Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in Humor on Nov 28th, 2006
If you have a TV over 29″ big, and have at least two comfortable chairs, couches or futons, the MPAA wants you to pay them a $50 license fee or face fines of $500,000 per movie that you show at home. Despite the fact that the Democrats are big time supporters of censorship in movies [...]
Posted in General on Nov 25th, 2006
Sara had some of her friends come over for Thanksgiving dinner on Friday. As some of them work retail, they were not all able to show up, but we all had a good time with those that did.
Sara made her first ever turkey. She did very well, not only was it moist and properly done, [...]
Posted in Board & Card Games, Gaming, Go on Nov 25th, 2006
I have been playing SmartGo a bit… well I only played a couple games, but I have been playing with some of the other features and I have to say that if you have any interest in playing Go at all, you really should get this program. Speaking of playing games against it, here is [...]
Posted in General on Nov 23rd, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there.
Jack Spade, a upscale store in Manhattan’s So-Ho District, recently sold frog dissection kits. They stopped after complaints and said, “Jack Spade doesn’t support the unethical treatment of animals.” Meanwhile, the sell of their leather and calfskin items continue. I guess taking the hide off a baby calf is cruelty free…
Obviously I am not a [...]
Posted in Politics on Nov 21st, 2006
The crazed socialist over in the United Kingdom are pushing to force parents to take classes to learn to sing nursery rhymes. They are also pushing on exactly how they are to brush their teeth in a government mandate. More details here. I guess this is a good example of the way a nanny [...]
Posted in General on Nov 20th, 2006
A Sara update for you all. Sara and her CAP friends had their 2006 Witches Ball and Sara had a good time. Like last year, she was one of the primary cooks. Unlike last year where they had lots of food left over, they ran out this time around. They had lots of people this [...]
I marked this one Political as well as humor since it is a political joke. It’s apparently an older image. Hard to tell if it was what the sign actually said or if it was Photoshoped.
I haven’t talked about Go for eons.
First up. I noticed my favorite Go program SmartGo has been updated to 2.3. It has been very much improved since I last used the game back when it was still 1.something… It has a 15 day free trial so give it a go (no pun intended). A few [...]
Posted in General on Nov 10th, 2006
Just in case you didn’t hear, there is a huge acetaminophen recall. Turns out we have two bottles that were in the recall. You can check the store list here and the batch list here. This is not for Tylenol named brand acetaminophen, but store branded acetaminophen made by Perrigo. Seems they may have tiny [...]
Posted in Movies on Nov 10th, 2006
Watch this and be amazed…
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2783985
Looks like it is an absolute must watch movie. Wow…
Posted in Ari Update, TV Shows on Nov 9th, 2006
Since I am talking about new TV shows, Ari’s favorite new show, and it would seem favorite show of the moment is Upside Down Show. It is an odd kind of show, with brothers David and Shane who have their viewers use their imaginary remote control to help them with stuff… Okay, bad explanation… just [...]
Posted in TV Shows on Nov 9th, 2006
I haven’t really commented yet on the new TV season.
Best show on TV continues to be Battlestar Galactica. I continue to love Lost as well.
Best new show: Jericho. CBS just announced they will not be showing any repeats of the show when the show goes on hiatus here soon. Right now, and during the [...]
Posted in Humor on Nov 9th, 2006
Why is that so many jokes take place at a bar?
Recently a routine police patrol parked outside a bar in Arlington, Texas .
After last call the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk. The man stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes, with the officer quietly [...]
Posted in Politics on Nov 9th, 2006
Okay, I know, I said I’ll let up on the political posts some. I guess the keyword there was some. I would guess after enough time has passed from the election my upset levels will be down enough to let regular posts take over.
The new leadership in Washington is making promises and moves to repeal [...]
This one isn’t an Ari video, but a cute baby none-the-less. The dad, or somebody off camera, makes a sound and the baby delivers a cute laugh.
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The lady cheats, an accident I believe, and gets away with it… although Bob does put a heavy bit of sarcasm into it.
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Posted in Politics on Nov 8th, 2006
The election results are in. Let’s explore:
State Issues:
Issue 2: Passed overwhelmingly. Unfortunately too many people thought this would raise the minimum wage and that is all. If that is all it did they wouldn’t need a public vote on an amendment. What the issue was about was making all your employment information publicly available to [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Nov 6th, 2006
Dig this. Ari pretending to cook and putting his very good imagination to use. He uses beads as the food, then a cell phone charger as the mixer and gives it the mixer sound.
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Check out the Wrestling ad on this page. Right after he says he is working with Hillary Clinton to limit inappropriate material (read censorship) in children’s video games he elbows the wrestler coming up behind him.
First there’s the fact there is no inappropriate material in children’s video games. There is violence and sometimes sexual content [...]
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