeee

Bush Claims to be Literate... LOL

So Bush's latest kick is that he is trying to 'dispel his image as an intellectual lightweight' by claiming that he has started to read books more. Bush tells us gullible American populace that he has so far read 60 books this year.

Oh come on! Let's do the math here people. 60 / 8 months (we are just entering September) = 7.5 books per month. Now, using a little math that comes out to around 1 book every 4-5 days.

I'm not sure which books he is reading, maybe Curious George, or Presidency for Dummies, but no one can read that much, AND be the president at the same time. Shit, even in college I didn't have to read that many books. Maybe if he was a book reviewer, but he's not.

What a moron. Don't believe it, don't be fooled. Use your brain.

Burger-Powered Super Rats Take Over London!

Now would be a bad time to go to England, as it seems a new species of super powered rats are taking over London. Apparently the average, feeble human can only flee about 10 feet before they encounter another one.

Ok, I am exaggerating a little, but check out this news story about how fast food is making the rat population bigger in size over there.

I for one welcome our new mutant-rat overlords.

A Love Story

Courtesy of rense.com

Cool Survival Kit

Check out these cool survival kits that you can make at home out of an Altoids tin.

The have verions ranging from the tiniest, up to a wilderness survival kit. Pretty neat.

The Grays Released

'The Grays' has been released. It's best to get it online as most of the bookstores that you could walk into don't carry many copies, and hide them in the back of the store for some odd reason.

I'm a third of the way through, and what a book! Full of suspense and great writing. Knowing that this book is fact-based fiction only makes it even more interesting, also questioning and wondering if what you're reading is the fiction or the fact part. I would recommend it.

I can't wait until this comes out in the theaters next year, hopefully the production studio, Sony Pictures, doesn't dork it up the way the made-for-tv-movie of 'The Stand' turned out.

Straight Trippin'

Check out this video ya'll! It's of a DEA special agent giving a safety lecture to some kids when he accidentally shoots himself in the leg. What a dumbass.

Just say no to guns kids.

Taking Shape (Phase V)

After a bit a digging and grunting, I have gotten some of the edging and breeze pathway material down. You can see now the yard starting to take shape. While there is still a lot more to do, this gives me hope. I'm working on the steps now to try and get rid of the mound of gravel in my driveway as fast as possible.

V for Vendetta

"People should not fear their government, their government should fear the people."

To see what this country may one day become if we stay on the present course, just see this movie.

Great movie. By far the best I've seen in a while, especially if you also are a bit wary of all our rights being slowy taken away and every move monitored.

Pa-who?

The Dodgers seem to be slowly taking over the NL West, leaving the Padres and the Rockies behind. If some other team doesn't put a stop to their winning ways, all hopes could be lost soon.

It also doesn't help that the Padres lose at home all the time. And that the Rockies lose 2-1 in an 18 inning game to the D-Backs.

Rain Go Away

I would have some more pictures here, but the recent heavy thunderstorms have turned the yard into a bog / swamp / mud hole / marsh / quagmire and I've been unable to get any substantial work done.

However, I did at least get one section of the path done, looks good. The rest is a mess. Maybe I'll be done around 2008 or so.

Digging Sucks (Phase IV)

Now that the trees are in, it was time to move on to the next phase; paths, steps, and the like. You can see I have to plan for irrigation to run under the paths later by placing access sleeves. I will be getting the path material soon, should have pictures of that soon.

Mrs. Greenthumb (Phase III)

So the last of the trees were installed the other day. May I present you with McIntosh and Gala apple trees, both semi-dwarf; what would life be without a bit of dwarf in it.

A-aaaaa !!!

So it finally arrived. After some monkeying around trying to get this PAL Region 2 DVD to work with my NTSC Region 1 DVD player, success!!

And Then Came The Rain...

So just after our nice trees were installed, a super thunderstorm decided to dump about an inch of rain in about 30 minutes on the yard. It was straight out of the bible man, flood city.

Dr. Greenthumb (Phase II)

After spending by Bling Bling jewelery money on trees instead, we finally got everything except the apple trees installed. Looks much better, and can't wait for the fall colors and shade that comes with them.

The Grays Part 1

Whitley Strieber has updated his journal again, http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal. If you didn't know, Whitley has written another book, this one called 'The Grays', which is due out August 22nd I believe. It is already under production by Sony studios to be released as a movie in 2007 I think.

And if you also didn't know, the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow' was based on his co-authored book 'The Coming Global Superstorm', which inturn is based off Whitley's true account as told in the book 'The Key'. Believe it or not!

Go read, think, and be merry.

Trees and a Patio Set

This weekend we picked out some trees for the yard. Trees are bling bling, but we beat some of the cost because there was a 40% sale. With delivery and installation, on a tree-by-tree basis, the cost came to about 110% of the original tree cost.

We are going to have 2 Austrian Pines, 1 Chanticleer Pear, 1 Autumn Blaze Maple, 1 Prairiefire Crabapple, 1 Semi-Dwarf Gala Apple, and 1 Semi-Dwarf McIntosh Apple. Yes, that is 7 trees. Including the other trees on our property, that totals 12 trees.

They're getting installed this week, so stay tuned for pictures. We also picked up a patio set from Home Depot at the 40% sale. It's a week for 40% off. Too bad I can't get 40% off my monthly mortgage.