The Rusted Musket

I know, I know, that mystery missile blasting off California’s coast a month ago is ancient tweeter fodder, but com’on, surely it was weird enough to remember for at least a few weeks, right? Well, this morning I wondered if they ever figured out what it actually was and according to forgetomori the case appears closed. Supposedly it was nothing more than commercial flight UPS902 from Honolulu to Ontario, California.

So, just a boring commercial flight instead of an uber awesome ghost rocket. I feel just a wee bit let down…

Nothing deep here but doesn’t the new GAP logo look like something off a software suite, like from Cisco Systems or something? The old GAP logo was cool like Apple’s, the new logo is not cool, like Window’s…

Just ran across this quote and found it thought provoking…

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S Truman (1884 – 1972), in Observer, April 13, 1958

This was too good to pass up…

Lets pretend you’ve gone out to dinner, enjoyed a fantastic meal with service to match, paid the bill, and now its time to leave a tip. Here’s my thought on this hypothetical situation.

What’s a couple extra bucks in the grand scheme of an evening? Probably not much, maybe a soda or two, but to a waitress or waiter, it’s much more. So go on, add a couple extra bucks above normal for those that serve you, the amount is meaningless, but very meaningful to them…

I love Star Wars so I find this pretty hilarious!

This is kind of old news, but its too interesting to pass up:

How does a person get to this point? I mean its like 6am and this lady is very drunk, driving at the airport… Crazy enough she gets away with barely a scratch despite her car pretty much blowing up…

People like Dugout Dick fascinate me. After coming home from WW2’s Pacific theater this gentleman basically lived on his own, with only the occasional guest, in spartan-like living arrangements carved out of Idaho’s Salmon River bank for sixty years. This past week I returned from a week long backpacking trip to Tennessee’s Smokey Mountains in which I too lived in reduced living conditions, a two man tent. One week was enough, Nature +1, Ben 0. The reason for this post is that I admire Dugout Dick as a robust life from a different time, almost mythic, like Paul Bunyan, for Dugout D figured out how to make yogurt from within his cave; this, in my book, qualifies as a semi mythic feat. I also appreciate how he enjoyed his simple existence of endlessly quoting the Bible from his little hole in the wall, and how, despite these simple ways ended up in a National Geographic, a book or two, and a couple words dedicated on TRM…

So I just found out that a show my wife and I love is being canceled… Its called Legend of the Seeker. Its a great show based on the Sword of Truth books by Terry Goodkind. Its one of the very few shows/movies that I like better than the books. It is really loosely based on the books and doesn’t really follow the book all that well, but it really stands on its own. So if you’ve seen the show or just feel like helping out, please sign this petition or go to http://www.saveourseeker.com/ to see other ways to help…
Both seasons are available to instant view on Netflix and the last 4 episodes are available on Hulu, though I highly recommend watching the episodes in order.

Here is my video of the week…

Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks