Water Under the Bridge

“He wrote the Statue of Liberty” Above is an an actual quote from a wife beater wearing, PBR drinking, git yer hands off my guns bumper sticker sporting, no filter Camel smoking, sitting on the sea wall with sparks in his comb over, 50 something hard guy. Tonight would be freakin’ beautiful. Of course he meant the National Anthem and his lab partners also working on their thesis in frontal lobe reduction via formaldehyde based recreational adult soda mentioned that Frances Scott Keyes, wrote the National Anthem. So it went for us on July 4th. “God Bless America!” was the follow up to the misspoken authorship of the French wench in NYC harbor. “Durka Durka Dooooo!” Came from somewhere behind me. If the Taliban could see this, the would put all their money into space research and get the hell off earth. These men cannot be reasoned with, they do not eat, do not sleep, and use the cardboard insert from the three pack of white wife-beaters they bought at Target as a dust pan to get the flo...

On January 22nd of the year of the hare I wiped out on my road bike and managed to implement a Class III separation of my Acromioclavicular Joint (AC Joint). For us lay persons that is a joint in your shoulder. On February 2 (also year of the hare) I had the joint surgically repaired and have been recovering ever since, and let me tell you it hurts. One part of the healing process is the unsolicited advice on healing from all persons who you may call friends or at least call acquaintances. Thought I would share some of the suggestions I get from my unpaid group of advisors on healing my shoulder: I call them my ill-advisors, that is people who tell me they know someone who had something similar to what I am going through and they have the best 'cure.' Here are the best so far: Vitamin D3 - or calciol which is a form of Vitamin D structurally similar to steroids and has all kinds of good benefits for healing, except it's poisonous in large doses. Acupuncture - c'mon you ...

In August of 2010 my Mum suffered a hemorrhagic stroke of her left frontal lobe. For us lay-people this when blood bleeds into the brain and reeks all kinds of havoc up to killing the person. The pressure on the brain and the toxicity of the blood are not good. This type of stroke is typically caused by high blood pressure which me Mum has. In order to prevent death timeliness of care is paramount. My Mum was at the a hair salon so you know the personnel were ready to respond in a professional manner. I will skip the details but her stroke involved paramedics, a helicopter flight to a neurological specialist center (about $13,000) and the miracle drug tPA. tPa or Tissue Plasminogen Activator is a medication which is used to break up blood clots during an acute (read:bad) stroke. It saved Mum’s life. I told that story to tell you this one. For some reason my Mum on a small fixed income was extended credit by two Bank, Wells Fargo (@ 29.99% interest) and GE Money Bank (@ 24.99% interest)...

So here's the deal, friend of mine has the best medical blog in the world. And as a result I am getting some serious man-love going for him and want his life which is problematic as his yard has a high fence. He mentioned to me that the voting for medical blog of the year was taking place this last weekend. His competition was overseas in India and the competition had has about 6.3 million Facebook friends. That means to win this Dr. ZDoggMD would need hundreds of votes to win. With mission parameters set, I voted and turns out Dr. ZDoggMD won. He is the shiz-nit in the medical video-blogging world. Go here to be enlightened and frightened: http://zdoggmd.com/ Where is this going? Simple here is the last email exchange between ZD-izzle and me about the voting results. One other bit of info is on January 22, 2011 I crashed hard on my road bike and separated my shoulder, really separated it. Thanks to modern medicine I had it repaired on February 2, 2011 and and now whining my way ba...

Truer words one will most likely never hear. Girls like guys with skills. All types of skills. Since the Agents are reaching the age where the opposite sex is becoming interesting I decided to give them some skills, and bragging rights with an overnight backpacking trip. So the Supreme Commander set up a trip in the Cascades in Washington. It was to be an overnight survival skills building trip. As I explained it, “Agents, after this trip you will make Bear Grylls look like a hand model.” Agent Hotkoffee used another word involving hand to describe the Bear, again this is a family blog. Agent Hofkoffee thought it was a great idea and she volunteered to assist with the training. Since she is more than qualified I asked her along. Figured I needed it in case the agents went off the rails. Okay, more like when the agents go off the rails. The trip was scheduled for one night in the woods off Boulder Creek Trail in the Darrington National Forest. The hike into the campsite is a moderate hi...

Here is a portion of an email exchange I had with a good friend. I consider him very funny as he is exacting in his humor. The thread is about what car to buy for his new gig in Oakland, CA. I of course wanted him to go for speed and the high probability of getting a cap busted in his a**, he of course has the perfect solution (edited to protect the innocent). No doubt the STi rocks, but that would get me back into the R32 realm which (sadly) I needed to leave when I shuffled off to Noir City. No, I've decided to confuse friends, enemies, family, strangers, and even Sadie by going old school. Or - as some might think - Total Retard. Read on... My friend X who, together with you, I consulted about my car choices made a good point: avoid the awkward years of car electronics. Depending on brand, that meant anything from about 1972 to the early/mid 1990s. Hard to work on, prone to failure, hard to find parts for. Factor in my budget, my sort of rekindled Bohemian sensibilities, ...

Here is a description of the new product I am selling - it is a can't miss... Gist Extractionificator with Semantic Cartridges (GESC) With the global electronic data expanding at astronomical rate from 15 ayottabytes to over 22 kazillabytes the need for a galactically scalable, adjudable-matrixed extractionificator that not only provides meaning-welding it can simultaneously buffer and negate idea distancing in polynomial matrices. Our research team used derivative vector processing instructions as the foundation for creating parrallelizable semantic cartridges. To achieve the scale required for kazillabyte real time processing the semantic cartridges were infused with Boolean de-aggregators that use satisfaction logic for distributed mining extensions. This breakthrough allows the GESC to federate a Fibbonacci sequence at 10 to the 11th in relative near-real time terms while maintaining linearity in the cost model. Architecturally advances were made in Super-High-Integrated-Transa...