Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in Politics on Jul 31st, 2006
Amoung all the news about record proffits for the oil companies, let us remember that they are nothing compared to those made by banks and pharmaceutical companies when speaking in terms of profit per dollar of sale. Banks lead the way, thanks mostly due to overly high fees, and double fees (out of network fees [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Jul 30th, 2006
Ari sometimes calls me Brian rather than dad. It reminds me of a girl I knew who called her dad by his name… Needless to say, I generally will ignore him until he calls me dad, or after a few million times of it, will tell him “Ari, I am dad,” where he normally switches [...]
Remember, remember the fifth of November,
the gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see of no reason why gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.
A reminder, this Tuesday the excelent V for Vendetta comes out.
Posted in Humor on Jul 29th, 2006
The 30 Seconds Bunnies have a parady of the great Office Space. It is failry funny: Office Space in 30 Seconds - Reenacted by Bunnies. Notice: NSFW.
South Park, yes South Park, provides a fairly accurate history of the Mormon Church.
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The link above tells how accurate it actually is. So while the video may be funny, it is historically accurate… They do leave out the connections to the Masons, but that perhaps is getting to be a bit too much.
Since we’re [...]
Check this out. An F-15 Eagle gets one of its wings torn off in a mid-air collision. It then does what is in theory, aerodynamically impossible, flies over 10 miles one one wing and then lands. The conclusion of the investigation was that the plane’s wide body, and the fact that he flew it far [...]
Posted in TV Shows on Jul 28th, 2006
Shows that I intend to check out this fall (at least on the big networks):
Sundays:
None of the new Sunday shows appeal to me, so the only thing I’ll probably watch is Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Perhaps just as well as I probably should try to get to church on Sunday nights…
Mondays:
Heros (NBC, 9PM) - Drama [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2006
I just got an email telling me I won an item on eBay. Odd how I haven’t bid on anything in a long time. Odder still that I got the email at an account not used on eBay. Not a very well researched scam. Heck the item number doesn’t even show as an eBay auction, [...]
Posted in General on Jul 27th, 2006
I keep meaning to update everyone on the neighbor kid. He’s back, although Sara and I haven’t seen him yet. The day before he came home, his mom talked to Sara. She thanked us for the flowers, and told Sara that he lost his fingers, and was in a induced coma for five weeks. When [...]
Coming out near John Lennon’s birthday will be The U.S. Vs John Lennon:
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(high quality trailer here)
The government had huge FBI and CIA files against Lennon, and those CIA files are still largely classified, more then 25 years after Lennon’s assassination.
I have to wonder if the film will cover the various conspiracy theories that [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Jul 25th, 2006
Ari has stopped going for the most part to the restroom. He still does from time to time, but not nearly as much as he was for a while there. Hopefully he’ll get back into it again soon.
Posted in General on Jul 25th, 2006
Sara has been chosen to join the board of CAP as their networking person. Social networking, not computer networking. Basically she maintains and updates their listing on various websites. Updates the calender of events and the like.
Sara and one of her long time friends will be going somewhere overnight this week. Her friend is on [...]
Posted in Politics on Jul 22nd, 2006
Just a quick comment on how our government spends more on finding and jailing non-violent drug offenders than on violent offenders.
What makes a murdering rapist safer to have on the street then a drug user? What kind of twisted logic is that? Yet this is the very logic the government applies to the situation.
The current [...]
Posted in Movies on Jul 22nd, 2006
The Fountain is one of those movies I’ll have to see in the theaters. The full, The Fountain trailer is out, and does contain spoilers about the movie, it perhaps may be best to stick with the teaser (also on that page).
When Lost returns this fall, it will be in two big blocks. The fist block of 6, then the rest will start in February. Meaning we’ll get a big break between the two.
The producers are apparently looking at the first block of 6 as a mini-series.
I am not overly happy about how big a gap [...]
One of my favorite ads of all time:
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No CGI, just 250,000 super bouncy balls going down the streets of San Francisco.
(High def version available.)
After watching the ad, check out the making of the commercial:
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They are getting read to start a new campaign. It looks like they are going to blast paint at a [...]
Posted in New Zealand, Politics on Jul 21st, 2006
New Zealand, despite having some of the harshest marijuana laws out there, has become one of the growing number of countries to have relaxed their regulations for growing industrial hemp. Like Canada, it requires a special license.
Hemp, recall, is a non-smokable form of cannabis and can’t get you high. It makes better paper than wood [...]
Posted in Politics on Jul 20th, 2006
Using a graph by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Statistics, some folks have added a video game time line that helps show that youth violence rates continue to drop, despite the addition of violent video games. (See this article for details.) Contradicting what people like Jack Thompson, Evan Bayh, Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman [...]
Posted in General on Jul 20th, 2006
The jam band, Ekoostik Hookah, along with a few other bands, will be in the North East Ohio area this weekend at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park (dudes, frames are so yesterday…heck, day before yesterday) for the Summer Hookah Weekend 10. Tickets are $45 a person for the weekend pass.
From the Nelson Ledges site:
10th anniversary! 10 [...]
Posted in TV Shows on Jul 19th, 2006
For seven seasons Buffy entertained us. Finally, after a long hiatus, Buffy returns for Season 8.
The army of Slayers is organized, but an old enemy returns and Dawn goes through some “growing pains.”
Okay, so it is in comic book form, but it should still be great. Now if they can show how Angel and the [...]
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction) by Gregory Maguire