Very Cool

Check out this news story on CNN...Its pretty cool, and I'm guessing she's HOT!

Clip of the Day:
Police Chase with a rough ending...not too graphic...but well its rough

And check out this Table Saw, and the Hot Dog Demo, very cool stuff...I could have used this once, luckily I did not get it like a few other folks I know.

Clip of the Day

Yeah, so, I got behind. Here are a couple until I get caught up again.

This guy plays a floor piano by bounce juggling balls onto it!

This guy intentionally burns off his parachute while freefalling

PETA Kills Animals!!

Hypocrisy is the mother of all credibility problems, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has it in spades. While loudly complaining about the "unethical" treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, the group has its own dirty little secret.

PETA kills animals. By the thousands.

Read more here...

March of Dimes

November 14th March of Dimes celebrates Prematurity Awareness Day.
If we can persuade Google to create a doodle for us on November 14th, we can potentially be seen by millions of internet users.
Please help us spread the word, and sign the petition for the top spot on Google!

Pluto gets booted...Cafe Press gets boosted!!

Just 2 days after Pluto gets nixed as an official planet, CafePress.Com has 390 designs on over 4000 products! Now, I don't really care at all if Pluto is a planet or a cold rock orbiting the sun really slowly, but 74 years of planethood should grandfather it in...in my opinion. I just wonder how much money we spend to decide if we should call it a dwarf. I wonder when the ACLU will sue so we can call it the dimensionally challenged planet instead.

Rubik's Cube

I thought I was smart being able to do the cube. But there are videos of people doing it one handed in 20 seconds. The 2 hand world record is just under 10 seconds. I only got under 2 minutes once...They have 4 year old kids doing it in under 1 minute. Thats nuts. Here you can see a guy do it in 2:18, BLINDFOLDED!!

Project 2

I started a new project in another really cool building called One Atlantic Center. It used to be known world wide as the IBM Tower and was the tallest building in Atlanta until 1992, when it was surpassed by the Bank of America Plaza. Anyway, I am working on the 36th floor which has stunning views of the rest of Atlanta's architecture.
This is a night shot of the top 15 floors (give or take) and the spire.
COTD:
A news reporter blown up by a manhole cover in NYC

Bonus Clip: Extreme Tubing A very cool boat, tubing launch!

Hurricanes...

Well it seems Max Mayfield is getting bored, or maybe he is missing his spot on the evening news, or maybe he just wants to say "I told you so!!", again. Whatever the case is, he is making even more ridiculous claims than he made last year and CNN was there to report it.

COTD: President Bush covers a favorite U2 song.

Rainy days, make me feel like...

But on the bright side, there have been no hurricanes, or even close calls. Natural gas is a pre-katrina levels. The ocean water temps are cooler than last year, prompting meteorologist to lower their preivious doom and gloom worst ever hurricane predictions to just gloomy almost as bad a last year predictions. So much for global warming and everything getting exponentially worse every year huh. In 1974 Time magazine wrote an article called "Another Ice Age" with remarkably similar tone to this year's frantic and dire report on the horrible effects and imminent deaths caused by "Global Warming". My thought is this will blow over and in a few years it will be "Aliens are coming to kill us all", maybe I will start preparing now for that one.

how spain deals with bank robbers

clip of the day!! from YouTube
How Spain deals with bank robbers...great video

Bonus video:
Guy showing off in his mustang wrecks...very funny

Clip of the Day!!
Brought to you by Google Video!
As hunting season nears, keep this scene in mind before you go and attempt to outsmart a large mouse with antlers, by hiding in a tree and using a supersonic rifle to kill it.

Bonus Clip:
Very awesome skater video...huge handrail grind

Mentos + Pepsi = Death...with video proof

Click this link to see the video!

Brilliant...That makes me feel safer

This is so outrageous it's almost not believable. Back in June, the Department of Homeland Security took CAIR...the Council on American-Islamic Relations, on a tour of security facilities at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. No, your eyes do not deceive you. That's exactly what they did.
More...

In other news: Secretary Of Defense Humiliated As U.S. Credit Card Rejected

Clip of the Day, brought to you by YouTube
Girl takes photo of herself everyday for 3 years...you see it all in 67 seconds...really kinda odd...but interesting, i guess.
The full 3 minute version is available here...just as cool, but longer
Bonus Video:
The evolution of dance: Hilarious...Sound required...6 minutes long

CNN...Fear Mongers...More from Jon Stewart

Man, this dude is so funny, I just can't help but post his videos. This is 4 minutes of hilarious commentary about CNN's TARGET:USA special reports.


And, in addition to this video, I am starting a new segment, a Column, or a "daily" if you will. It will be called "Clip of the Day" provide by YouTube. It will simply contain a link and synopsis of videos I find fun, interesting, contoversial, or whatever. Basically crap I want others to see. So watch them...'k.

Today's "Clip of the Day" brought to you by YouTube is:
3 minutes of the biggest, baddest, football hits ever.
Bonus Link:
Weightless dog, funny, and what happens at the end? ouch.

No Comment!!

Ok, I am shocked by the lack of intrest or initiative in the general blogging and blog reading crowd. I am very disappointed that the post of the last few weeks have gone largely un-commented. But maybe that's just the way our lazy and apathetic world has gone, you can die and as long as the posts keep coming no-one will even notice!

BTW...A link or shoutout on your blog or website is way better than a comment, so take no offense if that applies to you.

Terror in the sky...or not

click here to see why they terrorists could not have pulled off the terrorist act everyone claims they were planning. The chemistry just makes it implausible.
BTW...you don't have to be a chemist or a nerd to understand this, it's very simple and probably worth reading.

Mentos & Diet Coke!!

This is the craze du jour. Kids, Teens, and even adults everywhere are blowing 2 liter bottles over houses, and across their work parking lots. Looks like fun doesn't it.

Watch a video of 2 kids shooting a 2 liter rocket over their house!! Very cool. There is also a "how to" video on YouTube...look it up!!

Cherry for PSC

Ok, I know this is lame, but you gotta start somewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb6gHcF0WUg

Sorry. For the cheesyness, but it has to be done.
Watch at your own risk, you may feel dumber after!

word game

The Truth

This may be the real reason you can no longer take your cologne with you on a plane.

Or maybe not, but is it right that they get to keep our stuff and then sell it? We aren't talking about dangerous stuff here, fingernail clippers, give me a break. "Fly this plane into the White House or I'll give you a manicure?" Get real.

And check out this little tid bit the senate has passed to further restrict our rights as U.S. citizens.

Unbelievable

This is one of the most unbelievable things I have ever seen. How the Enron or World Com people get indicted but these Bayer people don't I just don't understand. If there was ever just cause for a government investigation it would be now. I am really in shock over the incredible allegations you will see in this video. The "good news" if you can call it that, is Bayer has already settled $600M in lawsuits, prior to this enormous class action filed earlier this month. Baxter Healthcare is also named in the suit. Maybe a record breaking verdict will bankrupt this murderous corporation and show the rest of these white collar criminals you will get caught. I hope the people responsible for these decisions spend the rest of their lives in jail...that's better than their victims recieved.


I found this video on Sharpening Iron

A New York Times article about Bayer

This article on the American Disaster Machine was also found there

Yummy!!

Where can I get this!!

And check out what Lew Rockwell has to say about the foiled terror plots.

World Trade Center

I got to go see the movie World Trade Center this morning. I thought it was very well done, and as advertised it was emotional. Kelly cried through most of the movie. The movie focuses on the entrapment of two Port Authority Police Officers and their struggle to survive after the towers collapse on them. It is definately worth checking out, and btw, if you go to AMC before noon, tickets are $4.

Check out this very sad 9/11 video if you haven't already.

New terror plot foiled....yeah right

How do you know its election time? The terror propaganda machine fires back up. Interesting how except for those few inept dorks in Miami, there has been almost no talk of attempted terrorism since the last election, but now with the pressure republicans are facing to hold control of congress its time for the scary terror alerts again. Over the next few months we will hear all about how they have done so much to keep us safe, but if we don't re-elect them we will all die horrible chemical weapon induced deaths. So watch out for all those scary terrorist and beware of rapidly changing color coded warning labels all over the bottom of your tv. It seems imminent that we will have a brief spike in the terror warning level just to remind us all how dangerous life is, and how unsafe we really are. Maybe they got that part right?

Traffic!!

Yeah...so I left work at like 3 in the morning and got slammed in traffic on 85 North. They were pacing traffic for 30 minute intervals overnight to allow the construction crew to set the new beams over 85 @ Old Norcross. So I exited and parked on Old Norcross, and hung out on the bridge for about an hour waiting for the next paced traffic break and the subsequential setting of a beam. I guess this makes me a pretty big dork, but I had to see what it was like to set these beams. I have to admit, it was kind of a let down...but at the same time, I guess it was a bit interesting. They had these big cranes on tracks so the truck drove up with the beams, it was attached to 2 cranes who then drove the beams into place. Anyway, I stayed up until after 4 am to see this, so I will try to remember it for a while.

My First Project!

I got to go see my first project today. It is a really small job on the 12th floor of the Hurt Building in downtown Atlanta. So after a week in training, I have been thrown into the fire. I guess we will see if I know anything now. It looks like it will be a fun little job. I get to be a trim carpenter for a minute because we have some 4 piece crown to remove and replace, and a few cabinets and a door to install as well. So, tomorrow night I will be jumping in with both feet. And yeah, I said night...I will be working night shifts in this building, which as far as I am concerned, is a good thing.

9 months

Nine months smoke free. Woohoo. Nearly 11,000 cigarettes not smoked. Nearly $1600 saved. That is sweet. So tell any smokers that you know that they stink and to quit. They will be better for it, although you will never be able to convince them.

Beer Geekdom

Check it out...Beer Geeks made CNN. The Alesnobs will rule the world. Rogue is one of my current favorite breweries.

Also, check out this website, dedicated to "Better Drinking"

More about Cork-Howard

Ok. I guess I haven't given all the details yet, so here goes. I am going to be a commercial superintendent. I believe that I will be working in the interiors side of the company, which basically means that I will not actually build the structures, but I will be finishing the interiors. We would do any necessary demolition to remove interior walls etc..., then build new walls or otherwise re-arrange and refinish the layout of the buildings interiors. Our company also does ground up construction, where the supers actually build the structures and do the interior build out as well. As a super, I will be responsible for maintaining timeline, scheduling, and oversight of the subs and our own employees who are onsite, and be available as well as capable to answer questions about the construction from the subs, owner reps, etc...Obviously this is a very basic outline, but I hope it gives you a little understanding.

Right now I am training, so I am working beside another super on his project. It is a nearly total interior renovation of a two floor building for GA Power. It is scheduled to be a 6 week project. I will basically be bouncing for several weeks working with different supers to get a feel for what they do and how they do it, then thrown to the wolves to get started on my own project.

My new Job, again!

Well, I got a new job. This one should be a real challenge and an interesting change of pace. The link above will take you to the company website, check it out. They really do some awesome work. And, I get a truck!! That is too cool!! Paid vacations, company cars, holidays, insurance...I could get used to this corporate sell out thing. Anyway, the days of HomeLife have gone, so hopefully I will be a bit more available these days. I got home at 3:30 today. That is sweet, but we start at 6am, that means I have to leave at 5. That really sucks, but what can you do? At least I get home early.