Only in America

As a person with a science background, I can only shake my head at this latest attempt to re-write the facts so that it fits better into a narrow mind. Humans drinking from a stream while T-Rex roars in the distance, yeah right (they did not exist together). Next thing they will be saying they found Noah's ark and are going to do a special episode of Extreme make-over to make it into a cruise ship for the righteous. Welcome to a Christian Museum. They are popping up around the US and the school buses are streaming in with impressionable young minds cramming the seats.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/49811/

The kitchen is fixed!

Put all the cabinets back last night and the kitchen looks as good as new.

Termite update

So not sure if we will be able to get our place tented. There are a lot of interests at play here and unfortunately we are but one set of interests. We have a final vote coming up and if it falls through we will have to go it alone and spot treat our four spots with chemicals. Terminex charges $1000 for one spot and $600 for each one after that. Oh well we will just drive our termites over to our neighbors I guess, so be it.

Did You Know....?

Crazy when things are put into perspective like these. Technology is propelling forward at breakneck speeds.

PLANET EARTH Trailer

What Man does to the web of life he does to himself. This planet is amazing we need to stop treating it like something for us to use and discard. Catch the Plant Earth 11 part series on Discovery. Watch it is HD if you can.

Should I get a Dog or Have a Kid?

Beached

I have seen what a 600 and a 800 pound person looks like. Nursing will soon have a field called Bariatric Nursing. I need to be out of this career by then or I will have no back. When a 600 lb person shifts their weight as you move them, it could easily be game over for a nurse's back, and thus a nurse's career. It is crazy how in most of the world people are dying of starvation but in the US and Canada people are dying from excess. As the elderly life long smokers die off in the hospitals (and less people are smoking today than years ago) they will be replaced I think with a new generation of morbidly obese. We are just trading places.

Walmartization of mortgage industry

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/personalfinance/mortgage-meltdown.html

This is good article on the walmartization of the US mortgage industry. I am glad I have a pretty much regular mortage not subprime. People are tricked into a house they cannot afford and then the rate shoots up after the teaser rate expires and you get to foreclose on what you cannot afford. Never underestimae how useful goverment regulation can be. Down here in the land of capitalism you quickly find out that no one is looking out for you.

Backyard habitat

Some pics of the backyard...Nico is not allowed out here as she eats the trees.

The pile of mud is our worm compost bin (normally covered).

Marsha is planting Irish Moss between the rocks.

The Hummingbird is just hanging out in its nest.

Get a Mac

For more on Macs and why I made the switch click here http://www.apple.com/getamac/

Get A Mac - Security

Get a Mac - Tech Support

Apple Mac vs. Microsoft Windows PC - Viruses

Interesting Story about BC and California

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/03/16/bc-california.html

Going back to AT&T

So after trialing Vonage and then Packet 8, I have decided to switch back to a regular phone service with AT&T. Voice over the internet is great, when it works. If your internet slows down then guess what your phone will be choppy. I think the technology is still not perfected for the internet infrastructure is still not where it needs to be.

Will have a new number on Monday with a 408 area code for San Jose/Santa Clara.

This is Why We're Angry Atheists: But we'll discuss, calmly.

If Christianity means you end up in a heaven with these backwards brainwashed people then I want no part of it.

Introducing...................the Apple iRack

Funny parody of Iraq using Apple Computers.

Rage Against The Machine - Guerilla Radio

Rage Against the Machine are getting back together and coming the the Bay area in August. I will be there!!!

Running the Sahara (NFLD connection)

You have probably heard of the Canadian guy, Ray Zahab (who finished first I might add), that ran the Saraha desert as part of the documentary being produced by Matt Damon. Here is a link to the official website. The doctor that was there the entire time with the runners was actually a guy I work with a lot and know pretty well from Stanford named Jeff Peterson (click the name and read the Bio). Anyway as it happens, Ray Zahab (the Canadian) is married to a woman from Newfoundland and Jeff became pretty good friends with both of them and now wants to visit Newfoundland in the summer. Jeff spent over 100 days in Africa with the runners. The last time I saw him was around Halloween when he had a wine party at his house. Pretty cool.
Also check out This story.

24: Jack Bauer - DAMN IT!

Funny Damn It!!!

Cook Islands Movie

We created this movie with our iMac. It runs 26 minutes and there are some pics after the credits roll so don't turn it off too soon.

My Kitchen!!!

So here is what our kitchen looks like now. We had to remove some cabinets so that the plumber can come back tomorrow and cut and even larger hole in the ceiling to fix a leaking pipe. What a pain in the ass!

New website I am playing with using Mac

Not sure if I will expand this page or not but I am trouble lately updating my google based website.

Click here to view .Mac website

some pics

click the link for some pics I took with my phone.

Short video of the back yard

Poor quality video I shot with my cell phone

Made the Switch to Apple Today

This is it, this is the entire computer (it does come with a keyboard and mouse and a small apple remote control). There is a camera and a microphone built right on the top of the the monitor and all the USB plug ins and what not are out of sight in the back. I love this computer. You don't even really need a anti virus program as hardly any viruses are written for MAC. Very Cool

Who Killed The Electric Car?

Who Killed the Electric Car?

We are addicted to oil but who keeps us that way... the car manufacturer's or the oil companies or both? This is 2007, we should be zipping around in electric hover crafts and wearing silver jumpsuits, not driving cars based on the same antiquated technology prevalent at the time when films were black and white and had no sound. Our cars technology in 2007 is embarrassing and pathetic. We have landed people on the moon and we still drive around in vehicles that have internal combustion engines.
These engines are why there is a war in Iraq, why the world's glaciers are melting and water levels are rising, yet we plug on with less insight than chicken little, at least he was aware that the sky is falling.