I know, it's a Ford, but still

I've seen a couple of these in real life, and they make me wistful

Happy Birthday E-Bitch!

FJ Nothing...

...just buy an old Toyota:

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=15438

Steam!

Neat.

Shitgun

Xtrema2 bitches:

http://media.putfile.com/Xtrema2-Shotgun

Saturday at the Pacific Science Center

We had a lovely visit to the Pacific Science Center yesterday (although some of the exhibits were closed for repairs. . . clearly we'll have to go back sometime). The exhibits were fun, but also it was just nice to get out and have a casual Saturday afternoon hanging out with friends. We look forward to the next one (February 18th. . . mark your calendars)!

I've had a few more ideas for places, which I've posted in the comments section of the original Saturdays in the Park post (so we have them all in one place). Anyone else have a ideas?

Happy Hour Listings

Well, I admit that this site is now of much less use to me now that I've re-spawned, but, still, it's pretty damn cool.

It lists all the happy hours around, and lists what's 'happy' about their 'hour', and even gives it a 1 - 5, um, green dot rating.

Check it.

Here's a picture of Morgan and I enjoying a happy hour at The Vortex from long ago.

Yes, Morgan is covered in Post-Its...

Like a fine, German wine

So sure, the custom Unimog camper pictured above costs $100,000.00. You might ask yourself, how could you justify spending that much money on a vehicle? But when you think about the endless hours of fun and adventure your family could have, and the fact that the world is about to end at any moment, and that a luxury car costs upward of $50,000.00, things start to look different. The question is, really, how can you not buy this camper?

Eyes..... tearing.... AHHHHHHH!!

Well Goddamnit

Check it:



It's a brand new, hand-built fj40 landcruiser, made by TLC in California. Every part is new, except for the frame, which is original - albeit bead blasted and powder-coated - 'cause of some bullshit Californian law.

It's got a v8, a 5 speed, and all the parts you'd want to put on your cruiser if you were building it up. And, as I mentioned previously, it's new.

Needless to say, no one will say how much it costs.

No Smoking

OK, I still think the 25 ft. rule is ridiculous, but I am thankful for the smoke-free meal we just had with our baby at the Canterbury.

Saturday in the park

Here's the thinking:
Third Saturday of the Month. 1pm.

Different venues would be fun, and I'm proposing the following:

January -> Pacific Science Center
February -> Aquarium
March -> Arboretum
April -> Zoo
May -> Seward Park
June -> Solstice/Gasworks Park
July -> Ravenna
August -> Volunteer Park
September -> Alki Beach
October -> Zoo
November -> Pacific Science Center
December -> Aquarium

If anyone has other suggestions for venues, please contribute. I don't feel I've been here long enough to have a really good idea of what's available for groups of all ages.

Albert Camus 1913 - 1960

Albert Camus died on this day, in 1960, behind the wheel of his car.

A writer and thinker, he also walked the walk. Camus wrote for an underground paper in occupied France during the war. He later took a stand against Stalin, for whom his fellow French intellectuals had been busy apologizing. That earned him a public split with - and the wrath of - that pissy little queen Jean Paul Sartre. He later won the nobel prize, and accepted it with great misgivings.

I've always admired the way Camus followed his thoughts to their conclusions. Like Orwell, he never submitted to any orthodoxy, preferring instead to remain a free thinker. And though he saw the absurdity of life, he also recognized the beauty of struggling for decency and kindness in the face of that absurdity. If anyone could have come up with a moral code for a morally bankrupt world, it would have been Camus. We are the worse for his death. For my money, he rounds out the troika of the three worthy Frenchmen - the others being Voltaire and Lafayette.

So Albert wherever you are, take care of yourself my brother. I will see you on the other side.

Because I can't help myself

From the BBC's "100 things we didn't know last year":

6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine.
11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
12. Until the 1940s rhubarb was considered a vegetable. It became a fruit when US customs officials, baffled by the foreign food, decided it should be classified according to the way it was eaten.
18. If all the Smarties eaten in one year were laid end to end it would equal almost 63,380 miles, more than two-and-a-half times around the Earth's equator.
23. In America it's possible to subpoena a dog.
39. Australians host barbecues at polling stations on general election days.
44. Rubber gloves could save you from lightning.
67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.
73. One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree.
87. Pulling your foot out of quicksand takes a force equivalent to that needed to lift a medium-sized car.
92. British citizens, presumably, are 176 times more likely to be murdered than to win the UK National Lottery.
93. Koalas have fingerprints exactly like humans (although obviously smaller).
98. Nettles growing on land where bodies are buried will reach a foot higher than those growing elsewhere.
99. The Japanese word "chokuegambo" describes the wish that there were more designer-brand shops on a given street.

The complete list

Viva 2006!

In the year 2006 I resolve to:

Not strip for free anymore.

Get your resolution here