Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2007
Okay, let me setup the scene for you. I am on Portage, getting ready to go onto 77 South. For those not familiar with this intersection, let me give you the details. Portage, at this point is a 4 lane road. 77 South exit and entrance ramps meet at this light. Now, I said 4 [...]
Posted in General, New Zealand on Nov 30th, 2007
Here is a great commercial for New Zealand… God I want to visit so bad for a month or two…
The opening scene was done by Weta Digital, the people behind the The Lord of the Rings special effects. Of course as you may know, Lord of the Rings was filmed in New Zealand, though I [...]
Posted in General, New Zealand on Nov 28th, 2007
Since I am in a New Zealand mood here is the New Zealand national anthem (prior to an All Blacks game):
The lyrics (the first part is in Maori…):
E Ihoa Atua,
O nga Iwi Matoura,
Ata whaka rongona;
Me aroha noa.
Kia hua ko te pai;
Kia tau to atawhai;
Manaakitia mai
Aotearoa
God of nations! at Thy feet
In the bonds of love we [...]
Posted in Politics on Nov 28th, 2007
A bunch of Anti-war people got together to make a Stop the Impeachment Pr-War Rally, smell the sarcasm coming from the screen:
What is sad is how many people didn’t get that it was a joke, or go to the other extreme and are of the opinion that if you don’t support Bush and his policies [...]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Nov 28th, 2007
The CNN YouTube Republican Debates are tonight.
Posted in Politics on Nov 28th, 2007
Giuliani claims that America’s Foreign Policy had nothing to do with 9/11. Contradicting what the terrorists themselves said. He says the reason they attacked us is because of the freedoms we have. Hey Mr Giuliani, if they hate us for our freedoms, then why the hell did we get rid of a lot of our [...]
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2007
I haven’t played the If We Were In (insert city name here) Right Now game for a while.
Here the high is actually 46 with a low of 36. By the weekend the temperature will drop to 28 for the low with 40 for a high. Fairly mild for this time of year.
For other cities:
Auckland: High [...]
Posted in Politics on Nov 18th, 2007
I am becoming more and more concerned about the dangers of mandatory vaccine policy. It is already obvious that the policy has more to do with protecting the profits of the world’s second most profitable industry (second only to banks, and making twice the profits of oil companies), then any real concerns over the [...]
Posted in Politics on Nov 17th, 2007
The government sent in the Secret Service and the FBI to raid the headquaters of the people who made Liberty Dollars. They also made coins with Ron Paul’s image on them, though Ron Paul had nothing to do with them and they never asked Ron Paul for permission. The media is playing up the Ron [...]
I’ve been on my new job since Monday, though I had to leave early today as I was throwing up, not cool…
Anyhow, I work in the laser department, I use one program to import data into Excel, then save the data, exit Excel, exit the program and launch another program that does something to it [...]
Okay, so I have been playing with Intense Debate (ID) for today. Most of the problems I have run into are either problems with compatibility with my theme, or other plugins.
For example, my theme used to put a little gif on the sidebars for list items, however, I had to turn that off for now [...]
Posted in Climbing on Nov 11th, 2007
Today was my first full day of climbing at the gym… well, first time I stayed past the “training” time and nearly until the day was done, so a few hours. My fingers are numb as I type this, and my arms hurt though I think they are getting used to the work.
Posted in General on Nov 11th, 2007
I saw All Climbing added a new comment system, I may add that system myself if it works with the iG:Syntax Hiliter plugin that I use. It looks like this will allow for a nicer looking comment section, with a greater range of power for not only myself as the blog, but for you as [...]
Posted in Politics on Nov 7th, 2007
Andrew S. Grove ripped the pharmaceutical industry for it's lack of progress in curing diseases in humans.
I more or less agree with him, but I think a few things need to be pointed out. The pharmaceutical industry makes twice the profit of oil companies make per dollar sold, only banks make more (and that is [...]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Nov 7th, 2007
Some great stuff I saw over at the Daily Paul.
CNN talking about Ron Paul's amazing amount of money earned, and they talk about how Paul got 4695 mentions on TV News outlets compared to McCains' 95,005 from August 2006 to August 2007.
Ron Paul on MSNBCs Tucker Carlson show talking about the money bomb as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 6th, 2007
Presenting Brandi Carlile's The Story:
Some more vids below the break:
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Nov 6th, 2007
Remember remember the 5th of November indeed!
Ron Paul, whom if we are to believe the press and the "official" polls, despite finishing in the top 3 of nearly every straw poll, having more donations from active military personal then any other candidate, and a huge Internet presence, being fourth in donations for the GOP last [...]
Posted in Religion, Revelations from the Word on Nov 4th, 2007
The Golden Compass (Amazon link coming soon, but for some reason the link builder isn't working) is coming to theaters soon (trailer) and a whole bunch of Christian groups are preparing to protest the movie, New Line (the film's distributors) and in general making a fuss over the whole film and books. The controversy undoubtedly [...]
Imajica: Featuring New Illustrations and an Appendix by Clive Barker