Wednesday, August 23, 2006

“Is the Glass Half Full, or Half Empty?”

This is a logical evaluation of the stated question. The answer is simple although it depends on the value of certain variables not stated in the question:

If the glass is in the process of being filled, then it would be half full.
If the glass is in the process of being emptied, then it would be half empty.

If the glass is holding a varying amount of liquid, that changes, prior to the glass being full or empty then:
If the glass is intended to hold liquid, then liquid is the intended unit of measure, and the glass is half full.
If the glass is intended to remain empty, then empty is the reference point for measure, and the glass is half empty.

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

They are still breaking the law

Great idea to bite the hand that feeds you by being delinquent to work, blocking LEGAL citizens from entering stores, and causing traffic jams. Boy, I’m really convinced we should just open our boarders now. (sarcasm). HAVE SOME RESPECT.

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Chris' Bachelor Party Trip Report.

Over all it was a great party. It kicked the ass of my Bachelor party. I didn't have any trouble finding the place. It was the house with the big guy collecting money on the front porch. After $20 to get in the door and $20 the second Chris saw me for poker, and broke about 7:45pm (Five minutes after arriving).

There was definitely enough pizza, pop and beer. Since I had a 1:30 drive home, I had to start off hard so I put a few shots of Jack in my Coke and polished it off pretty quick. After a game of Air Hokey with Bill, I headed downstairs to check out the poker set up.

The poker tournament started about an hour late (we were waiting for one person, I guess he was important). The chairs in the poker area ranged from comfortable leather office chairs to folding chairs, so I grabbed the end table with a pillow on it (it looked pretty comfortable). A few of us sat around bullshitting, and watching Chris take a half hour to blow up his new 3ft Perfect Woman.

There were 18 people in the tournament. I pulled the black Ace, so I was first dealer at the 8 man table (on my comfortable end table w/pillow). I started off just playing the good cards, and learning the players. We started out with 3000, and was down to my last grand before I started winning a few small pots. (All In) Chris was at my table, and he was the first one out.

About half an hour into the game the "fluffer" showed up, and immediately wanted money from everyone before she would serve us drinks topless. She wasn't very good (at serving drinks at least). After the second time she brought the pitcher around she sat down on the couch for about 20 minutes, then she went back upstairs and we never saw her again (she never even said goodbye!).

The blinds we at 500 & 100, Our table was down to 3, and the other table was at 6 when we merged to one. I came to the table with twice as many chips as the other tables' leader, so I don't think they were happy to see me. To tell the truth, I didn't really have a good hand all night. Most of the pots, I won, I was taking with small pairs, and I wasn't playing a lot of hands. Up until now all I played was ESPN poker online, and this was defiantly easier. Most of the people didn't have a poker face at all, and catching the tells wasn't that hard.

I think there were 7 of us left when Chris Came down and said the Strippers were there. Two guys were really low on chips, so we played another few hands, and I ended up taking them out with a pair of 8's. We went up stairs and Chris was getting a lap dance. About 5 minutes later they started asking for More money to keep going. Then they removed $20's from the faces of 6 designees of Chris, that was interesting. Then they asked for MORE money again, if we wanted to see them pleasure eachother (that lasted a couple of minutes). Then they Demanded $20 from everyone if we wanted to see their toys. At that point the 5 remaining poker players decided to go continue the game. Standing elbow to elbow with 30 guys staring at 2 naked women demanding money every few minutes was getting old, the odds weren't in my favor up there. So back to the game. I switched from beer to mountain dew.

The strippers came down and tried to guilt us out of another $20 and convince us there show was something we couldn't miss. I was seriously out of money, so I couldn't give them any IF I wanted too, plus, the entry fee went towards beer, pizza and strippers, and I hadn't eatem or drank my money's worth. Anyway, eventually they left, pissed off. Come on, you're strippers, if you want to make money, do your job first, and you have a better chance of making more $$ on the encore.

After the strippers left, there was the drawings for door prizes and the 50/50. I won the set of poker chips.

I made it to the money around midnight. Another small pair took out the number 3 guy, and I had double the chips when we started head to head. We passed blinds and bluffs for at least 20 minutes or so, with the occational check all the way through. Around 12:30 I was really thinking about the drive home, and the desire to take first fading fast. I started pushing All in, and finally got him to call. He took half my chips with his pocket 7's against my A 10. I kept getting crap and folding for a while, finally I a J 10 and called all in again. Unfortunately he had K Q (or something like that better than me, I was really tired at this point) and hit the pair.

So the night cost me $45, and I won $90 for second place, and a nice set of poker chips, ate lots of pizza, drank beer, and learned how much of a dirty old man Bill really is. All and all it was great.

Have fun with the blow up doll and pocket pussy Chris.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

It’s Actually a Miracle


I for Hate products that brag about these amazing results, cost a fortune, and then don’t work for crap. So I was skeptical when I had to fork out almost $40 based on a second hand referral to buy this stuff.

I got into some Poison Ivy Vines (which are apparently the part of the plant that contains the most concentrated poison) and suffered for 4 days, with little sleep, and a horrible itching that seemed to just keep spreading. Literally minutes after I used the stuff almost all of the inching had stopped (I could feel the couple of spots I missed). I actually slept through the night without waking up once, and in the morning, the rash had already started to fade.

It’s good to see a product actually work the way it say’s it should. Zanfel get’s 4 stars, I’m sure I’ll be using it again.

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Construction Project Update

Passed the Rough inspections this week. The weather was crappy on Saturday, so I only worked on it part of the day Sunday and got the front Sided.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

People are Idiots

The little twerp on American Idol is so horrible and should have been kicked off the show weeks ago, yet he is still here. Now it makes sense. He is still here because he is so horrible. Any idiot with an idea, and a website can gain a following. If people put this much effort into coming together and making a difference for something that mattered, the people really could be in control of this country. Unfortunately that’s not the case.

Check it out:

votefortheworst.com

Monday, March 20, 2006

Roughing is Complete


It only took about a half of a day this weekend to finish the rough construction and electrical.

It was a really windy weekend, and just the walls up made a huge improvement.

I'll get my inspections this week, then start finishing it off.